A-C / D-F / G-N / O-S / T-Z

Many of these databases are for use by the Yale community. Information on using databases with restricted access from a computer that is not part of the Yale network can be found at the Remote Authentication Proxy Server webpage. A comprehensive list of Yale Databases is available. Subject content area webliographies are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/guides/.

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19th Century Masterfile

The 19th Century Masterfile is an accumulation of indexes to printed materials from the nineteenth century with coverage from about 1774 to 1920, depending on the index selected.

Series I includes:

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906
• Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)
• Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)
• The Psychological Index (1894-1905)
• Index to Periodicals (1890-1906)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899)

• Congressional Record File
• Descriptive Catalog of the Gov. Pubs. of the U.S. (1774-1881)
• A Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897)
• Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons only (1803-1830)
• Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords only (1803-1830)
• Cobett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803)
• Subject matter index of Patents issued by the U.S. (1790-1873)

ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists (BoardCertifiedDocs)

Check physicians' board certification status, medical education and work history. Updated daily, BoardCertifiedDocs provides instant access to complete and verified professional credentials on 580,000 board certified physicians.

ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)

The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) has been compiled continuously since 1956 under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and with the support at various times of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. State Department's Title VIII program, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Pittsburgh. The bibliography is currently based at the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Academic Universe

Academic Universe is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information.

Access to African American Studies

Primary Sources in U.S. History comprises three full text modules---Access to African American Studies, Access to Presidential Studies, and Access to Women's Studies---and Guides to Microform Collections. The subject specific modules provide a range of sources, including autobiographies, manuscripts, government documents, photographs and images, reference and scholarly articles, and speeches.

Access to Presidential Studies

Primary Sources in U.S. History comprises three full text modules---Access to African American Studies, Access to Presidential Studies, and Access to Women's Studies---and Guides to Microform Collections. The subject specific modules provide a range of sources, including autobiographies, manuscripts, government documents, photographs and images, reference and scholarly articles, and speeches.

Access to Womens Studies

Primary Sources in U.S. History comprises three full text modules---Access to African American Studies, Access to Presidential Studies, and Access to Women's Studies---and Guides to Microform Collections. The subject specific modules provide a range of sources, including autobiographies, manuscripts, government documents, photographs and images, reference and scholarly articles, and speeches.

Accessible Archives

Accessible Archives provides a searchable collection of American newspapers from the 18th & 19th Centuries. Eras covered include the Colonial Period, the French & Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, African-American History, Industrial Revolution, and Genealogy.

AccessUN

AccessUN is a web-based database which provides bibliographic access to the Readex United Nations Documents and Publications microfiche collection. It provides access to United Nations documents and publications published from 1951 to present. Access is by subject, title, author, document number, document type, UN sales number, and country. Full text of the General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions are appended to the bibliographic citation. Document numbers provide links to the microfiche and paper collections housed in the Government Documents and Information Center.

ACLS History E-Book Project

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), five learned societies, and a group of university presses, the History E-Book Project is an electronic publishing initiative for books of high quality in the field of history. It aims to explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies and to help assure the continued viability of history writing in today's changing publishing environment. Over the next five years the project plans to convert to electronic format 500 backlist titles of major importance to historical studies - books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, are frequently cited in the literature, and are currently not widely available - and to publish 85 completely new electronic titles that will use new technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways.

Ad*Access Project

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.

Africabib.org

Africabib is a combination of databases providing access to periodical and other material on Africa. The two major databases include Africana Periodical Literature, a bibliography of over 36,000 citations from 300 periodicals, covering the entire range of topics relating to Africa. The other large database is African Women's Database which, in addition to including citations pertaining to women in Africa, includes conference papers, as well as references to theses and dissertations. A large and detailed bibliography entitled Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2001 can be found on Africabib.

African Health Anthology

African Health Anthology (AHA) is the premiere collection of bibliographic databases on African health issues. AHA offers access to a unique collection of sources including many from Africa and covering all aspects of African health issues.

African Studies

African Studies is a combination of databases providing access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. Included are the catalogs of the African Studies Center (Leiden), the Africa Institute (Pretoria), the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Africana Collection of the University of Natal, and the International Library of African Music at Rhodes University.

AIDA: Articoli italiani di periodici accademici

The Bibliography Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA) indexes approximately 82,000 journal articles from over 1,000 journals covering the humanities and social sciences. AIDA's coverage exceeds coverage of the Italian academic press by IBZ. Working together with Italian librarians ensures that the journals indexed in AIDA represent the current Italian literature in the humanities.

Alt-Press Watch

Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. As a current and retrospective collection, Alt-PressWatch provides a valuable new source of coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media and serves a broad spectrum of subject areas including the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor studies, education, environmental studies and ecology, global studies, history, journalism, literary and critical studies, political science, government and public policy, social science and more. In an era in which more and more media is owned by fewer and larger corporate conglomerates, the alternative press is one of the last bastions of independent and critical print coverage. Alternative newsweeklies, available in most cities, give readers alternative perspectives on politics, government, policy and culture; report on issues of government and education, local, national and international issues; and cover topics such as hunger, abuse, the environment, religion and the arts, including reviews of theater, movies, books, local attractions, etc. The magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press provide in-depth coverage of a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, including ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, public policy, and genetics.

Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive

The Alternative Press Index and its archive, covering 1969 - present, are widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from roughly 250 alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. API indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books. 90% of the publications indexed in API are unique; you won't find them indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social Sciences Index. Approximately 17,000 new records (some with abstracts) are added each year. Major topics include: African-American Studies, ethnic & racial studies, feminism, gay/lesbian studies, community organizing, ecology, labor studies, social theory, socialism, alternative organizations, anarchism, prisons, indigenous people's rights, internationalism.

AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine

AMED, a bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library, covers the field of complementary or alternative medicine, palliative care and allied health. Subjects covered include acupuncture, osteopathy, Chinese medicine, homeopathy, hypnosis, herbalism, chiropractic, holistic treatments and rehabilitation and more. Approximately 400 biomedical journals are indexed regularly as well as selected books and newspapers. Starting in 1995 abstracts were added to most records. The scope of coverage is strongly European with the majority of titles in English. The AMED thesaurus contains over 2,500 terms and is based on MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).

America: History and Life

America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, covering over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals. All abstracts are written in English. America: History and Life on the Web also includes in-process English-language article entries (those entries for which abstract, subject terms, and chronologies are not yet available) prior to their completion and inclusion in the print and CD-ROM versions. In addition to articles, each year America: History and Life includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas.

American Civil War: Letters & Diaries

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries include more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs providing access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seaman, wives, and even spies are included. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. The materials originate from all regions of the country and are from people who played a variety of roles. The database contains detailed descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, and accounts of sufferings at home.

American Humanities Index

The American Humanities Index covers more than 500 English language literary journals and magazines that have been available in print since 1975. The American Humanities Index (AHI) is an index of scholarly and creative English language literary journals (primarily American and Canadian). Most are not indexed elsewhere or are indexed only partially in other indexing services. A unique feature of the AHI is all publications are indexed in their entirety - including fiction and poems. At the present time the index contains citations from over 700 journals. Backfile data (cumulation) continues to be added to the AHI database with expected completion (all 27 years) this Fall. In addition, FULL TEXT access to AHI citations is being added.

American Periodical Series

This full-text-/full-image resource contains 1000 magazines published between 1741 and 1900. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal. The search interface allows you to search the complete text, including tables of contents, by boolean and keyword operators. Articles are linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable in PDF format.

Anthropological Index Online

The Royal Anthropological Institute, a not-for-profit anthropological organization we contribute to through our subscription, developed this Anthropological Index Online which indexes all branches of anthropological and archaeology. All geographical regions are covered, and the library has particularly strong coverage of Eastern and Central Europe, with journals often not available elsewhere. The Index covers articles in all languages, and provides English translations of citations from non-Roman scripts and from smaller languages.

Anthropological Literature

Anthropological Literature is a bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Quarterly with annual cumulation. Printed volumes cover 1979-1984 and 1989 to the present. 1984-1988 are on microfiche in SML Main Reading Room and at Kline. For citations to literature published before 1979, see the Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (no. 10).

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts

Applied Science & Technology Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles in engineering and related fields. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.

Archival Finding Aid Project (Yale University Library)

The Yale University Library Finding Aid Project provides access to archival finding aids in a platform-independent electronic format, using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and HTML. Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the finding aids created by repositories may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections. Access to finding aids through the Internet will assist scholars in determining whether collections contain material relevant to their research.

Archival Resources

Archival Resources integrates the portion of the Research Libraries Group's RLIN database containing close to half a million descriptive records of archival collections with a growing range of online finding aids or detailed collection guides and inventories. Archival Resources uses a modified form of the Eureka interface. Archival Resources comprises thus two types of material: collection records and collection guides. Collection records describe collections or specific portions of collections of primary source material related to individuals, major events, places and government bodies. These records give bibliographic descriptions of collections. Collection guides (or finding aids) are detailed inventories that reveal where a collection came from, how it is arranged, and what it contains. Both the catalog records and detailed collection guides can provide links to digitized archival materials themselves.

ArchivesUSA

ArchivesUSA integrates three resources: The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMUC), The Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US (DARMUS), and The National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). Researchers can search descriptions of manuscript collections in the United States, link to information about the repositories, and locate the finding aids in NIDS, a microfiche collection in the Microtext Center of SML. (Fiche B1333).

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective

The online versions of Art Abstracts and Art Index have identical coverage with the exception of the addition of abstracts in the Art Abstracts database (since 1994). Both publications have a start date of September 1984 and index approximately 313 periodicals. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. The print volumes of Art Index begin in 1929.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)

An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. Published in three parts: Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles have cited earlier books or articles), Source Index (an author index), and Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles of articles).

Associated Press Photo Archive

The Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. We have a limited number of simultaneous users, so please be sure to use the logout link when exiting.

Associations Unlimited

Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,500 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.

Associations Unlimited covers the following:

• U.S. national associations (23,000)
• International associations (21,000)
• U.S. regional, state, and local associations (100,000)
• Associations' Materials for selected national associations (2,500)
• IRS Data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations, agencies, and service programs (300,000)

Augusta Chronicle Newspapers

AugustaArchives.com is a searchable internet database of The Augusta Chronicle newspapers, including editions of Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, The Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State, and The Daily Chronicle & Constitution. The archive shows the page as it was originally published - with stories, photos and advertising. It contains every page of the newspaper scanned from microfilm.

Avery Index

A comprehensive American index to the current periodical literature of architecture and design. The Avery surveys more than 700 US and foreign journals, 75 percent of which are not indexed in any other source. The Avery Index covers architectural history, theory, and practice, as well as landscape design, historic preservation, urban planning, and the built environment generally. It covers not only the international scholarly and popular literature, but also the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. The database is updated daily. The print volumes incorporate all records produced by the Index staff at Columbia University since 1934; some records date from as early as the 1860's.

Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 245,000 biographies from sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory; with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, U.S. News & World Report. It also includes the Complete Marquis Who's Who, which contains more than 990,000 thumbnail biographies from 20 respected Marquis sources, encompassing print volumes published from 1985 to the present. (Select Marquis Who's Who from the tab on the results screen of your search.)

Biological and Agricultural Abstracts

Sources covered: core journals, books, technical reports, and government reports in the English language. Fields covered: core coverage of most biological and agricultural science areas.

BIOSIS/Biological Abstracts

Biosis, the online version of Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts- Reports, Reviews, Meetings contains literature references from all of the life sciences including: agriculture, cell biology, nutrition, public health, botany, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, zoology, psychology. This is the premier database for coverage of botany research.

Black Studies Database

The Black Studies Database, the electronic version of the celebrated Kaiser Index to Black Periodicals, includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience from 1948-1986. This valuable resource covers events critical to the study of Black life and culture outside of Africa including notable figures in Black history, culture, and sports; the Civil Rights Movement, the growth of the NAACP and the National Urban League; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; jazz and soul music; and much more. Citations in the Kaiser Index come from more than 150 publications relevant to the Black experience and African Diaspora. The Kaiser Index provides ready reference on Black history and culture. Ernest Kaiser, the principal indexer, and his colleagues developed the Index to supplement the limited number of existing Black reference books and assist in answering a broad range of questions on the international Black experience. The Kaiser Index has been compiled from the handwritten notes of generations of librarians at the Schomburg Center and painstakingly computerized with the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Book Review Digest Plus

Book Review Digest Plus, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes approximately 109 leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews in at least three of the periodicals. An exception is made for books reviewed in the Reference Books Bulletin section of Booklist. For these books one review is sufficient. Reviews must have appeared within 18 months after a book was published, and at least one review must be from a periodical published in the United States or Canada. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in the law and sciences are excluded. In addition, book reviews from the following Wilson indexes are also included: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

Books In Print/Books Out of Print

Books24x7

Books24x7 is a database of full-text, electronic books in computing and information technology.

Borrow Direct

Borrow Direct is a service of the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Through Borrow Direct, you can search a combined catalog of these seven libraries and request books not currently available at Yale.

Most books will be available for pickup within four business days, and you can designate one of six Yale libraries as the pickup location. You must provide a Yale e-mail address to utilize the Borrow Direct system and you will receive automatic email notices to track the status of each request.

Britannica Online

Britannica Online includes the following:

• Britannica Online and Book of the Year articles -- More than 65,000 subjects are addressed in articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage.
• The Index to Britannica Online -- More than 400,000 references have been compiled, edited, and hypertext-linked to text articles for easy navigation. Additionally, there are more than 10,000 links to images and tables.
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition -- The best-selling dictionary, with its comprehensive treatment of words, has been included for your convenience.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (BWLD)

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (BWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 91 women, as revealed in approximately 24,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Business Source Premier

EBSCOhost's Business Source Premier database is a comprehensive, business periodical database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Business Source Premier contains content from full text sources ranging from general business periodicals such as Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, American Banker, etc. to academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, Review of Economics & Statistics, etc. This database also includes Country Monitor and Industry Yearbook Reports from WEFA, 35 country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Wall Street Words.

CAB Abstracts

Literature references, with abstracts, for publications in agriculture and applied biology research from around the world are found. Plant and animal breeding, horticulture, protozoology, grasslands, soil and dairy science technology, agricultural engineering and economics, rural development, sociology, nutrition, mycology, entomology, parasitology, recreation and tourism are some of the key topics covered. Content is the cumulation of 45 separate abstracting journals. Approximately 10,000 journals, books, conference proceedings, annual reports, standards, theses, and patents are routinely indexed. Selected correspondence and editorials are also included.

CAB Health

CAB HEALTH is a database specializing in human nutrition, parasitic, communicable and tropical diseases and medicinal plants. Over 16,000 serial sources from more than 130 countries are scanned by subject specialists for relevant articles on human health. CAB HEALTH provides an alternative point of reference, complementary to other databases such as MEDLINE.

Canadian Research Index

Indexes and abstracts monographs and annual publications of lasting reference value from Canadian government and institutional sources. Includes Federal, provincial and municipal levels of government. Includes scientific and technical reports, statistical reports, policy papers, and annual reports.

Chicano Database

The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Updated quarterly, the Chicano Database covers at least 1967 to the present, with more than 48,000 records. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Children's Literature Database Comprehensive

The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers 900,000 MARC records and more than 200,000 reviews of children's books, all full text searchable from 22 sources of critical reviews. Materials covered include children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. An average of more than 1,500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. In addition, CLCD presently contains more than 900,000 catalog records in MARC format that have children's headings assigned including data, subject terms, and annotations.

Chinese Academic Journals

A database of journals and newspapers in Literature/History/Philosophy, Economics/Political Science/Law, and Education/Social Science. The database has an English language interface and over 1700 academic journals in English covering major social sciences and science and technology areas. Some titles are abstracts only, but most are fulltext.

CINAHL

CINAHL is the major bibliographic database for the English-language journals in nursing and allied health fields. 1200 journals are selectively or comprehensively indexed. Publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing are included as well as books in nursing and allied health fields, which include physical therapy, respiratory therapy, cardiopulmonary technology, medical and laboratory technology, occupational therapy, radiologic technology, social services in health care, emergency services, medical records, health sciences librarianship, medical assisting, the physician's assistant, surgical technology, and health education.

Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence is produced by the BMJ Publishing Group and is updated twice a year. It provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. It is a compendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. The complete text of this publication is available in a highly interlinked and easily navigated graphical interface, similar to Books@Ovid.

CogNet

MIT CogNet is an electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences. CogNet brings together current and classic resources in the field and provides services and utilities to enhance research, collaboration and teaching. Full texts of major references works include The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Also included is 400 searchable full text books from MIT Press as well as full text of MIT Press Journals in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. Also includes database access to bibliographic and some abstract information for books, journals, reference works, conference proceedings and grey literature in the field. Users from Yale IP addresses are automatically identified as Yale Guests and have full access to CogNet resources. A user may choose to register in order to create a Curriculum Vitae, bibliography, and notification settings. In the CogNet Library, the full texts of all books and MIT journals are available. For journals not affiliated with MIT, only the abstracts are available for free.

Compendex

Engineering Index covers the engineering literature, with citations and abstracts from over 4500 journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books. The WWW connection to the online COMPENDEX database is an expanded version of Engineering Index. Basic Tips for searching Compendex on the WWW:

• Default search is by keyword. Keyword searches do not automatically search authors and journal titles. Select the appropriate button for author, title, and journal searches.
• Connect keywords or phrases with AND, OR, NOT, or ADJ (adjacent) Boolean logic example: circuit and (digital or analog)
• Wild card is $. Example: robot$ finds robot, robots, robotics, etc.
• When searching for authors, select the author search button and enter the author's last name and first initial (if known). Select all appropriate variations from the resulting index list of names.

Conservation Information Network (BCIN)

BCIN is one of three conservation databases first released in 1987. CIN's objective is to facilitate the retrieval and exchange of information concerning conservation and restoration of cultural property. Most of the data are recorded in English; however, subject key words are provided in both English and French. Titles remain in the language of the original publication with an English translation provided.

Contemporary Women's Issues

The Contemporary Women's Issues database provides full-text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 190 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science.

CQ Library

CQ Library is a subscription service that provides web access to two of Congressional Quarterly's (CQ) print publications, the CQ Weekly and the CQ Researcher. The CQ Weekly includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles by words, dates, subjects or other criteria. The CQ Researcher covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insights and bibliographies. Full text of CQ Researcher is available beginning with 1991.

CRL - Center for Research Libraries Catalog

The CRL Catalog is the online catalog of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. Its primary purpose is to collect those research materials not targeted by the North American research institutions. The Center collects heavily in the follow materials: archival materials, newspapers and periodicals (foreign & domestic, specialized), foreign doctoral dissertations, U.S. state documents, USSR Academic publications. The Center collects broadly in the following geographic regions: Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. In addition, the Center collects any category of material, from any geographic locale, which is deemed important to scholarly research, but has not been acquired by other institutions. All resources in the CRL Catalog are available to Yale University faculty, staff, and students through Interlibrary Loan.

Current Contents

Current Contents Connect database provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals and books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Cover-to-cover indexing of journal articles, book reviews, meeting abstracts, editorials, etc., is provided for more than 8000 international journals covering nearly 200 disciplines. Complete bibliographic information, including English-language author abstracts (for approximately 85% of articles and reviews in the science editions), author keywords, KeyWords Plus ®, and ISSNs are provided. Email alerts for articles matching saved search strategies are available.

Current Index to Statistics

The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage of:

• The entire contents of 162 core journals from 1975 (or first issue if later) and pre-1975 coverage for a number of them
• Selected articles since 1975 from about 1200 additional journals
• About 11,000 books in statistics published since 1975

D-F

daai (Design and Applied Arts Index)

daai currently contains over 110,000 annotated references from more than 450 art, design and craft journals published between 1973-2001, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making the largest database of its kind in the world.

Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers Online

The Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers Online lists and describes curriculum materials centers or collections at over 200 institutions. Information in this directory is self-reported by the institution and is monitored by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Education and Behavioral Science Section, The Curriculum Materials Centers Directory Revision Ad Hoc Committee. Searchable fields include: type of institution, CMC material budget, teacher education full-time equivalent enrollment as of fall 2000, and institution FTE enrollment as of fall 2000.

DIRLINE: Directory of Health Information

DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine.

Dissertations and Theses - Full Text

ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses - Full Text contains more than 2 million entries with information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. It is the same database as Dissertation Abstracts, but with the significant advantage that titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

If there is no option to download the fulltext of a post-1997 dissertation, this means that the author has refused to grant these rights.

E-STAT for Education (Statistics Canada)

E-STAT is Statistics Canada's dynamic interactive teaching and learning tool available on the Internet. Using current CANSIM multidimensional tables, and the most recent census data, as well as historical data, E-STAT lets you bring data to life by presenting them as colourful graphs and maps. The CANSIM (Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System)provides authoritative data on labour, manufacturing, investment, international trade; it enables users to track trends in virtually every aspect of Canadian life.

Ebrary

Ebrary is a collection of thousands of online full text books in a variety of subject areas. Full text content can be viewed and searched online and printed without charge after installing the ebrary Reader. You can also bookmark sections of the book, copy and paste text, and save sections for later reading if you have a free Ebrary account. Ebrary contains books from many academic and trade publishers in every subject.

Ebscohost Electronic Journals Service

Journals are available in full text for those that have a Yale subscription to the print copy. Access to some Full Text online journals, Tables of Contents and Abstracts with features:

• ARTICLESearch allows you to find articles of interest by using simple keyword searches or advanced search techniques.
• JOURNALSearch allows you to find journals of interest by searching on Journal Name, Content Description, ISSN, or Publisher.
• Browse Tables of Contents and Abstracts for the entire catalog of online journals, or restrict browsing to your online journal subscriptions.

EconLit

EconLit, produced by the American Economic Association, is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature. It contains bibliographic references and some abstracts for journal articles, books, articles in collective volumes and dissertations. It also contains the bibliographic database Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics, produced by Cambridge University Press.

Education Full Text

Education Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Subject coverage includes: preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher education; special and vocational education; comparative and multicultural education; adult and continuing education; computer technology; teacher education, evaluation, and methods; school administration and parent-teacher relations; and issues such as government funding and prayer in the schools. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

Educators Resource Directory

Educators Resource Directory provides access to a compilation of educational resources and tables and charts of education statistics and rankings. Section I contains contact information for resources that provide tools for classroom and career management. Section II contains tables and charts in nine categories such as average teacher salaries, SAT/ACT scores, enrollment, state regulations, revenues and expenditures, federal programs for education and learning resources and technology concerning career development decisions, fiscal health and education scores.

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a unique cross-cultural database. It contains more than a quarter of a million pages of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. The full-text materials are subject-indexed at the paragraph-level for precise retrieval of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. These materials are relevant to the various social science disciplines as well as the humanities and health sciences.

Encyclopaedia Iranica

The Encyclopaedia Iranica is the most extensive compendium ever conceived on the past and present culture of the people who speak an Iranian language and their contribution to the broader history of human civilization. It is the only precise and reliable reference work on the lands, life, culture and history of all Iranian peoples and their interaction with other societies.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

This is an online resource updated regularly. The print edition of this encyclopedia was completed in late 2001 and is a comprehensive and current encyclopedia for biology topics, although use of other sources (see a reference librarian or the related guides linked above) is advised for some of the related fields. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, there are 3000 signed articles written by several thousand scientists.

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History

From the Preface: “[This work was designed to be] a reference of first resort for those seeking information either on broad areas or specific topics relating to the Civil War in the United States. More than 1,600 essays describe and explain a myriad of aspects that cover the coming of the war, its conduct, and its consequences in a political, military, and social context. In addition to full biographies of major and minor military, political, diplomatic, and cultural figures, these essays include descriptions of more than sixty major engagements as well as important skirmishes and their role in the larger military setting. Broad subjects such as strategy and tactics, social trends, and technological innovations are also included. Primary documents are provided in a separate section, maps depict military aspects, and illustrations furnish both portraiture and vivid scenes from the period. Appendices supply the executive officers of both the United States and Confederate States, general officers of each army, a glossary of terms unique to military usage or peculiar to the period, and an extensive bibliography."

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History

No previous attempt to provide a reference overview of the Vietnam War is as comprehensive as this encyclopedia which treats all aspects of the war (military, diplomatic, political, and socioeconomic).

ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online

Engineering handbooks published by CRC Press.

ERIC Online

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC encompasses the world’s largest and most frequently searched education database. It contains more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC documents are available on microfiche in the Sterling Memorial Library Microtext Center.

Essential Science Indicators

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science. Covering a multidisciplinary selection of 8,500 journals from around the world, this in-depth analytical tool offers data for ranking authors, institutions, nations, and journals.

Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. The collection of articles, editorials, columns, and reviews provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Free text searching and complete indexing are available in English and Spanish language. A history file goes as far back as the 1960's.

The general categories of ethnic groups represented in the Ethnic NewsWatch database are:

• African American/Caribbean/African
• Arab/Middle Eastern
• Asian/Pacific Island
• European/Eastern European
• Hispanic
• Jewish
• Multi-ethnic
• Native Peoples

Eureka

EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to a wide array of databases, including the Research Libraries Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you. Use the REQUEST Button in Eureka to request items that Yale does not own through Interlibrary Loan.

European Sources Online

European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe, and on the issues of importance to European citizens and stakeholders.

Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)

Factiva contains nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries and 22 languages, and 120 continuously updated newswires.

Coverage includes:

• Same-day and archival coverage of The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, and local newspapers from every corner of the globe.
• Newswires include Dow Jones, Reuters, Associated Press, Asia Pulse, and over 120 other continuously updating industry, press release and local newswires.
• Transcripts from BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, NPR and more.

FAOSTAT

FAOSTAT is an online and multilingual database currently containing over one million time series records covering international statistics in the following areas: production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizers and pesticides, land area and irrigation, forest products, fishing products, population, agricultural marketing. Large files may be downloaded for further statistical analysis.

FRANCIS

FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. FRANCIS represents a wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports.

G-N

Gabriel

Gabriel - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries - is the World Wide Web service for Europe's National Libraries represented in the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). There are currently 41 National Libraries from 39 member states of the Council of Europe participating in CENL and Gabriel.

GaleNet

GaleNet is a collection of reference databases: Associations Unlimited, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Biography Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module, and What Do I Read Next?

GenderWatch

GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, and gender and women's studies. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.

General Science Abstracts

Core coverage of most areas of science and some applied science areas. Core journals, books, technical reports, and government reports. The use of this electronic tool will not provide comprehensive coverage. The most recent information appears with a three month delay after publication of the actual articles and/or books. Please consult the list of covered journals, books, conference proceedings, etc. in order to become aware of the scope of this product. Please feel free to contact a librarian for further clarification or for identification of other information sources outside the scope of this resource.

GeoRef

GeoRef is the major index covering the geological literature, with citations and abstracts from journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books.

Global Books in Print

Global Books in Print contains information published in the following books in print sources:

• Books In Print (titles published in the U.S. & Canada)
• British Books In Print (formerly Whitaker's Books in Print) (English-language books published in the U.K., Ireland, and Europe)
• Forthcoming Books
• Books Out of Print
• Large Print Books in Print
• Paperbound Books in Print
• Children's Books in Print
• Bowker's Complete Video Directory
• Words on Cassette
• Australian Books in Print
• Canadian Books in Print (Canadian Telebook Agency files plus monthly updates from Canadian Books in Print published by the U. of Toronto)(English-language titles only)
• New Zealand Books in Print

Global Financial Data

The Global Financial Database is the most complete collection of financial and economic data in the world. With more than 6500 historical and current data series covering over 150 countries, this resource includes an unparalleled set of long-term total return data on stocks, bonds and bills from every major market in the world dating back to 1900. These proprietary series, covering more than a century of information, are only available from Global Financial Data, Inc.

Global Forest Information Service

An Internet gateway to forest information resources from around the world, GFIS users can locate maps, datasets, web resources, journal articles, books and other resources relevant to their forest information needs. This access is through a distributed network of databases. The databases cover the scientific, technical, and social aspects of forestry. There are 47 information providers found throughout the world presently linked through the GFIS search system.

GPO Access

GPO Access provides online access to full text congressional and executive agency documentation, including the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, congressional bills and resolutions, congressional documents and reports, the General Accounting Office "blue books", and the Economic Indicators (Joint Economic Committee). It also provides access to the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications and a connection to the Federal Bulletin Board files.

GradSearch

Peterson's GradSearch database contains the entire text of Peterson's Graduate and Professional Programs database, the most comprehensive database on graduate study available. The database covers 31,000 graduate academic departments at more than 1,600 degree-granting institutions as well as information about Colleges and Universities, IT Channel, Adult/Distance Learning Programs, Training and Executive Education, Private Schools, Summer Opportunities and Study Abroad.

Guides to Microforms

Primary Sources in U.S. History comprises three full text modules---Access to African American Studies, Access to Presidential Studies, and Access to Women's Studies---and Guides to Microform Collections. The subject specific modules provide a range of sources, including autobiographies, manuscripts, government documents, photographs and images, reference and scholarly articles, and speeches.

HaPI: Health/Psychosocial Instruments

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

Hartford Courant

Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Health Policy Tracking Service

Health Policy Tracking Service (HPTS) is produced by the National Conference on State Legislatures and provides current information and analysis of state health care policy. Yale University, courtesy of the Law Library, has access to the following HPTS products: