Databases A-Z List

12 Byzantine Rulers
This history lecture podcast covers the little known Byzantine Empire through the study of twelve of its greatest rulers. Mr. Lars Brownworth presents this series for free through this website and the podcast section of the iTunes store.
note: Also available at the iTunes store.

ABSEES
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Also includes Eurasian Studies. Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. The majority of content originally published in the US and Canada. 1939 - present.  See also the European version EBSEES.
note: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies

Academic OneFile
1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited.  Shortcuts:  go/onefile (on campus),  http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).

Accessible Archives
The Accessible Archives was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy.  Full text search capability and digital imaging permits the user to search and manipulate information in ways never before possible.

ADB/NDB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Neue deutsche Biographie
Searchable biographical database of 90,000 Germanic individuals, from the Middle Ages to the present, in all sectors of the public, scientific, economic and cultural life. ADB contains the digitized print edition (55 volumes and index, 1875-1912, Fraktur typeface). NDB contains citations only, no full text, for its 23 volumes, 1953-present.

Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files
Full-text digital access to these historic documents. "This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal and foreign affairs contain a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats."

African American Newspapers - The 19th Century
Full-text newspapers articles from: Freedom's Journal; Colored American; The North Star; The National Era; Frederick Douglass Paper; Provincial Freeman; and The Christian Recorder.

African Economic Outlook
Jointly published by the African Development Bank and the OECD.  Available from SourceOECD.  Contains extensive country profiles. Some issues in print: Main Library HC800 .A1 A373 

Agricola (National Agriculture Library interface)
1970-current. Articles, books, software, maps, and other materials on topics related to agriculture, including biology of plants, animals, and microorganisms of economic importance.

Alumni Pamphlet Master
A Special Collections finding aid.

America's Historical Newspapers: Early American Newspapers
Part of Archive of Americana.  Includes Early American Newspapers, Series 1-3, 1690-1922.

American Chemical Society Publications
1879–Current.  Using the American Chemical Society's Website you can search their publications and get full text access.  Search features include: Citation Finder, DOI Locator, Advanced Journal Search, Multiple Journal Search, Search by Subject Area Groupings or Search by timeframe including Archives.

American Institue of Physics - Scitation

American Periodicals Series Online - 1740-1940
APS collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1940. Derives from the American Periodicals Series microform collection and features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years. Includes publications such as Vanity Fair, Life, and Ladies Home Journal.

Annual Reviews
This annual series identifies and summarizes principal contributions in 32 disciplines.  For links to earlier Annual Reviews, search Print & E-Journals, A-Z.

Anthropological Index
Indexes over 700 journals from the British Museum of Anthropology, coverage dating from the late 1950s to the present.  

Archive of Americana
Comprehensive historical collections, containing books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera. Collections include American broadsides, ephemera, historical newspapers and much more.

Archives Unbound (Gale)
Access to 6 digital collections of historical, primary source documents (State Dept. records, etc.).  Includes collections covering Afghanistan, China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Latin America, and the U.S. (Freedom Riders in the South). Click on Browse Collections to see all.

Art Index (Wilson)
Indexes art journals, magazines, bulletins and film reviews from 1984-current. Preceding years covered by Art Index Retrospective.

• 1984-current -- online
• 1929-1984 - Art Index Retrospective - online
• 1929-1995 - in print - N2 .A78

note: Wilson

Artcyclopedia
A guide to artists, art works, and museums on the internet.

ARTStor
ARTStor is a non-profit initiative with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. It is:

• A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and
• A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

ASCB Image and Video Library
Images, videos, and digital texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell. Access is free and open for non-commercial educational and research uses. Users can download any and all images and videos for non-commercial purposes. Maintained by the American Society for Cell Biology. 

ATLA Religion Database
Designed to support religious and theological research. It includes book titles and a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews. 1949-present.

Audubon's Birds of America
A digitized version of one of the rare, complete sets of John James Audubon's Birds of America.

Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
Presents information on the habitats and ecosystems of more than 1,200 endangered or threatened species.  Includes an image of the species.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
Indexes mainly western language publications on all parts of Asia and all subjects. 1971 - present online. 1941 - 1970 available in print.  Davis Family Library Reference DS5 .A1

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
An on-going project at Agnes Scott College to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics.

Biology
Gale encyclopedia. 4-volume encyclopedia that explains biological concepts and explores related fields as well as the history of biological science.

Book Review Index
Main Library Reference Z1035 .A1 B6 1965 - 2007

Brattleboro Reformer
Vermont Newspaper - Online via Lexis Nexis.  See MIDCAT record for dates of coverage.

Brill's New Jacoby - Online

Greek texts, English translations, and critical commentaries on the texts.

The older edition, in German, is also available at the online site.

Britannica’s Global Reference Center
A collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s foreign language content, offering information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and French. Photos, detailed maps,and other images accompany the text.

British Periodicals (parts 1 and 2)
Now on the ProQuest platform, this database offers facsimile page images and searchable full-text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. Part One consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals; Part Two consists of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles.

BuildingGreen.com (trial access until August 2012)
Provides information on environmentally responsible building design and construction, including the leading monthly newsletter Environmental Building News, and the GreenSpec® Directory with 2000 green building product listings.

Business and Company Resource Center
Information on companies, markets, and industries from business and trade journals, newspapers and company reports.  Includes company financial information and investment reports. 1980 - present.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. Useful for identifying government documents not owned by Middlebury (and thus not in Midcat) but available via interlibrary loan. 1976 - present.

Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975).  Includes Chicago Daily Defender and Chicago Defender.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online
Online version of the Chicago Manual of Style- 15th & 16th Editions.

Chicago Tribune - Historical
Proquest Current Newspapers and Proquest Historical Newspapers are contained in two seperate databases which are not simultaneously searchable.

Chicago Tribune - CURRENT (1985-current)

Chicago Tribune - HISTORICAL (1849-1986)

China Data Online (China Data Center)
Access monthly and yearly national, provincial, county, city, and industrial data  for China along with the yearbooks. The separate census data is not included in our subscription.

The Christian Science Monitor (ProQuest)
1908-current (Full-text from ProQuest)

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online
A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs.

Civil War: a Midwestern Perspective

Civil War: the Generals' Perspective

Clase and Periodica
Index of Latin American Journals in the sciences and humanities. Includes Spanish, Portuguese, French and English language journals.  1975 - present.

Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.

Computer Database
For researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology, Computer Database is their Internet-accessible reference solution. With Computer Database, library users can access today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries -- all in one seamless search.
note: Indexes over 900 publications, including IEEE and ACM transactions and proceedings.

Contemporary Authors
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Contemporary World Music
Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and traditional genres such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. (An Alexander Street Press streaming music database.)

CQ Congress and the Nation
Review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term from 1945 - 2004 - organized by policy area.  For all CQ Electronic resources see  go/cq.  Click on the direct link for each resource to browse and see all features.  Especially see CQ Almanac for annual summaries of issues.

CQ Guide to Congress
Provides extensive background on the history, powers, and procedures of the institution. Includes related subjects such as pressures on Congress; pay, housing, qualifications, and ethics of members; and how Congress is elected. 

CQ Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court
Covers the Court's entire history; its operations; its power in relation to other branches of government; major decisions affecting the other branches, the states, individual rights and liberties; and biographies of the justices. Appendices provide additional information such as a list of Acts of Congress found by the Court to be unconstitutional. For additional Supreme Court resources, see Main Library Reference KF's.

CQ Historic Documents
Published since 1972, each volume includes approximately 100 primary source documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports. For CQ Electronic Library, Go shortcut = go/cq.

CQ Researcher
Full-text of Congressional Quarterly Researcher, which follows current and controversial issues of the day. For each issue it includes a summary, all the pros and cons, bibliographies, and more. Part of CQ Electronic Library. Search alone or with other CQ databases such as CQ Almanac, CQ Weekly, etc. Go shortcut = go/cq

Criminal Justice Collection

CultureVision (Proquest)
Religion and Ethnicity database.

Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
Digital full-text access to these historic documents. "This collection documents the creation of the Third Republic, which was established after World War II."

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 17,400 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.

Diccionario Akal - Grove de la musica
Translation of Grove dictionary of music

Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford DNB - 56,000 biographies of deceased people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present. Also available in print- Main Library Reference CT773 .D4 2004.
note: Oxford

Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
"Southern African material of high sociopolitical interest concerning the Struggles for Freedom".  "At present, the collection consists of more than 190 000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches." - from website.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

e-libro: Spanish full-text ebooks and more (trial access through Monday, April 12)
Over 45,000 original texts of Spanish language books, research papers, and doctoral thesis, all available in full-text. View a full list of titles here. Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Part of Archive of Americana.  This digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period listed in the bibliography by Charles Evans. Publications include: advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO is a digital library containing about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Major subjects include: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. There is some coverage of other parts of the world (British accounts or other works published or translated in English).

Eastview Russian and CIS Statistical Publications
Covers Russian and English-language publications, reports & data sets from the Russian State Statistics Committee and the Commonwealth of Independent States Statistical Committee. See their Search Guide. Part of the Universal Databases from Eastview publishing.

EBL eBook Library
Nearly 50,000 full-text ebooks primarily from academic publishers. Browse the collection (go/ebooks) or read a step-by-step guide on reading and downloading ebooks.

EBSCOhost eBook Collection
This eBook collection contains the title that were formerly accessible on the netLibrary platform. The following go-links can be use to access the collection:

• http://go.middlebury.edu/ebscoebooks (on campus, type go/ebscoebooks)
• http://go.middlebury.edu/netlibrary (on campus, type go/netlibrary)

EconLit with Full Text
Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. To search full-text, change the drop-down box to "All-Text". Econlit is not searched in Summon. Go shortcut = go/econlit. 
note: Note: Summon searches Econlit citations, but it does not search the full-text. To search within full-text journals, select All Text from Econlit's search box Select a Field menu.

eHRAF Archaeology (trial access through April 30)
eHRAF Archaeology is a cross-cultural database containing information on the world's prehistory. This database is organized by archaeological traditions. eHRAF Archaeology is designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies. Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is an organization in the field of cultural anthropology founded in 1949 at Yale University. (eHRAF is not compatible with Google's Chrome browser.) Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
includes a variety of materials - from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements - and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century.  Includes "every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom."

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
Print versions

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas
6-volume set searchable as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Covers the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. MIDCAT List of all volumes

Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics

Encyclopedia of Earth
Free collection of articles about the Earth, its environment, and the interaction between society and the environment. Articles are contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, and other experts who review one another's work.

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
E-Book. Detroit: Gale, 2004 (3 volumes)

Encyclopedia of Genetics
4 volumes, 2001 ed.  Authoritative coverage of topics related to the study of genetics with overview essays, biographies, and definitions of essential terms.

Encyclopedia of Geology
5 vols, 2004 ed.  Covers all aspects of geology including earth history, earth materials, surface processes, regional geology, economic geology, engineering geology, petroleum geology, geochemical and mineral exploration, and the history of geology. 

Encyclopedia of Human Geography
2006 ed.  Overview of the major ideas, concepts and terms of the field of human geography.  Cross-cultural in scope. 

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
Also in print: Davis Family Library Reference BP40 .E525 2004 (2 volumes)
note: Online and Print Resource

Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Also available in print.  Colin Larkin. 8 vols. New York: Muze UK, 1998. Ref ML102.P66 G84 1998.

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science
4 vols, 2006 ed.  Includes a broad range of articles on the major topics in the field. Chapters include: Paleoclimatology, Dating Techiniques, Quaternary Stratigraphy, Quaternary Glaciation, Fluvial Environments, History of Quaternary Glaciations, Sea Level Studies, Paleosols and Wind-Blown Sediments, Lake Level Studies, Paleobotany, Paleolimnology, Vertebrate Studies, Insect Fossil Studies, Paleoceanography, Ice Core Studies, Stable Isotope Research-Carbonates, Humans in the Quaternary.

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion

Encyclopedia of Soil Science
Background information, definitions and data on Environment, Soil Science & Conservation, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Agriculture, Physical Geography and Geotechnical Engineering.

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Also in print - Davis Family Library Reference DS43 .E53 2004 (4 volumes)
note: Online and Print

Entrez (NCBI)
Books, data and references to articles in the life sciences.

Environmental Issues and Policy Collection
1980-current.  Infotrac collection indexing over 700 environmental journals, many with full-text.

ERIC/AE Test Locator
The Test Locator was a joint project of the Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, the Library and Reference Services Division of the Educational Testing Service, the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, the Region III Comprehensive Center at GW University, and Pro-Ed test publishers.

The eSkeletons Project
View animations and high-resolution three-dimensional digital images of the skeletons and bones of several primates, including humans. Students may view bones labeled by morphology, muscle origins, muscle insertions, or joint articulations--and view side-by-side, images of bones from two different species.

EUfeeds
News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country

Europa World Year Book (all countries)
In-depth country profiles (summary of history, current events, government directory, statistics, and more).
Choose countries from the drop-down menu at the top.
Older issues available in print: Davis Family Library Reference JN1 E85 (1977 - 2008).

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
This online reference book provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs.

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
The FGDC is tasked by Executive Order 12906 to develop procedures and assist in the implementation of a distributed discovery mechanism for national digital geospatial data. Geospatial metadata are critical to data discovery and serves as the fuel for both the Geospatial One-Stop data portal and the NSDI Clearinghouse.

Film Literature Index
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.

The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. For additional years, see the print index, Ref PN1994 .F45 (1973 - 2004).

Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944
Full-text digital access to these historic documents.  This collection covers foreign relations interactions between Central America, South America, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. It includes cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.

French 17
An annual survey of the work done each year in the general area of seventeenth-century French studies

The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
4 vols, 3rd ed., 2009. Presents information on alternative and complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy. Information on recommended therapies for specific disorders and diseases, medicinal uses for plants and herbs, and results of studies on efficacy.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
2 vols, 3rd ed, 2010.  Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Jeffrey Lehman, Ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 1974 pp. 3 vols.

contains 152 original essays (about 8,000-12,000 words each) on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The Encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish.

The Gale Encyclopedia of US Economic History
Also in print: Main Library Reference HC102 .G35 1999
note: Online and Print

Gale Literary Databases
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Gapminder.org
Visualize international statistics changing over time through a dynamic, innovative map and graph interface.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
This is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Gender Statistics Website
This website aims to bring together both gender statistics and policies. Focus is on the production, dissemination and use of gender related data. In addition to statistics, this site outlines some of the main gender issues relevant to the UNECE region (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), and provides examples of policies and other initiatives. It also contains thematic pages on topics consisting of important methodologies and examples of survey instruments.

General Science Collection
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GeoBib

1985-2005. Online access to Current Geographical Publications, which is no longer published in paper format. Includes bibliographical references to books, periodical articles, pamphlets, government documents, maps and atlases in the American Geographical Society Collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Tips:

• Enclose phrases in quotes " " .
• Truncate using question mark ? .

GeoRef

1693-current (North America) and 1933-current (outside North America). Worldwide and planetary coverage of geological subjects; a major source for research in the geosciences. Includes references to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Especially good for government publications (including USGS), geologic maps, and field trip guidebooks. 

Tips:

• Shortcut = go/georef
• Do not enclose phrases in quotes " ".
• Truncate using an asterisk * .
• More tips at ProQuest Help

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The TGN, a part of the Getty vocabularies, includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical places are included.

GLBT Life and Issues Collection
This focused sub-collection of Academic Onefile & Infotrac Onefile) contains articles from over 35 prominent GLBT periodicals, including Feminist Studies, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Journal of Homosexuality, Women's Studies,and Off Our Backs. Topics include gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and more.

Google Book Search
Search the contents of digitized books, which Google has digitized from library collections. While only sections of works still protected by copyright can be read online, works in the public domain are often available in their entirety.

Google Scholar

Searches for many types of primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.

Tips:

• Enclose phrases in quotes " "
• To prompt Google Scholar to display links to resources in Middlebury's collection: 1) Go to "Scholar Preferences" (click on the cogwheel in the upper-right), 2) Search "Library Links" for "Middlebury," 3) Select all displayed Middlebury locations, and 4) "Save Preferences."

Greenwire
"Daily coverage of today's major environmental and energy issues."  Part of NCSE (National Council for Science & the Environment ) publications.

GSA Special Papers
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Harpers Weekly
Full content images of Harper's Weekly from 1857 - 1912. Browse by date or search using the index or within full-text. See printing instructions before proceeding.

Historical Abstracts
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.

Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language
An online Hebrew dictionary.

Historische Geschichtswerke des 16. bis 18. Jahrunderts
Digital versions of 17th and 18th century German periodicals and sources.

HLAS-Handbook of Latin American Studies
Indexes journals, books, documents, and reports on Latin America with good coverage of Latin American publications from 1935 to current. Search in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Go shortcut = go/hlas

Holocaust History Project
Free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust

Home Improvement Collection
 Gale

Hoovers
Company, industry, and market intelligence information on more than 12 million corporations and organizations. Go shortcut = go/hoovers

ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to a large archive of social science data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS.  Includes some public opinion polls. A Data Use Tutorial is available.

IMF International Financial Statistics
International Monetary Fund (IMF) survey of major financial statistics. Obtain at the Reserves desk(call# HG61 I5) and load on a computer in the lab (Insert in drive, when it automatically opens, click on the installation button.  Choose single-user, retrieve data from CD). Also available in print. Click on title for link to full holdings and locations record. Handout: Overview for Retrieving Data on the CD-Rom.
note: On CD-Rom or print

In the First Person (personal narratives)
Index to thousands of oral histories and other personal narratives from archives and repositories all over the world. Provides links to full-text content (text, audio, video) when available free.  Also indexes Alexander Street collections (Midd does not subscribe to full-text). Check Worldcat for collections not available for free that may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.

Information Science and Library Issues Collection
 Gale

InfoTrac Newsstand
Full-text collection, of articles from over 1,000 newspapers.  Coverage: 1980 - present. Click on browse to see the list of available newspapers.

Insurance and Liability Collection
 Gale

International Development Statistics
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International Directory of Philosophy & Philosophers
The International Directory of Philosophy & Philosophers is an online database containing names and contact information on university philosophy departments and programs, philosophical societies, associations, research centers and institutes, journals, and philosophy publishers around the world.

International TV
Portal site to TV stations from around the world

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The IMHS Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies. It is a web site with modern, medieval and ancient primary source documents, maps, secondary sources, bibliographies, images and music. Paul Halsall is the editor, with Jerome S. Arkenberg as the contributing editor. It was first created in 1996, and is used extensively by teachers as an alternative to textbooks.

IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service)
Searchable funding opportunities database for both federal and non-federal sources.

Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
Full-text digital access to these historic documents.  "This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal and foreign affairs contain a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats."  Continues Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Japan, 1910-1929 (on microfilm).

The Jewish History Resource Center
The Jewish History Resource Center is a project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History. Over 6000 links to websites in more than 30 categories dealing with Jewish History were visited by our team and have been found to be of value to those interested in Jewish History.

JSTOR
Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus).

Keesing's Record of World Events
News summaries.  Full-text access for latest year (archive goes back to 1931, which is searchable, but Midd only has access to partial text). Back issues in print.

Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance database (trial access through Feb. 27, 2012)
The Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance database is an electronic archive of books published between 1820-1914 from Egypt, Syria and the Islamic World. With over 2,500 titles, this collection covers humanistic, intellectual and scientific fields. Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin.

Land Letter
Weekly in-depth report on natural resource conservation and development issues.  Part of NCSE (National Council for Science & the Environment ) publications.

Latin American Database
"LADB's journalists collect Spanish language source material from Latin America and publish weekly bulletins in English, placing events in context and highlighting key developments." NotiSur (1986+) contains news, summaries, and analyses on a variety of political, economic, and social issues in South America, while NotiCen (1986+) covers the Caribbean and Central America.  SourceMex (1990+) focuses on Mexican economic and political issues, particularly US-Mexico relations.

LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals plus law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.  Coverage: 1980 - present.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off campus).

LibWeb: Library Servers via WWW
If you want to search a particular Library's online catalog, use LibWeb to find the link.

Literature Resource Center
The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals.  When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.

Los Angeles Times - Current
Proquest Current Newspapers and Proquest Historical Newspapers are contained in two seperate databases which are not simultaneously searchable.

Los Angeles Times - CURRENT (1985-current)

Los Angeles Times - HISTORICAL (1881-1986)

MathDL
MathDL is an online resource published by the Mathematical Association of America. The site provides online resources for both teachers and students of mathematics. MathDL is a component of the National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) and is supported by National Science Foundation grant.

Mathworld
MathWorld is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
MathWorld has been assembled over more than a decade by Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from thousands of contributors. Since its contents first appeared online in 1995, MathWorld has emerged as a nexus of mathematical information in both the mathematics and educational communities. It not only reaches millions of readers from all continents of the globe, but also serves as a clearinghouse for new mathematical discoveries that are routinely contributed by researchers. Its entries are extensively referenced in journals and books spanning all educational levels, including those read by researchers, elementary school students and teachers, engineers, and hobbyists.
note: Wolfram Mathworld

Media History Digital Library
A collection of digitized, classic media periodicals published before 1923 such as Photoplay (1917-1940), Radio Broadcast (1922-1930), Moving Picture World (1912-1918), The Film Daily (1918-1936), and many others. A full-text collection covering the histories of early cinema, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Medieval Bestiary
Links to over 3,00 pages dealing with aspects of "animals in the Middle Ages," particularly bestiaries.

Medline Plus
The National Library of Medicine's authoritative and current database of health information for consumers and health professionals.

Middlebury Citation and Style Guide
This library subject guide links to a multitude of resources pertaining to how to format your paper's footnotes, bibliographies and more.

MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest)
The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (Now on the ProQuest platform.)

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (United Nations)
International statistics including population, labor force, prices, industry, mining, energy, manufacturing, construction, finance (money supply, government bonds, discount rates, short-term rates, gold reserves), trade, and transport. This is now free through UN Data.

Music Online Listening
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases. (Alexander Street Press streaming music databases.)

NASA World Wind
Download a free virtual globe from NASA.gov and explore their rich scientific data in 3D.

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
The National Oceanographic Data Center is a national repository and dissemination facility for global oceanographic data which acquires and preserves a historical record of the Earth's changing environment to be used for operational applications and ocean climate research. NODC is an organization made up of the Oceanographic Data Center, National Coastal Data Development Center, World Data Center for Oceanography, and the NOAA Central Library which are integrated to provide access to the world's most comprehensive sources of marine environmental data and information.

Navigational Charts from NOAA
The Navigational Chart is one of the most fundamental tools available to the mariner. A Nautical Chart is a graphic portrayal of the marine environment showing the nature and form of the coast, the general configuration of the sea bottom including water depths, locations of dangers to navigation, locations and characteristics of man-made aids to navigation and other features useful to the mariner.

Naxos Music Library - Jazz
Offers streaming access to jazz music.  In addition, users can create playlists.

netLibrary
Now EBSCOhost eBook Collection.  A collection of eBooks available to Middlebury users.  

New Encyclopedia of Africa
2nd ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 5 vols. Part of the Gale virtual Reference Library.  "Addresses the entire history of African cultures...covers issues facing the continent such as global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism".

New Religious Movements Gateway
Gateway page to a variety of other religious movement sites.  Compiled by Librarian Mike Madin, Academic Info site.

Newspaper Direct
45-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.

Newspapers24
12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news

The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
The 19th Century in Print presents 23 popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, Scribner's, Harper's, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and more.

Nursing and Allied Health Source (ProQuest)
Nursing and allied health - journal articles, books, videos, dissertations, etc. 

OECD Monthly Statistics of International Trade
1960 onward.  Trends in trading patterns among OECD countries and with the rest of the world. Data are broken down by economic groupings, by country and by region.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints covers current controversies and hot topics. It features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Oxford Art Online
Contains Grove Art Online, today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) - the landmark reference work containing more than 45,000 articles (more than 21,000 biographies and 500,000 bibliographical citations) contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries. Grove Art Online is maintained with a regular update program to articles and bibliographies.
Also provides access to The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Classical Dictionary
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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Surveys American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, literary movements, periods, and themes. The articles offer historical perspective and social context along with critical approaches.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Includes brief biographies of major authors and illustrators throughout the world, paying attention to international trends. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, various individual works, and prominent themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world.  Over 3,200 entries.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
Covers Pre-Hispanic (including Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples), colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. Subjects include art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region. Search just this title or with other sources in Oxford Reference Online.

The Oxford English Dictionary (Online)
The OED online contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition and the latest progress towards the next, Third, edition.

Oxford Handbooks Online - Political Science
Over 20 full-text handbooks in areas relating to political science.  Includes handbooks on the American Presidency and the American Congress, Political Theory, Political Economy, International Relations, and many more titles.  Also see their Philosophy collection and their Religion collection of handbooks.

Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD)
"OxLAD contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000."

Oxford Reference Online Premium
General reference resources, including encyclopedias, bilingual dictionaries, chronologies, and maps and illustrations.

El Pais
Major newspaper from Spain, now available online.  1983- current.

PAIS International (ProQuest)
Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais

Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1800
Published in Philadelphia, it is considered the New York Times of the 18th Century. Provides a firsthand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.

Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from articles as far back as 1665, up through 1995.  Includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages--with links to full text, when available. Formerly PCI.

Peterson's Graduate Schools
Research graduate schools by program and/or location.  Provides basic information about programs along with admissions, financial aid, and other information.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project

A non-profit research center studying the social effects of the Internet on Americans. Report topic include:

• E-Gov & E-Policy
• Internet Evolution
• Technology & Media Use
• Online Activities & Pursuits

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
1893 - 4 years ago. Includes all American Physical Society (APS) journal content. 

PILOTS
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Polling the Nations
"Database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 500,000 questions and responses from 14,000+ surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and 100 other countries around the world."  Logout when done (1 user limit).
note: 1 user limit - logout when done

POPLINE
1970-current; some earlier. References to reports, articles and books on reproductive health, population, family planning, and related issues. POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE) is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID).

Portals to the World
Links to electronic resources from around the world selected by librarians at the Library of Congress.

ProceedingsFirst
Indexing for conference publications.  (Conference proceedings)

Project Muse
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.  Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).

ProQuest Biology Journals
1992 - current.  References to articles on a wide range of topics in biology including biological chemistry, biophysics, botany, cytology and histology, environmental studies, microbiology, microscopy, and zoology. The database includes over 320 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.  

ProQuest Computing
Database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, intranets and the internet - journal articles.  Coverage: 1998-Current

Proquest Digital Microfilm
ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides access to selected local and national microfilmed newspapers with full graphics without the need of traditional microfilm equipment. Currently, our access includes The Burlington Free Press (2010-forward), Boston Globe (Jan 2008-forward) and The New York Times, east coast late edition (Jan 2008-forward).

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
Search for citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to present. To obtain a copy, use Inter Library Loan or request a Library purchase.

ProQuest Health Management
This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search the digitized full-text and images of the New York Times (1851-2007); Wall Street Journal (1889-1993); Los Angeles Times (1881-1987); Washington Post (1877-1994); Chicago Tribune (1849-1987); Boston Globe (1872-1979);  Christian Science Monitor (1908-1997); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945).  Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003);  Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

ProQuest Science Journals
1986-current.  References to articles on a wide variety of topics in the sciences including Physics, Engineering, Astronomy, Biology, Earth Science, Chemistry, and more.  The database includes over 660 titles, with more than 540 available in full text.

PsycARTICLES

All articles indexed in PsycARTICLES are also indexes and linked in PsycINFO.

• Includes full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals linked to every record.
• Includes all articles from the journal issues indexed, as well as errata and letters to the editor.
• Indexes selected U.S., Canadian, and European psychology journals.

Psychology WWW Virtual Library
The Psychology Virtual Library keeps track of online information as part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library. Sites are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources before they are linked from the site.
note: Part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library

PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Now on the ProQuest platform.  Index and abstracts for psychology journals from 1806-current, and books, 1967-current.  Note:  The "Target Audience" limit will find only books and encyclopedias.
 

PubMed

1950s-current. A major source for scholarly biomedical literature. 

Tips:

• Be sure to access PubMed from a library page or via the 'go' link [go/pubmed (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/pubmed (off-campus)].  This will prompt PubMed to link its results to Middlebury collections and our interlibrary loan form.
• For a more precise search, try the Advanced Search Form.  (This might prevent PubMed from linking its resuls to our collections.)
• If you wish to search for a phrase, enter it without quotation marks so that PubMed's  Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) feature will be activated.  If the ATM does not produce useful results then instruct PubMed to bypass ATM for your phrase by enclosing it in quotation marks  " ".
• PubMed automatically places the AND operator between your search terms. When you want to be sure the correct Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) is used, enter it in uppercase.
• Truncation turns off ATM and the automatic addition of MeSH terms. For example, heart attack* will not prompt a search for the MeSH term Myocardial Infarction.  To focus your search by using controlled vocabulary, consult the MeSH Database.
• To limit your search results to review articles, click on the "Review" link on your search results page.
• To limit your search results to articles about the history of medicine, click on the "Limits" link near the search window and select "History of Medicine" in the "Subsets" window.
• Want more tips?  See PubMed Help and the PubMed Tutorial.
• Shortcut = go/pubmed (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/pubmed (off-campus)

Readers Guide Retrospective (Wilson), 1890-1982
Indexes articles in approx. 375 leading general magazines (mainly popular literature). Available in print as Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Includes book, film, and television reviews.
Print volumes:  Davis Family Library Reference AI3 .S6 (1900 - present)
note: Online and Print Resource

RefWorks
RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian.  Middlebury  College students and faculty may use RefWorks by creating a RefWorks account.  For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu.

Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at  http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.

Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
 

Repositories of Primary Sources
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}.

Russian Central Newspapers
Database of 65 Russian language newspapers, with various starting dates.  The longest run is for Izvestiia, which goes back to 1980.

Safari - Books Online

Safari is the premier electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals.

Search electronic versions of a broad range of technical books.

Conduct searches across all of the technical books in the Safari bookshelf. Zero in on answers to time critical questions in a matter of seconds. Read books from cover to cover. Or, simply flip to the page you need. Browse books by category. With Safari researching any topic is a snap. From XML, to database to .Net, you'll find your answer in Safari.

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
 

Science.gov
Selective coverage, as far back as 1948. Science.gov is a search engine for government science information from the Departments of Agriculture; Commerce; Defense; Education; Energy; Health and Human Services; and Interior. Also the Environmental Protection Agency, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and the US Government Printing Office. Results are authoritative and selective and may include scientific or technical data, publications, databases, documentation, or other forms of information.

Tip:  To limit your search to a subset of the database, click on the "Advanced Search" link

Scientific Style and Format (CSE)

In print at: 

• Armstrong Ref T11 .S386 2006

Examples online at:

•  Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper -  From Duke University Libraries

Scirus

Searches for science-related and primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.

Tips:

• To link directly to Middlebury collections, including our online subscriptions, from your Scirus results:
  1) Click on "Search Preferences," 2) For Library Partner Links, click "Enable," 3) Click "M" and then select "Middlebury College" from the drop-down list, and 4) Click "Save Preferences."
• Enclose phrases in quotes " "
• Use an asterisk * to replace multiple characters anywhere in a word

note: Preferences can be set to link directly to articles in Middlebury collections. (See above)

Shakespeare Online Plays (BBC)
Thirty-seven full-length online videos of Shakespeare plays originally presented by the BBC. Find all of the plays in MIDCAT.

Small Business Collection
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Smithsonian Global Sound
Audio collection of  the world's musical and aural traditions--including spoken words and natural and human-made sounds--from recordings of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other labels.

Social Psychology Network
Self-proclaimed "largest social psychology database on the Internet. In these pages, you'll find more than 5,000 links related to psychology."
note: Large Internet Gateway

Social Sciences Citation Index
1985-2011. Part of ISI Web of Science.  NOTE: Backfile only.  No new articles as of January 2012.  Cited reference searches will not refer to articles published after the last 2011 update.  For current (and older) articles and cited reference searches, use Scopus (shortcut: go/scopus).
note: access through Web of Science

SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Service)

From InfoEd.  "Tracks the funding programs (e.g. research grants; fellowships; publication support; sabbatical support; curriculum development; etc.) of over 6,000 government, private, and non-profit funding sources worldwide."
 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Open access philosophy encyclopedia maintained and kept up to date by experts in the field.

Statistical Insight (ProQuest)
Formerly called Lexis Nexis Statistical Universe,  it searches statistical publications and tables by keywords, subjects, and categories. Find a Table searches full text. Find a Publication searches summaries of statistical publications, some with links to full-text. If  full text isn't available, check MIDCAT or google the publication name. See the Quick Start Guide for getting started. Also see Statistical Datasets (under related subscriptions dropdown menu).

Summon
Summon is our newest and most effective tool for searching many resources at once, so we’ve put it right at the center of the library home page (look for the “Summon” tab in the “Library Quick Search” box). Summon searches most library resources including MIDCAT, full-text newspapers and journals, and most of our library databases. Read more about it in the LIS blog. Watch a video tutorial.

TGA-Plus (The Grant Advisor - Plus)
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Theses
 Index of Middlebury Undergraduate theses.  A Special Collections finding aid.

The Times of London
This international newspaper may be relevant to many other country topics, or its indexing may help you find subjects in other papers.

Full-Text:

Current Newspapers section and  Microfilm #194
Online: Lexis Nexis 1985 - present.  Choose from the Sources option.
Online: Times of London Digital Archive 1785 - 1985.

Indexing:

Print Index, 1850 - current. (several months delay)  REF AI 21 .T35.
Online Index (from the Times website). 1985 - present.  Note: searching is free. Online articles are not.  You can get the articles for free from our microfilm or Lexis-Nexis.

Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Collection
 Gale

Tudor England
Includes detailed biographies of all the Tudor monarchs, their royal relatives and other notable citizens of the era.

U*X*L Encyclopedia of Landforms and Other Geologic Features
3 vols, 2004 ed. Essays on the physical and geological aspects, structure, and features of 48 of the earth's landforms - what they are, how they look, how they were created, how they change over time, and major geological events associated with them.  Written for readers new to the sciences.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980)
Contains reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th to 96th Congresses, originally published in bound volumes.  Also includes key Executive Branch documents and thousands of browsable/searchable Serial Set Maps.  Now through 1980 (almost complete). For the 1st - 14th congresses, see American State Papers.  Go shortcut = go/usss

U.S. Serial Set Index and Carto-Bibliography of Maps

Gov Docs Reference-Main Z1223.Z9 C65
This resource provides subject access to about 50,000 maps, many of which are available in the early U. S. Serial Set volumes and which can also be searched through go/usss
note: Print Resource

UlrichsWeb Global Serial Directory
Detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Includes ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.

UN Statistical Yearbook
Population, social, and economic statistics from the United Nations.
Latest edition in Reference HA12.5 U63. Earlier editions in Oversize Stacks.  Statistics also available online from UNData.

United Nations Common Database
Data collected by the United Nations and its associated organizations.

US Census Bureau American FactFinder Data Gateway
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data compiled by the government.

US History Collection
 Gale

USGS Seamless Data Distribution Center
The National Map Seamless Server is the ultimate location to explore and retrieve data. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the EROS Data Center (EDC) are committed to providing access to geospatial data through The National Map. An approach is to provide free downloads of national base layers, as well as other geospatial data layers.

Vermont Center for Geographic Information (VCGI)
VCGI is a public non-profit chartered by the State of Vermont to assist the local GIS Community.

Vermont Newspapers-Burlington Free Press and Rutland Herald
 Burlington Free Press
  Online Current & Archival Selections (page image)
  Current Newspapers, Level 1
  Microfilm #205.  Library has 1848 to date.
  Index for 1848-67: Reference AI21 B8
  Index for 1959-83: Microfilm #591
  Index for 1984 to 1992: on Microfiche 
  Online Index for 1984 - May 2009

 Rutland Herald
   Online Selections from Current Issue (page image)
   Additional online access by special password for Midd users.  Contact a librarian for details. 
   Current Newspapers, Level 1
   1792-1820, 1835-present:  Microfilm #27
   Online Index, 1984 - present.  
   Index for 1970 - 1983:  Microfilm #27 
   Online Index for 1984 - April 2009

note: Mostly print. Some online access available.

Vicipaedia : Libera encyclopaedia

A Latin version of Wikipedia.  Like any wikipedia entries, these cannot be assumed to be authoritative--always double check the information.  But it may provide a useful starting place.

For a more complete description see the article in The Wired Campus

note: Non-scholarly resource

Visible Human Project Data Sets
Middlebury College access for the Visible Human Project datasets (male and female), available from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is for classroom and teaching purposes. Please contact a librarian by calling 802.443.5496 or by emailing (refdesk@middlebury.edu) for the password.

Faculty interested in using the images for research purposes, or creating new uses for the images (e.g., creating an application to manipulate or view them, etc.) are asked to apply to the NLM for individual access.

Wall Street Journal
Access current (text only) WSJ articles through ProQuest National Newspapers and access the full digital images of earlier issues (back to 1959) on ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

War and Terrorism Collection
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We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
Full-text digital access to these historic documents from the FBI Library.

WebMD
A health resource for consumers, physicians, nurses, and educators. Includes news, chat forums, health quizzes and consumer product updates.

Westlaw Campus Research
Full-text collection of legal, news, and business information sources.  Legal resources include law reviews and journals; law encyclopedias and legal guides; cases (all Supreme Court, federal, and state cases); statutes (including USCA and state codes/laws); federal regulations (including the Federal Register and CFR); European Union materials (including treaty, legislative, and case law materials). See Product Brochure and Campus Help for more details. Go shortcut = go/westlaw

Wilson Current Biography Illustrated replaced by Gale Biography in Context
Gale Biography in Context includes 600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals.  Includes 170+ Gale reference titles, periodical information and multimedia content.

Women and Social Movements in the US 1600-2000
Provides 74 document projects. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Includes more than 2,200 documents, approx. 800 images, & almost 800 links to other websites. Also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations; a chronology of U.S. women's history; and teaching tools.

Women Writers Online
A collection of over 200 texts dating from the 16th to the 19th century which are important examples of early women's writing.

World Development Indicators
Online access to the full version of the World Bank's World Development Indicators (social and economic statistics). Provides annual data for over 800 indicators.  Go Shortcut = go/wdi

World News Connection
Full-text translations of world press and broadcasting, 1995 to current.

World of Earth Science
A guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues relating to topics in earth science. Written for readers new to the sciences.

The World War I Document Archive
This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

WWW-VL History: Electronic Texts
Includes links specific languages and repositories.