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The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database focusing on Animal science, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Ethnic and multicultural studies, General science, Geography, Geology, Law, Mathematics, Music, Pharmaceutical sciences, Physics, Psychology, Religion and philosophy, Science and technology, Veterinary science, Women's studies, and Zoology. Over 8,500 full-text periodicals, over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals, indexing/abstracts for over 12,500 journals, and over 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Provides access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. Includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, and features many rare 19th-century titles. Acquired in part thanks to the Grant D. & Naomi T. Venerable Memorial Book Fund named for the first Black Caltech graduate, Grant Venerable (1904-1986) of African, Cherokee, and Scottish descent, and established to purchase materials that "bear upon the human condition, especially of African-American and Native American cultures, and which bear upon the impact of modern technology on the human condition.”
Index to periodicals, book chapters and theses for U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to present. Indexes materials dating back to 1954. Full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
The nation's chief repository for newspapers published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies. Comprised of over 18,000 newspaper titles and 1 million issues.
Bibliography of anthropology-related journals held in the Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum, London. Serves scholars in all branches of anthropology and archaeology.
Corpus of Celtic-Latin literature from the period 400-1200 A.D.
Locates historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in nearly a million archive collections around the world. Researchers can identify items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Contains over 1,800 journals across 28 arts & humanities disciplines from 1975 to present. Subjects: Arts, Humanities, Language (including Linguistics), Poetry, Music, Classical works, History, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, Archaeology, Architecture, Religion, Television, Theater, and Radio.
This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.
Search the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Searchable directory on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the U.S. Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress, territorial delegates, resident commissioners, and U.S. Vice Presidents. Includes images from Congressional photo collections, information on related research collections including personal and business papers and oral histories, as well as bibliographies from related publications. Searchable by first and/or last name, state, party, position or year or Congress.
Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.
Authoritative style manual for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers from the University of Chicago Press. 17th edition, 2017.
CogNet provides online access to reference works, journals and ebooks about the brain and cognitive science.
Biography of scientists, engineers and inventors from antiquity to modern times, concentrating on their professional achievements. Illustrations and .pdf formatting are included.
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The CRSP US Stock Databases contain daily and monthly market and corporate action data for securities with primary listings on the NYSE, NYSE MKT, NASDAQ, and Arca exchanges and include CRSP broad market indexes. CRSP databases are characterized by their comprehensive corporate action information and highly accurate total return calculations.

The CRSP Index Database product contains five groups of CRSP indexes: CRSP Stock File Indexes, CRSP Cap-Based Portfolios, CRSP Indexes for the S&P 500 Universe, CRSP Treasury and Inflation (CTI) Indexes, and the CRSP Select Treasury Indexes.

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Provides several kinds of Latin vocabulary dictionaries: defining and translating, thematic, medieval and early modern.
Provides citations for dissertations & articles in more than 620 journals, books, and working papers on economics from 1969 to present.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
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Collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
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Most comprehensive annotated collection of documents on British history covering the years 500 to 1914 and including around 5,500 primary sources, all selected by leading historians. The sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more accompanied by editorial commentary. The sources cover a wide spectrum of topics, from political and constitutional issues to social, economic, religious as well as cultural history.
From the beginnings of print to 1800, this resource provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language—as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. A tool for scholars in English culture, language, and literature from the British Library.
Provides access to more than 1.2 million education-related records of journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, etc. Links to full text are included, if available.
Searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. Comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world’s constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase.
Covers world history from 1450 to the present excluding the United States and Canada (covered in America: History and Life). Indexes periodicals, book chapters and theses published since 1954 and access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books.
The Index of German Journals (IDZ) contains 100,000 records of articles of 195 journals published 1750-1815 indexed with German subject headings.
Access to machine-readable data on social phenomena occurring in over 130 countries, including surveys of mass and elite attitudes, census records, election returns, international interactions, and legislative records. Data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Index of journal articles and books on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Iter - a journey or path in Latin.
Preserves legal titles and government documents including many federal, state, and international government and legal documents. Includes indigenous law as well.
Information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment. Over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations.
Provides detailed information on over 6,000 journals and book series that cover literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and the history of printing and publishing.
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Index of over 3 million records related to literary studies, film and multimedia studies, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and interdisciplinary fields such as women's studies and African-American studies.
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Comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.
Includes 860 full-text newspapers, 35 million full-text articles, and 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics on topics such as: Agriculture and Food | Development | Economics | Education | Employment | Energy | Environment | Finance and Investment | Governance | Industry and Services | Nuclear Energy | Science and Technology | Social Issues/Migration/Health | Taxation | Trade | Transport | Urban, Rural and Regional Development
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Access ebooks purchased specifically to support diversity and inclusion, with topics ranging from diversity in science, technology and higher education to eugenics, disability and ableism, and anti-racism.
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
Covers political topics with a worldwide focus, including international relations, political theory, comparative politics, humanitarian issues, law and legislation, and non-governmental organizations. Provides full text for more than 520 journals, indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanced the scientific enterprise available to the public.
Corpus of over 150 million words representing a broad range of written French stretching from the 17th to the 20th centuries from the University of Chicago. Includes novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Based on dictionary of the French language, the Trésor de la Langue Française.
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Access to over 40,000 titles, books, and videos across areas including programming, data analysis, math, science, engineering, business, arts, psychology, economics, political science, history, and more. The video collection currently includes over 800 self-paced tutorials of varying duration (from 2 to over 98 hours).

In order to use the new platform, log-in using your @caltech.edu email address, select SSO, and then you will be asked to log-in with access.caltech credentials. Although this is tedious, this should work seamlessly on- and off-campus (no VPN or proxy required), as well as with their mobile app [iOS/Android only -- not Kindle-compatible]. Please let us know if you encounter any difficulties or have any other feedback on this resource.
Provides full-text, peer-reviewed sociology journals covering many studies including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work. Features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908, 830 books and monographs, and over 16,800 conference papers.
Combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users.
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Provides over 25,000 films, documentaries and TV shows, and simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a legal streaming resource both on and off campus.
Largest and most detailed Latin dictionary in the world with extensive and detailed entries covering the classical period up to about 600 A.D.
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Science Citation Index Expanded covers more than 8,500 notable journals encompassing 150 disciplines from the year 1900 to the present day.
Social Sciences Citation Index covers more than 3,000 journals in social science disciplines from the year 1900 to the present day.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers more than 1,700 arts and humanities journals starting from 1975 and 250 major scientific and social sciences journals.
Emerging Sources Citation Index covers over 5,000 journals in the sciences, social science, and humanities. Book Citation Index covers more than 60,000 editorially selected books starting from 2005. Conference Proceedings Citation Index covers more than 160,000 conference titles in the Sciences starting from 1990 to the present day.
Based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives, it compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21st century, and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen. In addition to 8.5 million digitized biographical articles, the WBIS Online database currently provides an index to 57 Biographical Archives totalling short biographies on more than 6 million people

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