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Publicly-Accessible Databases and Select Resources on the Web
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The following databases were selected for their availability to the
general public. Because the participants in the Fulbright American Studies
Institute come from a variety of backgrounds and countries, we have included
all sites that could be of use when the participants return home. We have
not limited this by audience or discipline and suggest that the FASI
participants either bookmark the preferred links or copy the useful links
and create their own pages, organizing the resource list in a manner which
best serves individual needs.
The links on this page are organized in the following categories:
- Adherents.com
A collection
of religious adherent statistics and religious geography citations.
Contains references to published membership/adherent statistics and
congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations,
religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate
concerns, etc.
- All-in-One
Biblical Resources Search
Engine which searches the full text of
several versions (in several languages) of the Judeo-Christian Bible.
- Catholic
Encyclopedia
Online version of the 1913 edition.
- Mormons in
Transition
Sponsored by the Institute for Religious Research, this
page provides criticism on different aspects of the Church of Latter Day
Saints.
- New Testament
Gateway
Directory of internet resources of possible interest to New
Testament scholars.
- The Noble
Qur'an
Maududi's translation comes with introductory material to
aid in understanding the text.
- Rambi (Index to
Articles on Jewish Studies)
RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish
Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of
Jewish studies and in the study of Israel. Material listed in Rambi is
compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles -
in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of
the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on
the Jewish people and Israel. The main criterion for inclusion in the
bibliography is that the article be based on scientific research, or
contain important information for such research. Since the inception of
this bibliographic project in 1966, the editorial board has striven to
include in it all of the important articles published throughout the world
in the field of Judaica. Therefore, it includes offprints of articles from
journals or collections not on order to the Library. Rambi also lists
articles from secondary sources.
Author, title and source information
are given in the original language of publication. Subject headings are in
English. Proper search and display of Hebrew characters requires that your
browser have the correct Unicode character set. The database authors
recommend the use of Internet Explorer 5 or higher to properly use the
features of the database.
- Restoration
Movement
Contains primary and secondary source material for
researching the Restoration Movement (out of which came the Churches of
Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ).
- Shaker
Manuscripts Online
Links to various Shaker manuscripts.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
A free, online, dynamic encyclopedia on philosophy.
- Virtual
Religion Index
Rutgers University offers one of the best gateway
sites for Religious Studies. The FASI participants might be especially
interested in the American
Studies section.
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- The American Presidency
Project
A compilation of presidencial speeches (some text, some
with audio), election information and other documents related to the
Presidency.
- American Memory
Collection
This Library of Congress project provides access to a
large number of LoC collections, searchable and browsable by subject and
title, including a large quantity of digitized primary source material.
- Core Documents of U.
S. Democracy
"To provide American citizens direct online access to
the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society,
a core group of current and historical Government publications is being
made available for free, permanent, public access via the GPO Access
service." In addition to full ASCII text, some documents, such as the
Constitution and Declaration of Independence, are available as scanned
images of the original manuscripts. Document texts range from the Articles
of Confederation to the current United States Government Manual,
Statistical Abstracts and Code of Federal Regulations.
- Counting California
Free, public access to social science and economic data produced by
government agencies. A collaborative project funded by the California
Digital Library and the Library of California.
- EuroDocs
Primary
Historical Documents From Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions,
Facsimiles and Translations.
- Internet Archive
The
Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build
an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist
in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San
Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa
Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to
build more well-rounded collections. Among its most notable collections
are:
- Live Music
Archive
etree.org is a
community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a
lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with
etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for
current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is
from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for
access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial
releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org
community.
- Moving Images
Collections
This collection of almost 2,000 movies is free and
open for everyone to use. It includes the Prelinger Archive, a
collection of 1,256 advertising and educational films from 1927 to the
present.
- Making of America: at Cornell University and University of Michigan
Hosted at
Cornell University and the University of Michigan, Making of America (MOA)
is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from
the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is
particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology,
American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The
Cornell collection currently contains 267 monograph volumes and over
100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints while the Michigan
collection contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles
with 19th century imprints, estimated at over 3% of all American
monographs published in the 19th century. All are in the form of
searchable scanned images.
- National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA)
The official Archives of the United States
government provide a variety of online primary sources including:
- The
Exhibit Hall
Features high resolution images of a variety of
manuscripts, artworks and photographs from the U.S. National Archives.
- Digital
Classroom: Primary Sources and Activities
A large number of
collections of primary documents and images arranged for use by teachers
of history, civics or use of government documents.
- Watergate
Trial Tapes Transcripts
These are the transcripts of 12.5 hours
of White House tapes which were played in court during the U.S. vs.
Mitchell, et al and U.S. vs. Connally trials in 1974. They are a portion
of the 60 hours of tapes subpoenaed by the Special Prosecutor's Office
(the rest are, as yet, unavailable in electronic transcripts.)
- National Security
Archive - Electronic Briefing Books
The Electronic Briefing Books
provide online access to declassified US government documents about
national security, foreign policy, diplomatic history, military history
and intelligence policy.
- Online Archive of California
The Online Archive of California is a collaborative project to create
a searchable online union database of finding aids to archival
collections. This database includes the finding aids to repositories from
40 institutions statewide, including all nine UC campuses and is
continuing to expand. Finding aids provide detailed descriptions of
collections, their intellectual organization and, at varying levels of
analysis, of individual items in the collections. A small but increasing
number of the finding aids contain links to online digital versions of the
source material.
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on
the Internet
THOMAS is the Library of Congress's database of
legislative information. It includes:
- full text of House and Senate bills from the 101st Congress
(1989/90) to the present,
- titles and summaries of bills from the 93rd Congress (1973/74) to
the present,
- full text of the Congressional Record from the 101st Congress
(1989/90) to the present,
- Congressional committee reports from the 104th Congress (1995/96) to
the present,
- and links to a wide variety of other sources relevant to the
Legislative Branch of the U.S. government.
- GPO Access
Official U.S. federal government information.
- GrayLit Network
Search
technical reports from several U.S. governmental agencies with links to
the full text.
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- African Journals Online
This
International Network for Availablity of Scientific Publications (INASP)
database provides the tables of contents (and sometimes abstracts) of over
70 African journals, with links to full text where available. There are
titles in agriculture, health, science and technology, and humanities and
social sciences.
- The
Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological
Institute
Contains bibliographic citations (1957-present) from the
journal holdings of the de facto national anthropological library of
Britain - the Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography
(Museum of Mankind), which incorporates the former Royal Anthropological
Institute library. The collection covers a remarkably broad geographical
range, emphasizing the Commonwealth and extending to Eastern Europe
ethnography and the Americas. All areas of anthropology and archaeology
are represented with particular strength in sociocultural anthropology,
ethnology, and material culture.
- Cambridge University Press
Journals Online
Allows searching of articles from its electronic
journals by journal title, author, author affiliation and/or keywords
taken from the titles, abstracts and/or full-text.
- Digital
Dissertations
This contains records for dissertations from over
1,000 North American and European universities. Abstracts are available
online and with a credit card users can purchase paper or electronic
copies of dissertations. As a guest, users can search the most recent two
years of the database (to search the entire database you must be a
subscriber).
- Directory of Open Access
Journals
This services offers free full-text scholarly journals.
This directory has information on over 1100 journals; more than 300 of
these are searchable at the article level.
- EBSCO Electronic Journals
Service
EBSCOhost is an electronic journal host for thousands of
journals from hundreds of publishers. The EBSCOhost search engine allows
searching for articles from that collection of journals by author, article
title and abstract and by full text. The resulting bibliographic records
are freely available, but full text is available only to subscribers
through EBSCO.
- gender
Inn
gender Inn, created at the University of Cologne (Köln), is a
searchable database providing access to over 7000 records pertaining to
feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing
on English and American literature.
- Handbook of Latin American
Studies
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting
of works selected and annotated by scholars dating from 1936-present.
Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the
multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences
and the humanities.
- HighWire Press
Free
full-text articles in science disciplines, from HighWire Press at Stanford
University.
- Ingenta
Current article
information taken from over 25,000 journals, covering virtually all
disciplines. Each search is carried out in two databases: "Uncover Plus"
(1988-present), providing bibliographic information, abstracts and
purchasable full text articles, and "Online Articles" which searches a
wide range of electronic full-text journals and provides links to the
full-text, free for journal subscribers and pay-per-article for most other
titles.
- Ingenta
Select
Ingenta Select (formerly CatchWord, Ltd.) is an electronic
journal host for over 5000 journals from over 190 publishers. The Ingenta
Select search engine allows searching for articles from that collection of
journals by author, article title, journal title, abstract or by full
text. The resulting bibliographic records are freely available, but full
text is available only to subscribers through Ingenta Select.
- IOP (Institute of Physics) Electronic
Journals
The Institute of Physics electronic journals site allows
searching of articles from over 20 electronic journals in physics
published by IOP and allied publishers. You may search by author and/or
title and abstract keywords. Full-text is available only to subscribers.
- JSTOR
JSTOR
allows searching of articles from its archival collection of journals in a
wide range of subject areas by author and/or keywords taken from the
titles, abstracts and/or full-text. Searches may be limited to a specific
subject category of journals. Full-text is available only to
subscribers.
- Kluwer Online
Kluwer
Online's Search function allows searching of tables of contents and
abstracts of articles contained in the Kluwer Online collection of over
250 journals, many from 1996-present. Full-text is available only to
subscribers.
- LAPTOC
The
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents project has the tables of
contents for over 800 journals published in Latin America.
- Project Muse
A
searchable index of over 180 university press journals in Project Muse.
Searching is available for free; full-text is available only to
subscribers.
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- Alexandria
Digital Library (ADL) Catalog
The ADL Catalog provides metadata -
with, where available, digital data - for geospatial data (maps, aerial
photographs, etc., whether in digital or in hardcopy form), and ingests
existing metadata sets whenever possible. Coverage is worldwide, with a
concentration in the Southern California area.
- Alexandria
Digital Library Gazetteer (Dictionary of Place Names)
A searchable
dictionary of placenames, including natural (mountains, rivers, earthquake
zones, etc.) and human-generated (cities, archaelogical sites, etc.)
features. The Gazetteer contains just under 4 million entries.
- Bartleby.com Reference
Works
The Bartleby.com site, originally created at Columbia
University, includes a host of e-texts, all browsable and searchable,
including such reference works as:
- American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996)
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed., 2000)
[UCSB call #: PE 1628 .A623 2000]
- Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (20th ed., 1918) [UCSB has
later editions at: QM 23.2 .G73]
- The Boston Cooking School Cookbook by Fannie Farmer (1918)
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921)
- The CIA World Factbook (2001) (UCSB call #: Govt. Info. Center PREX
3.15)
- The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed., 2000) [UCSB call #: Ref AG 5
.C725 2000]
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America (2000) [UCSB call #: Ref E 35
.C65 2000]
- Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett (9th ed., 1901) [UCSB call #:
Spec. Coll. PN 6081 .B29 1902; later editions at: PN 6081 .B29 and in
Reference at: PN 6081 .B27]
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd ed., 1995)
- Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) "The Most Notable Quotes,
1950-1988" [UCSB call #: Ref PN 6083 .S53 1988]
- Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com provides searchable access to several dictionaries,
most notably, the American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd ed.
(1996,1992) (in print at PE 1628 .A623 1992), plus Roget's Thesaurus, and
links to a number of other dictionary sites on the Web.
- Encyclopedia.com
Contains 14,000 brief entries from the Concise Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., linked to over 170,000 related sites on the
Internet.
- Encyclopedia
Mythica
An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend. Covers
a variety of cultures and time periods.
- National Library
Catalogues Worldwide
This page provides links to the online
national library catalogs of over 90 different countries.
- National Union Catalog of
Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog
of Manuscript Collections, is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging
program operated by the Library of Congress. In addition to links to
finding aids for Library of Congress manuscripts and other archival
collections, this site is a gateway to search over 500,000 archival
collections cataloged in the RLIN database or over 300,000 such
collections cataloged in the OCLC database.
- NCJRS
Virtual Library (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
Full-text access to more than 1,500 publications on this site and from
NCJRS partner agency web sites.
- O*NET OnLine
From the
U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Information Network is a
comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. The
O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work
activities, and interests associated with occupations. Information in
O*NET is available for over 950 occupations. Each occupational title and
code is based on the most current version of the Standard Occupational
Classification system.O*NET replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
(DOT).
- POPLINE
POPLINE is
the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning,
reproductive health and related issues, containing over 280,000 records,
representing published and unpublished literature, including books and
book chapters, journal articles, technical reports, conference papers,
newspaper articles, theses and disserations, and laws, bills and court
decisions. Note: The full text ordering option is available only in
developing countries.
- Population Index
The
primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents
an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles,
working papers, and other material on population topics. This website
provides a searchable and browsable database containing 41,904 abstracts
of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period
1986-1998.
- Project Gutenberg
Project
Gutenberg is one of the earliest attempts to provide widespread access to
public domain books via the Internet. As of July 2002, it offers about
5600 works, adding about 150 per month. Files are in plain ASCII text or
in zipped ASCII text, available from a number of mirror sites around the
world. The Project Gutenberg catalog is searchable by author and title.
Author and title lists may be downloaded by FTP.
- Voice of the Shuttle
This major
gateway for the humanities covers many disciplines, including religious
studies.
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- Agricola
A database
created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators covering
materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records
describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of
agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences,
forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics,
agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming
practices, and food and nutrition.
- AIDSinfo
Access to
wide-ranging Federal resources on HIV/AIDS clinical research, HIV
treatment and prevention, and medical practice guidelines for health care
providers and consumers.
- American
Chemical Society Journals
The American Chemical Society electronic
journals site allows searching of articles from over 25 electronic
journals in chemistry published by ACS. You may search author and/or title
keywords.
- BioMed Central
(BMC)
A collection of over 80 journals in medicine and biology;
provides free, full text access to all original research papers published
in any of its online journals and any journals that will be added over
time.
- DOE Information Bridge
Search the U.S. Dept. of Energy's scientific and technical research
reports in the sciences including biology, environmental sciences,
physics, energy, and other topics.
- Earthquake Engineering
Abstracts
Covering from 1971-present, this database contains
earthquake engineering and earthquake studies from journal articles,
conference papers, technical reports, maps, videos, slides, and computer
files. Topics include structural dynamics, seismology, geology,
architecture, political science, economics, planning, public policy, and
hazards mitigation as they relate to earthquake studies.
- Energy Citations
Database
Contains bibliographic records for energy and
energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of
Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research &
Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948
through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
- European Patent Office
The
European Patent Office's Esp@acenet provides detailed searching of EPO and
PCT patent applications for the last 24 months, and worldwide patent
documents searchable by patent number as early as 1920 for some issuing
nations.
- ETDEWEB (ETDE World Energy
Base)
With individual registration, ETDEWEB is freely accessible.
It contains the world's largest collection of energy literature with links
to full text when available.
- FWS National Image Library
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's online collection of public domain
still photographs, containing still photo images of wildlife, plants,
National Wildlife Refuges and other scenics, as well as wildlife
management work.
- FWS Publications
Online
Full text access to a collection of newsletters and
technical reports from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
- Kew
Record of Taxonomic Literature
The Kew Record of Taxonomic
Literature,a product of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK, is a
database of references relevant to the taxonomy of flowering plants,
gymnosperms and ferns from 1971-present. The database is searchable by
author, journal title and subject keywords.
- LOCATORplus
National Library
of Medicine's LOCATORplus is the Library's catalog of books, journals, and
audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools, including
links to publicly available Internet resources in medicine.
- MathematicsWeb
MathematicsWeb,
a service of Elsevier Science Publishers, allows users free-of-charge
searching of published and in-press articles from over 55 journals in
mathematics and related disciplines published by Elsevier Science
(1995-present), as well as preprints from their Mathematics Preprint
Server. MathematicsWeb also has specialized collections of editor-selected
articles in several disciplines; full text available free to all.
- National Environmental
Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)
A database of over 9,000
full-text U.S. EPA documents
- PubMed
Citations
and abstracts for over 11 million articles in medicine, life science, and
health administration from 1966-present. Includes the full contents of
MEDLINE, plus "in process" citations for recent articles which have not
yet been added to MEDLINE, and some additional references from life
sciences journals.
- Royal
Society of Chemistry Journals
The Royal Society of Chemistry
electronic journals site allows searching of articles from over 20
electronic journals in chemistry published by RSC and allied publishers.
Searching is available for free; full-text is available only to
subscribers.
- USDA Forest Service
Library Catalog
Catalog of records to Forest Service Research
publications dating back to 1904. Includes almost 6,000 full-text
publications.
- USPTO Patent
Database
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s Patent
Databases allows searching of the bibliographic data (titles, inventors,
assignees, class codes, references, etc.) or full text in US patents
issued since 1976.
- USPTO Trademark
Database
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s Trademark
Electronic Search System (TESS) allows searching of the key data (titles,
owners, relevant dates) in current Federal trademarks and inactive ones
back to 1984. Results display the trademark text data and, in many cases,
the images for graphic trademarks. It does not include state or foreign
trademarks.
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