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(Lexis-Nexis): LexisNexis® Academic provides access to full-text information from 5,600 sources, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
America: History and Life: Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Anthropological Literature: Anthropological Literature is a bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.
AP Images is a source for original photographs and graphics from the Associated Press, from the present day dating back more than 100 years.
Art Index with Full Text: Art Index is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
ArticleFirst: ArticleFirst is a general index to articles published in over 16,000 journals on all subjects. Coverage begins in 1990.
Artifact (formerly the Visual Resources Collection): An index, searchable from on campus only, of images from the HWS Art Department collection at Houghton House.
ARTstor: ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals: The Avery Index surveys over 2800 national and international journals on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Almost 600,000 articles are indexed, with the core of the index beginning in the 1930s and some articles dating back to the 18th century.
Bibliography of Asian Studies: Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 545,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Biological Abstracts: Biological Abstracts is the electronic equivalent of the print version of Biological Abstracts (R), the leading abstracting and indexing reference publication for life sciences information. Produced by Biological Abstracts, Inc. (BIOSIS), Biological Abstracts includes bibliographic references (records) with abstracts derived from life sciences research journals published worldwide. Covers 1985 to present.
Birds of North America: The Birds of North America (BNA) is only the comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds.
Blackwell Synergy: Blackwell Synergy is a full text database of journals published by Blackwell. Includes over 850 journals. Coverage varies by title, with a handful of titles going back as far as 1879.
Book Review Index indexes book reviews from 1965 to the present, including over 600,000 full text reviews.
Books in Print (US only) with reviews: Books in Print is the industry's largest Web-based bibliographic resource. Allows user to search for books currently in publication.
Britannica Online: Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Search databases include Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Britannica Internet Guide, and Video & Media. Browse modules include A-Z browse, Subject browse, Year in Review Browse, Timeline Browse, and World Atlas. Also includes search availability on Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Business & Company Resource Center: Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated database that brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Modules include company search, industry description search, and articles search. Through Infotrac.
Choice Reviews: Choice Reviews is a database of book reviews published in the magazine Choice from 1987-present. Users can register to create a profile and be notified when new reviews are published in areas of interest.
Credo Reference: Credo includes the full text of over 350 different reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, biographies, collections of quotations, etc.) containing over 3 million entries. Subject coverage is very broad and includes art, business, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.
Custom Newspapers is a full-text newspaper database containing news articles from newspapers around the world. Upon conducting a search, articles are arranged under 7 subdivisions: Arts and Entertainment, Business News, Lifestyle, News, Opinion and Editorial, Regional News, and Sports. Through Infotrac.
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester): Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides biographical and critical essays on authors, with strong coverage of all genres and time periods of American and British literature and some coverage of other world literatures. As of November 2007, the DLB contained over 13,000 essays.
ECO: ECO is a full-text database of articles in over 5,400 journals on all subjects. Coverage begins in 1995.
EconLit: The electronic database of the American Economic Association. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. 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. EconLit uses the JEL classification system and controlled vocabulary of keywords to index six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.
Education Index with Full Text: Education Index is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996. Covers a wide variety of topics regarding education from preschool to higher education.
eHRAF: eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University.
ERIC Online: Especially useful for teachers, educators, students in education courses, and others with an interest in education issues. The ERIC database consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals. In addition, ERIC now contains over 850 ERIC Digest records that feature the full text of the original document. ERIC is a network of 16 subject-specialized clearinghouses, each responsible for collecting the literature in its own subject area. Each clearinghouse is identified by a two-letter code, listed in the Clearinghouse (CH) field in the database.
Essay & General Literature Index: Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Evans Early American Imprints, 1639-1800: Early American Imprints contains the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States from 1639 through 1800, based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
Film and Television Literature Index: The Film and Television Literature Index covers scholarly and technical writing as well as journalism relating to a broad array of topics in film and television. It contains indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals in their entirety and selectively within another 300.
French Literature 13c-20c - ARTFL: The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) includes 2000 texts spanning the 13th-20th centuries on a variety of topics. Special collections include French Women Writers and Provencal Poetry.
Gale Virtual Reference Library includes the full text of over 50 core reference books (see list of titles). You can search across all books in the collection or within a single title.
General Science Collection: General Science Collection contains full text of 60 popular science publications. Full Text coverage goes back to 1992.
General Science Index with Full Text: General Science Index is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. Coverage spans much of the natural sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics.
GeoRef: GeoRef is the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 2.2 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. The database is the equivalent of four major reference publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology.
GreenFILE: A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Grove Art Online contains the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 articles on topics in Western and non-Western art. It also includes many searchable art images and links to images at museums around the world. The library's subscription also includes access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, all fully searchable through Oxford Art Online.
Health Reference Center Academic: Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Through Infotrac.
Historical Abstracts: Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world since 1954 are covered in the database.
Historical New York Times: Through ProQuest, this database contains full-text articles of the New York Times dating from 1851 through approximately 2 ½ years ago. For recent New York Times articles, use ProQuest Direct.
Historical Wall Street Journal: This ProQuest database contains full-text articles of the Wall Street Journal dating from 1889 through 1987.
Historical Washington Post: This ProQuest database contains full-text articles of the Washington Post dating from 1877 through 1988.
Humanities Index with Full Text: Humanities Index is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
ICPSR Social Science Data: The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains a large archive of data for use by researchers in the social sciences. The archive includes over 7000 data sets from studies in the United States and worldwide on demographics, economics, education, geography, politics, health care, social institutions, and much more.
JSTOR: JSTOR offers full-text articles in both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. Most journals have a moving wall of 5 years, which means articles must be at least 5 years old before they can be retrieved through JSTOR. (Some journals have smaller moving walls.) HWS access includes all of the journals found in each of the multidiciplinary collections (arts and sciences), plus the following disciplinary collections: ecology and botany, general science, language and literature.
Lexis-Nexis: LexisNexis® Academic provides access to full-text information from 5,600 sources, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
MathSciNet: Mathematical reviews from the American Mathematical Society. Covers over 1,700 journals. Many links to full-text of articles.
MLA Bibliography: The MLA Bibliography database contains abstracts of articles on literary criticism, languages, linguistics, film, and folklore from over 4,000 journals, books and dissertations published worldwide.
Music Index Online: A Subject-Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature, the Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
National Newspaper Index: National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Provides citations only, not the actual articles.
New York State Newspapers: Database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
NOVEL Databases Federated Search: Simultaneously search all of the NOVEL (New York Online Virtual Electronic Library) databases. Includes
Business & Company Resource Center; Custom Newspaper Database; General Science Collection; Health & Wellness Resource Center; and Ebsco MasterFILE Select. Requires New York State Driver's License ID or DMV Non-Driver Phote ID number.
Oxford Art Online contains the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 articles on topics in Western and non-Western art. It also includes many searchable art images and links to images at museums around the world. The library's subscription also includes access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, all fully searchable through Oxford Art Online.
Oxford English Dictionary: An online dictionary of the English language. Type in a word in the "find word" box in upper right corner to get definition.
P.A.I.S. International: A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. Produced by OCLC Public Affairs Information Service.
Philosopher's Index: The Philosopher's Index is a database of over 296,000 citation records for articles written on philosophy since 1940. Topics covered include: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
Political Science Abstracts: The database 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.
Polling the Nations: Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview, such as parents with children in public schools, Great Britain, the United States, or California.
PressDisplay: Allows browsing of newspapers from the United States and around the world in full-color, full-page views. The current issue and 60 days of back issues are available for browsing and searching.
Project Muse:Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
ProQuest Direct: Databases include ABI/Inform, Proquest newspapers, and research library. More or less a cumulative database of newspapers, popular press magazines, and scholarly journals.
PsycArticles: PsycARTICLES contains full text of journals of the APA (American Psychological Association). Currently contains cover to cover searching of over 50 journals, including: graphics, captions, and tables of contents.
PsycINFO: PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals. PsycINFO is produced and copyrighted (c) by the American Psychological Association.
PubMed: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
ScienceDirect: Includes 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals, over 60 million abstracts from scientific articles, and links out to articles from over 170 other publishers. Subject areas include Chemistry, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience, Physics and Psychology.
SciFinder Scholar: This database indexes articles from over 10,000 scientific journals as well as patent information, information on organic and inorganic substances and reactions. Now available on the web (requires registration; more information on our SciFinder page).
Social Sciences Index with Full Text: Social Sciences Index is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Sociological Abstracts: Sociological Abstracts provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2500 journals, abstracts of conference papers presented at various sociological association meetings, relevant dissertation listings from Dissertations Abstracts International, enhanced bibliographic citations of book reviews, and abstracts of selected sociology books.
Wilson Business Full Text indexes almost 900 publications on a wide range of specialties dating back to 1982, and includes full text of nearly 500 publications dating to 1995.
Women and Social Movements: Women and Social Movements is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students.
Women's Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science and economy, public policy, international relations, arts and humanities, business, and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
World News Digest contains archival copies of domestic and international news stories, dating back to November 1940 and updated weekly.
WorldCat: WorldCat is an online catalog of over 49 million books, media, journals, dissertations, and more found in libraries around the world. You can request items found in WorldCat using our Interlibrary Loan service.