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Irene DuPont Library > Online Databases
Complete listing of online resources
Academic Search Premier
In this database you'll find the largest collection of scholarly, multidiscipline full-text journals. 8,100  titles are indexed and 4,500 of those are full-text.
Access Science
Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  Includes images.
American National Biography
Offering portraits of  more than 18,700 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the nation. This database is dynamic with more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search and browse capabilities
American Periodicals Series Online
APS Online chronicles the development of America with its digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published across 150 years from colonial days, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and on to the emergence of modern America in the early 20th century.  Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository to popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
ARTFL Project
Consisting of nearly 2000 texts, this database represents a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
The award winning CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Culture Grams
The CultureGrams is a concise reference tool created by natives and long-time residents to give you an insider's perspective. Its information ranges from mile-high views of a nation, its society, and institutions to close-up views of communities, families, and individuals.
Daily Life Through History
Equally useful for checking quick facts, compiling introductory material or conducting in-depth research, users will appreciate the breadth of information and ease of access. This database provides content from a vast number of reference works, scholarly essays, and primary documents.
ebrary
Over 47,000 full-text electronic books with the capability to create your very own bookshelf, and allowing you to highlight, make notes, copy and paste, define, translate, locate.
Encyclopedia Britannica
EB online includes the complete encyclopedia and incorporates yearly updates
Granger's World of Poetry
This database contains over 250,000 full text poems. The poems are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as those in Modern and Classic languages. It also offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets. Users will also find a wealth of current poetry from some of the best poetry periodicals.
Grove Art Online
A comprehensive dictionary of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present  Provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. Offers original essays on each subject by scholars in the field.
Grove Music Online
An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2e, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz 2e.  This database has nearly 50,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilites, audio musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet.
History Study Center
History Study Center provides a vast collection of digitized primary and secondary sources, covering global history from ancient times to the present day.  Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips.  This database provides over 40,000 documents and articles, with over 50 reference works, 3,000 images and links to 2,000 Web sites.
Journal Locator
Use this link to search or browse for journal or newspaper titles available from the Irene duPont library, either in print or electronic format
JSTOR
Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning, this powerful database has an expansive digital archive of more than a thousand academic journals, and over a million images, letters, and other primary sources. JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.
LEXIS-NEXIS
Search today’s news or find magazine and newspaper articles from the past 20 years
LEXIS-NEXIS Foreign Language News
Find newspaper and magazine articles in French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian and Portuguese
New York Times (1980-Current)
Full-text coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record.  Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. Please see Proquest Historical Newspapers below for historical coverage of the New York Times (1851-2001)
News Journal (Wilmington, DE)
Local and regional news from Delaware, from 2002 to the present, each issue thoroughly indexed. Daily print copy in the periodical room.
OED
The most authoritative English dictionary in the world. Look up words, quotations, first use, and pronunciations.
Oxford African American Studies Center
The most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
A collection of 55,000 biographies of the lives of people from all walks of life  who shaped British history worldwide, from the 4th century BC to 2002.
Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection contains dictionary, language reference and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.  It is a fully indexed, cross searchable database of these reference books.  A broad subject range of titles from the Oxford Companions Series is available, as well as the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Points of View Reference Center
Designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue, this database provides more than 290 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.  This is an easy-to-use, accessible "information hub" offering balanced examinations of current issues.
Project Muse
250 scholarly journals online covering many areas in the humanities and social sciences.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is designed to be the single most used database in the library and beyond. Over 160 subjects are represented, and access is provided to millions of articles contained in over 10,000 full-text titles. ProQuest Central serves as the central resource for your researchers.
ProQuest Education & Teaching
Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, the 3 databases in this grouping give full-text access to 675 top educational publications.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Offers full page and article images with searchable full-text back to the first issues of The New York Times (1851-2001); Christian Science Monitor (1908-1991); The Washington Post (1877-1988); The Wall Street Journal (1889-1987).
ProQuest Science & Technology
Containing over 2500 publications, this grouping of 5 databases includes premium resources  for students studying applied and general sciences. These resources cover publications on the latest science and technology information for researchers of all levels.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.  Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982.
Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers
This database, developed for teens with their unique concerns and perspective in mind, provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. 
Wall Street Journal
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news, covering 1984 to the present.  To search prior to 1984, go to Proquest Historical Newspapers.
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