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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
Biographies of 18,000 men and women
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) - Proquest
American Periodical Series OnlineTM (APS Online) chronicles the development of America across 150 years.  This database includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.  Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
AP Science
A comprehensive collection of more than 500 magazines and journals designed to support advanced placement and college-prep level science studies.  Disciplines covered include earth, life, physical, medical and applied sciences.
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.
Central Search
Central Search is a federated search engine that allows you to search across all the library's electronic holdings simultaneously.  Central Search provides citations and abstracts, as well as links to full-text articles, electronic books, and records in the library's catalog. And you choose which resources you want it to search.
Columbia Grangers World of Poetry
Poems, poetry terms brief biographies of poets
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.
Credo Reference
As easy to use as your favorite search site and fully citable in any research paper, Credo is the perfect place to get your research started.  Whether you are just starting your project, looking to add some interesting images to your final draft or building a bibliography, Credo Reference has something for you.  Credo Reference offers:  tools to quickly map your paper topic; citable sources for your bibliography; answers to your research questions; thousands and thousands of images, charts, graphs, diagrams and more.
Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus
Building on the convenience and accessibility of the popular Reference Shelf Plus print series, this database, covering over 100 topics, presents carefully-selected articles from key publications in social, scientific, health, political and global issues, brought together to make a well-rounded overview.  This is an easy-to-use, accessible "information hub" offering balanced examinations of current issues.
Daily Life Through History
A daily portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures through history
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.
Education Journals - ProQuest
Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database gives access to over 745 top educational publications.
Encyclopedia Britannica
EB online includes the complete encyclopedia and incorporates yearly updates
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
A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue
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
Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
New York Times (1999-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)
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 Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO)
OLDO is a complete toolkit for language users providing instant access to Oxford's unabridged bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian.  Chinese will be available by the end of 2007, and in 2008 Korean will be available.
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.
Project Muse
250 scholarly journals online covering many areas in the humanities and social sciences.
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 Platinum
This database contains more than 2,000 periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language art, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas
Questia
Questia provides a full-text searchable digital library that contains approximately 75,000 books and millions of newspapers and journal articles, and with its book scanning process these numbers will continue to grow. It provides online reading and research of copyright-cleared information and educational resources.  Please see a Librarian for username and password.
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. 
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