| (c. 1603-1800) Contains digital facsimiles of approximately 1,270 seventeenth and eighteenth-century English newspapers from the British Library's Burney Collection; includes many London papers as well as some English provincial, Scottish, Irish, and colonial North American papers. The full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. |
| Contains two sets of indexes. The periodical indexes include Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), and Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899). The government documents indexes include the Subject Index to U.S. Patents (1790-1873), Descriptive Catalogue of Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Hansard's Index to the Debates of the House of Commons and House of Lords (1803-1830). The E. H. Little Library has print equivalents for Poole's Index and the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U. S.. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century. Includes more than 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of over 52,000 twentieth-century American poems. The works of 300 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song, are represented. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of over 44,000 poems published in England in the twentieth century; the works of 288 poets, including W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Benjamin Zephaniah, are represented. This collection includes works from the Faber Poetry Library. |
|  Academic Search Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1975 to present) Indexes over 8,000 popular and scholarly periodicals and provides the full text of articles from 4,500 of these periodicals. Also indexes several newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. |
| | Accessible Archives | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1827-1902) A collection of full-text, nineteenth-century periodicals. The library subscribes to the following:- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Includes Freedom's Journal, Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Papers, National Era, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder. - The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Includes selected articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer. - Godey's Lady's Book
Includes articles and over 18,000 illustrations and color plates from this important nineteenth-century magazine for women.
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| | AccessScience | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of the most recent edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms as well as biographies of scientists and science and technology news. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the 35th edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary,
edited by Michael Reade and Bohdan Romaniuk (4 vols.; Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005). Provides more than 837,000 definitions. You
can search for either the acronyms and abbreviations or the definitions. |
| (c. 1879 to present) Provides the full text of journals published by the American Chemical Society. The Davidson College Library has access to the complete Legacy Archives (1879-1995) and to recent content in many, but not all, ACS journals. |
| (1750 - 1900) A collection of nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
| | Agricola | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1970 to present ) Contains citations and abstracts to agricultural literature acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Covers the areas of agriculture, agricultural economics, and food and nutrition. |
| | AKL - World Biographical Dictionary of Artists. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains brief biographical information on 275,000 painters, sculptors, architects, and graphic artists from all time periods and countries. Includes bibliographies. Information is drawn from three major art history dictionaries: Thieme-Becker (1907-1950), Vollmer (1953-1962), and Allgemeines Künsterlexikon (1991- ). In English and German. |
| (1998 to present) Provides the full-text version of this important reference tool, which includes overviews of U.S. states and congressional districts as well as political profiles for each of the incumbent Senators, Representatives, and Governors. The Almanac also provides interest group ratings, U.S. Census data, key votes, campaign expenditures, election results, and other information. Part of The National Journal Group's Policy Central. |
| (c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress. |
| Contains biographical information about more than 17,400 prominent American men and women from all periods of history. Excludes individuals who are still living. Also provides useful bibliographies as well as cross references and links to relevant Web sites. |
| (1600 - 1900) A collection of more than 40,000 poems dating from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century; the works of over 200 American poets are represented. |
| Contains transcripts of approximately 4,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states; the interviews were conducted in the 1930s under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Searchable by surname, state, county, and subject. Also includes sound files. |
| | American State Papers | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1789-1838) Contains the fully-searchable text of early American Congressional and Executive Department documents.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: The Davidson College Library also has a complete set of the American State Papers in print form. |
| (1690-1998) Contains digital facsimiles of over 1,000 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
Includes:This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| | Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Discourse. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1952-1996) Contains transcripts of speeches, television advertisements, and debates from twelve United States general Presidential campaigns from 1952 through 1996. Includes all of the major party nominees' spoken records, with the exception of Barry Goldwater, from September 1 of each election year through the election. Also includes some third-party candidates' materials. |
| (1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing. |
| | Annual Reviews | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes 33 Annual Review titles. |
| | ANRW Index | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| Indexes the print volumes of the Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt (ANRW), shelved in the Library at call number 937.008 A918. Lists articles from a number of classics e-journals and Web sites. |
| | Anthropology Plus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (Late 19th century to the present) Includes citations to journal articles, reports, edited works, and commentaries in the fields of biological, cultural, linguistic, physical, and social anthropology as well as archaeology, ethnology, folklore, and material culture. Combines Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. |
| | Anthropology Bibliography. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1866 to 1997) A catalogue of over 210,000 books, journals, maps, and audiovisual materials held by the Tozzer Library at Harvard. The Tozzer Library contains a broad range of anthropology materials; the collection is particularly strong in Mesoamerican and Mayan studies.
For the catalogue of journal articles from the Tozzer, see Anthropological Literature. |
| | AnthroSource | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1880 to present) Provides current issues of 15 American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology, as well as an archive of selected back issues, with links to JSTOR where appropriate. |
| (1826 to present [photographs]; 1920 to present [audio clips]; 1990 to present [charts and maps]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of over 2 million photographs, 1 million audio clips, 48,000 diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines, and 2.8 million news briefs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily.
Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page. |
| (1913 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,400 periodicals in a wide variety of applied science and technology fields, including acoustics, aeronautics, artificial intelligence, engineering, food science, geology, information technology, metallurgy, mineralogy, neural networks, robotics, textiles, transportation, and waste management. Includes Industrial Arts Index. Also indexes book reviews. |
| | Archive of Americana | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1639-1980) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents. Includes American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819, America's Historical Newspapers: Early American Newspapers (1690-1922), America's Historical Newspapers: Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980), American State Papers (1789-1838), House and Senate Journals (1789-1817), Senate Executive Journals (1789-1866), and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980), each of which can also be searched separately. |
| (1929 to present) Indexes over 370 periodicals, including journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Subjects covered include art history, archaeology, architecture, decorative art, film, folk art, graphic art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and sculpture. |
| | ARTbibliographies Modern | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1960s to present) Indexes articles, essays, exhibition catalogs, books, and doctoral dissertations on topics related to modern and contemporary art. Covers traditional media such as paintings and sculpture as well as photography, artists' books, ceramics, body art, electronic art, ethnic arts, fashion, performance art, and video art. International in scope. |
| (1700 to approx. 1960). Provides the full text of nearly 2,000 French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts; most are from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, although there are some medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century texts. Includes novels, verse, essays, correspondence, treatises, journalism, and theatrical texts; also includes Voltaire électronique, the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works, and a Provençal poetry database containing 38 texts in their original spellings. ARTFL is a cooperative project between the Institut National de la Langue Française of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. |
| | ARTstor | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A collection of over 900,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and the social sciences; covers a wide range of cultures and time periods. Also includes tools to manipulate and analyze the images.
Technical Requirements (updated):
Windows XP with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.11; Windows Vista with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.13; Mac OSC 10.5.2. with Safari 3.1, Firefox 2.0.0.13, or Firefox 1.5.0.6; Mac OSX 10.4.11 and Safari 3.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.6; Flash 6 or higher; pop-up blocking disabled; cookies enabled.
Note: If you do are using an older version of IE or Firefox, you can still connect to the old version of ARTstor, ARTstor Legacy; the link to ARTstor Legacy appears on the lower left-hand side of the main page. |
| (1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to health, economics, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope. |
| | ATLA Religion Database | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1949 to present) Provides citations to articles, books, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology. |
| (Current edition) Provides concise political, demographic, economic, and social information about more than 170 countries, geographic entities, and international organizations. From the U.S. Department of State. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1990 (2 vols.; New York: Schirmer, 2004). Includes entries on 550 individual artists and groups and covers rock, rap, metal, post-grunge, electronica, house, pop, country, Latin, jazz, Broadway, and other types of contemporary music. |
| | Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1980-2000) Indexes journal articles, books, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, conference proceedings, and other materials on Spanish language and literature as well as Hispanic studies. |
| | Bibliographic Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies. |
| (1971 to present) Indexes articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages. |
| (1973 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and other materials on the history of art in Europe and North America from antiquity to the present. BHA covers both the fine and the decorative arts. Contains records from RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie). |
| Contains biographical information on the more than 13,000 individuals who have served in the U.S. Congress (1789 to present) or in the Continental Congress (1774-1789). Also provides bibliographies and guides to research collections. |
| | Biography & Genealogy Master Index. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1994 cumulation) An index to biographical entries appearing in a wide variety of reference works, such as Who's Who,, Contemporary Authors, and American Men & Women of Science. For more recent entries, consult a librarian. |
| | Biography Reference Bank | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Indexes biographies of over 500,000 people from all time periods and countries; over 175,000 of the biographies are full text. Includes the full text of biographies from major reference works, such as The Grove Dictionary of Art, Current Biography, and The Dictionary of American Religious Biography, among others. Also includes Biography Index (1946-1983). |
| | BioOne | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (2000 to present). A collection of over 50 peer-reviewed journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full-text coverage generally begins in 2000. |
| | BioOne Abstracts & Indexes | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1998 to present) Indexes the BioOne collection, with keyword-searchable abstracts and links to full-text articles. |
| Expanded content and new interface!
(1969 to present) Includes citations and abstracts for articles in over 5,000 journals; also includes citations to books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and patents. International in scope. Covers the entire field of the life sciences, including biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, and interdisciplinary fields like biochemistry, bioengineering, biomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, and environmental studies. Part of Web of Knowledge. |
| (1993 to present) Provides citations to scholarly articles and books in the field of linguistics; covers all branches of linguistics and includes citations to publications in related fields, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and computer science. International in scope. |
| (1905 to present) Indexes and excerpts reviews of over 850,000 English-language books; covers both fiction and non-fiction. |
| | Book Review Index Plus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1965 to present) Indexes reviews of over 2 million books, periodicals, books-on-tape, and other publications; the reviews are from a variety of sources, including popular magazines and newspapers as well as scholarly journals, and many are full text. |
| | Business Abstracts | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1913 to present) Indexes over 2,000 business, industry, applied science, and technology periodicals, including scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines like Business Week, and selected newspapers, like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Also contains citations for product reviews, corporate profiles, and interviews as well as the Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. |
| | Business Source Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1965 to present) Provides the full text of articles from over 8,800 periodicals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals and 1,200 trade journals and business magazines; also includes over 3,800 industry reports, 500 market research reports, and 140 books. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of over 220 titles in the Cambridge Companions Literature and Classics series and Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style as well as the Chicago-Style Quick Guide and regularly-updated questions and answers about the style.
Note: Up to ten people can search this resource at any one time. If you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again. |
| (Sept. 1989 to present) Contains the full text of current and back issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education as well as daily updates, the annual Almanac, Web extras and updates, and much more. |
| (Current edition) Provides concise information, including geographic, demographic, and economic data, for over 250 countries. Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Some earlier editions are also archived online from the US GPO. |
| (1991 to present) A collection of resources on international affairs. Includes citations to journal articles and books; also includes the full text of over 400 working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, policy briefs, and economic indicators. A small selection of journals and books are also available full text. The collection is updated regularly. |
| | CINAHL with Full Text | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,200 journals as well as selected books, conference proceedings, and essays in 17 allied health disciplines including nursing. Also contains full-text articles from 320 journals. |
| | CLCLT-6 Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCT). |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (240 B.C.E. - 1965 C.E.) Contains the full text of millions of Latin documents from the Western Christian tradition; texts date from 240 B.C.E. through the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Includes nearly all of the works published in Corpus Christianorum Series Latina and Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis as well some works not yet in Corpus Christianorum but in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Patrologiae Latina, Sources Chrétiennes, and other collections. Includes patristic and medieval texts as well as Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, the Vulgate, and other works. |
| | Clinical Pharmacology | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains current information about prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs. The "Drug Monograph" entries contain pharmaceutical information and often include images of the drugs; the "Patient Education" entries provide information about drug interactions and side-effects. Search the database using either the generic or the brand name of the drug. |
| | College Blue Book | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the College Blue Book (35th ed.; 6 vols; Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2008), which provides descriptions and information about degrees, programs, and financial aid sources for thousands of two and four-year colleges and universities. Also includes information about scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans as well as occupational educational programs. |
| (1992 to present) Provides the full text of articles from over 130 periodicals, as well as the text of newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides on a wide range of gender-related issues. |
| Contains the full text of the Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, edited by Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond J. Noonan.
Note: the online version of the Encyclopedia is not yet complete; additional entries will be posted throughout 2007. The first edition of this set, The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality is also available both online and in print (Little Library Reference R 306.7 I61). |
| | CQ Electronic Library | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides background information, current and historical coverage, and statistical data related to U.S. government, legislative history, politics, public policy, and current affairs.
Includes: CQ Almanac (1945- ), CQ Congress Collection (1945- ), CQ Press Political Reference Suite (Congress and the Nation, Politics in America, The Political Handbook of the World, and more), CQ Researcher (1991- ), CQ Voting and Elections Collection (1789- ), and CQ Weekly (Oct. 1983- ). |
| | Credo Reference | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| An online collection of over 390 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library. |
| | CSA Databases | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| The main gateway to the Library's Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) databases, which include the following: ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, BioOne Abstracts and Indexes, EconLIT, ERIC, Index Islamicus, LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts, MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, PAIS Archive, PAIS International, Philosopher's Index, Physical Education Index, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the third edition of Datapedia of the United States: American History in
Numbers, edited by George Kurian (Lanham, MD: Bernan, 2004). Provides historical statistics from 1789 to 2003 as well as
select data projections through 2050.
Note: The Library also has a print version in Reference at call number R
317.3 K96d3. |
| | Davidsonian | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1914-2006) A digital collection of volumes 1-97 of the Davidsonian, The Davidson College newspaper. Also includes a history of the paper, a list of its editors, and other related information.
The Davidson College Library has print and microfilm versions of the newspaper as well. |
| Contains the full text of the 22nd edition of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (Real Academia Española, 2001). Over 200,000 definitions; also contains etymologies.
The Library has a print version of this dictionary in Reference at call number R 463 A16d22. |
| | Dictionary of National Biography. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1985 version). Includes biographical information about nearly 40,000 British men and women who died before 31 December 1985; covers all periods of history. Also includes biographies of people who lived in British colonies as well as other individuals who had a significant impact on British history. Contains the complete text of the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900) as well as the full text of all supplementary volumes and Missing Persons volumes up to 1985.
The Little Library also has the second edition, known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Contains the full text of the five-volume Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (New York: Scribner's, 1973-1974). From the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
Note: the Library has a copy of the print version in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots Language, The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), which provides information about words from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth century, and The Scottish National Dictionary (SND), which covers words in use from the eighteenth century through the present day. |
| Contains over 63,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents dating from the mid to the late twentieth century. These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. |
| Includes a bibliography as well as links to other online resources, including journal articles, images, course syllabi, book reviews, and databases. Interdisciplinary in scope. |
| Provides links to over 1,100 free, full-text journals; many are peer-reviewed. Sponsored by Lund University Libraries, the Open Society Institute, and SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. |
| A collection of primary sources on Southern history, culture, and literature from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. Includes diaries, first-person narratives, literary works, photographs, and other materials. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Provides streaming audio for over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) from the catalogs of New World Records, CRI, and other labels; covers a wide range of American musical styles, including classical, contemporary, early rock, electronic, folk, opera, and more. The database also includes liner notes and essays. |
| Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however. |
| Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however. |
| (1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. |
| A bibliography of English-language and French-language articles and books related to early modern Italy (1550-1800); covers history, art history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and the history of science. Also includes citations to doctoral dissertations.
Available in pdf format and Microsoft Word format. |
| | ebrary | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary.
See also the system requirements for ebrary. |
| | EBSCOhost | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| The main gateway to the Library's EbscoHost databases, which include the following: Academic Search Premier, ATLA Religion Database, Business Source Premier, CINAHL with Full Text, Clinical Pharmacology, ERIC, Health Source, INSPEC, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, Literary Reference Center, MasterFILE Premier, Newspaper Source Plus, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Scientific American Archive Online, and The Serials Directory. |
| | EconLIT | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| New interface!
(1969 to present ) Provides bibliographic citations and selected abstracts to journal articles from 326 journals; also indexes doctoral dissertations, books, and conference proceedings. Areas covered include economic theory and history, monetary theory and financial institutions, labor economics, and international, regional, and urban economics. |
| | Economagic | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides access to over 100,000 time series data. Data may be downloaded into Excel or copied and pasted into another program. |
| (1929 to present) Indexes over 800 English-language education periodicals, books, and yearbooks; covers the fields of athletics, educational technology, elementary education, higher education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural education, religious education, school administration, special education, teacher education, and student counseling, among others. Includes the full text of some articles from 1996 to present. |
| New interface and more content!
(1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. |
| | Encyclopedia of Philosophy | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full-searchable text of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald Borchert (2nd ed.; 10 vols.; Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006). International in scope, the Encyclopedia covers all aspects of philosophy from ancient times to the present, including aesthetics, bioethics, cultural philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. |
| | English Poetry (600-1900) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (600 - 1900) A collection of over 165,000 English poems dating from the seventh century to the turn of the twentieth century. The works of more than 1,250 poets are represented. This collection includes the full text of nearly 4,500 printed sources. |
| | Environment Abstracts | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1975 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to environmental issues, impacts, laws, policies, and technologies, including biodiversity, energy, land use, pollution, population studies, resource management, sustainable development, and more. Covers over 950 journals. |
| | ERIC (CSA version) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1966 to present) Indexes articles in over 775 journals as well as reports, conference proceedings, and curriculum guides in education and related areas. |
| | ERIC (Ebsco version) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1966 to present) Indexes articles in over 775 journals as well as reports, conference proceedings, and curriculum guides in education and related areas. |
| (Coverage varies by country) Provides access to the full-text of patents from most western European (EP) countries; also includes patents from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Japan (PAJ), and other countries, including the United States and Canada. |
| (1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. |
| | Europa World Year Book | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the current edition of the Europa World Year Book, which provides information about over 250 countries and territories and over 1650 international organizations. Includes basic statistical data (which can be used for country-to-country comparisons) as well as information about economic affairs, education, defense, government, and recent history. Also includes directories.
Note: The Little Library also has print copies of the Europa World Year Book from 1959 to the present (Reference R 341.1 E89). |
| | Faber Poetry Library | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Covers the seventy year history of this major publishing house. |
| | Film & TV Literature Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1937 to present) Indexes articles, film reviews, and book reviews from over 300 film and television periodicals; international in scope. |
| | Film Indexes Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1893 to present) Contains both Film Index International (FII) and The American Film Institute Catalog (AFI). Includes full production and cast information for films from over 170 countries as well as plot summaries, production notes, and citations to reviews, criticism, and articles on film and film personalities. |
| (1974-1996) Contains the full text of the U.S. Government's FBIS Daily Reports, the English-language translations of foreign news broadcasts, including clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, used by U.S. intelligence services, policy makers, and analysts. A valuable primary source collection for historical and political science research.
FBIS regions currently included: Africa (Sub-Sahara), Asia & Pacific, China, East Asia, East Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Near East & South Asia, People's Republic of China, South Asia, Soviet Union and Central Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West (and Western) Europe. This collection is still being digitized. More regions will be added.
For FBIS reports from 1996 to the present, search World News Connection. |
| Contains the full text of over one hundred reference books -- including many encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format. The Davidson College Library has some of these books in paper format as well.
This collection is a combination of titles selected and purchased by the Davidson College Library and by NC LIVE. |
| (1984 to present) Indexes articles in over 250 English-language periodicals in a variety of science disciplines, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, environmental science, food and nutrition, genetics, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. |
| Contains the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., with updates), with over over 29,000 articles about people, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music. Also provides links to sound files, image files, and related Web sites and includes The Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., the Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Updated monthly. |
| (1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM. |
| (1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women's studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. |
| | Health Source | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) Provides indexing, abstracting, and some full text from over 255 periodicals covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more. It also provides full text for over 1,065 pamphlets and 23 books. Full text coverage begins in January 1990. |
| | HeritageQuest | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of family and local histories drawn from over 25,000 books, the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930), and other collections as well as images of selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Also indexes over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800. |
| (1808-1980) Contains digital facsimiles of several hundred Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S.; many of these newspapers were published bilingually in Spanish and English. The full text, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
This collection is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project” directed by Professor Nicolás Kanellos at the University of Houston. It is a subset of America's Historical Newspapers and part of the Archive of Americana. |
| (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. Combines the following two databases, which can also be searched separately: |
| (1851 - 2005) Provides the full text of the New York Times; page images can be viewed and downloaded as pdf files.
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| | Historical Statistics of the United States. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains statistics from Colonial times to 1970, including over 12,500 time series. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of U.S. House of Representative and Senate journals from the first fourteen Congresses.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| (1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. |
| | Index Islamicus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion. |
| (1908 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,000 legal periodicals, including law reviews, as well as yearbooks, bar association publications, court decisions, government documents, books, and book reviews. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1994 to the present. International in scope. |
| | ingenta | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (Formerly CARL Uncover) An online index to almost 25,000 periodicals. Approximately 53% of the articles are in the areas of science, technology, and medicine; 33% are in the social sciences, and 14% are in the humanities. Ingenta also allows you to view journal tables of contents and to have articles faxed to you for a fee. |
| | INSPEC | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1969 to present) Indexes and abstracts the worldwide literature in the fields of physics, electronics and electrical engineering, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. Includes citations from over 4000 journals as well as information about conference proceedings, books, and reports. |
| (c. 1874 to present) Provides the full text of journals published by the Institute of Physics; several of the journals cover topics in Chemistry as well as Physics. |
| (c. 1982 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, essays, and doctoral dissertations on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts; international in scope. Includes the full text of 100 periodicals and 50 books. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of The International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakes, edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast (4th ed.; 4 vols; Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000). Covers films, actors, directors, and production artists and includes biographies, filmographies, credit information, production information, major awards, and bibliographies.
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| Contains the fully-searchable text of the International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, edited by Alain de Mijolla (3
vols.; Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2005). Covers concepts, events, important individuals, institutions, and major works in all
branches of the field. International in scope. |
| (1945 to present) The online version of the International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics. Includes statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance for more than 200 countries; contains over 34,000 annual, quarterly, and monthly time series of financial and economic data. Topics covered include exchange rates, IMF position, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | IPA Source | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| New!
A collection of both International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of over 700 opera arias and 4,400 song texts. |
| (c. 1842 to present for some titles) An interdisciplinary database containing citations to journal articles, essays, and books related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance; covers the time period 400 - 1700 CE. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the second edition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden et al. (2nd ed.; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). Provides descriptions of theories, ideas, and critics from the time of Plato to the present and also covers developments in other disciplines that have shaped literary theory and criticism. International in scope with an emphasis on Western critical theory. |
| | JSTOR | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals. |
| | Kafkas Werke | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| The Kritische Kafka-Ausgabe des S. Fischer Verlages bei Chadwyck-Healey contains the full text of Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher, the critical edition of Kafka's complete works edited by Jürgen Born et al. This online version also contains revisions and updates. |
| | L'Année Philologique | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1959 to present) Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays on all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Covers the period from 500 BCE to 800 CE. International in scope. Also includes book reviews. To locate articles and books from earlier years, consult the print volumes of L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference collection.
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| | Latin American Newspapers | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1805-1920) Contains digital facsimiles of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. When complete, this database will contain over 35 newspapers.
The library was able to acquire the content in this database thanks to a generous gift from Mrs. Laura Landoe, a Davidson parent; we thank her for her support. |
| (1940 to present) Provides table of contents information for over 800 journals published in Latin America. The journals are primarily in the humanities and social sciences, and many are not indexed elsewhere. The articles listed are in Spanish or Portuguese. LAPTOC is part of the Association of Research Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resource Project. |
| | LearningExpress Library | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides practice tests and tutorials. Includes practice tests for graduate school entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT), EMS (EMT-Basic Practice Test, Paramedic Practice Test), Firefighting, Law Enforcement, Real Estate, Teaching (CBEST, PPST: Praxis 1), TOEFL, and U.S. Citizenship, among others. Also includes tutorials on job hunting, interviewing, math skills, reading skills, and writing skills. |
| From the Cornell Law School. Provides the full text of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (1990 to present) as well as other federal and state court decisions. Also includes the text of the current U.S. Code, the U.S. Constitution, and state constitutions and codes and provides background information on a variety of legal topics. |
| | LexisNexis Academic | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as newswires, business information, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | LexisNexis Company Dossier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides information about over 10 million U.S. and 3 million foreign companies. Data and reports are drawn from Hoover's, the Directory of Corporate Affiliations, and Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations as well as from Disclosure U.S. Public Company Profiles, Experian Business Reports, INVESTEXT Current Reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Standard & Poor's. The database also provides legal information and intellectual property information. Financial reports can be downloaded into Microsoft Excel.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | LexisNexis Congressional | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1789 to present) Indexes congressional documents. Includes the full text of:- The Congressional Record (1789 to present)
- Published and unpublished committee hearings (1824-2003), with selected transcripts from 2004 to present
- Committee reports (1990 to present)
- Selected committee prints (1993-2004)
- House & Senate documents (1995 to present)
- Bill texts and tracking (1989 to present)
- Public laws (1988 to present)
- U.S. Code
- Code of Federal Regulations (1981 to present)
- Federal Register (1980 to present)
- Biographical information & voting records (1988 to present)
- Roll Call (1989 to present)
Only available to Davidson College faculty, staff, and students. |
| Provides economic, business, and political risk information for over 190 countries; includes data and analysis from sources such as BMI International News, Edimax Market Newsletters, Euromonitor, Interfax International News, PRS Group Country Reports and International Country Risk Guide, World Market Research Centre News, and reports from the U.S. Government.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | LexisNexis Statistical | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides indexing and some full text for the statistical publications of the U.S. Government.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| (1984 to present) Indexes articles in over 300 English and foreign-language periodicals in the fields of library and information sciences; also indexes conference proceedings, theses, and some books. |
| | Library PressDisplay | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-page, full-color images of over 400 national and international newspapers, including many foreign-language newspapers; includes the current day's papers as well as a 60-day archive.
Note: Up to three people can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again. |
| (1969 to present) Indexes articles from over 440 periodicals on topics related to library and information science, computer science, artificial intelligence, and knowledge management. |
| (c. 1965 to present) Indexes articles in over 600 periodicals, books, conference proceedings, research reports on a wide variety of library and information science topics. |
| | Literary Reference Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, book reviews, critical essays, journal articles, and plot summaries as well as author interviews, selected reference works, and thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and other texts. |
| | Literature Resource Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes Contemporary Authors, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and substantial portions of Gale's other literature criticism series, including the Scribner Writers Series. Also includes the Gale's Literary Index and the Encyclopedia of Literature. |
| A collection of primary source materials related to America history and culture from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes page images from books and journals published in the nineteenth century.
The Cornell University Making of America site provides access to over 100,000 articles from journals such as The Atlantic Monthly (1857-1901) and Harper's (1850-1899) as well as access to over 250 books.
The University of Michigan Making of America site provides access to over 50,000 journal articles and 8,500 books. |
| | MasterFILE Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) Provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text for some 3,100 magazines and journals on a wide variety of subjects. Full text begins in 1990. |
| | MathSciNet | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1940 to present) The online version of Mathematical Review; contains citations and abstracts to the world literature on mathematics, computer science, statistics, econometrics, and related disciplines. |
| (1950 to present) Includes citations and abstracts to articles in over 5,200 biomedical, life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering journals. This version of Medline is from the National Library of Medicine, which also provides links to some full-text articles as well as access to other health-related databases.
The library also has Medline through Web of Knowledge (1950 to present). |
| | Medlineplus | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| Provides general and consumer information on diseases and health-related topics. Also provides links to medical dictionaries and encyclopedia, and lists of hospitals, physicians, organizations and Web sites. |
| Contains the full text of aMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (2003). |
| (1624-1799) Compiled by John Shawcross. A revision and continuation of his Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1984, 1990). Lists manuscripts and editions of Milton's works as well as critical studies, allusions to and quotations from Milton, and imitations of his work published between 1624 and 1799. |
| New interface!
Provides information about over 7,100 periodicals indexed by the MLA International Bibliography. The Directory includes contact information, advertising rates, and instructions for authors. |
| New interface!
(1926 to present) Indexes articles, books, and dissertations in the areas of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. |
| (Current data with 10-year historical data) Provides performance data and investment ratings for over 16,000 mutual funds and 6,000 stocks from the NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges. Includes analyst reports for over 1,400 stocks and 2,000 funds and stock and fund screening tools. |
| | Music Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1979 to present) An index to over 640 international music periodicals. Included are references to articles about classical and popular music as well as citations to book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. |
| | Musical America | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides current music industry news and a directory containing information about thousands of artists, managers, opera companies, dance companies, art festivals, performing arts series, competitions, music schools, and more. |
| Provides access to online versions of the National Journal Group's political magazines as well as a collection of resources on U.S. political and public policy issues. Includes the full text of The National Journal (1977 to present) and The Almanac of American Politics (1998 to present) as well as up-to-date coverage of U.S. government activities and policies through Congress Daily (updated twice daily), The Hotline (updated daily), which highlights media coverage of political affairs, Technology Daily (updated twice daily), Markup Reports for every Congressional committee and subcommittee, Ad Spotlight, which tracks political campaign television advertisements, and Daybook, which provides a daily calendar of Capital Hill events and activities. Also includes Poll Track, a collection of local and national public opinion surveys. |
| | NBER Working Papers | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1994 to present) Full text of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a private, non-profit, nonpartisan research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. NBER published approximately 500 working papers each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals. |
| | NC LIVE | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A statewide gateway to information resources. NC LIVE provides a wealth of electronic resources, including over 60 databases and full-text collections. NC LIVE is funded in part by the North Carolina General Assembly, the citizens of North Carolina, the Duke Endowment, the Cannon Foundation, and libraries at independent colleges and universities in the state, including the Davidson College Library. |
| | NetLibrary | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides online access to more than 14,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Horowitz (6 vols; Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005), which covers major concepts and ideas over time and across cultures.
Note: The Library has print versions of the new edition and the first edition in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. The 1973-1974 edition, edited by Philip P. Wiener, is also available online from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. |
| | Newspaper Source Plus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of articles in over 149 national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and the Washington Post; also contains selected full text from 410 additional U.S. newspapers and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. |
| | Niles Register Cumulative Index. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1811-1849) An index to The Weekly Register, Niles National Register, and Niles Weekly Register newspapers published between 1811 and 1849. The Register offered concise, comprehensive coverage of national and international events and was known for its lack of bias. The Library also has print (1811-1831) and microfiche (1811-1849) copies of the Niles Register. |
| (c. 1700s to 1950) Contains the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries written by American women from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. Includes texts that were written contemporaneously; excludes memoirs. Provides biographical information for many of the authors. |
| (1992 to present) An index providing bibliographical information and abstracts for articles appearing in over forty periodicals published in North Carolina. |
| | OmniFile Full Text Mega | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. |
| Contains the full text of the second edition of the OED and the 3 volume Additions Series as well as new and revised entries that will form part of the upcoming third edition (in progress). Search OED Online for word definitions, etymologies, and quotations.
The Library has the print version of the OED in Reference at call number R 423 O98m2. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (4th ed.), Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary (2nd ed.), and the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (3rd ed.), plus additional tools and resources. |
| | PAIS International | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1915 to present) Contains citations, with brief abstracts, to articles in over 800 English-language journals in public affairs. Also indexes government documents, pamphlets, directories, agency reports, and some books. Covers government, public administration, public policy, court decisions, political science, and international relations. |
| (1988 to present) Provides the full-text of the edited, verbatim reports of proceedings in the House of Commons and House of Lords in the U.K. Standing committee reports are also included. Updated daily. |
| An online collection of over 220 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more.
Technical requirements: Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher and a high-speed Internet connection. |
| (1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope. |
| Perseus
Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| A collection of primary and secondary sources on ancient Greece. The works of 31 ancient Greek authors are included, often with accompanying English translations, as are over 25,000 images of architecture, sculpture, coins, vases, and sites. Also provides annotations, an atlas, a lexicon, an encyclopedia, and other supporting reference works.
For more texts and images, see the Perseus Digital Library. |
| An evolving digital library of resources related to ancient Greece. The Perseus Digital Library contains more content than the CD-ROM listed above. In addition to Greek texts, there are also works by Latin and Renaissance authors. This Web version also contains more images and more reference tools (such as Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, and several lexica, dictionaries, and encyclopedias) and is updated more frequently. |
| | PHI Greek Documentary Texts. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains Greek inscriptions from Attica, Delos, Peloponnesos, Central Greece, Delphi, Crete, Ionia, Caria. Also contains Christian inscriptions, Greek documentary papyri, and Coptic New Testament and Nag Hammadi texts. |
| | Philosopher's Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1940 to present) Contains citations and abstracts from books and journal articles on philosophy and related fields. |
| | Philosopher's Index (Ebsco version) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. | This resource is being evaluated on a trial basis.
Please feel free to comment on this resource. |
| (1940 to present) Contains citations and abstracts from books and journal articles on philosophy and related fields. |
| | Physical Education Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1970 to present) Indexes articles in scholarly journals, popular magazines, and trade journals; also includes citations to reports, conference proceedings, and patents. Provides broad coverage of physical education and sports, including sports medicine, sports sociology, sports psychology, training, coaching, and kinesiology. Also covers dance. |
| (c. 1893 to present) Provides the full text of journals published the American Physical Society. |
| | Play Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1949 to present) Indexes over 44,000 plays written in or translated into English and published individually or in collections. Covers plays from Ancient Greece and Rome through the present and also includes monologues, one-act plays, and radio and television plays. |
| (2003 to present) Provides access to the full text of papers from the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association. |
| (1674-1834) Provides the full text of the proceedings of over 100,000 trials along with original page images and background information on trial procedures, verdicts, and the types of crimes tried. The Old Bailey was the central criminal court for the City of London and the County of Middlesex. |
| | Project Muse | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses. |
| | Proquest | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| The main gateway to the Library's ProQuest databases, which include Proquest Newspapers and ProQuest Religion. |
| | ProQuest Religion | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1986 to present) Provides indexing and some full text and full image for more than 90 religion periodicals. Full text begins with 1992. |
| | PsycARTICLES | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1894 to present) Contains the full text of 59 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Most APA journals are available from volume 1, issue 1. |
| | PsycINFO | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1887 to present) Indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and doctoral dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. |
| A collection of open access, peer-reviewed biology and medical journals. Includes PLoS Biology, PLoS Clinical Trials, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Medicine, and PLoS Pathogens. PLoS is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 with the goal of making scientific and medical literature freely accessible. The Davidson College Library is a Sponsor of the PLoS. |
| (1890 to present) Indexes articles in over 300 popular magazines published in the United States. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including art, business, education, food, foreign affairs, political science, religion, science, sports, and health and nutrition. Also indexes book and film reviews. |
| | Reference Universe | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Try this first!
Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books. |
| | ReferenceUSA | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains directory information for 13 million U.S. businesses, 120 million U.S. households, 650,000 physicians and dentists, and 95,000 U.S. and Canadian technology businesses. Information is drawn from telephone directories (both yellow pages and white pages); business information is supplemented by data from corporate annual reports, SEC 10K reports, and other public information sources. |
| Contains the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) as well as working papers, preprints, and other "grey literature" from a number of institutional repositories. Bepress publishes journals in the fields of Business, Economics, Law, Marketing, Medicine, Political Science, and Public Affairs. |
| (1969 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, catalogues, dissertations, and films and videos on all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. RILM also covers fields related to music, such as anthropology, art, drama, literature, sociology, philosophy, and physics. |
| (c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes:- iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more.
- RoperExpress, a collection of data sets for bivariate and multivariate analyses
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| (1851- ) Provides the full text of many of the RSC journals. The Davidson College Library has access to the Journal Archive (1851-2004) and to more recent content in many, but not all, journals. |
| (1880s to approx. 1970) Digital, black-and-white copies of over 11,000 Sanborn Maps for 158 cities and towns in North Carolina. The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provide valuable historical information about property sites and building materials and can also be used to chart urban growth. Consult the Key (available from the "Help" page) for information about symbols and conventions used in the maps. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans (23rd ed.; Detroit, MI: Gale, 2007), with information about over 4,200 sources of education-related aid and awards. Also includes information on federal financial aid and state sources of funding. |
| (1993 to the present) Contains the full text of articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind. Includes color pdfs. |
| | SciFinder Scholar | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1907 to present) Includes the following Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases: CA plus, which contains over 30 million references to journal articles, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations; CAS Registry, which contains information about over 40 million chemical substances. Also includes Medline (1950 to present).
Note:- To use the Web version of SciFinder, you first need to register
; you only need to do this once.Only one person may access the database at any one time. When you are finished searching, please log off.Use of SciFinder Scholar is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of Proceedings of the Senate's executive sessions. Includes material on treaties, the confirmation of presidential nominees, and other topics.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| | Serials Directory | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides information and pricing for over 150,000 U.S. and international magazines and journals, including 8,000 newspapers |
| Provides digital images of 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays that were printed in quarto before 1642; allows you to view individual copies of the Quartos or compare one copy with another. Also includes background information and a glossary. A complete list of the British Library's 93 Quartos is also available. |
| | Short Story Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1915 to present) Indexes over 150,000 short stories in periodicals and edited collections; a helpful tool for locating particular short stories. |
| (1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of anthropology, communication, corrections, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and related subjects. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. |
| | Social Services Abstracts | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1980 to present) Covers the fields of social work and human services, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes citations and abstracts for articles in over 1,400 periodicals; also indexes dissertations and book reviews. |
| | Sociological Abstracts | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| 1963 to present) Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in 1,500 journals and serial publications in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides coverage of reviews, monographs, and conference reports in these areas. |
| (1975 to present) Part of Scitation. Includes indexes and abstracts for over 100 major American and Russian physics, astronomy, and engineering journals. Also includes the Advance Abstracts Database, which contains early abstracts from American Institute of Physics journals.
Note: the Library subscribes to some, but not all, of the journals listed in SPIN. |
| (1995 to present) An online-only, dynamic encyclopedia covering 35 subject areas, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, history of ideas, logic, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and social philosophy.
The Davidson College Library is a member of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy International Association (SEPIA) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and has helped to fund the encyclopedia. |
| (Volumes for the years 1995 to present) Provides the full text of this important title, which includes economic and social statistics on the United States. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States is particularly useful as a guide to statistical data generated and published by U.S. Government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Use the index to locate relevant data in each volume. |
| From the Library of Congress. Provides the full text of major legislation, including bills (1989/90 to present), public laws (1973 to present), the Annals of Congress, Congressional Record and Congressional Record Index (1989/90 to present), roll call votes, and Congressional Committee reports (1995/96 to present). Also provides bill summary and status information from 1973 to the present and the full text of important historical documents. |
| (1902-1990) Contains the Times Literary Supplement Index as well as page images from the TLS (1920-1990). Includes more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles. In addition, the Archive provides information about anonymous contributors to the TLS, information that does not appear in the print TLS Index. |
| Contains the full text of nearly all extant Greek texts from Homer (8th century B.C.E.) to 600 C.E. as well as many other Greek texts up to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 C.E. The online version contains over 10,000 works by over 3,500 authors.
Note: this database is accessible from three workstations in the Little Library; use is restricted to Davidson College students, faculty, and staff only. |
| | TOCS-IN | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1992 to present) Lists the tables of contents from 185 journals in the field of classics. Particularly useful for locating recent articles. Information about pre-1992 articles is being added to the database, as are articles in Festschriften and conference proceedings.
Note: Does not index electronic journals, although some links to full-text articles are included. |
| | TOXNET | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (Approx. 1996 to present). A collection of databases containing information on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Some databases, like the Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB), contain factual information ; others, like TOXLINE, contain citations to journal articles, books, and technical reports. |
| | Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1595-1866) Contains the records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages from the late sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Information can be tracked by time period and geographic region. The CD-ROM also includes interactive maps and information about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage. |
| (1817-1980) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. history, including cultural, economic, ethnic, military, political, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: this digital collection is not yet complete; if you need documents from twentieth-century volumes that have not yet been digitized, please ask a librarian for assistance. The Davidson College Library has print and microfiche versions of many Serial Set volumes. |
| | U.S. Government Periodicals Index. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (Oct. 1993 to present) An index to the contents of periodicals produced by agencies of the U.S. Government. |
| (1790 to present) Provides page images for all U.S. patents from 1790 onwards as well as the full text of U.S. patents issued from 1976 to the present and the full-text of U.S. patent applications from 15 March 2001 to the present. For patents before 1976, you can only search by patent number or patent classification.
Note: When you have located a patent and want to view the actual page images, click on the "Images" button that appears at the top of the screen. You may need to download a free plug-in to view the page images. |
| | U.S. Supreme Court Reports. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains the full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1754 to the present, as well as numerous legal and political documents. |
| Provides information about journals, magazines, and other serials published in the United States and in many foreign countries; both current and discontinued titles are included. Subscription costs, publication frequency, and ISSNs are listed for each title. Ulrich's is particularly useful for the information it provides about the indexes and databases that cover a particular journal or magazine, and it also confirms whether or not a given title is peer-reviewed. |
| | Voltaire Électronique | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works. Based on the Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire; for titles that have not yet been published in the Complete Works, texts are drawn from original sources or the Moland edition of Voltaire's works (1877-1885). The database will be updated as additional volumes of the Oxford edition are published. Part of ARTFL, a cooperative project between the Institut National de la Langue Française of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. |
| | Wall Street Journal Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1981 to present) Provides indexing for the newspaper. Some full text is available beginning in 1984. |
| | Web of Knowledge | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Includes:- Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article
- Derwent Innovations Index (c. 1963 to present), an index of over 11 million patent records
- ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers
- Medline (1950 to present)
- An Index to Organism Names
- ... and more
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| Contains the full text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged, one of the finest descriptive dictionaries for the English language. Over 472,000 definitions.
The Library has several copies of the print version of this dictionary in Reference at call number R 423 W38n3, 1971. |
| | Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Indexes the prose contents of 43 periodicals for the dates indicated (including the years 1802-1823 for The Edinburgh Review). Identifies the writers of anonymous and pseudonymous works from this time period. |
| | Westlaw Campus Research | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full text news and legal materials. The "News & Information" section contains articles from magazines, national and international newspapers, and business, professional, and trade journals as well as newswires, newsletters, and transcripts of television broadcasts. The "Law" section contains important primary law sources as well as analytical sources, including state statutes, federal statutes published in the U.S. Code Annotated, federal and state cases, including Supreme Court cases, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, European Union law, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, 2nd, an important encyclopedia covering state and federal law, and over 800 law reviews and journals.
Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research. |
| | WilsonWeb Databases | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
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The main gateway to the Library's WilsonWeb databases, which include the following: Applied Science & Technology Abstracts and Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective, Art Abstracts and Art Retrospective, Bibliographic Index, Biography Reference Bank, Book Review Digest, Business Abstracts Full Text, Education Abstracts Full Text, Education Index Retrospective, Essay & General Literature Index, General Science Abstracts Full Text, Humanities Abstracts Full Text and Humanities Retrospective, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and Legal Periodicals Retrospective, Library Literature & Information Science Abstracts, OmniFile Full Text Mega, Play Index, Readers' Guide Abstracts and Readers' Guide Retrospective, Short Story Index, Social Sciences Abstracts Full Text and Social Sciences Retrospective. |
| | Women Writers Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1400-1850) Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850. |
| | World Authors. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Biographical and critical information on major world writers. |
| | World News Connection | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1995 to present) Contains full-text, English-language summaries and translations of foreign news reports, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports, and other local media sources from around the world. Covers political, scientific, socioeconomic, technical, and environmental issues and events. These materials are provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Earlier years of the FBIS Reports are available on microfiche and CD-ROM. |
| (1971 to present) Searchable database containing over 75,000 annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Shakespeare. Also includes book reviews as well as reviews of theatrical productions, films, and audio recordings. |
| | WorldCat | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries. |
| (1975 to present) Includes citations to articles appearing in over 1,000 political science journals. Covers the fields of comparative politics, economic policy, international relations, and political economy, among others. International in scope. |
| Provides links to online newspapers; organized by Please note: Some sites require registration or subscriptions for full access to content. Be sure to check our other newspaper databases and periodical collections for other means of access or Ask a Librarian for help. |
