Research Databases | Buswell Library

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W

Human Rights Studies Online

A research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

Index of Medieval Art

Holdings include images and descriptive data relating to works of art produced between early apostolic times and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, the collection now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture. About half of the total records held in the Index are currently online; back-files and new material are added regularly.

Index Religiosus

An international reference bibliography in Theology, Religious Studies and Church History, covering publications written in various European languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, etc.). Formed by the merger of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus from the journal Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, essential working instruments for Theology and Religious Studies.

Infobase

Infobase is proving trial access to 7 databases: American History; Bloom's Literature; Ferguson's Career Guidance Center; Issues & Controversies; Today's Science; World News Digest; Writer's Reference Center using the following credentials:

Username: distancelearning Password: trial Trial access is granted through April 30, 2020.

International Medieval Bibliography

A multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for the entire period from AD 300 to 1500. It aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) published worldwide in over 35 different languages.

International Music Score Library Project

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a project for the creation of a virtual library of music scores and recordings. The library consists mainly of scans of old musical editions out of copyright. In addition, it admits scores by contemporary composers who wish to share their music with the world by releasing it under a Creative Commons license. It also includes included public domain and licensed sound recordings.

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

IPA Source

Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 7075 texts including 1216 aria texts.

JSTOR

A trusted digital archive of academic journals and other scholarly content, including ebooks. Most journals include extended historic backfiles and not current issues. Arts and Sciences collections 1 thru XV are available, plus the Life Sciences collection. JSTOR and our participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available to our participating institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19. They are providing access to all unlicensed collections and access to more than 25,000 books through Jun 30, 2020.

JSTOR Open Access Books

More than 6,000 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

Kanopy (Streaming Video)

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service that provides access to more than 26,000 educational videos via the web and on mobile devices. Major subjects covered include: the arts, business and training, health sciences, media and communication, natural sciences, social sciences, and teacher education. All users can browse and search films in addition to watching leased content. Faculty and staff can request films for curriculum use or student development.

Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers

Provides free online access to the digitized versions of original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Contains some of the most influential pieces of writing in world history that still play a major role in the rethinking of capitalism, labour, economic crises and revolution.

L'Année philologique

A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.

Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity

Serves as the first point of reference for information on ancient grammarians for scholars of Greek and Latin antiquity, in particular for research into the history of philology, grammar and ancient scholarship. Each entry consists of a biographical introduction, the Greek text of their preserved work, and a bibliography of texts and studies.

Library of Latin Texts - Series A

Provides full text access to more than 3,200 Latin texts from Antiquity to the present, including many Patristic texts.

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts

Provides citations and abstracts of topics including librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval,information management and more.

Literature Criticism Online

Literature Criticism Online represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Contains literature, history and culture with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available.

Literature Online (LION)

Literature Online is the premier online resource for literary research today that includes English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literature Resource Center

Provides access to Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and selected articles in Contemporary Literary Criticism, as well as other resources.

Loeb Classical Library

Provides a virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content.

MAS Ultra: School Edition

A full-text database of popular magazines, reference books and primary sources covering many subjects, including history, science and health. It also includes and over a million photos, maps and flags.

MasterFILE Premier

Provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.

MathSciNet

Electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.

MEDLINE

Provides citations of journal articles and other resources in medicine and related disciplines.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

Provides full text, searchable access to Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print.

Military and Government Collection

Provides citations of journal and newspaper articles about the U.S. military.

MLA International Bibliography

Provides citations of journal articles and other resources in the discipline of English and other modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.

Music Index

Provides citations of journal articles, reviews of recordings and performances, and other resources in music.

Nature.com

Provides access to publications from the Nature Publishing Group in different subject areas, including biotechnology, cancer, chemistry, clinical medicine, dentistry, developmental biology, drug discovery, earth sciences, evolution & ecology, genetics, immunology, materials science, medicine, microbiology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physics.

Naxos Music Library

Offers the world's largest online classical music library, with streaming access to more than 120,000 CDs of both the standard and rare repertoire in all genres. Includes most liner notes and the ability to create personalized playlists.