Major Research Tools A to Z
For complete lists of research tools, see Research Tools by Subject
- Full-textIndex
Coverage: 1971-present
Index of journals and trade magazines covering business. Especially strong coverage of management. Includes some full text.
- Index
Coverage: 1990 to present.
Index of journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. The online version of the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies.
- Full-textIndex
Index of basic journals across the disciplines and general interest magazines. Includes full text for many publications. Coverage varies but for some titles goes back to the early 1980s.
- Full-text
Coverage: 1827-1855
Full text of African American newspapers from the 19th century.
- Full-textIndex
Coverage: 1954-present
Selected journals, magazines, and transactions from the Association for Computing Machinery. Index and tables of contents go back to 1954; full-text coverage varies.
Audio collection documenting the history of African American music. Covers jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, narratives and other genres. Streaming audio is freely available to Lafayette users. Register to create and store personal playlists or download music for a fee.
- Index
Coverage: 1970-present
The premier index for agricultural literature. Produced by the National Agricultural Library.
- Index
Index of alternative, radical, and left periodicals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Covers articles published from 1991 to the present; for articles published from 1969 to 1990, use the Alternative Press Index Archive.
- Index
Time period covered: prehistory to present; publication coverage: 1954 to present.
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Subjects include area studies, folklore, government, historiography, political science, popular culture, and urban history.
- Full-text
Coverage: varies
Full text of chemistry and chemical engineering journals published by the American Chemical Society from their first issue to the current issue.
- Full-text
Collection of primary sources relating to the history and culture of the United States from the Library of Congress.
- Full-text
Scholarly biographical articles on people who have influenced American history and culture. (Does not include information on people still living.)
- Full-text
Digitized images from American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Includes general interest magazines, children's publications, women's magazines, and literary and professional journals.
Database of American roots music, including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. Songs are categorized by historical event as well as musicians, genres, etc. Streaming audio is freely available to Lafayette users. Register to create and store personal playlists or download music for a fee.
- Index
Coverage: 1980-present
Abstracts of literature on analytical chemistry from journals, technical reports, and books. From the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Full-textIndex
Coverage: 1920-present
Index of books, articles, and other publications on literature in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Covers more British publications than MLA International Bibliography. Includes links to some full text. From the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA).
- Full-textIndex
Index coverage: vol. 1 - present; Full-text coverage: 1996-present
Full text of comprehensive review literature in the physical, biomedical, and social sciences.
- Index
Coverage: 1957-present.
Indexes about 600 periodicals relating to anthropology. From the Museum of Mankind, London.
- Index
Coverage: late 19th century-present.
Index of articles and essays in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
- Full-text
Full text of journals from the American Anthropological Association from their first issues through current issues.
- Index
Coverage: 1983-present.
Indexes core periodicals in engineering and other technical fields.
- Full-text
Full text of journals from the American Physical Society from their initial volumes through the current year.
Database for locating archival materials (manuscripts, personal papers, historical documents) available at libraries, museums, and archives.
- DataFull-text
Coverage: 2000-present (conflict reports); 1997-present (data).
Database on international and internal conflicts as well as terrorism. Includes analyses of current situation and historical background. Also includes data on topics such as weapons, troops, fatalities, and refugees. From the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- Index
Coverage: 1984-present.
Index of international English-language art journals and museum publications.
- Index
Coverage: 1974-present.
Index of journal articles, books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and exhibition reviews. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art (late 19th century to the present).
- Full-text
Database of French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts, primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
- Full-text
Database of texts by French women writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Tool that allows you to see if the full-text of an article is available in the Lafayette Libraries' print or electronic collections. Use when you already have a reference to an article.
- Index
Coverage: 1999-present.
Index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Another interface for Arts & Humanities Search, covering articles published from 1980 to the present, is available via FirstSearch. Note that cited reference searching is more difficult with this interface.)
Searchable image collection covering the visual arts, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts.
- Full-text
Coverage: 1991-present.
Searchable archive of research papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. Hosted by Cornell University under an agreement with the National Science Foundation.
- Full-text
Full-text of journals and conference proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Journal coverage goes back to 1995; all ASCE conference papers published from 2003 to the present are available, with select papers available from 1999-2002. For an index of ASCE publications back to 1970 use the ASCE CE Database.



