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• 2000 Census Gateway

  Coverage: 2000
  Search the 2000 United States Census and more.

• 9-11 Commission Report

  The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), final report. The Report is keyword searchable via Vivisimo at http:www.vivisimo.com/911. GPO access: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/.

• ABZU: A Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the web.

  Coverage: 1994-
  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 full text articles, reviews of books, websites, more.

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: varies
  Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• AcademicInfo: Educational Resources and Subject Guides

  Coverage: 1998-
  AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Its mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers), and currently features over 25,000+ hand-picked resources.

• ACM Digital Library

  Coverage: varies
  Search across Journals, Magazines, Transactions, Proceedings (including USENIX), Newsletters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in the ACM Digital Library.

• Acronym Finder

  Coverage: current
  Searchable dictionary of over 60,000 acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations.

• ACS Electronic Journals

  Coverage: 1996 - present
  Full-text of all journals published by the American Chemical Society. Legacy Archives include articles published between 1879 and 1996.

• Aesop's Fables

  Aesop's fables are provide by this site

• African American Biographical Database (AABD)

  Coverage: 1790-1950
  Biographical information on thousands of African Americans, assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. Initial content was drawn from Chadwyck-Healey's Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950. Provided by the Bell endowment.

• Agricola

  Coverage: 1970 - present
  Search for journal articles, conference papers, books, audiovisuals, and other resources covering all aspects of agriculture and related sciences held by the National Agriculture Library.

• Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators

  Coverage: 1994, 1996-97, 2003
  These reports identify trends in land, water, and biological resources and commercial input use, report on the condition of natural resources used in the agricultural sector, and describe and assess public policies in agriculture.

• AIDSLINE (PubMed)

  Coverage: 1980 - present
  Indexes journal articles, government reports, meeting abstracts/papers, books and more. Includes document delivery service. From the National Library of Medicine via PubMed.

• Albin O. Kuhn papers

  Coverage: 1950-1980
  The collection documents Kuhn's employment in the University System of Maryland including his involvement with the College Park, Baltimore County, and Baltimore campuses. Kuhn served as a professor, administrator, chancellor, and advisor during his tenure and this collection reflects the breadth of his involvement. The development of UMBC was overseen by Kuhn and he served as the campus's first chancellor and both of these roles are extensively covered.

• Alternative Press Index [API]

  Coverage: 1991 - present
  Indexes roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.

• Amateur Press Publications: Fantasy & Science Fiction

  Coverage: c.1930-1975
  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

  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: current
  Report presents a statistical overview of the well-being of America's children. Topics include children's economic security, health, behavior and social environment and education. Contains data on demographic measures including child well-being.

• America: History & Life

  Coverage: prehistory - present
  America: History and Life (AHL) indexes the historical literature on North America and Canda.

• American Association of Immunologists (AAI) records

  Coverage: 1913-1996
  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.

• American Cultural History: 19th Century

  Coverage: 1800-1899
  Webpages and links highlighting developnments in American culture in the 19th century arranged by decade. Art, business, economics, literature, social developments, and science and technology are included.

• American Cultural History: 20th Century

  Coverage: 1900-1999
  Webpages and links highlighting developments in American culture in the 20th arranged by decade. Art, business, economics, literature, social developments, and science and technology are included.

• American Factfinder

  Access data from the 1990 Decennial Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the American Community Survey, and Census 2000 data as they become available. American FactFinder is a service of the U.S. Census Bureau.

• American Institute of Physics Journals Online

  Coverage: varies
  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 Religion Archive

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

• 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

  Coverage: 1899-current
  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.

• Analytical WebBase

  Coverage: 1980 - present
  Electronic version of Analytical Abstracts. Indexes and abstracts books, technical reports and over 250 core international journals in analytical chemistry. Produced by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

• 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

  Coverage: from the late 19th century to present
  An index of bibliographic materials in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Covers all core periodicals in the field.

• Anthrosource

  AnthroSource provides online access to the current issues of 15 of AAA's peer-reviewed publications also serves as an electronic archive, with more than 100 years of anthropological material online, for all of AAA's 33 journals, newsletters and bulletins.

• 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.

• 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: 1899-2000
  ARIBIB aims at presenting references to the literature from the remote past until the middle of the year 2000. Presently, the ARIBIB contains references to the literature from all Volumes of 'Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts' plus earlier references.

• Art Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1984 - present
  Indexes and abstracts international English-language arts publications covering advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, design, video, film, architecture and art history.

• 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

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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

• ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Indexes and abstracts research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries.

• 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

• 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

  Coverage: BCE- current
  The Avalon Project will mount 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.

• 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 (Microbiology B)

  Coverage: 1982 - present
  Indexes/abstracts literature in bacterial immunology, vaccinations, and the diseases of man and animals; includes clinical findings and all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.

• Baltimore City Government Portal

  Coverage: lat update 2007
  Primary page for Baltimore government including departments and agencies, directory, statistics. Last updated 2007

• Baltimore City Legislative Reference

  Online version of the Baltimore City 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

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Full text of the Baltimore Sun newspaper beginning in September, 1990. Browse the Sun.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Index

  Coverage: 1946 - present
  Coverage includes English-language periodicals and more than 1,800 books added each year.

• 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

  Coverage: varies
  Provides full-texts of high-impact 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

  Coverage: 1980 - present
  Indexes and abstracts world literature in which molecular biology and genetics are applied to biotechnological techniques in the food industry, agriculture, and the environment. Formerly known as Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts

• Book Review Digest

  Coverage: 1983 - present
  Indexes/abstracts over 7,000 adult and children's book reviews each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.

• 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: 11-19th c.
  British History Online is the 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, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. Includes both free and "premium" fee-based 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.

• Bubl Link Gateway

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

• 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: 1990 - present
  Full-text of nearly 1,400 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• 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: current
  Database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. 1,354 different journal titles; 18 of which are indexed cover to cover. Now with a Web interface.

• 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 (OCLC)

  Coverage: current
  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.

• Canadian Statistics

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

• 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

  The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web. Very much a work in progress, the database will initially provide links to hundreds of manuscripts, which we expect quickly to grow to thousands. Basic information about the manuscripts is fully searchable, and users can also browse through the complete contents of the database. As the project develops, a richer body of information for each manuscript, and the texts in these codices, will be provided, where available.

• 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.

• 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

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

• ChemFinder

  Coverage: current
  Indexes over 75,000 unique substances. Physical properties, structure, and links to related material on the Web.

• 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

  Coverage: current
  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

  Coverage: current
  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. Provided by NIH

• 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.

• 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).

• CINAHL & Pre-CINAHL (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1982 - present
  Indexes/abstracts nursing and allied health literature. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• 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.

• Civil Engineering Databases (CEDB)

  Coverage: 1973 - present
  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: 1920-
  The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. In executing this effort, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries seek to: 1) enhance access to primary source material, 2) preserve original materials by creating digital surrogates, 3) create learning opportunities for remote users, and 4) create an infrastructure for a continuing digitization program.

• 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: Clase:1975-; Periodica:1978-
  CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology and offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

• Classical Language Instruction Project

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

• 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.

• Classics Collections Page

  Coverage: varies
  Acess indexes and contents pages from nearly all classically related serials. Also includes databases for ancient books, classical mythology, ancient philosophy, classical studies.

• 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.

• 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)

  Coverage: current
  The official compilation of Maryland State Agency regulations (administrative law). Updates biweekly with regulations proposed but not yet adopted as 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 (CMMC) - Ebsco

  Coverage: varies
  Indexes over 700 journals, including National Communication Association journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies. Full-text of over 200 journals.

• Communication Abstracts

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

• Compendex (via Engineering Village 2)

  Coverage: 1969 - present
  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

  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.

• Computational Molecular Biology at NIH

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

• Computer Science Index (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1965 - present
  Indexes/abstracts academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. Formerly Computer Literature Index.

• Computer Source (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1985 - present
  Indexes 450+ and contains the full-text of 300+ publications in computer science and high technology.

• Computers and Applied Science Complete (CASC)

  It covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies.

• Conference Papers Index

  Coverage: 1982 - present
  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 @ University of Richmond

  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.

• Country Studies

  Coverage: varies
  In-depth studies of countries' political, economic, social, cultural, and national security systems and institutions. Many photographs, maps, and charts. Formerly called Area Handbooks - US Army

• County and City Databook

  Coverage: 1988 - present
  From the US Census Bureau. Summary demographic and vital statistics; employment, education, government, housing, production and weather data for states, counties, and all cities of 25,000+. See also C3.134/2. Most current ed. On RDYREF.

• County Business Patterns

  Coverage: 1988 - present
  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.

• 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.

• CrossFire Commander: Beilstein & Gmelin (download/installation instructions)

  Coverage: 1772 - present
  Beilstein covers more than 6 million organic compounds, plus more than 5 million reactions. Find physical and chemical data, spectral information, and more.
  Gmelin covers over 1.4 million inorganic compounds, including polymers, ceramics, minerals and alloys. May include: material composition and structural data, preparation and reaction details, condensed phase data, spectroscopy, etc.
  Installed on computers on floors 1 - 7.

• 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.

• Current Research @ UMBC

  Coverage: 1991 - present
  Full-text of UMBC Dissertations from 1991 to present. Search by keyword (includes subject and abstract), author, or advisor. Subset of Proquest Digital Dissertations.

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

  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). The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office, as part of the Federal Depository Library Program, created a partnership to provide permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

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

• Digitized Image Collections - UMBC

  Coverage: c. 1840-
  Selected images from the UMBC photography collections. Images are linked to the Special Collections image database; includes images from Hine, Bretz, Rooks, and Civil War Collections.

• 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.

• Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations)

  Coverage: 1861 - present
  Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full Dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available in PDF digital format.

• 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.

• Downloading References into Bibliographic Management Software

  Instructions for downloading citations from Research Port, catalogusmai, and other library databases into EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager.

• 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.

• EBSCO Animals

  EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

• 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.

• 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

  Coverage: 1982 - present
  Focuses on how organisms of all kinds interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.

• EconLit (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1969 - present
  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.

• Education Abstracts

  Coverage: 1983 - present
  Indexes/abstracts articles from major education journals. Topics include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more.

• 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

  Coverage: 1985 - present
  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.

• Electronic Collections Online (ECO)

  Coverage: 1995 - present
  Over 100 searchable, full-text journals in many different fields.

• 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

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

• 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).

• EnergyFiles

  Coverage: current
  Over 500 databases and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to science and technology of interest to the Department of Energy, with an emphasis on the physical sciences.

• 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.

• Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland [Queen's University, Belfast]

  Coverage: 1801-1922
  EPPI Project features a comprehensive searchable database of Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland 1801-1922, with bibliographic information, Library of Congress subject descriptors and, for a significant selection of items, abstracts of contents.

• Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine

  Coverage: varies
  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).

• Environmental Engineering Abstracts

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.

• 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: 1967 - present
  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. It contains many sub-databases such as Health and Safety Science Abstract, Risk Abstract, Pollution Abstract, Water Resource Abstract, Environmental Engineering Abstract and more.

• 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: 1966 - present
  Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). NOTE: ERIC Documents may be available online through EDRS or available on microfiche in the Library. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• 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)

  Coverage: 1920-present
  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.

• 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.

• 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 Census Materials

  Coverage: current
  Links to glossary of geographic concepts, local census tract materials locations, historical US Census data, U.S. Gazetteer, and the 1990 Census Lookup.

• 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.

• 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.

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

  Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.

• 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

  Coverage: current
  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

  Coverage: varies
  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.

• 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 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: pre-1960
  The A-to-Z Digitization Project is an on-going effort to digitize pre-1960 government documents. The project is being done alphabetically, starting with the call number A, which includes agricultural documents.

• 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)

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

• GPO Monthly Catalog (MOCAT) - Free version

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

• 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

  GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

• 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.

• 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

  Coverage: 1981 - present
  Indexes/abstracts recent literature relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Focuses on evaluating and eliminating or controling risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations.

• Health Source Plus (Ebsco nursing & consumer editions)

  Coverage: varies
  Searchable full-text for nearly 270 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 430 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• 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

• Hello Congress

  Coverage: current
  Hello Congress is a collection of sites, one for each member of Congress and their staff, created by White House 2. Each member has a page, tracking issues, providing research, monitoring constituents' support or opposition to current issues.

• 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

  Coverage: 1954 - present
  Historical Abstracts indexes journals covering world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

  In conjunction with the Thurgood Marshall Law Library's strategic plan to enhance its civil rights collection in support of the School of Law's teaching and research mission, the Library has worked since 2001 to create a complete electronic record of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications held in the Library's collection and available on the USCCR Web site. The publications are made available over the Internet as page image presentations in PDF format.

• 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.

• 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: 1993 - present
  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

  The web page for the International human rights organization. Includes full text of the Human Rights World Report for 1999 and 2000 plus other full text reports, maps, country information and human rights initiatives.

• Humanities International Complete (Ebsco)

  Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other reference sources in the humanities. The database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works.

• 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: varies
  Provides full-text access to IEEE journals and magazines from 1988-present, conference proceedings, and IEEE standards.

• Images of American Political History

  Coverage: 1750 - 1993
  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: 1550-current
  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 (Microbiology A)

  Coverage: 1982 - present
  Indexes/abstracts findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

• 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)

  Coverage: 1994 - present
  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 (ISTA) - EBSCO

  Coverage: 1966 - present
  Indexes/abstracts 450+ publications in classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, Internet search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, electronic publishing.

• 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.

• 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: 1969 - present
  Indexes 4,000 scientific/technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering, computing, and information technology. Includes: Computer & Control Abstracts, Electrical & Electronics Abstracts, and Physics Abstracts.

• 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 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 Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) records

  Coverage: 1969-2001
  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: 1973 - present
  Indexes/abstracts literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Formerly Microcomputer Abstracts.

• Internet Archive

  The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Includes resources from the Palinet Mass digitization Collaborative. Material includes moving images, music, audio, and text files.

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Coverage: current
  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

• Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

  Coverage: 2001-
  Intute is a free service that offers access to high quality Web resources in the physical sciences; there are currently over 33,300 resources in astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, materials sciences, physics, and science history and policy

• 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.

• 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".

• 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.

• 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: varies
  Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years. 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.

• 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

• Left Index

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Indexes literature on the left, "with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas."

• 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

  Coverage: current
  Dictionary of ancient Latin.

• LexisNexis Academic

  Coverage: varies
  Search for news, legislation, business information. Features full text of many newspapers. Includes Federal & State case law, biography, country & state profiles, almanac, medical reference, quotations, polls & surveys, radio and TV transcripts. Coming Soon - a new LexisNexis search interface: see a working preview at http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/

• LexisNexis Congressional

  Coverage: varies
  Find congressional publications, legislative histories (1970-present), and track bills. Contains the US Code, voting records, full-text of congressional documents and the Congressional Record, plus the Federal Register (1980 - present) and the CFR.

• LexisNexis Statistical

  Coverage: current
  Includes these major statistical publications: ASI, SRI and IIS; Abstracts and indexes federal, international, state and privately published statistics; some hypertext links to agency Websites with full-text of the publication.

• Library Literature

  Coverage: 1984 - present
  Indexes library and information science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year.

• 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 [LISTA]

  Coverage: 1960's-
  LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

• Libweb: Library Servers via WWW

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

• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek

  Coverage: current
  Dictionary of ancient Greek. Includes terms from classics and mythology.

• Linguaweb

  A teaching tool which offers language learning and teaching materials in Spanish, French, Italian and German. Includes access to newspapers and varying levels of language difficulty.

• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

  Coverage: 1973 - present
  Indexes/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 Manuscripts: Science Fiction & Fantasy

  Coverage: c. 1950s-1990s
  The literary manuscripts collections at UMBC include manuscripts, gallery and page proofs and other pre-publication materials, primarily by science fiction and fantasy authors.

• 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

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

• Local History Resource Wiki

  Coverage: current
  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.

• 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.

• 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

  Coverage: current
  Search for maps in the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Map cabinets are located in the back of the Reference Room 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 ArtSource

  Website from the Baltimore Art Research & Outreach Consortium. Contains links to regional museums, galleries, colleges & universities. Includes images, biographies, and exhibition schedules and events.

• 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, academic, and special 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 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 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)

  Full-text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications, as well as 253 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

• MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: varies
  Indexes 3,100+ magazines covering general subjects. Includes full-text for over 1,000 journals.

• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

  Coverage: current
  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.

• MathSci Net

  Coverage: 1940 - present
  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

  The heart of 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.

• Medline (EBSCO)

  Coverage: 1966 - present
  Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.

• 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 (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1985-
  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

  Coverage: 1929-1995
  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: 1990 - present
  Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

• MLA Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)

  Coverage: varies
  Contains all the information in the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals, including scope, publisher, details (issn, year began, etc.), editors, editor address, and submission details/requirements.

• MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association - Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1963 - present
  Indexes 4,000+ journals in the areas of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, rhetoric, dramatic arts, printing and publishing.

• 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

  It brings the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) together in one site, enabling users to search both resources simultaneously. It covers areas such as music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts

• Music Dictionary

  Coverage: current
  Definitions of musical terms and symbols.

• Music Index Online

  Coverage: 1976-
  Harmonie Park Press has surveyed data from more than 775 international music periodicals. Topics are categorized according to the framework of an internal Subject List which includes both Subject and Geographic headings.

• MythNet

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

• NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

  Coverage: varies
  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: 1900-present
  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 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: varies
  Digitized records 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 Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

  Coverage: current
  The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.

• 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 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

  Coverage: current
  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
  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

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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 Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

  Nearly 7,000 entries arranged alphabetically and divided into 23 topical sections. Topics range from Bible, Fine Arts, Idioms, Science and Technology

• 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: 1851 - 2001
  Offers full page and article images from 1851-2001 with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available 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 Chemistry WebBook

  Coverage: current
  Thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Includes spectra, physical properties, and more.

• NIST Physical Reference

  Coverage: current
  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

  Coverage: current
  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

  Approximately 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). The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity. The first stage of the project presents documents from and relating to the Medical Case, which was Case 1 of the NMT trials. The Medical Case (U.S.A. v. Karl Brandt et al., also known as the Doctors' Trial) was held in 1946-1947 and involved 23 defendants accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other medical procedures inflicted on both civilians and prisoners of war.

• OAIster (OCLC)

  Coverage: Current
  OAIster is a catalog of digital resources. It provides access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. (The Open Archives Initiative is not the same thing as the Open Access movement.) These resources, often hidden from search engine users behind web scripts, are known as the "deep web." The owners of these resources share them with the world using OAI-PMH. OAIster reveals these digital resources in an easy-to-use, searchable interface.

• Ocean Drilling Program Proceedings

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

• 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)

  Coverage: varies
  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: 1674-1913
  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

  Coverage: cumulative
  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 Ethics.Org

  Online Ethics Center for engineering and science

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

  Coverage: varies
  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 Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)

  Coverage: N/A
  A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

• 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.

• 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: 1917 - present
  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.

• 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 - Public Affairs Information Service

  Coverage: 1972 - present
  Indexes journals, books, and government documents in the fields of political science, policy, public administration, society. Includes backfile in July 05 through June 06.

• 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

  Coverage: 1993 - present
  Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.

• 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.

• Periodic Table of the Elements

  Periodic Table of the chemical elements arranged to illustrate patterns of recurring chemical and physical properties.

• Periodicals in Maryland Libraries (PIML)

  Coverage: current
  A statewide database which lists magazines, journals, newspapers and other serials in over one hundred Maryland public, academic, special and school libraries.

• 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: current
  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

  Coverage: 1940 - present
  Indexes 480 plus journals, books, and anthologies published since 1940. Topics include Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Political and Social philosophy. 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.

• 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 image database (IMCAT)

• 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.

• 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

  Coverage: 1981 - present
  Indexes/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.

• 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: 1990 - present
  Provides full text for 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

• 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: 1740-1810
  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

• ProceedingsFirst

  Coverage: 1993 - present
  Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

• Professional Development Collection (Ebsco)

  Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

• 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

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

• Protected Areas Information

  Coverage: 1996
  The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources. This site combines "Protected Areas of the World" (1992) and "UN List of Parks and Protected Areas."(1993)

• Protein Data Bank

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

• pSearch

  formerly the International Directory of Online Philosophy Papers, Websites and Bibliographies. Provides a bibliography of contemporary authors' work, some full-text.

• PsycArticles (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1988 - present
  Full text of 51 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Funded by the UMBC Psychology Department.

• PsychCentral

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

• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Ebsco)

  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: 1887 - present
  Indexes 1,300 Psychology journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.

• 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: 1966 - present
  Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field. Free online version includes Lonesome Doc document delivery service, PubMed and Internet Grateful Med.

• 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

  Coverage: 1988 edition
  Quotations from Simpson's Contemporary Quotations and 3500 Good Quotes for Speakers.

• Quotations (was Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)

  Coverage: 1901 edition
  Online versions of: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed., 1919; The Columbia World of Quotations, 1996; and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, 1988.

• 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.

• 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: Most recent 30 days
  A collection of full text newswires which incorporates news information from all over the world. Formerly Business Wire News. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• 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.

• Religions of the World

  This site is an introduction to the religions of the world.

• 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

  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.

• Repositories of Primary Resources

  A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

• 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)

  Coverage: 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.

• Right Site Demographic Reports

  Coverage: current
  Search for detailed demographic, economic, and quality of life data by city, county, and state as well as ZIP code, TV market, area code, region, and more.

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1969 - present
  Citations and abstracts on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale.

• Risk Abstracts

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Indexes/abstracts literature on risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and risk management. The journal includes occasional articles; multidisciplinary coverage.

• 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

  Full text of all journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

• 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.

• 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)

  Empower you to search important information resources of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) scientific and technical information. 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.

• Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)

  Coverage: 1996 - present
  Indexes and abstracts aerospace-related reports obtained from worldwide sources. Coverage includes all aspects of aeronautics and space research and development as well as aerospace aspects of Earth resources, energy development, and urban transportation.

• Scientific and Technical Reports Collection

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

• SciFinder Scholar

  Coverage: 1907-present
  You must first create an account using your @umbc.edu email address to use the web version. SciFinder Scholar provides online access to several databases, including: Chemical Abstracts, CAS Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCAT, and MEDLINE. 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: current
  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.

• SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry

  List of chemistry-related internet resources. From Indiana University

• 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

  Coverage: 1979 - present
  Indexes and abstracts current research focused on social work and human services, including social welfare, social policy, community development, crisis intervention, gerontology, poverty and homelessness. Includes Social Work Abstracts.

• 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: 1895-
  This sociology and social sciences index features more than 1,300,000 records including full text for 242 "core" journals dating back to 1895, 72 "priority" journals, 547 books and monographs, and 6,711 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:

• SourceOECD

  OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals. Current subscription includes: the OECD Factbook; Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard; Working Papers.

• 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

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

• SPORT Discus (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1975 - present
  From the Sport Information Resource Centre. Indexes sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.

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

• Stabler family papers

  Coverage: 1893-1973
  This collection of records of the Stabler family documents their activities primarily from 1941 to 1973. Personal histories including correspondence, photographs, newspapers, official documents, and certificates provide a brief biographical sketch of the members of the Hayes/Stabler family. The collection also contains ephemera and books.

• 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."

• 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

  Coverage: 1991-
  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-.

• 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.

• 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 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 Nucleus

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

• 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 Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University [Virtual Vietnam Archive]

  Coverage: 1960-
  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

  Coverage: current
  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.

• 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.

• Thomas Register

  Coverage: current
  Thomas Register 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-Warner Pathfinder

  Coverage: varies
  Full-text search of Time magazine, as well as Fortune, People, Money, and Entertainment Weekly. 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: varies
  This site provides the table of contents from a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. It searches both the University of Toronto and the French Language site Louvain.

• ToxFAQs: Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets

  Coverage: current
  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

  Coverage: 1981 - present
  Indexes/abstracts the literature of toxicology, including social poisons, substance abuse, natural toxins, legislation, standards, and environmental issues. Part of CSA Environmental Science and Pollution Management Database.

• Toxline

  Coverage: 1997 - present
  Indexes/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

  Coverage: current
  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.

• 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.

• 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

  Coverage: Current
  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.

• UMBC Dissertations & Theses

  Coverage: 1976-present
  Find Masters' degree theses and PhD dissertations submitted by UMBC doctoral candidates.

• UMBC's Government CD-ROM holdings

  A listing of CD-ROMS received as part through the Federal Depository Library program. Some CD-ROMS may be listed in catalogusmai (the Library's catalog) as well.

• Uniform Crime Report

  Coverage: current
  Online version of annual publication. Also known as Crime in the United States. Special sections on hate crime and terrorism in the US. Print version in 1st floor 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 InfoNation

  Coverage: current
  Comparative economic, demographic, geographic, and social data for every country in the world. Includes source citations.

• 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: Varies
  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.)

• 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**

• 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 1998

  Coverage: 1998
  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

• USPTO Web Patent Database

  Coverage: 1790 - present
  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Water Resources Abstracts

  Coverage: 1967 - present
  Indexes/abstracts water resource literature in journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, engineering, legal and government publications. Formerly Selected Water Resources Abstracts.

• 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: 1998-present
  The Web of Knowledge includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers approximately 8,700 high impact research journals and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage (select from dropdown menu).
  
  EndNote Web citation management software also available through Web of Knowledge

• Web Sites for Jewish Studies

  Princeton University Library resources for Jewish studies

• WebElements

  Coverage: current
  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: 1400 to 1850
  Searchable, full-text digital archive of texts by pre-Victorian women writers (includes Renaissance Women Online).

• Women's Studies International

  Coverage: 1972-present
  It covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.

• 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

  Coverage: current
  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 Lecture Hall - Class Materials

  Coverage: current
  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

  Coverage: current
  Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

• 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 connecting you to national and international scientific databases by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org.

• 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.

• 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.