Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

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Sabin Americana 1500-1926ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies.


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SAE Standards
Identify and locate automotive and aerospace standards issued by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

Many standards are available, in print and electronically, through the Library of Congress Technical Reports and Standards Unit (TRS).


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SAGE Journals OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to over 40 journals covering economics, education, leisure, politics, religion, and other social sciences published by SAGE.


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Sanborn Maps 1867-1970ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Collection of 660,000 large-scale landbook maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities.


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Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary DictionaryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains over 65,000 main and sub-entries compiled from over 50 major veterinary texts and journals.


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Scholarpedia
Contains articles focusing on neuroscience and computational intelligence written by scholars.


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SchoolMatters
Contains a searchable collection of state data, including: student performance; spending, revenue & taxes; school environment; community demographics; and S&P Ratios.


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SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
Full-text access to a collection of scholarly journals in English, Portuguese and/or Spanish, published in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica (Initiatives in development), Cuba, Mexico (Initiatives in development), Spain and Venezuela (Initiatives in development).


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Science Accelerator
Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), Department of Energy.


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Science Citation IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences (available in ISI Web of Science).


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Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Online index to over 60,000 historical and critical articles, books, news reports, obituaries, motion picture reviews and other material about science fiction, fantasy and horror.


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Science Journals via ProQuestON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search full text and images for the over 300 journals in science and technology, with over 160 titles available in full text. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.


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Science Links Japan
Contains English - language citations and abstracts for documents published in Japan covering all fields of science, technology, and medicine.


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Science.gov
Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.


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Scientific Commons
The database tracks over 15 million publications found in nearly 1,000 repositories produced by over 6 million authors.


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SCIPIO Art and Rare Book Sales CatalogsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works.


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SCIRUS
Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling users to find Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, see the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.


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Scitation: Searchable Physics and Technology Database
Contains approximately 600,000 articles from more than 110 technical publications in the physical sciences.


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Scitopia.org
Scitopia searches more than three million documents from over a dozen of the world's leading science and technology societies, including peer-reviewed journal content and conference proceedings.


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ScotlandsPeople
ScotlandsPeople is the official online source of parish register, civil registration, census and wills & testaments records for Scotland.


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Scottish Bibliographies Online
Scotland’s national bibliography brings together over 70,000 records of books, periodicals and major articles of Scottish interest published all over the world.


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Scottish Documents
Provides access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901.


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Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
The SORA project is a searchable open access electronic journal archive to the international Ornithological literature.


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SearchMash
SearchMash sorts the results into web pages, images, blogs, videos, and Wikipedia entries, all on one screen.


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SearchMe
A web search engine that finds and categorizes results as you type in your terms. Designed to browse the web in the same way as you browse book stacks.


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Serials SolutionsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides an A - Z list of the Library of Congress full-text electronic journals, including online journals contained in subscription databases.


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Shakespeare in Quarto
Contains the full text of the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.


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Sheet Music Consortium
Search or browse sheet music collections by title, composer or lyricist, keyword or subject.


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Sho no Jiten File (賞の事典)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Comprehensive database of Japanese national and local prizes and awards in science, arts, music, literature and culture. It contains records of more than 3,000 prizes/awards information with a total of 200,000 recipient's biography records.


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Short Story IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes more than 84,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as an additional 12,000 stories from periodicals.


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Show Music on Record
Provides discographic information for commercially-released show music recordings starting with those captured on early cylinders in the late 19th century and continuing through recent compact disc productions of the early 21st century.


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SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
Lists over 7,000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime).


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Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
Archive of photographs depicting Chinese urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside during the early part of the 20th century.


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SIMBAD Astronomical Database
Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system. SIMBAD can be queried by object name, coordinates, other criteria (filters), and lists of objects.


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SimplyMap (Access from Map & Geography Reading Room)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data.


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Smithsonian Global Sound (Requires Headphones)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Smithsonian Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.


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Smithsonian National Museum of American History Online Exhibits
The museum exhibitions explore major themes in American history and culture, from the War of Independence to the present day.


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Social Science Data Archives
Collection of Web sites and databases for the social sciences covering Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Oceania, North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Central America.


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Social Science Research Network
The SSRN abstract database contains information on over 100,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.


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Social Sciences and Humanities Russian JournalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to the contents of all lending Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities, the so called "thick journals.


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Social Sciences Citation IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences (available in ISI Web of Science).


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Social Sciences Full TextON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts contains citations to over 550 popular journal titles covering the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.


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Social Sciences in Forestry
This database indexes publications in 41 subject areas relating the social sciences to forestry.


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Social Services AbstractsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serial publications in the areas of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, community development, child welfare, counseling, crime and corrections, disabilities, evaluation, families, gerontology, health and mental health, poverty, professional issues, social workers, substance abuse and therapies.


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Sociological AbstractsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology, political science, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as policy areas in science.


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SoshooON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Soshoo - Statistical data on the social and economic situation in China - offers yearly and monthly statistical data on China.


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SourceOECDON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.


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South East Asian Images & Texts Project : SEAiT
Digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


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Southeast Asian Serial Index
Indexes major academic and current affairs journals covering Southeast Asia published in a range of countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and The Netherlands.


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Southern African Freedom Struggles 1950-1994
Contains fully searchable text from 40 journal titles, bringing together selected resource on the socio – political history of South Africa during the last half of the 20th century.


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Southwest Crossroads
Southwest Crossroads: Cultures and Histories of the American Southwest contains original texts, poems, fiction, maps, paintings, photographs, oral histories, and films covering New Mexico and the Southwest.


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SPIRES HEP Literature Database
SPIRES High-Energy Physics Literature Database provides searching of more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses.


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Sports Business Research NetworkON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
SBRnet provides statistical market research data for 63 sports and 85 product categories, plus full-text articles and reports in more than 10 leading trade publications.


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SPRILIB : A Polar and Glaciological Bibliographic Database
The Scott Polar Research Institute Library (SPRILIB) databases cover the literature relating to the Arctic and Antarctic published in a wide range of languages.


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SSSL Bibliography
The SSSL Bibliography is an annotated checklist of scholarship on over 1,000 writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) associated with the American South.


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Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index
SCAMPI is a guide to articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and international politics, and other areas researched by Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) faculty, staff, and students.


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Standard and Poor's NetAdvantageON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Information for the investor on markets and the economy.


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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains a number of extended articles on a range of topics in philosophy from classical times to the modern day. Links to relevant sites are included in the articles. Unabridged Table of Contents.


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STAT-USAON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Economic, business, and international trade information database produced by the Economics and Statistics Administration, US Department of Commerce.


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State and Local Governments
List of hyperlinks to Internet resources on state and local government information.


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State Cancer Legislative Database
The National Cancer Institute's SCLD maintains information about state laws and resolutions addressing cancer-related topics.


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State of the Union Addresses of the American Presidents, 1790-
Contains the full text of all State of the Union Addresses.


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Statesmans YearbookON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Statesman's Yearbook contains brief profiles of every country in the world, highlighting key historical events and describing their form of government and social organizations.


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Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Comprehensive collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.


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Statistical WarehouseON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides statistical data for a range of demographic, social and scientific areas (formerly titled Regional Onesource ).


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STINET MultiSearch
Provides access to the DOD Scientific and Technical Information Center (DTIC) databases containing citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.


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Stockbrokers Glossary
Browsable glossary of commonly used terms found in stock investing. Provided by Barclays Stockbrokers.


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Story and Play FinderON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides thousands of full-text plays and short stories from classics to the most contemporary.


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Structurae International Database and Gallery of Structures
Showcases the works and art of structural engineering and, to some extent, architecture from around the world.


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Studies in Bibliography
Presents a wide range of full text scholarly articles on bibliography, textual criticism, printing history, and book and manuscript study. Provided by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.


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Sudoc Catalogue
The union catalog of the Système universitaire de documentation contains bibliographic information on all types of documents held by French academic libraries.


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Superconductivity Papers Database
Search over 70,000 articles in the areas of High Tc, C60 related, Organic Conductors, Non-Oxide Superconductors including the conventional superconductors, Oxide Conductors, and Theory (new field since September 1997).


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Superpages
Provides access to United States and Canadian listings of people, government offices, and businesses. Search for a listing by name, address, or business category, or do a reverse lookup by phone number.


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Supreme Court LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes complete coverage of published cases in official sources from 1754 to the last full calendar year for the United States Supreme Court.


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Swedish National Bibliographic Databases
Catalog of books, periodicals, maps, newspapers, and monographs covering material which has been published in Sweden.


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SwetsWiseON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides full text access to a selected list of ejournals provided by a few commercial publishers.


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Swiss-Prot / TrEMBL Protein Sequence Database
Curated protein sequence database which strives to provide a high level of annotation, such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, etc.


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The Swiss Book : Swiss National Bibliography
This bibliography lists all Swiss publications on all mediums: books, maps, music scores, electronic medias and multimedia, periodicals, newspapers, annual publications and series.


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