Selected Public Access Indexes and Databases
By contract, remote access to the Rutgers University Library's indexes, databases, and electronic journals is available only to current Rutgers students, faculty and staff, although you are certainly welcome to come in and use these resources on-site in any Rutgers library.
However there are many useful bibliographic databases that are available for use without subscription or institutional affiliation. We have assembled a select list of these here.
- WorldCat
Search across the largest library network in the world for books, music, and videos and then locate those items in a nearby library.
- Ingenta
Search tables of contents and abstracts of over 20,000 journals.
- JerseyClicks [Access restricted to New Jersey residents]
Index to, and in many cases access to the full text of, thousands of articles and entries from magazines, newspapers, and reference books, as well as images and a full-text collection of government, business, personal and tax forms. Includes resources appropriate to middle school and high schools populations, as well as scholarly and research resources such as Business Source Premier and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. Search across databases simultaneously, or go to "Custom Search" and select the database(s) that you'd like to search.
- Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.
- Alcohol Studies Database
Index to over 70,000 citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers indexed by the Rutgers University Center for Alcohol Studies since 1987. Emphasis on research and professional literature dealing with alcohol, its use, and related consequences.- CORK: A Database of Substance Abuse Information
Index to over 69,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and reports on substance abuse. Scope is interdisciplinary; includes information from the social sciences as well as the life sciences and clinical medicine. Most citations from 1978 to the present with some selected retrospective coverage.- ETOH: The Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
Index to over 170,000 articles, books, dissertations, conference papers, and reports on all aspects of alcohol and alcoholism. Citations/Abstracts from late 1960s through 2003. From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) [Archived Database].- Smoking and Health Resource Library
Index with abstracts to over 67,000 articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, reports, conference papers, and documents on the use of tobacco and its effect on health. Focus on information published in the last 35 years, although some earlier references are included. Recent records include link to full-text if available. From the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health.- Tobacco Control Archives
Browse and view papers, records, and other unpublished documents relevant to tobacco control issues. Some collections searchable. From the Library and Center for Knowledge Management of the University of California San Francisco.- Tobacco Factfile
Search or browse information relating to tobacco and smoking from peer-reviewed journals, scientific publications and monographs, and governmental reports. Citations include source of the information with links when available. From the Tobacco Control Research Centre (UK).
- Agricola
Index to publications covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines. Some records linked to full-text online documents. Catalog 1970+ ; Journal Index 1979+- AGRALIN: Union Catalogue of Agricultural Libraries in the Netherlands
Holdings of Dutch libraries with substantial collections in agriculture, including all the libraries within the Wageningen Agricultural University and libraries of agricultural research institutes and experiment stations.- Current Veterinary Journals
Searchable index (mid-1990s-)to tables of contents of articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings dealing with veterinary science. Lists 254 veterinary journals with links to tables of contents either entered by the Veterinary Library at the University of Montreal, included at the publisher's web site, or as found in PubMed. Beginning in 2000, only veterinary journals not indexed by Medline are indexed and searchable in the database.- Fruit Pathology Database
Browsable index to research article citations dealing with diseases of deciduous fruit trees published in Plant Disease Reporter (1950-1979), Plant Disease (1980-1998), and Phytopathology (1943-1998). From the Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Education Center, West Virginia University.- FS Info
The online catalog for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Library Network. Includes approximately 200,000 records of natural resources literature (books, articles, reports, etc.) plus about 70,000 records and links to Forest Service Research publication back to 1904. Many links to full-text resources.- PESTIS: Pesticide Information Service Database
Index to a collection of articles, newsletters, reports, and fact sheets that deal with pesticides and alternative farming practices.- USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System
Search or browse nearly 2500 online reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture concerning U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
- Anthropological Index Online
Index to current periodicals in the Anthropology Library at the British Museum. 1957+- World Food Habits Bibliography
Extensive bibliography of world food habits, browsable by region and topic.
- architecture.com: Online Catalogue
Index to over 300 architectural periodicals held by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), as well as books, AV materials, photographs, and manuscripts.Area Studies
- African Studies Abstracts (ASA) Online
Quarterly classified index with abstracts to about 220 social science and humanities journals, as well as to edited works, on sub-Saharan Africa. Issues available as pdf files. From the African Studies Centre, Leiden. 2003- .- Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database
Index to over 57,000 articles from over 480 journals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. Journals indexed in their entirety.- African Women's Bibliographic Database
Index to over 35,000 English-language citations from 1986 to the present on African women.- ERPA: European Research Papers Archive
Index to online working papers relating to European Integration research.- European Integration Current Contents
View or search tables of contents of over 100 journals relevant to European Integration research - law, human rights, economics, history and political sciences. Coverage from 1998 for most journals. A project of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and the NYU School of Law.- Handbook of Latin American Studies
Searchable annotated bibliography of scholarly books, articles, book chapters, and conference papers dealing with Latin America. 1936+- South Asia Resources Database
Searchable database of over 120,000 records--books, serials, archive collections, and ephemera--about South Asia available in Australia; complemented by a database of some 150,000 items of South Asia Resources Not Held in Australia- SPRILIB Antarctica
Index to the Antarctica and Southern Ocean collection in the Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Over 45,000 records listing publications from 1602 to the present.- SPRILIB Russian North
Index to the Russian North ("European Russia south to 63 degrees N. and Asian Russia south to 57 degrees N., including all of Kamchatka and Sakhalin") in the Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Over 25,000 records listing publications from 1671 to the present.- UNISPAL: UN Information System on the Question of Palestine
Search or browse a large collection of current and historical United Nations documents concerning the question of Palestine and related issues since 1946.- UNBISnet: United Nations Bibliographic Information System
UN and other documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library in New York and the UN Library in Geneva. Full coverage from 1979 but many older titles continue to be added. Many links to full-text documents. You can also search voting records for all resolutions adopted by the General Assembly (1983- ) and the Security Council (1946- ), and for speeches (1983- ) made in the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council.- Official Document System of the United Nations
1993- Index to the full text of UN parliamentary documents (resolutions and decisions from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, and their subsidiary bodies). Also includes documents from global conference convened by the UN. Official resolutions and decisions back to 1946 are in the "Resolutions" database, available from the "Advanced Search" screen.
- National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Databases
ETHX on the Web indexes "the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research." ETHX includes over 180,000 records for books, book chapters, journal and newspaper articles, government reports, court decisions, bills, and AV materials. The Genetics and Ethics database, a subset of ETHX, has over 22,000 records relating to that topic. From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.- DUCKDATA: A Bibliographic Data Base of North American Waterfowl (Anatidae) and Their Wetland Habitats
"A comprehensive bibliography of published literature on the ecology, conservation, and management of North American waterfowl and their wetland habitats." Includes books, journals, theses, and documents. Maintained by the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).- PrimateLit: A Bibliographic Database for Primatology
Index to books, articles, dissertations, documents, and technical reports from 1940 to the present relating to nonhuman primates. Link to NLM-PubMed abstract when available.Business and Economics
- BizJournals
Search web editions of 42 regional business journals, or browse journals by industry groups. June 1996- .- Brause Real Estate Index
Index to over 140 real estate journals. From the Jack Brause Real Estate Library at New York University. 1986- . "Connect to Bobcat" to get to database list. Then select "Real Estate Periodical Index."- Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Index (with abstracts) to over 25,000 books, articles, reports, and non-print resources dealing with philanthropy, fundraising, charitable and corporate giving, nonprofit management, etc.- Consumer and Household Studies Database
Index to over 30,000 articles, books, and reports dealing with consumer sciences, home economics, and family studies, including product research, income procurement and spending, consumption patterns, and household social-economic policies. Emphasis on literature relating to the Netherlands, Western Europe, and developing countries.- Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research
Index to articles, reports, papers, and monographs produced by the Federal Reserve research departments. Links to full text where available. Mid-1960s- .- International Monetary Fund (IMF) Publications Index
Links to full text where available. 1990- .- IDEAS
Index to the complete data from the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) database, including EconWPA, Fed in Print, NBER, CEPR, and over 80 other economics working papers archives. Includes citations/abstracts of almost 194,000 working papers, some 239,000 articles, and over 1,400 software components. Links to over 134,000 downloadable papers and 191,000 articles.- INFORMS Annual Comprehensive Index
Index to some 39,000 journal article citations in operations research from 1976 to 2001 [No longer updated]. From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.- Quality InfoSearch
Index to thousands of abstracts from Quality Progress, Quality Management Journal, Quality Engineering, Journal of Quality Technology, Software Quality Professional, Technometrics, Six Sigma Forum Magazine, Annual Quality Congress Proceedings, and the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Division Conference Proceedings.- RAM: Recent Advances in Manufacturing
Index to over 500 periodicals, as well as books, papers, and media, on all aspects of manufacturing including manufacturing management, quality management, product development, manufacturing systems and processes, and applied technologies. From the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL). 1990- .- USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System
Search or browse nearly 2500 online reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture concerning U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
- Child Welfare Library
Thousands of abstracts of books, technical reports, fact sheets, journal articles, and other documents related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption. Links to full-text document when available. Part of the Child Welfare Information Gateway of the Children's Bureau.
- Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
Index to a bibliography with abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children from preschool to grade 3. Thesaurus ('Keyword' list) includes over 900 concepts, topics, and skills.- Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Search [in English or Spanish; by subject and/or grade level] a database of more than 10,000 recommended books in Spanish for children and adolescents, or a database of over 100 recommended books in English about Latinos.- PIKA: Canadian Children's Literature Database
Index to the National Library of Canada's collection of 35,000 children's books. Searchable by subject; includes grade level recommendations.Computer Science
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
Browse or search across about 1500 bibliographies covering most aspects of computer science. More than 2 million references to journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, dissertations and manuals. Over 1 million links to full-text.
- National Criminial Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
Index to summaries of over 185,000 criminal justice publications, including books, government and research reports, and journal articles. Includes links to full text documents when available. 1970s+
- Population Index
Search or browse the foremost index to abstracts of books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, and demographic and economic interrelations. 1986-2000.
- HazLit: The Hazards Literature Database
Index to approximately 28,000 citations "of social science literature focusing on how society prepares for, responds to, recovers from, and mitigates natural disasters." From the Natural Hazards Center Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Inter-Play: An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals
Index to over 47,000 entries (from the late 19th-century to the present) for non-separately published plays.
- The Digital Book Index
Index to over 128,000 fiction and nonfiction, historical and contemporary, e-books from over 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers. Almost 88,000 titles freely accessible.Education
- ERIC
The premier resource for educational research, the ERIC database contains more than 1.2 million abstracts covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. Links to over 100,000 papers and reports. 1966+- TRC: Teacher Reference Center
Ebsco's free index to over 260 teacher and administrator trade journals and books.- Distance Education Literature Database
From the International Centre for Distance Learning. Database of over 12,000 abstracts of books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education. Search or browse by category.- TestLink: Test Collection Database
Search the largest collection (25,000+) of standarized tests and research instruments in the world. From the Educational Testing Service (ETS).- Mental Measurements Yearbook Test Reviews Online
Browse or search for information on almost 4000 commercially available tests.- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, and the visual and performing arts deemed to be useful for Medical Humanities teaching and related projects.- Music Education Resource Base including the Canadian Music Index
Bibliographic database of more than 31,000 citations relating to music and music education from 35 Canadian and international journals and other sources covering the period 1956 to the present. From the University of Victoria.- Music Education Search System
Consists of three databases: The Music Journals database, an index to 12 journals in music education, most indexed back to the first issue; the Poland-Cady Abstract Collection, more than 4500 citations with abstracts to important writings in the field of music education written prior to 1965; and an index to the Boletin de Investigacio Educativo Musical, the most important music education research journal in Latin America.- Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
Index to a bibliography with abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children from preschool to grade 3. Thesaurus ('Keyword' list) includes over 900 concepts, topics, and skills.- Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Search [in English or Spanish; by subject and/or grade level] a database of more than 10,000 recommended books in Spanish for children and adolescents, or a database of over 100 recommended books in English about Latinos.
- Energy Database
Index to over 4 million records contributed by the member countries and international partners of the International Energy Agency's Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE). Records and abstracts of journal articles, reports, conference papers, books, websites and other documents. Links to full text when available. Requires registration for access.- DOE Information Bridge
Index, with links to full text, of thousands of research reports either produced or sponsored by the Department of Energy since 1994.- Energy Citations Database
Index to energy and energy-related report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents from the Department of Energy and its predeccesor agencies from 1948 to the present.
- Civil Engineering Database
From the American Society of Civil Engineers. Index to all ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Journals indexed back to 1958; article abstracts available back to 1970.- Engineering E-journal Search Engine
Searches the full text of 250 free engineering, computing, and mathematics electronic journals.- RAM: Recent Advances in Manufacturing
Index to over 500 periodicals, as well as books, papers, and media, on all aspects of manufacturing including manufacturing management, quality management, product development, manufacturing systems and processes, and applied technologies. From the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL). 1990- .
- APIRS Online: the Database of Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plants
University of Florida index to over 65,000 articles, books, and reports. Literature on aquatic and wetland plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control from the 18th century to the present.- NCSE's Congressional Research Reports Database
Browse or search some 1700 CRS reports on environmental issues. 1991- .- DUCKDATA: A Bibliographic Data Base of North American Waterfowl (Anatidae) and Their Wetland Habitats
"A comprehensive bibliography of published literature on the ecology, conservation, and management of North American waterfowl and their wetland habitats." Includes books, journals, theses, and documents. Maintained by the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).- Ecolex: A Gateway to Environmental Law
Index to treaties, local and national legislation, major national and international judicial decisions, as well as books, articles and other literature relating to environmental law. Links are made to full text when available. From the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).- ESPIS: Environmental Studies Program Information System
From the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Full text searching of the technical summaries of over 700 MMS-sponsored environmental research projects, as well as over 2000 research reports "addressing the interaction of the OCS gas and oil development with the social and economic aspects of the human environment; the oceanographic, meteorologic, and geologic aspects of the physical environment; and the various endangered species, marine birds, fish, and mammals of the biological environment." 1973-- FS Info
The online catalog for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Library Network. Includes approximately 200,000 records of natural resources literature (books, articles, reports, etc.) plus about 70,000 records and links to Forest Service Research publication back to 1904. Many links to full-text resources.- Hydrotheek
Index to articles, books, conference proceedings, and reports dealing with hydrology, water management, ecology and sewage purification. From the Stichting Toegepast Onderzoek Waterbeheer (STOWA), the Foundation for Applied Water Research. 1983- .- The Land, Soil and Water Database
Index to over 100,000 articles, book chapters, and proceedings related to land use planning, sustainable use, GIS, remote sensing, soil science, hydraulics and hydrology, water management, and ecosystems. Emphasis on the Netherlands, Western Europe, and developing countries. 1980- .- NEPIS: National Environmental Publications Internet Site
Search a full-text collection of over 20,000 archival and current Enviromental Protection Agency reports and documents.- PESTIS: Pesticide Information Service Database
Index to a collection of articles, newsletters, reports, and fact sheets that deal with pesticides and alternative farming practices.- Water and Climate Bibliography
Searchable database of some 3600 citations to scientific literature pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources worldwide. From the Pacific Insitute.
- Film Literature Index
Index to scholarly and popular film and television periodicals worldwide from 1976 to 2001. Search or browse citations.- MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
Links to some 560,000 film reviews in newspapers, journals, and other online sources. Some sources require a subscription. Approximately 65,000 films indexed.Geology
- GSA Retropective Electronic Index
Index to the Geological Society of America journals from 1972 to 2000.- GSA Online Journal Search
Index, with links, to GSA Bulletin and Geology from 1995 to the present, and to GSA Today starting with January 2001.
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Index to the electronic and print publications created by Federal agencies. Identifies which depository libraries have received publications; includes links to online publications when available. Currently includes more than 500,000 records generated since July 1976; plans are to expand the database back to the late 1800s.- GPO Access: Multi-Database Search
Search one or across multiple U.S. government databases. Access to federal budgets, congressional bills and reports, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, economic reports, the Public Papers of the Presidents, Supreme Court Decisions, the U.S. Code, etc.- GrayLIT Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports
Index to technical reports from the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA. Links to full text.- Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
Search or browse a collection of over 300 United States government documents produced during World War II. Emphasis on 'home-front' publications, e.g., "99 Ways to Share the Meat," "Choosing Women for War-Industry Jobs," "Home Frant in National Defense," etc. Catalog records include extended description of contents; publications available as pdf or html (jpeg) files. Digital project from the Southern Methodist University Libraries.- UNISPAL: UN Information System on the Question of Palestine
Search or browse a large collection of current and historical United Nations documents concerning the question of Palestine and related issues since 1946.
- PubMed
Search over 16 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Links to full-text if available.- NLM Gateway
Allows one-step searching of multiple National Library of Medicine databases including Medline/PubMed and MedlinePlus, the consumer health site.- BiblioSleep
Searchable bibliography of citations and abstracts of "all sleep and sleep-related papers from 1990 to the present." From the UCLA Brain Information Service.- National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Databases
ETHX on the Web indexes "the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research. " ETHX includes over 180,000 records for books, books chapters, journal and newspaper articles, government reports, court decision, bills, and AV materials. The Genetics and Ethics database, a subset of ETHX, has over 22,000 records relating to that topic. From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.- Cancer Literature in PubMed
Search the biomedical literature and have your results automatically limited to cancer-related citations.
- CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) on PubMed
Search the biomedical literature and have your results automatically limited to complementary and alternative medicine. Includes links to full-text articles if available.- Database of International Rehabilitation Research
Index to over 27,000 citations to journal articles and conference proceedings from 1990 to the present concerning rehabilitation research conducted outside the United States. From the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE).- ETOH: The Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
Index to over 170,000 articles, books, dissertations, conference papers, and reports on all aspects of alcohol and alcoholism. Citations/Abstracts from late 1960s through 2003. From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) [Archived Database].- IBIDS: International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
Index to over 730,000 citations and abstracts of scientific and consumer literature from 1986 to the present on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. From the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Nutrition Information Center(FNIC) of the National Agricultural Library.- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, and the visual and performing arts deemed to be useful for Medical Humanities teaching and related projects.- CAIRSS for Music
Search for journal articles relating to music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.- NAPS: New Abstracts and Papers in Sleep
Current literature in the sleep field. Offers a free weekly email alert of new citations in a specific area of interest. The NAPS Archives, browsable by author, keyword, or category, include one year's worth of NAPS citations.- PILOTS Database
Index to over 30,000 citations, most with abstracts, to worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Produced by the National Center for PTSD.- REHABDATA Literature Database
Index to over 69,000 items in the library of the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC), including reports, studies, and papers submitted by projects funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, as well as articles published in rehabilitation-related periodicals. Publications from 1956 to the present.- Smoking and Health Resource Library
Index with abstracts to about 67,000 articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, reports, conference papers, and documents on the use of tobacco and its effect on health. Focus on information published in the last 35 years, although some earlier references are included. From the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health.- ToxNet
The Toxicology Data Network. A group of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas, including TOXLINE, the toxicology literature index.
- TOCS-IN: Index to Table of Contents of Interest to Classicists
Searchable index to the tables of contents of over 185 journals of interest to classicists (including the Near East). Most indexed back to 1992; indexing to prior years being added on a journal by journal basis.- Magazine Stacks: Tables of Contents of Historical Journals
Search or browse the tables of contents of European (primarily German and English) history journals, Festschriften, and monographic series. Many journals indexed back to first issue. Approximately 400,000 citations. Developed and maintained by Stuart Jenks of the University of Erlangen.- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 A.D. to 1500 A.D.). Some 500 journals indexed. 1990-- ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
Index to over 10,000 articles on women's and gender history published from 1975 to the present in about 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand historical and women's studies journals.- Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Searchable bibliography of historical writing on Britain and Ireland from ancient times to the present. Over 400,000 entries.- Scottish Medieval Bibliography
Extensive classified bibliography on medieval Scotland. Links to online resources when available. Edited by Sharon L. Krossa.- Internet Library of Early Journals
Browse a digitized collection of six major 18th and 19th century British journals: the Annual Register (1758-1778), The Builder (1843-1852), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), the Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777). The latter four titles are also searchable.- The Nineteenth Century
Search the index to the microform set containing over 29,000 titles of English-language works first published between 1801 and 1900. Based on the holdings of the British Library.- Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, 1826-1997
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Search or browse a bibliography of writings about Jefferson from his death in 1826 up to 1997.- PIRATE: Projet d'Indexation et de Recherche pour Assister le Travail de l'Écrit
Project to create a searchable index to some 360 major historical journals from the latter part of the 19th century to the present. Citations are searchable by title, title keyword, author, and journal title. Maintained by Nelson Ouellet of the University of Moncton.- Bibliography of Slavery and World Slavery
Extensive searchable (author or title) bibliography. Includes books, articles, dissertations, and unpublished papers.- Classical Historiography for Chinese History
Extensive, searchable bibliography developed and maintained by Professor Benjamin A. Elman of Princeton University.- Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
Search or browse a collection of over 300 United States government documents produced during World War II. Emphasis on 'home-front' publications, e.g., "99 Ways to Share the Meat," "Choosing Women for War-Industry Jobs," "Home Frant in National Defense," etc. Catalog records include extended description of contents; publications available as pdf or html (jpeg) files. Digital project from the Southern Methodist University Libraries.- Douglass Archives of American Public Address
Archive of notable American oratory from 1625 to the present as well as links to other sites with speech collections. Searchable and browsable texts.- Gifts of Speech
Archive of speeches by contemporary, influential women, supplemented by a collection of 19th and early 20th century speeches.
- Felix Posen Bibliography Project on Antisemitism
Search two extensive (about 40,000 items) bibliographic databases: The Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism (1965- ); and the "'Jewish Question' in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1933". Works on the Holocaust are included as part of the history of anitsemitism in the 20th century. From the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.- RAMBI: Index to Articles on Jewish Studies
Extensive searchable bibliography "of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel." From the Hebrew University. 1966- .
- Contents Pages From Law Reviews
View or search tables of contents of more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly journals relating to law received by the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library. Current awareness service--pages removed after three months.- National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Databases
ETHX on the Web indexes "the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research." ETHX includes over 180,000 records for books, book chapters, journal and newspaper articles, government reports, court decisions, bills, and AV materials. The Genetics and Ethics database, a subset of ETHX, has over 22,000 records relating to that topic. From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.- Ecolex: A Gateway to Environmental Law
Index to treaties, local and national legislation, major national and international judicial decisions, as well as books, articles and other literature relating to environmental law. Links are made to full text when available. From the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).- European Integration Current Contents
View or search tables of contents of over 100 journals relevant to European Integration research - law, human rights, economics, history and political sciences. Coverage from 1998 for most journals. A project of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and the NYU School of Law.- GPO Access: Multi-Database Search
Search one or across multiple U.S. government databases. Access to federal budgets, congressional bills and reports, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, economic reports, the Public Papers of the Presidents, Supreme Court Decisions, the U.S. Code, etc.
Library and Information Science
- LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Ebsco's free index with abstracts to over 600 journals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Some titles indexed back to the mid-1960s.- Book History Online: International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
Index to book and article titles on the history of the printed book worldwide. Online counterpart to the Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries; contains all ABHB entries from 1990 onward. Published by the National Library of the Netherlands for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.- Studies in Bibliography
Search or browse the full text of this important resource for scholarly articles on bibliography and textual criticism. 1948- .- The Digital Book Index
Index to over 129,000 fiction and nonfiction, historical and contemporary, e-books from over 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers. Almost 89,000 titles freely accessible.- Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
Index to a bibliography with abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children from preschool to grade 3. Thesaurus ('Keyword' list) includes over 900 concepts, topics, and skills.- Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Search [in English or Spanish; by subject and/or grade level] a database of more than 10,000 recommended books in Spanish for children and adolescents, or a database of over 100 recommended books in English about Latinos.
- Studies in Bibliography
Search or browse the full text of this important resource for scholarly articles on bibliography and textual criticism. 1948- .- English Literature and Religion
Extensive bibliography of over 8500 citations relating to the "religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century, with primary (though not exclusive) emphasis upon writers within the Anglican tradition." Browse full bibliography or subsets arranged by topic or person.- gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database
Index to over 8400 citations pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.- The Nineteenth Century
Search the index to the microform set containing over 29,000 titles of English-language works first published between 1801 and 1900. Based on the holdings of the British Library.- British Fiction 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception
Index to bibliographic records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors. Records include links to anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogs, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists.- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, and the visual and performing arts deemed to be useful for Medical Humanities teaching and related projects.- Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2004
Browsable index to English-language mystery short fiction published in magazines, anthologies, and single-author collections.- Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Index to over 73,000 books and articles about science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and weird fiction. From Hal W. Hall, librarian at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University.- The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)
Browsable index to science fiction books, as well as stories published in anthologies, single-author collections, and magazines.- Annual Updates: 1999, 2000; 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
- Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (Combined Edition)
Browsable index to "3,900 SF anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984, containing over 38,000 stories by 3,880 authors."
- AlgaeBase
Index to published literature--journal articles, books, and book chapters--relating to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater algae. Over 36,000 citations and over 5100 images.- Freshwater Crayfish Literature Database
Index to over 17,500 references to freshwater crayfishes. Includes links to PDFs when available.- Sea Turtle Bibliography
Index to over 12,000 references (articles, books, papers, dissertations) dealing with all aspects of sea turtle biology, conservation and management. From the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research (ACCSTR) at the University of Florida.
- Index to Military Periodicals
Index to some 100 English-language military and aeronautical periodicals. From the Air University Library. 1988- .- Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI)
Current (1996 to the present) index to over 60,000 articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare and related research. Also includes miscellaneous reports from RAND and the U.S. General Accounting Office. From the Joint Forces Staff College Library.
- The Morgue: Mortuary Journals Database
Author and subject index to fifteen English-language journals in the field of mortuary science, 1997 to the present. From the Library of Kansas City Kansas Community College.
- Musica Virtual Choral Library
Search for scores by composer, title, keywords, voicing, genre, language, etc. Database includes some 145,000 choral music citations.- Bach Bibliography
Search a database of over 23,000 citations to scholarly literature, including books, articles, theses, and conference papers, relating to Johann Sebastian Bach.- Beethoven Bibliography Database
Over 15,000 citations of published, and selected unpublished, materials from the 18th century to the present relating to Ludwig von Beethoven. From the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University.- Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music
Extensive bibliography on women and music from the Committee on the Status of Women of the Society for Music Theory.- CAIRSS for Music
Search for journal articles relating to music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
Search or browse more than 13,500 bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines. From the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana University.- Music Education Resource Base including the Canadian Music Index
Bibliographic database of more than 31,000 citations relating to music and music education from 35 Canadian and international journals and other sources covering the period 1956 to the present. From the University of Victoria.- Music Education Search System
Consists of three databases: The Music Journals database, an index to 12 journals in music education, most indexed back to the first issue; the Poland-Cady Abstract Collection, more than 4500 citations with abstracts to important writings in the field of music education written prior to 1965; and an index to the Boletin de Investigacio Educativo Musical, the most important music education research journal in Latin America.
- Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2004
Browsable index to English-language mystery short fiction published in magazines, anthologies, and single-author collections.
- U.S. News Archives on the Web
Arranged by state. Most archives can be searched for free; there is usually a charge to retreive the full text of an article.- International News Archives on the Web
Arranged by region and country.- NewsLibrary
Allows you to simultaneously search all NewsBank Media Services newspapers in a selected state; or search across a group of NewsBank newspapers that you have individually selected.
- IBIDS: International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
Index to over 730,000 citations and abstracts of scientific and consumer literature from 1986 to the present on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. From the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Nutrition Information Center(FNIC) of the National Agricultural Library.
- U.S. Patent Office Databases
Search and view patents granted/applied for through the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Patents issued between 1790 and 1976 are searchable only by patent number and current US classifications. Full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790.- Canadian Patent Database
Index to Canadian patents from 1869 to the present. Abstracts available for patents granted after August 15, 1978; images available for patents granted since 1920. From the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).
- Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Formerly the Literature of the Nonprofit Sector (LNPS), the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature is an index to some 25,000 books, articles, reports, and non-print resources dealing with philanthropy, fundraising, charitable and corporate giving, nonprofit management, etc. Has begun adding links to full text when available.
- High Energy Physics (HEP) Literature Database
Index to more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses. 1974+
- PsycARTICLES Direct
Browse tables of contents, or search and retreive citations and abstracts, from about 50 journals as well as books published by the American Psychological Association. Fee-based access to individual articles. 1894- .- PILOTS Database
Index to over 30,000 citations, most with abstracts, to worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Produced by the National Center for PTSD.
- Brause Real Estate Periodical Index
Index to over 140 real estate journals. From the Jack Brause Real Estate Library at New York University. 1986- . "Connect to BobCat" to get to library list.
- REHABDATA Literature Database
Index to over 69,000 items in the library of the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC), including reports, studies, and papers submitted by projects funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, as well as articles published in rehabilitation-related periodicals. Publications from 1956 to the present.- Database of International Rehabilitation Research
Index to over 27,000 citations to journal articles and conference proceedings from 1990 to the present concerning rehabilitation research conducted outside the United States. From the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE).
- English Literature and Religion
Extensive bibliography of over 8500 citations relating to the "religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century, with primary (though not exclusive) emphasis upon writers within the Anglican tradition." Browse full bibliography or subsets arranged by topic or person.
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Index to over 73,000 books and articles about science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and weird fiction. From Hal W. Hall, librarian at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University.- The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)
Browsable index to science fiction books, as well as stories published in anthologies, single-author collections, and magazines.- Annual Updates: 1999, 2000; 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
- Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (Combined Edition)
Browsable index to "3,900 SF anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984, containing over 38,000 stories by 3,880 authors."
- Bibliography of Slavery and World Slavery
Extensive searchable (author or title) bibliography. Includes books, articles, dissertations, and unpublished papers.
- Douglass Archives of American Public Address
Archive of notable American oratory from 1625 to the present as well as links to other sites with speech collections. Searchable and browsable texts.- Gifts of Speech
Archive of speeches by contemporary, influential women, supplemented by a collection of 19th and early 20th century speeches.
- AAF Sports Library
Index, with full-text access, to journals, books, late nineteenth and early twentieth century sports magazines, and official Olympic publications. Journals indexed include the College Football Historical Society Newsletter (1987-2003), Football Studies (1998-2003), the Journal of Olympic History (1992-2003), the Journal of Sport History (1974-2003), and Sport Management Review (1998-2005), as well as American Golfer (1908-1920), Baseball Magazine (1908-1918), and the Olympic Review (1901-2002). From the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.- The Baseball Index (TBI)
Index to almost 225,000 documents, including books, articles, programs, pamphlets and other materials of interest to baseball fans and researchers. From the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
- NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards
Search for citations to over 250,000 standards from more than 600 developers worldwide. Includes approved industry standards, approved international standards, approved U.S. government standards, industry standards under development, international standards under development, and U.S. government standards under development.
- TestLink: Test Collection Database
Search the largest collection (25,000+) of standarized tests and research instruments in the world. From the Educational Testing Service (ETS).- Mental Measurements Yearbook Test Reviews Online
Browse or search for information on almost 4000 commercially available tests.
- TLCat: The Transportation Libraries Catalog
Search multiple transportation library catalogs simultaneously via OCLC's FirstSearch. Records for books, journal articles, serials, and internet sites; includes holdings information. From the National Transportation Library.- TRANweb
Transportation Article File from Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Index to articles, conference papers, and other materials on transportation and law enforcement topics. 1976- .- TRIS Online
Index to over 500,000 books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and other transportation research reports. Links to some 24,000 items in full-text. Literature from the 1960s to the present plus some retrospective coverage. Highway Research Board publications covered back to 1923. From the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences.- TranStats: The Intermodal Transportation Database
Index to "over 100 transportation-related data bases across every mode of transportation - with many social and demographic data sets that are commonly used in transportation analysis." From the Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
- UNBISnet: United Nations Bibliographic Information System
UN and other documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library in New York and the UN Library in Geneva. Full coverage from 1979 but many older titles continue to be added. Many links to full-text documents. You can also search voting records for all resolutions adopted by the General Assembly (1983- ) and the Security Council (1946- ), and for speeches (1983- ) made in the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council.- Official Document System of the United Nations
1993- Index to the full text of UN parliamentary documents (resolutions and decisions from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, and their subsidiary bodies). Also includes documents from global conference convened by the UN. Official resolutions and decisions back to 1946 are in the "Resolutions" database, available from the "Advanced Search" screen.
- gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database
Index to over 8400 citations pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.- Gifts of Speech
Archive of speeches by contemporary, influential women, supplemented by a collection of 19th and early 20th century speeches.- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 A.D. to 1500 A.D.). Some 500 journals indexed. 1990-- ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
Index to over 10,000 articles on women's and gender history published from 1975 to the present in about 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand historical and women's studies journals.- Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music
Extensive bibliography on women and music from the Committee on the Status of Women of the Society for Music Theory.- Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
Index with abstracts to books, articles and reports produced throughout the world on the subject of women in politics. From the Inter-Parliamentary Union.- African Women's Bibliographic Database
Index to over 35,000 English-language citations from 1986 to the present on African women.
Corrections? Additions?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
John Cotton Dana Library
Rutgers-Newark
June 8, 1999
Revised November 21, 2006