Databases A-Z

Features business directory most helpful for information on small or private firms in the U.S. Also offers search for people, executives, new businesses, and healthcare professionals.

Offers country guides for doing business, reference materials relevant to importing, exporting and global business, and primers for understanding a range of topics related to international business.

Provides access to scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, and country- and industry-focused reports.

Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text for scholarly journals, popular and trade magazines, conference papers, and books in all major disciplines.

Offers streaming access to more than 68,000 titles, including documentary films, historical footage, training videos, performances, and television programs. Disciplines include business, counseling, engineering, history, nursing, literature, and music. Includes searchable transcripts and the ability to create clips and playlists.

Provides full text access to national and international newspaper articles and radio and television news transcripts. Many newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, offer full-image “page view” format. Includes user-friendly subject browse feature, as well as full text searchability. Coverage varies.

Presents a collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences from more than 120 publishers.

Presents a complete archive of all ACM publications including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books.

Provides access to the complete texts of the 68 printed volumes of the acts of the saints published in Latin as a searchable database. Including by Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers which are widely used by scholars to identify texts on the lives of the saints. Offers insight to every aspect of domestic and public life in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the 16th century.

Features news, reports, and statistics about the advertising industry.

Creates custom reports on advertising expenditures across media channels including TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, outdoor and internet displays on the level of industries, categories, brands, products, and advertisers going back to 2017. Formerly known as Ad$pender.

Comprises the files of John P. Davis, Edward Strong, and Revels Cayton, as well as financial records. Included are Davis’ files from the Negro Industrial League and from the Joint Committee on National Recovery along with records of the Negro Labor Victory Committee.

Documents African American community life from the second half of the 19th century through a wide variety of material types including pamphlets, newspapers, scrapbooks, letters, official records, posters, photographs, and oral histories. Key themes are desegregation, urban renewal and housing, the civil rights movement, race relations, and African American culture with a focus on communities in Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina. Essays by subject experts, community case studies, thematic guides, and image galleries facilitate research. Sourced from the collections of the Atlanta History Center, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and the libraries at the University of Illinois and the University of North Carolina.

Provides access to the major 19th century African American newspapers including The Christian Recorder (1861-1902), Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The North Star (1847-1851), and Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851-1863).

Contains a selection of information sources ranging from the authoritative Encyclopedia of African American History to the African American National Biography project. Selected primary sources, maps, images, charts, and tables round out the collection.

Documents the history of European maritime exploration from 1420 to 1920. Features digital copies of rare manuscripts and early printed materials, government documents and reports, scientific papers and surveys, logbooks, maps, diaries, letters, personal accounts, artwork, film footage, photographs, and objects. Thematic areas introduce key documents. Search directories index people, places, expeditions, and ships. Companion essays by and video interviews with experts provide historical context. Sourced from libraries, museums, and archives in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and France.

Indexes materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library including books, journals, and government documents. Covers all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.

Provides citations with selected abstracts to articles published in alternative and often marginalized journals, newspapers, and magazines. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Covers 1991 to the present.

Presents a wide range of primary sources spanning from the 15th to the 21st century. This collection gives access to over sixty unique digital collection produced by Adam Matthew.

Indexes the literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes citations for journal and magazine articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Abstracts of journal articles are included together with selected full-text. Indexing goes back to 1964.

Includes full text of selected early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922. Villanova University has access to series 1 through 5 and 7.

Provides records for all publications of the Society. Full text access is available for all journal articles.

Provides digital access to periodicals from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society spanning the years 1681 to 1865 including unusual and short-lived magazines as well as better-known titles with long runs. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

Offers digital access to the authoritative print editions of the papers of major figures of the early republic ranging from John Adams to Woodrow Wilson. New content will be added as it becomes available.

Documents American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. Includes letters, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork, and maps. Consists mostly of unique manuscripts which in many cases are transcribed and translated. All sources in the collection are digital copies of originals housed at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City. Companion essays and video lectures provide historical context. Also contains thematic guides and indexes along with other special features.

Includes ethnographic accounts, diaries, letters, speeches, photographs, artwork, maps, and newspapers spanning from early contacts between American Indians and Europeans in the 16th century to the civil rights movement in the 20th century. Companion essays provide historical context. Also contains short biographies of prominent figures in American Indian history and lists of internal and external names of American Indian populations.

Sourced from the Sequoyah National Research Center (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and the Newberry Library in Chicago, this newspaper archive covers nearly two hundred years of American Indian history in North America from 1828 to 2016 and offers American Indian perspectives on federal and tribal politics, self-representation, environmental activism, the American Indian Movement, tribal schools and colleges, and many other topics. It also features a series of topical essays.

Presents authoritative biographies of influential people who lived in what is now the United States. Covers only deceased subjects. Includes portraits, if available, and bibliographies with citations to works by and about featured individuals.

Provides access to the full text of American magazines and journals published from the colonial period to the early 20th century.

Delivers more than 3,600 primary sources dealing with slavery in the United States between 1820-1922. Materials include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera.

Contains the full text of legislative and executive documents of the first 25 U.S. Congresses. See the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 collection for later government documents.

Features manuscripts, trade cards, wanted posters, rare books, financial records, periodicals, maps, photographs, and artwork on the history of the American West from the Everett D. Graff collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Covers early pioneers and frontier life, the gold rush, railroads, and the environmental impact of westward expansion, emigrant guides and travel journals, and American Indian history and culture. Companion essays provide historical context. Also contains a thematic index and an index to keywords, names, and places, as well as a chronology linked to documents in the collection.

Provides access to a range of databases with biographical information. Includes census data, vital records, directories, voter lists, immigration records, images, and more.

Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and theses relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations from 200 B.C. to roughly 800 A.D. Includes publications in many languages with abstracts in the major European languages. Coverage extends back to the early 20th century.

Features British Government documents from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign, and Commonwealth Offices chronicling the inception and implementation of Apartheid rule in South Africa and the resistance to it. Digitized documents comprise diplomatic dispatches, newspaper cuttings, transcriptions and translations of press reports, reports, correspondence, political and economic analyses, maps, and published leaflets and propaganda. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text for scholarly journals, trade magazines, conference papers on applied science topics.

Provides bio-bibliographic information and an overview to the writings of German-speaking Jews, who were leading figures in literature, philosophy, religion, art, music and politics in the 18th–20th century. It is based on the catalog of the Archive Bibliographia Judaica in Frankfurt am Main and the printed Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren (Encyclopedia of German-Jewish Authors).

Contains over 10,000 items relating to modern performances of Greek and Roman drama. The centerpiece of the archive is the Leyhausen-Spiess collection, which documents European theatre history from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Offers access to twelve unique collections that chronicle Britain’s relationship with countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Includes Foreign Office papers, diplomatic correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and published pamphlets. Each collection is self-contained and can be searched individually as well as through the Archives Direct portal. Sourced from The National Archives in Kew, Archives Direct documents 200 years of British history from the 19th to the 20th century.

Features a collection of authoritative works on art and architecture including artist monographs, surveys, museum catalogs, and catalogues raisonnés. Most works are part of the catalog of Yale University Press publications complemented by selected books from other highly regarded university and museum presses. The portal features a searchable image archive, citation and annotation tools, and a personal book shelf.

Indexes the contents of academic journals and magazines in the fields of fine and decorative arts, architecture, and photography. Includes citations for dissertations, book reviews, and art reproductions published in indexed journals. Abstracts are available back to 1984 with selective full text available back to 1995.

Indexes the contents of academic journals and magazines in the fields of fine and decorative arts, architecture, and photography. Includes citations for dissertations, book reviews, and art reproductions published in indexed journals.

Indexes journal articles. Coverage is interdisciplinary and goes back to 1990.

Indexes core journals in the arts and humanities. Includes citing and cited references for each article. Search fields include article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, address word (i.e., author's institution), and funding agency. Coverage goes back to 1991.

Provides access to a large library of high-resolution digital images from museums and archives. The multi-disciplinary collection includes digital copies of fashion plates, cartoons, posters, post cards, book illustrations, botanical and wildlife illustrations, technical illustrations, museum objects, and photo journalism, besides the expected artwork.

Aggregates high resolution downloadable public domain art work.

Offers open access to research papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Coverage goes back to 1991.

Provides access to the Associated Press's photography archive. Includes historical images dating back to the early 19th century. Also includes audio, graphics and news.

Features digital copies of the American Theological Library Association's historical monograph collection. Covers topics such as church life, doctrinal disputes, Judeo-Christian religions, non-Western religions, and social movements and reflects religious thought and practice in the Western world up to the 19th century.

Features digital copies of the American Theological Library Association's historical monograph collection. Covers topics such as church life, doctrinal disputes, Judeo-Christian religions, non-Western religions, and social movements and reflects religious thought and practice in the Western world from the late 19th to the early 20th century.

Indexes academic journals, magazines, essays, books, book reviews in all fields of religious and theological studies back to the early 19th century, as well as Catholic Church documents compiled by the American Theological Library Association. Includes full text of academic journals. Brings together ATLA Religion Database, the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, and enhanced full-text access to ATLASerials on a single platform. Coverage goes back to 1981.

Provides access to data and information about public company audits, compliance, and governance.

Indexes academic journals, book and exhibition reviews, interviews, and obituaries in the fields of architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation, and archaeology. Includes abstracts of journal articles. Published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. Coverage goes back to 1934.

Features a series of television adaptations from the 1980s, digitally remastered and streamed in their entirety as well as act by act. Includes image galleries with stills for each production that permit close scrutiny of costumes and scenery.

Presents multidisciplinary monographs and essays on all aspects of dress and fashion worldwide. The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion is one of the cornerstones of the Berg Fashion Library together with the second edition of Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion, a collection of seminal writings on fashion. The core of the collection consists of over 150 academic books mostly published by Berg and Bloomsbury Academic. Carefully chosen images from selected museums and exhibits round out the collection together with a selection of lesson plans and bibliographic guides.

Presents bibliographical data about books, monographs, serials, and journal articles on biblical and related studies. It has French, English and German search interfaces. Materials cataloged are in a variety of languages. The catalog record often includes an abstract and occasionally a link to the full text.

Provides a growing online inventory of biblical quotations and allusions, primarily from Early Greek and Latin Christian literature. Includes biblical texts written in both ancient and modern languages. The project goal is to create a searchable database of biblical quotations from all Christian literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (from the beginning of the Common Era until 1400).

Provides access to academic journals in the fields of biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. Coverage goes back to 2000.

Offers free access to unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Pronounced "bio-archive." Articles are not peer-reviewed and edited before being posted online. An article may be posted prior to, or concurrently with, submission to a journal but should not be posted if it has already been published.

Indexes academic journals in the life sciences and biomedical fields. Covers pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Coverage goes back to 1924. Formerly known as Biological Abstracts.

Features life histories of North American birds. Includes image, video, and audio files. Contents are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, designated reviewers, and editors.

Offers Sole Proprietor and Start-Up Reports and Industry Financial Reports with average income statements, cash flows, balance sheet and financial ratios for benchmarking and projections for smaller private enterprises. Includes industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. It is searchable by keyword, SIC code, or industry cluster.

Features newspapers articles, manuscripts, letters, pamphlets, proceedings, and books written by African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.

Provides online access to the print archives of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Features works by authors of African and African-American descent.

Contains the full text of works by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries together with detailed information about productions, theaters, production companies, and other ephemera related to the plays. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Includes a large number of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Alice Childress, Amiri Baraka, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Coverage goes back to the middle of the 19th century.

Offers access to the major African American newspapers of the 20th century: the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), the Cleveland Call & Post (1934-1991), the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), the Norfolk Journal & Guide (1921-2003), the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

Brings together 82,000 pages and more than 11,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.

Features Bloomsbury Cultural History series together with a selection of cultural and social history books published by Bloomsbury Academic, Berg, and Continuum. Includes digital images from the Wellcome Collection, the Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as an interactive timeline and lesson plans.

Presents a wide and growing selection of essays on theory, methods and historiography including the four-volume survey Historiography: Critical Readings edited by Q. Edward Wang.

Presents a selection of interdisciplinary medieval studies resources including the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, access to over 150 monographs from reputed publishers in the field of medieval studies, a selection of study resources curated by major scholars, and a selection of visual sources.

Contains biographical information including education, prior employment, connections, age and gender on board members and senior executives around the world. Compensation data provided.

Indexes reviews of fiction and nonfiction English-language books. Reviews are selected from academic journals and library review journals. Includes selected full text. Coverage goes back to the early 1980s.

Indexes reviews of fiction and nonfiction English-language books. Reviews are selected from academic journals, magazines, and library review journals. Covers reviews published between 1903 and 1982.

Indexes reviews of fiction and nonfiction English-language books. Reviews are selected from academic journals, magazines, and library review journals. Includes selected full text. Coverage goes back to the early 1960s.

Features ebook collections in the fields of information technology and engineering.

Explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others. Featuring at completion 100,000 pages of text, 175 hours of video, and 1,000 images, the collection is organized around fundamental themes associated with border and migration issues.

Includes over 240 newspaper titles from the United Kingdom and Ireland, and spans the years of 1732 to 1950 over six distinct collections. Illuminating diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press.

Provides access to British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th century with the majority of content from the 19th century. Covers a broad range of topics.

Contains filmed productions of Broadway plays.

Offers a visual browsing interface for the Library's journal subscriptions.

Features the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.

Indexes business magazines and scholarly journals. Includes abstracts and selected full text. Coverage goes back to 1995.

Provides access to a wide range of academic business journals and trade magazines. Topics include management, marketing, finance, economics, and management information systems. Full text access may be embargoed for up to three years. Coverage goes back to 1965.

Helps researchers to identify journals for manuscript submission. Provides journal overviews, metrics, and manuscript guidelines. Includes acceptance rates, journal impact factors and altmetrics where available. Also features predatory reports on journals with questionable practices. Villanova researchers have access to journal information in the fields of health, education, business, psychology, and psychiatry. Formerly known as Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities.

Provides full-text access to French-language academic journals and books. Villanova's subscribed content includes journals in a range of humanities disciplines as well as book collections in philosophy, religion, literature and linguistics. Supported by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Centre National du Livre.

Provides access to historical and real time Securities and Exchange filings via XBRL. Facilitates semi-structured searches of financials, footnotes and text disclosures for firm, competitor and industry level financial and risk analysis.

Provides access to the complete collection of Cambridge Companions, a series of authoritative guides to subject- or theme-based essay collections, written by leading experts. Areas covered include literature, classics, philosophy, religion, culture and music.

Offers single platform access to journals and books published by Cambridge University Press and its publishing partners.

Provides online access to Cambridge histories. Each volume is edited and written by experts in the field. Subject matter ranges widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history.

Provides open access to selected U.S. Catholic newspapers from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.

Offers easy access to data gathered by the US Census Bureau including the decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Economic Census, the Census of Population and Housing, and more. Features tools for customized data profiles and data visualizations. Includes data previously released on the now decommissioned American FactFinder platform.

Comprises the papers of Joseph (b.1836 - d.1914), Austen (b.1863 - d.1937), and half-brother Neville (b.1869 – d.1940) . “For nearly three quarters of a century, one member or other of the Chamberlain family stood at the centre of affairs in Great Britain, …” holding what are referred to as the Great Offices: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary. Austen Chamberlain was the family historian and through his papers the Chamberlains can be traced from the 18th century. Part of the Gale Primary Sources, Archives Unbound, this collection of papers is sourced from the University of Birmingham, UK. The documents can be related to peace & justice, history, British politics, Irish studies and political science in general.

Provides national, provincial, city, and regional data series including national accounts, prices, employment, income, industry, foreign trade, agriculture, construction, transportation, telecommunication, and education in monthly and annual time series.

Presents selected primary sources that elucidate relationships between China, America, and the Pacific region from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Experts in the field contributed historical background through contextual essays. The collection includes rare books and newspapers, personal accounts, diaries, correspondence, shipping papers, travel posters, historic maps, artwork, and images of material objects among others. Sourced from historical societies, museums, and libraries.

Presents selected primary sources, mostly in English, on Chinese culture and society spanning three centuries (c1750-1929). The collection consists primarily of pamphlets. Additional materials include annual reports, diaries, correspondence, tourist guides, lecture notes, and magazine articles. Scholarly essays and a series of brief introductions to key topics add historical context. Sourced from the pamphlet collection of Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia.

Features selected primary sources on China’s relationship with the West dating back to the earliest English embassy and covering most of the 20th century. Essays by recognized scholars put the ensemble of primary sources in its historical context. The collection includes rare books, personal accounts, correspondence, maps, photographs, and illustrations among others. Sourced from the collections at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library and seven other libraries and archives.

Provides online access to current issues and archives back to 1989. Includes daily news, advice columns, current job listings, and discussion forums. The Chronicle is the leading weekly newspaper in higher education.

Provides news and information for executives of tax-exempt organizations as well as fundraisers, professional employees of foundations, institutional investors, corporate grantmakers, and charity donors. Along with news, it offers such service features as lists of grants, fundraising ideas and techniques, statistics, and reports on tax and court rulings. Coverage goes back to 2015.

Provides access to a variety of publications, primary sources, and images documenting Christian philanthropy, social reform, and evangelization by the Church of England and native churches in the Anglican Communion globally from 1804 to 2009.

Indexes academic journals, standards of practice, trade magazines, continuing education units, dissertations, and more in the fields of nursing and allied health. Includes abstracts and selected full text. Coverage goes back to 1981.

Indexes all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Includes abstracts. Covers 1970 to the present.

Offers a wide range of publications covering civil rights in the United States including hearings and committee prints, legislative histories, Supreme Court case briefs, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights. Also features scholarly articles and books on civil rights topics.
Access courtesy of the Charles Widger School of Law.

Offers links to items relating to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, including primary source documents, videos, images, and instructional materials. Provides direct access to digitized items from the holdings of more than 90 libraries and organizations. Search or browse by event, place, person name, topic, media type, contributing institution, and more.

Provides access to Northern and Southern newspapers published during the American Civil War. Includes news coverage, eyewitness accounts, official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies, battlefield maps, and illustrations.

Provides essential information regarding authorship, authenticity, chronological and geographical contexts, manuscript transmission, and editorial history of early Christian, medieval, and Byzantine literature. It allows cross-searching of the Clavis Patrum Latinorum, the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, the Clavis Patrum Graecorum, the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca, the Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti, and the Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti. New content added when it becomes available from the publisher.

Offers systematic reviews of healthcare interventions in support of evidence-based practice. Includes systematic reviews and methodology reviews, abstracts of reviews of effects, a central register of controlled trials, a methodology register, health technology assessments, and NHS economic evaluations.

Documents the dealings of colonial governments with British authorities. Includes letters, diaries, charters and commissions, government orders, court records, land grants, maps, pamphlets, newspapers and broadsides, petitions, public notices and proclamations, and shipping lists. Consists primarily of handwritten documents. Covers the years 1606 to 1822. Companion essays provide historical context. Also contains biographies, government structure charts, and a variety of indexes along with other special features. Sourced from The National Archives at Kew.

Indexes academic journals and books in the fields of communication and journalism. Includes abstracts. Coverage extends back to the early 20th century. Updated continuously. Complements ComIndex.

Indexes academic journals in the fields of communication and journalism. Searches only journal and article titles. Coverage extends back to the early 20th century. Updated annually. Complements ComAbstracts.

Indexes academic journals, magazines, books, and book reviews in the fields of communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Includes abstracts and full text for selected journals. Coverage goes back to the early 20th century.

Indexes academic journals, magazines, books, and book reviews in the fields of communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Includes abstracts for journals, magazines, and books as well as full text for selected journals and magazines. Coverage goes back to the early 20th century.

Provides online access to local health-related data at the census tract, ZIP code, county and regional levels. Includes information about health status, personal health behaviors, and access to and utilization of area health services. Data collected through the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey which surveys Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties every other year.

Indexes academic journals, conference proceedings, and dissertations in the fields of engineering and applied sciences. Includes abstracts. Coverage dates back to 1969.

Indexes every play performed on the English stage between 1486 and 1642. Includes information about playhouses, companies, and playwrights. Also indexes actors, characters, and place names. Offers interactive maps.

Provides access to a catalog of scales, measures, and observational systems published in communication and journalism literature, as well as information on research design and procedure in the field of communication. Covers entries from the last 100 years.

Includes reports, economic indicator data sets, and global macroeconomic time series for economists. Also features interviews and studies on leadership, compensation, organizational development, operations, globalization, diversity, sustainability, innovation and more for management and human resource development professionals. Coverage varies.

Offers digital access to the Confidential Print series issued by the British Government for distribution to members of the Foreign Office, Cabinet, and British diplomatic missions abroad. The series encompasses essential documents issued or received by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. Files include reports, correspondence, political summaries, economic analyses, dispatches, descriptions of leading personalities, and maps. The collection spans the modern colonial era, documenting watershed moments such as the Berlin Conference of 1884 and the scramble for Africa, events in the Congo Free State, and the assertion of independence across the continent, all from the perspective of British government officials. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Offers digital access to the Confidential Print series issued by the British Government for distribution to members of the Foreign Office, Cabinet, and British diplomatic missions abroad. The series encompasses essential documents issued or received by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. Files include dispatches, reports, correspondence, political summaries, economic analyses, maps, and profiles of leading personalities. The collection comprises documents on the countries of Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean (see Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 for coverage of the English-speaking Caribbean). Topics covered include slavery and slave trade in Cuba and Brazil, British emigrants, British business and financial interests, political developments, and the building of the Panama Canal, all from the perspective of British government officials. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Offers digital access to the Confidential Print series issued by the British Government for distribution to members of the Foreign Office, Cabinet, and British diplomatic missions abroad. The series encompasses essential documents issued or received by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. Files include reports, dispatches, correspondence, political summaries, economic analyses, and descriptions of leading personalities. The collection comprises documents on the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. It covers watershed moments such as the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the Suez Crisis, and the Arab-Israel conflict, all from the perspective of British government officials. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew. See Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 for complementary sources.

Offers digital access to the Confidential Print series issued by the British Government for distribution to members of the Foreign Office, Cabinet, and British diplomatic missions abroad. The series encompasses essential documents issued or received by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. Files include dispatches reports, political summaries, economic analyses, and profiles of leading political personalities. The collection comprises documents on the United States, Canada, and the English-speaking Caribbean (see Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 for coverage of the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean). Topics covered include slavery, Prohibition, World War I and II, racial segregation, the League of Nations, McCarthyism, and the nuclear bomb, all from the perspective of British government officials. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Provides comprehensive indexing of United States legislative information: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code. Includes abstracts. Some of the indexing goes back to the late 18th century.

Provides digital access to all known works of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) in the original Latin. Includes a bibliographic database of secondary literature on Augustine's life and works.

Offers streaming video collections for the study of counseling, psychology, psychotherapy, and social work. Includes counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, interviews, and teaching and discussion guides.

Offers historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy.

Provides a combined search interface and access to selected CQ Press publications including the CQ Almanac (1945-), the Political Handbook of the World (2005-), and the Supreme Court Yearbook (1989-). Offers links to CQ Press collections on the Sage Knowledge platform including Congress and the Nation (1945-2004), Historic Documents Series (1972-), Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.

Features in-depth reports of political and social issues, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Reports include overview, background, current situation, pro/con views, chronology, and a bibliography. The issue tracker links to related reports. Coverage goes back to 1923.

Offers data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical research on the American voter, political parties, campaigns, and elections. Includes candidate and office histories, seat status and competition, special elections, maps, bibliographies, chronology, and web links. Coverage goes back to 1789.

Indexes academic journals, magazines, and books in criminology and related fields. Includes abstracts and selected full text. Coverage goes back to the middle of the 18th century.

Offers public and private company and industry information including company profiles, market research reports from Marketline, Freedonia, Euromonitor, and RMA updated with recent news, executive profiles, and analyst reports.

Indexes data sets from a wide range of international data repositories and connects them with the scholarly literature to track data citations. Covers all disciplines from 1900 to the present.

Allows searches through high resolution photographs of the ancient fragments from the historical manuscript discovery, and texts derived from the fragments in Masoretic order, as well as providing English translations and full transcriptions of the Hebrew Scripture.

Contains high resolution images of the fragments and all the texts from the Judean Desert manuscript discovery, in the original languages and in translation, which are not in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible.

Offers documents including diaries, periodicals, letters, pamphlets, account books, commonplace books, college records and exam books, government papers, and ephemera that cast a light on gender, leisure, and consumer culture in the UK from 1400 through the early 20th century. Contents fall into five main thematic areas: Conduct and Politeness; Domesticity and the Family; Consumption and Leisure; Education and Sensibility; and The Body. Includes contextual essays and biographies of many of the authors. Sourced from the originals in a variety of British libraries and archives.

Indexes journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, dissertations, and other documents in the social sciences and the humanities published mostly in Spain and to a lesser extent in Latin America. Much of the content in available in full text.

Provides full text access to biographical and critical essays on important literary figures from all eras, genres, and geographic areas. Many essays include manuscript pages, portraits, excerpts of criticism, bibliographies, and more. Electronic access extends back to 1978.

Presents full-text historical documents which are of a religious nature, such as confessional, polemical, catechetical writings of the 16th and 17th centuries by authors from the Western European Protestant tradition. Includes Biblical commentaries, works of systematic theology, sermons, and an array of tracts from various denominations. Texts are presented in their original languages of Latin, English, French and German.

Presents full-text historical documents which are of a religious nature, such as doctrinal, apologetical, and devotional writings of the 16th and 17th centuries by authors from the Western European Catholic tradition. Includes theological treatises, works on the lives of the saints and the Bible, and spirituality from various religious orders. Texts are presented in their original languages of Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German.

Features over 50 collections of declassified government documents not presently available on the National Security Archive website. Documents are digitized from microfiche and include White House communications, meeting notes, memos, and confidential letters, as well as chronologies and bibliographies. Topics covered include national security, human rights, nuclear proliferation, Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and the spread of international communism. Coverage extends from the middle of the 20th century to the present.

Provides access to a streaming video collection of current British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries, and teaching and learning resources with detailed introductions, plot summaries, character biographies, relationship maps, language analysis, scene studies, performance backgrounds, and historical contexts.

Features direct access and links to primary source materials from over thirty institutions including the GLBT Historical Society, the NYC Trans Oral History Project, and numerous university archives.

Includes 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video.

Provides citations, abstracts, and full text, when available, of Villanova University dissertations and theses submitted to and published by ProQuest. Coverage goes back to 1969.

Provides citations, abstracts, and full text, when available, of dissertations and theses from 1743 to the present.

Provides streaming access to issues-based documentaries from leading film producers and distributors, and independent filmmakers from around the world.

Provides access to the full text of plays from across the history of the theatre, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions, supporting practical, critical, and contextual works on acting and performance, theatre craft, technical theatre, critical interpretations, theatre history surveys, and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods, and genres. Additional media includes L.A. Theatre Works audio plays, productions stills, streaming video of Hollow Crown, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen, and BBC Drama Films & Documentaries.

Presents records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922. Most of these papers relate directly or indirectly to the methods adopted by the authorities, using civil and military forces, to combat the efforts of the Nationalist organizations to secure Irish independence. Sourced from the originals at The National Archives in Kew.

Provides access to fully searchable texts of a subset of about 5,000 books from the Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans collection. Text files are available for bulk download.

Features most of the books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in America between 1639 and 1800. Titles were selected based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography.

Features most of the books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 through 1819. Contains many state papers and government reports. Titles were selected based on Ralph Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's American Bibliography.

Provides access to digital page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Includes books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers. For searchable text of selected titles see Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership.

Provides access to fully searchable texts of a subset of about 60,000 books from the Early English Books Online collection. Text files are available for bulk download as zipped files.

Features India Office Records held at the British Library in London. These are the archives of the London administration of the East India Company and the pre-1947 government of India. Containing digital copies of royal charters, correspondence, trading journals, proceedings and minutes of councils and boards, and personnel lists, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947. Companion essays by experts provide historical context. The University has access to two out of three modules: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1946 and Factory Records for South Asia and Southeast Asia, 1595-1830.

Provides a discovery tool for open access, electronic dissertations and theses (ETD) in institutional repositories.

Features a collection of current electronic books covering a wide range of subjects.

Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, working papers, and dissertations in the field of economics based on the Journal of Economic Literature's subject classification. Provides access to the full text of selected journals including all American Economic Association journals. Coverage goes back to 1886.

Features a single unified platform delivering country and regional reports and comparable data for over 200 countries. Politics, economics, the business environment and sector and industries are explained and forecasts presented. The data tab delivers time series on national accounts, monetary, demographic, trade, employment, debt & spending indicators to name a few.

Indexes and abstracts journals in the fields of educational administration. Topics include educational leadership, educational management, and educational research. Coverage goes back to 1966.

Indexes and abstracts journal articles, monographs, and yearbooks in the field of education. Provides full text access to selected education journals from 1994 to the present. Indexing goes back to 1983.

Offers full text access to nearly every English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, alongside thousands of works published in the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera. Multiple editions of individual works are offered where they add scholarly value or contain important differences.

Provides access to fully searchable texts of a subset of about 3,000 books from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online collection. Text files are available for bulk download.

Contains over 2,500 plays submitted for license between 1737 and 1824. Correspondence between key theatrical figures, biographical information, advertisements, portraits and companion texts provide context for the plays and emphasize the role of theatre in society not only as entertainment, but as an opportunity for social commentary.

Features journals and newspapers published between 1685 and 1815 in England, Scotland, Ireland, Jamaica, and British India. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion, political debates, and London coffee house gossip.

Provides access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.

Offers data and reports related to digital marketing. Topics include advertising spending, digital marketing, social media, media usage, e-commerce, email marketing, and device usage. Coverage is global.

Offers access to evidence-based nursing, public health, medical and allied health literature. Contains over 5 million records with access to 3,700 indexed peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from 1995 to the present.

Includes academic journals in the fields of management, economics, information services, engineering, applied science, and technology. Villanova University access is limited to a subset of the collection. Coverage extends back to 2004.

Delivers company and industry information together with relevant news, research, and analytics for developing markets.

Contains documents spanning five centuries, 1492 to 1962, including a variety of manuscripts and printed and visual source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. Material is accompanied by scholarly essays, chronology links shared with a Global Commodities collection, brief biographies, external links, and interactive maps.

Indexes and abstracts education journals, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, books, and Department of Education (ED) research reports. References for ED research reports often have links to the full text. Coverage goes back to 1966. The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

Indexes and abstracts education journals, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, books, and Department of Education (ED) research reports. References for ED research reports often have links to the full text. Coverage goes back to 1966. The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

Provides geographic analysis tools. Includes demographic, consumer spending, and business data.
Access courtesy of the Department of Geography & the Environment.

Indexes essay collections with emphasis on the humanities and social sciences.

Offers access to the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. While most of the content is in English, some content in non-English languages is included. Coverage for most newspapers and magazines goes back to the early 1990s, but earlier content is also available.

Presents overview of the history, political and economic developments for countries and regions. Directory information for government, business and media are provided as are summary statistics.

Comprises correspondence, reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities in Italian colonies in the early twentieth century. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Italian colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the local population. Highlights include the Italo-Ethiopian War and the activities of American expatriates in the conflict and conflicts between Italian, British and French colonial governments in Northeast Africa. Sourced from originals in the U.S. National Archives.

Contains periodicals, monographs, pamphlets, and broadsides that shine a light on American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The documents in the collection address themes including popular culture, social history, race, domestic life, education, religion, class, and fashion and beauty. Highlights include advice literature, popular and sensational fiction, and the full run of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1887-1923) as well as a variety of local and regional women's magazines. Also provides an interactive chronology and contextual essays. Sourced from the originals in the collections of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History at Duke University and The New York Public Library.

Provides access to international, national and local news sources. Many different news media such as newspapers, magazines, wires, blogs and transcripts are aggregated in English and foreign languages. The content is current and archival. Industry, company and market profiles are also provided.

Features case files from the agency formerly known as the United States Bureau of Investigation, including World War I espionage files, files on German aliens who were politically suspect, and records pertaining to Mexican neutrality. Covers 1908 through 1922.

Indexes and selectively abstracts journal articles, book reviews, and book chapters about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Indexes academic journals, popular magazines, and books in the fields of film and television. Includes abstracts for scholarly journal articles. Topics range from film & television theory to preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, and technical aspects. Coverage goes back to the early 20th century and includes foreign language publications.

Offers streaming access to more than 1700 documentary films on topics in the social sciences, humanities, health sciences, and science and engineering. Also includes searchable transcripts and the ability to create clips and playlists.

Provides full access to the web edition which features the same content found in the print edition plus additional multimedia features, company tear sheets, interactive charting, a dictionary of financial terms, and recruitment tools. Digital access to the print edition is available via ABI/Inform and Nexis Uni.
Subscription courtesy of Villanova School of Business.

Provides industry profiles with critical analysis, statistics, and forecasts. Coverage extends back to 2009.

Provides industry and economic reports for many countries. Formerly (prior to 2019) BMI Country Reports.

Presents directory of food & beverage suppliers, manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, distributors & brokers.

Features full text translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts as well as foreign newspapers, periodical articles, and government statements selected by the C.I.A. for distribution to U.S. policymakers and security analysts.
Partially funded with a gift from Allen Cellar, '69 CLAS.

Contains British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Digitized documents comprise dispatches, reports, correspondence, political summaries, economic analyses, newspaper cuttings and translations of press reports, maps, and profiles of leading personalities. Topics covered include the Kuomintang, the Chinese Communist Party, the Long March and civil war, the Manchurian crisis, the communist revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Contains British Foreign Office files dealing with India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Digitized documents comprise dispatches, reports, correspondence, political and economic analyses, newspaper cuttings, maps, and photographs. Topics covered include India’s independence and partition, the Nehru era, the Indo-Pakistani war, military rule in Pakistan, the independence of Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the Cold War, and the development of nuclear weapons in the region. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Contains British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan. Digitized documents include memoranda, reports, correspondence, maps, newspaper cuttings, and printed materials. Japan and great power status, Japanese imperialism, the War in the Pacific, and the occupation of Japan are some of the subjects covered. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Features British Government documents from the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, the Prime Minister’s Office and Defence Intelligence files on Middle Eastern countries including Israel, Palestine, the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. Digitized documents comprise dispatches, reports, correspondence, political summaries, economic analyses, newspaper cuttings, maps, and profiles of leading personalities. Topics covered include the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the oil crisis of the early seventies, the Lebanese Civil War, the Camp David Accords, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew. See Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 for complementary sources.

Offers information on foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking charities. Grantmaker profiles include private and independent foundations, corporate foundations, U.S. federal funders, public charities, and international foundations.

Documents the lives, experiences, and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world in North American, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand from 1650 to 1920. Includes digital copies of letters, diaries, government papers, books, artwork, photographs, business papers, maps, and museum objects. Companion essays and video interviews provide historical context. Also contains thematic guides and indexes along with other special features. Sourced from libraries and museum in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.

Offers a suite of text analysis and data visualization tools that can be used to build, clean, and analyze corpuses from Gale's Primary Sources, or any texts uploaded to the platform. The text analysis and data visualization tools cover document clustering, Named Entity Recognition, Ngrams, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling.

Presents a collection of directories including Business Rankings Annual, Market Share Reporter, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S., and Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.

Offers access to a collection of digital encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and directories in the arts, social sciences, business, and sciences. Formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Provides a cross-searching platform for locally available Gale primary source collections such as the Times Digital Archive 1785-1985, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, Sabin Americana, and more.

Provides access to nearly a century of U.S. public opinion data in the Gallup Brain along with current recurring questions in U.S. Dailies poll for national, state, select city and individual MSA levels and the Gallup World Poll with global tracking data, social series and key indicators polling data. (World Poll questions may vary by year and country conditions.)

Features analyses, forecasts, and market statistics on IT products and services.
Subscription courtesy of Villanova UNIT.

Indexes academic journals and popular magazines, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and newspapers in many disciplines on topics relevant to gender studies. Includes abstracts for most citations. Coverage goes back to the early seventies.

Provides access to primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Indexes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports in many disciplines on topics relevant to gender studies. Provides a historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and changes in gender roles. Includes perspectives typically not represented in the mainstream media. Includes abstracts and full-text for most citations. Coverage extends back to 1970.

Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and maps in the geosciences. Includes selected abstracts. Coverage is international and extends back to the 17th century.

Features digital copies of books, pamphlets and periodicals related to women's history in general and the movement for women's rights in particular. Coverage is international and extends from the middle of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century.

Presents documents and digitized artifacts and art works related to the trade, use, prices and marketing of 15 commodities that have been transformative from ancient times to modern era such as tea, gold, opium, sugar and spices. The primary sources are enhanced by an interactive chronology, data tables, visualizations and maps. Sourced from over twenty libraries, museums and trade associations.

Features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices, intraday data, futures, interest rates, population, and much more. All data is clearly defined, easy to read, and can be readily exported into Excel.

Features digitized newspaper archives from around the world. Available collections include Moscow News (1930-2014), Izvestiia(1917-), Imperial Russian Newspapers (1782-1917), Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (1807-1929), Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers (1870-1972), Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (1911-1949), Southeast Asian Newspapers (1831-1958), and South Asian Newspapers (1850-1992). Note that not all newspapers in this collection use the Latin alphabet. In some cases alternative digital keyboards are included to facilitate research. Except for the Moscow News and Izvestiia archives, all collections are open access courtesy of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).

Presents full text access to the complete run of the magazine from 1830 to 1898. Also published as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book. Includes all color plates as they originally appeared in the magazine.

Provides detailed information about nonprofit organizations including IRS Form 990 with financial statements. Also offers self-reported information about programs and activities.
Partially funded by Villanova School of Business.

Offers a wide range of publications covering gun regulation and legislation in the United States including hearings, Supreme Court briefs, legislative histories, selected books, and scholarly articles.
Access courtesy of the Charles Widger School of Law.

Features books published by Harvard Business Publishing, including the popular HBR Guide series and HBR Must Reads which include the full text reprints of influential Harvard Business Review articles.

Provides full text access to digital copies of books, pamphlets, and journals available in the public domain. Most of the freely available texts are pre-1923 imprints and government documents. Also allows full-text searching of millions of publications that are still under copyright in order to aid discovery of relevant materials. The Hathi Trust collection largely mirrors content available through Google Books, but only the latter platform permits the exports of public domain content.

Indexes measurement instruments including information about questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, and tests in the health fields, psycho-social sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Coverage extends back to 1985.

Provides full text access to legal periodicals, books, government documents, legal texts, and other primary source collections in the legal field.
Subscription courtesy of the Charles Widger School of Law Library.

Offers documents covering the Hindu Conspiracy Case, a series of arrests and later trials against Indian Nationalists active in the United States, and bankrolled by Germans interested in supporting the overthrow of British colonial rule in India. Sourced from originals archived in the Justice Department Library and the U.S. National Archives.

Offers full text access to a compilation of excerpts from key historic documents. Documents selected range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. Short introductions provide historical and intellectual context. Includes references to the full documents. Coverage extends back to 1972.

Indexes academic journals, magazines, books, book reviews, and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present, excluding North American history which is covered in the companion index America: History and Life. Includes abstracts for academic journal articles and selective full text content. Coverage extends back to 1953.

Offers full text access to the archives of a selection of newspapers available on the ProQuest platform: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‎, and the major African American newspapers of the 20th century, including the Chicago Defender. Coverage varies.

Indexes books, articles, and a variety of other materials related to Latin American studies. Includes short annotations. Coverage goes back to 1935. (See also HLAS Web, which covers 1970-present in a new interface.)

Contains multimedia lectures (typically 30-60 minutes), and case studies (usually brief and related to current developments) designed to augment teaching and learning across the business curriculum. Videos are segmentable and embeddable in course management systems. Provides access to peer reviewed, practice oriented journals.

Indexes academic journals, magazines, and book reviews in the humanities and social sciences published between 1907 and 1984.

Indexes and abstracts academic journals, magazines, and book reviews in the humanities. Includes abstracts and selected full text. Coverage extends back to 1984.

Provides indexing and selected full text access to journals, conference proceedings, magazines, scholarly monographs, works of fiction, and other publications in a range of humanities fields.

Provides access to U.S. and global industry market research reports.

Provides access to archived social science data and data-driven learning guides designed for the classroom. Includes information about data management and curation services available to member institutions. See Qualitative Data Repository for qualitative and multi-method data.

Indexes and abstracts academic journals, magazines, conference proceedings and transactions, technical standards, books, and online courses in electrical engineering and computer science. Includes full text for much of the indexed content.

Features ebooks and insights articles in the field of business. Topics include management, economics, marketing, finance, accounting, and human resources.

Offers digital access to alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Offers a searchable classified bibliography of scholarly secondary sources on Buddhism. All entries are cross-referenced to related material and linked to an elaborate index of both proper names and themes.

Offers a searchable classified bibliography of scholarly secondary sources on Islam and the Muslim world ranging from journal articles and proceedings, through reference works and monographs, to collections and digital resources.

Indexes, describes, and selectively presents medieval art objects with a focus on Christian iconography. Also includes Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects. Records include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership information, bibliographical references, and, when available, a photographic reproduction of the work of art. Formerly known as Index of Christian Art.

Indexes academic journals, books, and book reviews in the fields of theology, religious sciences, and Church history. Covers publications written in the major European languages.

Indexes and abstracts articles published in a wide range of journals in the field of religion and related disciplines. All abstracts are in English. Articles are grouped by method and theory, religions in context by area, and textual and conceptual traditions. This database is the online version of the journal Science of Religion.

Documents the history of South Asia from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947 with digital copies of papers archived at the National Library of Scotland. Includes diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, artwork, and Indian sources containing histories and literary works. Thematic areas introduce key documents. Search directories index keywords, names, and places.

Provides access to global and country level industry profile from Aquisdata.

Furnishes news, feature articles and press releases about developments in the accounting and auditing world. Country surveys report on fee income by firms & networks, by service type.

Indexes and abstracts articles, book reviews, and book chapters. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Documents underrepresented LGBTQ communities with a focus on southern Africa and Australia. Includes, among others, periodicals, correspondence, pamphlets, and images. Most documents date from the seventies to the first decade of the 21st century while some go back to the 19th century. Sourced from the collections of the Australian Queer Archive, Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, and Lesbian Herstory Archives.

Indexes academic journals, books, and book reviews in philosophy. Covers publications in the major European languages as well as classical Greek and Latin. Coverage extends back to the early 20th century. Use the International Philosophical Bibliography Retrospective file for pre-1997 publications.

Provides digital access to books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Most of the freely available files are books published prior to 1923 and government documents. Also includes the Wayback Machine, an archive of hundreds of billions of web pages from across the history of the internet.

Presents a complete archive of the Irish Times back to 1859 (except for the most recent two years) and the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958).

Presents data on ethnicity, gender, age, tenure and skills of directors and named executives. Reports on company diversity policies and statistics. See the data dictionary for details.

Indexes academic journals, books, book chapters, book reviews, and dissertations pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Covers the years 400 to 1700. Includes publications in the major European languages from the middle of the 19th century to the present.

Indexes Renaissance manuscripts found in libraries and collections worldwide. Originally published in print by Paul Oskar Kristeller between 1963 and 1992.

Offers digital access to the archive of one of the longest running Russian newspapers. The archive covers the Soviet era in its entirety as well as the collapse of the Union and the Russian Federation. Yearly updates are added in the spring of the following year.

Facilitates access to select internal documents of J. Walter Thompson, an American advertising agency from the late 1800s to the late 1900s. The wide-ranging documents are not limited to visual ads and copy, but also include staff meeting minutes, new client prospecting records, and client account studies detailing the firm's relationship management with clients. Iconic campaigns such as “7Up, The uncola,” “Kraft, What’s for dinner?” and “The Marines, A few good men” are detailed as are their accounts with Ford, Unilever, GE, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pan Am, Scott Paper and others. Sourced from archives housed at the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, Duke University.

Offers digital access to the complete archive of the longest running English language daily in Japan. Search results can be limited by imperial period. The archive includes extras and supplements as well as images and ads. The most recent issues are from 2022.

Features digital copies of family papers, personal collections, organizational records, and other unique sources that trace the history of Jewish life in America from early settlements in 17th century New York and Philadelphia to Jewish involvement in the 20th century civil rights movement. Highlights include the records of the Jewish Immigration Information Bureau and the Gratz family papers. Also included are historical photographs that illustrate Jewish life in America and selected American Jewish Year Book articles as well as an interactive map that visualizes Jewish population distributions over time. Companion essays provide historical context. Sourced from the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.

Provides access to the full text of essays on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry includes selected primary and secondary sources.

Presents academic journal analytics that evaluate, rank, and compare journals using citation data drawn from core journals in the sciences, technology, and social sciences. Facilitates the identification of highly ranked journals for publication.

Offers streaming video demonstrations of science concepts and experimental techniques. Disciplines covered include biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, environmental sciences, psychology, nursing & clinical medicine.

Provides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The most recent three to five years of a journal are usually not included.

Includes more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays. Nearly all of the content is in copyright, and most of the other items are long out of print or have never before been published.

Presents guidebooks, brochures, leaflets, travel journals, images, maps, and promotional films documenting the development of the tourism industry between 1850 and the 1980s. Focus is on European and American working class tourism (both foreign and domestic) during this time period, providing insight into destinations and modes of travel. Also provides an interactive chronology, interactive map, and contextual essays. Sourced from the originals at archives, libraries, and historical societies in the UK and U.S.

Provides full text access to the most influential LGBT+ news resources including The Advocate (full coverage from its inception in 1967), The Pink Paper, Just for Us, The Albatross, and the notable UK publications Gay News and Gay Times.

Provides coverage of the essential works and archival documents of the global LGBTQ+ movement. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present and includes archival content in the form of text, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.

Indexes and abstracts library and information science literature including academic journals, trade publications, magazines, conference proceedings, books, and book reviews. Coverage extends back to 1980.

Features a collection of Latin texts spanning the Classical, Patristic, Medieval, and Neo-Latin periods. Many of the texts are taken from the well-regarded Corpus Christianorum series. Authorial attributions and dating of the texts are independently verified. Primarily designed for finding Latin word forms within the works included in this collection.

Features a collection of Latin text of all genres and periods. Complements Library of Latin Texts, Series A. Texts in Series B are included as they appear in published form without independent authorial attributions and dating. Primarily designed for finding Latin word forms within the works included in this collection.

Indexes and abstracts academic journal and magazine articles, conference proceedings, books, and theses covering all aspects of the study of languages. Also includes works in languages other than English. Coverage extends back to the early 1970s.

Traces the genesis of nineteenth century literary works through the unique manuscripts of their authors, many unavailable elsewhere. Supplemented by rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors.

Includes manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Alongside original compositions are copied verses, translations, songs and riddles.

Includes documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century, detailing the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding

Provides compilations of literary criticism. Includes the complete runs of Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Provides full text access to critical essays, work and topic overviews, texts from literary magazines, biographies, and more. Covers a wide range of authors including novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists.

Offers online access to authoritative editions of Greek and Latin texts. English translations appear on facing pages, following the format of the print editions. The collection is searchable in English and in the original language. Also available in print.

Documents popular culture in 19th and early 20th century London with digital copies of a wide variety of material types including fast literature, posters, playbills, broadsides, penny fiction, cartoons, chapbooks, street cries, tourist guides, and swells’ guides. A series of historic base maps can be explored with a selection of linked data and Tallis Street Views. Essays by subject experts provide context together with an extensive bibliography of secondary sources and dictionaries of London low life and slang. Sourced from the Lilly Library at Indiana University this visually rich collection can be explored by document type, theme, and source collection.

Provides complete coverage of Cabinet minutes and memoranda of Harold Macmillan’s government and selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees. Also included are files from the Prime Minister’s Private Office. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Offers critical analyses, plot summaries, and character profiles covering works by fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. Includes MasterPlots and MasterPlots II. Also contains biographical essays and bibliographies for authors.

Provides access to digital copies of books, serials, and various other works of economic literature published between 1450 and 1850. Presents critical primary sources on European economic history including economic theory, imperialism, wealth creation, and trade. Most of the titles are in English but works in other European languages are also included.

Covers 70 world languages and dialects, including English as a second language, through courses crafted using conversational methodology.

Gathers over two hundred maps created by the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) between 1935 and 1940. They may be viewed collectively on a map of the United States, downloaded collectively in shapefile or GeoJSON format, or downloaded individually as scans, georectified images, or shapefile or GeoJSON files. Accompanying area description documents created by HOLC are also available. Also includes an introductory essay on HOLC and the practice of redlining, as well as a bibliography of further resources.

Offers access to studies, reports and proposals generated for major American consumer brands by the Institute for Motivational Research lead by Ernest Dichter. Dichter is credited as a leading motivational research (MR) practitioner by applying a psychoanalytic approach to deciphering consumer decisions. These primary market research sources are presented in tandem with an Ad Gallery. Sourced from the Hagley Museum, Duke University and Advertising Archives.

Offers detailed reports on U.S. and foreign companies in a wide range of industries. These reports provide a description of the business, company history, key personnel, products, services, and competitors. MarketLine Industry Reports are available from the D&B Global Business Browser database.

Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.

Provides free access to a library of Marxist thought with works from more than 850 different authors representing the width and depth of Marxist thinking worldwide. English language texts and English translations constitute the bulk of the archive besides sources in a wide range of other languages. Included are the works of famous Marxist thinkers and practitioners, selected works of contemporary champions, as well as influential works that predate Marx and Engels. Important English translations of the works of Marx and Engels are not part of the archive because of copyright restrictions but selected works are included. The Villanova community has access to the translated works of Marx and Engels through Past Masters, the print volumes of the complete works editions, and the open access MEW edition. The archive also offers selected articles and/or the complete archives of numerous socialist and communist newspapers and magazines mostly in English, German, and Russian including the Rheinische Zeitung, the Black Panther, the Daily Worker, GI Voice, Kronstadt Izvestiia, and the New Masses to give just a few examples.

Features digital copies of records, manuscripts, and publications from the archive of the original Mass Observation project, a UK social research organization, which documented everyday life of ordinary Britons from 1937 through the mid-1950s. Includes diaries, personal writings, questionnaires, interview transcripts, empirical data, file reports, photographs, pamphlets, and books. Essays, contributed by experts familiar with the project, provide context. Originals are held in the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex.

Provides citations to mathematical literature including journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and literature reviews. For research on mathematics education, consult ERIC or Education Full Text.

Provides primary resources on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the war front line. Includes access to hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts.

Presents digital copies of five family letter collections from late medieval England (1400-1490). Transcriptions are searchable and can be displayed alongside the color images of the original manuscripts. Also included are research tools including family trees, a glossary, separately indexed illustrations, an interactive map and a chronology.

Features digital copies of manuscripts describing real and fictitious travel in the Middle Ages, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main geographic focus is the Holy Land, India, and China. Material types include manuscripts, printed books, illustrations, and maps. Most documents are in Latin, English, and French. Additional features include brief biographies of travelers, scholarly companion essays by experts in the field, a bibliography, PDF files for all documents, and supporting materials which include selected later editions and translations. Sourced from libraries and archives in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the US.

Provides access to citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals. Holds over 26 million references with coverage of biomedicine, life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, nursing and bioengineering literature.

Presents digital copies of the papers Edward Sylvester Morse, one of the first Americans to live and work in Japan. The originals are held by the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum and include diaries, letters, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks, and manuscripts from the years 1856 to 1925. Short biographies of Morse’s correspondents and contemporaries, mostly Westerners, facilitate research.

Offers evaluations of tests and assessments in education, psychology, business, law, healthcare, counseling, and management. In addition to test reviews, descriptions are provided of the purpose, target population, administration, scores, price, author, and publisher for listed tests.

Offers the full text of all of Mergent/Moody's Corporate Manuals, including Mergent/Moody's Industrial, OTC, Bank & Finance, Public Utilities & Transportation Manuals for some titles going back to 1909. The glossy annual report archive includes U.S. and foreign companies with coverage to the 1800s. The SEC Historical collection covers 1970-1995 and includes 10-Ks, 11-Ks & 20-Fs. The CRB Commodity Yearbook, covers 1939 to present. Searching by company, year and location, but not full text, offered.

Provides detailed financial statements for U.S. and international public and private companies, including SEC filings and current and historical annual reports for U.S. and international public companies. Data can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Also includes country profiles.

Features archives of selected Middle Eastern and North African newspapers spanning from the second half of the 19th century to the early 20th century. Most newspapers are written in Arabic but a few English, French, and bilingual editions are included. Over a third of the titles are from Syria. Lebanese newspapers are also strongly represented. The remaining titles are from Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Palestine. Most of the collection consists of out-of-copyright, orphaned content, but five subscription titles, which are not available to the Villanova community, are also included. Use the Arabic keyboard to enter search terms in Arabic. Search results appear in image and text format. Open access is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

Offers translations of news articles from the Middle East. Source material includes articles from the media of 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Fully searchable by keyword, subject, source, country, and date, and available as a daily emailed newsletter.

Documents the emigration experience of millions from the beginning of the 19th century to the early 20th century. Text sources include letters, legal and financial papers, books, periodicals, personal accounts, and shipping papers. Visual sources include illustrations, postcards, posters, maps, artwork, and photographs. Also contains oral history recordings and a convict database for New South Wales. Companion essays provide historical context. Short biographies and indexes along with other special features further facilitate access. Sourced from the collections of archives, libraries, and museums in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands.

Offers product and industry market research reports covering U.S. and international marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Analytics advance search monitors new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets worldwide.

Contains information available on the journals and series that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography database. The records consist of editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, submission guidelines, and information on whether or not journals are peer reviewed. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted. (Go to the MLA International Bibliography for literary scholarship.)

Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of literature, language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and folklore. International in scope; coverage from 1926 to the present. Includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Contains information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Provides independent analysis, industry information, stock charts, portfolio building tools, and web-based educational tutorials.

Features the longest running English-language newspaper in Russia, published from 1930 to 2014. Once the mouthpiece of the Communist party, it later advocated for social and political change. The digital archive includes all available issues of the paper including those of its short-lived sister publication, the Moscow Daily News (1932-1938).

Contains abstracts and full text of criminal justice publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research. Materials added since 2014 are limited to materials published and funded by the bureaus, offices, and agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Scroll down and click Use Search Filters to access the database.

Features a fully searchable and browsable digital archive of the iconic magazine, including search limits to map supplements, place names, magazine covers and an expanded image search along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books.

Draws on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive.

Provides information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies. Contains tools including patient handouts, interactions checking, comparative effectiveness information, and pregnancy and lactation adverse effects checks. Updated continually.

Offers market information, company quotes, equity index information, industry information (including the S&P Industry Surveys), and economic data.

Offering the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. This resource allows users to find, read, and evaluate scripts, leverage the expertise of literary managers and dramaturgs throughout the new play sector, and share opportunities with writers.

Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, reviews, and software on the New Testament and its historical milieu. Searchable by scripture citation in addition to keyword, author, title, subject, journal title, etc.

Offers access to all sections of the NYTimes.com website without monthly limits. Coverage from 1851 to present, with limited availability of articles from 1923-1980. For full text access to all NYT content except the most recent five years, use ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Subscription courtesy of the Provost's Office and Falvey Library.

Provides full text access to the complete New York Times archive except for the most recent five years. Use NYTimes.com, Nexis Uni, or ABI/INFORM for access to current content.

Formerly known as LexisNexis Academic. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.

Contains the Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGW) and the Briefe: Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGB), including updates and corrections. The text corpus is linked to the Nietzsche Dictionary and secondary literature. It will expand on a regular basis to include new content, such as entries added to the Nietzsche-Wörterbuch (NWB).

Provides full text access to an array of major 19th-century American newspapers, regional newspapers, illustrated papers, and those published by groups and interests such as African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.

Features digital access to a selection of 19th century British magazines on women, children, leisure and sport, humor, anthropology, travel, missionaries, and colonies.

Offers user-friendly point-of-care information that delivers the most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface. Includes patient care plans, patient education documents, competency checklists, and drug updates. Complimentary access to the mobile app version available for iPhones, iPads or Android devices.

Provides access to over 35,000 ebooks, 30,000 hours of video, curated learning paths, technology manuals, case studies, audio books, and videos covering fields ranging from software development, business, management, career development, engineering, design and more. Formerly known as Safari Books Online.

Presents digital copies of The Observer, a weekly newspaper carrying official news about and for American troops in Vietnam. The paper was published by the Command Information Division of the U.S. Military Assistance Command's Office of Information which distributed more than 80,000 copies per week among American troops in Vietnam. Sourced from the Library of Congress.

Offers a browsable and searchable curated collection of open educational resources. All materials are free and most have creative commons licensing. Filtering by material type such as textbooks, courses, assignments or simulations is supported.

Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, and software on the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible). Searchable by scripture citation in addition to keyword, author, title, subject, journal title, etc.

Offers indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for journals and magazines on a variety of subjects, including art, education, humanities, law, social sciences and technology. Good starting point for interdisciplinary research.

Offers films of contemporary stage performances.

Features a digital library of English and American poetry, drama, and prose. Provides access to literary criticism indexed in ABELL and MLA International Bibliography and includes selective access to the full text of academic journals. Also includes full text access to a collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and biographical dictionaries.

Indexes publications in Egyptology and includes the records and abstracts of the Annual Egyptological Bibliography (1947-2001), the Bibliographie Altägypten (1822-1946), and the Aigyptos database. Coverage goes back to 1822.

Features electronic archives for selected journals of opinion, including Commonweal, Dissent, The New Leader, The Progressive, Orion, American Spectator and The Weekly Standard.

Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and full text magazine and newspaper articles.

Provides biographical and critical accounts of the lives and works of women writers from the British Isles together with contextual materials, timelines, and bibliographies relevant to critical and historical readings. Also includes material on selected non-British and international women, and British and international men, whose writings are relevant to the historical context.

Offers single platform access to journals and books published by Oxford University Press and its publishing partners.

Presents peer-reviewed, annotated bibliographies and expert commentary on current scholarship in selected disciplines. Villanova University has access to the following bibliographies: African American Studies, Art History, Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, British and Irish Literature, Buddhism, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Communication, Criminology, Environmental Science, Geography, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Management, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature.

Presents authoritative biographies of influential people who lived in Britain. Covers only deceased subjects. Includes portraits, if available, and bibliographies with citations to works by and about featured individuals.

Contains the complete text of the second edition of the 20-volume Dictionary. Presents authoritative information on words in the English language, including their form, definition, history, pronunciation, and etymology. Approximately 1,000 new and revised entries are added on a quarterly basis.

Provides digital access in selected disciplines. Each handbook introduces and surveys the state of scholarship in a field of study through review articles written by leading subject specialists. Articles review key issues and debates and set the agenda for new research. Villanova University does not have access to the complete collection. Access print handbooks through the Library's print collection and/or interlibrary loan services.

Offers peer-reviewed topical introductions and literature reviews written by well-regarded authorities. Available in selected subject areas. New topics are regularly added.

Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, government documents, conference papers, research reports, etc. in the areas of public affairs, public and social policy, and international relations. International in scope. Formerly known as the Public Affairs Information Service.

Offers indexing of papers from congresses, conferences, expositions, workshops, symposia, and meetings. This database reflects the holdings of the British Library Document Supply Centre; papers may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.

Provides lifestyle statistics and reports, market data and analysis, and market forecasts for selected countries. Includes 6-year historic market size data for selected consumer products plus 5-year forecasts.

Contains selected full text of scholarly editions of many philosophers, theologians and literary writers: Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austen, Chesterton, Descartes, Dewey, Feuerbach, Fichte, Foucault, Francis of Assisi, Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Machiavelli, Marx and Engels, Merleau-Ponty, Montesquieu, Newman, Nietzsche, Ockham, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Poinsot, Royce, Santayana, Schopenhauer, Shelley, Spinoza, Synge, Wittgenstein and Wollstonecraft, as well as collections for British Philosophy 1600-1900, The Continental Rationalists, The Latin Background: 1100-1550, and The Romantic Age.

Provides the full text of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Graecae. Contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.

Provides the full text of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, a collection of the works of the Church Fathers in Latin covering the history of Western Christianity until AD 1216.

Offers full text access to a small collection of 19th century Delaware County newspapers.

Contains complete runs of 78 journals in psychoanalysis, plus a collection of classic books, including the standard edition of Freud's works. A three- or five-year moving wall applies to most journal content.

Offers digital copies of writings by early modern women (1500-1700). The name of the collection, derived from the Latin word for “lost,” alludes to the ephemeral nature of women’s writings which were rarely published and widely shared. Genres represented in the collection range from poetry and religious writings to letters, recipes, and account books. Includes manuscript descriptions with partial transcriptions and detailed annotations where available. The collection is part of the Perdita Project. The manuscripts are held by libraries and archives in the US and UK. Includes pdf files for all manuscripts.

Covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup. Bringing together essential books and periodicals, archival material, and specially commissioned instructional videos, the collection covers design concepts for a broad range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.

Presents the text and evidence of all known ancient manuscripts of the Syriac translation of the Hebrew Bible from the second century CE. This scholarly edition includes full introductions to the individual books.

Offers full text access to the Philadelphia Business Journal and their Book of Lists  

Offers full-page, full-color images that are full text searchable and offer keyword highlighting. These digital scans include images, ads, listings, horoscopes, weather forecasts, etc.

Provides full text access to the complete Philadelphia Inquirer archive up to 2009: the Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-1934), the Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger (1934-1969), and the Philadelphia Inquirer (1969-2009). Use Philadelphia Inquirer (NewsBank) for access to current content.

Provides full text access to articles published since 1981. Does not include ads, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather forecasts, and puzzles.

Provides indexing and abstracts to the scholarly literature in philosophy. Includes citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, and contributions to anthologies. International and interdisciplinary in scope; coverage is from 1940 to the present.

Provides full text access to 110 scholarly philosophy journals and indexing information for 100 more. All content can also be found through the PhilPapers database when used on campus.

Offers indexing of the research literature in philosophy, including citations to journal articles, books, and materials in open-access archives. Includes unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, and discussion forums.

Provides data on companies, deals and investors in the private equity and venture capital space.

Indexes plays written from antiquity to the present that have been published individually or reprinted in collections and anthologies since 1949. Covers plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title, author, subject, style, genre, or cast type.

Offers a tool for mapping and analyzing U.S. national data on a wide variety of topics including education, income, employment, public health, crime, housing, transit, and more. Researchers can conduct demographic and socioeconomic analyses on a variety of geographic levels, from the national level to the neighborhood census block group as well as custom regions. Time series data covers 2000 to present.

Documents American and British popular culture with digital copies of advertisements, catalogs, clippings, fanzines, memorabilia, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, posters, books, and video clips, to name just a few of the types of sources included in this collection. Sources are assigned to one or more of 21 thematic areas which cover all aspects of popular culture from 1950 to 1975 among them the Vietnam War, civil rights and race relations, student activism, mass media, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, ecology and the environment, music, and fashion. Essays by expert in the field provide context together with a dictionary which introduces people and concepts. Sourced from a wide range of US and UK libraries and archives, this visually rich collection can be explored by type, theme, and holding archive. Pdf files are available for all collection objects.

Documents the history of popular remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America through primary sources from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection includes books, trade cards, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, advertisements, anatomy guides, and ephemera. It illustrates popular forms of medicine such as botanicals, homeopathy, phrenology, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, and sexual health.

Indexes proceedings of congresses, symposia, conferences, exhibitions, workshops, and meetings. received at The British Library. This database reflects the holdings of the British Library Document Supply Centre; items may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.

Provides full-text access to books and journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Offers full text electronic books in all subject areas. Allows searching by full text, title, author, subjects, publication dates, and more. Individual titles are also listed in the library catalog.

Offers political, economic, and financial risk ratings and forecasts for 146 countries. Time series data covers 1985 through 2021. This is a downloadable file in Microsoft Excel format.

Provides access to an overview of the top news stories, campaigns, analyses, techniques, and opinion pieces affecting the marketing communications industry. Covers global relations from 1998 to the present.

Offers complete full text content of every issue of every journal published by the American Psychological Association from inception to the present. Also includes journal articles from the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.

Includes the full text of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), content from several psychiatric journals and textbooks, self-assessment tools, medication information handouts, and more. Also includes American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines in both comprehensive and quick-reference formats.

Provides access to one hundred streaming training videos in the fields of counseling and psychotherapy. The majority of the videos show practitioners conducting therapy and demonstrating clinical skills, along with pre- and post-discussions. This collection also includes searchable, synchronized transcripts, the ability to create clips, and an instructor's manual for most videos. Search by keyword or subject, or browse by approach, therapeutic issue, expert, or population.

Provides abstracts and indexing to journals, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations in all areas of psychology. This database is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). International in scope; coverage is from 1887 to the present.

Offers streaming video with synchronized transcripts of psychotherapy demonstrations. Sessions are unscripted and feature professional therapists working with individuals, couples, and families. A wide variety of therapy techniques are featured.

Offers indexing of journal articles and books in all areas of biomedicine. Worldwide coverage with an emphasis on English-language peer-reviewed journals. Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and currently maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Archives and publishes data generated through qualitative and multi-method research methods. Provides guidance for managing, sharing, citing, and reusing qualitative data. Villanova's QDR membership offers a range of user support services to facilitate the storing and sharing of data. See ICPSR for quantitative data.

Consisting of primary source document collections and curatorial essays. The digital exhibits on this platform are designed for students, teachers, and scholars of queer history.

Provides access to an ebook collection related to medical, nursing and allied health content from key health science publishers.

Documents the fight for civil rights with digital copies of the reports, surveys, analyses, and speeches produced by staff and participants of the Annual Race Relations Institute based at Fisk University from 1943 to 1970. Participants included Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. Contains audio recordings of speeches, correspondence, legal documents, photos, maps, statistics, and three essays about the history of the Race Relations Institute written by subject specialists. Sourced from the records of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.

Presents digital archives of more than 100 newspapers, bulletins, and pamphlets covering a broad sweep of nationalist, republican, feminist, and socialist publications. Many of the newspapers and bulletins in the collection were short-lived and the archive may hold only a handful of issues.
Funded with support from the College of Arts & Sciences and the Irish Studies Program.

Indexes journal and magazine articles in various fields of Jewish studies. Covers articles in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the major European languages.

Provides indexing and selected full text for articles from general interest and popular magazines. Coverage begins in 1983; full text begins in 1994. Covers a broad range of popular subjects.

Provides indexing for articles from general interest and popular magazines. Covers 1890 through 1982. Covers a broad range of popular subjects.

Offers information on chemical compound properties, structures, and reactions with references to the journal and patent literature of chemistry. This database combines the content formerly found in Beilstein and Gmelin.

Features a freely available and comprehensive bibliography of medieval research. Captures journal articles, essays, monographs, and conference proceedings.

Provides full text coverage of regional business publications including journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Provides indexing and abstracts of the scholarly literature of theology and religion. Covers Christianity, Judaism, and other world religions. English language abstracts are provided for articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.

Presents legal texts related to the status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries). The sources are presented in their original language (Latin, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, etc.) together with English and French translations, notes, commentaries, and bibliographies. Conference proceedings published by the RELMIN project are available in the open access archive HAL. A detailed description of this project written by its director was published in Medieval Worlds. The project was funded by the European Research Council and directed by John Tolan, Université de Nantes.

features specially-commissioned, peer-reviewed new content that supports the teaching and learning of this historical time period. Covering the 14th to the 18th century, key subject areas include Art and Architecture, Economy and Commerce, Environment, Literature and Drama, Politics and Governance, Religion, and Society.

Revolution and Protest Online is a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements.

Includes federal, state, local, and international tax codes, regulations, cases, and administrative rulings with explanations and commentary. Also offers news alerts and a tax thesaurus.

Includes federal, state, local, and international tax codes, regulations, cases, and administrative rulings with explanations and commentary. Also offers news alerts and a tax thesaurus. Version lacks personalized notes and folders features.

Offers full text of over 140 jazz journals and magazines as a primary reference and research tool for jazz music scholarship. The database features full-text and citation searching as well as a browse search function.

Offers digital access to the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust. Contains Wordsworth’s original verse manuscripts, working notebooks, correspondence, and selected annotated editions as well as manuscripts by contemporary writers including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, and Robert Southey. Digital copies of paintings, sketches, and prints from the Trust’s fine art collection add a visual dimension to the collection. Among them are many portraits and Lake District landscapes. Essays by subject experts, historical maps, and short biographies facilitate research.

Offers public opinion poll data from surveys conducted in the U.S. and other countries by many major polling organizations. Includes the full text of questions and responses. Items with a green plus icon have crosstab breakdowns; those with an X have microdata available for download; while those with a green and blue star icon allow you to perform custom crosstab analysis online. Covers 1935 to the present, updated daily.

Offers modern high-definition recordings of Shakespeare's dramatic canon, along with supplemental teaching materials to help students engage more deeply with the material and enhance the overall learning experience.

Offers digital access to books, pamphlets, serials, and other sources published worldwide from 1500 to the early 20th century and documenting the history of the Americas. Titles were selected based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana.

Offers scholarly, peer-reviewed business case studies covering a variety of industries and topics.

Provides full text access to Villanova-subscribed journal content from SAGE. Search by keyword, author, title, etc., or browse by journal.

Provides full text access to encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences, as well as selected ebooks. All content is published by SAGE Publications.

Offers statistics, articles, and reports on sporting goods, participation, fans, media, and facilities. Formerly known as Sports Business Research Network.

Indexes core journals in the sciences. Provides information on citing and cited references for each article. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, address word (i.e., author's institution), or funding agency. Covers 1945 to the present.

Provides full text access to thousands of journals in the sciences, engineering, and the social sciences and humanities.

Searches Chemical Abstracts PLUS (1907 to the present, updated daily), CASREACT, REGISTRY files from Chemical Abstract Service, and MEDLINE.

Provides citations and abstracts to peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings in all major disciplines. Provides information on citing and cited references for each article.

Features digitized newspapers produced during the second world war and its immediate aftermath (1939-1948) by various service branches on both sides of the conflict. Encompasses newspapers from all the key theaters including publications in languages other than English. Newspaper profiles and essays by subject experts facilitate research. Images can be accessed separately through a gallery of front covers and a gallery of pin-ups and celebrities. Records can be filtered by unit origin, unit location, branch, theater, and library. Sourced from libraries, museums, and archives in the UK, US, New Zealand, and Germany.

Provides full text and scanned images of prompt books and other documents from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Prompt books are marked-up scripts that provide information on how a production was staged. Also includes case studies and other archival materials related to Shakespeare's plays. Includes content from the 17th century through 1980.

Provides indexing and access information for short stories contained in collections and anthologies. Search for short stories by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique, and source. Covers 1983 to the present.

Provides access to the results of a National Consumer Study (most recent studies embargoed) encompassing demographics, lifestyle statements, and consumer behaviors. Supports the creation of custom cross tabulations or quick reports.

Offers essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world including slavery statutes, state and federal cases, legal commentary, pamphlets, books, and scholarly articles.
Access courtesy of the Charles Widger School of Law.

Provides access to original manuscripts, court documents, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and some secondary sources on the topic from 1490 to 2007.

Provides access to maps and tables of U.S. Census and American Community Survey data from 1790 through most recently released data. Also includes datasets on election, health, crime, religion, and environmental topics, as well as some international data (UK Census 2011; Canadian Census 2011; selected Eurostat data; and World Development Indicators from the World Bank.) Create a free personal account in order to save your work.

Provides access to archived social media data. Covers entries from multiple social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit. Includes information about depositing data into the repository, such as restrictions and preservation.

Offers abstracting and full text of working papers in a variety of social science fields. Composed of several specialized research networks, SSRN promotes rapid dissemination of early research results.

Indexes core journals in the social sciences. Provides information on citing and cited references for each article. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, address word (i.e., author's institution), or funding agency. Covers 1956 to the present.

Indexes and abstracts journals in many social science fields. Provides full text access to selected titles from 1972 to the present.

Indexes the literature of social work, human services, and related fields. Includes citations to journal articles and dissertations. Covers 1979 to the present.

Presents documentaries, feature films, and newsreels produced by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, Eastern European, British, and Latin American filmmakers. Films in the collection range from the early twentieth century to the 1980s and examine all aspects of socialist life. Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute, this collection features the films gathered by British communist Stanley Forman. All films were versioned into English for distribution in the West.

Indexes the literature of sociology and related fields. Includes citations to journal articles, dissertations, books, conference papers, and magazines. Offers abstracts and selected full text.

Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text for scholarly journals, books, and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines.

Provides increasing access to critical editions of texts from the patristic and medieval literature of the catholic tradition which are in the “Sources Chrétiennes” series published by Éditions du Cerf, Paris. Source texts in their various original languages, including Latin, Greek, and Syriac, are accompanied by a French translation. Browsing by volume, as well as searching by volume, author, work or keywords in the source or the translation is enabled.

Identifies government-sponsored and private funding sources. Covers over 40,000 funding opportunities from more than 10,000 global sources. Search fields include sponsor name(s), award type(s), applicant type(s), location, and application date(s).

Provides access to journals, books, protocols, reference works, and book series in all academic disciplines published by Springer.

Provides digital access to a selection of documents from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History including Stalin's personal papers. Also features the complete Annals of Communism series published by Yale University Press. Scholars can create personalized workspaces, compare documents, save searches and documents, and define tags.

Provides primary sources covering Britain's diplomatic relations and trade in Europe and with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Villanova's access includes the following:
Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 1: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council

Provides a portal to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources. Topics covered include industries, media, companies, product categories, and countries.

Presents international consumer survey results on a broad range of topics.

Offers indexing, abstracting, and selected full text of statistical publications from U.S. state and federal governments, business and research institutes, and international material from the UN, OECD, EU, etc. Some tables are available in GIF, XLS, CSV, and other formats.

Explores all aspects of British Imperial histories including migration, economic relationships, religion, languages and literatures, science and the environment, slavery, social control and propaganda, gender and sex, and race and racism.

Presents Greek texts of all newly published Greek inscriptions with a critical apparatus and summarizes new readings, interpretations, and studies of known inscriptions, occasionally including the Greek text. Texts which are published in epigraphical corpora, repertoria, or monographs are generally not included. Indexes and cross references to related texts facilitate discovery. The online edition includes all volumes in the series.

Offers full text ebooks in a variety of disciplines. To limit your search results to items that are available to the Villanova community, click "Show content I have access to" from your search results screen.

The first periodical published by the gay and lesbian community after the Stonewall riots in June, 1969. This archive contains firsthand accounts and photographs of marches and rallies, interviews with prominent members of the community, articles related to other international struggles, and even poems. The publication also includes transsexual and transvestite liberation issues.

Documents lives and events during the Great War (1914-1920s) with digital copies of primary sources from museums and archives worldwide in four thematic modules that focus on personal experience, propaganda and recruitment, the global conflict, and visual perspectives and narratives. Includes a wide variety of material types such as diaries and letters, newspapers and magazines, postcards and posters, official papers and ordinances, audio files and film clips, cartoons and aerial leaflets, maps and object, and photos and artwork. Records can be filtered by theater of war, document type, language, module, and library/archive. Essays by subject experts, case studies, and a glossary facilitate research. Image, object, and art galleries assist with access to visual sources. Pdf files are available for all collection objects.

Documents British travel to the European continent from circa 1550 to 1850. Contains digital copies of letters, travel diaries, itineraries, sketchbooks and memoranda books, guidebooks, published travel accounts, artwork, and maps. Includes a list of recommended secondary sources and John Ingamell’s Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 which identifies over 6000 individuals providing biographies and details of their tours. Companion essays provide historical context. Sourced from British and American libraries, archives, and museums.

Contains top-level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers for the entire period of Nixon’s presidency. Topics covered include U.S. policy decisions by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the British embassy in Washington, White House staff appointments and UN discussions, the deployment of F-111 aircraft on U.S. airbases in Britain and Nixon’s battles over funding from Congress, and visits to the U.S. by Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. Sourced from the originals in the collections of The National Archives in Kew.

Presents a comprehensive reference work on North American theater, covering authors, plays, theaters, production companies, and major productions from colonial times to the present. Includes the full text of major reference works; also contains images of playbills, posters, photographs, and other ephemera.

Includes most literary texts written in Greek from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Byzantium (1453 AD).

Provides a fully searchable facsimile of the Times of London. The Times is the world's oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication.

Delivers international higher education news, data, opinions, job listings, university rankings, and more. The weekly digital edition of the magazine can be read online, printed or downloaded.

Provides access to all available issues of The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838–1859), The Bombay Times and Standard (1860–1861), and The Times of India (1861–2010). Founded in 1838 to serve the British residents of West India, the collection offers searchable full text back to the first issues and includes full page and article PDFs. Earliest issues may vary in text clarity.

Documents the history of advertising, consumer culture, material culture, household economics, and fashion in the United States from 1850 to 1950 through digitized copies of trade catalogs, pamphlets, trade cards, and other marketing materials from the Lawrence B. Romaine Trade Catalog Collection at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Winterthur Library, and the Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware. Contextual essays, business biographies and indexing by industry, company, brand, and place facilitate research.

Features digital copies of the microfilmed transcripts of the Malcolm X assassination trial including witness testimonies, preliminary motions, summations, the court’s charge, the verdicts, and the sentences, as well as a confession made years after the trial by one of the convicted men. Sources from the records of the New York State Supreme Court.

Provides full text English translations of historical sources from 300-800. Sources include histories, letters, annals, speeches, poems, church records, Christian treatises, and lives of saints. Volumes 1-67 are available online. Most titles are also available in print.

Documents women traveling around the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Travel destinations include the US and Canada, China, Japan and the Philippines, Europe, Russia, Africa, and Australia. Contains digital copies of diaries, letters, artwork, guidebooks, postcards, and photographs. Companion essays provide historical context. Sourced from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University.

Offers references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings and journal articles in the field of transportation research.
This is a free, publicly available resource and does not include the Library's "Find It" link in search results. To check for full text access, use the Journal Finder link on the library homepage.

Provides access to evidence-based medical information in various formats: articles, images, videos, patient information materials, education courses, and news.
This is a free, publicly available resource and does not include the Library's "Find It" link in search results. To check for full text access, use the Journal Finder link on the library homepage.

Features U.K. parliamentary papers including public petitions, bills and acts, Command Papers, House of Lord Papers, Hansard, journals, and debates. Includes documents from the late 17th century to the end of the 20th century.

Provides full text of selected reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from 1817 through 1994 (15th through 103rd Congresses). Documents of the first 14 U.S. Congresses can be found in the American State Papers collection.

Provides full text access to formerly classified U.S. government documents from agencies including the CIA, FBI, Department of State, National Security Council, White House, and Department of Defense. Documents are added as they are declassified. Covers 1900 to the present.

Documents President Eisenhower's use of Federal troops and the Arkansas National Guard in the Little Rock integration crisis. The operation is detailed from the planning for intervention prior to deployment, up to the withdrawal of troops at the end of the school year. Records include a journal of events, an official summary of the operation, a historical report prepared by the Office of the Chief of Military History, documentation of Governor Faubus' actions with regard to integration, press reports and observations on the community response, and congressional correspondence. Sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Offers evidence-based medical treatment guidelines, clinical images, calculators, drug information, and patient information sheets. All content is physician-authored.

Provides information for investors on individual stocks and companies. Offers forecasting and historical information, as well as detailed financials, charts, and reports. Includes sorting, filtering (screening), graphing, and reporting functions.

Offers career, school, and industry guides; internship information and reviews; company rankings and profiles; and job search advice. Formerly known as Vault Online Career Library.
Access courtesy of the Villanova Career Center.

Presents an international directory of venture capital and private equity firms. Profiles include information about each firm's mission, industry and geographic preferences, portfolio companies, and more; also includes background information about each firm's executives.

Introduces a wide range of arts and humanities, STEM, and social sciences subjects. Written by experts for a general audience, each volume outlines key concepts and new research directions. Includes references and recommended readings.

Provides access to citations in patristic writings to the Old Latin (pre-Vulgate) versions of the Bible, searchable by biblical book, chapter, and verse. Includes images of the index cards on which Abbot Joseph Denk collected these citations in the late 19th century. Collected by the Vetus Latina Institut in Beuron, Germany.

Features primary sources related to the history of popular culture and the Victorian World from 1799 to 1930 in America, Britain, and Europe. Split into four sections, topics include Spiritualism, Sensation, and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows, and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre, and Popular Entertainment; Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema. Material formats consist of posters, playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and other printed ephemera. Sourced from many libraries and archives in the UK and U.S., including the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum in Exeter, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Fairground Archive in Sheffield.

Documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. Includes digital copies of the Ferrar Papers (1590-1790) held by Magdalene College in Cambridge, previously unpublished transcripts by David Ransome, and the published records of the Virginia Company of London (1906-1933). Also contains associated maps and images.

Contains journal articles, research reports, datasets, dissertations, conference papers, and learning objects covering all areas of nursing. Works included are both published and unpublished. Open access; provided by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.

Offers full access to all sections of the newspaper and WSJ.com website.
Access courtesy of the Villanova School of Business.

Provides access to the Wall Street Journal from 1889-2001. Current coverage for the Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition also available from Proquest and .com subscriptions.

Provides access to the Wall Street Journal via the ABI/INFORM Complete database (1984 to the present).

Offers information on global advertising and marketing trends including case studies, articles, reports, opinion pieces, and expenditure data. Formerly known as World Advertising Research Center.

Contains the full text of the Washington Post and its title variations from 1877 until seventeen years ago.

Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceeding Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.

Provides full text access to Wiley publications covering life, health, and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

Features a finding aid to women’s studies collections and resources at The National Archives and digital copies of documents related to the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain (1903-1928), and the colonial territories (1930-1962).

Offers a full text collection of works in English by pre-Victorian women writers. Covers a variety of genres and topics. All texts were originally published between 1526 and 1850.

Measures women’s well-being in 167 countries around the world. It examines three dimensions of women’s lives: inclusion (political, social, economic); justice (formal laws and informal discrimination); and security (at the family, community, and societal levels). A score between 0 (worst possible) and 1 (best possible) is generated for each country, ultimately determining their rank. Begun in 2017/18, the index was created by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security in partnership with the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Provides comprehensive statistical information on Christians and denominations world-wide.

Contains detailed information on global religious affiliation; including census, survey and projection data.

Provides annotated entries for books, articles, and book reviews, as well as theatrical productions, reviews of productions and other material related to Shakespeare published or produced from 1960 to the present, with coverage continuing to extend forward and backward in time.

Collects primary sources related to over two hundred international expositions held between the 19th and 21st centuries in 94 countries, gathered from 14 archives. Material formats include 360-degree images of objects, sound recordings, images, planning documents, first-person accounts, and more. The collection also includes a small collection of contextualizing scholarly essays, brief biographical notes on key figures, and interactive site maps for several expositions.

Presents a combined catalog of the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.

Offers a data research platform for business and economics datasets including AuditAnalytics, COMPUSTAT, CRSP, CBOE, Option Metrics, Risk Metrics, TAQ, TRACE, Thomson Reuters 13f, and others.

Indexes the international literature of animal biology and biodiversity. Also provides an authoritative record of taxonomy; use it to trace taxonomic names and changes to names and classification. Covers 1864 to the present.