African Studies
A compilation of 17 databases from three continents containing nearly 635,000 indexed
references, many with abstracts. Records are derived from books, periodical articles,
pamphlets, maps, and music recordings. Topics include politics,
history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues,
anthropology, literature, language, law, and music.
The American Civil War:
Letters and Diaries
A compilation of more than 400 diaries, letters, and memoirs. These primary source materials
appear in full text and give a first–hand account of almost every aspect of the war,
including what was happening at home and abroad. Both Northern and Southern perspectives are
represented. Searchable by full text, table of contents, date, and more.
Black Studies Database
BSD includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from more than 150 significant and
influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to
the Black experience and the African Diaspora from 1948–1986. This 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.
Dun and Bradstreet’s Million Dollar Database
The UCSB Library subscribes to the North American edition of this database, which provides
information on approximately 1.6 million U.S. and Canadian leading public and private businesses. Company
information includes industry information with up to 24 individual
8–digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal
executives, and biographies. Please note that we only purchased access for one user at a time. So, if you can't log in, please try again later, and when you finish searching, please
log off. The corresponding print resource, the D&B Million Dollar Directory is available at
Ref HC 102 .M54.
EEBO – Text Creation Partnership
The digital images for the 125,000 titles in the English Short Title Catalog, which includes
English language texts from 1475–1700 listed in Wing, Pollard and
Redgrave, and the Thomason
Tracts form the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database. The Text Creation Partnership
(TCP) is an international initiative supported by select research libraries to create fully
searchable “encoded texts” for a significant portion of EEBO. UCSB is a member library in
the Text Creation Partnership.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
FSSW contains all the citations of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage &
Family Literature, plus abstracts which were never available in print. It also incorporates
Australian Family & Society Abstracts, commonly known as FAMILY, produced by the Australian
Institute of Family Studies. Publications indexed in the database are drawn from a wide
range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology,
demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.
HarpWeek
Full–image reproductions of Harper's Weekly, one of the most important weekly magazines read
by Americans during the 19th century. Full–image coverage from 1857–1893, with indexes to
the full text of the magazine from 1857–1912.
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Oxford Reference Online
While we’d still like to see you in the Reference Department,
you can now do much of your reference work at your desk. This
database includes over 100 language and subject dictionaries and
reference works in a single cross–searchable resource.
PastMasters – Dickens: Letters
This is the electronic version of the 11–volume Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles
Dickens, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1965–1997. All letters
are fully searchable.
Patrologia Latina
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques–Paul Migne's Patrologia
Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and
1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200
AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, and
indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
Periodicals Contents Index, Full Text (PCI–FT)
An index to the contents of periodicals in the humanities, social sciences,
psychology, and
geography, from their first issues to 1990–1991 (where available.). Every article is
indexed. The scope is international, including most western European languages. PCI–FT
currently links to the full text of 70 journals, with an additional 75 added per year.
Polling the Nations
An online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the U.S. and 80
other countries. Only polls using statistically valid sampling and methods are
indexed. Each
question is individually indexed in one of more than 4,500 topics and six search
fields—topic, question text, universe, date, polling organization, and response categories.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
The old green volumes are now available online! This is the well–known comprehensive index
of the most popular general–interest periodicals published in the U.S. in the 20th
century. The current coverage includes the years 1963–1982. The complete database will eventually
cover the years 1890–1982.
RIPM (Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale)
This database is an effort by scholars of musicology worldwide to index the literature of
music in the 19th century. By the time the project is completed (est. 2008), it will
contain over 200 print volumes, indexing some 65 music journals, plus articles from
newspapers, literary and theatrical magazines and more. RIPM is somewhat over half completed at present. The RIPM database is searchable by keyword, author, language, year and more.
Sexual Diversity Studies
SDS indexes a variety of materials of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities, excluding only fiction and erotica. Nearly 600 sources include
journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters,
proceedings, reports, dissertations, studies, significant web documents, and multi–media
publications. NOTE: SDS does not cover medical research related to HIV/AIDS and related illnesses. For these topics, see ACTIS or
PubMed.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, Women’s Resources International
Citations and abstracts of over 4700 journal articles and books in women's studies, from
1995 to the present.
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