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The National Academies Press was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. NAP books capture authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.
The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. NTRL contains information about more than 2 million technical reports with links to over 600,000 in full-text. Updated every government business day, covers 1890s–present but most reports date from 1970s to present.
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal.
Nature Methods is a forum for the publication of novel methods and significant improvements to tried-and-tested basic research techniques in the life sciences. This monthly publication is aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience of academic and industry researchers actively involved in laboratory practice. It provides them with new tools to conduct their research and places a strong emphasis on the immediate practical relevance of the work presented.
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 100,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
A performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated.
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types—monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more—in one cross-searchable location.
Database of 250 complete works of prose fiction by 109 authors from the period 1781 to 1901. Each test is reproduced in full, including all prefatory material and annotation by the original author, and illustrations where available. Genres included are gothic horror, social satire, sensation, detective fiction moral earnestness, aestheticism, masculine adventure, feminist polemic, "Silver Fork" school, historical fiction, the "novel of ideas, " children's stories, and the "New Woman" novel. Full text is searchable by author, title, and keyword.
Contains items cataloged for Northwestern University's Library. They have one of the strongest Africana collections in the U.S.
OECD iLibrary is OECD’s online library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It hosts all content so users can find and cite tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters. It includes working papers, multi-lingual summaries, e-books, tables and graphs, chapters and articles, and databases.
OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. From one place, you can search and buy documents from many different professional societies, or similar organizations, that serve the oil and gas industry.
Corporate overviews, financials, analyst reports, etc. 200 simultaneous users.
This Archive provides free access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California campuses. “Finding aids” in OAC help users locate digital images or learn how to gain access to the physical objects.
This is an index of over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.
Optics ImageBank contains over 700,000 images from OSA's core journals hosted on OSA's Digital Library, Optics InfoBase. Images include charts, graphs, micrographs, illustrations, and pictures. The images can be imported into other programs (copyright permission may be required). Optics ImageBank can be searched by keywords and filtered by journal, date range, OSA topic area (OSA technical divisions), and OSIS codes.
Orbis profiles over 65 million public and private companies worldwide, providing detailed financial, descriptive, ownership information, executives and board members, SEC filings, subsidiaries, and competitor analysis. Also includes Datamonitor industry reports. Orbis offers an advanced search interface. For a user-friendly alternative search interface, use Mint Global. Orbis includes the same data as Mint Global.
Organic Reactions is a comprehensive collection of important synthetic reactions, together with a critical discussion of the reaction and tables that organize all published examples of the topic reactions. Organic Reactions currently consists of over 140,000 reactions, and will continue to grow annually. Organic Reactionsis the definitive resource for synthetic transformations, with an emphasis on preparative aspects. Comprehensive coverage of all examples of a given reaction is provided in tabular form. In addition to providing reaction scope, stereochemical aspects, and side reactions, a selection of representative experimental conditions are given. All chapters represent the highest standard for accuracy and reliability from internationally acclaimed authors and editors.
Organic Syntheses describes checked and edited experimental procedures, spanning a broad range of synthetic methodologies, and provides chemists with a compendium of new or little known experimental procedures which lead to useful compounds or that illustrate important new developments in methodology. For every procedure, safety warnings are presented along with detailed descriptions for the preparation, purification, and identification of the compound in question. Additionally, special reaction conditions are detailed, along with the source of reagents, helpful waste disposal guidelines, discussions of results, references to the primary literature, and an appendix of nomenclature and registry numbers.
OSA Publishing is the largest peer-reviewed collection of optics and photonics information in the world.
The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It features over 10,000 articles, about 300 primary sources, plus images, maps, charts, tables, timelines, and biographies.
Oxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides.
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.
Oxford Handbooks series are available online as a collection in modules. Stanford has subscriptions to the online modules covering Philosophy; Political Science, and Religion. The module covering Business and Management is available in print at Stanford’s Business Library. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explaining the key issues, the debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
It contains an unprecedented online collection of English-language reference resources on the Islamic world including a wealth of primary source documents, timelines and maps, full-color images and a glossary. It has over 4,500 articles, 300 maps and illustrations, more than 150 primary source documents, timelines, a glossary, and editorially-selected set of links to web sites.
Oxford Music Online is the innovative new gateway through which users can access an expanding range of Oxford’s premier music resources, including the relaunched Grove Music Online. Individual resources are available separately, but they are fully cross-searchable within Oxford Music Online.
Oxford dictionaries and reference works across the full subject spectrum are now available in a single cross-searchable database. Explore 1.5 million entries that include Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This site includes access to over 185 subject dictionaries; English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian; 15,000 images; and over 30 timelines.
The very best scholarly books are available online in biology, business and management, classical studies, economics and finance, history, law, linguistics, literature, math, music, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, physics, psychology, public health and epidemiology, religion, and social work.
Since its establishment in 1914, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources. The PAIS International database contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. Searched with PAIS International and covering 1915-1976, the PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies and contains over 1.23 million records to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Updated, monthly, PAIS International covers 1972-present.
An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), the Old English Bede and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. The Parker Library also contains key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts ranging from the Ancrene Wisse and the Brut Chronicle to one of the finest copies of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Other subjects represented in the collection are music, medieval travelogues and maps, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles. The Parker Library holds a magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts, such as the Bury and Dover Bibles (c. 1135 and c. 1150) and the Chronica maiora by Matthew Paris (c. 1230-50). Scholars in a variety of disciplines - including historians of art, music, science, literature, politics and religion - find invaluable resources in the Library's collection.
Also known as Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database. Includes market research reports and consumer trends worldwide.
The Past Masters series contains full-text works by major philosophical figures, in original language and in English translation. Areas covered include the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and German studies.
Patty's Toxicology presents a premier reference for toxicological information on a large number of industrial chemicals that pose potential health hazards. The reference presents logical groupings of comprehensive toxicological data for industrial compounds, including CAS numbers, physical and chemical properties, exposure limits, and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures, making it essential for toxicologists and industrial hygienists.
An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) offers access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines. PAO contains over 14 million pages and 2.8 million articles. About 20 percent of the journals are in non-English languages. Covers 1802–2000.
Periodicals Index Online is the leading multidisciplinary index to the arts, humanities, and the social sciences. Over 6,000 journals are included, with around one million records from new journals added yearly. Complete runs of these titles are indexed, from first issue to 1995 or ceased date. Covers 1665–1995.
Persée is a national digitization project of French academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, providing full-text access to some of the most prestigious titles. The web site is available in both French and English. Covers 1881–2002.
The Philosopher’s Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered includes articles from over 550 journals, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews. Updated quarterly, covers 1940–present.
Provides full-text online access to a growing number of philosophy journals, including articles, book reviews, footnotes, announcements, and notices. More than 60 journals have been licensed for the project and the database will ultimately contain 100 philosophy journals and UMI’s collection of philosophy dissertation abstracts.
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, we monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.
Private equity data including, buyout, venture capital, mezzanine, distressed, fund of funds, secondaries, natural resources. Also, hedge fund investor & performance profiles.
Project Euclid is a joint effort by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press; this not-for-profit online publishing service provides access to journals, monographs, and conference proceedings in the fields of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers will join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project.
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers to provide full-text access to 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies.
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873).
Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.
Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.
Provides full text access to articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
PsycINFO provides access to the international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, PsycINFO includes over 1,800 journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations. Updated weekly, covers 1890–present.
PubMed is an index to over 5,000 journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, including both basic biomedical sciences and clinical practice. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) provide a powerful tool for searching topics. Updated daily, covers 1946–present, with some older material.