Browse Databases by Title: A
ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 
http://0-lion.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=abell
ABELL is part of the Literature Online database and covers all aspects and periods of English-language literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies. ABELL indexes monographs, book reviews, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published worldwide. Includes material in languages other than English. Subject areas covered include:
Literature: poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, studies of individual authors.
Language: syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, dialectology.
Bibliography: manuscript studies, textual studies, history of publishing.
Cultural Studies: customs, belief, narrative, song, dance, material culture.
Includes links to the full text of over 100 journals.
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1918- .
Provides current and historic abstracts and many full-text articles from over 2,800 business and management journals, including hundreds of titles from outside the U.S. Covers finance, management, marketing, accounting, business conditions, and other business topics.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
1965- (varies).
Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 8,224 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 7,132 are peer-reviewed.
http://0-infoweb.newsbank.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1951- .
Indexes United Nations documents and publications, articles appearing in UN periodicals, and treaties in the UN Treaty Series. Citations to resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council include the full text. Documents come from the six main bodies of the United Nations: General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Court of Justice. Masthead documents (formerly referred to as mimeographed documents), Official Records, sales publications, limited and restricted documents, and documents emanating from sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences, and regional bodies are also included. The "Readex Year" field identifies documents included in the Readex microfiche collection available in the Government Documents and Microforms area on the first floor of Lauinger Library. For full text documents from 1993 to the present, also check the UN ODS: Official Documents of the United Nations
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1971-
Indexes scholarly and trade publications, books, annuals, and newspapers in the fields of domestic and foreign accounting and taxation. Provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms. Full text of Journal of Accountancy goes back to 1974 with other full text articles starting in 1987. Based on Accountant's Index (Ref Z7164.C81 A5 1920-1991).
Location: Accounting & tax index (Ref Index Table Z7164.C81 A224 1992-2003)
http://0-apimages.ap.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/unsecured/logip.aspx
Varies, 1826-current
Online collection of photographs, sound bites, and graphics. Covers over 160 years of history, including over 1 million photos dating back to 1826, thousands of graphics, and audio files dating from the 1920's. News story images date from 1997. Intended for use in research papers, theses, reports, and PowerPoint presentations. Has simple keyword searching as well as complex searching such as concept, color or category.
http://0-portal.acm.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1947 - .
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Portal consists of The ACM Guide and The ACM Digital Library. Through The ACM Guide users can Search and Browse a substantive bibliographic database from the key publishers in computing including books, journals, proceedings and theses. Through The ACM Digital Library users can Search, Browse and Read the complete text of articles published by ACM since its inception.
http://0-pubs.acs.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/about.html
Since vol. 1 for all titles (date varies by journal).
ACS Publications is a division of the American Chemical Society. Currently, over 30 magazines and peer-reviewed journals published or co-published by the Publications Division are available on the Web.
http://0-acta.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1643 - 1940.
Electronic transcript of a collection of Latin documents examining the lives of the saints, organized by each saint's feast day. Includes prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, indices, and references to Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina (BHL).
Location: Woodstock Theological Center Library (v.1-69): Woodstock Ref. 279 AC81. Lauinger Special Collections (some volumes): 80B1.
http://products.tns-mi.com
Ad$pender provides advertising expenditure data for political campaigns, over 100,000 brands, and product categories. The 18 media formats include cable, network TV (network, spot and syndicated), broadcast radio (network and national spot radio), outdoor advertising, major national newspapers and hundreds of business-to-business and consumer magazines. Data can be retrieved by brand, product class/category, company name, etc. Data are available monthly, quarterly and annually for the past five years. Produced by TNS-Media Intelligence (formerly called CMR or Competitive Media Reporting). Ask for password at the Reference Desk.
Location: Ad $ Summary (HF5801 .A18) 1999-
http://www.adforum.com/adfolio/search.asp
Provides access to over 35,000 advertisements in all media: TV, radio, cinema, Internet, print and outdoor ad campaigns. Also includes over 18,000 advertising agency sources, news and other information related to the advertising industry. Users can search for ads by keyword, media type, product, brand name, business sector, agency, country, celebrity or award. Note: There is a limit of three concurrent users. Ask at reference desk for login and password information.
African American Biographical Database (AABD)
http://0-aabd.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
A compilation of the biographies of thousands of African Americans. Contains extended narratives of both the famous and the everyday person, including African-American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, and factory workers. Culled from biographical dictionaries, obituary files, slave narrative collections, and Internet sites.
African American Music Reference
http://0-aamr.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
African American Music Reference chronicles the history of African-American music through 1970, offering electronic access to coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, early slave spirituals, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. It brings together reference texts in this subject area (discographies, biographies, encyclopedias, bibliographies, chronologies, editorially selected Web resources) with songsheets, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), sheet music covers, and manuscripts. Rare and previously unpublished items are included. The reference citations link to musical tracks and performances so that users can then listen to the music.
http://0-georgetown4.classical.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
Online collection of over 16,000 music tracks from the first half of the 20th century. Includes a variety of styles including ragtime, blues, gospel, jazz, folk songs and narratives.
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
1970- .
Indexes materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library and cooperating institutions. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. Covers agriculture, food science, human nutrition, life sciences, and natural resources.
Agriculture Census
See entry for Census of Agriculture for holdings and locations.
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/
AIDSinfo is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) project providing information on HIV/AIDS clinical trials and treatment. It is the result of merging two previous DHHS projects: The AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS) and the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS). It is a central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected with HIV. "Aimed at HIV/AIDS patients, the general public, health care providers, and researchers, this easily navigated site provides a central source for information on clinical trials for patients with HIV and AIDS, federally approved HIV treatment and prevention guidelines, and medical practice guidelines. By clicking on the "Drugs" link, users can locate information on anti-HIV medications, including side effects, dosages, and interactions with other drugs or food. The site also provides access to brochures, fact sheets, and other web resources on HIV/AIDS, downloadable copies of current and archived versions of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidelines, and a searchable glossary, available in both English and Spanish, of HIV/AIDS-related terms. A useful resource for anyone seeking in-depth information on this topic."--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003," RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2003; reviewed March 6, 2003
http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2MmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=5604
Full-text database of 200 selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AltPressIndex;screen=advanced;done=http://www.library.georgetown.edu;FSIP
1991- .
Indexes and abstracts over 250 alternative, radical and left leaning journals, newspapers and magazines from the U.S. and abroad. Topics covered include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation and socialism.
Location: Lauinger Library 3rd floor Ref Stacks, AI3.A27 vols. 1- . 1969- .
Alternative Press Index Archive
http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AltPressIndexArchive;screen=advanced;done=http://www.library.georgetown.edu;FSIP
1969-1990.
Indexes and abstracts over 250 alternative, radical and left leaning journals, newspapers and magazines from the U.S. and abroad. Topics covered include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation and socialism.
Location: Lauinger Library 3rd floor Ref Stacks, AI3.A27 vols. 1- . 1969- .
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ahl
1954- .
Primary index to research in American and Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Limit by language, time period, and document type (articles, collections of articles, books, and dissertations).
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
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1956-
Citations to U.S. and Canadian publications on topics related to East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union, including culture, history, economics, international relations, and literature. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.
Location: LAU Ref Stacks Z2483 .A65
American Civil War Research Database
http://0-asp6new.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/cwdb
This database includes information from individual soldiers' military and civilian experiences that can be used for statistical and analytical examinations of the Civil War.
http://factfinder.census.gov
1990-
Includes data sets for the Decennial Censuses for 1990 and 2000, the Decennial Supplementary Survey, the American Community Survey (1996-), the Economic Census for 1997 (2002 Economic Census Advance Reports are scheduled to be released Jan. 2004) and 2002 Population Estimates. Population topics include: aging, disability, education, gender, income and employment, origins and languages, poverty, race and ethnicity, relationships, transportation and veterans. Housing information includes physical and financial characteristics. The Economic Census includes statistics on business and industry, foreign trade and government.
Location: Older Census materials are often available in print or microfilm. Most Census 2000 materials do not have print equivalents. Ask for help at the Reference Desk.
http://0-solomon.afso.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
The full text of film scripts, indexed and organized for searches by scene, director, producer, scriptwriter, actor, subject, historical event, and character (by name, race, sexual orientation, gender, and occupation).
American Periodicals Series Online (1740 to 1940)
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1740 - 1940
Digital images of historically significant American periodicals from 1740 to 1900, including literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and popular magazines. All typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts appear exactly as originally published. Allows searching by article type (e.g., letter, obituary, poetry, recipe, ad, editorial cartoon, review).
http://0-amso.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
A history database with 50,000 tracks, allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more"
http://0-sitemason.vanderbilt.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/lapop/00Georgtowndatasets
2004-
AmericasBarometer is an effort by the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to measure democratic values and behaviors in the Americas using national probability samples of voting-age adults. The database contains country studies (reports and essays), questionnaires, and data sets which can be opened in any version of SPSS 13 or higher. Ask at the Reference Desk for user name and password.
http://0-www.ams.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/journals/
Full-text of the journals: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Electronic Research Announcements, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematics of Computation , Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Representation Theory, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. MathSciNet is partnering with the AMS journals program providing links to article reviews when they become available.
http://data.georgetown.edu/angelica/about.html
More than 90,000 textual descriptions and 8,000 digital images of thousands of art slides in the collection of the department of Art, Music and Theater. Database will eventually include other humanities-based images found in the University community (e.g., archaeology slides in the Classics department collection). Materials, text and image, are copyrighted.
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=animal-behavior-set-c&adv=1
1982- .
Covers subjects such as migration, evolution, innate behavior, learning and memory, and behavioral ecology.
http://0-www.annualreviews.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Comprehensive and timely critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature for 33 disciplines in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Written by leading scientists, Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited publications in the scientific literature.
http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aiosearch/
1957- Present
Indexes 650 periodicals from the Museum of Mankind Library and the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1957-present.
http://0-www.anthrosource.net.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Current issues of 15 of American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA's journals, newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=OMNIFT
Applied Science & Technology Full Text is one of the databases covered in Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega. You can search for articles on the applied science and technology by selecting Applied Science & Technology in the Subject Area dropdown box in the lower right of the search screen.
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970
http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/itweb/wash43584?db=MDLE
A collection of British policy papers, documents and marginalia from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers. Begins with early 20th century British interests in the Middle East, continues through the establishment of Israel and on to British diplomatic relations with Israel and the Arab States in the early 1970s.
http://0-archives.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Archive Finder is made up of ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland. It describes over 206,200 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. ArchivesUSA draws from three major information sources: the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS), the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). Updated quarterly.
http://0-www.aristotlebibliography.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1900 - present
Comprehensive coverage of citations to research conducted in the past century on Aristotle; includes information on over 45,000 articles, books, reviews, and doctoral dissertations. Search by title, author,keyword, or dates.
http://0-acd.iiss.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/armedconflict
Collection of data on recent armed conflict(international and internal) throughout the world. Includes information on terrorism, refugees, displaced persons, weapons use and flows, fatalities, costs and timelines. Users can generate custom reports and download data. Created by the International Institute for Stategic Studies (IISS).
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=OMNIFT
Citations only (1984-1993); Citations and abstracts (1994- ); Some full text (1997- ).
Art Full Text is part of the multi-subject Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega. Art Full Text covers a wide range of topics from archaeology and architecture to sculpture and video art. Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. (Under Subject Area, choose Art.)
Location: Art Index, LAU REF Z5937.A78
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=ARTR
1929-1984.
Covers a wide range of topics from advertising art, antiques, and archaeology to sculpture, television, and textiles. Cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=artbm-set-c&adv=1
1974- .
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews. Covers the current literature of modern art, photography, and design. Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late twentieth century. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.
http://0-humanities.uchicago.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/orgs/ARTFL/
13th through 20th centuries.
French-language literary, religious, philosophical, political, and scientific works from the 13th through the 20th centuries. Originally created in 1957 as the database behind Trésor de la Langue Française, a French-language dictionary, this database drew from a broad range of written French, from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics. Useful not only for lexicographers but also for many other types of humanists and social scientists engaged in French studies, the database was expanded in 1981 by a cooperative project of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Chicago. This joint project is called American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL). The database consists of nearly 2000 texts written between the 13th and 20th centuries, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. ARTFL also includes a Provençal database. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form.
http://www.artprice.com/
Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff only. Ask at the Reference Desk for username and password. An art auction resource that has approximately 4 million records for auction sales since 1700. Covers the fine arts, including prices for paintings, prints, posters, drawings, miniatures, sculptures, installations, photographs, and tapestries. Also includes biographical information and artist signatures for artists from the 17th century to the present. International in scope.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos
1980- .
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Distributed by the Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, Web of Science at Georgetown University is a cumulation of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references - the footnotes from authors' bibliographies. You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.
http://0-library.artstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Comprehensive digital library of over 500,000 images of artworks, photographs, architecture, decorative arts, rare books, and items from popular culture. Images may be viewed live in ARTstor or offline in ARTstor's downloadable image viewer. Collections include: The Image Gallery - General collection of images; broad in scope, but does include some specialized image collections Art History Survey Collection Carnegie Arts of the United States Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts Illustrated Bartsch Mellon International Dunhuang Archive Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection
http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/itweb/wash43584?db=AU
Contains 450,000 detailed listings for organizations all over the world.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rfh
1949- .
Indexes a fairly comprehensive list of religion periodicals with extensive coverage of essay collections and Festschriften. Covers biblical commentary, mission activity, and topics in religion and theology. The database represents the following print sources: Religion Index 1 - Periodicals, 1949-present; Religion Index 2 -Multi-author works, 1960-present; Research in Ministry, 1981-present; Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-present; Methodist Reviews Index, 1818-1985.
Location: Woodstock - Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-1998; Religion Index 1 - Periodicals, 1949-1999; Religion Index 2 -Multi-author works, 1960-1996
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1949 - 2000.
Full text collection of over 50 religion and theology journals. The collection's over 50,000 articles (and many more books reviews) address topics in the following fields: Archaeology, Bible, Ecumenism, Ethics, Missions, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy, Religion, Society, and Theology.
http://0-www.austlit.edu.au.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of important Australian literature works and more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organizations. Indexes and describes the works and includes some literary criticism. Covers works from 1780 to the present day.
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APAFT)
http://search.informit.com.au/
1978- .
Index of Australian articles, conference papers, and books covering business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics, and social sciences. Includes some full text after 1994
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=avery-set-c
1934-
A comprehensive index of journal articles published worldwide from 1934 to the present on architectural design and history but coverage as well of real estate development, commercial buildings, city planning, urban design, environmental studies, historic preservation, landscape architecture, garden history, interior design, furniture and decorative arts, and archeology. Also includes more than 13,000 obituary citations, thus providing biographical and professional information about architects.
