Research Guides: Brown School Library: Databases by Subject

Africana

Africabib.org
A mixture of databases, dictionaries, and historical information on Africa. https://www.africabib.org/
African Journals Online (AJOL)
Over 400 open-access, peer-reviewed journals from 39 African countries. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajol

allAfrica.com This link opens in a new window
The largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide, posting over 1000 stories daily in English and French. Offers a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming and over 900,000 articles dating from 1997.
Aluka: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa This link opens in a new window
Over 180,000 pages of documents and images: periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches. Two other collections (African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes, and African Plants) are available through the site, but you will not be able to access the full-text of those materials.
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
'This database is a comprehensive index to publications on Islamic subjects throughout the world. Records cover almost 100 years, from 1906 to the present. The scope includes the Middle East, the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere in the world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.' (from database homepage) Learn more about this database

African Americans

African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
The National Negro Congress was established in 1936 to "secure the right of the Negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching, and mob violence" and "to promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people." It was conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks.
African American Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Includes Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-2010), Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Cleveland Call & Post (1934-2010), Kansas City Call (1919-2010), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2010), Louisville Defender (1951-2010), New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010), Norfolk Journal & Guide (1916-2010), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2010), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010).
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
The complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and early 1900s. First-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience. Dates covered: 1827 - 1919.
Black Abolitionist Papers This link opens in a new window
Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.
Unique, hand-written correspondence and documents comprise around 30% of this collection. Included in the collection are such types of primary documents as:

- Correspondence of major African American leaders
- Speeches, sermons, and lectures
- Articles, essays, editorials, and other major writings from more than 200 newspapers: African American, abolitionist, and reform newspapers
- Receipts, poems, and other miscellaneous documents
Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key. In 1900, he established the League "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro," and headed it until his death.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century (History Vault) This link opens in a new window
Primary source material from federal agencies, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries; composed of two modules. Learn more about this database
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States This link opens in a new window
Historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
Black Liberation Army (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Interviews, articles, speeches, and FBI surveillance and informant reports, ranging from 1970-1983 on Black Liberation Army (BLA).
Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: the papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
This collection of RAM records reproduces the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and other related organizations and their leaders.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles on Black Studies. Combines resources as: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and Black Literature Index.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Contains numerous multimedia sources on the published works of prominent African Americans.
Exploring Race in Society This link opens in a new window
Offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Between the early 1920s and early 1980s, the Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation engaged in widespread investigation of those deemed politically suspect. Prominent among the targets of this sometimes coordinated, sometimes independent surveillance were aliens, members of various protest groups, Socialists, Communists, pacifists, militant labor unionists, ethnic or racial nationalists, and outspoken opponents of the policies of the incumbent presidents.

Health Equity Works (formerly For the Sake of All)
We work to improve the health of all people by eliminating racial inequities that stifle our St. Louis region’s growth.

Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010) This link opens in a new window
Offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Great Migration and Civil Rights to the election of America's first Black president. Explore nearly nine decades of everyday life as written from the perspective of this Detroit-based paper providing researchers with unprecedented access to perspectives and information excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources.
NAACP Papers (History Vault) This link opens in a new window
NAACP Papers collections contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP's work and delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues. With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, the NAACP Papers document the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the triumphs of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond. Learn more about this database.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: African American Studies This link opens in a new window
African American Studies is now a vibrant, complex, and growing field for the intellectual and curricular mission of centers, institutes, programs, and departments at colleges and universities across the country. Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies represents another step in the field’s institutional progress. Regularly updated and expanded with new content, the module will provide bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies—culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics.
Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915 Parts 1-4 (History Vault) This link opens in a new window
The Plantation Records in this module documents the far-reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the nation. As business owners, the commodities produced by plantation owners—rice, cotton, sugar, tobacco, hemp, and others— accounted for more than half of the nation’s exports. The plantation, therefore, played a key role in the development of a nationwide market economy. Plantation records also document the personal lives of plantation owners and their families.

Business

Business Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the home pages and online editions of 45 metropolitan business newspapers published by American City, which offers business news, information, and commentary about their respective markets. This includes full access to the St. Louis Business Journal. Create an account using your wustl.edu email address here. Learn more about this database.
Business Source Complete (1965-) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from scholarly business journals and other sources, including financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. Updated daily. Learn more about this database
EconLit with Full Text (1969 - ) This link opens in a new window
EconLit with Full Text contains indexing and abstracts, some full text for 400+ journals and 500+ collected works per year. The database provides indexing and full text for articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. Updated monthly.
Economist This link opens in a new window
Global reporting and analysis on economics, business, geopolitics, technology, and culture. Click "more" below for login/account creation instructions.

1) Start at https://myaccount.economist.com/s/login
2) Choose “Log in with SSO.”
3) Enter your wustl.edu email address and click “Log in.”
4) Begin typing “Washington University in St. Louis” in the “Find your institution” box. Click on the “WU” box when it comes up.
5) You will be directed to the WUSTL Key Login Page. Login with your WUSTL key credentials. NOTE – if you are already logged in to another WUSTL application, you may not see the WUSTL Key Login Page. You may be taken directly to The Economist homepage in step 6.
6) After logging in, you should be directed to The Economist homepage. On the “My Economist” dropdown menu at the top right, click on “Account”. You should see a message that your Washington University in St. Louis subscription is currently active.
7) Click “Return to articles” to go back to the homepage.
Economist Historical Archive (1843-2020) This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of publications of The Economist from 1843 to 2020.
Factiva (6 users) This link opens in a new window
Combines more than 35,000 sources for access to premium content from 200 countries in 26 languages. Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, web and social media, tweets, digital video and audio clips, analyst reports, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data. Limited to 6 simultaneous users; logoff when finished. Learn more about this database
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
Current content of Financial Times (FT) daily newspaper. Includes full-page display (ePaper) of USA, UK, European, Asian and Middle East editions. Users will be asked to re-authenticate twice a year and may receive an email from the Financial Times requesting this. Click more below for instructions on creating a Financial Times account with your @wustl.edu email.
1. Click "Sign In" at the top right.
2. Enter your wustl.edu email address.
3. Click the SSO Sign In button.
Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2021) This link opens in a new window
Collection contains digital facsimile of the publications of Financial Times (1888-2021).
GuideStar This link opens in a new window
Scanned IRS 990 returns provide information about the operations, personnel, and finances of nonprofit organizations. Includes over 1.5 million organizations and over 3 million records searchable using varied access points. Data can be sorted and reported in numerous ways.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Consumer Health

MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
Curated consumer health information in English and Spanish. Also has encyclopedic information on health and drug issues and a directory of medical services. MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Data

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) This link opens in a new window
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is an independent national statistical agency that serves as the principal fact-finding agency for Federal Government in broad field of labor economics and statistics. It collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to American public, U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor. BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor. An online glossary explains terms as BLS uses them.
Census (formerly American Factfinder) This link opens in a new window
Selected federal surveys and censuses. Statistics on people, places, and business.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data and Statistics
Includes the popular topics and the Data.CDC.gov site for searching for datasets.
COVID 19 Data

Data Planet This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are over 185+ billion data points available in charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables in the Data Planet repository. Data Planet offers powerful capabilities to compare & contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations on the data, and customize output views. Learn more about this database.

Data.gov Data Catalog
Can limit to non-geospatial. The Format limit has several types that SPSS accepts. Has federal, state, and local raw data as well as statistical tables. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset
Dataset Search
Through Google. "Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful."
Dryad
"Dryad is a nonprofit... that is committed to making data available for research and educational reuse now and into the future."
Figshare
Datasets uploaded by the public. Most datasets are free to use, but read the license for the dataset of your choice.

GlobalData Explorer This link opens in a new window
GlobalData Explorer is a cross-sector platform providing actionable intelligence spanning 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, Explorer offers you broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries, impacting companies and driving innovation.

Harvard Dataverse
"Harvard Dataverse is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data."

Health Poll Database This link opens in a new window
Heath Poll Database is an archive of exclusively health-oriented survey questions. It is designed to support research on topics like the social determinants of health, access to care, individual health status, health policy, and health politics.
Indiastat (1 user) This link opens in a new window
India-specific, Sector specific and State specific sites compiling secondary level socio-economic statistical data about India and its states on more than 35 variables. For full access click IP Login in blue banner on site. Please click Logout on blue banner when finished.
Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
Social science data in machine readable form, including election results, polls, surveys, and census. Access is due to the Washington University’s membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Download data and electronic codebooks directly from the ICPSR web site to any University IP address or by using the Olin Library proxy server. The Social Sciences Computing Facility in Seigle Hall will provide technical support for those who need assistance in obtaining data.

National Center for Health Statistics: Public-Use Data Files and Documentation
"... downloadable public-use data files through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) FTP file server. Users of this service have access to data sets, documentation, and questionnaires from NCHS surveys and data collection systems. Downloading instructions are available in “readme” files."
National Institutes of Health Data Repository
NIH-funded research data repository.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
A fully web-based online data and mapping application that provides over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more. Data is available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data comes from both public and proprietary sources.
Polling the Nations (1986 - ) This link opens in a new window
500,000+ questions and responses, from 14,000+ surveys, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.
Roper Center This link opens in a new window
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys. The Center's mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and abroad. Founded in 1947, the Roper Center holds polling data ranging from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Its collection now includes over 22,000 datasets and adds hundreds more each year. In total, the archive contains responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics.

Sage Research Methods Practice Datasets
"Practice datasets to help you master qualitative and quantitative data analysis."

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Detailed reference tool for current and historical Census data, agriculture, business, cancer, crime, economic indicators, health, European statistics, and world development indicators. Explore data visually through interactive maps and also download data. Learn more about this database.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Portal for business and industry, government, and demographic statistics that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from some 18,000+ public and commercial sources onto a single, easy-to-search platform. Geographic coverage is worldwide, with particular emphasis on the United States, China, and European Union countries. Categorized into market sectors, Statista provides access to qualitative facts on agriculture, economics, finance, information technology, politics and society, and much more.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Learn more about this database
UNdata (United Nations Data) This link opens in a new window
Official statistics, estimates, and projections produced by countries and compiled by the United Nations data system. Includes indicators such as Millennium Development Goals. Learn more about this database

Washington University Research Data (WURD)
Includes WUSTL created and also purchased datasets. Can keyword search or browse by category. https://data.library.wustl.edu

World DataBank This link opens in a new window
World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance, Gender Statistics, Education Statistics, Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, Africa Development Indicators, Global Economic Monitor, and Millennium Development Goals. An analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data. Create queries and generate tables, charts, and maps.

World Health Organization Data
Zenodo
"Zenodo rapidly started welcoming research from all over the world, and from every discipline...To ensure no one is left behind through lack of access to the necessary tools and resources, Zenodo makes the sharing, curation and publication of data and software a reality for all researchers."

Drug Abuse

Alcohol Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Index of books, chapters, reports, audiovisual materials, and articles on alcoholism, alcohol abuse, and alcohol use. Discontinued in 2007.
Narcotic Addiction and Mental Health: The Clinical Papers of Lawrence Kolb Sr. (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Various correspondence, reports, documents, clippings, reprints and photos covering drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health.

NIDA International Drug Abuse Research Abstract Database
Search for abstracts of presentations from meetings hosted or supported by the NIDA International Program between 2003 and the present, or browse all abstracts.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Data
Prioritized data, outcomes, and quality.

Education

Education Database This link opens in a new window
(1991-) Covers over 1,020 top educational publications, including more than 640 of the titles in full text. Includes not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
Education Full Text (1983-) (30 users) This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 400 English-language periodicals and books relating to education. Includes full-text articles from 204 of those titles. Updated monthly.
ERIC (1966-) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. Updated monthly. Links to fulltext ED documents have been added; more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004) are freely available.
ERIC (ed.gov) This link opens in a new window
Over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. Updated monthly. Links to fulltext ED documents have been added; more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004) are freely available.
ERIC (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
Over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. Updated monthly.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education This link opens in a new window
Spanning education globally, articles are authoritative, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated entries written by experts from many different methodological and theoretical approaches. As a unique digital resource, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education features embedded multi-media content and cross-referenced links to allow for seamless navigation.
Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive, 1910-2000 This link opens in a new window
The Times Educational Supplement (TES) is one of the most well-regarded primary and secondary education news sources. Founded a handful of years before the onset of World War I, TES became the leading publication on public policy and pedagogical practice over the decades, not only in the United Kingdom but worldwide.

Environment

Applied Science and Technology Full Text (1983-) This link opens in a new window
Journal index of over 350 periodicals (including some international coverage) in engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Includes the full text of more than 98 periodicals beginning in January 1997.
Development of Environmental Health Policy (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
The papers of environmental health scientist Pope A. Lawrence contain a wealth of information on environmental and industrial hygiene, radon activity and uranium mining, and biological and chemical weapons systems.
Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 This link opens in a new window
Click "Archives" tab to filter to this collection. This diverse collection offers a glimpse into what shaped modern policy and legislation in the areas of conservation and environmental protection in the United States. Includes the work of early environmentalists George Bird Grinnell and “father of forestry” Joseph Trimble Rothrock, as well as later activists like Rosalie Edge and Velma “Wild Horse Annie” Johnston. Sift through the records of agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, as well as the many departments focused on conservation and land-use matters, from water conservation to wildlife management, at both the state and municipal levels.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Indexes scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
National Centers for Environmental Information This link opens in a new window
Contains several databases and publications: Local Climatological Data; Climatological Data; Hourly Precipitation Data; Storm Data; Monthly Climatic Data for the World; COOP Data/Record of Climatological Observations Form; Climatological Data National Summary; and more. Free due to WU Libraries' status as a US Federal Depository Library.
National Technical Reports Library (NTIS/NTRL) This link opens in a new window
Online library of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports, acquired, indexed, and archived by the National Technical Information Service. Contains over 2 million titles with links to over 600,000 full-text reports (in PDF). Note: Search to Public NTRL is free but in order to display a full text document you would need to register. Registration is free but Terms and Conditions of use need to be signed.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology is an extensive, annotated bibliography of the most important concepts and ideas in the discipline. Topics from all the relevant areas have been selected; these include articles on autoecology, population, community, and ecosystem ecology, the main biomes of the world, as well as articles related to the synthesis of ecology with other disciplines including human ecology, agroecology, and chemical ecology, for example.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Environmental Science This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science is updated monthly and includes multi-media features embedded in articles, along with cross-referenced links. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science contains in-depth peer-reviewed articles and broad coverage of the field.
science.gov This link opens in a new window
Selected Web sites, technical reports, journal articles and other publications. Science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Allows multidatabase searching across up to 10 files.

Funding

Foundation Directory This link opens in a new window
Foundation Directory Online data is compiled from IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF, grantmaker websites, annual reports, printed application guidelines, the philanthropic press, and more. Grantmaker Profiles include: Private & independent foundations, Corporate foundations, U.S. Federal funders, Public charities, and International foundations. Detailed grant information, including recipients, descriptions, and types of support, help determine which funders are most likely to fund your work, how much to request, and what to highlight in a grant proposal. Visit the Foundation Directory's YouTube channel for detailed tutorials.
Grant Forward This link opens in a new window
Grants database that searches some 14,000 funding opportunities available to graduate students, faculty, undergraduate students, and institutions. Access due to a subscription by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Grants.gov
Federal funding.

Web of Science (1900 - ) This link opens in a new window
Grants Index. Contains over 5 million grant award records, 1953 to present, from over 400 funding agencies and more than 15 countries. To select the Grants Index, click on the "Search in" dropdown arrow. Select Grants Index.
Grants to Individuals This link opens in a new window
Find scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for students, artists, researchers, and individuals.
GuideStar This link opens in a new window
Scanned IRS 990 returns provide information about the operations, personnel, and finances of nonprofit organizations. Includes over 1.5 million organizations and over 3 million records searchable using varied access points. Data can be sorted and reported in numerous ways.

National Directory of Scholarships, Internships & Fellowships for Latino Youth [CHCI NextOpp] (REF LB2338 c66)
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) is proud to release CHCI NextOpp, a new powerful online version of its National Directory of Scholarships, Internships, and Fellowships for Latino Students. https://www.chcinextopp.net/home

SPIN Funding Opportunities This link opens in a new window
SPIN funding opportunities database is now available via the Research Management System (RMS). With over 40,000 opportunities from more than 10,000 sponsors, SPIN is a consolidated source for easily locating external funding opportunities. More info @ New SPIN Funding Opportunities Database Now Available

Gender

Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Over 120,000 pages of original documents relating to Gender Studies. Sourced from British and European libraries and archives.
Digital Transgender Archive This link opens in a new window
An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings related to transgender history throughout the world.
Gender Studies Database (1972- ) This link opens in a new window
Combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Includes more than 921,000 records.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Over 31,000 full text articles from 115 publications and archival material. Updated quarterly. Learn more about this database
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. Also includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.

General

Academic Search Complete (1975-present) This link opens in a new window
Covers topics in most areas of academic study. Full-text provided for over 10,000 publications, with over 7,850 peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing available for over 13,780 journals in the collection.
Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers over 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 18,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.

The massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons.
Consumer Reports This link opens in a new window
Provides reviews, ratings, and recommendations to help consumers compare price, performance, and reliability for various products and services, including cars, healthcare, appliances, electronics, baby and child gear, home and garden, personal finance, etc. Also presents articles on health, public safety, marketplace economics and the judicial and regulatory actions that affect consumers.
CQ Researcher (1991 - ) This link opens in a new window
Policy reports on many federal issues. Includes some state issues if the state issue is likely to have broad national interest.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1637 to the present day together with over 2.7 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year. Learn more about this database.
Note: You cannot request full-text of dissertations or theses via ILLiad from within the database; you can only order them using your own credit card. To request via ILLiad, log in to ILLiad, click on Request a Thesis, and fill out the form.
Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis (1996-) This link opens in a new window
Full-text. Citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Washington University and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database. View 24-page previews of dissertations and theses, and download the full text. Learn more about this database
Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Includes current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. While Google Scholar itself is free on the web, many of the citations it references are not. Accessing Google Scholar via the proxied link will enable Get It! and Web of Science Links from within Google Scholar citations. Learn more about proxying Google Scholar Having trouble accessing Google Scholar from off-campus? Use this research guide to access Google Scholar.
IngentaConnect This link opens in a new window
Tables of contents of more than 13,000 publications, with a total of more than 4 million articles. All disciplines are covered, with an emphasis on the sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to journal articles, books, images, and primary resources in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Useful for many older items.
Leadership Connect This link opens in a new window
Directory of 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Updated daily. Includes: Congress; Federal government; State & local government; News media; Law & lobbying firms; Companies; Nonprofits & associations; Courts.
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Oxford Reference Online (5 users) This link opens in a new window
Contains almost 200 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes over 50,000 additional in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Science Direct offers access to over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, as well as hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works. While this database is best known for its collections in Science, Technology and Medicine, there is also strong coverage of journals in Business, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Some are subscribed by WU Libraries (available full-text); some are not. Click on Search to search all titles.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
The world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. NOTE: Click "Institutions" icon in right corner. Change organization to Washington University in St Louis John M Olin Library, Danforth Campus.
Web of Science (1900 - ) This link opens in a new window
If you receive an error message and cannot access the database, try clearing your browser cache and cookies. Science, social science, arts, and humanities citations for scholarly literature. Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. The Libraries subscribe to Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).

Government

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic records for U.S. Government publications generated by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Many records contain direct links to publications available online. Updated daily with new and historical publication records.
Learn more about this database
CDC Stacks This link opens in a new window
CDC Stacks is a free, digital archive of scientific research and literature produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This online archive is composed of curated collections tailored for public health research needs. This repository is retained indefinitely and is available for public health professionals, researchers, as well as the general public.

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice, including resources that can be shared with families ...provides statistical information, reports, publications, links to service agencies, etc.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) (1991 - ) This link opens in a new window
Theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Congress.gov This link opens in a new window
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.

Congress.gov is usually updated the morning after a session adjourns.
Congressional Record (1989-) This link opens in a new window
Published by the Government Printing Office (GPO) since 1873. A daily record of House and Senate proceedings, which is more complete than the official records of House and Senate actions.
CQ Almanac (1945 - ) This link opens in a new window
Original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Arranged thematically.
CQ Researcher (1991 - ) This link opens in a new window
44 reports per year. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week, featuring comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Mostly federal issues, but some state issues.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection This link opens in a new window
Organized into six categories: Presidential Elections, Congressional Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Campaigns and Elections, Political Parties, and Voters and Demographics. Integrates data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a research and reference tool on voting and elections in America.

CQ Weekly / CQ Magazine
Federal legislation and related issues. After website loads, choose CQ Magazine from the dropdown (1983 to current). Note: CQ Magazine, towards the bottom, only covers 1983-April 27, 2015.
GovInfo
Official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Leadership Connect This link opens in a new window
Directory of 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Updated daily. Includes: Congress; Federal government; State & local government; News media; Law & lobbying firms; Companies; Nonprofits & associations; Courts.
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National Journal Services (1977 - ) This link opens in a new window
Current events and news. Includes access to the National Journal, the Hotline, Congress Daily, and other politics, policy, and government information.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts books, periodical articles, and government publications in the fields of public affairs and public policy. Provides social and economic analyses of international, national, and local policies. Learn more about this database
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes: CIS Legislative Histories (public laws back to 1969), Congressional publications (1817 - ), testimony from Congressional hearings (1824-), Congressional Record and Federal Register, U.S. Serial Set, 1789-1969, Serial Set Maps, 1789-1969, and more. Learn more about this database
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 - ) This link opens in a new window
Covers political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. Includes the former ABC POL SCI database. Learn more about this database

Hispanic Americans

ClasePeriódica (1975 - ) This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 5,000 journals in a variety of subject areas. Full text available for the journals to which the Libraries subscribe.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) (1970-) This link opens in a new window
Journal index. Article citations about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Analyses of current political, economic, and social issues as well as unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters.
Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window
"...search the most recent local, national, and regional news content with archives featuring newspapers, newswire, and news sites in active full-text format. It includes titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Latin American Newsstream provides newspapers in Spanish and Portuguese."
Latinobarómeter (1995 - ) This link opens in a new window
An annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Combines the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia to guide researchers to the best available scholarship in Latin American Studies. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Also includes expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline – whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set – to streamline the research process.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latino Studies This link opens in a new window
Explores the Hispanic minority in the United States and is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Latin American History This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) offer long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars in Latin American History. The encyclopedia covers both foundational and cutting-edge topics in order to develop, over time, an anchoring knowledge base for major areas of research. This source is regularly updated.
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Citation Index (1997 - ) This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.

U.S. Hispanic Newsstream

Indigenous Peoples

American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
FBI files with detailed information on the evolution of the American Indian Movement (AIM) as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism from 1968-1979.

American Indian Index
Covers prehistory to the present time and includes all topics dealing with the American Indian in Canada, and the United States.
American Indian Records in the National Archives
Information relating to American Indians from as early as 1774 through the mid 1990s.

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Citations to articles and essays in anthropology and archaeology, from works published in English and other European languages, 19th century to present. Contains both Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute, UK.

Arizona and Southwestern Index
Covers all subjects dealing with Arizona and the Southwest including some southwestern Indian tribes.

Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Includes current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Law

Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
(1969-) Covers over 450 publications which support research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. In addition to scholarly journals, this database also includes trade publications, reports, news, crime statistics, and crime blogs. Covers such topics as criminology, corrections & law enforcement, criminal law, criminal justice, criminal rehabilitation, addictions, alcoholism, gambling, child abuse, and industrial crime.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Full text. Journal index. More than 900 searchable full-text law journals and many legal resources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, and U.S. Statutes at Large. Campus-wide access is due to subscription by the WU Law Library.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full text of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981 This link opens in a new window
Indexes legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand between 1908 and 1981.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS) (1970 - ) This link opens in a new window
Database covers corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime. Includes abstracts to Federal, State, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS) (ProQuest Platform)
Materials from the Office of Justice Programs and its affiliates. ProQuest platform offers different search interface and also simultaneous searching with the Criminology Collection.

National Journal Services (1977 - ) This link opens in a new window
Current events and news. Includes access to the National Journal, the Hotline, Congress Daily, and other politics, policy, and government information.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources, including journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives.
Nexis Uni Tutorials on YouTube
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 - ) This link opens in a new window
Covers political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. Includes the former ABC POL SCI database. Learn more about this database

LGBTQIA

Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
Presents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of 20th century and beyond from more than 35 countries. Features historical records of political and social organizations, publications by and for lesbians and gays, extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis, personal correspondence and interviews with numerous LGBTQ individuals.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. Also includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Contains books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. Includes selections from The National Archives in Kew, activist and publisher Tracy Baim, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, among others.
Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
This collection of periodicals focuses on newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country and on periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agendas—he "public" face of gay and lesbian activism. In addition, this collection includes serial literature on its "private" face, exploring the challenges and complexities of building gay and lesbian communities inside and outside of a "straight" world, the need for psychological reinforcement through support groups in an effort combat an often hostile environment, and the yearning for spiritual confirmation of one’s identity and life choices. Carefully selected for rarity from the thousands of titles in the GLBT Historical Society archives, the collection features more than 200 newsletter and periodical titles totaling nearly 8,000 issues. This product is strong in newsletters from organizations that began their work during the formative years of the gay and lesbian movement. Most of these organizations are now defunct and their newsletters are the only record of their history and contribution to the movement.

Mental Health

APA PsycInfo (formerly PsycInfo) This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. Indexed materials are international in scope selected from psychology and related journals published globally in over 25 languages. Updated weekly. Learn more about this database
APA PsycArticles (formerly PsycArticles) This link opens in a new window
Offers complete access to the full text of more than 80 landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience from the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group (English-language titles).
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
1985-Present; ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation. By creating an organized resource of previously unavailable measurement information, HAPI: (a) provides a means of locating a variety of instruments, (b) helps to reduce inefficiency and cost, and (c) eliminates duplication and "reinvention of the wheel."
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology is a resource for classic, contemporary, and cutting edge scholarship in psychology. Locate relevant references works and articles. Quick, comprehensive, and efficient source for exploring or staying current with the growing science of psychology.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology This link opens in a new window
Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology provides long-form, articles written by experts from the field.
PsyArXiv This link opens in a new window
A free preprint service for the psychological sciences.
PsycCRITIQUES (1956 - 2017) This link opens in a new window
Online periodical containing reviews for psychology-related material published by the American Psychological Association.
Psychiatry Online (1998 - ) This link opens in a new window
Journals, textbooks, reference sources and news from American Psychiatric Publishing; includes DSM-V.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of streaming video files on psychotherapy. Users can create clips and store them in the Video Library. Videos are searchable by therapeutic approaches, therapeutic issues, expert therapists, population, and titles. It allows viewers to go straight to the heart of clinical practice as it is done by today's leading practitioners in North America. The database features demonstrations and counseling sessions with participants on a host of therapeutic topics.
PTSDpubs: Post traumatic stress disorder pubs This link opens in a new window
Produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Both current and retrospective coverage to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. Learn more about this database

News

allAfrica.com This link opens in a new window
The largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide, posting over 1000 stories daily in English and French. Offers a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming and over 900,000 articles dating from 1997.
Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Includes current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Factiva (6 users) This link opens in a new window
Combines more than 35,000 sources for access to premium content from 200 countries in 26 languages. Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, web and social media, tweets, digital video and audio clips, analyst reports, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data. Limited to 6 simultaneous users; logoff when finished. Learn more about this database
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
Current content of Financial Times (FT) daily newspaper. Includes full-page display (ePaper) of USA, UK, European, Asian and Middle East editions. Users will be asked to re-authenticate twice a year and may receive an email from the Financial Times requesting this. Click more below for instructions on creating a Financial Times account with your @wustl.edu email.
1. Click "Sign In" at the top right.
2. Enter your wustl.edu email address.
3. Click the SSO Sign In button.
Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2021) This link opens in a new window
Collection contains digital facsimile of the publications of Financial Times (1888-2021).
International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Provides information from the world's top news resources. A good source for local and regional news. Please note that full text for certain publications is subject to market availability.
Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window
"...search the most recent local, national, and regional news content with archives featuring newspapers, newswire, and news sites in active full-text format. It includes titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Latin American Newsstream provides newspapers in Spanish and Portuguese."
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources, including journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives.
Nexis Uni Tutorials on YouTube
PressReader This link opens in a new window
Full-color, full-page collection of today's newspapers from around the world, providing instant access to 1000+ newspapers from 82 countries in 39 languages. For most papers, only the most current 60 days are available. Learn more about this database
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

U.S. Hispanic Newsstream
WN.com
An international news website providing current news from over 500 media sources.

Public Health

MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Explore biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
1946-Present, international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide. Learn more about the new interface.
MEDLINE (Web of Science) (1950-) This link opens in a new window
If you receive an error message and cannot access the database, try clearing your browser cache and cookies. The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Explore biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science. Search precisely with MeSH terms and CAS registry numbers; link to NCBI databases and PubMed.
Campbell Collaboration This link opens in a new window
Systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare. Freely available.
CDC Stacks This link opens in a new window
CDC Stacks is a free, digital archive of scientific research and literature produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This online archive is composed of curated collections tailored for public health research needs. This repository is retained indefinitely and is available for public health professionals, researchers, as well as the general public.
CINAHL Plus (1937 - ) This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals and other materials in the fields of nursing and allied health.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based healthcare. Includes several distinct searchable databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and others. Provides Cochrane evidence based reviews for interventions, therapies, and rehabilitation in the healthcare field. Clinical trials are searchable and linked to full text articles where available.
Ditki Medical & Biological Sciences This link opens in a new window
Ditki (formerly Draw it to Know it) provides a multi-modal, efficient learning platform for faculty and students. The step-wise, instructional approach to learning engages one in ways that promote quicker understanding and long-term retention, to encourage confidence in subject mastery. Washington University in St. Louis has access to all the modules. Users will need to register for individual accounts to access the self-assessment exams. Includes modules in Anatomy and Physiology, General Biology, Neuroscience, Biochemistry and more. Prepare for exams with interactive exercises, drills, quizzes, and downloadable flashcards. Learn more about this resource.
Global Health (1973 - ) (3 users) This link opens in a new window
A public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more.

Health Evidence
Designed to make evidence easily accessible while developing organizational and individual capacity for evidence-informed public health decision making.
Journals@OVID
Full-text journals in the health sciences, public health and mental health fields. NOTE: Only available to members of the Brown School community and must be accessed on a computer connected to the Brown School network.

JoVE Unlimited This link opens in a new window
Provides 16,000+ videos illustrating key concepts, research techniques and experiments across multiple science disciplines.
JoVE Unlimited access includes:
● JoVE Journal: Peer-reviewed journal with articles published in video and text format.
● JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments: Video encyclopedia of advanced research experiments.
● JoVE Science Education: A library of videos that illustrate research methods, concept application, and real-world examples.
● JoVE Lab Manual: Curriculum-focused video resources for commonly taught introductory labs with step-by-step instructions.
● JoVE Core: Video textbooks that bring introductory concepts and methods to life.
● JoVE Book: Digital book that explains scientific concepts and practices through video demonstrations, supplemented with in-depth text explanations and practice quizzes.
LILACS This link opens in a new window
Indexes the scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Medline via PubMed
Please see the PubMed entry.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Public Health This link opens in a new window
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on public health, a field with a mission to assess, develop, and assure the health of a population.
PROSPERO This link opens in a new window
International database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care.
PubMed (1946 - ) This link opens in a new window
Over 3,500 journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Includes the entire Medline database (1966+) PLUS PreMedline (recent articles that are not yet fully indexed for Medline) and links to publisher full-text web sites and other databases. Learn more about this database
Quarantine and Disease Control in America: Parts I & II This link opens in a new window
Deadly epidemics have been challenging the populace since the earliest settlers came to American shores. Research and read first-hand accounts of American infectious diseases in these collections. Part I: Newspapers (1736-1922), Part II: Books (1823-1928).
Web of Science (1900 - ) This link opens in a new window
If you receive an error message and cannot access the database, try clearing your browser cache and cookies. Science, social science, arts, and humanities citations for scholarly literature. Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. The Libraries subscribe to Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).

Religion

ATLA Religion Database (1949 - ) This link opens in a new window
Journal, essay, and book review index. Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion.
Encyclopedia of Religion This link opens in a new window
Presents religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. The original 2,750 entries have been retained, many updated, and approximately 600 new articles have been added.
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
'This database is a comprehensive index to publications on Islamic subjects throughout the world. Records cover almost 100 years, from 1906 to the present. The scope includes the Middle East, the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere in the world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.' (from database homepage) Learn more about this database

Scholarly Publishing

Altmetric Bookmarklet for Researchers
Find out the Altmetric details for a paper you’ve published.

Journal Citation Reports (JCRweb) (1997 - ) This link opens in a new window
Information on journal rankings and impact factors in the sciences and social sciences, based on citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3,000 publishers in 60 nations.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Use Scopus to locate H-Index and other impact scores for authors.

Social Science

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) (1987-) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes over 600 journals and periodicals, from more than 16 countries, spanning literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics from 1987 to present.
Campbell Collaboration This link opens in a new window
Systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare. Freely available.
ClasePeriódica (1975 - ) This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 5,000 journals in a variety of subject areas. Full text available for the journals to which the Libraries subscribe.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies, and related fields. Includes coverage of over 1,000 core titles and features full-text for more than 600 active periodicals.
Exploring Race in Society This link opens in a new window
Offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide (1970 - ) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951 - ) This link opens in a new window
International database of bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters for the social sciences since 1951.
Learn more about this database
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Sociology This link opens in a new window
Expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Urban Studies This link opens in a new window
Urban Studies is a broad, interdisciplinary field of study that includes subfields not only in most of the major social sciences, but also in the humanities, and in more technical fields such as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies. Bibliographic essays within Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies are written by known experts in the field, who can provide a guided selection of these pertinent materials, as well as the much needed content for understanding the referenced titles.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
(1994-) Covers over 1,000 titles on a variety of topics, 700 of which are available in full text. Provides information on hundreds of topics, including addiction studies, urban studies, family studies, and international relations.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). The SSRN eLibrary consists of abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, plus extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources. Provides comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Access provided by the Brown School Library.
Sociological Abstracts (1952-) This link opens in a new window
(1952-) Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Abstracts are pulled from nearly 2,000 serial publications including journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers, plus citations to important book reviews related to the social sciences.
Sociology This link opens in a new window
(1985-) Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. Provides full-text coverage of more than 310 journals in sociology and social work, including many core titles indexed in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. As well as hundreds of full text scholarly journals, the database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology.

UNESCO Documents and Publications
An index to the publications of this multinational, multilingual organization. Many publications are available for free as electronic full text.

Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
After the filming of Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with the aim of videotaping 50,000 first-person accounts by Holocaust survivors and witnesses. VHA is a streaming collection of primary source video testimonies from survivors of and witnesses to genocide, including the: 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Anti-Rohingya Mass Violence (August-October 2017); Armenian Genocide (1915–23); Cambodian Genocide (1975–1979); European Holocaust (1939–1945); Guatemalan Genocide (1978–1996); Nanjing Massacre (1937); Central African Republic (2012–present); South Sudan Civil War, (2013-present); contemporary antisemitism against Jews; and war and genocide in Bosnia & Herzegovina (1992–1995). VHA offers insight into life before, during, and after the interviewee’s experience with genocide. Click on “Register” and create a unique username/password, as official login is required for use of any “My Projects/Bookmarked Projects/Shared Projects” features. Learn more about this database.

Social Work

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice, including resources that can be shared with families ...provides statistical information, reports, publications, links to service agencies, etc.
Child Welfare Outcomes Report
2019. Current and historical. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/cwo

Encyclopedia of Social Work This link opens in a new window
The Encyclopedia of Social Work is the first continuously updated online collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers (NASW Press) and Oxford University Press (OUP). Building off the classic reference work, a valuable tool for social workers for over 85 years, the online resource of the same name offers the reliability of print with the accessibility of a digital platform. Over 400 overview articles, on key topics ranging from international issues to ethical standards, offer students, scholars, and practitioners a trusted foundation for a lifetime of work and research, with new articles and revisions to existing articles added regularly. Updates will occur on a monthly basis.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Social Work This link opens in a new window
Expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field of social work scholarship.
Social Services Abstracts (1979 - ) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Learn more about this database

Tests and Measurements

APA PsycInfo (formerly PsycInfo) This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. Type the name of the measure. Select Tests & Measures from the drop-down menu on the right.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
To find only those articles that contain the actual instrument, limit by checking the "Primary Source" box.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (4 users) This link opens in a new window
Database is a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments, covering psychology, education, business, leadership, and more. Tests in Print is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
PsycInfo (now APA PsycInfo) This link opens in a new window
In PsycINFO use the Tests and Measures field to find measures used in a study and sometimes the actual measure.

Select the Multi-Field Search link.
Enter the name of the measure, or keyword/concept
Select Tests & Measures from the drop-down menu on the right, and click the Select button.

Tests and Measures Database
Database of tests and measurements that are available in full-text in Brown School Library books or selected journal articles.
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This database was created by Ginny Vendt while she was working at Brown School Library and is currently managed by the reference librarian at Brown School Library.
Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database