Sterling Memorial Library
Center for CD-ROM Reference and Full-Text Databases

This page lists all of the titles available in the CD-ROM Center on the first floor of Sterling Memorial Library with a brief description of each. Use the reference databases to locate articles in journals, monograph series, dissertations, and much more. To locate a specific article or title at Yale, search in Orbis or in the SML Card Catalog for the book title or journal title (e.g., journal of literary studies).  You can see which issues Yale owns in both the Card Catalog and in Orbis.  When you find a journal in Orbis, type HOL (for "holdings") to see what volumes Yale owns and where they are located.

The CD-ROM Center is located on the first floor of SML, across from the Reference Desk. Manuals for most CD-ROMs are kept in the reference office.

If assistance is needed, please ask at the Reference Desk.

ABELL - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
Also available online: Connect to ABELL Online

A comprehensive bibliography of English language and literature from 1920 to the present. ABELL is now available from 1920 - 1995 on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM with approximately 700,000 bibliographic records in English and other European languages.

AIDA (Italian Periodicals)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Library, 1949- .)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference Z6723 +A57 (LC)
Also available online: Connect to AUL Index to Military Periodicals Online (login to GeoWeb and choose AUL Index to Military Periodicals)

A subject index to articles, book reviews, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. Currently indexes 78 titles including Air Power History and Military History. This index is currently available in print and on CD-ROM. The online version only covers the years 1990-1996.

American Film Institute Catalog on CD-ROM
Also available online: American Film Institute Catalog Online

The American Film Institute Catalog represents the only comprehensive project to document a century of American film; originally compiled in six printed volumes, the Catalog documents every American film from 1893 to 1970 (except 1951 to 1960). It is a unique filmographic resource providing an unmatched level of comprehensiveness and detail on every feature-length film produced in America or financed by American production companies.
Film beginnings, 1893-1910.
Feature films, 1911-1920
Feature films, 1921-1930.
Feature films, 1931-1940.
Feature films, 1941-1950
Feature films, 1961-1970

L'Année Philologique (Paris: Sociéte d'édition "Les Belles Lettres.", 1926- .)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference Z7016 A55 (LC)
Classics, CD-ROM
Classics G2 36
Divinity, Reserve CDR0013
Divinity, Trowbridge Reading Room Z7016 M35 (LC)

The major bibliography for classical studies from 1926 to the present is available both in print and on CD-ROM. Issued on CD-ROM as the Database of Classical Bibliography (DCB), which covers from 1976 - 1987.
Continues: Marouzeau, Jules. Dix Anneacutees de Bibliographie Classique [ 1914-1924] (New York:B. Franklin, 1969) - SML, Reference, TBA.
Lambrino, Scarlat. Bibliographie de L'antiquité Classique, 1896-1914 (Paris: Socieé d'édition "Les Belles Lettres.", 1951) - SML, Reference, TBA

Art on Screen on CD-ROM (New York, NY : Program for Art on Film : G.K. Hall & Company, 1995-)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center, Workstation 6

The Art on Screen Database, developed by the Program for Art on Film, is an international index to moving image productions on the visual arts.  Subjects covered include:  fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing), architecture, archaeology, photography, decorative arts, design, costume, crafts, folk arts, and related topics such as aesthetics and creativity.

Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center Workstation 6

Structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists, this database contains treatises on art and architecture written between 1470 and 1775 featuring the full text with any additional footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes by the particular author included. Also provided are approximately 4000 hot-linked images.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Osteuropakatalog or East European catalogue of the Bavarian State Library
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center Workstation 7

Bibliografia Nacional Portuguesa em CD-ROM (Lisboa: Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro, 1996- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

The CD-ROM of the Portuguese National Bibliography covers the years from 1965-present. It contains over 135,000 records: 93% monographs, 7% thesis and related documents, and 7% periodicals published for the first time during this period. Portuguese imprints from 1935-1980 are listed in Boletim de Bibliografia Portuguesa, Lisboa : Biblioteca Nacional, 1937-1980. SML, Reference Z2715 +B65 (LC).

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Frankfurt am Main, V. Klostermann, 1990-1998).
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center (1990-1998)
SML, Reference Z2231  B53 (LC) (1945- )
CCL, German Reading Rm, Lower Level X582 B453 (1945-1971)

Dating back to 1945, the "Eppelsheimer-Köttelwesch" is a major, international bibliography for German literary studies (formerly Bibliographie der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft). Despite the change in title, there is still less emphasis on linguistics. The earliest volumes have been cumulated as the Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft, 1945-1972, (Frankfurt am Main, V. Klostermann, 1973-1979), SML Ref Z2231 K64 (LC). The CD-Rom covers 1990 to 1998 only.

Bibliographie zum Nationalsozialismus (Michael Ruck. Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000.)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center Workstation 5
SML, Reference Z2241 N27 +R83 2000 (LC)

Includes indexes. Bibliography of national socialism, Germany and history from 1933-1945,

Bibliotheque Nationale - Catalogue General to 1970
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Catálogo Colectivo de Fondo Antiguo, siglos XV-XIX (Chadwyck-Healey, 1995)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

Produced by the Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamerica (ABINIA), Catálogo Colectivo de Fondo Antiguo, siglos XV-XIX is the largest union catalog in Latin America, containing 100,000 bibliographic records of books relating to the history and culture of Iberoamerica published before 1900 held in 22 national libraries of Central and South America, Spain and Portugal, as well as three major universities in Venezuela.

Complete Index to World Film since 1895 (New Providence, NJ : Bowker-Saur, 1998)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

This Index contains information on more than 300,000 films obtained from various published sources, videos, and television.  In addition, there are 120,000 alternative titles and more than 1,000,000 actor credits.  This database identifies the film by its title, the year of release, director, and country of origin including fields such as actors, composers, and cinematographers.

DaSinD: the bibliographic index to the database "Women Writers in Germany, 1945 to the present"(Germany: F. Dietrich, 1997- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center.

This Index contains information on German literature and Women writers in Germany 1945 to the present.

Dictionary of National Biography
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

Documents the lives of nearly 40,000 people. The entries combine fact, anecdote, and personal memoir. Provides instant access to precise biograpical information and enables wide-ranging searches via name, title, gender, dates, occupation or by a combination of these.

Encyclopaedia Judaica (Israel: Judaica Multimedia Ltd., 1997)

This CD-ROM edition includes the complete text of the original 16-volume Encyclopaedia Judaica, as well as the subsequent 8 Year Books and 2 Decennials (published in 1982 and 1992, respectively), plus selected updates and new feature articles prepared under the guidance and supervision of Dr. Geoffrey Wigoder. This CD-ROM is updated; multiple new feature articles are not available in any of the printed versions of the Encyclopaedia.

Ethics Index (Evanston, IL: ATLA, 1994- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
Divinity, CD-ROM

An interdisciplinary resource indexes journal articles and essay literature in the field of ethics from 1990 to the present. There is no print equivalent of this CD-ROM database.

Film Index International (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

This CD-ROM, produced by the British Film Institute, includes cast lists, summaries, and citations to articles about 90,000 films and 30,000 persons, 1930-present.

Finnish National Bibliography

A cumulative catalogue of the Finnish publication production with references to literature published in Finland and to foreign literature related to Finland or with a Finnish author. Information about finnish literature is from 1488 onwards: monographs, serials, maps, audiovisual material and electronic publications.

Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank
Also available online: Gnomon Online
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
Classics, PA3 G56 (LC)

Gnomon on CD-ROM includes reviews, personal notes and obituaries from the first volume of the journal Gnomon; kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft in 1925 to the present.  The database also includes the quarterly bibliographic supplement, which indexes about 200 journals and nearly 8,000 German dissertations from 1902-1995 on all topics relating to classics, philology, and the study of the ancient world.

Historia de España: bibliografia (Madrid : Bibliosoft, c1997- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

Bibliographical index to materials concerning the history of Spain and its colonies.

Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
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SML, Reference Desk HA202 +A23 1975 (LC)

This electronic edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States reproduces all of the data and text contained in the U.S. Census Bureau's 1975 publication. This massive compendium includes 57 chapters on topics touching all of the social, behavioral, humanitistic, and natural sciences including economics, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade. Over 12,500 statistical time series are presented.

Index Islamicus on CD-ROM (West Sussex, UK: Bowker-Saur, 1999- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

A bibliography of publications on Islam and the Muslim world since 1906, Index Islamicus is a valuable reference to the worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.  The Index has become a vital resource for researchers and information specialists, enabling them to have an authoritative guide to the literature in this field.

Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey, c1992- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Microtext Center

The first cumulative index to all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers published from 1801 to the current decade. It draws together material from Chadwyck-Healey's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900, the House of Commons decennial indexes covering the period 1900-1979, and data from the Parliamentary Online Information Service (POLIS) Database from 1979 onwards.

Index Translationum (Evanston, IL: ATLA, 1994- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference Z6514 T7 +I42 (LC) (1948-1986)
SML, Reference Z6514 T7 I4 (LC) (1932-1940)

This edition on CD-ROM is the cumulative bibliographic index of works translated and published since 1979 in more than 100 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe. It comprises over 815,000 references covering every subject (literature, social and human sciences, natural and basic sciences, art and history, etc.). It is a valuable instrument for rapid retrieval of references on works translated by more than 150,000 authors: Cervantes, Agatha Christie, Einstein, Flaubert, Freud, Gandhi, Grimm, Herg, Lenin, etc. Each bibliographical entry includes name of author, title of the translation, name of translator, name of publisher, year of publication, original language, number of pages. The entries are arranged according to the ten main categories of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system. The CD-ROM replaces the printed edition, which is no longer published.

Indice dei libri del mese (Torino, 1994-)

SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Microform
SML, Franke Periodical Reading Room, Current issues only

Index to Italian books, periodicals and reviews.

International Index To Film Periodicals (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1972- )
Also available online: FIAF (International FilmArchive Database)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 +I58 (LC)
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 +I582 (LC)

A subject index to articles, biographies, and reviews found in international periodicals which covers 1972-present. Articles about both film and televsion programs are included in the database. The CD-ROM is published by FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives). There are several indexes available from the title screen of the CD-ROM. They are:

• Film Index/TV Index
• Individual Holdings of FIAF Member Archives
• Silent Films
• Latin American Films

International Index to the Performing Arts (Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey, 1998- )
Also available online: International Index to the Performing Arts Online
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center (Request CD-ROM from the Reference Desk.)

The International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) on CD-ROM provides rapid access to tens of thousands of articles published in more than 200 performing arts journals every year, the most comprehensive and current coverage available.

International Medieval Bibliography (Leeds, England: University of Leeds, 1967- )
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SML, Reference Z6203 I585 (LC)

A classed bibliography with a subject index which includes citations to articles on a broad range of medieval (450-1500 A.D.) subjects from over 800 journals and many collected works (Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays). The geographic area of coverage includes all of Europe and the Middle East "...for those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers; it thus includes... non-European parts of the Byzantine Empire." (Introduction). The IMB is available in print and on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM covers the years 1976-1995, while the printed volumes date back to 1967.

Islendinga Sogur: ordstodulykill og texti. (Reykjavik : Mal og menning, 1996.)

The text of the sagas is drawn from a popular complete edition of the Sagas of Icelanders. These unique Icelandic medieval narratives, a total of 40, with powerful search programs and a lemmatized concordance - bringing together all the different forms of the same word - are a useful tool for those who wish to delve deeper into the world of the sagas that it may be called revolutionary.

Libros En Venta en America Latina y Espana (San Juan, Puerto Rico : NISC Puerto Rico, 1996- )
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LIRA (Italian Literature)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

LIRA, Letteratura italiana repertorio automatizzato : CD-ROM bibliografico della lingua e della letteratura italiana dal 1986 al 1995 is an analytical bibliography on Italian language and literature from the years 1986-1995. It includes materials published worldwide in monographs, anthologies, conference proceedings, and journals.

Medioevo Latino
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Help Sheet

A bibliographical bulletin of European culture from Boethius to Erasmus (VIth to XVth century).

MLA Bibliography (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1921- )
Also available online: MLA Bibliography (via FirstSearch)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference  Index Case Z7006 M63 (LC)

The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.The database (online and CD-ROM) provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present. The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language Association Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association." MLA Abstracts SML, Reference Index Case P1 M63 1970-1975 (LC).

Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Munchen: Brepols, Turnhout 1996)

This database comprises a selection of texts from all five divisions of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates.) It is planned to expand the content of the CD-ROM annually so that the entire body of MGH editions will be available in this format within 10 to 15 years. For more information, read a description of this software from the publisher.

New Zealand National Bibliography
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference Z4101 N57 (LC)

Merger of: Index to New Zealand periodicals, and current national bibliography of New Zealand books and pamphlets and New Zealand General Assembly Library Copyright list.

Niles' Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849 (Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, 1994)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

The Accessible Archives CD-ROM of The Niles' Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849, permits instant accessibility to the vast storehouse of historical and genealogical materials contained in this important work.  This database contains approximately 350,000 listings, including all the material from the original volume-by-volume indices, together with tens of thousands of additional entries in a highly analytical and structured format.  Ambiguous and idiosyncratic entries in the original six-month indices have been edited into meaningful entries under standardized, library-style headings and subheadings.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (Newcastle upon Tyne: Avero, 1997) Series I - III
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SML, Reference Z2001 +N65 1984 (LC)

The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) Project was established in 1983. It aims to provide increasingly complete listings of British books printed between 1801 and 1919. British books are taken to include all books published in Britain, its colonies and the United States of America; all books in English wherever published; and all translations from English. The catalogue has been prepared from the in-house and published catalogues of the libraries covered. The individual catalogues within each contributing library have been indicated by appropriate symbols, as listed below in parentheses. In note fields these library symbols have been used for information about holdings or author headings at specific libraries, e.g. CH have vol. 2 only, that is Cambridge University Library and Harvard have vol. 2 only.

• OXFORD - The Bodleian Library- The pre-1920 computerised catalogue (O) Supplementary entries (O1)
• CAMBRIDGE - University Library - The main catalogue of 1,225 guardbook volumes (C) The secondary catalogue of copyright acquisitions considered unnecessary for the academic needs of the main catalogue (C1) The pamphlet catalogue (C2)
• DUBLIN - Trinity College Library - The printed catalogue of books up to 1872, with supplements to 1887 (D) The accessions catalogue 1873-1962 (D1) The older printed books card catalogue, 1963- (D2)
• EDINBURGH - National Library of Scotland - The main card catalogue, pre-1974 (E)
• HARVARD - Harvard University Library - The Widener union catalogue (H)
• LONDON - The British Library - The British Library computerised catalogue, with accessions to 1995 (L)
• NEWCASTLE - The University Library - The University computerised catalogue (N)
• WASHINGTON - The Library of Congress - A computerised sorting of nineteenth century holdings from the MARC and PRE-MARC files (W)

Philosopher's Index (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University, 1940- )

Also available online: Philosopher's Index
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
SML, Reference Index Case Z7127 +P45 (LC)
SML, Reference Index Case Z7127 +P455 (LC)
SML, Reference Z7127 +P46 (LC)
Divinity, Stack Reference Z7127 +P45 (LC) (last 20 years in Trowbridge)

Indexing and abstracting from books and over 300 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. Philosopher's Index--both in print and on CD-ROM--contains materials from 1940 to the present. Philosopher's Index Thesaurus - SML, Z7127 +P462 (LC)

Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the history of Britain, Ireland, and the British overseas (Royal Historical Society, Oxford University Press, 1998)

A comprehensive guide to historical writing about the history of Britain, Ireland, and the British overseas, consolidating existing bibliographies and series published by the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, MA : Cambridge University Press, 2000)
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Records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866, accounting for perhaps 70% of the Atlantic slave trade.

Victorian Database on CD-ROM (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993- )
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

CD-ROM supercedes the Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies (SML, Reference Z2019 +A555 (LC)). Victorian Database on CD-ROM provides information on books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1970 to 1995 on every field of nineteenth century British Studies. Interdisciplinary in scope, the database consists of entries on Painting, Architecture and Music; Philosophy and Religion; Histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonial Empire; Military and Naval History; Politics, Commerce and Economics; Sociology, Women's Studies, Law and Education; Science, Technology and Medicine; and Literature - Drama, Poetry, Prose and Fiction.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 (London: Routledge, 1999)
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The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals covers articles on politics, religion, economics, art, science, archaeology and philosophy from printed sources of Victorian thought and opinion. It is also a major source for research in women's writing, including details of about 1500 Victorian women writers. As a bibliographic reference work of major nineteenth-century periodicals, the Wellesley Index is an invaluable guide to the writings of the Victorian age.

Wing Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700 (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healy, 1996)
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SML, Reference Z2002 +W55 (LC)

This database gives the first electronic access to Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700, the essential bibliographic database of extant books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in English between 1641 and 1700, known universally as Wing. This revised edition of Wing expands the 1972 edition with the restoration of lost entries, expansion of cross references, and the addition of new material. The CD-ROM gives unprecedented access to over 100,000 entries providing the title, author name, imprint, bibliographic information, and physical format of the item. It also lists selected libraries and institutions that hold a copy of the work.

ZDB - Zeitschriften Datenbank (German Periodicals and Newspapers)
SML, Microform
Only available online: ZDB Online (Log in as Guest)

ZDB (Zeitschriften Datenbank) is a union list of serials that includes over 740,000 titles (journals, newspapers, and other serials) published worldwide that are held by some 3,000 German libraries.