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Electronic Databases
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General Collections
Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
American Jewish Committee Archives
Provides access to a massive online archive that contains materials from AJC's last hundred years. The website features speeches, radio programs, commercials, articles and much more.
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
History Resource Center - U.S.
Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
This site is a product of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. This resource features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Provides access to a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources online.
NYPL Digital Gallery is the New York Public Library's new image database, developed to provide free and open online access to thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of the Research Libraries. Spanning a wide range of visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of the Research Libraries, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories from all over the world (our Digital Commons is on this list).
This site includes original source documents, critical selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language. It comprises more than 350,000 documents and more than 5,000 complete books.
The Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative SUS project to digitize and provide web access to materials broadly representing Florida's history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. Significant materials have been selected from libraries, archives and special collections departments of the SUS institutions. Thematic areas in this growing collection include Native American and minority populations, exploration and development, tourism, the natural environment, and local and regional interests.
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences, congresses, symposia, expositions, workshops and meetings added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's proceedings collection since October 1993.
Past Masters is a collection of primary-source full-text humanities databases. This resource includes the following: Aquinas: Collected Works; Aristotle: Complete Works; Augustine: Opera Omnia; Augustine: Works (2nd Release); Boyle: Works; Collingwood: Philosophical Texts (2nd Release); Continental Rationalists: Descartes-Spinoza-Leibniz; Darwin: Works; Descartes: Oeuvres Completes; Dewey: Collected Works; Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights; Hume: Complete Works and Correspondence; Latin Background: 1100-1550; Peirce: Collected Papers; Peirce: Published Works I; and Santayana: Works.
Contains records for materials from many different libraries, museums, and archives. Each record describes an item or collection; most give local holdings information. You can limit your search in this file by material type.
The Arts (Art, Music, Video, Literature)
Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and tools to actively use those images. [Click the "Search and Browse for Images" link in the lower left corner to enter the ARTstor Digital Library. If you want to be able to make full use of ARTstor, you will need to register. You may register on campus or off campus via Off Campus Connect (EZproxy).]
Classical.com includes 10,000+ classical musical recordings for listening, composer and artist biographies, program notes on key works and movements, daily classical music news, a beginner's guide, timeline and glossary. [This version is listening only when on campus. Download and CD Shop options are only available via remote access with Off Campus Connect (EZproxy).]
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Online access to the digital images of books published between 1701 and 1800. This collection includes ancient and contemporary history, accounts of voyages and discoveries, historical biographies and memoirs, genealogical collections, gazetteers, works on church antiquities and tourist guides of Britain. Topics include chronologies, recreation (travel, sports, parlor games), military history, maps, local history, and topography.
Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals
Indexes entire journal contents--articles, art notes, illustrations, poems, and advertisements--of American art periodicals published in the nineteenth century.
The Judaica Music Rescue Project is committed to finding phonograph recordings of Yiddish, Hebrew and Sephardic music in any language from the various countries where Jews have lived, both secular and religious. Click on "Search for a Song" to access the Judaica Music Rescue Project database.
Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works.
Visual Collections contains collections of photographs, maps and other visual materials. Descriptions of the items in the collections can be searched by creator, title, subject, geographic area, medium, and other relevant characteristics. Maps and other large-sized materials are represented by scalable (zoomable) images that can be enlarged or made smaller.
First Person
This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.
Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives
In the First Person is a new library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Every imaginable topic, historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th. And it will be updated quarterly. By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections-more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.
With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the difficult task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection. Starting in the colonial period and moving through to the present, the literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials will give researchers the feminine perspective of the development of an entire continent. The writings will also reveal the personal struggles and histories of the authors themselves.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar's Edition
The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. This edition includes the Women's Commission Reports.
Government/Patents
Coverage of the U.S. Congress: including status of bills, votes and amendments, and floor and committee activity.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's official database of required filings from US public companies, including 10K reports, etc.
Identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Includes public documents distributed by the State Library of Florida since 1967.
Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
HSDL is the nation’s premier collection of homeland security policy, strategy and organizational documents. This resource includes thousands of key, selected HS documents; full-text advanced search, hundreds of subject categories; direct links to important U.S. policy documents; online databases and journals; cutting edge NPS thesis and research reports; breaking news stories and newly released reports.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Parliamentary Papers are the most detailed primary source for 19th-century Britain, its colonies and the wider world. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. They influenced public opinion and social and political philosophy, and provided a forum for the ideas of hundreds of thinkers, among them Jenner, Arnold, Trollope, Mill, Faraday, Babbage, Telford and Brunel.
Provides the tools for searching the Congressional record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching the Federal register, Congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National journal.
LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
This resource is an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. [To access this database, click on "Historical Full Text" from the menu choices.]
Merten's Law of Federal Income Taxation
Full text of the treatise the Law of Federal Income Taxation by Jacob Mertens Jr. [This resource is limited to FAU affiliated users. Before accessing this resource, you will be required to present your Owl Card. See Librarian for password.]
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
The NCJRS web site is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. This resource ontains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Unique elements of the collection include agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research. Documents are either written in English or have an English-language summary.
Contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
World Law Index Part 1: Index to Hispanic Legislation
Index to Hispanic Legislation, contains records describing the national laws, decree-laws, regulations, etc. taken from official legal gazettes of 29 countries studied by the Hispanic Law Division of the Library of Congress Law Library. These include the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and nations from the Portuguese-African region.
Weldasearch is a comprehensive database containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in all areas of welding and allied processes.
Education
34,347 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format on CollegeSource® Online.
Educator's Reference Desk
The Educator's Reference Desk provided access to links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, lesson plans, a question archive, and the ERIC Database.
LearningExpressLibrary provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series for academic or licensing tests . Subjects include "Elements of Business Writing," "Graduate School Entrance Exams," "Math Skills Improvement," "Nursing," "Teacher Certification," "Writing Skills Improvement" and more. You will get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. [First Time Users: Click on the "New User" button to register.]
News/Newspapers
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.
This database offers full-page-images and article images from the New York times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files. The database is an ongoing project.
Historical Wall Street Journal
The paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can access not only top news stories but also detailed information from all the paper's sections. For each article cited in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs. This resource offers the complete pages images from the entire run of the paper, dating back to the first 1889 issue.
Subject areas include administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug and cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health and safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law,
Coverage of 5 major U.S.; newspapers, including The New York Times (1999 to date), Wall Street Journal (1984 to date), Washington Post (1987 to date), Los Angeles Times (1985 to date) and the Christian Science Monitor (1988 to date).
Statistics/Reports
A unique resource focused on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.
This Web edition keeps you up to date with key votes of the 107th Congress, results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more.
Provides in-depth reports on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, non-profit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas. Organized by 22 key public affairs subject headings, such as Advocacy and Public Service, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health, and Transportation.
ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
Consists of a compilation of essential engineering information, including data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations, and charts. It covers the disciplines of general engineering, structural engineering, mobile communications, remediation engineering, optomechanical engineering, measurement, instrumentation and sensors, communications, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, technology management, digital signal processing, environmental engineering, and civil engineering.
Provides information about events, issues, statistics and people.
Includes answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. Also includes current Gallup Poll News Service articles that feature the latest in-depth poll analyses and replicas of news stories and press releases linked to the surveys.
Historical Statistics of the United States
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. This resource provides access to data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade.
Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.
Offers Country Reports on 106 countries providing political and economic risk analysis.
Standard and Poor's (S&P) NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage provides nine of its most popular publications: Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, Register, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Earnings Guide, The Outlook, and Dividend Record.
Provides access to authoritative U.S. business, economic and trade information from the Federal government. The STAT-USA link above is only accessible within the FAU Libraries [Boca, Davie, Jupiter, Tower only]. To access STAT-USA from anywhere (on or off-campus), log into your MyFAU account. After logging into MyFAU, click on the Library tab. The STAT-USA link appears at the bottom of the left column.
TableBase is an international database that specializes exclusively in tabular data dealing with companies, industries, products and demographics. Tables cover market share, rankings, forecasts, shipments, output, consumption, users, exports, imports, capacity and more. Tables are from a range of sources including trade and business publications, investment research, trade associations, statistical annuals, primary research, international organizations and government. Over 25,000 tables are added per year. For tables from the trade and business press and reports, full text is available along with tables, in most cases.
Value Line Investment Survey Reports
The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Its up-to-date, weekly issues are also a comprehensive reference that has something useful for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues. The Value Line Investment Survey, however, provides more than just descriptive information. For each stock in its universe it offers year-ahead and three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects. The Value Line Investment Survey's main section, "Ratings & Reports," presents full-page, individual stock reports (encapsulating the company's past performance, current status, and outlook) and industry reviews. The "Summary & Index" provides a key to locating the latest quarterly and supplementary reports and cites the most recent data on each of the stocks followed. Finally, "Selection & Opinion," a feature section, gives Value Line's views on the economy and the stock market and on stocks of special interest. It also provides model portfolios for investors with various objectives and a number of economic and stock-market statistics.
A full text searchable database containing the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, World Almanac of the U.S.A. 1998, World Almanac of U.S. Politics 1997, and the World Almanac for Kids Dec. 1997
About this Guide
This guide was designed by Jaquelyn Erdman to help identify resources on primary resources and related topics in the FAU Libraries. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number and your 4-digit birth month and day in the format "MMDD." For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail to lyref@fau.edu.
Created 11 October 2006
