Lafayette College Library

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 of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing."

The premier index for agricultural literature. Produced by the National Agricultural Library.

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.

Collection of primary sources relating to the history and culture of the United States from the Library of Congress.

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.

Abstracts of literature on analytical chemistry from journals, technical reports, and books. From the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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).

Indexes about 600 periodicals relating to anthropology. From the Museum of Mankind, London.

Full text of journals from the American Anthropological Association from their first issues through current issues.

Full text of journals from the American Physical Society from their initial volumes through the current year.

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 of journal articles, books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and exhibition reviews. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art (late 19th century to the present).

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.

Searchable image collection covering the visual arts, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts. Includes access to the Archivision collections and Lafayette's own collection of images.

Full-text of journals and conference proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Journal coverage goes back to 1995; conference proceedings to 1999. For an index of ASCE publications back to 1970 use the ASCE CE Database.

Production, inventory, sales and other data on the automotive industry.

Index of articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Note that this database is no longer being updated.

Collection of over 70 peer-reviewed journals in the life sciences. Coverage for most journals begins in 2000. To construct more precise searches, use BioOne Abstracts and Indexes.

Digital library containing some of the core primary and secondary sources for the study of medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Includes government documents, most notably the domestic Calendar of State Papers for 1547-1704 and the foreign Calendar of State Papers for 1547-1589.

Digital collection of early English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes pamphlets, broadsides, periodicals, and an extensive collection of London newspapers.

A guide to styles for writing, editing, and publishing.

Brief reviews of books and electronic resources for academic libraries. Also includes all editorial content from Choice magazine.

Database of classical music plus biographical information on composers.

Audio collection of music from around the world. Includes reggae, worldbeat, Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, and more.

Weekly reports on "hot" topics. Each report focuses on one topic and includes an explanation of the issues, a "pro and con" debate feature, a chronology, and a bibliography that can lead to additional resources. Especially useful for political and social issues.

Data and analysis on U.S. presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections, plus information on voter demographics and political parties. Includes biographical information on candidates and some election speeches.

Database of information on international patents in chemical, electrical and electronic, and mechanical engineering. Allows for patent citation searching.

Biographical dictionary covering the "lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland."

Index of dissertations and theses from institutions in the United States, and more selectively, Canada, Britain, and other European countries. Abstracts are included for dissertations from 1980 to the present and for master's theses from 1988 to the present.

Includes Series I ("Evans"), nearly every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639-1800, and Series II ("Shaw-Shoemaker"), American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. Also includes supplements to the collection from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Collection of texts printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Includes literary texts, sermons, legal documents, scientific treatises, and many other types of works.

Collection of over 50,000 academic electronic books spanning a variety of disciplines.

Digital collection of 180,000 English language books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published from 1701 to 1800. Titles cover history, fine arts, medicine, science, literature, law, philosophy, and religion.

Second edition (2007) of a scholarly encyclopedia covering Jewish history and culture.

Reference database with peer-reviewed articles covering all basic and many applied aspects of the life sciences, with an emphasis on cell and molecular biology.

Index of essays published in books and periodicals.

From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, this database indexes a selection of journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics.

Gateway to U.S. federal government publications: executive, judicial, legislative, and regulatory. Includes quick links to the Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, and Code of Federal Regulations.

Bibliothèque nationale de France digital library of texts and images from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Although the emphasis is on Francophone culture, classic works from other countries are also available, in their original language or in translation. Choose the Recherche button to search the collection by title, author, subject or keyword.

Indexes the literature of geology, including journals, books, conference proceedings, maps, and USGS reports.

Index of U.S. government documents published by the Government Printing Office.

Database of scholarly, governmental, and general-interest articles and books covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

A searchable annotated bibliography of articles, books and reports on Latin America. Produced by the Library of Congress.

Digital repository of books and other materials from research libraries across the country. Full text of works in the public domain can be searched and viewed. The full text of works still in copyright can be searched but not be viewed.

Searchable collection of more than 1200 journals, many covering the biomedical sciences. Abstracts are provided for most journals; full-text is available for some, including all titles from Duke University Press.

Annual collection of primary sources covering significant events of the year. Includes materials such as speeches, international agreements, and reports from governments, NGOs, and other organizations. Each document is preceded by an introduction providing context and background.

Demographic, economic, and social statistics of the United States from colonial times to the end of the 20th century. Data can be searched, downloaded, and graphed.

Index of major journals in the humanities and social sciences

Database of all IEEE journals, transactions, conference proceedings, and standards, as well as journals of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Complete backfile to 1988 with select content back to 1913.

Database of the tables of contents of over 25,000 journals. Useful for locating information on recent articles that have not yet been added to other indexes. Includes the full-text of some articles. (Look for the"S" in an orange box to identify full text.)

Revision (c.2008) of the classic first edition. Features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

Collection of databases, including Iter Bibliography, a bibliography and index of articles, books, essays, and book reviews on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes coverage of art and literature.

Searchable archive of the back issues of scholarly journals, plus current subscriptions to 44 titles. The most recent 3-5 years of most journals are not included in JSTOR.

Searchable full-text database of Lafayette's college newspaper.

Database of books, periodicals, films, and other materials in Skillman and Kirby Libraries.

Full text of newspapers, business and popular magazines, law reviews and legislative sources.

Searchable archive of literary texts and complementary reference resources.

Electronic edition of The Times of London.

The premier index to medical literature for health researchers and professionals. Subject searchers may wish to consult the directory of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), available at the National Library of Medicine's website. A free search interface for MEDLINE, PubMed, with links to select full-text articles is also available.

The full text of the Morning Call, Allentown's local daily newspaper.

Audio collection covering classical, jazz, and world music, with particular strength in 20th and 21st century composers. Users can create playlists. Users who download the free NML iPhone app can listen to their playlists remotely.

From GeoLytics, the NCDB offers normalized Census Tract data from 1970 - 2000 for all urban areas of the country. One can generate custom reports and maps within the NCDB. Files are easily imported into GIS software or other statistical packages for analysis. Note: At present, this resource may only be accessed using Internet Explorer.

Full image contents of The New York Times. Note that this version of the text is not searchable; you must already know the date of the issue you wish to see.

Extensive macroeconomic time series data for OECD countries and non-OECD zones. Includes historical statistics as well as projections extending two years beyond the current date.

Searchable version of the Oxford English Dictionary, which traces the origins and usage of English words.

Scholarly, biographical articles on noteworthy people who inhabited or were connected with the British Isles. (Does not include information on people still living.)

Full-text of journals from Oxford University Press. Years covered vary by journal.

Electronic versions of Oxford dictionaries and other reference works covering many disciplines.

Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Index of books and journals in philosophy and related fields. Includes records for book reviews.

Index of plays written from antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Searchable by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type, and more.

Searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by academic and scholarly presses.

Database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

Database of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. From the National Institutes of Health.

Web-based application that enables you to create a database of bibliographic references and automatically format the references into a bibliography. References can be imported from many online databases.

Rock reviews, articles and interviews from the 1960s to the present.

Maps of towns or cities in Pennsylvania originally created for use by fire insurance companies. Maps are drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch, list street blocks and building numbers, and are coded for building materials used. Digitized color versions of some of the Pennsylvania maps are available from Penn State's map library.

Electronic version of Chemical Abstracts, an index of articles, patents, technical reports, and other materials covering chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering. Includes feature that allows users to search by drawing chemical structures. (Formerly called SciFinder Scholar CAPlus.)

Tool for locating, downloading and visualizing census data and other demographic information from current and historic sources. Includes the entire US Census from 1790 to 2000, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2000.

Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology.

Collection of scientific, technical, and medical journals published by Springer. Lafayette users have access to the full text volumes of 1,700 journals in this collection from 1997 to the present.

Collection of historical and current state-level data covering health care, crime, education and more.

Index and full text of the Times Literary Supplement (London), an important source of reviews of books, plays, and films.

References to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. Combines information from the national Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.

Contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. Includes searchable tables of contents for over 24,000 academic journals, plus reviews of periodicals from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal.

Full image contents of The Wall Street Journal. Note that this version of the text is not searchable; you must already know the date of the issue you wish to see.

Directory and profiles of 100,000 U.S. companies. Can be searched by total sales, location, NAICS code, and more.

Index covering the journal literature of science, technology, and the social sciences. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Help using Web of Science for cited reference searching)

Reference work with detailed articles on electrical and electronics engineering.

Full-text editions of texts by English and American women published between 1400 and 1850.

Country-level, time series data from the World Bank. Topics covered include demographics, the economy, the environment, health, and education. Data may be saved as Excel or ASCII files.

Searchable bibliography with annotated entries for books, articles, reviews, and other materials related to Shakespeare.