| 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.. |
|  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. |
| (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. |
| | American Jurisprudence, 2d | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Included in Westlaw Campus Research. Covers state and federal law. To search American Jurisprudence, go to the "Law" section of Westlaw Campus Research.
Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| (1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to health, economics, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| | 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 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. |
| (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. |
| (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. |
| 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. |
| (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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| (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). |
| (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. |
| (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. |
| (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.
Printing tips |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| | 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. |
| 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. |
| Provides a wide variety of legal documents, including articles from law reviews and journals, federal and state case law, federal and state codes and regulations, U.S., European, and Japanese patents from 1790 to the present, the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and directories of law schools.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| 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. |
| (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. |
| 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| 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. |
| (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. |
| (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 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. |
| (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. |
| (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. |
| (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. 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. |
| | 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 social sciences, humanities, and sciences. 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
- ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers
- Medline (1950 to present)
- ... and more
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
