General Information Sources

Over 62 million records describing books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, musical scores, archival materials, maps, electronic resources, and much more, in over 400 different languages. Shows what materials are held by over 57,000 libraries worldwide (including most libraries in North America, and the national libraries of Australia and many Western European countries). Incorporates all records from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Union Catalog (RLIN).

Current cumulative file. (Describes library-held materials dated from prehistory to the present.)

Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.

Current

Searchable collection of historic and contemporary images of landscape design centered on the Italian Villa.

Current

The largest available faculty expertise directory, with searchable profiles covering more than 2 million active full-time university faculty in over 200 disciplines at institutions in 31 countries. Content is editorially controlled and regularly reviewed for accuracy and currency. Profiles include key biographical information, research interests, publications, patents, grants, honors/awards, and contact information, enabling users to identify, assess, and contact relevant scholars based on their research, publishing, and professional credentials. Also provides links to profiles of co-authors and departmental colleagues.  (Incorporates all data formerly available in COS Expertise.)

Current edition, continuously updated.

Second edition of the 8-volume IESS. Includes 3000 articles, including wealth and income distribution, economic aid, food production, water rights and health care.

This database provides access to more than 5,000 years of culture, history, and leaders. 320+ Native American groups are presented through subject entries, biographies, primary source documents, maps and charts, and photographs. Updated semiannually.

Prehistoric to present

Global coverage of language and education, with special emphasis on multicultural and bilingual education. Second edition, published 2008, originally in 10 volumes. Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger.

WorldImages provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 60,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into some 600 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.

Current

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains more than 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts. It has more than 500 full-text titles, including more than 170 full-text journals (such as Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more); and more than 360 full-text books & monographs (such as Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more).

A complete searchable archive of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to four years ago, with full-color images, multiple search indexes, and exportable financial tables. One of the most widely read magazines in the world, offering timely reporting, concise commentary and comprehensive analysis of the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them. (For text-only access to issues of The Economist from the most recent four years, use Academic OneFile, Access World News, or ProQuest Research Library.)

1843 - 2006 Includes complete full text of every issue from the first (August 1, 1843) through the last December issue of 4 years ago. (One year of additional content from 4 years ago is added annually.)