'A' Databases

Alphabetical List of Databases

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
| N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

How to Access databases from off-campus

• Academic Search Premier - provides abstracts and full text articles covering a wide range of disciplines from 1971-present.
• Access World News - provides full-text newspaper articles from over 600 U.S. and 700 international sources.
• Accessible Archives - provides full-text articles from 18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals, and Pennsylvania county histories (covers material from 1728-1900).
• ACS Journals Online - provides fulltext chemistry articles. Articles published from the first issue of each journal - present.
• African American Music Reference - provides coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
• African American Song - the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
• African Women's Bibliographic Database - database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current. It indexes books and government documents, articles appearing in edited books, periodical and journal articles, Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers, conference papers, and video cassettes. Note: Free access to this database is provided by AfricaBib.org.
• AGRICOLA - Produced by the National Agriculture Library, AGRICOLA describes materials acquired by the NAL and cooperating institutions and includes records of books, serials, audiovisual and other materials.
• Alternative Press Index - provides citations to articles about cultural, social and political change. Articles date from 1991-present.
• America: History & Life - provides citations to articles on American and Canadian history. Articles date from 1964 - present.
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries - provides fulltext of letters, diaries, and memoirs covering 1861-1865.
• American Fact Finder - Summary and detailed data on population and housing from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Census, as well as data from the 1997 Economic Census, and the American Community Survey. Retrieval options include tables, data sets, and maps. Note: Free access to this database is provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• American Film Scripts Online - The primary focus of the database is the written work, rather than the film itself, and only feature films are included from 1903-present.
• American National Biography - provides fulltext articles about Americans who are deceased from Colonial times to the present.
• American Periodical Series (APS) - provides fulltext articles on American social and political development from periodicals published in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Articles published 1740-1900.
• American Song - Contains 50,000 tracks that allow people to hear and feel the music from America's past.
• America's Historical Newspapers (previously Early American Newspapers) - provides searchable access to over 1,000 U.S. newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
• L'Annee Philologique - provides citations and abstracts for scholarly articles covering all aspects of Classical Studies.
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) - provides citations and some full-text articles on English literature and English language. Articles published 1920-1999.
• Annual Reviews - provides full-text original review scholarly articles within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
• Anthropological Literature - provides citations to anthropology and archaeology articles and essays in journals in the Tozzer Library, Harvard University. Articles date from 19th century-present.
• Anthropological Index Online - provides citations to anthropology and archaeology articles in current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library). Articles date from 1970-present. Note: free access to this database is provided via the Museum of Mankind Library.
• Anthrosource - provides access to current issues for 15 of the AAA's publications through the end of 2006 and an archive of all AAA journals.
• Army Official Records of the Civil War - provides fulltext primary source material: official military records for Union and Confederate armies from 1880-1901. Note: free access to this database is provided via the Library of Cornell University.
• Art Abstracts - provides citations to articles, exhibitions, film reviews, and more art-related material. Articles date from 1984-present.
• Art Index Retrospective - provides citations to articles, exhibitions, film reviews, and more art-related material. Articles date from 1929-1984.
• Article First - provides citations to articles on science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Articles date from 1990-present.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index - provides citations to arts and humanities articles dated 1980-present.
• ARTstor - provides coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library includes approximately 300,000 images dating from 3000 BC - present covering art, architecture and archeology.
• Asian American Drama - provides the fulltext of more than 200 plays along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.
• ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Indexes & Abstracts - an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
• ATLA Religion Database - provides articles in religion & theology articles dating from 1949-present.