Please note that many databases licensed by the libraries are not part of xSearch. Please see Databases and Articles for a comprehensive list. You may also find it helpful to use Subject Research Guides which contain print and digital resources. For reference help, please consult the Subject Specialist Directory.

ABI/Inform Global

ABI/Inform Global provides broad coverage of business and management, including global business, company histories, competitive intelligence, and new product development. Covers over 2,700 publications, including full-text for 1,700 titles plus The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, full-text 1984–present and Barron’s full-text 1921–present. Updated daily, covers 1971–present.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database that contains over 4,650 journals, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full-text content, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals. Updated daily, indexing and full text availability varies with title. Most complete coverage begins in the 1990s.

Access Engineering

AccessEngineering is an e-book platform that includes McGraw-Hill engineering handbooks, technical manuals, and books on codes and formulas covering 14 engineering disciplines. This site includes access to the latest edition of McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

Access World News

Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Paid ads are excluded. Updated daily, date coverage varies with individual newspaper.

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with 20 learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and the Univ. of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is a high-quality collection recommended by scholars.

ACM Guide to Computing Literature

The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and 3,000+ publishers that includes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, and technical reports. Updated weekly, covers 1954–present.

ACS Publications

The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research in the chemical and related sciences, publishing 38 research journals plus Chemical & Engineering News, a weekly newsmagazine, the ACS Symposium Series, plus some reference books. Updated daily, covers 1879–present.

ACS Symposium Series

The ACS Symposium Series contains 1,200 high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia. Each chapter is authored by an expert in the field, and the collection of chapters is edited by an internationally recognized leader in the field. The series covers a broad range of topics. Covers 1950–present.

ADS (Astrophysical Data System) Abstracts Service

The ADS Abstract Service provides access to three bibliographic databases: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics & Geophysics, and ArXiv e-Prints. These databases cover all the major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, observatory reports/newsletters, NASA reports, and theses. Updated weekly, covers 1975–present.

Aerospace & High Technology Database

The Aerospace & High Technology Database indexes basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. Updated monthly, covers 1962–present.

African Studies Centre Catalogue

Online catalog of the library collection at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, Netherlands. It includes annotated citations to journal articles and listing of books chapters from works acquired since 1988.

Agricola

Agricola has over 4.7 million bibliographic records from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. Citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Updated monthly, covers 1970–present.

Alternative Energy eTrack

Alternative Energy eTrack is a resource on alternative and renewable energy industries. The database covers detailed information on all renewables and other clean technologies. Subscribers receive access to 20 unique alternative energy databases, news and deals, company profiles, opinions and research reports. Updated daily.

Alternative Press Index

Alternative Press Index indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. It includes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines and includes abstracts from research journals. It contains more than 330,000 records and indexes over 250 sources. Updated quarterly, covers 1991–present.

America: History and Life with Full-Text

America: History and Life is the primary bibliographic reference to the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals, it also provides full-text access to more than 195 journals and over 90 books. Updated weekly, covers 1964–present. Note: 6 simultaneous users.

America’s Historical Imprints

America’s Historical Imprints includes the databases Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639–1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, with supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia, and American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760–1900. Collectively, these databases contain searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera that enable researchers to explore America’s distant and not so distant past.

America’s Historical Newspapers

Searchable American newspapers enable users to discover America’s past. This resource includes: Early American Newspapers from 1690–1980; African American Newspapers, 1827–1998; and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808–1980, that contains titles from 22 states.

American Periodical Series Online, 1740–1900

American Periodicals Series Online contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism

The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism is an online database accessible through Israel’s university library network and printed bibliographies. The bibliography includes works published throughout the world about antisemitism—books, dissertations, master’s theses, and articles from periodicals and collections.

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in 40 focused disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. Updated continuously, covers 1932–present.

AnthropologyPlus

AnthropologyPlus brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. AnthropologyPlus offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, plus lesser known journals. Coverage: Anthropological Index: 1957 to date. Anthropological Literature: Mid-19th century to date. Updated: Anthropological Index: 8–12 times per year. Anthropological Literature: quarterly.

ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world. Researchers can learn about collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, or order copies. Updated daily.

Arctic and Antarctic Regions

Arctic and Antarctic Regions is the world’s largest collection of international polar databases. With over 1 million records, it covers a variety of sources from multiple disciplines. It is the best resource for research on cold regions, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet. Covers 1800–present.

Art Full Text/Art Retrospective

Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. There is full-text coverage for selected titles. Reproductions of works of art that appeared in indexed periodicals are also included. Updated daily, covers 1984–present (Abstracts 1994– and Full-Text 1997–). Art Retrospective is a bibliographic database of periodical citations to Art Index vols. 1–32, 1929–1984. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, plus periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. It also indexes reproductions of works of art from indexed titles.

ARTbibliographies Modern

ARTbibliographies Modern is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. ABM covers journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Updated monthly, covers 1974–present.

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts

ASFA is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring more than 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations, and limited distribution literature. Updated monthly, covers 1971–present.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

This resource combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA’s online collection of major religion and theology journals. Full text access is available for over 260,000 articles from more than 130 journals. Updated semi-annually, covers 1949–present.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 760,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database (use WorldCat to find recent books). Covers 1971–present.

Biography Resource Center

Biography Resource Center covers more than 380,000 individuals spanning history and geography. It contains more than 450,000 biographies, from reference titles (e.g. Marquis Who’s Who), journals, periodicals, and newspapers. It includes nearly 27,000 downloadable images and over 19,000 web sites tied to the lives and works of the subjects. Updated continuously.

BioOne

BioOne is a full-text aggregation of bioscience research journals. Most are published by small societies and other not-for-profit organizations. Subjects covered by BioOne journals include ecology, evolution, environmental science, natural history, taxonomy, and systematics. Updated daily.

Biosis Previews

Biosis is a comprehensive source for life sciences and biomedical research from nearly 6,000 life sciences journals plus abstracts from meetings, books and patents. Search options include using taxonomy, MeSH, CAS registry numbers, Sequence Databank Numbers, and Major Concepts. Updated weekly, covers 1926–present.

Blackwell Reference Online

Blackwell Reference Online includes full-text access to over 425 reference works, making it the largest online collection of social science and humanities reference content available online. The Wiley-Blackwell Companions and Handbooks included in Blackwell Reference Online bring together the world’s leading scholars to cover the latest research in their fields. Updated: annually.

Britannica Online

Britannica Online delivers high-quality, comprehensive information. This site includes Encyclopædia Britannica’s latest article database, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, plus thousands of links to other web sites selected by Britannica editors.

British Periodicals

British Periodicals provides full-text access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, art, music, drama, archaeology and architecture, and the social sciences. Size: 587 titles, more than 5 million pages. Covers 1681–1920.

Business Monitor Online

Business Monitor Online is a market research service offering in-depth market research reports on 175 global markets and major industry sectors, contains multinational companies’ profiles, and includes a database of macroeconomic data across global markets along with the country risk analysis and forecasts.

Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete provides full text for over 10,000 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,150 peer-reviewed business publications, searchable cited references from more than 1,300 journals, and detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Includes Harvard Business Review full-text from 1922–present. Updated daily, covers 1886–present.

C19, the Nineteenth Century Index

C19 is the most comprehensive source for discovering 19th books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. Containing more than 22 million records, C19 Index provides integrated access to 12 bibliographic indexes, over 1.5 million books, 71,000 archival collections, and 18.9 million articles. Covers 1790–1919.

CAB Abstracts

CAB Abstracts is the most comprehensive source of international research information in agriculture and all related applied life sciences. Global coverage of journal articles, academic books, abstracts, published theses, conference proceedings, bulletins, monographs and technical reports. Updated monthly, covers 1910–present.

CAIRN

CAIRN is a full-text aggregator for over 250 social sciences and humanities journals published primarily in French from over 60 European publishers. Some books are also available from CAIRN. Stanford’s subscription for full-text access includes 47 journals and a few books. Bibliographic access is available to all content. Updated daily, covers 2001–present.

Cambridge Histories Online

Cambridge Histories Online provides full text online access to more than 270 volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Broad areas covered include: American history, British history, economic history, general history, history of science, history of the book, language and linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, political and social theory, regional history, religious studies, and theatre studies and performing arts.

Casalini Editoria Italiana Online

Produced by Casalini Libri, Editoria Italiana Online comprises a representative collection of current, scholarly publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Italy’s most prominent academic publishers. The platform now hosts over 5200 scholarly ebooks and more than 150,000 from 360 journals in a multi-lingual interface.

Chicano Database

The Chicano Database is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It includes over 2,470 journals and the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database. Updated quarterly, covers 1960s–present.

China: Trade, Politics, and Culture

This collection contains a wide range of materials documenting western interaction with China from the first embassy by Lord Macartney to trade negotiations for military aircraft in the 1970s. Also includes maps, drawings, photographs, and personal accounts of life and work in China throughout the period. Covers 1793–1980.

CISnet

MIT Press’ CISnet brings together many of the MIT Press’s recent and classic e-books in computer and information science in a fully searchable online library. Topics covered include programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning, human computer interaction, databases, digital libraries, networking, and robotics.

CogNet

MIT Press’ CogNet is an online location for the brain and cognitive science community’s scientific research and interchange. Launched in 2000, MIT CogNet has become an essential resource for those interested in cutting-edge primary research across the range of fields concerned with understanding the nature of the human mind.

Colonial State Papers

ProQuest worked with the National Archives in London to create Colonial State Papers. Up until now, researchers were only able to view these documents by visiting the National Archives. This online collection provides insight into British trade, history and overseas expansion between the 16th–18th centuries. Covers 1574–1757.

COS Funding Opportunities

This database contains a compilation of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding for all disciplines. Sponsors come from the public and private sectors, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies, and corporations. Updated daily, covers present day–unlimited.

CQ Electronic Library

CQ Press Electronic Library is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in this indispensable reference collection.

CRCnetBASE

With over 5,000 complete volumes, this e-book collection offers authoritative scientific and technical information across multiple fields. It contains introductory as well as cutting-edge information. All books are fully searchable; each includes a hyperlinked table of contents. Updated daily, dates of resources vary.

Current Index to Statistics

The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes the entire contents of over 160 core journals, selected articles with statistical content, and about 11,000 books in statistics. Updated annually, covers 1975–present.

Declassified Documents Reference System (U.S.)

The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 600,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered. The DDRS includes documents issued 1905–2002 and declassified 1948–2005.

Defining Gender

The study and analysis of gender has now become one of the most vibrant areas of social, cultural and intellectual research, transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries. This collection of original source material from British and European archives includes content from both masculine and feminine perspectives. Covers 1450–1910.

Derwent Innovations Index

Using information from 41 patent-issuing authorities, DII facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. Updated weekly, covers 1963–present.

Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations and Theses is the world’s most comprehensive collection of citations to dissertations and theses. The full-text of all Stanford theses is available 1989–2009. Updated monthly, covers U.S. doctoral dissertations 1861–present, U.S. master’s theses 1962–present, and theses from foreign countries 1988–present.

Early English Books Online

Early English Books Online contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere 1473–1700 — from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Size: More than 100,000 titles.

Early English Newspapers

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757–1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. This digital collection helps chart the development of the concept of “news” and “newspapers” and the “free press.” Covers 17th–18th centuries.

East View Universal Databases

Content on this full-text site is primarily in Russian with some in English and Ukrainian. Search terms may be entered in English or Cyrillic according to what one expects to retrieve. Databases contain newspapers, newswires, news, scholarly and literary periodicals, government publications, and military and security periodicals. Updated daily, covers late 1990s–present.

eBrary

eBrary has the full-text of more than 30,000 books, sheet-music titles, maps, reports, and other documents on a wide array of topics. Our access also includes access to special collections digitized by the Stanford University Libraries and SUL Books in the Public Domain.

EconLit

EconLit is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. It provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. Updated monthly, covers 1969–present.

Economist.com

Economist.com provides analysis of world business and current affairs, as well as international news, world politics, science and technology, and country special reports. Includes articles from The Economist print edition plus a searchable archive back to June 1997.

Economist Historical Archive

The Economist Historical Archive is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. EHA has full-color images and a selection of exportable financial tables. Covers 1843–2006.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page in books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching for millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment offers access to correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. It includes online access to more than 55,000 letters from 6,500 correspondents, 230,000 scholarly annotations, and 87,000 document sources. Updated monthly, covers 18th century.

eMarketer

eMarketer is a comprehensive database on the analysis, statistics, trends, and forecasts of Internet-related businesses, online marketing, and emerging technologies with data presented in reports, articles, and charts formats. Updated daily, covers 2001–present.

Engineering Village

The most important resource in EV is Compendex, the online version of Engineering Index. Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research and includes over 5,600 scholarly journals, trade magazines, conference proceedings and technical reports. Updated weekly, covers 1884–present.

Environment Index

Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning. Updated monthly, covers 1940s–present.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

This multidisciplinary database provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, and government publications. Updated monthly, covers 1967–present.

ERIC

The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database provides extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books. Updated monthly, covers 1966–present.

Ethnic Newswatch

Ethnic NewsWatch features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique. Nearly a quarter are presented in Spanish. Covers 1990–present.

Europa World Yearbook

Europa World Year Book provides detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, statistical and directory data available for over 250 countries and territories. It also contains a comprehensive listing for nearly 1,900 International Organizations.

Factiva

Factiva is a full-text database of over 28,000 business and news sources from 157 countries in 23 languages, including news publications, trade journals, newswires, media programs, and company and stock reports. Find information on over 22,000 public and private companies including description, history, current stock quote, financial data, competitors, and the latest news on business activities. Updated continuously, covers 1969–present.

Facts on File — World News Digest

World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts on File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.

FBIS Daily Reports, 1959–1996

An index to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information. Updated monthly to expand coverage back to September 1941.

Federal Research in Progress

The Federal Research in Progress database provides access to information about ongoing federally funded projects in the fields of the physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences. It can be used to avoid research duplication, complement searches of completed research, identify gaps in areas of investigation, discover leads in literature, identify individuals with expertise, locate sources of support, and stimulate ideas for planning. Updated monthly.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full-Text

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. It also includes Variety movie reviews (1914–present) and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive. Updated quarterly, coverage is from 1914–present with the majority of materials dating from 1980–present.

FRANCIS

Francis indexes multilingual, multidisciplinary information published in over 4,300 journals covering the humanities and social sciences. Its breadth of subject areas and international scope complement more narrowly focused databases, making FRANCIS an invaluable resource for researchers. Updated monthly, covers 1984–present.

Frost and Sullivan: Healthcare

Frost & Sullivan: Healthcare offers comprehensive and timely market research, strategy reports, and technical insights in healthcare industry sector. Broad market sectors covered include: clinical diagnostics, healthcare & life sciences IT, medical imaging, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology, drug discovery technologies, medical devices, and patient monitoring.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, handbooks, and directories. Stanford users have full-text access to a number of multi-volume encyclopedias as well as biographical resources that include the American Men and Women of Science.

GeoRef

GeoRef provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. This index includes all USGS publications, more than 3,500 journals, plus books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Updated biweekly, covers the geology of North America from 1669–present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933–present.

GeoScience World

Geoscience World is a comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. A literature archive of pre-2000 articles enhances the collection. Updated daily, covers 2000–present.

Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic young men of the eighteenth century. This collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows scholars to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time and is a wonderful source of information about daily life in the 18th century. Covers 1550–1850.

GreenFILE

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Updated twice a month, coverage depends on journal with some going back as far as the early 1900s.

HighWire Press

A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with over 1,200 journals and 6 million full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers (approximately 2 million articles are free). With their partner publishers HW produces 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. Updated daily, coverage depends on journal, some go back as far as the late 1800s.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

HAPI has authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. It contains citations to articles in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals. Updated monthly, covers 1970–present.

Historical Abstracts with Full-Text

Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) — world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more. No other history research tool matches its comprehensive coverage. Covers 1450–present. Note: 6 simultaneous users.

Historical Newspapers Online

Historical Newspapers contains four major historical indexes which are used to study history, politics, economics, business, the arts, and entertainment, even sport, and by journalists, politicians, biographers, and genealogists. Together they constitute an index, not just to the newspapers, but to events of the last 200 years. Covers 1785–1980.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

This database integrates four premier tools to create the definitive international bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine, reflecting their influence on society and culture from prehistory to the present. Its value for interdisciplinary research is outstanding. Updated annually and monthly, covers 1975–present.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment. HCPP online, with searchable full text, and detailed subject indexing, makes it possible to fully exploit the enormous potential of this resource for the first time. Covers 1688–2003/2004.

ICPSR Data

The Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Data offers more than 500,000 data files containing social science research data. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, terrorism, health and medical care, early education, education, racial and ethnic minorities, psychology, law, substance abuse and mental health, and more.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Content includes IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, approved and draft standards, IEEE/Wiley e-books, IEEE e-learning courses and IET journals. Updated weekly, covers 1988–present with select content dating back to 1893.

Index Islamicus

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Material cited in Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Updated annually, covers 1906–present.

Index to Jewish Periodicals

Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in over 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Updated annually, covers 1988–present.

INSPEC

INSPEC is the leading bibliographic information service to scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical / electronic technology, computing, control engineering and information technology, indexing over 3,850 journals plus conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations. Updated weekly, covers 1898–present.

International Index to Music Periodicals

The International Index to Music Periodicals is the leading specialized indexing service to more than 440 music periodicals. Indexed titles cover periodicals in the areas of classical music, opera, jazz, popular music and pop culture, music education, musicology, music theory, and many others. There is particularly strong coverage of performance, music education, and jazz. Covers 1874–present.

J-STAGE

In order to maintain and develop Japan’s science and technology research at an international level, it is important to disseminate outstanding research and development results to the world instantaneously. To support this goal, Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE), was set up and over 1 million articles published by Japan’s academic societies are available. Updated daily.

JSTOR

JSTOR includes over 1,000 of the leading academic journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Most journals in the archive start with volume one and have moving walls of between 3 and 5 years for recent content, but publishers may elect walls anywhere from zero to 10 years and beginning in 2011, current issues for more than 150 journals will be available on JSTOR.

Knovel

Knovel provides full-text access to over 2,000 leading reference works and databases from over 40 publishers. Knovel’s collection includes material properties, process and design information, best practices, equations, and formulations. Knovel indexes all content — including tables, graphs and equations. Updated weekly.

Lexis-Nexis Academic: Company

Find information about a company by entering a Company Name or a Ticker Symbol. Company Profiles include Hoover’s Company Records, LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations, Standard & Poors Corporate Descriptions, and Nelson’s Analyst Company Coverage to name a few.

Lexis-Nexis Academic: News

LexisNexis Academic provides access to over 6,000 full-text news, business, and legal publications. Search deep backfiles of newspapers from around the world, research business and companies in major periodicals and specialized resources, and search citations for court cases back to 1789. Updates and dates of coverage vary.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional

Perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. It contains abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, and legislative histories. It also includes member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical Insight

LexisNexis Statistical provides access to statistical information. Sources include statistical output from more than 200 federal agencies, 50 state governments, 100 international intergovernmental organizations, and 500 private and academic sources.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts provides comprehensive coverage in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Information from journal articles is drawn from over 1,500 serials titles. This resource also provides abstracts for book chapters and dissertations. Updated monthly, covers 1973–present.

Literature Online (LION)

LION is a premier collection of literature resources that allows users access to a wealth of current scholarship, authoritative reference material, and bibliographic information. It is fully cross-searchable can be used to find definitions of critical terms, encyclopedia entries on individual works, up-to-date critical biographies of authors, author bibliographies, and full-text articles from leading literary journals. Updated monthly, covers 1920–present.

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800–1926

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises represents a revolution in historical law research, opening up a wealth of hidden or previously inaccessible sources. This unique digital collection covers the watershed period of legal development during the 19th and early 20th centuries and is the world’s most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises of the period. Includes over 10 million pages. Covers 1800–1926.

Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600–1926

The Making of Modern Law: Trials is a collection of content describing the courtroom dramas that scandalized society in America, the British Empire and the world. This resource also contains material offering constitutional value from precedent-setting cases. Includes over 2 million pages from more than 10,000 titles. Covers 1600–1926.

Making of the Modern World

The Making of the Modern World provides digitized facsimile images of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides unparalleled access to a vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport. Covers 1450–1850.

MarketResearch.com Academic

Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. It includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide: Market Research reports by Packaged Facts (consumer goods), Kalorama Information (health science), Specialists in Business Information, Simba Information (media industry), Executive Summaries, and MarketLook Reports.

MathSciNet

MathSciNet offers access to a carefully maintained database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. More than 1500 journals are indexed; over 60,000 reviews written by experts are added annually; and authors are uniquely identified. Updated monthly, covers 1940–present.

Mergent Corporate Manuals

Mergent WebReports allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry-related documents. Search by Company name or Ticker Symbol (Ticker Symbols are used for US companies only). Includes Industrial Manual 1920–, OTC Industrial Manual 1970–, OTC Unlisted Manual 1986–, Bank & Finance Manual 1928–, Public Utility Manual 1914–, Transportation Manual 1909–, International Manual, 1981–.

MLA International Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), this international bibliography contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Covers 1920s–present.

Music Index

Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature. It contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. Updated quarterly, covers 1949–present.

MyiLibrary

MyiLibrary is an aggregator that offers library users access to e-books. Stanford users have access to over 24,000 e-books from notable publishers such as Springer, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press. This site works best in IE (Windows) and Safari (Macintosh).

National Academy Press

The National Academies Press was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. NAP books capture authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.

National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)

The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. NTRL contains information about more than 2 million technical reports with links to over 600,000 in full-text. Updated every government business day, covers 1890s–present but most reports date from 1970s to present.

Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal.

OECD iLibrary

OECD iLibrary is OECD’s online library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It hosts all content so users can find and cite tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters. It includes working papers, multi-lingual summaries, e-books, tables and graphs, chapters and articles, and databases.

Online Archives of California

This Archive provides free access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California campuses. “Finding aids” in OAC help users locate digital images or learn how to gain access to the physical objects.

Orbis

Orbis profiles over 65 million public and private companies worldwide, providing detailed financial, descriptive, ownership information, executives and board members, SEC filings, subsidiaries, and competitor analysis. Also includes Datamonitor industry reports. Orbis offers an advanced search interface. For a user-friendly alternative search interface, use Mint Global. Orbis includes the same data as Mint Global.

Oxford African American Studies Center

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It features over 10,000 articles, about 300 primary sources, plus images, maps, charts, tables, timelines, and biographies.

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location (Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms). It also includes images made available via partnerships.

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.

Oxford Handbooks Online

Oxford Handbooks series are available online as a collection in modules. Stanford has subscriptions to the online modules covering Philosophy; Political Science, and Religion. The module covering Business and Management is available in print at Stanford’s Business Library. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explaining the key issues, the debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online

It contains an unprecedented online collection of English-language reference resources on the Islamic world including a wealth of primary source documents, timelines and maps, full-color images and a glossary. It has over 4,500 articles, 300 maps and illustrations, more than 150 primary source documents, timelines, a glossary, and editorially-selected set of links to web sites.

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online is the innovative new gateway through which users can access an expanding range of Oxford’s premier music resources, including the relaunched Grove Music Online. Individual resources are available separately, but they are fully cross-searchable within Oxford Music Online.

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford dictionaries and reference works across the full subject spectrum are now available in a single cross-searchable database. Explore 1.5 million entries that include Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This site includes access to over 185 subject dictionaries; English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian; 15,000 images; and over 30 timelines.

Oxford Scholarship Online

The very best scholarly books are available online in biology, business and management, classical studies, economics and finance, history, law, linguistics, literature, math, music, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, physics, psychology, public health and epidemiology, religion, and social work.

PAIS Archive

Since its establishment in 1914, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources. The PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century’s public and social policies. The PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Covers 1915–1976.

PAIS International

The PAIS International database contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. Updated monthly, covers 1972–present.

Past Masters

The Past Masters series contains full-text works by major philosophical figures, in original language and in English translation. Areas covered include the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and German studies.

Periodicals Archive Online

An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) offers access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines. PAO contains over 14 million pages and 2.8 million articles. About 20 percent of the journals are in non-English languages. Covers 1802–2000.

Periodicals Index Online

Periodicals Index Online is the leading multidisciplinary index to the arts, humanities, and the social sciences. Over 6,000 journals are included, with around one million records from new journals added yearly. Complete runs of these titles are indexed, from first issue to 1995 or ceased date. Covers 1665–1995.

PERSEE

Persée is a national digitization project of French academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, providing full-text access to some of the most prestigious titles. The web site is available in both French and English. Covers 1881–2002.

Philosopher’s Index

The Philosopher’s Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered includes articles from over 550 journals, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews. Updated quarterly, covers 1940–present.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers to provide full-text access to 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO provides access to the international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, PsycINFO includes over 1,800 journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations. Updated weekly, covers 1890–present.

PubMed

PubMed is an index to over 4,000 journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, including both basic biomedical sciences and clinical practice. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) provide a powerful tool for searching topics. Updated daily, covers 1950–present.

Reference Universe

Reference Universe provides a single search across more than 47,000 English-language subject encyclopedias and scholarly compendia from 1980–present. The database contains more than 30 million citations to both e-versions and print from all major and minor reference publishing houses.

Reference USA: Business

This site was designed for use as reference and research tool to help users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. Reference USA’s database includes real-time access to more than 20 million businesses, 222 million consumers, U.S. new businesses, and U.S. new homeowners, and movers. Note: Maximum download per search — 100 records on campus, 25 records remotely.

Reference USA: Residential

This site was designed for use as reference and research tool to help users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. Reference USA’s database includes real-time access to more than 20 million businesses, 222 million consumers, U.S. new businesses, and U.S. new homeowners, and movers. Note: Maximum download per search — 100 records on campus, 25 records remotely.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

RILM has over 500,000 records and is a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world, with abstracts written in English. All scholarly works are included: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, and reviews. Updated monthly, covers 1835–present.

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

RIPM, Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, is an international, highly annotated database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries. Updated every six months, covers 1800–1950.

Roper Center Catalog of Holdings

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research maintains “the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of national public opinion in the United States.” Its online catalog provides descriptive and methodological information for over 10,000 US and 8,000 International public opinion studies from 1935 to the present. Much of the data in the Roper archive can be downloaded directly from their web site.

RSC eBooks

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s eBook collection, containing more than 1000 books, equating to over 25,000 chapters spanning more than 40 years, has been brought together and digitized as fully-searchable pdf files. Updated continuously.

RSC Publications

The Royal Society of Chemistry is one of the world’s leading scientific publishers, offering a range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical science community. Our access includes The RSC Journals Archive plus RSC’s eBook Collection. Updated daily, covers 1841–present.

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies

The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies is the online version of the scholarly INION bibliographies. Covering materials published primarily in Russia, the nations formerly part of the Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe, it abstracts books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles in all fields. Updated 2–3 times per year, covers 1980–present.

Russian National Bibliography

The Russian National Bibliography contains over 2 million Russian bibliographic citations from over 21,000 publishers in all disciplines. Search for citations from books, newspapers, journals, dissertation abstracts, musical scores, and maps. Search in Cyrillic. Updated daily, covers 1998–present.

Sage Journals Online

SAGE Publications publishes more than 560 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the online delivery platform that provides online access to the full-text content of individual SAGE journals.

Science Magazine

Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science is one of the world’s leading journals of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Updated weekly, covers 1880–present.

ScienceDirect

Coverage is strong for the life and physical sciences, medicine, and technical fields, but also includes some social sciences and humanities ScienceDirect provides access to more than 2,500 journals plus over 11,000 eBooks (Stanford subscribes to selected journals). All of the content is published by Elsevier and its subsidiary publishers.

Scitopia

Scitopia contains more than 3.5 million articles and conference papers from 21 professional societies, spanning 350 years of science and technology. Scitopia also provides access to patents from the U.S., Europe, and Japan plus papers from the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Information Bridge website. The full-text of most documents is available through Stanford’s subscriptions, but the full-text is not searched.

Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles, Scopus supports research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities. Scopus includes “Articles-in-Press” information for over 3,000 journals. Updated daily, covers 1996–present plus selected coverage that goes back as far as 1823.

Sociological Abstracts

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials, and provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Updated monthly, covers 1952–present.

SPIE Digital Library

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to 300,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. As new books are published, they will be available in SPIE eBooks first. eBooks cover 1989–present.

SpringerLink

SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for over 2,400 fully peer-reviewed journals, over 40,000 ebooks, over 1,100 book series, over 170 eReference books, and over 21,000 protocols that are published by Springer. Subject collections cover humanities, social sciences, sciences, engineering, and medicine. There are also two featured “library” collections: Chinese Library of Science and the Russian Library of Science. Updated: Daily.

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

SYNTHESIS is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. Called “Lectures,” the basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.

Thieme Atlases

Thieme Atlases and Flexibooks provides users access to an online collection of lavishly illustrated full-color textbooks from Thieme. Individuals now have the ability to download any book in the Thieme E-Book Library directly to their personal computer, to view offline when no Internet connection is available.

Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785–1985

The complete digital edition of The Times (London) can be searched using keywords to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Covers 1785–1985.

UDB Statistics

The Universal Database of Russian and CIS Statistics has official reports, yearbooks and related publications of central statistical bodies of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. UDB-Stat includes material on a wide range of subjects. Searchable in English or Russian, content in UDB-Stat is primarily in Russian.

UN Commodity Trade Statistics

The United Nations Commodity/Trade Statistics Database contains detailed imports and exports and also re-import and re-export statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. Annual trade data is available from 1962 to the most recent year and includes over 1.7 billion data records. Covers 1962–present.

UNBISnet

United Nations Bibliographic Information System or UNBISnet, is the catalogue of United Nations (UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. Covers 1979–present.

Urban Studies Abstracts

Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 45,000 records. Updated monthly, covers 1973–present.

U.S. Serial Set

The U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. It includes House and Senate documents and reports, Senate executive reports, and Senate treaty documents. It also contains comprehensive and often detailed information on a wide range of subjects. There has rarely been a published series of its depth and breadth of coverage, and none in this country as long-lived. Updated continually, covers 1789–present.

Wall Street Journal

The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was four pages long and sold for two cents. Today, the paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Each issue is indexed thoroughly. Covers 1984–present.

Wall Street Journal Archive

The Wall Street Journal Archive offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Covers 1889–1993.

Water Resources Abstracts

Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world’s technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. This database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment, complements ASFA. Updated monthly, covers 1967–present.

Web of Science

Search over 9,200 core journals across the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities to find the high quality research. Move backward/forward in time using cited/citing reference identified by researchers. Updated weekly; covers Sciences 1899–present, Social Sciences 1898–present, and Arts & Humanities 1975–present.

Wiley Online Library

One of the world’s extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities, the Wiley Online Library delivers integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, 9,000 books, and hundreds of multi-volume reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. This site provides access to content published by John Wiley and its subsidiaries. Updated daily.

World Bank eLibrary

The World Bank eLibrary provides access to a growing collection of nearly 6,000 ebooks, journal articles, and working papers from the world’s most authoritative source on international development as they are published.

World Biographical Information System

The World Biographical Information System Online is the most comprehensive and extensive biographical database with information on persons, families and groups from all classes and professions, from all countries and regions of the earth, from the 4th millennium BC to the present.

World Scientific

World Scientific is one of the leading scientific publishers in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. Annually, World Scientific publishes about 500 books and 120 journals. Stanford has subscriptions to selected journals and has purchased selected eBooks from World Scientific.

Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Over 1,700 titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States. Updated monthly, covers 1975–present.

Zoological Record

Zoological Record covers all aspects of zoology, including biodiversity, veterinary sciences and wildlife management, and is the world’s leading taxonomic reference. This comprehensive resource includes articles indexed from over 5,000 serials plus non-journal coverage. Updated monthly, covers 1864–present.

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