Databases

OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration industry, maintained by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the American and Canadian theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies. The collection also includes approximately 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks, and other resources.

Ethnographic Video Online now includes Volume II, which delivers 450 additional hours of classic and contemporary documentaries, unpublished footage from renowned anthropological archives, field recordings, and more. Volume II features content from Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), ZED, and Documentary Educational Resources (DER).

Counseling and Therapy in Video now includes Volume III, which will grow to more than 300 additional hours of training videos, reenactments, and actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinicians. Volume III presents a firm grounding in the theoretical modalities of counseling and psychotherapy, while expanding into new and emerging areas such as social media, veterans, cyber-bullying, mindfulness, and neuroscience.

When complete, Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video – approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers over 300 important dramatic works – by streaming audio – from the archive of the nation's premiere radio theatre company, L.A. Theatre Works. The plays, which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, are performed by leading actors from around the world and were recorded specifically for online listening. Included are plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and more.

Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia contains e-books, pamphlets, and broadsides. This collection is an unparalleled record of African American history, literature, and culture that spans nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century. Subjects covered include the West's discovery and exploitation of Africa; the rise of slavery in the New World along with the growth and success of abolitionist movements; the development of racial thought and racism; descriptions of African American life — slave and free — throughout the Americas; and slavery and race in fiction and drama.

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 contains more than 170 periodicals, published in 26 states, by and about African Americans. This database includes popular magazines, academic and political journals, organization bulletins, and other genres. Selection of periodicals is based on James P. Dankey's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998) and was scanned from the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Most of us know about persecution of Jews during World War II. You might know that Jews have been persecuted in Europe for centuries. But, how much do you know about anti-Semitism during the American Civil War? On December 17, 1862, Major General Ulysses S. Grant, before he became Lieutenant General and commander of all Union armies, issued General Order No. 11. This order expelled all Jews from the military district under Grant's command: parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Was it Grant's intention to expel all Jews or just Jewish speculators in black market cotton? The order said one thing and Grant seems to have always claimed the other. Check the newspaper, magazine, and journal articles in ProQuest and decide for yourself.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
This collection of materials from the National Archives, Kew, covers the whole of the modern period of European colonization of the continent from coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy's defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence.

Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
This collection of materials from the National Archives, Kew, covers revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, amongst other topics relevant to Latin America.

Public Affairs Index
Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict. This database draws from a diverse array of scholarly journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents to provide up-to-date information on a broad range of topics of concern to the world today. Coverage starts in 1934, with more complete coverage beginning in 1970.

Victorian Popular Culture: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema
Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema explores the pivotal era in entertainment history when previously static images came to life and moved for the first time. The database features printed ephemera, programmes, sheet music, cigarette cards, postcards, games, toys and other merchandise from the pre- and early-cinematic years. The printed books in this collection range from technical magic lantern manuals to children's shadow play while the periodicals range from the scientific to early celebrity gossip.

We added several Japanese databases:

Asahi Shinbun
Online full-text database of the Japanese language Asahi Shinbun, one of Japan's mainstream newspapers. Contains 7 million articles published since 1945. Also includes articles from the weekly magazines Aera and Shukan Asahi, and from the annual new-word dictionary Chiezo.

Japan Knowledge
Includes Japanese language dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English, and English-English), a 30-volume encyclopedia, two dictionaries of current words, a dictionary of scientific terms, a biographical dictionary, the JK Who's Who, the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union, full-text books, a database of video recordings from 1908 to 2005, a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan, a books in print database, a sound library, and a music library.

Maisaku: Mainichi shinbun detabesu
Access to the online full-text, Japanese language database of Mainichi shinbun (1872 (Meiji 5)- ). The database also includes Mainichi Daily News (June 2008- ), Shukan Ekonomisuto (October 1989- ), the public opinion poll conducted by Mainichi Shinbunsha (1945- ), Mainichi yoron chosa, and the company history "'Mainichi' no 3-seiki".

Yomidasu rekishikan
Includes the Japanese language: Yomiuri shinbun of Meiji, Taisho, Showa and current issues; The Daily Yomiuri; and a biographical database. Includes English language search and some English language articles.

Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei
Japanese language index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and including local periodicals not present in many other indexes. Coverage is from 1868 onwards. Merges data from various composite periodical indexes by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan.

NewspaperARCHIVE is a database of historical newspapers covering 1607 the present. The database consists of digital images of original newspaper pages, the largest number are from 1880-2010, and are mainly English-language from the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland, although there are some newspapers from other countries in other languages. Several small Michigan newspapers are included, which cold be helpful for genealogical research, but none are from southeastern Michigan.
Note: The holdings will list broad ranges of dates but NewspaperARCHIVE does not necessarily contain all the issues in that time period.

Good news for users of Simmons OneView: you don't have to come into the library to use this database anymore! That's right, off-campus access is now available. We still have a 2 concurrent user restriction, but you can now access this from anywhere on campus, at home, at work, etc.

Simmons OneView
Format: Full Text
Available: On & Off Campus
Simmons OneView provides access to U.S. adult consumer data on product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits, and more. It can be used to create customized reports helpful for developing marketing strategies, making advertising decisions, and finding statistical information that comes from the Simmons National Consumer Study.
Note: Limited to 2 concurrent users.

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service contains summaries of more than 185,000 publications including: federal, state, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research. Twelve core periodicals are comprehensively abstracted, and many more periodicals are routinely examined. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims.

Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the DOE Web Corpus represents over three million words of Old English and fewer than a million words of Latin, or almost five times the collected works of Shakespeare.