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• 2000 Census Gateway

  Coverage: Full Text
  Data and information, including summaries and reports, from the 2000 and 1990 Decennial Censuses. Also provides access to selected historical census data from 1790 – 1990.

• 9-11 Commission Report

  Coverage: Full Text
  The 9-11 Commission final report plus additional staff monographs on terrorist financing and travel, public hearing transcripts and interim reports. Now hosted by the National Archives.

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates

  Coverage: Full Text
  A Century of Lawmaking brings together the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75. Included are the Journals of Congress, statutes and and documents, debates of Congress, more.

• ABA Family Legal Guide

  Coverage: Full Text
  American Bar Association guide to the legal system written for the general public.

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.

• AcademicInfo: Subject Guides & Online Degree Programs

  Coverage: Full Text
  An independent online resource center providing information and resources on distance learning and online degrees from accredited institutions. Includes information for finding degree programs, courses, financial aid, and other online resources.

• Aceh Books Online

  Coverage: Full Text
  The titles listed here are books about Aceh in a variety of languages such as Indonesian, Acehnese, English, Dutch, as well as other European languages. These books are published with Indonesian as well as European publishing houses. The books date from the 17th century till the present time.

• ACM Digital Library

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Search across Journals, Magazines, Transactions, Proceedings (including USENIX), Newsletters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in the ACM Digital Library. Now includes indexing for non-ACM publications: use Find It for full text availability.

• Acronym Finder

  Coverage: Full Text
  Dictionary of over 1,000,000 acronyms, abbreviations, and initalisms. Also provides over 850,000 USA and Canadian postal codes.

• ACS Electronic Journals

  Coverage: Full Text
  Search all 35 peer-reviewed journals and other publications of the American Chemical Society. Journals cover 7 core chemistry categories plus 8 additional categories. Topics: chemistry, biochemistry, chemical neuroscience, industrial & engineering chemistry, physical chemistry, food chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.

• Ad*Access

  Coverage: Full Text
  Ad*Access provides images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911-1957 in five main subject areas: Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II. Provided by Duke University Libraries.

• Aesopica: Aesop's Fables in English, Latin and Greek

  Coverage: Full Text
  Index to and English translations of Aesop's Fables from Latin and Greek along with detailed information on historical editions of the published fables.

• Afghanistan Digital Library

  Coverage: Index Only
  The library's ongoing mission is to "retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan's published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871 - 1930 as it is possible to identify and locate." As of 2008 there are more than 360 digitized monographs in the collection.

• Africa Knowledge Project

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Africa Knowledge Project (AKP)disseminates Africa-centered, evidence-based knowledge on Africa and the global African diaspora by providing access to full text e-journals, news, literature and music databases.

• African American Biographical Database (AABD)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Biographical information on thousands of African Americans 1790-1950, assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. Includes photos, illustrations, and the complete digitized text of the biographical reference sources. Provided by the Bell endowment.

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

  Coverage: Full Text
  African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 books and pamphlets by 19th-century black women writers published prior to 1920. Additional material includes author biographies, illustrations and photos.

• Agricola

  Online index of the National Agriculture Library. Locate journal articles, conference papers, books, audiovisuals, and other resources covering all aspects of agriculture and related science, including: laws & regulations, crops, livestock, research & technology, food & nutrition, marketing, trade, and more.

• Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators

  Coverage: Full Text
  Current edition: 2006. This series describes trends in resources used in and affected by agricultural production, as well as the economic conditions and policies that influence agricultural resource use and its environmental impacts.

• Alternative Press Index [API]

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  API is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
  Paper index available from 1971-1991 in Reference. UMBC holds the Alternative Press backfile in Special Collections.

• Amateur Press Publications: Fantasy & Science Fiction

  Coverage: Index Only
  Search for individual issues of science fiction and fantasy fanzines held in Special Collections. Search by keyword or browse by title.

• Ambrose Video Shakespeare Collection

  Coverage: Video
  Streaming video of 12 Shakespearean plays: As You Like It; Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry V; Twelfth Night; Hamlet; The Tempest; Merchant of Venice; Othello; King Lear; Pericles; Much Ado About Nothing.

• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

  Coverage: Full Text
  Annual report presenting a statistical overview of the well-being of America's children. Content includes key indicators in seven domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

• America: History & Life (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  America: History and Life (AHL) indexes the historical literature on North America (US and Canada) from antiquity to the present. Includes articles, book reviews, links to full text sources.

• American Cultural History: 19th Century

  Coverage: Full Text
  Webpage highlighting developnments in American culture in the 19th century, arranged by decade. Provides text and links to other websites on the development of art, business, economics, literature, society, and science and technology.

• American Cultural History: 20th Century

  Coverage: Full Text
  Webpage highlighting developnments in American culture in the 20th century, arranged by decade. Provides text and links to other websites on the development of art, business, economics, literature, society, and science and technology.

• American FactFinder

  American FactFinder is the Census Bureau’s online tool for accessing a wide variety of population, economic, geographic, and housing information about the United States.

• American Institute of Physics Journals Online

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Search Scitation, an online database of scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications. Includes full-text of some journals published by the American Institute of Physics.

• American Memory Collection [Library of Congress]

  Selected digitized full text and image files from the Library of Congress collections. Includes selections from Presidential papers, Congressional documents, maps, pamphlets music and photographs from significant social, cultural and political movements.

• American Museum of Natural History Research Library

  This collection includes full-text PDFs of current and back issues of AMNH scientific series in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.

• American National Biography Online

  Coverage: c.975-
  American National Biography [ANB] offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation. The online edition of the ANB is updated quarterly with additions and revisions.

• American Presidency Project

  Coverage: current
  The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 87,393 documents related to the study of the Presidency. It includes both current information and a document archive of primary sources.

• American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Digital Library

  Since 1881 the American School has amassed a large collection of both published and unpublished information. This includes books, journals, photographs, notebooks, personal papers, maps, and scientific data sets. More and more of these resources are now in electronic form. This page provides a central point of access to the major digital resources of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) records

  Coverage: 1906-2005
  This collection of records of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) documents the society from its founding in 1906 through the present. This collection includes meetings, publications, correspondence, committees.

• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) records

  Coverage: 1960-1994
  The records of the ASCB document the history of the society beginning with its initial organization in 1961. Correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, reports, accounting & membership files provide a view of the Society's interests and activities.

• American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Archives

  The ASM archives house the records of the Society from its founding in 1899 to the present and various collections relating to the history of microbiology.

• American Verse Project

  Part of the Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, this site provides electronic version of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Includes capability of boolean and proximity searching and a bibliography for American poetry to 1920.

• AMS Electronic Journals

  Coverage: varies
  Search or browse select journals from the American Mathematical Society.

• Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL)

  An electronic library that collects, catalogs, and links web-based information and discovery material pertinent to innovations in curricular developments and supporting resources about chemical measurements and instrumentation.

• Animal Behavior : Sound & Video archive [Cornell University]

  The Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology has made their digital archive of animal behavior recordings available to the public. Both sound and video recordings are included; a specialized software [Raven Viewer] is available for spectograms.

• Annual Reviews

  Coverage: 1996 - present
  Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biological, Medical, Physical, and Social Sciences. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines.

• Anthropology Plus (OCLC)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Anthropology Plus Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage from early 19th century.

• Anthrosource (Blackwell)

  Coverage: Full Text
  AnthroSource offers full-text results from a searchable database containing past, present and future AAA publications, including more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs

• Aozora Bunko

  Coverage: Full Text
  This site provides text files of thousands of out of copyright Japanese novels. Some files include rubi pronunciation guides.

• Archaeological Sites in Israel

  Coverage: current
  A cumulative index to full-text descriptions of archeological sites in Israel. Each record provides a historical context and important features of the site. Also available are links to excavation sites and the Israeli antiquities authority.

• Archaeology Odyssey: The Archive

  Coverage: 1998-2003
  Full-text articles and photographs from Archaeology Odyssey magazine. Focus is on the history and archaeology of the ancient world from Spain to Persia.

• ArchiveGrid (OCLC)

  Coverage: current
  ArchiveGrid is a database for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions. Records include collection descriptions, content notes, links to Finding Aids (if available) and contact information.

• Archives of Maryland Online

  Coverage: Full Text
  Archives of Maryland Online currently provides access to over 471,000 historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government.

• ArchNet

  Coverage: current
  ArchNet serves is a WWW Virtual Library for Archaeology. It provides access to archaeological resources available on the Internet. Information is categorized by geographic region and subject.

• ARIBIB [ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References]

  Coverage: Index Only
  ARIBIB presents references to astronomy literature from the remote past until the middle of the year 2000.

• Art Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Art Abstracts provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Indexing spans from 1984 to the present.

• Art History Resources on the Web

  Coverage: various
  Index to art history websites with access to images. Includes art from from the various continents, prehistoric to contemporary times, as well as prints and photography. Created and maintained by Art History Prof. Cristopher L.E.C. Whitcombe.

• Artcyclopedia

  Coverage: varies
  A search engine for art images to access thousands of artworks from museum sites, image archives and other online resources. Specializes in painting and sculpture; other types of media (e.g., photography, architecture) are also available.

• ArticleFirst (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  A multidisciplinary index of articles published 1990-, from the contents pages of over 16000 journals. Results show full citation and holding libraries (no abstracts).

• ArtLex Dictionary of Art

  Coverage: current
  Over 2600 visual arts terms, illustrated and heavily cross-referenced.

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index®

  Coverage: 1998-
  Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,200 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals, plus individually selected, relevant items from approximately 6,000 of the world's leading science and social sciences journals.

• ARTSYS: The articulation system [USM transfer credit evaluation]

  Designed for evaluating credit equivalencies for Maryland colleges (2 yr and 4 yr) and univeristies. Viewing the online tutorial before use is highly recommened.

• arXiv.org e-Print archive

  Coverage: Full Text
  An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.

• ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts articles devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)

  Quantitative data on American religion, including data about churches, membersip, individuals, congregations, and denominations.

• ASTM Standards on Disc

  Coverage: current
  Ask at Reference Desk for full-text on CD-ROM. Full text of 12,000+ standards. Use index disc (at Reference Desk) to identify standards covering metals, petroleum, construction, the environment and more

• Athena Review: A Guide to Archaeology on the Internet

  An online collection of archaeology websites from the publishers of the Athena Review. Sites are arranged by time period and by county.

• Australasian Digital Theses Program

  Coverage: 2000-
  The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community.

• AuthorMapper

  AuthorMapper, an online tool for visualizing scientific research, enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps. AuthorMapper searches the Springer Journals collection and offers access to nearly one hundred fifty years’ of articles from more than 1,900 journals available on SpringerLink. Comprehensive coverage includes both current and archival content in all major subject areas including life science, medicine, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, and law. Use the "MORE OPTIONS" feature for focused searches.

• Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, & Diplomacy

  The Avalon Project provides digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Coverage includes documents from ancient history to the present.

• AWOL: The Ancient World Online

  The primary focus of the blog will be notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

• Back Stage: The Actor's Resource

  Coverage: Full Text
  A comprehensive resource for actors. BackStage.com addresses all aspects of the entertainment industry. Includes casting notices, film & TV production listings, production & industry interviews, audition coverage, and other features of interest to both working actors and aspiring actors.

• Background Notes

  Coverage: current
  Background Notes provide demographic, social, political and diplomatic information on countries of the world. They are updated/revised as they are received from regional bureaus and are added to the State Dept. Website. Includes links to regional sites.

• Bacteriology Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts medically-oriented literature in bacterial immunology, vaccinations, and the diseases of man and animals; includes clinical findings and all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.(Microbiology B in print) A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Baltimore City Directories Online

  Coverage: Full Text
  Full text of Baltimore City directories (various publishers) 1810 through the 1920s

• Baltimore City Government Portal

  Primary page for Baltimore City government including departments & agencies, directory, statistics. Includes Baltimore City Budget, Charter, Codes, and Public Laws.

• Baltimore Neighborhoods Research Guide

  From the Enoch Pratt Free Library. This guide will point you to resources you can use to become better acquainted with neighborhoods in Baltimore City.

• Baltimore Sun (Proquest)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Indexing, abstracts and full text of the Baltimore Sun newspaper beginning September, 1990. Browse the Sun.
  Does not include pictures or graphics
  

• Baltimore Sun archives

  Coverage: 1837-2007
  Special Collections maintains a growing Baltimore Sun archives which includes approximately 750,000 photographs, negatives, transperencies, and archival collections documenting the Sun's history dating to 1837.

• Baltimore Sun financial and selected labor records

  Coverage: 1837-1986
  Contains information pertaining to Sun finances and Baltimore Newspaper Guild relations. Financial materials include monthly statements, treasurer's reports, tax and payroll records, financial correspondence, and transactional files in both loose and ledger formats. Among the Guild materials are correspondence, meeting minutes, Guild negotiation documents, and newsletters from the late 1930s and early 1940s, many of which were the personal copies of H.L. Mencken.

• baltimorecityhistory.net: A Guide to Research and Writing about the History of Baltimore City

  The purpose of this site is to assist researchers in the study of Baltimore History. Its emphasis is on the public record, although reference will be made to secondary sources and private records in public and private repositories. It is a work in progress and is meant to be instructive as the time and resources of the contributors permit.

• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  BASE is an aggregating search engine especially for academic open access web resources and digital collections from national and international sources. Results include both published and unpublished research from over 2000 repositories and other information sources.

• BBC News - Country Profiles

  Coverage: current
  The site describes information on the history, economy,and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, current leader, information on the press, television, radio, news agencies, and number of Internet users. Links provide access to key stories and clips from the BBC archives. Good supplement to the CIA Fact Book, and State Department files.

• Beijing Memory - Historical Newspapers

  Coverage: Full Text
  Developed by Capital Library of China, Beijing Memory allows browsing for fulltext articles from six newspapers published in Beijing prior to 1949.

• Berkeley Electronic Press: ResearchNow

  Coverage: varies
  Search or Browse through peer-reviewed Berkeley Electronic Press journals, plus unrestricted working paper series, preprints, monographs, and other content from institutional and subject-matter repositories hosted by bepress.

• Bible Review: The Archive

  Coverage: 1985-2003
  Full-text and illustrations from Bible Review magazine, including Biblical research on both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

• Biblical archaeology review

  Coverage: 1975-2003
  Full text. Biblical Archaeology Review connects the academic study of archaeology to a general audience in a nonsectarian forum for the discussion of Biblical archaeology. Includes maps, diagrams, photos.

• Bibliography of the History of Art

  BHA on the Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules, and can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements. Note that the database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1.

• Biblioteka Wirtualna Matematyki

  Coverage: varies
  Select journals from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at Warsaw University.

• Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina

  Coverage: 9th c. BC - 2nd c. AD
  Provides a database comprising all the Latin texts which have appeared in the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana since its foundation. Texts in Latin. User's guides in English.

• Bioethics Resources on the Web

  Coverage: current
  Annotated web links to resources providing background information and various positions on issues in bioethics. Provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

  Coverage: 1774 - Present
  Biographical information for members of the United States Congress.

• Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences

  Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. These biographies provide a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index

  Coverage: Full set
  Indexes current and retrospective reference works containing multiple biographies. 10 million+ entries.

• Biography.com

  Coverage: current
  Short biographical articles on 20,000 persons of current and historical interest.

• Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database and the NASA Archive for Protein Crystal Growth Data

  Crystal data and crystallization conditions for over 3,500 molecules, inluding proteins, protein:protein complexes, nucleic acid, nucleic acid:nucleic acid complexes, protein:nucleic acid complexes, and viruses. Provided by NIST.

• Biology Browser

  This free web site offers resources for the life sciences information community.

• BioMed Central

  Coverage: 1997-present
  Search the journals of BioMed Central, an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

• BioOne (CSA)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Over 150 high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.

• Biophysical Society records

  Coverage: 1955-2002
  This collection of records of the Biophysical Society documents the founding of the society in Columbus, Ohio in 1957, the development of the Biophysical Journal and other publications and its growth up to the present day.

• Biotechnology Research Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts world literature on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Brian C. Daley papers

  Coverage: 1978-1996
  This collection contains an assortment of materials written and collected by Brian Daley. Daley was an American bestselling science fiction author. Included within the collection are notes, photographs, professional and personal correspondence, drafts, newspaper clippings, personal movies, and personal documents. The majority of the collection spans the 1980s and 1990s and also includes some of the author's earlier papers, such as personal correspondence from the Vietnam War.

• British History Online

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. UMBC access is available only for the free content.

• British Library EthOS : Electronic theses online service

  The aim of EThOS is: To offer a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education; to support Higher Education Institutions through the transition from print to e-theses; to help UK Higher Education Institutions expand available content by digitising paper theses; to demonstrate the quality of UK research and help attract students and research investment into UK HE. Note: First time users must register before ordering/downloading.

• British Parliamentary Papers: Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  The bibliographic records and searchable PDFs of the EPPI are now available for most of the collection through the University of Southampton Library WebCat. No login is required. Scroll to the list of work examples and follow the link to the catalog.

• Buddhanet.net

  Coverage: varies
  Access to many full-text primary and secondary materials for both the Therevada and mayayana traditions. E-books library, an audio library and zip files are available through this site.

• Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library

  Thorough in its review of Buddhism. Includes a link to Theravada Buddhist InfoWeb and search engine as well.

• Bulfinch's Mythology

  Bulfinch's are presented in this site

• Bureau of Justice Statistics

  Coverage: current
  Key statistics on crime, criminals, victimization, courts, corrections, law enforcement, and more. Special "drugs and crime" section.

• Buros Test Review Locator

  Coverage: current
  Search for citations to reviews of educational and psychological tests and measures that appear in:
  Mental Measurements Yearbooks (MMY), Tests in Print, and Test Critiques.

• Business Source Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Business Source Premier indexes over 3300 journals and magazines on all aspects of business going back to 1896, providing full text on over 2200, including almost 1100 peer reviewed titles.

• C-Span Video Library

  The C-SPAN Archives includes all C-SPAN programming aired since 1987, and can be viewed online for free. The Archives records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Duplicate copies of most programs that have aired since 1987 can be obtained and used for education, research, review or home viewing purposes.

• CACHE: A Learning Community for Chemical Engineering

  Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE), is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote cooperation among universities, industry and government in the development and distribution of computer-related and/or technology-based educational aids for the chemical engineering profession.

• CAIRSS Music Index

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes the research literature on music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music in medicine containing citations to every article published in 18 primary journals, additional citations to selected articles from more than one thousand journals. Produced by the faculty and staff of the University of Texas at San Antonio.

• Cambridge Histories Online

  Cambridge Histories Online offers online accessibility to full text titles for any type of historical research or study of a subject that has an historical element. Includes all the latest editions of the print series with automatic updates.

• CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (OCLC)

  Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO) is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. CAMIO is licensed for use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions. Images may be used for educational and research purposes if properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed.

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

  This catalog provides access to U.S. government publications in full-text and other forms, and identifies locations for other forms of documents which are not full-text.

• Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Catalogue offers access to medieval manuscripts available on the web. Basic information about the manuscripts is fully searchable, and users can also browse through the complete contents of the database.

• Catalogue of Mathematics Internet Resources from BUBL Link

  This web site is from BUBL Link. "BUBL LINK" is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). The website's content covers comprehensive mathematical topics at a variety of sources.

• Catholic Encyclopedia

  Coverage: varies
  Designed to present its readers with the full body of Catholic teaching, the Encyclopedia contains not only precise statements of what the Church has defined, but also an impartial record of different views of acknowledged authority on disputed questions.

• Census of Agriculture

  Coverage: 1840-1950, 1992-
  The 1840 Census was the first to include statistics on agriculture. Since then, each subsequent census has continued to gauge the overall picture of U.S. agriculture. Many of these are available on-line through the U.S. Census Bureau website or, here as PDFs:

• Center for Biological Sciences Archives

  Coverage: current
  The Center for Biological Sciences Archives holds 15 major biological sciences collections. Included are personal papers, manuscripts and organizational papers.

• CERN Document Server

  Coverage: varies
  Over 800,000 records, including over 350,000 full-text documents, in particle physics and related areas. Coverage includes preprints, articles, books, and more. Register to customize interface, save searches and utilize search alert service.

• CESAR: Center for Substance Abuse Research

  Coverage: current
  Contains information on nature and extent of substance abuse and related problems in Maryland and the nation.

• CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)

  Coverage: current
  The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

• ChemExper

  Find chemicals in the ChemExper chemical directory. Use advanced search to search for chemicals by boiling point, melting point, density, and more.

• Chemical Abstracts (via STNEasy)

  Online access to Chemical Abstracts 5PM - 5AM. No login / password is needed. Click the "Start Your Session" button to begin searching.

• Chemical Scorecard

  Search for manufacturing facilities, pollutants and polluters by zip code, regulatory controls, and health effects for hazardous materials in the US. Data from Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).

• ChemID plus

  A database of over 368,000 chemical records, including over 220,000 with structures. Find synonyms, structures, registry numbers, formulas, and properties. Search by name, structure, chemical property, toxicity, or molecular weight.

• ChemSpider

  ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of Internet data sources. Provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry, it aggregates structures, spectra, properties, suppliers, syntheses, and other information into a single searchable repository with links back to the original sources.

• Chesapeake Bay Benthic Monitoring Program

  Coverage: since 1995
  Chesapeake Bay Long-Term Benthic Monitoring and Assessment Program in Maryland has been part of Maryland's Water Quality Monitoring Program for the Chesapeake since 1984. Versar Inc., under a Memorandum of Agreement with the Bay Program's Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS), provides direct public access to up-to-date benthic information, monitoring results, reports, and data through this web site.

• China Academic Journals (CAJ) at EastView

  Coverage: Index Only
  Provide access to China academic journals in various humanities and social science areas. Some journals have early issues back to 1915. English citations are searchable as well. A list of core journals from CAJ can be viewed at https://webfiles.uci.edu/yingz/Serial_core_chinese_CAJ?uniq=-cxtntl. And a tutorial for using the database can be found at http://www.lib.uci.edu/services/tutorials/CAJ/CAJ.htm

• China Data Online

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  It includes monthly and yearly reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases about China's population and economy at the county and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Also includes statistical yearbooks, industrial and marketing surveys, and an atlas of China

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1880-1922)

  Coverage: 1880-1922
  Chronicling America allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

• CIA - The World Factbook

  Coverage: current
  Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

• CINAHL (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  CINAHL® provides indexing for more than 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health dating back to 1981. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• CiNii Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Provide access to bibliographic and some full-text (free or fee-based) information of papers, theses, books, and magazines, as well as other specialized academic information. Some contents are in English. Instruction for using the database can be found at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/eresources/guides/cinii.pdf

• CiteSeer.IST: Scientific Literature Digital Library

  Coverage: 1990-2004
  CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer uses ACI to create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation.

• City Population

  Coverage: current
  Population statistics and maps for all areas of the world. Population of countries, cities, and principal agglomerations.

• City-data.com

  Coverage: Full Text
  Comprehensive data aggregation site for cities large and small. Includes demographic and census data, maps, photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment, etc.), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, communication resources, more.

• Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes/abstracts American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) documents published since 1973. Citations are included from journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters.

• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is a fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi from a variety of collections.

• Civil War Home Page

  Coverage: 1861-1865
  The Civil War Home Page represents one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Civil War related material available electronically. Includes full text documents, maps, statistics, official records, oral histories, slave narratives, photos.

• Clase and Periódica (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  CLASE (social sciences and humanities)and PERIÓDICA (science and technology) index Latin American journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Coverage for the majority of journals begins in the 1970s.

• Classical Language Instruction Project

  Provides the audible sound clips of Greek and Latin and the text of the passage.

• Classical Latin Texts

  Coverage: Full Text
  Also known as PHI Latin, this database contains virtually all classical Latin literary texts up to A.D.200.

• Classical Myth

  Included are Olympian gods, timeline of Greek history and literature and a limited full-text bibliography of the works by Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylsu, Euripides, Sophocles, as applicable for course work at University of Victoria, B.C.

• CODATA Key Values for Thermodynamics

  The Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) table of thermodynamic properties (enthalpy of formation and entropy) for key chemical substances.

• Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

  Coverage: current
  Source of new and classic biomedical research techniques. Currently it contains over 700 methods in molecular and cell biology and it covers cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.

• College Board's Scholarship Search

  Coverage: current
  College Board created this online tool to help you locate scholarships, internships, grants, and loans that match your education level, talents, and background. Complete the brief questionnaire and Scholarship Search will find potential opportunities from our database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding, totaling nearly $3 BILLION in available aid.

• Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition

  Coverage: Full Text
  Currently in its 6th edition, the Columbia Encyclopedia contains over 51,000 entries & has more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.

• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

  Coverage: 1991 - present
  A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings and journal articles.

• COMAR (Code of Maryland Regulations)

  The official compilation of Maryland State Agency regulations (administrative law). Updates biweekly with regulations proposed but not yet adopted are published in the Maryland Register.

• Comic Books Index - UMBC Holdings

  Coverage: 1930-1990
  An index to the comic book holdings in Special Collections. Includes some 6,500 issues from the 1930's to the 1990's. The index is in three sections, mainstream comics in "Main", "Underground" comics, and Miscellaneous.

• Communication & Mass Media Complete (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  CMMC offer indexing and abstracts for more 770 titles, including full text for over 480 journals dating as far back as 1915. CMMC also contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing.

• Communication Abstracts

  Coverage: 1998
  Citations and abstracts for articles in 80+ journals in Communication.

• Compendex (via Engineering Village 2)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes the entire spectrum of engineering, in depth, with abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conference papers and technical reports. You may set up a profile, save searches, and have search results emailed bi-weekly.

• Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

  Coverage: 1840-
  This website provides Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published. There are also over 170 ancillary textsfrom reference works, reviews, obituaries and more.

• Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the Maryland Historical Society

  Coverage: Index Only
  This guide represents a combination of two previously published works: Avril J. M. Pedley, comp., The Manuscript Collections of the Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, 1968) and Richard J. Cox and Larry E. Sullivan, eds., Guide to the Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, 1981).

• Compustat Research Insight

  Coverage: varies
  Compiled by S & P, Compustat contains 20 years of financial statements and market summaries on 11,000 North American companies. Only available in the Library. From the START menu> Programs> Research Insight

• Computational Molecular Biology at NIH

  Analytical tools, databases, lab protocols, and reference sources in molecular biology. Provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Computer Science Index (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Computer Science Index offers abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. The collection covers more than 6,500 computer science periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.

• Computer Source (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

• Computers and Applied Science Complete (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  CASC provides indexing and abstracting for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources in the engineering disciplines, computer theory and technology, including material concerning business and social implications of new developments.

• Conference Papers Index (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.

• Congress.org

  Coverage: varies
  Directory of congressional members (House and Senate) and their committee assignments, biographical information and contact information.

• CONSTITUTION FINDER

  Coverage: Full Text
  This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted on the Web. Historical versions are offered where available. Includes states and territories.

• Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)

  Coverage: 1992 - present
  CWI provides full text access to global information on women. Includes journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.

• Cornell Modern Indonesia Project

  Coverage: Full Text
  This site was initiated in the 1950s by faculty members in Cornell's Southeast Asia Program, online access to Project publications - Interim reports, Translations, Monographs and Bibliographies - 75 titles currently available.

• Country Studies

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Formerly called US Army Area Handbooks

• County and City Databook: 2007

  Coverage: Full Text
  demographic and vital statistics; employment, education, government, housing, production and weather data for states, counties, and all cities of 25,000+. Older editions in print.

• County Business Patterns

  Annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. Useful for studying the economic activity of small areas, analyzing economic changes over time, and as a benchmark for statistical series and surveys between economic censuses.

• CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Weekly

  Coverage: 1983-current
  In-depth reports on issues looming in Congress, along with a complete wrap up of the previous week's news; includes the status of bills in play, behind the scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and roll-call votes.

• CQ Researcher Online

  Coverage: 1923-
  CQ Researcher (formerly Editorial Research Reports).In-depth coverage of health, social trends, national and international topics. Includes maps, charts, statistics. Published weekly.

• Critical Theory and Cultural Studies

  It is offered by the EServer, an arts and humanities e-publishing co-op, based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars publish their works. Contains texts in sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology.

• CrossAsia

  Coverage: Index Only
  The East and Southeast Asia Virtual Library - CrossAsia - offers access to research information in East and Southeast Asian studies, a portal to digital resources, online journals and databases.

• Cultural policy and the Arts National Data Archive

  Coverage: current
  An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture.

• Current Index to Statistics (CIS)

  Coverage: 1975 - present
  As a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, it indexes publications in statistics and related fields from 106 core journals, selected articles from about 1200 additional journals, and about 11,000 books in statistics.

• CyberCemetery [Archive of government websites that have ceased operation]

  Coverage: Full Text
  The CyberCemetery is an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report).

• DART-Europe E-theses Portal

  Coverage: current
  DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).

• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

  For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians. This website provides access to all Atlas reports and publications, as well as interactive tools to allow visitors to view specific regions and perform their own comparisons and analyses.

• Data.gov

  Coverage: current
  Data.gov allows the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added.

• David F. Bischoff papers

  Coverage: 1970-1991
  This collection centers on Bischoff's work as a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Over 800 manuscripts are included, along with correspondence and other personal papers.

• Defense Technical Information Center: Public Technical Reports

  Coverage: Full Text
  Indexes Defense research; including information relating to Biological and Medical Sciences, Environmental Pollution and Control, and Behavioral and Social Sciences.

• Department of Education Annual Publications

  Coverage: Current
  Online versions of the Digest of Education Statistics and the Condition of Education from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Print versions in 1st floor GovDocs stacks.

• DGR Web (Directory of Graduate Research)

  Coverage: current
  Searchable online version of the American Chemical Society's Directory of Graduate Research - a comprehensive source of information on chemical research and researchers at universities in the U.S. and Canada.

• Dialogue

  Coverage: 1998 - present
  Dialogue is an award-winning weekly radio program that explores the world of ideas through conversations with renowned public figures, scholars, journalists, and authors. This site includes streaming audio of all Dialogue programs since 1998, searchable by subject and year. Presented by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology

  Coverage: current
  Access point to the Dibner Library's online editions and databases. Includes links to pdf versions of selected Dibner Library Lectures, the scientists' biographies database, and links to other collections in the Smithsonian.

• Dick Higgins collection

  Coverage: 1958-2002
  Showcases Dick Higgins’s influence on the Fluxus movement through his artwork and publishing house, Something Else Press. Higgins’s embraced this idea and went on to create performance pieces such as Happenings and Danger Music; visual, concrete, and pattern poetry; mail art; prints and paintings; as well as his publication work through Something Else Press, all of which are represented in this collection.

• Dictionary of Military Terms

  Department of Defense's "Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms." Includes NATO terms, acronyms, and abbreviations.

• Digital Library from the Meiji Era

  Coverage: Full Text
  This database from the National Diet Library of Japan provides full-text access to works from the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods. Generally, only the bibliographic information and table of contents are searchable.

• Digital Library of India

  Coverage: Full Text
  This site is dedicated to digitizing and making freely available "one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, on science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more." Books included are from 1850 to present and may be searched by time blocks, subject, language, author/title or keyword. As of 2008, over 25,000 titles are in English.

• Digital South Asia Library

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  It provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users.

• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World

  This site focuses on the study of women and gender in the ancient world, and includes bibliography, images and biblical studies.

• Discoverers Web

  Coverage: current webpages
  A metapage of links relating to explorers and exploration through the ages.

• DISCovering multicultural America

  Coverage: c.1500-present
  A combined source for information on significant people, places, documents, organizations, events and issues concerning ethnic and native Americans.

• Dissertations & Theses @ UMBC (Proquest)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Provides access to the citations and abstracts and some full text of dissertations and theses from UMBC graduate students. In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides access to 24 page previews and the full text for dissertations produced 1991-.

• Documents Data Miner 2 (DDM2)

  Library Management System for United States Government Documents, including list of classes, shipping lists, shelf lists, marc and url locator, inactive/discontinued documents, superceded list, depository directory and other tools.

• DrugWatch

  Coverage: current
  DrugWatch.com is a comprehensive database featuring up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications currently on the market or previously available worldwide.

• Duhaime's Law Dictionary

  Coverage: current
  Duhaime's Law Dictionary is designed to offer one-stop shopping to all of us who occasionally need to know what a certain legal word means, because our rights stand to be affected by a reference to it, or because of employment or academic research requirements.

• e-CFR [Electronic Code of Federal Regulations]

  Coverage: current
  he Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) is a currently updated version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). It is not an official legal edition of the CFR. The e-CFR is an editorial compilation of CFR material and Federal Register amendments produced by the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Printing Office. The OFR updates the material in the e-CFR on a daily basis.

• E-Print Network (OSTI)

  Coverage: current
  A searchable gateway to full-text preprints in physics, materials, and chemistry, and some biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine. For full-text R&D grey literature see DOE's Information Bridge.

• Early Modern Women Database

  Coverage: 1500 to ca. 1800
  Provides links to resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. Coverage 1500 to 1800. Includes links to Web sites about the Medieval period and 19th Century. Resources have been selected by librarians of the University of Maryland Libraries. The database includes bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources are free.

• Easton's Bible Dictionary

  Coverage: 1897 edition
  Online version of the 1897 work. About 3800 terms.

• eBook Collection (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Ebscohost eBook collection includes all e-books available through Ebsco. The database format offers an alternative to the library catalog for searching this specific collection.

• ECHO: European Cultural Heritage Online

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  ECHO is an open access, collaborative research endeavour that provides active support for scientific and cultural institutions; the ECHO Charter aims at defining the criteria for adequate exploitation of the potential for archival preservation, scholarly and educational exploration.

• ECHO: Exploring & collecting history online

  Coverage: earliest-current
  Since 2001 the Echo project has used the Internet to collect and present the recent history of science, technology, and industry. Echo provides a centralized guide and portal for those seeking websites on the history of science and technology.

• ECO- Electronic Collections Online (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexing and abstracting of articles from over 5,000 journals published since 1995. Focused searching can be done by subject or publisher collection.

• EcoCyc

  Coverage: current
  Encyclopedia of Escherichia coli K12 Genes and Metabolism: a searchable database describing the genome and the biochemical machinery of E. coli K-12.

• Ecology Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts articles on current ecology research: habitats, food chains, erosion, land reclamation,ecosystems management and modeling, climate, water resources, environmental problems. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• EconLit (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Subject indexing and abstracts of journals, books, collective volumes, dissertations, and working papers in Economics.

• Economics Research Network (ERN)

  Coverage: varies
  SSRN community for economics scholars, practitioners, and policymakers throughout the world. Includes job listings and links to NBER working papers. New users join here.

• ECS (Electrochemical Society) Digital Library

  Coverage: 1996 - present
  The Digital Library (DL) provides searchable online access to the various journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society. Includes the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and Electrochemical & Solid-State Letters.

• Educator's Reference Desk

  Coverage: current
  Full text of lesson plans and curriculum materials. Replaces the access ERIC Website.

• EH. Net Encyclopedia

  EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by authorities, and carefully edited.

• EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Provides indexing and detailed abstracts for all environmental impact statements issued by the federal government each year. EIS extracts key issues, project descriptions, legal mandates, positive impact and negative consequences.

• Elemental Data Index

  Select an element in the periodic table to display: atomic weight, ionization energy, ground-state level, and ground-state configuration. Also provides links to atomic spectra, x-ray and gamma ray data, and other nuclear physics data. Provided by NIST.

• EMCI Chemical References

  Search the full text of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Major Program Systems webpages. Data on hazardous materials and their manufacturers.

• Encyclopaedia Iranica

  Coverage: ancient-
  The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.

• Encyclopedia Mythica

  Coverage: current
  Over 4500 mythical figures from all religions.

• Encyclopedia of American Studies

  Online, searchable, full text encyclopedia covering a variety of topics from a range of disciplines describing the cultures of the U.S. Incorporates comparative studies of Canada and Latin America and the global impact of American culture.

• Encyclopedia of Earth

  The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.

• Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols

  Coverage: current
  Online version of Carl G Liungman's Thought Signs. Over 2600 Western symbols.

• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

  The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species. Each site is constantly evolving and features dynamically synthesized content ranging from historical literature and biological descriptions to stunning images, videos and distribution maps. Sign up for a login name and password to access all areas of the site.

• Encyclopedia of Psychology

  Coverage: varies
  Included are the categories on careers, environment behavior relationships, organizations, paradigms and theories, people and history, publications, resources, and underlying reductionistic machinery.

• Energy Citations Database

  Coverage: 1948 - present
  Bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

• Engineering Pathway

  The Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology and is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students. Resources include support for ABET accreditation, research and scholarship, curricula development and extracurricular activities for students.

• Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective

  This free e-book fills in many of the gaps in engineering education by showing students and professionals the historical background of problem solving.

• English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

  Coverage: 1450-1800
  the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) provides bibliographic records for all known British printed material before 1801, held by the British Library and over 2000 institutions worldwide. The file will be made freely available to researchers as of Oct.

• Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine

  Searchable databases including: Nucleotide Sequence (GenBank, RefSeq, and PDB), Protein Sequence, Genome, Structure, Taxonomy, and many more. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

• Environment Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Indexes and abstracts the literature, including full text government reports, on the impact of people and technology on the environment, the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies, and energy-related issues. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Environmental Engineering Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts the literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Environmental Research Web

  Covers environmental research, from biodiversity to clean energy, from pollution to economics, from environmental legislation to sustainability, and from human health issues to risk assessment. Login for most complete access.

• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications.

• Enzyme Database - BRENDA

  BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community. Contents include: nomenclature, reaction & specificity, functional parameters, enzyme structure, isolation & preparation, and more.

• EPA Science Inventory

  Coverage: current
  The Science Inventory (SI) is a searchable database of EPA science activities and scientific/technical work products.

• Episteme Link: Philosophy Resources on the Internet

  Over 16,500 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet, including encyclopedia entries, e-texts, and bibliographies, philosphers, topics/subjects. Searchable by time period.

• ERIC (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  ERIC indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE)and Resources in Education(RIE), containing more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

• Ernest Kempe collection

  Coverage: 1865-1953
  This collection, compiled and collected by Ernest Kempe, includes a series of scrapbook pages from twenty binders and a ledger with clippings dealing with Baltimore, Maryland.

• esp@cenet (European Patent Office)

  Searchable databases provided by the European Patent Office including: Patent Abstracts of Japan, European Patents (EP), and The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Includes English translations of patent descriptions.

• Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards

  This free e-book is useful for safety managers, chemists and engineers alike to identify, address and manage chemical reactivity hazards.

• Essential Science Indicators - Special Topics

  Coverage: 2001-present
  Citation analyses and commentary for selected scientific research areas that have experienced notable recent advances or are of special current interest. Includes citation rankings for scientists, institutions, nations, and journals.

• Etana / ABZU: Electronic Tools and Near East Archives.

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. It includes websites, full text articles, reviews of books, more.

• ETDE World Energy Base (ETDEWEB)

  Searchable database of documents in the field of energy. Topics include environmental impact of energy production & use, including climate change, energy R&D, energy policy, and nuclear, coal, hydrocarbon, and renewable energy technologies.

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World

  Standard directory of languages of the world numbering over 6,700 languages.

• ETS Test Collection Database

  Coverage: current
  Descriptions of over 10,000 psychometric instruments. Includes journal references and availability information.

• Etymology of First Names

  Coverage: current
  Origins of common first names in many languages. Includes 50 most popular names.

• European Library

  Coverage: current
  Search the national libraries of 31 European countries, including: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania , Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia - Moscow, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

• Europeana

  Multi-lingual online collection of more than 4 million digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections. Funded by the European Commission and the member states.

• FDsys: GPO's Federal Digital System

  (FDsys) provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes. Collections currently available on FDsys are: Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993-),Congressional Bills (103rd Cong-) Congressional Documents (104th Cong-),Congressional Hearings (105th Cong-), Congressional Record (1994-), Congressional Reports (104th Cong-), Federal Register (1994-), Public and Private Laws (104th Cong-)

• Federal Goverment: Legislative Branch

  Coverage: current
  The Legislative Branch includes the Senate and the House of Representatives, supported by 12 agencies. Information on current House and Senate members, current legislation and voting are available here along with supplementary training material.

• Federal Government: Executive Branch

  Coverage: current
  The Executive Branch includes 15 Departments (Agriculture - Veterans Affairs) and dozens of Independent Agencies, Government Corporations, Boards, Commissions and Committees. Current Information on each of these individual units and their functions can be found here.

• Federal Government: Judicial Branch

  Coverage: current
  The Federal Judicial System includes the Supreme Court, the Federal Appeals Courts, the District Courts and various Special Courts (Tax, Bankruptcy, Federal Claims, etc.) Links provide access to each level, including biographies of Supreme Court Justices, current and recent Supreme Court decisions and related information.

• Federal Register

  Coverage: 1994-
  The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

• Fedstats

  Coverage: current
  Search for online statistical publications from more than 100 agencies in the US Federal Government.

• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

  Coverage: 1996-
  Feminae covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. [Books written by a single author are not indexed in Feminae]. Bibliographic records only.

• Ferdinand C. Latrobe papers

  Coverage: 1833-1922
  This collection contains a multitude of materials written by Ferdinand C. Latrobe and relating to Mr. Latrobe. Latrobe was Mayor of Baltimore for seven terms, spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

• Ferdinand C. Latrobe Papers [digital collection]

  Coverage: 1889-1910
  This selection from the Ferdinand C. Latrobe papers includes his hand-written speeches, with some composed during his terms as the Mayor of Baltimore City. The speeches discuss a wide-range of topics, pertinent to both local and national politics and events. Speeches discussing Latrobe’s position on slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and the Pure Foods Movement have a national scope; his speeches regarding the Maryland Board of State Aid and Charities, the Baltimore “Illumination” festival, Maryland history, and various aspects of Baltimore City civic and municipal improvements showcase Latrobe’s participation and interest in many aspects of Baltimore politics and city life. Although some are incomplete or drafts, all of the speeches are written in Latrobe’s hand; additional printed speeches are available in the Ferdinand C. Latrobe papers. This selection is drawn from Series I.9, Speeches; a full finding aid for the collection is available on UMBC’s Special Collections website.

• Filibusted

  Coverage: current
  Tracks current senate filibusters and those responsible. Includes a log of cloture votes and offers historical data on filibusters of the last century.

• FinAid - Financial Aid Page

  Coverage: current
  Guide to student financial aid created by Mark Kantrowitz, author of The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students.

• Finding Aid to the Albin O. Kuhn Papers [Archival collection]

  Coverage: Index Only
  Finding aid. Albin O. Kuhn's papers document his employment in the University System of Maryland including his involvement with the College Park and Baltimore campuses as professor and administrator and the development of the Baltimore County campus where he served as the first chancellor. The collection is available to researchers in the Special Collections department during working hours or by appointment.

• Finding Aid to the Records of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)

  Coverage: Index Only
  This collection of records of the American Association of Immunologists documents the Association's activities primarily from 1941-1992. The correspondence, reports, minutes, newsletters, programs, etc. provide a view of the Association's later years.

• Findlaw Constitutional Law Center

  Coverage: 1893-present
  Findlaw Constitutional Law Center is an educational resource site dedicated to the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court. It includes historical documents, biographies of Supreme Court Justices and Supreme Court decisions, and current and upcoming cases.

• First World War Poetry Digital Archive / Great War Archive

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Archive is a combination of collections of primary source material from major poets of the period plus over 6,500 items contributed by the general public relating to the First World War, either abroad or at home.

• FlyBase: A Database of Drosophila Genes & Genomes

  Coverage: current
  FlyBase is supported by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health #P41 HG000739. Support is also provided by the British Medical Research Council, the Indiana Genomics Initiative, and the National Science Foundation through TeraGrid resources provided by Indiana University. It includes the database of Drosophila Genes and Genomes, current news on research findings and meeting information, a very comprehensive source for fly researchers.

• Follow the Money: The Institute on Money in State Politics

  Coverage: Current
  The Institute on Money in State Politics is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased documentation and research on campaign finance at the state level.

• Foreign Relations of the United States

  The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Published by the Department of State. Select volumes.

• Foreign Relations of the United States (Archive)

  Coverage: 1861-1899; 1900-1918
  The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. Produced by the U of Wisc and the U of Ilinois at Chicago

• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

  Coverage: current
  Over 10000 definitions of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, operating systems, networking, standards, mathematics, electronics, and anything else to do with computing. Entries are cross-referenced to each other and related resources on the net.

• Freedom in the World [annual report]

  Coverage: 2002-
  Freedom in the World offers comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties including narrative reports on 193 countries and 15 related and disputed territories.

• Freedom of the Press

  Coverage: Full Text
  Index to statistics, news and commentary on press freedom in the world. Online editions available from 2002-, historical data from 1980.

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Full Text
  This online encyclopedia provides over 25,000 full text entries covering a variety of subject areas

• Gale Literary Index

  Coverage: current
  A master index to every literary series published by Gale. Search by a literary work's title or look for authors by name, birth date, death date, or nationality.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library [GVRL]

  Gale Virtual Reference Library offers online access to reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more. UMBC titles cover biography, business, law, public health, economic history, and multicultural studies.

• Gallica

  Coverage: Middle Ages to early 20th c.
  Povided by the National Library of France, Gallica provides resources for study and full text access to over 80,000 works of French literature. [In French]

• Gallup Brain [Gallup Poll News Service]

  Coverage: 1930 - present
  Current and historical data from one of the leading public opinion research firms.

• GenBank

  Coverage: varies
  Entrez (DNA and protein sequence data, 3D structure data, and associated MEDLINE entries), BLAST (sequence similarity search tool), dbEST (Database of Expressed Sequence Tags), and dbSTS (Database of Sequence Tagged Sites). By NCBI.

• Genealogy Guide [MD State Law Library]

  The Maryland State Law Library's new Genealogy web pages include infromation on finding death records, obituaries, graves, cemeteries, and burial records, wills and probate, internet sources on genealogy, and law and genealogy.

• General Chemistry Online

  Excellent guide for first-year chemistry students. Includes tutorials, simulations, and glossary of chemical terms.

• Genetic Analysis Software [North Shore LIJ Research Institute]

  Coverage: 1995-current
  Computer software on the following topics are included here: genetic linkage analysis, marker mapping, linkage disequilibrium mapping, and pedigree drawing. Many programs can be downloaded from this site linked to the Linkage & Mapping Software Repository

• Genetics Home Reference

  Coverage: no
  Genetics Home Reference is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes related to those conditions. The summaries of conditions, genes and chromosomes, handbook, glossary and resources are available on the site.

• Geoffrey Chaucer

  Harvard site for the study of Chaucer. Includes life, chronology and bibliography on Chaucer as well as links to aspects of life during the time of Chaucer.

• GIS Dictionary

  Coverage: current
  Searchable glossary of about 1000 terms related to Geographic Information Systems.

• Glassdoor - Company Salaries, Reviews, and Interview Questions

  Coverage: current
  A comprehensive career resource with information on thousands of companies. Glassdoor includes salary and bonuses and details for specific jobs at specific companies, as well as actual interview questions and hiring process details. Also included are reviews written by employees that highlight the pro's and con's of working for a particular employer.

• Global Gazetteer

  Coverage: current
  This is a directory of 2880532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. Provides data on latitude, longitude, altitude above sea-level, and weather.

• Global Music Archive

  The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas, with particular emphasis on the African Diaspora. Sponsored by Vanderbilt University.

• Global Terrorism Database (formerly MIPT Terrorism Knowledgebase)

  The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world since 1970 (currently updated through 2004)

• GlobalSpec - the Engineering Search Engine

  The world's largest collection of online supplier catalogs searchable by specification. Some parts of the site require free registration.

• Glossary of Library Terms

  Coverage: current
  A short dictionary of library jargon.

• GodChecker

  This site provides a genealogical listing of gods in mythology in all cultures

• Government Documents A-to-Z Digitization Project [University of North Texas]

  Coverage: Full Text
  The A-to-Z Project offers access to digitized pre-1960 government documents. The project is being done alphabetically, starting with the call number A, which includes agricultural documents. By popular demand, the A-to-Z Collection also contains vintage War Department field manuals and technical manuals.

• Government of India Directory of Official Websites

  Coverage: Full Text
  A one-point source to access all Indian Government Websites at all levels and from all sectors.

• GPO Access Document Search

  Coverage: current
  Search the US Budget, Congressional documents, Economic Indicators, Economic Report of the President, Federal Register, GAO documents, Public Laws, United States Code, and others. GPO Access.

• GPO Access: Legislative Branch Resources

  A comprehensive guide and access to the major areas of legislation: Senate and House calendars, history of bills, congressional reports, committe prints, copies of signed bills, more.

• GPO Monthly Catalog (MOCAT) - Free version

  Coverage: 1976 - present
  Indexes government publications issued by the Government Printing Office since January 1976.

• GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Indexes government publications issued by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Many records include direct links to the full text of the publication.

• GrantsNet - Department of Health and Human Services

  Coverage: current
  Information about HHS and selected other Federal grant programs.

• GRE - Graduate Record Examination Website

  Coverage: current
  Information on the exam from Educational Testing Service.

• Greek Mythology Link

  The Greek Mythology Link is a collection of the Greek myths written on line by Carlos Parada, author of the book 'Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology',

• Greek New Testament Gateway

  On-line Greek New Testament database available in a search or browse mode, by base word or inflected form. Able to further modified by tense, voice, mood.

• GreenFILE (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  GreenFILE offers indexing for scholarly, government and general interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.

• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

  Includes guides, dictionaries, journals, philosophers, bibliographies, associations, quotations, e-texts

• Göttinger DigitalisierungsZentrum (GDZ)

  Coverage: varies
  Funded by the German Research Foundation, the GDZ is concerned with retrospective digitization of library materials. Includes travel books, mathematics, early North-Americana, maps, and Sibirica.

• H-Net Reviews

  Coverage: 1993-
  H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource. Reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site. Browse through reviews or use the search feature.

• Handbook of Latin American Studies [Library of Congress]

  Coverage: 1936-
  The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.

• Harrison's: Principles of Internal Medicine e-supplement

  Harrison's e-Supplement contains high-yield content designed to assist your study. Scan the left navigation panel and use the pull down menu to access areas of interest. Username and password available at the Reference Desk during working hours.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library

  Coverage: current
  HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. Currently thirteen research libraries contribute content to the collection, of which 856,304 volumes (~15% of total) are in the public domain. The search page allows searches across the whole collection by bibliographic record (author/title) of by searching within the full text of items.

• HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources

  Coverage: 1998-current
  A database of literature and related resources dedicated to Human-computer interaction; primarily concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.

• Health and Safety Science Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts recent literature relating to public health, industrial hygiene, aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Health Source Plus (Ebsco nursing & consumer editions)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  This is a combined database of consumer health information on a variety of topics and scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers generic drug patient education sheets.

• Healthfinder.gov

  healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet. Availble in English and Spanish

• Highwire Press

  Coverage: varies
  Search over 15 million articles from over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 924,795 free full text articles from 864 HighWire-hosted journals. About Highwire.

• Historic Government Publications from World War II: a digital library

  Coverage: 1939-1946
  SMU Central University Libraries, part of GPO's Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), have digitized hundreds of historical World War II publications and photographs and made them available to the public.

• Historical Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Historical Abstracts indexes journals covering world history from 1450 to the present (for the United States and Canada use America: History & Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

  Coverage: Full Text
  Provides access to digitized copies of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications held in the Library's collection and available on the USCCR Web site.

• Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Ed. Online

  Coverage: 1770-
  This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work, available both in print and electronic editions, reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition (a single one-time purchase!) will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

• Historical US Census Data

  Coverage: 1790 - 1970
  Population, demographics, and economic data for all states and counties, from the United States decennial census, 1790 - 1970.

• History Cooperative

  A joint venture of the American Historical Assn., Org. of American Historians, U. of Illinois Press and Nat'l Academy Press. Includes full-text journals & information on member organizations. No login needed, use Search or go to journals
  Attention: Not all journals in this database are accessible full-text. Ask your librarian if you have trouble accessing them.

• Home Economics Archive: Research Tradition History (HEARTH)

  Coverage: 1850-1950
  HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950. The full text of these materials is freely accessible on this site.

• Homefair Salary Calculator

  Coverage: current
  Compare the cost of living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.

• Hong Kong Journals Online

  Coverage: Index Only
  It is a database covering selected academic and professional journals (see http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/browse.jsp for the list), both in English and Chinese. It is provided by the University of Hong Kong Libraries.

• Hong Kong LIS Dissertations and Theses Collections (DTC)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Dissertations and Theses Collections (DTC) is an online union collection of Hong Kong postgraduate students’ doctoral and master dissertations and theses indexed in the online catalogs of seven university libraries in Hong Kong. Includes some online full text.

• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace [Archive]

  The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, econ-omics, domestic and foreign political economy & international affairs. Search for full-text articles from the publications

• Hospital Compare - a quality tool from Medicare

  Coverage: varies
  Welcome to Hospital Compare. In this tool you will find information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, and results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Talk to your doctor about this information to help you, your family and your friends make your best hospital care decisions.

• House and Senate Roll Call Votes

  Coverage: 1989-current
  House and Senate bills with roll call votes. Includes links to summaries, full-text and related bills. 101st Congress to current session

• How to do Basic Statistical Research

  Coverage: current
  Answers to frequently-asked questions on statistical research from Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe.

• Human Anatomy Online

  Coverage: current
  Interactive manual of human anatomy. Over one hundred illustrations and thousands of descriptions.

• Human Mitochondrial Protein Database

  Comprehensive data on mitochondrial and human nuclear encoded proteins involved in mitochondrial biogenesis and function. Provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

• Human Rights - Country Reports from US Dept. of State

  Coverage: Full Text
  Submitted annually to the US Congress; covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the [United Nations] Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Human Rights Watch: World Report

  Coverage: Full Text
  Human Rights Watch summarizes human rights conditions worldwide. Individual reports are available by country or topic, annual World Reports are available from 1989-

• Humanities International Complete (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records with full text for more than 1,200 journals.

• Humanities Text Initiative Modern English Collection

  Coverage: 19th-20th cent. Works in English
  Classic works from British and American writers.

• ICD-10

  International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (2007). Provided by the World Health Organization. Also available are the proposed revisions. see the ICD Homepage.

• ICPSR Archive

  Coverage: varies
  Search and request data sets relevant to political science, sociology, women's studies, etc. from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. See also UMBC's ICPSR Gateway.

• IEEE Xplore

  Coverage: Full Text
  Provides full-text access to IEEE journals and magazines from 1988-present, conference proceedings, and IEEE standards.

• Images of American Political History

  A collection of over 500 public domain images of American political history.

• IMCAT - Search for Photographs

  Database of photographs held in Special Collections. Approximately 118,000 records of more than 1.8 million photographs held there. (Descriptive records only, some with linked image files.)

• In the First Person : An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 300,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life.

• Independent Media Center [Baltimore]

  The Independent Media Center is a global network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate tellings of truth. The IMC provides a forum for presenting media, including articles, audio, video and photographs via the Internet.

• Index to Organism Names

  ION contains millions of animal names, both fossil and recent, at all taxonomic ranks, reported from the scientific literature since 1978.

• Index translationum : international bibliography of translations

  Coverage: current
  The data base contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than 1,500.000 entries in all disciplines.

• Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. (Microbiology A in print) A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Inflation Calculator

  Coverage: current
  The pre-1975 data are the Consumer Price Index statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States (USGPO, 1975). All data since then are from the annual Statistical Abstracts of the United States.

• Information Bridge (OSTI)

  Free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of DOE (Department of Energy) research report literature produced by the DOE, DOE contractors or DOE grantees. Some legacy documents may also be available.

• Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

• Infotrieve Gateway

  Coverage: varies.
  Indexes & abstracts more than 35,000 scholarly journals in medicine, biotechnology, science, engineering, law and more. Library-subsidized, electronic document delivery for faculty, staff and graduate students.
  
  NOTE: Infotrieve is being phased out. Effective 6/24/2010 we will no longer be creating new accounts. Please use Interlibrary Loan instead.

• Ingenta

  Coverage: 1988 - present
  Search or browse more than 20,000 publications from the UnCover, ingenta and CatchWord databases. Articles NOT OWNED by the Library may be ordered for online delivery by faculty, staff and graduate students. Includes TOC and search alert services.

• INSPEC (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Inspec®,provides abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical literature. Inspec coverage includes journals, conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports.

• Institutional Advancement photographs (UARC Photos-08)

  This collection of primarily black and white photographic prints was created by the Creative Services department through the 1970s and 1980s.

• Intercounty Connector (ICC) 1997 Public Hearing Transcripts

  Coverage: 1997
  All public and private testimony, miscellaneous submissions from citizens, maps, displays, handouts, written testimony, and more, submitted during the period of public comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Requires Acrobat Reader.

• Internal Revenue Service [Tax forms and information]

  Coverage: current
  This is the homepage of the IRS. Download tax forms, brochures, and get information on all aspects of tax law.

• International Center for Research on Women

  Founded in 1976, ICRW has earned a reputation as the leading international institution on gender and development. ICRW tackles the complexities of the world's most pressing problems — poverty, hunger and disease — by demonstrating that a focus on women and gender is necessary for lasting social and economic change. Research areas include adolescence, HIV/AIDS, food security and nutrition, economic development, violence against women, women's rights.

• International Data Base (IDB)

  Coverage: current
  Country rankings and global population trends, links to historical population estimates, population clocks, and estimates of population, births, and deaths

• International Energy Agency: Publications & Papers

  Coverage: 1976-
  Downloadable copies of IEA publications in pdf format. Includes both recent and older books, publications, pamphlets, studies. Browse by type of publication or topic.

• International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

  Coverage: 1970-present
  Leading information source for scientific and technical literature published worldwide on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology.

• International Plant Name Index

  Coverage: current
  The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium

• International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) records

  Coverage: 1969-2010
  The records of the IUIS document the history of the Union beginning with its initial organization in 1969 to the present. The records are arranged in five series: Officers & Council, Membership, Meetings, Committees, and Affiliated Organizations.

• Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing and developments in business, the Internet, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered.

• Internet Archive

  The Internet Archive focuses on preservation and providing access to digital cultural artifacts. Collections include text, visual, and audio files in a variety of formats, including archived web pages and sites.

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Searchable glossary of terms from philosophy, including religion, ethics, logic, theology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. Includes a timeline and an online collection of classic works.

• Internet History of Science Sourcebook [from Fordham University]

  The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The History of Science Sourcebook is a subset of the major sourcebooks.

• Internet Library of Early Journals

  Coverage: 18th and 19th c.
  The ILEJ is a British project that offers full text access to six major Britsh journals of the 18th and 19th century.

• Internet Sacred Text Archive

  Includes religion, mythology, legend, folklore, occult and esoteric subjects

• Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources

  Coverage: current
  Directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet. Sponsored by Iowa State University Department of Entomology.

• IPL Literary Criticism Collection

  Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

• ISI Highly Cited Researchers

  This free, expert gateway uses citation data to deliver comprehensive information about the most significant scientists and scholars publishing today.

• ITER Database & Journals

  Coverage: current
  A searchable bibliography of 225,000 plus records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journals, monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes access to ITER journals and free resources.
  Note that only items marked as subscribed can be accessed.
  

• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System

  Coverage: Current
  Database of species names and their hierarchical classification, focusing on the biota of North America.

• IUPAC Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature

  Online version of the IUPAC Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature "Orange Book"

• IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology

  Online version of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Compendium of Chemical Terminology "Gold Book"

• IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry

  Online version of the IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry "Blue Book".

• JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Developed at the National Institute of Informatics, JAIRO provides partial free full text access to millions of academic resources, including journal/conference articles, theses and dissertations, research reports, books, from hundreds of research institutions in Japan.

• Jewish National and University Library

  Includes online index to articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI),The National Bibliography 'Kiryat Sefer', Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts, Ketubbot collection, Ancient Maps of Jerusalem, Einstein Archives Online, The National Sound Archives

• John Keats: A Comprehensive Study of His Life

  Coverage: varies
  Areas covered are: biographies, writings about him and his work, manuscript images, poetry and letters.

• Joseph L. Sanders correspondence

  Coverage: Index Only
  One box of letters written by Roger Zelanzy to Joseph L. Sanders, 1980-1995

• Journal citation reports on CD-ROM (JCR) [Science ed. and Social Science ed.]

  Coverage: 1997-2007
  JCR presents statistical data that provides a systematic way to evaluate the world's leading journals. Sort data by: Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Total Cites, Total Articles, Cited Half-Life, Journal Title.

• Journal Citation Reports on the Web

  Coverage: 2007-most current
  The JCR tracks 7,600 of the most important journals in the sciences and social sciences. With the data provided, researchers can use the JCR to help determine the most influential journals in their disciplines and which journals they should read.
  
  Earlier editions are available in CD-ROM format at the reference desk in library.

• JSTOR

  Coverage: Full Text
  Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to Arts & Science I, II, III; General Science; Ecology & Botany.

• Judaism and Jewish Resources

  Coverage: varies
  Coverage includes the following themes: political, social, religious, and historical. Topics covered are:, News and Media, Jewish Learning, Commerce/Products/Services, the Arts, Jewish Organizations, Libraries; Jewish Book Sellers; Kashrut, Archaeology.

• Jule Eisenbud collection on Ted Serios and thoughtographic photography

  Coverage: 1931-1999
  The Eisenbud collection, originating mainly from the 1960s during the years of Eisenbud's experimentation on renowned psychic photographer Ted Serios, provide an introduction to the psychic phenomenon 'thoughtography'. This collection contains thousands of photographs documenting Eisenbud's research and evidence of thoughtography.

• Kaiser State Health Facts

  Coverage: current
  Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 500 health topics: the data are based on an analysis of the Census Bureau’s March 2007 and 2008 Current Population Surveys (CPS; Annual Social and Economic Supplements) and are restricted to the civilian (not active duty military) population. The state data represent 2-year averages.

• Knovel Science & Engineering Units Converter

  Knovel's free online Science & Engineering Units Converter enables you to convert 864 scientific and engineering units for 82 properties - from Acceleration to Volume - to other units as appropriate.

• Kobe University Library Newspaper Clippings Collection

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  It provides indexes and some full texts of selective newspaper articles that were published in Japan and Japanese colonies from the late Meiji Period to Showa 45 (1970).

• KOSIS National Statistical Portal

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  It facilitates access to statistical data (population, employment, inflation, income, education, culture etc.) that are provided by 160 organizations across Korea.

• KU ScholarWorks

  Coverage: 2007-
  KU ScholarWorks is a digital repository for scholarly work created by the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas. KU ScholarWorks makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation.

• Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity

  Coverage: current
  Online slide images. A Center for the Study of Architecture project in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College.

• Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1-2

  This book presents a unified, up-to-date development of operating methods used for large-scale adsorption and chromatography.

• Lawyers Directory from Martindale

  Coverage: current
  Over one million lawyers and law firms around the world; lists practice areas; date admitted to Bar; law school; college; honors and publications; and birthdate. Also includes State Bar Association profiles.

• League of Nations Photo Archive

  Site holds photographs from the League of Nations

• League of Women Voters of Maryland

  Coverage: current
  The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. The site includes current and back issues of the League's publications, current awareness tools for issues of interest, a calendar of bills under review in the Legislature and links to other sites concerning government in Maryland.

• Left Index (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  A complete guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Coverage from the 1980's on.

• Legislative Source Book

  Coverage: current
  Published by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington D.C., this source includes links to Internet and Online Sources of Legislative and Regulatory Information, links to House and Senate documents and hearings, and legislative telephone numbers.

• Legistalker: online activity of members of Congress

  very day, Congress relies more and more on the Internet to communicate with the world. Legistalker makes it easy for you to stay on top of what your elected officials say and how they vote. The ever-growing database is updated every 20 seconds, and relies on data from Twitter, YouTube, Capitol Words, literally hundreds of different news sources, and others.

• Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

  Dictionary of ancient Latin.

• LexisNexis Academic

  Coverage: Full Text
  Includes NEWS: major U.S. and world newspapers, broadcast transcripts, foreign language publications, premium blogs and Twitter® feeds, and foreign language publications; LEGAL: law reviews and journals, Federal and State cases and statutes, and Shepard’s Citation Service; and BUSINESS: company profiles and dossiers, and SEC documents.

• Library of Congress

  Coverage: current
  The Library of Congress provides access to a variety of different collections and digital archives.

• Library of Southern Literature

  Coverage: varies
  Bibliography of one hundred literary texts of the South published to 1920. From the University of North Carolina.

• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

• Libweb: Library Servers via WWW

  Coverage: current
  Links to Library Catalogs from around the world.

• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek

  Dictionary of ancient Greek. Includes terms from classics and mythology.

• LIFE photo archive (hosted by Google)

  Coverage: 1860-
  Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  LLBA indexes and abstracts articles on the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Also includes comprehensive coverage of descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

• Linguistics and Language

  Coverage: 1973- Present
  Organized by Western Connecticut State University, this site features the categories of: linguistics (general and specialized); cognitive science; language and linguistics; English language (history, dialects and regions, usage) and more.

• Linguistics from Galaxy

  This site is a gateway to aspects of linguistics which include but are not limited to: applied; bilingualism; comparative and typology linguistics; morphology and syntax; pragmatics and semantics and more

• Linguistics from Yahoo

  This gateway includes sites in the areas of but not limited to: computational linguistics; lexicography; philosophy of language; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics and more.

• LION (Literature Online Complete)

  Coverage: varies
  Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.

• Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary

  Lives and works of writers, major and minor. Provides topical essays. International in coverage.

• Literary Marketplace

  Coverage: current
  LiteraryMarketPlace.com brings the power of automated searching to the world's largest, most complete database of the book publishing industry. Find publishers by subject and/or type of publication, by size of market or number of publications; find literary agents and other industry information.

• Literary Resources on the Net

  Includes access to literary periods, theory, bibliography and history of the book.

• Literature Resource Center

  Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.

• Local History Resource Wiki

  A collection of links relating to regional Maryland history with an emphasis on Baltimore. Includes contact and collection information for libraries, museums, historical societies as well as locations of historical newspapers, oral histories, digital images and illustrations, and online documentary projects.

• Locus: SIAM's Online Journal Archive

  Coverage: 1952-1996
  Browse or search the full-text of SIAM journals archives, from 1952-1996.

• London Lives 1690-1840: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis [archive]

  Coverage: Full Text
  Provides a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners including parish archives and criminal, coroner, guild and hospital records.

• Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Study of his Life and Work

  Coverage: varies
  Site dedicated to aspects of Lord Byron's works and life. Selected poetry, letters, contemporary and critical opinion, bibliography.

• Lowcountry Digital Library

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Lowcountry Digital Library provides access to digital collections from academic and cultural institutions throughout South Carolina. Includes oral histories, personal papers, artifacts, publications.

• Mahatma Gandhi University Online Theses Library

  Coverage: Full Text
  This Online Digital Theses library created by the Mahatama Gandhi University (Kerala, India) provides access to more than 1,000 Ph.D theses in English, Hindi, Malayalam and Sanskrit.

• Major Authors CD-ROM--Virginia Woolf

  Coverage: current
  Searchable electronic text of all of Woolf's fiction, diaries, letters, and correspondence is combined with 12,000 fully annotated digital facsimiles of her manuscripts.
  Requires CD: request at Reference Desk or Reserve Desk: call#PR6045.O72A12 1997

• Making of America (MOA)

  Coverage: 19th c. books and aricles
  Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Subject areas include education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

• Maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library

  Coverage: current
  Maps of regions around the world, including historical maps. Maps can be displayed on the screen, printed, and saved to disk.

• Maps of Historic Districts in Baltimore City

  Maps of historic districts in Baltimore, with detailed descriptions of the architecture and and significance of the area.

• MapSearch

  Search for maps in the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Map cabinets are located in the lower level (ask at the Reference Desk for assistance) and in Special Collections.

• Martindale's Calculators Online-Center

  Coverage: All disciplines
  This database provides the means of doing calculations in many disciplines, including but not limited to: engineering; electrical engineering; computer engineering; agriculture; arts & crafts; automobile, truck, motorcycle, calendar conversion and more.

• Maryland Appellate Court Opinions

  Coverage: 1995 - present
  Opinions of the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.

• Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations

  The webpage for information on nonprofit organizations in Maryland.

• Maryland Biological Stream Survey: Documents and Reports

  Primary site for Documents from the Maryland Biological Stream Survey (MBSS, started in 1993, designed to sample all of Maryland's streams. Documents range from technical reports, sampling data, and general publications.

• Maryland Court Rules

  Coverage: current
  This site provides free access to the Maryland state court rules as published in West's Maryland Rules of Court pamphlet. The site is free, but you must register.

• Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation: Real Property Data Search

  Coverage: current 3 years
  This allows you to search the Real Property database and display property records for all counties in Maryland. Search by address or property account holder.

• Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation: Taxpayer Services Division

  Coverage: current
  The Division is the custodian of records (both foreign and domestic) of corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships, and trade names for other businesses. It also maintains records on the filing of security interests (UCC filings) and the assessment of taxable personal property for these businesses. Rate Stabilization Property Notices for electric companies are filed with this office. Includes information on existing businesses and has forms for starting a business or altering an existing one.

• Maryland Department of Natural Resources: Digital Repository of DNR Documents

  Full text (pdf) versions of DNR publications, reports, surveys produced for the Maryland and Federal government.

• Maryland General Assembly [Homepage]

  Coverage: 1996-
  Current and archived sessions of the Assembly. Includes bill information and status, hearing schedules, proceedings, rosters and committee lists, Md statutes, documents and indexes. Legislative information is updated daily during the Session.

• Maryland Geological Survey Online

  Coverage: current
  The online site of the Survey offers maps, GIS datat sets, publications, current awareness resources, links to other resources and more.

• Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

  The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography consists of citations to articles, books, and doctoral dissertations about various aspects of Maryland's history and culture, divided into a set of standard subject categories. The citations are gathered from scholarly journals, local and state history-related newsletters and magazines, subject indexes to monographs and journals, publishers' catalogs, and electronic databases, among other sources.

• Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties

  The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (MIHP) was scanned by the Maryland State Archives, working closely with the Maryland Historical Trust, and includes documentation on all standing structures inventoried through June 2004. The only exception to this is Baltimore City; these inventory forms are not currently included in this version.

• Maryland Judiciary

  Primary access page to the Maryland court system. Includes information and links to District Court, Circuit Court, Appellate Courts, Orphans’ Court and more. Includes histories, court statistics, information and forms.

• Maryland Judiciary Case Search

  This website provides public access to the case records of the Maryland Judiciary. Information is available on all civil, traffic, and criminal cases in the state. This information includes defendant name, city and state, case number, date of birth, plaintiff name (civil cases only), trial date, charge, and case disposition.

• Maryland Libraries from SAILOR

  Coverage: current
  Links to public libraries across Maryland, as well as Periodicals in Maryland Libraries (ULPM) and Electronic Texts from Project Gutenberg.

• Maryland Manual On-Line

  Coverage: current
  Presents an overview of the organizational structure and staffing of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of Maryland government, including budgets, organizational charts, historical evolution of agencies, and their origin and functions.

• Maryland Register

  Published every two weeks, the Maryland Register serves as the temporary supplement to the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR). Any change to the text of regulations published in COMAR, whether by adoption, amendment, repeal, or emergency action, must first be published in the Register.

• Maryland State Archives

  The Maryland State Archives is the historical agency for Maryland and serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value. Records date from the founding of the colony in 1634 to the 1990s. Open to the public. Located in Annapolis.

• Maryland State Archives: African American Resources

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Resources for African American history at the Maryland State Archives include guides and links to government documents, archives, institutional records, teaching resources and related sites.

• Maryland State Data Center

  The SDC monitors development trends, analyzes social, economic data and prepares population, housing, employment, labor force, and income projections. Includes current & historical census data, statistical abstracts, tract maps, zip code maps, more

• Maryland State Documents at UMBC

  Search for Maryland State documents held at UMBC. Maryland Documents are located on the first floor to the right of the Reference desk. For assistance call 410-455-2346 or visit the Reference desk.

• Maryland State Law Library

  Coverage: current
  Holdings of the Maryland State Law Library in Annapolis. Also contains journal citations to articles on Maryland law as well as links to Internet resources.

• Maryland Vital Statistics Reports

  Vital Statistics from the Maryland Vital Statistics Administration. Includes reports for 1995-2004 and historical trend data. Reports are for births, deaths, marriage, divorce, population, by county. Access or download each report for complete data

• Maryland.gov

  Coverage: current
  The Maryland Portal is a gateway to aid users in accessing State, Local and Federal government goods and services.

• MAS Fulltext Ultra (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra also provides full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection(back to 1975) for key magazines.

• MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  MasterFILE provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE also contains full text of reference books, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags.

• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

  100 free internet sources for MSDS, which contain physical data (melting point, boiling point, flash point etc.), toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment, and spill/leak procedures for many substances.

• Math on the Web

  This website contains lots of free internet reference resources recommended by American Mathematical Society. Under Reference Section, there are free online dictionaries and handbooks on a variety of topics.

• MathSci Net

  Coverage: Index Only
  Includes Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. The core index/abstract of mathematics.

• MathWorld

  Coverage: current
  MathWorld is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers.

• MatWeb: Your Source for Materials Information

  MatWeb is a searchable database of material data sheets, including property information on polymers and metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys, and ceramics. Properties include: density, hardness, tensile strength, thermal conductivity, electrical resistance, and more.

• Measuring America: Decennial Censuses 1790-2000

  Coverage: 1790-2000
  Census data present here ranges from our most recent census to the historical decennial census conducted throughout the decades. Some of the data were scanned as an effort to make historical census information available to the public. The display of data will continue as historical census records become available.

• Media History Digital Library

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. Collections include: Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, Broadcasting, Technical Journals, and more.

• Medical Heritage Library

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. The Medical Heritage Library’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books (10,000+ so far) is available here through the Internet Archive.

• Medline (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  MEDLINE provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

• MedlinePlus

  Coverage: current
  Health topics, drug information, dictionaries, directories, interactive health tutorials and related sites.

• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

  Full-text and downloadable .pdf format of the Surgeon General's Report released in 2000. A comprehensive review of mental health problems, treatment, policy,ethical and legal issues and forecasts for the future.

• Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Full Text
  MMY provides users with a comprehensive guide over 2,000 psychological and vocational tests and measurements commercially published in the English language. It consists of full-text entries, references and critical reviews of assessment tools.

• Merriam-Webster Online

  Coverage: current edition
  Searchable Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Michie's Code of Maryland & Maryland Rules

  The laws and court rules of Maryland, current through the most recent Regular and Special Sessions, plus updates. For Maryland agency regulations, see COMAR

• Mildred Grossman papers

  The papers of Mildred Grossman cover her active and dedicated life. Included within the collection are photographs, both professional and personal, correspondence between friends and clients, diaries, daybooks, financial, medical, and legal documents. The photographs in this collection include a selection related to the Hotel Trades Council's exhibit "Portrait of a Union" and hundreds of personal photographs. Grossman's professional photographs have been removed and are housed with UMBC's Photography Collections.

• Military & Government Collection (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  The Military & Government Collection offers current news and historical analysis pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Sources include periodicals, academic journals, and other content.

• Mineralogy Database

  Coverage: Full Text
  Complete mineral database containing 4,714 mineral species with descriptions and comprehensive library of images. Includes information about: crystallography, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana classification, Strunz classification, mineral name origins, mineral locality information, and alphabetical listing of all known valid mineral species. Last updated 12/09.

• MLA Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Full Text
  The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

• MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association - Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  MLA International Bibliography offers detailed records of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's. The bibliography contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.

• Molecular Conceptor

  A multimedia course, based on thousand of articles and books, that teaches drug design and molecular modeling. Contains 1500 pages and features more than 1200 3D illustrations.

• Monastic Matrix: a scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400-1600 CE

  the Matrix includes information on the location and establishment of women's religious communities, primary and secondary sources on communities, biographical information on founders/membes, a glossary, bibliography, and an image file of related art.

• Museum of Contemporary Photography [Permanent collection]

  he Museum of Contemporary Photography's permanent collection comprises more than 8,500 photographs and photography-related objects made since 1936. It reflects the medium's diverse capacities for artistic expression, documentation and communication, with an overriding emphasis on the power of photography as art and idea. On this website you can search the museum's entire collection or browse highlights.

• Music & Performing Arts Online

  Coverage: Full Text
  Indexes, abstracts and provides full text from the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA), covering music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts.

• Music Dictionary

  Coverage: current
  Definitions of musical terms and symbols.

• MythNet

  Access to Olympians gods, great heross, and genealogical charts.

• NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Abstracts for over 4 million journal articles, conference proceedings, NASA reports, newsletters and theses in astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, physics and instrumentation.

• NASA History Division

  NASA History Division serves two key functions: to disseminate aerospace information as widely as possible and help NASA managers benefit from the study of past accomplishment and difficulties. Pages include both documents, photographs and links.

• NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  NTRS provides access to citations (i.e., references) and online documents and imagery for the following kinds of information: conference papers, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos.

• National Academies Press

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. More than 4,000 titles are available as PDF files for free download.

• National Archaeological Database

  The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S.

• National Archives and Records Administration

  NARA is an independent Federal agency that helps preserve our nation's history by overseeing the management of all Federal records. Our mission is to ensure access to the essential evidence of citizen's rights, Federal actions & the national experience

• National Archives Records [on Footnote]

  Coverage: Full Text
  Digitized collections from the National Archives. Collections are varied: Continental Congress, Civil War pensions, FBI documents, Southern Claims Commission, Brady photographs, others. see also http://www.nara.gov/

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

  Coverage: current
  "The Nation's Report Card." Trends in achievement for all major subjects, grades K-12, by state. From National Center for Education Statistics.

• National Atlas

  An atlas and mapping tool that gathers and presents information designed to help us understand continental-scale environmental issues has been released by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The North American Environmental Atlas is intended for use by both environmental scientists and the citizens of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Its maps and services are designed to help the public visualize environmental topics at a continental scale. For professional users of geographic information, this Atlas offers basic cartographic and environmental data for the continent at no cost.

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers

  Coverage: March 1998 - present
  Full-text of working papers from NBER, a private, nonpartisan research organization. Research is conductied by more than 500 university professors around the country. Papers are listed by topic under "PROGRAMS"

• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

  The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

  Coverage: current
  Select FASTATS, Data Warehouse, or Frequently Asked Questions for quick access to the most-requested data. Source citations are included.

• National Conference of State Legislatures

  Coverage: varies
  The National Conference of State Legislatures is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories.

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database

  Coverage: varies
  Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan

  Coverage: Index Only
  The national digital library in Taiwan provides open access to the index of thesis and dissertations published by universities in Taiwan.

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  Coverage: 1972 - present
  Full content of Environmental Health Perspectives, EHP Supplements, NTP Technical Reports and NTP Toxicity Reports from 1997, Report on Carcinogens 9th Edition and more.

• National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH Full-text Publications]

  NIMH offers a variety of publications to help researchers, mental health and health care practitioners, people with mental disorders, and the general public gain a better understanding of mental disorders & research programs

• National Library of Medicine

  The National Library of Medicine provides access to resources for the public and health professionals. Different databases provide access to current health news, medical literature and encyclopedias, health statistics, current trials and more. The NLM Gateway can be used to search up to 20 of the databases concurrently.

• National Newspapers (Proquest)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Indexes, abstracts and provides full text for the following:
  Baltimore Sun: 1990 - present
  Christian Science Monitor: 1988 - present
  New York Times + Book Review & Magazine: 1999 - present
  Wall Street Journal: 1984 - present
  Washington Post: 1987 - present
  Does not include pictures or graphics
  

• National Science Digital Library (NSDL)

  Online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.

• National Security Archive at George Washington University

  Coverage: current
  The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library that collects and publishes declassified documents, providing access to critical declassified records on national security, military history, foreign policy

• National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH)

  Coverage: 1994-
  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH), formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older. The following information is available from this major data collection system: data and reports 1994-

• National Taiwan University press database

  Coverage: Full Text
  It provides free access to selective articles from their periodicals, covering literature, social science, arts and science etc..

• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Gateway

  Search the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Note: full reports are not available online. Please contact a librarian if you wish to acquire one.

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)

  Coverage: complete
  RLIN and OCLC records of archives and manuscripts holdings

• National Urban League Archive

  Full text archive of selected speeches, articles and columns from NUL publications and press releases from the National Urban League.

• Naver News Archive Service (1920-1999)

  Coverage: Full Text
  It provides full text search by date and subject of these three newspaper archives: Kyonghyang Sinmun, Tonga Ilbo, and Maeil Kyongje.

• Naxos Music Library

  Coverage: current
  Naxos Music Library [NML] offers streaming access to more than 41,340 CDs with more than 592,600 tracks. The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels. Resources offered by NML include synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms. A comprehensive online encyclopedia of classical music is in development.

• netLibrary

  Coverage: Varies
  A collection of E-texts covering topics specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Subjects include: computer science, business, international relations, education, environmental science, psychology, civil rights law and history.

• Netlingo

  Coverage: current
  Dictionary of internet and other networking terms.

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

  The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Also includes links to other useful ETD search tools.

• New Chaucer Society

  Coverage: varies
  This Washington University site contains material about Chaucer and late medieval literature and culture. Includes links to other Chaucerian resources and an online bibliography of texts, biographical, historical and cultural materials.

• New York Times Book Reviews

  Coverage: 1981-present
  Full-text of book reviews, author interviews and book news published in the New York Times.

• New York Times Historical (Proquest)

  Coverage: Full Text
  New York Times full page and article images (.pdfs) from 1851-2001. Includes indexing and abstracting with fully searchable text back to the first issue.

• Newspaper Holdings in Special Collections [UMBC]

  Coverage: c.1840-c.1970
  Index to the newspapers (original issues, not microfilm) held in the Special Collections Dept. of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. Provides title, city and state of origin, and dates held.

• Nineteenth Century in Print: Books and Periodicals

  Coverage: 1800-1900
  Books: dating mainly from between 1850 and 1880. Currently, approx. 1,500 books are included. The collection is particularly strong in poetry and in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, science & technology. Periodicals: literary and political magazines, as well as 'Scientific American', 'Manufacturer and Builder', and 'Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture', 'Landscape Art', and 'Forestry'. The longest run is for 'The North American Review', 1815-1900.

• NIST Atomic Spectra Database

  This database provides access and search capability for NIST critically evaluated data on atomic energy levels, wavelengths, and transition probabilities.

• NIST Chemistry WebBook

  Find chemical and physical property data, spectra, etc. Search by chemical formula, name, CAS registry number, and more.

• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

  Coverage: current
  The NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, together with its Web counterpart, the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF), is the culmination of a project that was conceived in 1996 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST). The project had two equally important goals: to develop an authoritative replacement for the highly successful Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, published in 1964 by the National Bureau of Standards (M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, editors); and to disseminate essentially the same information from a public Web site operated by NIST. The new Handbook and DLMF are the work of many hands: editors, associate editors, authors, validators, and numerous technical experts.

• NIST Physical Reference

  Physical Constants, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopic Data, Ionization Data, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Data, Nuclear Physics Data, Condensed Matter Physics Data, and more.

• NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database

  Searchable database of over 22,000 line positions, chemical shifts, doublet splittings, and energy separations of photoelectron and Auger-electron lines. Provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• Nobelprize.org

  Coverage: 1901-
  Home site of the Nobel Prize, with full lists of recipients and current nominations. Complementary material includes biographical summaries, acceptance speeches, and material on the foundation.

• NSA Declassified Documents

  Coverage: 1940-current
  NSA/CSS periodically releases declassified documents or indexes to these documents to the public. Full text docs listed on this page include those related to Vietnam (Tonkin Gulf) UFO projects, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, more.

• NSA Historical Publications

  Coverage: 18th-current
  Full-text pamphlets and monographs published by the National Security Agency. Topics range from slavery through Prohibition, World War II, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, cryptology, misc.

• Nuclear Data Dissemination Home Page

  Coverage: current
  Web-accessible version of the "Table of Isotopes" provides nuclear structure and radioactive decay data

• Numdam

  Coverage: varies
  Search and view digitized versions of older, French journals in mathematics.

• Nuremberg Trials Project: A digitial document collection

  Coverage: Full Text
  Offers access to approx. one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

• OAIster (OCLC)

  Coverage: Full Text
  OAIster is a catalog of digital resources from open archive collections representing multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,100 contributors worldwide. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

• Ocean Drilling Program Proceedings

  Coverage: current
  Contains the Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program series, including Initial Reports and Scientific Results. Searchable.

• OECD iLibrary [formerly SourceOECD]

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals. Access statistics and articles on member countries individually or by region.

• Office of National Drug Control Policy

  Coverage: varies
  Provides statistics on drug use in the United States, including high schools in various cities across the United States; international information on drugs is included

• Office of Scientific & Technical Information (DOE)

  OSTI provides searchable access to scientific and technical information in the physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy (DOE). It provides access (full-text and/or citations) to research by, for, or of interest to the DOE including e-prints, pre-prints, grey lit, research reports and technical reports. Its key databases include Information Bridge, E-print Network, Science Conference Proceedings and so on.

• Old Bailey Online: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913

  Coverage: Full Text
  A fully searchable edition of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. The project is a collaboration between the Open University, and the Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield.

• Old English Corpus

  The Corpus comprises over 3000 different texts (all surviving OE material, excluding some variant texts).

• On-Line Books page

  Coverage: N/A
  Index and full text of more than 11,000 English works in various formats.

• OneLook Dictionaries

  Coverage: current
  Search dozens of subject-specific and general dictionaries all at once. Covers science, technology, business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and more.

• Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence

  Coverage: current
  The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is a regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century. Currently, there is no tool available that documents and classifies our knowledge by continent, country and historical period. The OEMV’s first objective is to fill this gap by offering reliable historical description and interdisciplinary analysis of both well-documented and less well-known 20th century massacres. Resources provided include chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in the field of genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field.

• Online Ethics.Org

  Online Ethics Center for engineering and science

• Online Froissart: A digital edition of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Online Froissart includes more than 100 transcriptions covering Books I, II and III of the Chronicles, a powerful collation tool and a search engine. With essays and notes on the history, politics and personalities of the period, the resource also includes a new translation into modern English of selected chapters from the first three Books of the Chronicles.

• Online Index to Hagerstown Newspapers 1845-49, 1860-1865

  Citation seaching online from 1845 to 1849 and 1860 to 1865. An Index to Hagerstown Newspapers is a multi-volume subject and personal name index to local and regional news published in weekly and semi-weekly newspapers in Hagerstown, Maryland between 1790 and 1890. The printed volumes covering the period from 1790 to 1849 and 1860 to 1865 are already completed and are on the open shelves at The Washington County Free Library (WCFL) in Hagerstown and in the Reference sections of the county branches. Microfilms of the original newspapers are available for the public's use at the WCFL Information Desk in Hagerstown.

• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)

  This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. V. A. McKusick (JHU) and developed for the Web by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. It contains textual information, pictures, and references.

• OnlineConversion.com

  Online tool for converting units of length, speed, volume, weight, mass, date/time, angles, area, more. Convert just about anything to anything else.Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.

• Open CRS: CRS Reports for the People

  Coverage: current
  American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports that are already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.

• OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories

  Coverage: Full Text
  OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents for material.

• OpenSecrets.org from the Center For Responsive Politics

  The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. Campaign finance issues, PACS information, debate info, more.

• Optics InfoBase

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Search and access the full text of JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Letters, Optics Express, JOSA (1917-1984), Applied Optics, J. Lightwave Technology, J. Optical Technology, J. Optical Networking and Optics and Photonics News.

• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

  ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. ORB provides access to full length textbooks, encyclopedia articles, bibliographies and primary source materials.

• Organic Chemistry Portal

  The Organic Chemistry Portal offers an overview of recent topics, interesting reactions, and information on the most important chemicals. Includes job market and links to chemical resources and suppliers.

• Oxford Bibliographies Online

  Coverage: Index Only
  Current subscription to bibliographies for: Atlantic History, Classics, Social Work. Bibliographies can be searched individually or collectively. Topic entries include an overview plus resources with OCLC links for locating. No abstracts for individual resources.

• Oxford Classical Mythology Online

  Companion to Morford and Lenardon's 'Mythology'. Included are online maps.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [DNB]

  Coverage: earliest - 2002
  The Oxford DNB includeds the complete text of 55,000 biogrphies with 10,000 portrait illustrations of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002

• Oxford English Dictionary

  Coverage: 2nd and New Editions
  The OED describes English as it is today, but also records the history and development of the language through descriptive techniques and quotations. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• Oxford Languages Dictionaries Online

  An online bilingual dictionaries presently contains 1.2 million words and phrases (available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Chinese). The dictionaries can be searched or browsed, phonetic symbols are explained, and references can be emailed or exported to bibliographical software. Other features include audible pronunciation, grammatical notes, guides to cultural events of each country, and hints for writing in a variety of situations and formats.

• Oxford Reference Online

  It brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional sources.

• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media

  Coverage: 1893 - present
  On this day in history cases; featured trials Search cases by subject. Includes brief biographies and portraits of all justices on the Supreme Court. Virtual tour of the Supreme Court.

• PAIS International & PAIS Archive - Public Affairs Information Service CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  PAIS International indexes citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature and research reports back to 1972. The Archive contains the records from PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin 1915-1976.

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

  Coverage: varies
  The major movements and various authors in American literature. Nearly 400 authors, major and minor, are included. Primary works, extensive selected bibliographies, and sometimes major themes, summaries of relevant articles. Includes appendixes.

• PapersFirst (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes papers from every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre, 1993-.

• Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)

  Coverage: 1946-
  The PHP is a database of full-text materials on cold war international relations, area studies, international business, security and military studies, comparative studies, and human rights; it includes declassified NATO documents and documents from the archives in Eastern and Central Europe plus full text journal articles, analyses, more.

• Perry Hall Improvement Association (PHIA) records

  Coverage: 1945-1986
  Includes the documents on the founding and organization of the Association, projects undertaken, membership lists, newspaper clippings and zoning regulations from the period.

• Perseus Online

  Coverage: Full Text
  A digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and images.

• Pharmacy School Admission Requirements

  Coverage: current
  The PSAR© is designed to provide the most up-to-date information about each school, including specifics about admission requirements, selection factors, and educational costs for students entering pharmacy school.

• Philip M. Wagner papers

  Coverage: 1839-1995, bulk 1942-1989
  This collection contains the documents relating to the life and work of Philip M. Wagner (1904-1996). Wagner served as a columnist and editor at the Baltimore Sun from 1930-1964. The materials are organized into series which reflect the major areas of life & work: personal, Sun Papers & Boordy Vineyards.

• Philo of Alexandria: Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

  Documents pretaining to Philo of Alexandria including encyclopedia articles, online texts, journals devoted to the subject, research conferences and projects, book reviews on Philo studies and more

• PhiloBiblon

  PhiloBiblon is a project to construct a bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula, designed to catalog the primary sources of a given corpus of texts along with relevant bibliographic and authority files.

• Philosopher's Index (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  A current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy featuring author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published since 1940. Does not include book reviews.

• Philosophy Pages

  Coverage: varies
  Western philosophers are include along with a dictionary, listing of major figures in philosophy, timeline, history of western philosophy and logic. Most entries have short bibliographies.

• Philosophy Portal - Philosophy Online

  A guide to authoritative, academic philosophy sites on the web. Includes: philosophy movements, great philosophers, and the history of philosophy.

• PhilPapers

  PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. They monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. Some features require you to create a free account.

• PhilSci Archive

  Coverage: varies
  An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. It is offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community.

• Photographers & Collections Index (UMBC)

  Coverage: current
  A browsing index to the photography holdings in Special Collections with links to the image records in the Digital Collections.

• Photonics Directory

  Coverage: current
  Searchable glossary of terms related to photonics, a branch of physics that deals with the properties and applications of photons, especially as relates to telecommunications. Includes buyer's guide, corporate guide, and society and university guide.

• Phrase Finder

  Provides access to phrases and sayings, their meanings and origins, euphemisms, quotes from Shakespeare, proverbs and more.

• Physical Constants

  Coverage: current
  CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants, via National Institute of Standards and Technology.

• PILOTS database (CSA)

  Indexes and abstracts the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, with both current and retrospective coverage.

• PLANTS National Database

  Coverage: current
  Includes scientific and common names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools. Provided by the USDA.

• Poetry Portal

  This gateway covers the writing of poetry, interpretation of it, theoretical issues of and connections to other art forms or ideas.

• Poetry Society of America

  Coverage: varies
  Includes access to 'Crossroads' the publication of PSA, and links to resources for readers and writers. Listing of MFA programs, writers' conferences.

• Political Dictionary

  Coverage: current
  Dictionary of political terms, including some economic and military terms. Also covers the news media, major organizations, and systems of government.

• Pollution Abstracts (CSA)

  Indexes and abstracts pollution literature from conference proceedings and journals. Includes coverage of scientific research and government policies relating to atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects, and environmental action. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• President's Office records, University Archives.

  Coverage: 1951-1985, bulk 1966-1976
  The President's Office records is the first campus record collection processed in the UMBC University Archives. The records contain documents relating to all aspects of campus including the development of acedemic programs, growth of the faculty and staff, events and issues affecting the student body, and the relationship between other University System of Maryland colleges and the Board of Regents with UMBC's administration. This collection will be updated as additional materials are transferred from the President's Office.

• Presidential Papers Infobase

  Includes Messages and papers of the Presidents, Washington through Taft, and the Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, Hoover through George H.W. Bush; George H.W. Bush to present available online.

• Primary Search (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Primary Search provides full text as far back as 1990 for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)

• Princeton Dante Project

  Coverage: varies
  The Princeton Dante Project combines a traditional approach to the study of Dante's Comedy with new techniques of compiling and consulting data, images, and sound.

• Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810

  Coverage: Full Text
  Probate records provide valuable information about the lifestyles of people during the colonial and early national periods.Included in the database are 325 inventories of the household items that provide insight into furnishings, dining habits & behavior

• Proceedings (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre, 1993-. Contained in each record is a list of the papers presented at each conference.

• Professional Development Collection (Ebsco)

  Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

• Project Bartleby

  Coverage: Varies
  Bartleby provides access to full text collections of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and reference tools.

• Project Gutenberg

  Coverage: See Index
  Project Gutenberg provides full-text online copies of out-of-copyright works (published pre-1923). Classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries.

• Project Muse

  Searchable full-text of select journals in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.

  Access Free Sample Books on Project MUSE Beta Site

• ProQuest Congressional

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Provides indexing and some full text for Congressional hearings, legislation, public laws, and legal research. Includes congressional publications, legislative histories (1970-present), and bills. Contains the US Code, voting records, congressional documents, the Congressional Record,the Federal Register (1980 - present) and the CFR. (Formerly LexisNexis Congressional)

• Proquest Digital Dissertations

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Indexes and abstracts dissertations and theses primarily from the U.S and Canada, some international; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full text available for dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available as PDFs. (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI)

• ProQuest Statistical Insight

  Coverage: Full Text
  Provides full text documents and statistical information in tabular formats. Sources include U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. (Formerly LexisNexis Statistical)

• ProtectedPlanet

  Search the World Database on Protected Areas in any language to find information about individual protected areas. Explore the worlds national parks, wilderness areas and world heritage sites.

• Protein Data Bank

  Worldwide depository of information about the three-dimensional structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids.

• PsycArticles (Ebsco)

  Full text of 51 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Funded by the UMBC Psychology Department.

• PsychCentral

  Psychology and mental health resources. Offers descriptions of symptoms and treatments of major psychological disorders.

• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

• PsycINFO (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  PsycINFO abstracts scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the behavioral sciences and mental health. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with journal coverage starting in the 1800s includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals.

• PubChem Project

  Coverage: current
  PubChem is a search tool for chemical information, divided into three areas: Compounds, substances and Bio Assays. Full entries provide information on molecular weigh and formula, structure, properties and links to additional information

• Public Agenda

  Public Agenda is a nonprofit organization that explores public opinion and produces citizen education materials. Their goal is to provide polling and other data to clarify public attitudes about complex policy issues.

• Public Library of Law

  Coverage: varies
  Free legal site: Maryland case law from 1997. Supreme Court cases from 1754, most Federal Circuit Courts from 1950 and state appellate cases from 1997. Keyword searching but no citation searching. Includes links to statutes, codes and constitutions, and paid sites and document packages.

• Public Library of Science

  Coverage: 2003-present
  Searchable, open-access, peer-reviewed journals in Biology and Medicine. Published monthly since October 2003 (Biology), 2004 (Medicine).

• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

  Coverage: 1991 - present
  President Clinton's 1996 and 1997 Public Papers. Subsequent Presidential papers, as well as volumes covering previous administrations, will be added on an incremental basis.

• PubMed (Free Medline)

  Coverage: Index Only
  PubMed comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Includes peer-reviewed articles, case reports, clinical trials, and much more. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

• Pugwash Online: Conferences on Science & World Affairs

  Coverage: 1957
  The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. This site offers the full text of Pugwash Conference Reports (1998-), newletters, statements and histories.

• Pulps: Adventure, Mystery and Detective Fiction

  Coverage: c.1930-1950
  A title index to the holdings of adventure/mystery pulps in Special Collections. Browse by title or search for a specific story title or author. The index includes approx. 2,500 story titles/authors with new records to be added periodically.

• Pulps: Science Fiction & Fantasy

  Coverage: 1930s - present
  Holdings of science fiction and fantasy "pulp" serials held in Special Collections. Includes currently received publications.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

  Coverage: current
  The Purdue Writing Lab offers over 200 free resources including: Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), Job Search and Professional Writing

• Quotations (was Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)

  Online versions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed., and other sources of famous or popular quotations.

• Race Relations Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Race Relations Abstracts includes records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, and immigration studies.

• Radical Literature Collection at UMBC

  Coverage: Late 19th - mid 20th cen
  The Radical Literature Collection includes books, pamphlets, and other publications on and by Communist, Socialist, Labor and other left- and right-of-center political organizations and individuals.

• Rand Abstracts

  Coverage: 1980 - present
  Indexes Rand policy reports on national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies.

• Reaxys

  Coverage: Index Only
  Reaxys is a web-based interface for three chemical information databases: CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, and Patent Chemistry Database (PCD). It provides quality, authoritative information in organic, inorganic and organometalic chemistry. Reaxys includes property data, preparation and reaction data, structure information, and much more.

• Regional Archives, Personal Papers and Literary Manuscripts at UMBC

  Coverage: historical
  Special Collections also has a selection of personal papers, literary manuscripts and regional archives. Examples include science fiction manuscripts from the Rosenfeld collection and the papers of Philip Wagner, of the Baltimore Sun and Boordy vineyards.

• Regional Business News (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

• Religion-Online

  Coverage: varies
  Areas covered are: Old and New Testament studies, history of religious thought; Christian theology, ethics; mission, religion and society; religon and communication, homiletics; religious education; and pastoral care and counseling.

• Religious Studies Gateway

  Catalogue of Religious Studies Internet Resources. This gateway includes links to statistics, full-text periodicals online. Site includes Christianity and other faiths

• Religious Studies Web Guide

  From the University of Calgary Library, Calgary Canada. Arranged by format, religious groups, and other useful internet sites for the study of religion.

• Religious Texts. Compendium of Muslim Texts

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Compendium of Muslim Texts has been one of the most frequently cited sources of hadith and is the most complete compilation of hadith available to the public. A searchable database of both compilations is available.

• Research Port Troubleshooting Guide

  Use this guide to diagnose problems with Research Port.

• Researching African-American Photographers

  Subject guide to resources for researching African-American photographers. Includes resources held at UMBC, other USM campuses and links to major collections held in the U.S.

• Resources for the study of Buddhism

  A gateway to general Buddhism

• Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865)

  Searchable full text of 1384 issues of the paper available online, ranging in date from November 1860 through December 1865. Links in the navigation bar above provide access to a brief Civil War period history and chronology.

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  RILM is a comprehensive index to music publications from all over the world, including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, criticism, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more.

• Risk Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts literature on risk arising from industrial, technological, and environmental sources, public health and social issues, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary assessment and risk management. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Roger Zelazny papers

  Coverage: 1970-1976
  These papes cover Roger Zelazny's professional career from 1970-1976. Materials include manuscripts of his books, stories, and articles; correspondence with literary agent Henry Morrison, publishing companies, and other science fiction authors; and selections of related Zelazny publications.

• Roget's Thesaurus

  Coverage: current
  Searchable thesaurus of the English language. Includes historical usage examples.

• Romantic Chronology

  Coverage: varies
  Coverage is from time periods of 1660-1851 covering poiltical, literary and social aspects of life in Britain, Europe and the United States, and as well as significant events elsewhere in the world.

• Romantic Circles

  Coverage: varies
  A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes study devoted to Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and their contemporaries and historical contexts.

• Roper Center Survey Archive

  Coverage: 1943-2000
  An on-line catalog of studies collcted by the Roper Center. While no opinion data are directly available through this service, researchers interested in secondary analysis of survey data files can determine studies relevant to their areas of interest.

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Coverage: Current
  Searchable full-text of the complete, ten volume set.

• Royal Society of Chemistry E-Journals

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Search all journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Full-text is available only for journals subscribed to by UMBC.

• RxList Drug Index

  Coverage: current
  Information on pharmaceuticals currently on US market or close to approval. Note: "Fuzzy search" feature finds close matches, not exact ones, and so may produce nonsensical results. To turn off fuzzy searching, add an asterisk (*) to your search terms.

• SAGE Reference Online

  15 authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias in many subject areas.

• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Library of Congress]

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale maps, dating from 1867 to the present and depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

• ScanGrants

  Facilitates the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. The funding sources listed here may be of interest to medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics and others. Funding sources include private foundations, corporations, businesses, and not-for profit organizations.

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

  Coverage: 1990-2005
  The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

• Scholarly Societies Web Site on Linguistics

  This provides a listing of societies devoted to linguistics along with a ranking of the stability of the url links. This listing is international in scope.

• School District Demographics

  Coverage: 2000
  Social, financial, and administrative data for each of the 15,274 school districts in the US for 2000. From the National Center for Education Statistics.

• Science Accelerator (OSTI)

  Search the information resources of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). These resources contain the results of DOE research and development (R&D) projects and programs, descriptions of R&D projects under way or recently completed, major R&D accomplishments, and recent research of interest to DOE.

• Science Citation Index™ Expanded

  Coverage: 1998-
  Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 7,100 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

• Science Direct (Elsevier Journals Online)

  Search or browse over 2,500 science, technology, and medicine journals. Full text is available ONLY for those titles subscribed to by UMBC. Abstracts and bibliographic information is available for all other titles.

• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical [index]

  Coverage: 1800-1900
  The Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (SciPer) index provides an scholarly synopsis of the material relating to science, technology, and medicine appearing in sixteen non-scientific periodicals published in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

• Science Watch

  Track hot or emerging fields as well as national and international trends in basic research.

• Science.gov

  Science.gov contains reliable government resources selected by the respective agencies as their best science information. Developed by an interagency working group of 17 scientific and technical information organizations from 12 major science agencies.

• SciFinder

  Coverage: Index Only
  You must create an account using your @umbc.edu email address to use SciFinder.
  SciFinder is a research discovery tool which provides access to research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and more. Includes peer-reviewed articles, patents, chemical structures, chemical properties, chemical reactions, and much more. NOTE: Use of SciFinder Scholar is limited to current UMBC students, faculty, and staff ONLY.

• Scitable (by Nature Education)

  Coverage: current
  A free science library by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.

• Search It! Science (Children's Science Collection)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Catalogs 3270 highly recommended children's trade books, of which UMBC holds 2600, for K-8 students. These books were chosen by a national panel of librarians and experts in science and education. Collection Located on the 4th Floor.

• SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR)

  Coverage: varies
  Electronic archive of reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by publicly traded companies.

• SIAM Journals Online

  Coverage: varies
  Browse or search the full-text of SIAM journals online.

• SIC Code Index

  Coverage: current
  Index to Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.

• SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Search the databases of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Databases include: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends, SIPRI Arms Industry Database, SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database, SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.

• Slavery & Abolition in the US

  Slavery and Abolition in the US: Select Publications of the 1800s is a digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century. The collection includes more than 15,000 individual pages of printed text and corresponding searchable transcriptions.

• Slide Library Search

  Coverage: current
  Index to slides held at UMBC's Slide Library.

• Social Psychology Network

  Coverage: varies
  Gateway to links on psychology and social psychology. Includes links to electronic forums, ranking of PhD programs in clinical, psychology and social psychology.

• Social Sciences Citation Index®

  Coverage: 1998-
  Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 2,100 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines, plus individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,500 of the world's leading science and technology journals.

• Social Security Administration Archives/Museum

  The Social Security Administration Historian's Office, located in Baltimore County, maintains a large website with online finding aids to its Archives, a virtual tour of its Museum, and many online primary source documents, photos, videos and soundclips

• Social Services Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts current research on social work and human services, including social welfare, social policy, community development, crisis intervention, gerontology, poverty and homelessness.

• Society for Developmental Biology records

  Coverage: 1939-2008
  This collection contains the organizational records for the Society of Developmental Biology, including documents relating to committees, members and membership, finances, meetings and conferences, awards, publications, and affiliated associations.

• Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) records

  Coverage: 1949-2001
  This finding aid of the records of the Society for Industrial Microbiology covers the years beginning in 1949, with birth of the Society, through its development and growth up to 2001. Records include correspondence, minutes, reports.

• Society of Protozoologists records

  Coverage: 1947-1994
  The collection documents the development and growth of the Society of Protozoloogists from its founding in 1947 to 1994. The records are organized by Society history, Executive Committee records, membership, meetings, publications & affiliated societies. In 2005 the membership voted to change the name to International Society of Protistologists.

• SocIndex with Full Text (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  SocINDEX features sociology research with indexing for more than 2.1 million records. Full text is available for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908, full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.

• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

  Coverage: current
  Online version of Bureau of Justice Statistics annual publication. Includes data on crime, criminals, victimization, courts, corrections, law enforcement, and more. Print version in 1st floor GovDocs, call# J29.9/6:

• Southeast Asia Digital Library

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  This collaborative project created free online access to digitized books, photographs, oral history, manuscripts and video footage from across Southeast Asia.

• Southern Historical Society papers [on CD]

  Full text of 52 volume set was produced by the Historical Society in the late 1880's and early 1900's. CD at the REFERENCE DESK [Reference - Ready Reference | E483.7 .S76 1997 ]

• SparkNotes

  Study guides for everything from Literature to Physics. Written by Harvard graduates and students who are specialists in their subjects.

• Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)

  SDBS is an integrated spectral database system for organic compounds, including: electron impact Mass spectra (EI-MS); Fourier transform infrared spectra (FT-IR); 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra; 13C NMR spectra; laser Raman spectra; electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra. From the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

• SpectroscopyNOW.com

  Free spectroscopy portal covering all aspects of spectroscopy. Includes news, techniques, information, resources, and services.

• SPORTDiscus (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  SPORTDiscus offers coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and references to articles in 60 different languages.

• Sports Reference

  Coverage: historical
  A combination of sites providing top notch statistics and resources for sports fans everywhere. Our aim is to be the easiest-to-use, fastest, most complete sources for sports statistics anywhere. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, olympics

• SpringerLink

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Provides access from 1997-present to Springer journals and books focusing on science, technology and medicine with some coverage in the humanities and social sciences. NOTE: full-text access is only available on titles subscribed to by UMBC.

• Stabler family papers, 1893-1973, bulk 1941-1973

  This collection documents the activities of the Stabler family primarily from 1941 to 1973. The Stabler family previously owned the land that is now the UMBC campus. Personal histories including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippins related to the construction of Spring Grove and UMBC, official family documents, and certificates provide a brief biographical sketch of the members of the Hayes/Stabler family. Ephemera and books are also included.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Coverage: varies
  A dynamic, peer-reviewed, open access encyclopedia of philosophy.

• State and Local Government on the Net

  Coverage: varies
  Directory of official state county and local government websites.

• Statistical Abstract of the United States (US Census version)

  Coverage: 1881-present
  Basic summary statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S., various regions, the states, MSAs, and cities of 100,000 or more residents. Also includes historical statistics under "Earlier Editions."

• Statistics Canada

  Provides statisitics on Canada on social indicators, including population, agriculture, construction, education, health, justice, labour, trade, transportation and more.

• STATS at George Mason University

  Coverage: 1994-
  STATS monitors the media to expose the abuse of science and statistics before people are misled and public policy is distorted. Present focus is on the following policy areas: education, children, drug use, public health, polls & surveys, gender, crime.

• Supreme Court of the United States

  Information on the Supreme Court of the United States, biographies of the current and previous justices, history, traditions, procedures, current docket, and full-text of cases & opinions from 1991-.

• Sustainability Science Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes the literature on sustainable development, conservation, human population and demography, natural resource management, species diversity, and protection of habitat/ecosystems. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Teacher Reference Center

  Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

• Teaching American History in Maryland: Documents for the Classroom

  Coverage: 17th c.-
  Teaching American History in Maryland makes facsimiles of original documents available for use by teachers and students in elementary and secondary schools, and colleges and universities. All materials are intended for educational and research purposes.

• Teaching Engineering

  Written mainly for Ph.D. students and professors in all areas of engineering, this book may be used as a text for a graduate-level class or by professionals who wish to read it on their own.

• Telecommunications: Glossary of Terms

  Coverage: current
  Full text of dictionary established by Federal Standard 1037C, prepared by National Communications System, Technology and Standards Division; published by General Services Administration, Information Technology Service.

• Television scripts

  Coverage: 1954-1978
  This collection of television scripts spans the 1950s through the 1970s.

• The 'Lectric Law Library's Legal Lexicon's Lyceum [law dictionary]

  A law dictionary with thousands of definitions & explanations of legal terms, phrases & concepts.

• The Afro Newspaper Morgue Collections

  Coverage: Index Only
  The Afro Newspaper Morgue Collections include newspapers stories, materials related to the story,including photographs, related article clippings and ephemera arranged by subject matter.

• The Biology Project

  Coverage: current
  The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona. Units include: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Mendelian Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

  Based on the print version, this site provides commonsense on grammar and punctuation.

• The Energy Resources Program

  This government database from U.S. Geological Services includes national oil and gas resource assessment as well as coal quality assessment.

• The English works of Thomas Hobbes

  Coverage: c.1640-1682
  Full text of Hobbes' English works with Folio VIEWS search software.

• The Envirolink Network

  Coverage: current
  Online source for environmental news and resources.

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

  Database of primarily web-based resources for medieval topics, arranged by category and type of material. Sponsored by Georgetown University.

• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008

  Coverage: 1952-2008
  The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.Credits, transcripts and descriptive text available.

• The Nucleus

  Coverage: current
  Online resource for physics and astronomy undergrads. Includes textbook reviews, resources for research, and discussion forums.

• The State of Maryland Video Collection

  Coverage: current
  Maryland's Official YouTube Channel. Uploaded videos from a variety of state and local sources on topics of interest in Maryland. Updated daily.

• The swords of Armageddon: U.S. nuclear weapons development since 1945

  Coverage: 1945-
  Includes a complete technical glossary;a history of American thermonuclear weaponry; weapons physics; technological innovations in weapons design; individual war-head histories. Full text files on REF workstation, CD available in stacks at U264.S96 1995

• The Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)

  Coverage: Index Only
  It contains more than 650 Taiwan periodicals or serials of different subjects from 1991 to current, depending on the titles. The alternative titles in English also are searchable.

• The Ultimate Writer's Guide

  A guide for writing essays that includes information about the easy structure, style and grammar.

• The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University [Virtual Vietnam Archive]

  The mission of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University is to support research & education regarding all aspects of the history of the American Vietnam experience. Materials include full text documents, maps, oral histories, diaries, videos, other.

• The Virtual Technical Reports Center

  The institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web.

• The White House

  Current issues forum, blog and information on all aspects of the incumbent president are included. Photos, documents, briefing digests, links to other government offices.

• The WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences

  Coverage: 1991-present
  Comprehensive list of on-line biology resources, arranged by specific subject area.

• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

  Coverage: varies
  Ten of Zora Neale Hurston plays are contained in this site, more of them unpublished.

• Theatre Profiles

  Coverage: Full Text
  Search for current and historical (1995-) information including theatres by location, personnel, theatre facts, productions and special interests categories.

• ThermoDex

  ThermoDex, maintained by the University of Texas, Austin, is a searchable directory focusing on thermodynamic properties. The search form also allows specification of classes of materials and specific compounds in combination with desired properties. A few publicly available Web sites are included in addition to the print sources. NOTE: ThermoDex lists resources available at UT Austin. Use catalogUSMAI to see if these resources are available at UMBC.

• Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)

  Coverage: Third century B.C. to A.D. 600
  TLL attempts to comprehend the entire Latin language, including both literary texts and documentary evidence (inscriptions, etc.). TLL is the authoritative starting point for all research involving Latin.

• Thomas Legislative Database from Library of Congress

  Coverage: varies
  Congressional news; bill summary, status and full-text; Congressional Record 1994 - pres.; committee information; historical documents and debates; essays on the legislative process; and more.

• ThomasNet (formerly Thomas Register)

  ThomasNet is the most comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America. Includes product, company, and brand name searching and access to industry specific searching. No login needed.

• Time Magazine Archive

  Coverage: Index Only
  Full-text search of Time magazine archives from 1923 through 2009. Does not include access to full-text articles.

• Tissue Culture Association records

  Coverage: 1946-1986
  Finding Aid to the Tissue Culture Association. The finding aid includes the documents and records of the TCA from its founding in 1946 to 1986. Documents include correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, reports, and other society activities. In 1994 the membership voted to change the name to Society for In Vitro Biology.

• TOCS-IN (Table of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists)

  Coverage: Index Only
  TOCS-IN provides table of contents from a selection of journals in the Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. Searching is available in English or French, results are citations only.

• ToxFAQs: Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets

  Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about exposure to hazardous substances found around hazardous waste sites and the effects of exposure on human health. Provided by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Division of Toxicology.

• Toxicant and Disease Database

  Provided by the The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), the Toxicant and Disease Database is a searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.

• Toxicology Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, more. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Toxline (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This version does not contain information from CAS, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.

• ToxNet

  Includes Hazardous Substances Data Bank, Toxic Chemical Release Inventory, Integrated Risk Information System, Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System, Genetic Toxicology, and others.

• Traveler's Health [CDC]

  Coverage: current
  Travelers' Health offers information to assist travelers and their health-care providers in deciding the vaccines, medications, and other measures necessary to prevent illness and injury during international travel. Includes the full text of the 2010 Yellow Book

• Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto

  On this site you will find the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. Includes background information, text comparisons, commentary on the plays and the historical context.

• U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century

  U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, phase III, cites need to provide security from terrorism by increasing investment in science education, redesign of departments within the U.S., needed human capital, and the role of Congress. NOTE: site works best in Internet Explorer

• U.S. International Trade Statistics

  Coverage: Full Text
  U.S. trade statistics by country and by product (SITC codes). Data is available by month and cumulatively by year since 1996. Definitions of terms are available at linked websites.

• U.S. National Archives [NARA] Photostream

  The United States National Archives and Records Administration is delighted to join the Flickr community. For the pilot project, we will post a selection of photographs from the Women's Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, and a few favorites. The photos you see here are only a sample of the more than 25 million photographs and 20,000 graphic images (posters and some original artwork) held in roughly 2,500 series at the U.S. National Archives in the Washington, D.C.

• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

  Information on over 240,000 serials, including details on almost 55,000 ceased titles. Records include information on serials' subscription information, publisher, indexing sources, and refereed/non-refereed status.

• UMBC Class Lectures Online

  Streaming class lectures for several current courses, provided by UMBC's New Media Studio. Biology lectures available in Library Media.

• UMBC Digital Collections

  UMBC Digital Collections are composed of selected materials from the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Currently, the majority of the digital collections draw upon the rich and unique holdings of the Special Collections and Archives. Items cover a broad range of topics and include photographs, the Retriever Weekly newspaper, electronic theses and dissertations from UMBC candidates, Theatre Department programs, posters, playbills, and other ephemera.

• UNdata

  Coverage: Full Text
  Official statistics and country profiles. Topics covered include: agriculture, crime, education, employment, energy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, tourism, and trade. Provided by the United Nations Statistics Division.

• Uniform Crime Reports

  Online version of annual publication. Also known as Crime in the United States. Special sections on hate crime and terrorism in the US. include statistics on arrests for various criminal offenses at the national, regional and state level. Statistics for years before 1995 are available through the ICPSR Archive. Print version in Lower Level GovDocs, call# J1.14/7:

• United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)

  Includes bibliographic records of documents and publications indexed by the UN Libraries, full text voting records of all resolutions which were adopted, and full text speeches made in the various bodies of the UN.

• United Nations Environment Programme: World Conservation Monitoring Centre

  Coverage: Full Text
  Find information on conservation, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Includes reports and datasets.

• United States Copyright Office

  Copyright basics, registration procedures, application forms, frequently asked questions, etc.

• United States House of Representatives

  Primary webpage of the House of Representatives, including current office holders, legislation, voting histories, directories, educational resources, legislative archive

• United States Senate

  Primary website of the Senate, including current senators, voting satistics, nominations, sessions of Congress, FAQs, more.

• Universal Currency Converter

  Coverage: current
  The Universal Currency Converter™ allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet.

• University of Michigan Government Documents

  Comprehensive site which provides links to Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government

• University of Virginia Electronic Text Center

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  The Electronic Text Center's holdings include on-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, etc.) Some items are only available to the University of Virginia community.

• University Publications

  Coverage: 1966-2008
  Publications produced by various departments of the University. **This database is being converted and does not reflect donations after December 2008. Please contact Special Collections for additional information**

• Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names

  Coverage: Full Text
  Using unpublished historical manuscripts the database provides access to biographical details of enslaved Virginians. In some cases there may only be a name on a list; in others more details survive, including family relationships, occupations, and life dates.

• US Long Term Ecological Research Network

  Coverage: current
  The National Science Foundation established the LTER program in 1980 to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States. Includes links to all 26 LTER sites and a searchable bibliography of research at LTER sites.

• USA Counties

  Data on population, crime, economics, health, government, and more, covering all states and counties. Includes comparison reports with output sorted by rank or plotted on a map. 1992 and 1994 publications are on CD-ROM at C 3.134/6: (year).

• USA.gov

  Coverage: current government websites
  From the webpage: "As the U.S. government's official web portal, USA.gov makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web." Formerly FirstGov

• USGS Water Data for Maryland and Other States

  The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water Information System (NWIS) is a comprehensive and distributed application that supports the acquisition, processing, and long-term storage of water data. NWISWeb serves as the publicly available portal to a geographically seamless set of much of the water data maintained within NWIS. NWISWeb pages provide access to water data from over 1.5 million sites in all 50 States and additional border and territorial sites. The data are organized within the categories listed to the left.

• USPTO Web Patent Database

  Full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images every US patent issued since 1790. Note: Patents issued between 1790 and 1976 are searchable only by patent number and current US classifications. Use patent fetcher to convert tiff files to pdf.

• Vadlo

  Coverage: current
  Vadlo is a search engine designed for biology research. Search for protocols, online tools, seminar presentations, databases, and software.

• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War [University of Virginia]

  Coverage: Full Text
  The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.

• Value Line Investment Survey (Standard Edition)

  Investment resource containing (1) Ratings and Reports: weekly selection of full-page stock reports with updated analysis on approximately 130 stocks in a handful of industries, presented on a rotating basis (2) Summary & Index: summary information on all stocks in the Investment Survey, plus statistics (3) Selection & Opinion: current economic and market statistics and forecasts, examinations of various “story stocks,” and news and commentary on markets and economies.

• Victorian Women Writers Project

  Coverage: varies
  Literary works of british women writers of the late 19th century, including their poetry, novels, chldren's books, political pamphlets; religius tracts, and essays. Full-text and images are included.

• Vidyanidhi - Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Vidyanidhi is "a portal of resources, tools and facilities for doctoral research in India". Vidyanidhi is envisioned to evolve as a national repository and a consortium for e-theses through participation and partnership with universities, academic institutions and other stake holders.

• Virtual Religion Index

  Coverage: varies
  Links to home pages indexes and documents. Includes scholarly societies, American religions, biblical studies, archaeology, comparative religion, Islam and the psychology of religion.

• Virtual Technical Reports Center

  This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds. Some metasites are listed by subject categories, as well as by institution. Provided by UM College Park.

• Voyages: the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

  Coverage: 1514-1866
  A comprehensive database of statistics, primary source material, essays, maps, and instructional material on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

• Water Resources Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Water Resources of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia

  Coverage: national
  Welcome to the homepage of the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Water Science Center of the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Here, you can find information about our projects, publications, and other activities. We also maintain and monitor a network of real-time data-collecting sites throughout the region.

• Web guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research

  This web guide provides a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research.

• Web of Knowledge

  Coverage: Index Only
  Multidisciplinary database covering the Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Indexes over 8,000 high impact research journals, many of them peer-reviewed, and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage through the "Additional Resources" tab.
  
  EndNote Web citation management software also available through Web of Knowledge

• Web Sites for Jewish Studies

  Princeton University Library resources for Jewish studies

• WebElements

  Searchable periodic chart of the elements with in-depth information on each element.

• WebMD Medical Encyclopedia

  Coverage: current
  Medical Encyclopedia and links to Health topics, self-care advisor, and the WebMD Drug Reference.

• Website Attica

  Website Attica complements and enhances the published volumes of Persons of Ancient Athens. [REF DF 16.P47 1994] The addenda et corrigenda to the published volumes are updated at this site. Searches may be made:see the website for details.

• Wired for books

  Provides readings and interviews of literature and poetry, including some classics.

• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

  Coverage: 1600-2000
  Database of books, documents, images, scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies of all aspects of American Women's public lives and political activities.

• Women Writers Online

  Coverage: Full Text
  Searchable, full-text digital archive of texts by pre-Victorian women writers (includes Renaissance Women Online).

• Women's Studies International

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  WSI covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. The majority of coverage is from 1972 to the present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

• Works of Flavius Josephus, Translated by William Whiston

  Provides full-text to the works of Flavius Josephus including trhe complete collection of Josephus in zip file.

• World Almanac (OCLC)

  Includes: World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998 ; World Almanac of the U.S.A. ; World Almanac of U.S. Politics ; World Almanac for Kids

• World Digital Library

  The WDL includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from over 190 countries. Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities.

• World Factbook from the CIA

  Coverage: latest edition
  Country profiles including history, land, people, climate, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and disputes.

• World Health Organization: World Health Statistics

  Coverage: most current 5 years
  WHO's annual World Health Statistics reports present the most recent health statistics for WHO's 193 Member States.

• World Lecture Hall - Class Materials

  Class materials created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web for teaching.

• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online 1963-2006

  Coverage: 1963-2006
  The Bibliography provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical produc-tions & reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials produced 1963-2006.

• WorldCat (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Worldcat holds the records of all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Search for specific titles or authors or do general searches by subject or keyword. Results display formats, holding institutions, and links to full text if available.

• WorldCat UMBC

  Search for books, CDs, DVDs, and journal articles all at the same time (items available at UMBC will appear at the top of the list). WorldCat UMBC searches for books, CDs and DVDs in library catalogs worldwide while also searching for journal articles in several article databases, including ArticleFirst, ERIC, MEDLINE, and more. Some features are restricted to current UMBC students, faculty and staff only.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

  Coverage: 1975-current
  Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations and public administration / policy.

• WorldWideScience.org: the global science gateway

  WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world.

• WWW-VL HISTORY CENTRAL CATALOGUE

  Coverage: current
  The Virtual Library (VL) for History, formerly at the U. of Kansas now has its central catalogue at European University Institute in Italy, with amirror site at University of Indiana. The catalog is now an 'integrated and international network of indexes.

• Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal

  Coverage: Full Text
  Provides access to primary sources related to slavery, abolition, and resistance in relevant collections in each Yale institution.

• Zentralblatt MATH

  Coverage: 1868 - present
  The world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics, containing more than 2.0 million entries drawn from more than 2300 serials and journals. Includes the Jahrbuch database (JFM). NOTE: UMBC only has access to the free version of Zentralblatt MATH which limits us to 3 results per search.