Resources Beginning with "A"
A2A - Access to Archives A2A allows you to search and browse for information about archives in England, dating from the 900s to the present day.
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A9.com General-purpose search engine from Amazon that also includes "Search Inside the Book" results. A9 also keeps track of all the web sites you have viewed. See A9 help for an explanation on using their engine.
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AAASS NewsNet Archive (UDB-NN) NewsNet features articles on particular issues in Russian, Central European, and Eurasian studies, and on the teaching of disciplines related to Slavic studies.
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Aardvark The Aardvark Home Page - Asia's Web resource for librarians - offers links to databases made in Asia or about Asia, along with links to links to free preprint and full text science archives.
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ABI/INFORM Global Contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full text of articles appearing in international business and management publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide.
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ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art & Archaeology Index The ABIA Index is a bibliographic database on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology compiled by an international team of specialists.
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Abstracts of International Conservation Literature AATA is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts and bibliographic records of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
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ABZU : Guide To Resources For The Study Of the Ancient Near East Searchable site providing access to the increasing amount of data on the web dealing with the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and other lands of the region.
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Academia Sinica Databases (Access from Asian Reading Room Only) Contains over two dozen databases from Academia Sinica in Taiwan (中央研究院) and its various institutes and library.
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Academic Conferences in China (ACIC) ACIC contains over 600,000 full-text conference papers, and 800,00 abstracts and other descriptive information on national and international conferences held in China since 1986.
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Academic Index MetaSearch tool that generates results from research-quality reference and information sources selected by the education community.
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Academic Info Digital Libraries Provides links to digital collections from libraries, museums, and academic organizations and sites offering unique online content. Includes alphabetical list of subject specific digital libraries.
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Academic Search Premier Provides full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, as well as indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the database.
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AccessAsia AccessAsia is a clearinghouse for information on contemporary Asian affairs and policy-related issues.
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Accessible Archives Contains the full text of primary source material from 18th & 19th century American periodicals and newspapers.
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AccessUN An index of current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications including documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice.
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ACM Guide to Computing Literature Contains bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing covering books, journals, proceedings and theses.
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Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System ASSIST provides direct access to Defense and Federal specifications and standards available in the official DoD repository.
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Acronym Finder Contains more than 411,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations.
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ACS Journal Search Retrieve citations and abstracts for articles in journals published by the American Chemical Society.
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Ad*Access Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
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Addressing Climate Change Policies and Measures Database Offers access to information on energy-related policies and measures taken or planned in International Energy Agency (IEA) Member countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Adherents.com Provides statistical information on over 4,200 religions, denominations, churches, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements taken from census data, polls, surveys and organizational reports.
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ADS: NASA Astrophysics Data System The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing almost 4 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy.
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services Provides an early indication of sales by retail companies compiled by the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce.
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AEIOU Encyclopedia of Austria The AEIOU is the online version of the Österreich-Lexikon encyclopaedia containing all entries and illustrations of the two-volume encyclopaedia.
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AERADE Reports Archive The Aerade Reports Archive contains more than ten thousand, historically significant, digitised reports from the Aeronautical Research Council (ARC) and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
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Africa Research Central : a Clearinghouse of African Primary Sources Gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources.
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Africa South of the Sahara An annotated guide to resources on the internet focusing on all aspects of Africa. Prepared by Karen Fung for the Information and Communication Technology Group (ICTG), African Studies Association, USA.
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Africa-Wide NiPAD Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies, Africa-Wide NiPAD contains over 2 million records with full-text links on all aspects of Africa.
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African American Biographical Database Biographical information for more than 30,000 African Americans.
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African American Song (Requires Headphones) Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, African American Music brings 50,000 tracks of music online to document the history of African American music in sound.
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African Development Bank Provides economic analysis and reviews of political and social developments in African countries.
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African Index Medicus International index to African health literature and information sources.
Provided by the World Health Organization.
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African Journals Online AJOL is a database of African-published journals, publishing in a range of academic disciplines.
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African Studies Abstracts Provides an overview of articles from leading journals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden.
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Africana Digitization Project A project at the University of Wisconsin offering free access to searchable online copies of published sources for West African history, with a focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade era.
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AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics AgEcon indexes full text scholarly research in the field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
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AgeLine Database AgeLine is an online guide to English-language books, research reports, articles from journals and magazines, and videos related to issues of aging and life at 50+.
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AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center Searchable database of agricultural information, including basic, applied, and developmental research, extension, and teaching activities in the food, agricultural, renewable natural resources, forestry, and physical and social sciences.
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AGRICOLA Describes journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials encompassing all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.
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Agricultural Baseline Database The database covers 10-year projections from USDA's annual baseline report for major field crops (corn, sorghum, barley, oats, wheat, rice, soybeans, and upland cotton) and livestock (beef, pork, poultry and eggs, and dairy).
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Database ACDC contains more than 27,000 documents on communications related broadly to agriculture, food, natural resources and rural affairs.
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AGRIS AGRIS provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature.
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AIAA Electronic Library Search for technical information worldwide on aerospace technology, engineering, and science covered by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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AIER Cost-of-Living Calculator The calculator uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to compare dollar values from one year to another.
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Air Force History Index Online index of 550,000 reports on aerospace, aviation history, as well as political and military history. Maintained by the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency .
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Air University Library Bibliographies Contains scores of bibliographies compiled by staff at the Air University on military related topics. Some sources also include links to the full text of the work.
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Alaska & Polar Periodical Index The index cites articles in English about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica.
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All Music Guide Searchable database of 20th century popular music and musicians, including discographies and a glossary.
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AllAfrica Contains the full text of over 1000 stories daily in English and French from over 125 African news organizations. The searchable archive has over 900,000 articles from newspapers, news agencies and publications all over the African continent.
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AlltheWeb Searches over 2 billion fully indexed webpages along with news,
pictures, videos, mp3 files, and ftp files.
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Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Provides an annotated bibliography of over 2,000 books, articles, films, CDs, and websites about a broad range of nuclear issues.
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AltaVista AltaVista's search tabs, located
on top of the search box, allows you to search in the following
areas: Web, Images, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory or News.
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Alternative Press Index & Archive Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
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AMED Links to Countries, Regions, and Languages Provides links to research resources that include a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems.
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America : History and Life Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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America's Historical Newspapers - Series I, II, III Americas Historical Newspapers features full text cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers published in 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies ABSEES online contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books & chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications covering US and Canadian scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union.
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American Civil War Research Database Contains information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.
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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries The collection includes approximately 100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters and diaries from people living in the civil war era.
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American Film Institute Catalog Provides comprehensive filmographic information on over 45,000 films, including more than 17,500 made in the early years of film from 1893 to 1910.
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American Memory Library of Congress gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
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American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications Search the full text of the museum's scientific publications covering the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.
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American National Biography ANB contains biographical portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the United States.
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American Periodicals Series Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
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American Religion Data Archive ARDA includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
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American Society for Engineering Education Conferences [ASEE] The ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Center offers a searchable database of PDF files, including the papers from past ASEE Annual Conferences since 1996.
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American Song (Requires Headphones) American Song is a database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet.
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American State Papers, 1789-1838 Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838.
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AMICUS Web Search over 26 million full bibliographic records from 1,300 Canadian libraries including National Library of Canada (NLC) records describing books, magazines, government documents, theses, sound recordings, maps, etc.
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AmphibiaWeb Search and retrieve information relating to amphibian biology and conservation.
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Ancestry Library Edition With more than one and a half billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, primary-source document images (including the US Federal census) and a variety of genealogical research features.
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Animal Info - Information on Endangered Mammals Contains information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals.
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Annals of American History Contains primary source materials on the history of the United States, including texts, still images, audio and video files.
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Année Philologique L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.
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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world.
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Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection Annual Reviews contains citations to analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
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Answers.com Contains over a million topics, covering people, places, words and names, drawn from atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, websites, etc.
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Anthropological Index Online The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.
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Anthropology Journals Archive Project Indexing and abstracts for the following journals: American Anthropologist (1888- ); Current Anthropology (a few selected years); Human Organization (a few selected years); and Anthropologica (1964 - with gaps).
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Anthropology Plus Contains index to articles and essays in over 5,000 sources published in English and other European languages on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, ethnology, material culture, psychology, religious studies and sociocultural anthropology.
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APIRS Online Database Includes annotated citations for more than 65,000 research articles, books and reports about plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control.
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Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective Index for more than 2,000 periodicals covering events, issues and trends in the history of the applied sciences, business and industry, and technology.
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Applied Science and Technology Full Text Wilson Applied Science & Technology Index provides abstracts and indexing for over 750 of the leading periodicals in science and technology.
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Archaeological Settlements of Turkey Database The TAY Project database provides a central inventory documenting all archaeological sites within Turkey. Begun in 1993.
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Archival Finding Aids (Library of Congress) Provides links to all the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids for various collections at the Library of Congress.
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Archival Research Catalog (ARC) ARC is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
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Archive Finder Directory describing over 200,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Archive of European Integration The AEI is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.
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ArchiveGrid An index to historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
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Archives de France Publiques à des fins administratives, civiques et scientifiques et oriente leur mise en valeur culturelle.
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ArchNet Digital Library ArchNet contains thousands of images with accompaning text for historical monuments and contemporary architecture in dozens of countries.
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Arctic Science and Technology Information System The ASTIS database contains over 60,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada.
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online A database of terms and definitions for describing, indexing, and accessing information on the visual arts and architecture. Provided and maintained by the J. Paul Getty Museum (browse many of the works of art on display at the Getty).
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Art Full Text Wilson Art Abstracts indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in the arts, as well as expanded coverage of European, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
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Art Index Retrospective Provides access to over 50 years of citations from hundreds of the leading art periodicals and magazines.
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Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine Indexes over 1200 arts sites on the web, and offers more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.
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Artfact Index of 4 million public auction sale results from more than 350 auction houses. Includes 54,000 images; some full-text information is available. Entries included in the database are unedited, and appear as written by auction house experts.
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ARTFL American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language covering nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.
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Article Finder Find the full text for a specific journal title or article available at the Library of Congress.
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ArticleFirst Citations and abstracts of articles from over 16,000 journals in business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture.
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ArtLex Art Dictionary Provides definitions for more than 3,500 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with pictorial examples of art object images, arranged in chronological groups. It also has pronunciation guides, quotations and links to related Web sites.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities (available in ISI Web of Science).
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arXiv.org e-Print archive An e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics , nonlinear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
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ASCE Civil Engineering Database Abstracts and indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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Asian American Drama Brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.
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Asian Development Bank Economics & Statistics Thru its online publications, ADB provides a comprehensive economic analysis of economies in developing Asia and the Pacific.
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Asian Law Bibliographic Database The database is a collection of English language materials on Asian laws available throughout the world and includes books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses.
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Asian Studies Search Engines These search engines specialise in scholarly information related to online research, teaching and publishing about Asia and related regions and topics.
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ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law Maintained by the American Society of International Law, the guide sets out basic strategies to find international legal materials and examine what resources are available on international environmental, economic and criminal law, private international law, human rights, treaties, international organizations, and the United Nations.
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Ask.com Ask uses a natural language search engine that responds to questions, phrases, or single words.
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ASTM International Directory of Testing Laboratories This American Society for Testing and Materials Directory provides on-line full text searching for services and locations of testing laboratories.
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Astronomical Research Institute Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References The ARIBIB is an on-line database of citations for the astronomical bibliography Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts and Astronomischer Jahresbericht.
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ATLA Religion Database The literature of religion from more than 600 journals; includes articles, essays, multi-author works, and book reviews.
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Atmospheric Chemistry Glossary Browsable glossary of terms covering air quality and atmospheric chemistry.
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Audiovisual Library of International Law Contains documents, tapes - both audio and video - and other materials on subjects of international law.
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AULIMP The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals provides citations and abstracts to articles, news items, and editorials from military and aeronautical periodicals covering all branches of the military.
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Australasian Legal Information Institute Databases AustLII contains primary legal and legislative materials for Australia and New Zealand.
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Australian Historic Records Register The AHRR is a guide to sources on Australian social, economic, business, labour and cultural history at the local level.
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Author Pseudonyms AKA contains a browsable list of over 11,000 entries of author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names, etc.
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Avalon Project Digital primary source documents selected by the Yale Law School relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Index of 2,500 international journals published worldwide on architecture and urban design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.
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