Databases

On this day 225 years ago, the Mozart opera "Don Giovanni" opened in Prague. The library has a CD of the opera, musical scores, different language translations, and many other items related to the opera. You can also stream nearly 500 tracks from various recordings of the opera through Naxos Music Library. Whether you like to listen to music, read about music, read music, or play music, we have something for you!

ICPSR Data
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains the world's largest archive of computerized, numeric social science data. Topics covered include demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, public opinion.

ProQuest Sanborn Maps Geo Edition
Provides geocoding and indexing by address for a selection of Sanborn maps. Searching can be done by address or by latitude/longitude coordinates. Maps from different years can be layered, including modern maps using the Google Map interface.
States included: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Cities included: Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Richmond, Seattle and Washington DC.

ProQuest Statistical Datasets
ProQuest Statistical Datasets provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations. Create maps and reports from data you select from over 640 datasets. Categories include Energy Resources and Demand, Food and Agriculture, Health and Vital Statistics, Natural Resources and Environment, and much more.
Note: ProQuest Statistical Datasets requires a Java-enabled browser.

SciFinder
Combined access to Chemical Abstracts' CAPlus, CAS Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCATS databases as well as Medline. Search by chemical structure or substructure, reaction, name, formula, etc. or use natural language queries.
Note: Requires the creation of an individual user account (see instructions).

Statistica
Statista provides access to the most relevant and important statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources. Information comes from over 10,000 sources and covers over 600 industries.

WebCSD
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a worldwide repository of more than 500,000 small molecule crystal structures hosted by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center. Browse structures or search by substructure, similarity, etc.

World Christian Database
Detailed information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world. Extensive data are available on 238 countries and 13,000 ethno-linguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. Information is readily available on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demography. Additional secular data is included on population, health, education, languages, and communication. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in Christian and religious demography and the history of Christianity.

AAIDD Journals
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) publishes two highly-ranked journals: the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AJIDD, formerly AJMR), the premier journal in the field, and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), an informative policy and practice journal.

APA Handbooks
Search or browse the full text of all five American Psychological Association handbooks.

PsycTESTS
PsycTESTS provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. The focus is primarily on unpublished tests developed by researchers, but not made commercially available. Covers 1910 to present, but over 70% is from 1990 and later.

Atlanta Constitution Historical (1868-1945)
Detroit Free Press Historical (1831-1922)
These two newspapers provide scholars, researchers, and genealogists with online, easily searchable, first-hand accounts as well as unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. More recent dates for these newspapers are also available.

Gutenberg-e
This is a collection of prizewinning history books, published electronically. Topics include, but are not limited to Africa, Colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military History, and History of Foreign Relations.

Liberty Magazine Historical Archive (1924-1950)
The Liberty Magazine Historical Archive offers researchers and students of 20th century studies digital access to one of the most popular American illustrated weekly magazines of the 1920s-1950s. Containing over 17,000 fiction and non-fiction articles and stories, the archive includes the complete 26-year run of the magazine - all scanned in full color and fully searchable.

March of Time
March of Time is Time Inc.'s unique and controversial newsreel series that ran from 1935 to 1967. The newsreels have been restored to their original luster by HBO Archives, allowing viewers to experience these historic newsreels as audiences did in earlier decades. The most unusual feature of the films was the re-creation or staging of events that had taken place, but had not been photographed by newsreel cameras.

National Geographic Historical Archive (1888-1994)
Features the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s. National Geographic Magazine Archive includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface. National Geographic Magazine Archive is a powerful tool for finding and reading through the 100+ years of impactful articles found in this archive.

North China Herald
The English North China Herald is universally acclaimed as the prime printed source - in any language - for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to the 1940s. It was published in Shanghai and was the official journal for British consular notifications and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council. It is the first - and sometimes only - point of reference for information and comment on a range of foreign and Chinese activities.

Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006
This is the full digital edition of the weekly Sunday newspaper, published in London, England. The Sunday Times Digital Archive includes approximately 600,000 searchable pages.

Translated Texts for Historians E-Library
Scholarly English translations of key historical sources from the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages. This digital library contains translations of historical sources, from the political letters and speeches of Ambrose of Milan to Zachariah of Mytilene's Chronicle. Texts span 300-800 CE and have been translated into English from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, and Armenian. Each volume includes an introduction setting the text into context, and rigorous notes on content, interpretation, and debates.

Women and Social Movements, International
Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women's social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law
Contains historical legal materials covering 1600 to 1926. The bulk of the material covers mainly Western European law, but also includes Scandinavia and former European territories such as Canada, Cuba, China, and India. The primary languages of the digitized material are English, French, and German. The content is primarily treatises, but there are some digitized primary materials such as codes and collections of cases.

Ad*Access
Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.

Business Insights: Essentials replaced Business and Company Resource Center
Business Insights: Essentials makes it easy for researchers to use in-depth information on U.S. and international businesses, industries, and products. Investigate investment opportunities, comprehensively and easily; find parent-subsidiary relationships; obtain competitive intelligence, market share information, and product trends; explore market-industry information and analysis; study product and brand information; compare companies within an industry; and much more.
Note: Business Insights: Essentials has replaced Business and Company Resource Center.

American Film Scripts
Over 1,000 scripts by more than 1,050 writers as well as detailed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. American Film Scripts also includes over 500 original images of previously unpublished screenplays.

Art and Architecture in Video
Documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Includes coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary Art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design.

Black Drama, Second Edition
Black Drama, now in its expanded second edition, contains the full text of more than 1,460 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.

Classic Mexican Cinema
The Golden Age of Mexican cinema is illuminated in this collection of popular movie periodicals. This collection also includes dozens of film flyers, which were distributed on the streets to lure people into the cinema. Finally, this collection gives access to the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), one of the leading Latin-American filmmakers. These volumes contain reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements, shedding a unique light on the career of this pioneering director.

Classical Music Library
Recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, and Vox. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g., Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. More than 7,400 albums with 135,000 tracks are included and it is added to regularly.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive is a research resource containing primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the vaudeville and silent movies era through to 2000. The database includes film and entertainment industry trade magazines, fan magazines, and music press titles.

March of Time
Time Inc.'s unique and controversial newsreel series that ran from 1935 to 1967. The newsreels have been restored to their original luster by HBO Archives, allowing viewers to experience these historic newsreels as audiences did in earlier decades. The most unusual feature of the films was the re-creation or staging of events that had taken place, but had not been photographed by newsreel cameras.

New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to present
Full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and Global Lens. Also includes documentaries, comedies, dramas, and award-winning short films. All films were presented at major film festivals and, collectively, have won more than 1,000 awards. Film clips and playlists can be created, saved, and shared with others. Videos can be downloaded to an Apple OS or Android phone, available for 48 hours.

AccessEngineering
AccessEngineering provides access to thousands of pages of McGraw-Hill content from such renowned resources as Perry's Handbook for Chemical Engineers and Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. Also included: powerful search tools, interactive tables and graphs, instructive videos and student study guides, time-saving curriculum guides, and global engineering news.

ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online
This is an online source of 23,000 critically evaluated phase diagrams for oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, borides, compound semiconductors, and chalcogenides. Functionality includes:
• Search commentaries and diagrams by chemical system, published author's last name, volume, language, publication year, and figure number.
• View diagram's chemical system, figure number, figure notes, references, commentary, and footnotes.
• Manipulate diagrams with zoom in/out, lever rule, curve follow, mirror, Mol% to Wt% or Wt% to Mol%, and built-in calculator.
Note: To get started, click on the link "Click Here Without Signing In to Access Phase Diagrams" on the home page.

ASM Alloy Center
The ASM Alloy Center enables you to search in one easy step across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. Includes data sheets and diagrams, an alloy finder, materials property data, coatings data, and corrosion data.

ASM Failure Analysis Center
The ASM Failure Analysis Center features over 1,000 case histories along with authoritative handbook information on failure mechanisms and analysis methods. Find specific information to help you quickly solve your own failure analysis or materials performance issues.

ASM Micrograph Center
The ASM Micrograph Center is a comprehensive collection of micrograph images and associated data. The emphasis of the collection is on micrographs for industrially important alloys. Information captured for each image includes material designation and composition, processing history, service history, metallographic preparation/technique, magnification, significance of the structures shown, selected materials properties data, and other relevant data.

Over the summer, we have added several new science databases to our collection: WebCSD, SciFinder, ProQuest Statistical Datasets, and National Geographic Magazine Archive. Additionally, JAMA & Archives has changed its name to JAMA Network.

JAMA Network
JAMA & Archives has been renamed JAMA Network. JAMA Archives titles will have new names beginning in 2013; see the news release for more information.

National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994
National Geographic Magazine Archive features the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s. Every page and every photograph of National Geographic is included, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface. This is a powerful tool for finding and reading through the 100+ years of articles found in this archive.

ProQuest Statistical Datasets
ProQuest Statistical Datasets provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations. Create maps and reports from data you select from over 640 datasets. Categories include Energy Resources and Demand, Food and Agriculture, Health and Vital Statistics, Natural Resources and Environment, and much more.
Note: ProQuest Statistical Datasets requires a Java-enabled browser.

SciFinder
Combined access to Chemical Abstracts' CAPlus, CAS Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCATS databases as well as Medline. Search by chemical structure or substructure, reaction, name, formula, etc. or use natural language queries.
Note: Requires the creation of an individual user account (see instructions).

WebCSD
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a worldwide repository of more than 500,000 small molecule crystal structures hosted by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center. Browse structures or search by substructure, similarity, etc.