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Combined access to all three ABI/INFORM business databases: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline.
 
Full text articles from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, etc. Also searchable within ABI/INFORM Complete.
 
Business-related articles, dissertations, briefings, data, and reports. Also searchable within ABI/INFORM Complete.
 
Full text access to more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Also searchable within ABI/INFORM Complete.
 
Covers psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline, 1999-present.
  • Open access for all users
International directory of newspapers and news media.
Keyword(s): World news
 
1980-present. Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Millions of articles available. Updated daily.
 
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with thousands of peer-reviewed journals. monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
 
Offers nearly 70,000 streamed videos in a wide range of subject areas. Includes documentaries, feature films, news programs, and more.
 
Newspapers from Michigan, the United States, and worldwide.
 
Complete online access to McGraw-Hill's Engineering Handbooks.
 
Provides full text, searchable access to important American magazines and newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
 
Complete suite of clinical and educational content from leading books, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th ED. Updated daily.
 
Physical therapy textbooks, videos, an interactive cadaver dissection tool, NPTE review, and more.
 
Multimedia encyclopedia and dictionary covering all major scientific disciplines.
 
1991-present. Bibliographic citations of United Nations documents and publications. Indexes UN documents since 1966, including Official Records, sales publications, masthead documents.
 
Online collection of several thousand books of high quality in the humanities.
 
Full-text archive of Association for Computing Machinery publications, including journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings, and newsletters. Covers 1954-present.
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National cross-industry measure of customer satisfaction in the United States. Measures the satisfaction of U.S. household consumers with products and services offered by firms with significant share in U.S. markets.
 
A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day; covers publication 1643-1940. Contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices.
 
Hints and tips on using the features and functionality contained within Adam Matthew products to aid research and teaching. Includes video tutorials on subjects such as applying filters and performing a search, and information on accessibility, terms of use, and privacy.
 
A suite of Adam Matthew digital primary collections sourced from around the world.
  • Open access for all users
Advertising Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization, provides this website to enrich the understanding of advertising and its role in culture, society and the economy.
 
Search and download PDFs of articles and papers from the Audio Engineering Society from 1953 to the present.
 
16th century - present. Includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, covering all areas of scholarship of Africa.
 
Biographical information, including photographs and illustrations, of African Americans.
 
Primary sources predominantly from Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina.
 
Newspapers and magazines from 1816 through 1992, in addition to reports and annuals from various African-American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.
 
Created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States, viz., those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society, and the Library of Congress.
 
170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans, published in 26 states. Includes academic & political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports, and other genres.
 
Covers the history of black American poetry, from its beginnings through the 20th century.
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Retrospective digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted on the Archive extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the last pre-current issue.
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AJOL is the world's largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
 
Historical African newspapers, Dates range from 1800 - 1924
 
Guides and resources for subjects relating to Africa.
 
Over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictional prose from Heinemann's African Writers Series, which published the key texts of modern African literature for over 40 years.
  • Open access for all users
Digitized collections of books, sheet music, pamphlets, documents, narratives, images, & other materials.
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A selection of published works, including poetry, fiction, essays, and biographies & autobiographies.
 
Essential books, pamphlets, & broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, covering African-American history, literature and culture.
 
Explores five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection.
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Free, open-access repository of full-text scholarly literature on agricultural and applied economics. Includes working papers, conference papers and journal articles. Includes topics such as food security and poverty, land economics, agricultural and food policy, and food safety.
 
1978-present; selective coverage 1966-1977. Covers health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy relating to persons 50 & older.
  • Open access for all users
Health care data and materials for training health care providers.
 
1970-present. Agriculture, animal sciences, horticulture, hydrology.
 
Extensive coverage of environmental science and related disciplines, and including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
 
Patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Updated monthly.
 
Articles and abstracts in arts and architecture, biographical profiles, and information on posters.
 
Academic journals and dissertations published in Taiwan and China, in Chinese or English, published in the U.S.A., Hong Kong, Malaysia, and other countries. Covers six main categories: Humanities, Basic & Applied Sciences, Health & Medical Care, Bio-Agriculture, Engineering, and Social Sciences.
 
Correspondence from the British diplomatic corps in Russia on the "retro-reform" policy, including the increase of revolutionary agitation, deepening of conservatism and changes from agrarian to industrial society, and spread of pan-Slavism, both in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe.
 
Combined search platform for ASP text, audio, and video collections.
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Streaming videos and documentaries.
 
Full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies
 
1970-present. Articles from the alternative & independent presses.
 
1991-present. Covers anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay & lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, socialism. Updated quarterly.
 
Tracks "mentions" on the web in various sources (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.). Browse, search, and query mentions of publications and other output by researchers at U-M and elsewhere.
 
Style guide for the American Medical Association (11th edition).
 
FBI documents on Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1967-1975.
 
Stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War.
 
Database of literature written 1955-present covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
 
Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents, and ephemera. Includes series I, II, & supplements (1639-1819) and Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922.
 
1690-1998. Searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of titles from all 50 states. Alternate title: Early American Newspapers.
 
1975-present. Annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction. Regions covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, Holland, Australia, and France.
 
Over 30,000 broadsides and ephemeral publications, 1749-1900.
 
Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and chemical engineering published or hosted by the American Chemical Society.
 
This collection of primary sources documents twentieth-century consumer culture in the United States, covering these key subjects: market research and its psychology; the process of advertising; and the actual goods manufactured and consumed.
 
 
 
Publications from the colonial period through to the twentieth century.
 
Documentary films & newsreels of significant events in U.S. history, 1492-2001, and filmed 1898-2010.
 
Manuscripts and individual item collections from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
 
Manuscripts, artwork, and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Rare and original documents from treaties, speeches, and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
 
Biographies, events & topics, primary sources, timelines, images & videos, maps & charts.
 
Indigenous journalism from communities in the United States and Canada, 1828 to 2016.
 
1920-present (varies by title). JAMA and other journals of the American Medical Association.
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Digital record of music in American history from the Library of Congress, including texts, sound recordings, images, prints, and sheet music.
 
Profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all eras and walks of American life who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Includes thousands of illustrations, linked cross-references, and links to select web sites. 1999 ed., updated quarterly.
 
1740-1940. Special interest & general magazines; literary & professional journals; children's & women's magazines; other historically significant periodicals.
 
Includes Physical Review Letters (1958-present); Physical Review Focus (1998-present); Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators & Beams (1998-present); Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research (2005-present).
  • Open access for all users
Database containing over 100,000 documents relating to the presidency. Focus on the public papers from the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.
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Searchable transcriptions of Works Progress Administration interviews of ex-slaves made in the late 1930s.
 
 
 
Sources from the Everett D. Graff collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Includes a wide range of primary source materials on Native Americans, pioneers and explorers, homesteaders and cattle ranchers, on all aspects of the history of the western United States and Canada.
 
American history, literature, and cultural primary sources, spanning five centuries.
 
Also known as Analytical WebBase, Analytical Abstracts is the premier current awareness and information retrieval service in analytical chemistry. Covers 1980-present.
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Virtual anatomy dissection software.
 
The Annual Review of Anthropology, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and international anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.
 
Authoritative, analytic reviews of research in 29 focused disciplines within the Biological & Medical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
  • Open access for all users
1957-present.
 
Ethnographies, field notes, texts, memoirs, and films on diverse cultures.
 
Electronic archive of journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), most with full text from vol. 1-present.
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Collection of historical and contemporary photos.
 
Full text of several multi-volume handbooks from the American Psychological Association.
 
Research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines, from academic journals and trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings.
 
Includes: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922; America's Historical Imprints; Afro-Americana Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1535-1922; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; African American Periodicals, 1825-1995; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.
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Guide to historical records, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world
 
Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom.
 
Primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Includes newspapers, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, and posters.
 
Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.
 
Primary source collections.
 
Primary text collections.
 
Collections of primary sources in U.S. business, labor, and economic history.
 
Primary source collections, particularly covering gay and lesbian history.
 
Primary sources from the collections Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons and Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection, 1939-1945.
 
Primary text collections, including many U.S. State Department documents relating to Latin America.
 
Primary source collections from the 19th and 20th centuries.
 
Primary sources from the collections American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893 and American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism.
 
1800 to present. Covers a wide variety of sources from multiple disciplines on cold regions anywhere, including the poles, temperate regions with cold winters, and the Himalayas of Tibet.
 
The largest full-text art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, architecture and architectural design. Strong international coverage, art journals, magazines and books, detailed indexing and abstracts, and thousands of images.
 
A collection of documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory and practice of art, design, and architecture.
 
1984-present. Archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications & graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial & interior design, landscape, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, video.
 
Collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Includes manuscript, book, and newspaper content.
 
French texts, primarily in literature and philosophy.
 
1990-present. Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, technology.
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Online art auctions with associated images. This commercial site provides art valuation along with auction histories.
 
Covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. Mobile app available.
 
Over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
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Open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology
 
Independent feature films from across Asia.
 
East Asian newspapers in English, and film & newsreel scripts and periodicals in Chinese.
 
Search across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. Includes five content areas: Data Sheets & Diagrams, Alloy Finder, Materials Property Database, Coatings Data and Corrosion Data.
 
Searchable database containing more than 39,200 binary and ternary alloy phase diagrams, each with their associated crystal and reaction data. Also includes all inorganic systems.
 
Features case histories along with authoritative handbook information on failure mechanisms and analysis methods. Enables you to find specific information to help you quickly solve your own failure analysis or materials performance issues.
 
Contains all the data and information from the 20 volumes of the ASM Handbook series. Provides practical information and data about the selection, processing, performance, and analysis of structural materials, especially metals and alloys.
 
Comprehensive collection of micrograph images and associated data, with an emphasis on micrographs for industrially important alloys.
 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers' primary repository of current and archival literature.
 
Late twentieth century AP office archives from bureaus in Europe and the Middle East.
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Open access index of articles in astronomy, astrophysics, and space sciences.
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"This interactive atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme provides useful information to all interested in both natural and human-made changes in our planet over the last 30-40 years."
 
Maps from antiquity to the present, including USGS topographic maps of the U.S. states. The maps can be viewed, downloaded, and printed without restriction.
 
Important dramatic works in streaming audio from one of the nation's premiere radio theater companies.
 
Collection of downloadable e-audio books.
 
Information on automobile repair for models 1974 and after.

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Online library of digitized scores and streamed audio recordings of contemporary music by international composers.
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Time series data from 1948. The data summarizes, for a specific period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world.
 
Videos of head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for advanced assessment or introduction to clinical medicine courses.
 
Articles from newspapers & wire services around the globe. Dates of coverage vary; usually late 1990s or early 2000s to present.
Keyword(s): World news
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News articles and videos from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Keyword(s): World news
 
Streaming video of all the plays of Shakespeare. Originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1978 and 1985.
 
Market research reports and market forecasting in advanced materials, biotechnology, chemicals, energy, healthcare, sensors, plastics, nanotechnology, and other emerging technologies. Over 250 research reports published annually.
 
Books and journals in engineering and biological sciences.
  • Open access for all users
Letters, diaries, and recollections of Michigan men and their units in thee Civil War, as well as their friends and loved ones back home.
 
1985-present. All aspects of secondary literature in the areas of German language, linguistics, & literary studies.
 
Bibliographic data on historical writing about the British Isles and the Commonwealth for all periods from 55 B.C. to present. Content is primarily books and articles published since 1900.
 
A comprehensive record of scholarship on 738 known women writers and their texts, canonical and non-canonical. Including already familiar figures as well as less-known and hitherto unknown English women writers--refugees such as women recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), and women translators and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Gaelic and Welsh.
 
Citations to articles and books relating to all aspects of native North American culture and history.
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Citation databases on Art and Art History. Covers 1975-2007. For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA). Note that this resource provides citations but no full text.
 
Latin texts from Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and medieval and modern eras.
 
Collection of thousands of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), and software tools for exploring them.
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Books, journals, and other materials on biodiversity from a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries. Provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes from the 15th to the 21st centuries.
 
Helps locate biographical entries contained in 1000+ volumes & editions of important biographical reference sources. Contains citations for 15M+ biographies on nearly 5M people, living and deceased, from all periods, locations, & fields.
 
Contains more than 600,000 biographies on more than 528,000 people from around the world and throughout history.
 
1984-present. Archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications & graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial & interior design, landscape, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, video.
 
Articles on noteworthy individuals from antiquity to the present. Searchable by various criteria.
 
1983-present. Agriculture, animal husbandry, botany, cytology, ecology, entomology, environmental science, fishery sciences, food science, forestry, genetics, horticulture, microbiology, plant pathology, soil science, veterinary medicine, zoology.
  • Open access for all users
Open-access biomedical electronic journals. Articles are also immediately available on publication thru PubMed Central.
 
Comprehensive index to life sciences research literature. Covers journals (5000+), reports, meetings (1500+), reviews, and books in all areas of biology. Weekly email alerts available. Mobile app available.
 
Online database of over 10,000 bird species globally.
 
Primary sources documenting the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the U.S. before the Civil War.
 
Contains 1,460 full text English plays ca. 1850-present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.
 
1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, & more.
Black Historical Newspapers
 
Please visit the more comprehensive collection Black Studies Center, which contains all the newspapers in this collection, and more.
 
Includes approximately 8,000 previously published short stories as well as previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts. Fables and folktales are also widely represented within the collection.
 
Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspapers, and more.
 
Documentaries, newsreels, interviews, and archival footage covering history, politics, sociology, art, and culture.
 
1700 to present. African-American authors of works of non-fiction, including articles, books, interviews, journal articles, letters, & other formats, covering all aspects of the black experience.
 
Cross-searchable access to Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and more.
 
 
 
2005-present. Allows cited reference searching of over 30,000 editorially selected books published since 2005 in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Mobile app available.
 
1983-present. English-language fiction & non-fiction books (excluding reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law & the sciences).
 
1965-present. Book reviews from refereed journals, general interest publications, & newspapers.
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A digital collection of 23 interviews of former slaves out of 2,300 taken by the Works Progress Administration. The full print collection can be found under the call number E441 .A58.
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1480-1950. Historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
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Web collection of enzyme functional data, including nomenclature; organism, kinetics, isolation, stability, and reaction data; and more.
 
Gateway to databases and text collections focusing on Classical and Medieval European history.
 
Art images from 2,000 sources, 8,000 locations and 30,000 artists, including photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology & ethnography, history, science & medicine, decorative arts, and artifacts
 
Topics include: Asian Studies; Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity; Classical Studies; European History and Culture; Language and Linguistics; Middle East & Islamic Studies; Religious Studies, Theology, & Philosophy; Social Sciences.
 
The full text of thousands of book chapters and journal articles, covering the Humanities, International Law, and Biology.
 
Cross-searches many of Brill's online reference works. Focuses on history, language, and religion.
  • Open access for all users
Index of articles, reports, books, and book chapters.
 
Online collection of British literary manuscripts from the Middle Ages to 1900.
 
Documents related to British history, and the United Kingdom's role in the world.
 
Page images from hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1955), Brooklyn Life (1890-1924), Brooklyn Life & Activities of Long Island Society (1924-1931), fully searchable.
 
Website and tablet app to browse, read and monitor thousands of journals available through the Thompson Library.
 
Full text access to standards from the British Standards Institution.
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Publication of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and the Department of the History of Art.
 
1982-present. Accounting, banking, communications, economics, finance, regulations, insurance, investments, marketing, oil & gas, personnel, retail trade, small business, taxation, specific businesses, specific industries, specific trades.
 
Provides concise yet comprehensive summaries of the best business books. With these summaries, professionals and students can keep up with the latest information in the business world and learn more effectively.
 
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
 
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals, case studies, country profiles, statistical data, market research reports, news articles, academic journals and reference materials organized by country, company and industry.
 
1886-present. Case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, country reports, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, market research reports, monographs, SWOT analyses, trade journals. All aspects of business.

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Directory providing publishing information on academic journals in multiple fields in the social sciences and humanities. Cabell's includes journals in the list based on multiple factors including peer review, licensing policies, integrity, fees, ethical guidelines, sponsorship, and more.
 
French and Belgian journals available online, covering general interest, history, literature, and philosophy.
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A freely accessible repository of digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present.
 
Access to the full text of selected eBooks (about 700) from Cambridge University Press from multiple disciplines across science, technology, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society.
 
Contains over 700 full-text volumes, in 15 subject areas, published from 1960-2014. Volumes consist of historical essays & bibliographies.
 
 
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Policy-related plain language summaries and policy briefs in the social sectors.
 
Data on a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life.
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Bilingual reference work on Canadian history, society, and culture.
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Digitized public domain books and newspapers from dozens of libraries in Canada.
 
Carbon disclosure data, from 2010 on.
 
Cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
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Searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries
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Searchable database of federal documents available through the Government Printing Office (GPO).
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Reviews of academic databases, websites, and tools for librarians, students, and faculty. Published by ALA/CHOICE and the Charleston Company.
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CDC links to vital statistics and records.
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Allows you to generate and download detailed statistical data for the United States on numerous topics related to public health.
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Multidisciplinary K-12 STEM curricula.
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Congressional bills, statutes, debates ,journals.
 
Portal to several full-text American and English literature databases.
 
Publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
 
Electronic version of standard CCH looseleaf services covering tax, securities, banking, and trade law. Includes the CCH Federal Tax Service, IRS letter rulings, state tax reporters, Federal Securities Law Reporter, the Trade Regulation Reporter, the Government Contracts Reporter, current news, and more.
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Manually curated database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. It brings together chemical, bioactivity, and genomic data to aid the translation of genomic information into effective new drugs [from the website].
 
Monthly bulletin containing worldwide information on safety and health hazards surrounding chemicals encountered in the chemical and related industries.
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Free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 32 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
 
An online version of the CMA 17th edition. All the content of the paper version, but also contains citation Quick Guide, Q&A, manuscript aids.
 
Current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.
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Provides research, data and other information related to adoption, child abuse and family-centered practice.
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Rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
 
Authoritative automotive repair information. Thousands of year, make & model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus specialty models. Information to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
 
Digital archives of English-language periodicals published in, or about, China.
 
Comprehensive collection of government gazettes, bulletins, announcements, and proclamations from the People's Republic of China.
 
Cross-searchable English-language sources relating to China’s history, literature and culture, spanning three centuries from the 1800s to the modern era.
 
Covers ~10,000,000 articles in 25,000+ periodicals published 1911 - 1949 in China. Language: Chinese. Limited to one user at a time. Please log out when done (安全退出).
 
One-stop access to important reference works on Chinese history, literature, and culture. Includes lexical and encyclopedic information for beginners and advanced readers of classical Chinese texts.
 
Capsule reviews of academic books and resources 1987 - present; some articles.
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Home of the Choral Public Domain Library. Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
 
Online edition of the weekly newspaper, plus data from the Almanac of Higher Education, blogs, job postings, etc. Covers 2015 - present.
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Digitized historic American newspapers published from 1836-1922 produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program.
 
Periodicals from the Church Missionary Society Archive
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Background historical, demographic, and other information on every country in the world as well as most territories.
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Primary journal index for nursing and allied health professions.
 
Data on materials' properties.
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Database of scholarly citation metrics for documents in academic and trade journals, book series, and conference proceedings. Covers the previous three calendar years, with current-year data added monthly.
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Scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
 
Collection of documents relating to civil rights. Includes government reports, Congressional Committee documents and legislative histories, Supreme Court briefs, and some scholarly articles.
 
1975-present. Latin American journals and other sources in Spanish, Portuguese, French, & English.
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Up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials.
 
Collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
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Browser plugin for Chrome and Firefox that finds the number of citations for articles in PubMed, as well as articles co-cited by the citing sources.
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"Codeacademy is an Internet start-up company that is trying to upend the entire traditional model of learning to [computer] program, since many novices have difficulty with conventional books, videos, classes,..." CHOICE card 50-1506 (November 2012)
 
Transcripts of oral recollections of important figures in the Cold War.
 
Digitized collection of Colonial Office files held at the UK National Archives.
 
Primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
 
Comprehensive coverage of communication topics in Communication Abstracts and Communication & Mass Media Complete.
 
This ebook collection includes titles relevant to communications, cinema and media studies, advertising, public opinion, journalism, and mass media.
 
1884-present. Scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.
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Contains most of the official, public presidential papers through the Wilson administration (1921). (HathiTrust digitized book)
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Consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents, the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary. 1993 - present
 
Electronic book on the profession of social work, human behavior in the social environment, social work practice, and social policy and policy practice.
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Discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text. This database is also part of the broader Technology Collection.
 
Collection of Confederate Newspapers published from 1861 to 1865.
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Contains legislation from the 103rd Congress (1993) to the present, Congressional Record from 1995-present, Committee activities, and member profiles from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present.
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Published daily when Congress is in session, the Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings of Congress and includes edited transcriptions of debates and speeches.
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Documents prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress.
 
Information about medicine, pharmaceuticals, and health from reference books, reports, magazines and journals, and other sources. Includes illustrations and animations.
 
Full-text bio-bibliographical guide to over 149,000 current and recently prominent writers in all media.
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Downloadable open access scores to new music.
 
Fill out a form to request access to a data set of tax and every real estate transaction at the parcel level.
 
Health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
 
Streaming video collection for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and counseling.
  • Open access for all users
Nationwide data on health indices by county. Includes statistics & rankings on mortality & morbidity, health behaviors, clinical care, social & economic factors, and physical environment.
 
Congressional activities, including original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session.
 
Provides analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy. Also explains institutional and organizational history, the legislative process, and public policy decision-making.
 
Collection of directories, encyclopedias and guides on U.S. politics and policy from CQ Press.
 
In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
 
Historical analysis & commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, & the U.S. Constitution.
 
1789-present. U.S. presidential, congressional, gubernatorial elections, campaigns, parties, voters, & voting demographics.
 
1983-present-In-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
 
Entire content of the print edition of the CRC Handbook. Contains frequently used data in science, including the periodical table of the elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data. Updated annually.
 
1968-present. Journals, books, and governmental & non-governmental reports.
 
Films and documentaries on current issues in the news.
 
1998-present. Indexes the tables of contents of thousands of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings in the fields of medicine, science, engineering, the arts, social sciences, and humanities. Mobile app available.
 
Collection of articles from key Chinese newspapers translated into English. Covers 2011-present.
Keywords: World news
 
A selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. Covers 1949-present.
Keywords: World news
 
Bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. Covers all articles from 106 core journals, selected articles from about 900 additional journals, and about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974.

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Information on nearly 24 million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the US, Canada, and worldwide
 
Digital version of the official organ of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA)
 
Streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
 
Documents regional aspects of English language usage in the U.S., including variations in words, phrases, and pronunciation.
  • Open access for all users
Searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy from the 14th century to present.
 
Business & residential addresses & some related statistical data.
 
Searchable descriptions of 1 million+ datasets in all subject areas from 69 repositories, plus citations to publications using the data. Mobile app available.
 
Create tables, charts and maps with wide range of variables using data from governments and private organizations.
  • Open access for all users
Over 150,000 datasets in the sciences, social sciences, business, and government.
  • Open access for all users
Bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research.
 
Collected, searchable online versions of important Latin dictionaries.
 
CD-quality streaming access to more than 4,000 albums from 42 independent record labels.
  • Open access for all users
Institutional repository for the University of Michigan. Includes scholarly publications, conference presentations, dissertations, theses, and data from University of Michigan scholars across the three campuses.
 
British source material on conceptions of gender from the mid-15th to early 20th century.
  • Open access for all users
1948-present. Statistics worldwide compiled by Statistical Office of the United Nations.
 
Comprehensive business and residential information for users to assess business viability, create sales leads and/or marketing mailing lists, analyze population trends, find potential sponsors and donors, and more. Search for people or businesses, and create demographic reports.
 
1973-present. Practice, theory and history of design, crafts, architecture, and advertising.
 
Includes all articles from all editions of the Detroit Free Press.
Keyword(s): Michigan
  • Open access for all users
Keyword(s): Michigan
 
Archive of historical and current issues of the Detroit News, covering the years 1873 - present.
Keyword(s): Michigan
  • Open access for all users
Keyword(s): Michigan
 
Covers all areas of business and management, including marketing, organizational behavior, business strategy, law, and taxation.
 
 
 
Biographic, bibliographic, & critical information on authors and their writings.
 
450 A.D. - 1100 A.D. Online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving Old English text.
 
Dictionary of the Old English language.
 
2005 edition. Comprehensive compilation of peer-reviewed health and environmental data on several thousand chemical substances. Includes biological, ecological and toxicological risks, hazards, and effects data and regulatory limits for the substances.
  • Open access for all users
This resource, along with other archival collections, documents various aspects of the history of Flint and Genesee County. It currently contains three collections, but others will be added.
  • Open access for all users
Dozens of digital collections of prose, fiction, poetry, plays, dictionaries, and more.
 
Provides streaming access to hundreds of concerts from the Berlin Philharmonic. Requires creation of free personal account; see "More info" for details.
 
Innovative works in new media studies and the emerging field of digital humanities.
 
16th and 17th century theological writings by Protestant Reformers.
 
16th and 17th century Catholic theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises.
 
Contains themed collections of over 80,000 declassified and FOIA'd documents that led to U.S. policy decisions.
  • Open access for all users
Portal to the digital collections of libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.
 
Facilitates the application of text mining and visualization tools on data sets created from the library's Gale Primary Sources. Google or Microsoft email account required for access.
 
Spanish language ebooks and ejournals, published in Spain & Latin America.
 
Database provides streaming video access to highly awarded Cuban films in their original language with optional English subtitles.
 
Grants, publications, citations, alternative metrics, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents; helps find and access relevant information, analyze the academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy.
 
Experimental data and correlations of temperature-dependent properties for over 1,600 pure chemicals. Provides data sets, DIPPR-approved property constants, and regressed correlation coefficients for temperature-dependent properties.
 
Export and import data between countries.
  • Open access for all users
Free full text scholarly & scientific journals.
 
Index to master's theses and doctoral dissertations submitted at UM-Flint. Some full text will be available at a later date.
 
Documentaries, interviews, biographies, performances, and lectures examining social, racial, and economic inequalities that shape communities at the local and global levels.
  • Open access for all users
Primary sources from several libraries, including books, pamphlets, and manuscripts, all searchable.
 
English-language plays and secondary sources on theater.
 
Access to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5).
 
Evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool for health care professionals. Clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics. Install on mobile device.

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Environment, environmental policy, legislation, energy issues. Covers 1996 to present (articles); 2005 to present (videos); updated daily.
 
Full-text searchable early printed books in Arabic script on sciences, history, geography from the holdings of the British Library
  • Open access for all users
Full-text historical content about Canada, including books, magazines, and government documents.
  • Open access for all users
HTML texts of English language texts, 1475-1700.
 
Facsimiles of English language texts, 1470-1700.
 
Digitized books from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700.
 
Extensive coverage of Earth’s air, land, and water environments, and including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
 
India Office Records from the British Library, 1595-1947
 
One of the key African-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more.
 
Electronic books on all topics, mostly published between 1990 and 2005.
 
Full text titles with unlimited access designed specifically to support a quality learning experience for High School students across all academic subjects from History, to Language and Literature, to Science & Technology.
 
Full text books designed specifically to support a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all academic subjects from History, to Language and Literature, to Science & Technology.
 
Index of e-books cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide. Updated daily. UM-Flint must own or subscribe to an ebook for its content to be available.
 
Search all subscribed EBSCOhost databases simultaneously.
  • Open access for all users
Open access records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.
 
Includes databases in social sciences, arts, humanities, sciences, and business.
 
1969-present. Economics & related subjects.
  • Open access for all users
Publication of the US Council of Economic Advisers, to supply monthly updates related to the economic conditions in the United States.
  • Open access for all users
Economic data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
 
Complete archive of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to four years ago, with full-color images, multiple search indexes, and exportable financial tables.
 
Country level data from the EIU from 1952-1995 for nearly 200 countries.
  • Open access for all users
ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.
 
Journal articles, reports, and other document covering all aspects of education.
 
Repository for information on the use and management of information technology in higher education. See "more..." for important information about access.
 
Digital images of books published during the 18th Century. Full-text searching; access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science & more.
 
British plays licensed between 1737 and 1824, as well as documents that provide their social context.
 
Periodicals of multiple subjects and themes depicting the evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835.
  • Open access for all users
Compiled by Columbia University Libraries, this list of online newspapers is part of a larger, on-going effort -- AFRINUL-- a "union list" of African newspapers held by research libraries in North America.
Keyword(s): World news
 
Medical e-books.
 
Market research information about the Internet, e-business, online marketing, and emerging technologies. Please log out when finished; failing to log out may prevent others from using this database.
 
Biomedical and pharmaceutical research. Covers 1946-present. Links to full text do not work for UM-Flint users. IMPORTANT NOTE: Use Journal Finder to locate journals cited in EMBASE.
 
Business, Management, Economics, Library Science, Engineering and other journals published by Emerald Group Publishing.
 
Provides full text news, reports, and financial information for emerging markets in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Includes merger and acquisitions deals, data, and analytic tools for company and industry comparisons. Users can create a login to save personal settings.
 
Images of original manuscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
 
New edition, in progress, covers Islam in the twentieth century, Muslim minorities worldwide, social sciences, humanities.
 
Authoritative coverage of thousands of topics in all areas of study.
 
Detailed facts and current statistics for over 750 occupations in more than 90 key career fields.
 
2009. Covers theories and theoretical concepts and a relatively comprehensive overview of the entire field of communication theory.
  • Open access for all users
Open-access resource of detailed information about species of organisms.
 
Provides 3000+ peer-reviewed articles, images, a glossary of terms, news, and some multimedia files on a wide variety of life sciences topics. Released 2001, continuously updated.
 
Online version of the 10-volume set.
 
150 entries on rhetoric, including classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications. Combines theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, & communication.
 
New, online version of this classic social work encyclopedia which is updated with new and revised content each month.
 
Citation management package. Provides 2GB of file storage (up to 50,000 references), and supports citations in the 20 most popular bibliographic styles. Requires creation of a free account. [More info about EndNote]
 
In-depth, impartial analysis of key engineering failures, with video and text documents.
 
Searchable corpora for linguistic research.
 
Over 5,000 primary documents covering British history from 500-1914. The documents are indexed and full-text searchable.
 
Searchable, full-text grammars from diverse language groups, enabling cross-linguistic queries.
 
Complete runs of digitized major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000, including Variety, Billboard, and others.
 
Provides the latest insight into topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business. 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, case studies, thousands of company profiles.
 
Collection of three major environmental collections.
  • Open access for all users
Collection of news about environmental research, business, and policy, including coverage of climate change, pollution, toxic substances, and sustainability.
 
Multidisciplinary database with abstracts and citations drawn from scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
 
Statistical databases on China, which are sourced from industrial, regional and national organizations, and covers various subjects, industries, fields, and all regions of China.
  • Open access for all users
1966-present. 1.1M+ citations, 1,000+ periodicals (ERIC Journals); government publications, & unpublished materials such as conference papers, reports, theses, etc. (ERIC Documents available on microfiche in the Thompson Library & sometimes online).
  • Open access for all users
Descriptor terms used in ERIC.
 
1966-present. 1.1M+ citations, 1,000+ periodicals (ERIC Journals); government publications, & unpublished materials such as conference papers, reports, theses, etc. (ERIC Documents available on microfiche in the Thompson Library & sometimes online).
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1966-present. 1.1M+ citations, 1,000+ periodicals (ERIC Journals); government publications, & unpublished materials such as conference papers, reports, theses, etc. (ERIC Documents available on microfiche in the Thompson Library & sometimes online).
 
1985-present. Archaeology, architecture, art, children's literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film , folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, religion, women's studies.
 
Research institution performance statistics extrapolated from Web of Science indexing of scholarly journal citations. Mobile app available.
 
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
Keyword(s): World news, United States
 
Ethnographic documentaries and interviews of anthropologists.
 
Encyclopedia of all of the worlds known living languages.
 
Audio recordings and field materials from ethnomusicologists documenting musical traditions from around the world.
  • Open access for all users
Citations to literature on bioethics and professional ethics. Use Journal Finder or Article Linker to see if full text is available to UM-Flint users.
  • Open access for all users
Contains all the patent documentation available to EPO examiners and the latest patent applications from all the EPO member states.
  • Open access for all users
Significant collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America. Covers 1639-1800.
  • Open access for all users
Congressional Research Service (CRS), provides private reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. EveryCRSReport.com provides citizens access to reports that are already in the public domain.
 
Document collection on women, family and home life in the United States.
  • Open access for all users
The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' portal that "provides access to scientific databases and software tools in different areas of life sciences including proteomics, genomics, phylogeny, systems biology, evolution, population genetics, transcriptomics etc."
  • Open access for all users
Population, housing and economic census data from ongoing surveys including American Community Survey.

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Offers company and industry financial data and news stories, as well as full text articles in 6,000 trade publications, newspapers, newswires and magazines.
 
Comprehensive resource of research, policy and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology and development, and social welfare.
 
Covers essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
  • Open access for all users
Free genealogical website, with millions of historical records. Search options include a catalog, books, genealogies, and a Wiki.
  • Open access for all users
Provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for 200 countries.
  • Open access for all users
Agricultural newspapers and periodicals from 1841 to 2010, mostly early 20th century.
 
Videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide.
 
Library of reports covering IT infrastructure, wireless technology, security, data networking, technology vendors, and more.
  • Open access for all users
This site is a collection of crime reports and statistics from across the nation.
  • Open access for all users
Guide to U.S. government resources by the Thompson Library.
  • Open access for all users
Includes articles on current state of money and banking, and detailed banking, financial, and monetary statistics. Covers 1996-present.
 
Covers Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, & the legal status of Cuban women.
 
Primary texts as well as secondary sources, covering fiction and literature from 1500 on.
 
Combined access to several collections of film- and entertainment-related articles.
 
Hundreds of screenplays, 1903-present.
 
Video streaming of over 1000 documentary films previously distributed by Filmakers Library.
Financial Times 
New
Working link coming soon.
For early access to the current edition of Financial Times, please contact Paul Streby for more information.
 
Detailed historical maps and atlases of US cities and towns.
 
Primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets, and visual documents.
 
Platform for several databases.
 
Index of open access content.
  • Open access for all users
Images from 50+ international cultural heritage institutions, with detailed information and any known licensing restrictions. Most photos have no known copyright restrictions.
 
Content of the Flint Journal, including articles, illustrations, advertisements, and other content. Includes images (1898-1995; 2018 to present), and text (1995 to present).
Keyword(s): Michigan
 
Manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content sourced from across the globe.
 
Brings together documents, archival collections, videos, advertisements, and texts on aspects of food and society.
  • Open access for all users
Dates of the origin of foods, as well as old recipes for them.
 
CIA translations of newswire & news broadcast services, 1941-1996; the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
 
Periodicals published in foreign languages, cutting across subjects and including religious, literary, and political magazines. Includes French, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Swedish, and Welsh. Most titles published in the United States.
  • Open access for all users
Video database containing more than 4,400 Holocaust witness testimonies. Requires personal registration.
 
Profiles of U.S.-based foundations, describing programs, areas of funding, types of support, recent grants made, etc.
  • Open access for all users
Historical statistical information from United States government sources.
  • Open access for all users
Provides US and International time series economic data from 79 sources.
 
Documents existence on the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920, including frontiers of North America, Africa, and Australasia.
 
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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A list of Gale databases available to UM-Flint students, faculty, and staff.
 
Gateway to several major directories.
 
Information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.
 
Provides cross-searching of 18 different British and American historical newspapers and periodical archive collections, ranging from the 18th century until a few years ago.
 
Cross-search for articles, news, and books in three collections: Culinary Arts, Gardening & Horticulture, and Home Improvement.
 
Includes full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and expertly written work overviews.
 
Provides searchable, online access to volumes from ten different series reproducing excerpts from critical reviews of all kinds and periods of literature.
 
Nearly 200 titles focused on agriculture and its related fields: from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
 
Provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
 
Journals focused on all aspects of the communications field: key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
 
1980-present. Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
 
150+ journals.
 
Covers cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
 
With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.
 
Almost 200 journals providing robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
 
100+ full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM; resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and film making.
 
Covers gender studies, sexual behavior surveys, family & marital issues, conversion therapy, gay & lesbian rights, health aspects, and other issues.
 
Journal and magazine articles, newsletters, e-books, and other sources related to nursing and allied health, and consumer health. 1995-present.
 
Nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.
 
Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina.
 
1980-present. 1400+ titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals & international legal journals. Contains law-related articles from 1000+ additional business & general interest titles.
 
400+ journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects include socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more.
 
A collection of full text newspapers from around the country and the world.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Nearly 400 titles; current and authoritative content of use to both nursing professionals already in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
 
100+ titles; covering physical therapy & sports medicine, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and more.
 
Covers social science, history, art, & liberal arts, as they relate to American popular culture.
 
200 full text journals, covering the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops over time.
 
250+ full text journals. coverage of different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives.
 
Hundreds of journals on the sciences, including the biological sciences, computing, engineering, mathematics, and technology.
 
40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
 
Content from nearly 400 journals; this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
 
Periodical collection of hand selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, social science. Covers 1980-present.
 
40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
 
Simultaneous searching of numerous Gale databases.
 
Combines primary source databases with British, American, and some international content. Allows analysis of content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
 
Directory of Gale products.
 
Recent editions of many major reference books.
 
Reference books on religion. Searching can be done within an individual title, within the subject, or across the entire collection.
 
This database contains a comprehensive body of technology knowledge and is a resource used by thousands of organizations to help decision makers capitalize on information technologies and markets. Requires UMICH login.
 
1972-present. Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases, with coverage of sexual diversity issues, and the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside & outside academia.
 
Historical records from men’s and women’s organisations, advice literature, and etiquette books of the 19th through 21st centuries.
 
Full text database on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
 
1980-present. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
 
1984-present. Covers anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine & health, pollution, other topics from leading US & UK science journals.
 
Index to the literature of the geosciences.
 
Collections of works by Brecht, Goethe, Kafka, Schiller, and others.
 
1543-1945. Searchable full text book & journal titles from Europe and the English-speaking world. Covers feminism, anti-feminism, women.
  • Open access for all users
Thesauri and indexes of terms, metadata, and geographical and personal names relating to art, architecture, and related subjects.
New
Chronicles America’s transformative age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality, and social change after the Civil War.
 
Digitized manuscripts & visual primary source material for the study of global commodities in world history.
  • Open access for all users
Commentary and data on economic conditions worldwide.
 

  • Why choose this? Global Health provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health, nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and more.
  • Target audience: Researchers in the health sciences and public health.
  • What it covers: Over 1.2 million records dating back to 1973. Also included is the Global Health Archive, consisting of 800,000 records from 1910-1973.
  • Important note: The "Find in my library" buttons only work for Ann Arbor users. See "more..." for details.

 
Content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Keyword(s): World news
 
"Country Culture" database containing 126 information modules of structured content for 175 countries.
  • Open access for all users
Global Insights provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the U.S., as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the worlds trade blocs.
 
Resources to help citizens of one country find jobs or internships in another country (including the U.S.).
  • Open access for all users
Search engine for datasets in digital repositories worldwide.
  • Open access for all users
Over 200 popular magazines from several years ago.
  • Open access for all users
Searches content from a number of sources, including both partner content digitized by Google through their News Archive Partner Program and online archival materials that they've crawled.
  • Open access for all users
Search patents in the United States and worldwide, by keyword, date, inventor, assignee, national patent office, type (patent or design), status, and related litigation.
 
Scholarly articles and other resources.
  • Open access for all users
Scholarly articles and other resources. U-M Flint students, faculty, and staff should use the version Google Scholar @ U-M Flint
 
Detailed annual statistical data on revenue and expense of governments and their subsectors from 1990.
  • Open access for all users
Government Publishing Office website with access to digitized documents from the federal government. (Formerly FDsys).
  • Open access for all users
Government transparency website. The site helps ordinary citizens find and track bills in the U.S. Congress and understand their representatives legislative record. Set up account and track committees, motions, and bills on topics of interest.
 
1976-present. Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
 
Complete version of Le Grand Robert de la Langue Franaise in its latest edition: 86,000 articles, 100,000 words, 350,000 meanings, 410,000 use examples.
 
Accounts of the English abroad, c1550-1850, highlighting such everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, and food and drink.
  • Open access for all users
Find available federal funding opportunities from 26 different federal grant-making agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Department of Defense.
 
Covers all aspects of music, including biographies, definitions of terms, musical examples, lists of works, links to sounds, etc.
Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
 
The Thompson Library no longer subscribes to this resource. [Why?] If you need suggestions for alternate resources, please contact a librarian.
 
Financial data for over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States.
 
Documents on firearms laws in the United States, including government reports, Congressional hearings, legislative histories, Supreme Court briefs, and more.
  • Open access for all users
Prizewinning history books, published electronically. Topics include, but are not limited to, Africa, Colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military History and History of Foreign Relations. 1999-present.

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Porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and their analogs and derivatives
 
Collection of e-books and other online scholarly materials mostly from the French publisher L’Harmattan.
 
All issues of the oldest general interest monthly in America, publishing essays, fiction, and reporting on politics, society, the environment, and culture.
 
Online version of the 19th-century American magazine Harper's Weekly, with original page images and searchable full-text.
  • Open access for all users
Searchable access to 17 million+ volumes, with full text access to 6 million+ volumes.
 
Indexes journal articles (1985-present) that describe or utilize tests and measures used in health care, psychosocial sciences, and organizational behavior. Includes some information about the tests.
 
Medical, health, and wellness information from authoritative medical sources.
 
A comprehensive full-text database designed to support the creation, implementation, or study of health policy and the health care system.
 
Consumer health information on topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
 
Scholarly full text journals in many medical disciplines. Also covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
  • Open access for all users
"The Timeline of Art History presents the Mets collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history."
  • Open access for all users
Newspapers from a wide variety of the Spanish press of all types: political, satirical, technical, literary, sports, religious, etc., ranging from 1772 to 1933.
 
Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
 
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which is covered by America: History and Life with Full Text) from 1450 forward.
 
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
 
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
 
 
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
 
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
 
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.
 
Millennial edition. Downloadable data from earliest times to present.
 
Government documents on U.S. intelligence, historical war prizes, and other collections.
 
This 10-volume series considers the film industry from its early roots in the 19th century through the 1980s.
 
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.
 
Primary sources for 19th and 20th century U.S. history.
 
Video interviews of thousands of African Americans from a broad range of backgrounds.
 
Articles covering 140 topics that focus on hobbies and crafts.
 
Guides to home improvement projects, including decorating, electrical, maintenance, outdoor, plumbing, remodeling, and woodworking.
 
Collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.
 
Covers human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
 
A collection of text and video on human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
 
Covers 1,500+ periodicals across all humanities and social sciences fields. 1907-present (indexing); 1984-present (abstracts); 1994-present (selected full text).
 
1984-present. Covers archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, food, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, space, world history, world literature.
 
Valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities

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Includes ProcurementIQ and Industry Market Research segments.
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Short videos in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and child development.
 
Market intelligence covering the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. Click more... below for login information.
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Nonprofit organization for preserving, researching, and promoting the legacy of electrical engineering and computing.
 

  • Why choose this? Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, standards, and online courses, plus related e-books.
  • Target audience: Researchers in the engineering, computer science, technology, and physics.
  • What it covers: Full text 1988- (select additional material back to 1950). Recent interactive educational videos, plus an archive of older videos.
  • Special features: You can earn CEU and PDH credits by taking IEEE Courses.

 
E-books in key areas of engineering and technology.
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Annual and infra-annual labor market statistics for over 100 indicators and 230 countries, areas, and territories.
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Data and analysis of international trade, monetary and fiscal issues, and other global economic matters.
  • Open access for all users
Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals.
 
Over 400 of the most important and innovative films from the early 20th Century to today.
 
Original manuscript material, comprising diaries, letters, maps, sketches, and official and private papers from the National Library of Scotland.
 
Statistical data from India at national, sector, regional, and state levels. Once you are at the site's homepage, click the "IP Login" button to view data.
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Archive of manuscripts, monographs, newspapers, periodicals and photographs on native North Americans.
 
Searchable dictionaries of Latin, Greek, Slavic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Celtic, Old-Frisian, Armenian, Hittite, Luvian, Persian (forthcoming), Iranian verbs, and Proto-Nostratic.
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Collection of primary source documents, images, and narratives detailing the impact of the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 on 50 cities.
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Website for the popular compilations of facts and statistics covering politics, current events, geography, history, business, sports, entertainment, weather, science, health, etc. Includes the Columbia Encyclopedia, a dictionary, and resources for kids.
 
World-wide literature (mainly journal articles and conference proceedings papers) in astronomy, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.
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Index to the literature of the particle and high-energy physics community.
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  • Why choose this? IntechOpen offers peer-reviewed books to the academic and scientific community on an open-access platform.
  • Target audience: Researchers in including Physical Sciences, Engineering, Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and other fields.
  • What it covers: E-books.
 
Research & datasets on census enumerations; community/urban studies; conflict; economics; education; geography & environment; government bodies; health care; international systems; political behavior & attitudes; organizational behavior; social indicators.
 
International and interdisciplinary specialist bibliography of African Studies, 1971-present. Citations only.
  • Open access for all users
Books, reports, and journal articles on cancer.
 
Scholarly literature on Western art.
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Comprehensive data on trends in external debt in low- and middle-income countries.
 
Contact information for philosophers, philosophy departments, philosophical societies, publishers, etc.
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Time series on the finances of more than 200 countries and areas. Data can be exported in Excel, CSV, Tab delimited, and HTML formats.
 
Historical statistics (1750-2010) on the economics, populations, labor force, education, and transportation of nations.
 
 
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Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.
 
1951-present. Articles from scholarly journals and yearbooks. Topics include method and theory, political thinkers, ideas, administrative institutions, national and area studies.
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Primary documents, articles, books, reports, and working papers on international affairs and security issues.
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Full-text searchable index to Notes and Queries; subject index to Gentleman's Magazine and other major 18th- and early 19th-century journals.
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Database of information about films, television shows, video games, cast & crew members, production data. Includes links to reviews.
 
Full-text access to scholarly journals (current and archives) in physics and engineering published by the Institute of Physics.
 
Contains more than 11,000 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
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Highly Cited Researchers "represents some of worlds leading scientific minds. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators? as Highly Cited Papersranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact." Mobile app available.
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Searchable database of citations to articles on Islamic medical and scientific ethics covering attitudes and practices on ethical issues within the Muslim world.
 
Full text of balanced, accurate discussions of over 250 controversial topics in the news supplemented with chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, contact information, and bibliographies, including primary source documents and news editorials. Covers 1995-present.
Keyword(s): United States
 
1895-present (varies by title). Includes citations from 1,600 scholarly journals in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies (400-1700).

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1920-present (varies by title). JAMA and other journals of the American Medical Association.
 
Digital archive of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945.
 
Digital collection of manuscripts, rare books, and pamphlets, from the American Jewish Historical Society, maps, American Jewish Year Books.
 
Collections of Jewish printing and a Jewish newspaper in Shanghai.
 
A multidisciplinary view of the study of Jewish civilization, from its historical origins to the present. It is one of the only full-text databases that focuses exclusively on Jewish studies.
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Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia,which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which is in the public domain,contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
 
1997-present. Information to assist in determining the importance of particular journals within subject categories. Covers thousands of scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Includes Science and Social Sciences Editions. Mobile app available.
 
Find e-books and the 25,000+ full text journals held by the Thompson Library in print, microfilm, & online. Search by title or ISSN/ISBN.
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Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also include full text ebooks and open access content.
Some journals in JSTOR are available for U-M Flint until June 30, 2022, after which they are expected to become unavailable. Many other journals will remain accessible. Click "more..." for additional information.
 
Tool for finding important topics and keywords within a text and matching them to JSTOR content. Upload text or a text file for analysis.

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Over 30,000 documentary from an array of producers and distributors.
 
 
 
Local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations, by sympathetic publishers, and by Klan opponents 1921-1932.
 
Full-text ebooks on engineering, chemistry, & applied sciences.

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Sports publications, including academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications.
 
Monthly bulletin containing key information on hazards encountered by laboratory workers in all fields including R&D, analytical and hospital laboratories, scanned from the primary scientific and trade literature worldwide.
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Peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.
 
Global population database that shows geographical distribution of population at one-kilometer resolution over an average 24 hour period.
 
Documentaries from Latin America, in their original languages. Topics include human rights, immigration, popular culture, education, political history.
 
Collections from Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico, and anarchist and labor publications from wider Latin America.
 
Poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Latino authors working in the United States.
 
All areas of jurisprudence, including corporate law, criminal law, real estate law, tax law, recent court decisions, & new legislation. Covers US & other English-speaking countries. 1982-present.
 
Practice tests and tutorial course series to help with academic or licensing tests. Includes scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of results. Free registration required.
 
1982-present. Covers political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
 
Legal self-help and reference books. Includes downloadable forms for all 50 states.
 
Collection of primary sources on the history of tourism from 1850-1980.
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American popular songs, 1780-1960
 
Drug information for health care providers. Includes drug identification, interactions & compatibility, formulary status, toxicity, calculation for infusions & pediatric/adult conversions, and patient education.
 
Historical database of lexicons from circa 1400-1702.
 
Cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community.
 
Indexes the popular and scholarly literature addressing issues related to the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community.
 
Combined searching of the databases Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Library & Information Science Source, and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
 
Online catalog of the University of Michigan-Flint Thompson Library. Most libraries at UM-Ann Arbor can also be searched via the catalog.
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Breakdown of the call numbering system used by the Thompson Library.
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Maps, manuscripts, motion pictures, sheet music, photos, sound recordings, and books and text, arranged by topic, time period, and place.
 
Indexes literature in linguistics and related disciplines.
 
Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library.
 
Nearly 200 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
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Book publishers, literary agents, & other publishing industry; requires free registration for addresses; more detailed information requires paid subscription (available in print at Reference PN 161 .L5).
 
Primary sources relating to the history of printing, publishing, and bookselling from 1554 to the twentieth century.
 
Information on authors and their works.
 
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
 
Contains the profiles of thousands of generic and trade name drugs and provides over 80,000 references that link directly to PubMed.
 
18th - late 20th century Francophone literature from sub-Saharan Africa, both oral & written.
 
18th century - late 20th century Francophone literature of the Indian Ocean.
 
Online material on U.S. federal law: administrative, legislative, and judicial resources.
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Research guides, informational tables, and other resources about the U.S. Congress, law making, and legislative histories. Compiled by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington D.C.
 
250 ancient Greek and Latin authors in original language and in English translation.
 
Color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, and other materials relating to 18th, 19th, and early 20th century London.
 
Online access to all articles in all issues of Europe's largest-circulation literary magazine.

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Building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes.
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Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
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Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
 
Historical legal treatises, cases, and other primary sources from the United States, Great Britain, and other countries around the world.
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Collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.
 
Tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Includes books, serials, pamphlets, essays, & other documents.
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Online exhibition of 34 medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts.
 
Provides access to 500,000+ georeferenced map sheets in over 1,000 authoritative map series that export into GIS.
 
Time newsreels and docudramas, 1937-1967.
 
Online access to profiles on over 1.4 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor.
 
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for hundreds of popular and high school magazines, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and over 500,000 photos and maps & flags.
 
Essays, photos, diaries, day surveys, directive replies covering the social and cultural history of Great Britain from 1937 to 1965, including abortion, old age, crime, eating habits, shopping, fashion, dance, popular music, sex, sport, reading, ethnic minorities, and the decline of Empire.
 
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides thousands of general reference publications, reference books, and primary source documents, as well as an Image collection of over 500,000 photos, maps & flags. Updated daily.
 
Offers access to an eclectic and constantly growing collection of over 7,000 innovative materials and processes.
 
Articles, reports, proceedings, and other resources, 1965 - present. This database can also be searched as part of the Technology Collection.
 
1940-present. Covers mathematics. Updated daily.
 
Mathematical literature, 1940-present, with select coverage back to the early 1800s.
 
Search e-books in several health care disciplines for readings, quick reference, drug information, multimedia, case studies, self-assessment, custom curriculum, and patient education.
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Digitized collections of classic media periodicals in the public domain. Covers 1903-1995.
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A growing collection of digitized rare medical texts, video, and other formats in the Internet Archive.
 
Includes documents from the Crimean War, the second Boer War, the American Civil War, the First World War, and inter- and post-war periods.
 
Lists articles, notes, etc. in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays on all aspects of medieval studies.
 
Collections of letters from 15th-century England present medieval life in East Anglia during the War of the Roses.
 
Assemblage of widely scattered collections of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages.
 
1965-present. Covers clinical medicine, nutrition, pathology, education, psychiatry, experimental medicine, toxicology, health services administration, nursing.
 
Covers all aspects of medicine and health care administration. Includes some nursing and allied health.
 
The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Mobile app available.
  • Open access for all users

  • Why choose this? Free database of over 50,000 internal body images, organized by disease, body location, and patient profiles.
  • Target audience: Nursing students and nurses, allied health professionals, medical students, physicians, and others interested in medical knowledge.
  • What it covers: Diagnoses and images of diseases, injuries, and conditions, both common and rare.
  • Special features: Optional quizzes
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Preprint articles in the health sciences.
 
Meet the Press is broadcast-television's longest-running program, with interviews, panels and debates from across the political spectrum that were televised 1947 through 2012.
 
Edward S. Morse's diaries, journals, and correspondence documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.
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Citation management software that collects and organizes citations and documents into personal libraries.
 
Encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
 
Digital collection of historical Moody's, Hoover's, Dun & Bradstreet, and Mergent publications. Mergent WebReports merged into this database.
 
Private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and industry profiles. Includes information from Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet.
 
Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, and insider trading for US and foreign companies.
 
Online version of the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary of the English language.
 
Streaming access to more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances.
 
General encyclopedia of music. Text is in German.
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Breaking News on business activities in Michigan
 
Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of the Michigan Chronicle, a leading voice for Blacks in Detroit and beyond.
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Full-text searchable histories and atlases of Michigan counties, dating from about 1866 to 1926.
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Rules adopted by the Michigan Supreme Court to govern Michigan's legal system.
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Searchable, browsable online access The Michigan Daily, UM-Ann Arbor's student-run newspaper.
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Collection of online databases available to residents of Michigan, with content for pre-K through adults. Many databases are cross-searchable.
 
Digital newspapers published in Michigan, mostly before 1923.
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Michigan's one-stop source for reliable information on recent employment trends, wages, detailed industries, and jobs in demand. It also is a great source of economic information on Michigan regions and counties.
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Includes search of Michigan Compiled Laws and recent bills.
  • Open access for all users
The Michigan Manual, the State's official manual, includes fundamental reference information about Michiganits history, constitutional development, government organization, and institutions. It is published biennially by the Legislative Service Bureau, under the direction of the Legislative Council.
  • Open access for all users
Michigan eLibrary's gateway to different digital projects, including photographs, oral histories, and other materials, from different repositories throughout the state.
 
Scholarly and educational materials in a range of formats for wide dissemination and permanent preservation.
 
Searchable database of research expertise across disciplines at the University of Michigan.
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View and analyze data provided by a variety of Michigan state agencies in one catalog. Create charts and graphs, filter and summarize data, and develop maps with the open data.
 
Primary sources in Islamic, Arab, and Ottoman history.
 
1900-present. Systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
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Selection of digitized newspapers in Arabic, English, and French from countries across the Middle East and North Africa
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Comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, and in the Bibliography, descriptions of the authors, works, manuscripts, and editions cited in the Dictionary.
 
Emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe, and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Comprehensive news and analysis of state government delivered in written reports detailing the activities of the House, Senate, Judicial, and Executive branches of Michigan state government.
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Free online tool for creating apps for smartphones and tablets.
 
E-books, e-journals on cognitive sciences.
 
Comprehensive reference work covering the methodological and theoretical diversity of the cognitive sciences, with concise articles by leading researchers in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence and the neurosciences.
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Downloadable environmental and health data for Michigan, down to the county level.
 
Journals & series indexed in the Modern Language Association Bibliography. Contact info, frequency of publication, descriptions of scope, circulation figures, subscription & advertising info, submission guidelines, and information on peer review status.
 
Indexes books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and film.
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Collections of digitized images of artworks, cultural and historical artifacts from museums and other sources maintained by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service.
  • Open access for all users
These archives require that you create an account and pay fees to access the following newspapers: Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, and Saginaw News.
  • Open access for all users
Publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Dept of Labor). Includes articles and statistics on employment and unemployment, wages, prices and prices indexes.
  • Open access for all users
Statistics relating to health, disease, & mortality, from the Centers for Disease Control, updated weekly.
 
A "classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. Revised and enlarged edition."
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Access to over 1,000 local municipal codes from almost all states. Search by state and locale.
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A directory of living composers, with links to their websites and contact information.
 
Comprehensive guide to music periodicals and other literature from 1970 to the present.
 
Database of historical and current chart data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, and other reporting agencies from over 30 countries.
 
Magazine articles on rock, folk, rap, and other musical genres.
 
Streaming access to more than 600,000 audio tracks of American music.
 
Classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video.
 
Recordings, composer biographies & images, musical glossary; Middle Ages to present.
 
Streaming audio of contemporary music from around the world.
 
Streaming audio of every jazz genre and time period, featuring jazz artists from around the world.
 
Opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
 
Audio files of wide range of popular music from around the world.
 
Streaming audio of more than 40,000 tracks of ethnic music from around the world, including the catalog of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
 
1,217 essays, plus images and sound clips, concerning music from around the world.
 
1874-present. Abstracts and full text of music-related articles, both scholarly and popular.
  • Open access for all users
Digitized radio programs and scripts of African music broadcast by Voice of America, 1966-1996. Links to current broadcasts. Some content requires login; click more for details.
 
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.
 
Database of songs from musicals spanning 150 years, searchable by 20+ parameters.
 
Family history resource including more than 6 billion historical ​records from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and other regions.

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1912-1972. Correspondence, reports, documents clippings, reprints, and photos from an early advocate of treating drug addiction as a disease.
 
1865-present. Online access to back issues of one of the longest-published American magazines of opinion and criticism, covering politics, culture, books and the arts - in America and around the world - from a liberal/leftist viewpoint.
  • Open access for all users

  • Why choose this? The NCHS is the principal health statistics agency for the federal government.
  • What it covers: Data on all aspects of health, health care & insurance, diseases & conditions, family life, disability & risk factors, injuries, life stages & populations, and reproductive health..
  • Special features: Use Advanced Search to find data, videos, and podcasts.
  • Open access for all users
Websites of the NCJRS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of Justice Programs, & the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
  • Open access for all users
Free website of the magazine.
 
1888-present. Complete archive of National Geographic magazine every page of every issue along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images, and videos.
  • Open access for all users
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress.
 
1955-present. One of the longest-published American magazines of conservative opinion.
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Education and research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
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Independent federal agency with an annual budget of about $5.92 billion; funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities.
  • Open access for all users
Independent non-governmental research institute and library that collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
  • Open access for all users
Largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available.
  • Open access for all users
Database of national labor, social security, and related human rights legislation.
 
Peer-reviewed information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
 
Provides graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry, selected from dozens of key primary journals.
 
Online access to the journal Nature and its sister publications in Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Structural Biology. 1996-present (varies by title).
 
Educational videos that feature summaries of research as detailed by the scientists who conducted the work.
 
Streaming audio of more than a million tracks of classical music covering all time periods.
 
Streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
 
Documents published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit economic research organization.
  • Open access for all users
Platform for biomedical and genomic databases.
  • Open access for all users
National Center for Biotechnology Information e-books.
 
Covers Catholicism and the humanities. In addition to the hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics, this edition also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos, maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations.
 
1812-present.
 
Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1500 of the world's leading economists.
 
World’s largest digital library of play scripts by living writers.
 
1914-present. Prominent liberal journal of opinion, covering American politics, foreign policy, and culture.
 
Modern independently-distributed feature films and short films, available in streaming video.
  • Open access for all users
Free access to over 800,000 images from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs, and more.
 
1963-present. Online access to all issues of one of the premier literary-intellectual magazines in the English language. Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film, many by writers who are themselves major forces in world literature and thought.
 
Searchable access to the backfile of the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), in full digitized page images.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), covering 1918-2015.
 
Over 800 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and more than 850,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Full-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Digital primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.
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Repository of publishing dynasties from John Murray Archive. From book history to travel writing, politics to poetry, this repository documents the nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.
 
Plays published in the United States in the nineteenth century.
  • Open access for all users
Chemical, physical and spectroscopic data of many chemical substances.
 
An independent, privately owned specialist information source that focuses on North Korea.
Keyword(s): World
 
Provides full-text access to plays by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.
 
Large compilation of biographical material on indigenous peoples from all regions of North America. Includes biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries and oral histories.
  • Open access for all users
Books & articles, 18th century - 1920. Includes biographical, autobiographical, & fictionalized narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. (Part of DocSouth)
 
Comprehensively covers the English and Chinese newspapers published by North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., the most important and largest British-founded press agency in Shanghai in the 1800s.
 
Videos of important theorists in nursing.
 
41 e-books from the American Nurses Association.

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Online access to 40,000+ technical books, videos, tutorials, and case studies.
See "More info" for important access information.
 
Uses the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol to gather over 30 million records of free, useful, wide-ranging digital resources hosted at over 1,100 institutions.
 
Film of the famous social experiment, featuring the research of social psychologist Stanley Milgram.
  • Open access for all users
Profiles of hundreds of occupations and descriptions of what they do, work environment, how to become one, pay, and employment projections.
  • Open access for all users
 
 
Books, journals from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development.
 
Books, journals from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development.
  • Open access for all users
The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities.
 
1994-present. Covers art, broadcasting, computers, economics, education, engineering, environment, general interest, general science, health care, international trade, management, public administration, others.
  • Open access for all users
Cross-searches multiple dictionaries in various languages; includes reverse dictionary and wildcard searches.
 
OneMine is a collaborative effort among multiple societies to create a comprehensive collection of mining and minerals based research.
 
Online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration industry, maintained by the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
 
High-quality films of full-length performances by some of todays most provocative artists working in dance, theater, and music.
  • Open access for all users
Search for open access articles by title, citation, URL, DOI, PMID, or PMC ID.
  • Open access for all users
Index of over 2.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from over 1,000 institutions worldwide. Links provided to the hosting institution's digital repository.
  • Open access for all users
Legislative data from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.
  • Open access for all users
Free peer-reviewed online textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. Print copies available at the library.
 
All issues of American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harper's Magazine, NACLA, The Nation, National Review, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker.
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Covers contemporary social issues with pro/con and background information. Also allows searching of the collection Global Issues.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Information on 40 million companies worldwide.
 
Information on more than 7,000 works by over 900 composers; searchable by duration, instrumentation, chorus type, & soloists. Updated monthly.
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E-books and audiobooks, featuring primarily popular literature, graphic novels and non-fiction from trade publishers.
  • Open access for all users
Content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this health crisis.
 
African and African-American history; biography from major reference works.
 
Comprehensive, scholarly art reference work offering global coverage of all forms of the visual arts.
 
Comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history.
 
Covers all varieties of musical forms, including jazz, popular music, and dance, as well as music in its social and cultural context. Included in Oxford Music Online.
 
 
 
Included in Oxford Music Online.
 
Concise articles on noteworthy people from the British Commonwealth who are no longer living.
 
Reference work.
 
Comprehensive coverage of the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the Renaissance in 14th -17th century Europe, and the influence it has on modern thought & society.
 
Most complete & authoritative dictionary of the English language. 3rd edition in progress, with 2nd edition entries.
 
 
 
Covers philosophy, political science, & religion. (Business titles are not available.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
History of the development of Western music, originally published in five volumes by Richard Taruskin.
 
Current scholarship on the Islamic world. Features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and will be regularly updated.
 
Full-text access to recent volumes of scholarly journals in all subject areas published by Oxford University Press. Covers 1996-present (varies by journal).
 
Music dictionaries, providing biographies, definitions of terms, works lists, etc.
 
Arts, Dictionaries, Biology, Computing, Earth Sciences, Economics, Business, History, Law, Literature, Maps, Medicine, Mythology & Folklore, Performing Arts, Mathematics, Politics, Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy, Sciences, Timelines.
 
 

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1915-present. Public affairs, public and social policies, international relations.
 
Citations to over 6.5 million papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, etc., since 1993.
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Indexes 4,200 European-language journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities & social sciences, 1972-2014.
 
Extensive industry, demographic, consumer, and economic data for numerous countries worldwide.
 
Full-text editions primarily in the field of philosophy. Original language texts available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, and Latin, and English translation.
  • Open access for all users
Keyword(s): United States
 
1964-present. Covers conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
 
Full-text digital archive of many of the major works of psychoanalysis.
 
Database of timpani and percussion requirements for orchestral, operatic, and contemporary repertoire.
 
Describes all manner of writings by early modern women, from diaries to works of drama and religious writing.
 
1864-present; index of articles in theatre, dance, & film.
 
Backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of digitized periodicals indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
 
Indexes over 7,000 arts, humanities & social science journals, from their first issues through 2000.
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Information on issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs in the U.S. and around the world. Major reports examine politics and faith, religious beliefs and practices and global religious demographics.
  • Open access for all users
Original research that explores the growth of the internet and its impact on children, families, communities, the workplace, schools, health care and civic/political life. Major reports have examined teens and technology, health online and libraries in a digital age.
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Original research that explores the growth of the internet and its impact on children, families, communities, the workplace, schools, health care and civic/political life. Major reports have examined teens and technology, health online and libraries in a digital age.
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Nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
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This project project provides independent public opinion survey research about American attitudes toward politics and policy.
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Chronicles the diverse and changing lives of the U.S. Latino population and their impact on the nation. It examines Latino public opinion, migration patterns and education and economic trends.
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"[No]n partisan, non ideological and non political" study and evaluation of the press and analysis of its reporting.
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Studies behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their daily lives, using original survey research and analysis of government data. Major reports have examined the racial wealth gap, the Millennial Generation and marriage & family trends.
 
Source of phase diagrams for oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, borides, compound semiconductors, and chalcogenides.
 
1940-present. Journals & books in philosophy, religion, education, language, political science, anthropology, sociology.
 
Full text searching of journals, book series, conference proceedings, & other publications in applied ethics, philosophy, religious studies, & related disciplines.
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Index and bibliography of works in philosophy.
 
Digitized talks by leading architects.
 
A directory of researchers & funding opportunities combining COS Funding Opportunities & COS Scholar Universe.
 
Covers more than 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present, written in or translated into English.
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Provides open-access peer-reviewed scientific and medical journal articles and journals.
 
Hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content.
 
Seven collections of poetry from the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom.
 
Resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that helps students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
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Digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. Includes summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
 
Online data and mapping tool for the United States.
 
Far-right and left political groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia
 
Contains six collections relating to political science, public administration, policy, and related areas.
 
Includes full-text journals, reference books, monographs, and conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
 
Current coverage of U.S. politics. Includes articles, documents (including Congressional Dear Colleague letters) and infographics.
 
Find information on members of the U.S. Congress and their districts; contains in-depth profiles of every member as well as data on their constituencies, apportionment, and redistricting. Covers 106th-113th Congresses.
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Compilation of questions and responses from more than 18,000 national, state, local and special surveys from over 1700 polling organizations.
 
Major general interest, opinion, and popular special interest magazines from the 20th century, and in some cases, also the 19th and 21st centuries.
 
Music, politics, fashion, and youth culture at a time of great social change.
 
Primary source collection of 19th century medical material aimed at the general public, including books, pamphlets, and advertising ephemera.
 
1986-2000. Covers population topics, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality & family, research methodology, projections & predictions, historical demography, demographic & economic interrelations. Not updated.
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Portraits of the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, government policy, social reform movements, and philanthropic efforts of charitable institutions that sought to alleviate poverty.

Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre.
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The homepage of all 14 presidential libraries. Find information about the libraries, search the libraries online collections, and get help using presidential documents.
 
This audio collection comprises hours of sound files and transcripts of meetings and telephone conversations for Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
 
Full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection. Students learn about a variety of topics, like endangered species, famous musicians, fitness and space exploration.
 
PrimoVE (pronounced PREE-mo-VEE) is the new discovery tool that lets you search the Thompson Library's books, journals, articles, course reserves, streaming media, and more.
 
Business and financial research for over 700,000 non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed, and international unlisted companies.
 
Contains tables of contents from over 190,000 worldwide conferences, meetings, etc. since 1993.
 
Collection of journals in mathematics.
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Digitized texts of thousands of books.
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Open access books and a few journals in a variety of topics.
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Data on infectious diseases in the United States from 1888 on. Open access, but requires free registration.
 
Collection of databases relating to business.
 
Comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
 
E-books on numerous subjects. More info
 
Full text versions of annual reports for over 800 corporations, 1844-2008.
 
Custom ProQuest cross-search of full-text backfiles of 20 United States and 4 international English-language newspapers. Click "More" for individual titles.
 
Digitized version of the Detroit Free Press, 1831 - present.
 
Newspapers from Great Britain, Israel, France, China, and Canada. They can be searched together or separately.
 
Combined access to all available ProQuest news databases, both historical and current.
Keyword(s): United States, World news
 
Over 70 databases, covering sciences, technology, social sciences, health care, business, historical newspapers, and the humanities. Databases can be searched together or separately.
 

  • Why choose this? ProQuest Research is a wide-ranging resource with a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers, and is designed to cover the top 150 core academic subject areas extensively.
  • Target audience: All levels, from beginning scholars to advanced researchers.
  • What it covers: Over 5,000 magazines and journals, 1971 to present (indexing); 1987 to present (full text); coverage varies by title. All subjects.
 
Applied and general sciences, with coverage dating back to 1986. A subset of ProQuest Research.
 
Statistics on the population, economy, and life in the United States.
 
Online collection of statistical compendia from around the world.
 
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications from foreign, US, and state governments, and businesses.
  • Open access for all users
Worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.
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Open repository for sharing scientific research protocols. These protocols are posted directly on the Protocol Exchange by authors and are made freely available to the scientific community for use and comment.
 
1894-present. Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from journals published by APA & allied organizations. Can be searched together with PsycINFO.
  • Open access for all users
Covers book and film reviews for published materials related to psychology.
 
Access to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5).
 
Audio and video recordings of quintessential experiments in psychology with thousands of pages of primary-source documents.
 
Combined access to PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
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1887-present. Includes journals, books, book chapters, technical reports, & dissertations in psychology. Can be searched together with PsycARTICLES.
 
Research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.
NOTE: PsycTests is now on the APA PsycNet platform.
 
1871-present. Covers post-traumatic stress disorder and related conditions.
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Open access database of small molecules, as well as larger ones, supplied by hundreds of data sources, including government agencies, chemical vendors, and publishers of academic journals.
 
Covers essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance.
 
Database covering all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues.
 
Documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, and more.
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Contains material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. Covers the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton.
 
U.S. publishing industry news and book reviews, with ongoing coverage of the British book trade.
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Comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
 
Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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Tool used for creating and distribution online surveys, data storage, and analysis. Requires U-M credentials to login.
 
Fully searchable digital reproductions of every page in the entire sequence of Queen Victoria's diaries.

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Premier health science ebooks.
 
Covers ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
 
Civil Rights Movement, segregation, discrimination, and racial theory in America during three pivotal decades of the twentieth century.
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Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material is compiled from periodicals and collections of articles in Hebrew, Yiddish, and various European languages. Covers 1966-present.
 
Plain-language reports on rare diseases, describing symptoms, causes, therapies, and support groups.
  • Open access for all users

  • Why choose this? re3data.org is a worldwide registry of research data repositories in multiple disciplines.
  • Target audience: Researchers, scholarly institutions, funding bodies, and publishers.
  • What it covers: Repositories around the world and their research datasets.
  • Special features: Most of the repository datasets are open access or only require registration.
 
1890-present. General, historical events, business, humanities, science, social science.
 
Deeply excerpted compounds & related factual properties, reaction & synthesis information, and bibliographic data.
 
General interest Spanish-language database. Includes content from the arts, sports, health, current events, and other popular themes.
 
Contains collections of resources for Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the British Empire, and historical publications worldwide.
 
75 journals, magazines, & newswires; updated daily.
 
Encyclopedia of religious subjects worldwide. Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law, bible, music, visual arts, politics, social sciences, natural sciences, ethics, and philosophy.
  • Open access for all users
Searchable database of retracted articles, chapters, dissertations, and other academic publications. Please see the user guide before using.
 
Review of books in Spanish.
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Open access French-language journals.
 
Comprehensive bibliography of writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Covers 1M+ publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional, popular, and classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with the full text of more than 200 periodicals.
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Comprehensive index to music manuscripts produced after 1600; also indexes pre-1800 musical editions.
 
Full-text archive of music journalism covering all types of popular music from the 1960's to the present day.
 
Digital collection of manuscripts by William Wordsworth and his contemporaries.
 
Full text of the comprehensive reference resource covering the philosophical canon and philosophy from all continents and all periods; last updated in 2001.
 
Over 400 Routledge Handbooks, International Handbooks, and Companions on a wide variety of social sciences and humanities topics.
 
Full-text access to scholarly books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1968 to present.
 
Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and chemical engineering published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
 
Personal and professional papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts, articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs.

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Documents published by the Society of Automotive Engineers from 1998 to the present. Covers advancements in all areas of mobility engineering.
 
Access to 400 journals published by SAGE Publications in the areas of communication studies, criminology, education, health sciences, management & organization studies, materials science, political science, psychology, sociology and urban studies & planning.
 
A searchable collection of over 150 scholarly encyclopedias, handbooks, and reference books in the social sciences.
 
Over 500 videos on media and communications.
 
Books, journals, reference books, videos, data-sets and cases on social science research methods, methods map, and project planner.
 
Videos covering the practical skills needed to successfully complete quantitative or qualitative research.
 
Collection of datasets developed to help learn research methods.
 
Data series—or single data measures over time about U.S. geographies—across 17 high-interest research areas, as far back as 1980.
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The System for Award Management, and new platform for the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA); it contains detailed program descriptions for 2,226 Federal assistance programs.
 
Large-scale plans of urban areas. Maps of over 12,000 US cities and towns.
 
Contains data on toxicology, flammability, reactivity, explosive potential, and regularity information for over 28,000 substances.
  • Open access for all users
A non-profit organization with a mission is to advance social entrepreneurship. Works with a network of leading companies. Offers financial support opportunities, educational scholarships, pro bono or reduced-fee consulting, legal support and networking opportunities.
 
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. Mobile app available.
 
Covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. Mobile app available.
  • Open access for all users
Compiles Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1878-1985, Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1985-1991, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1992-1995, including material located since publication of the last printed volume.
 
 
 
Provides a critical review of the synthetic methodology for the entire field of organic and organometallic chemistry.
 
Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books, and a vast collection of images.
  • Open access for all users
Cross-searching of science-oriented deep web search engines.
  • Open access for all users
A gateway to government science information and research results. Searches over 55 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a portal to over 2100 scientific Websites. [Free]
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  • Why choose this? ScienceDirect has thousands of online books and journals, primarily in the life and physical sciences, technology, and medicine.
  • Target audience: Researchers in the sciences, technology, business, and social sciences.
  • What it covers: 2,000+ journals, 35,000+ books, mostly 1996 present.
 
SciFinder will be replaced by SciFinderⁿ in October, 2021. Your U-M SciFinder account will also work in SciFinderⁿ.
Combined access to Chemical Abstracts CAPlus, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCAT databases, and Medline. See the SciFinder User Guide for important login and other information.
 
Next generation SciFinder interface that includes the latest datasets, search features, and mobile support. See the SciFinder User Guide for important login and other information.
  • Open access for all users
Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database. Shows h-index for journals.
  • Open access for all users

  • Why choose this? scite provides "Smart Citations" that show how often a scientific article has been cited favorably, neutrally, or to contradict its findings; also include snippets of the text in which the paper is cited. Image of example
  • Target audience: Researchers in the physical, life, and health sciences.
  • What it covers: Citations in context.
  • Special features: Includes a free browser extension that shows citation counts for articles you're viewing. Free registration required for some features.
 
Quick, easy access to research performance of more than 16,700 research institutions and their associated researchers.
 
International multidisciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
  • Open access for all users
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Digitized issues of magazines, journals, and periodical indexes.
 
Over 200 titles from key nations across the globe for soldiers who took part in the world-changing conflict.
  • Open access for all users
Research projects and datasets regarding different facets or themes of human life.
 
Collection of rare and unique prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
 
Performance and architecture-related documents offering insights into the performance practice in the reconstructed Globe Theatre.
 
Contains 55,000 video testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides.
  • Open access for all users
Searchable index and sample testimonies from the Visual History Archive.
 
Covers noise, vibration technologies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline, 1969-present.
 
Index to more than 250,000 short stories written in or translated into English, including full text for 5,000 of them.
 
Journals and e-books of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics.
 
Classic films from the silent era, in streaming video.
 
Provides data on the demographic, psychographic, and media use characteristics of users of products, brands, and services.
 
Web-based mapping application that allows you to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data.
 
Diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
 
Unlimited, full text access to business, technical, and engineering e-books.
See More info for important login information.
 
Collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery; includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials from US and European archives.
 
Books, journals, statutes, court cases, scholarly articles, and other sources on the transatlantic slave trade.
 
Primary and secondary sources for slavery in the Americas, for teaching and research use.
 
Offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans
 
Manuals for repair and maintenance of the engines of ATVs, generators, boat, motorcycles, lawnmowers, chain saws, tillers, snowblowers, weed whackers, personal watercraft, snowmobiles, tractors, and other machines.
 
Archive of Smithsonian Magazine (1970-2010) and Air & Space Magazine (1986-2010).
  • Open access for all users
Nearly 3 million 2D and 3D images from the Smithsonian Institution's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
 
Examinations of urban legends, rumors, weblore.
 
Demographic information about the United States, 1790 to present. Create maps and reports based on decennial censuses of 1940 to 2010 and the American Community Survey.
  • Open access for all users
Repository of research articles, primarily in the social sciences, economics, law, and business & management.
 
A multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts covering over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. Mobile app available.
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Covers 625 of the most important English-language journals across all the social sciences.
 
Index and abstract of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
 
Documentary, newsreel, and feature films by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, Eastern European, and Latin American filmmakers.
 
Indexes 1,800 sociology-related journals & magazines back to 1895, with full text for 620 of them, plus indexing for books, etc.
 
Provides access to the international literature in sociology, social services, and related disciplines, 1952-present.
 
Key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region.
For open access version, follow this link: https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/
 
Information gathered from Association of Research Libraries member institutions on current research library practices and policies.
  • Open access for all users
Gross and microscopic images of pathology specimens. All should have Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licenses.
  • Open access for all users
Free database of chemical spectra. IR, MS, NMR spectra.
 
Journals, e-books, and proceedings in optics and photonics.
 
Detailed and up-to-the-minute information about funding opportunities for higher education.
 
Platform connecting researchers with protocols and methods.
 
Online full-text access to many (but not all) of the Springer electronic journals; along with many electronic books and series.
 
Online full-text access to thousands of books in all subject areas from the academic publisher Springer.
 
Online book series.
 
Online book series.
 
Online book series.
 
Resource for physical and chemical data in materials science.
  • Open access for all users
A refereed, open access encyclopedia with in-depth articles on a random array of several hundred philosophical topics.
  • Open access for all users
News and information about the nursing profession from most states in the U.S.
  • Open access for all users
Wiki portal of State of the Union addresses by U.S. Presidents.
 
Searchable archive of 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century British State Papers, Domestic and Foreign.
 
Portal for current statistics from private and government sources on wide range of topics.
  • Open access for all users
Statistical Abstracts of the United States, along with the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book. Covers 1879-2011.
  • Open access for all users
Statistical information from the Government of Canada.
  • Open access for all users
The official compilation of all public and private laws and resolutions passed by Congress from 1951 through 2013.
  • Open access for all users
Interactive maps of U.S. rivers.
  • Open access for all users
Different translations of the Bible.
  • Open access for all users
Nonprofit organization devoted to government transparency.
 
In-depth coverage and analysis of decisions from the nation's highest court since the 1989-1990 term.
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Data from a triennial cross-sectional survey of U.S. families. The survey data include information on families balance sheets, pensions, income, and demographic characteristics.
  • Open access for all users
Data on business activity with estimates & analysis of US economic activity.
  • Open access for all users
Over 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. Search using either graphic index or word index.
 
2005-present. Morgan Claypool Synthesis Digital Library provides information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science.
 
Literature updating service for recent developments in synthetic organic chemistry.

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Online ebooks covering most areas of engineering including aerospace, biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, mechanical, optical, and systems engineering. Formerly ENGnetBASE.
 
Full text collection of over 800 plays written by the sixteen most prolific dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age (XVI and XVII centuries), including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina.
 
Over 17,000 industry reports covering technologies in ten different industries. Requires login.
 
Global literature on advanced technology, computer science, engineering, materials science, and related areas. Covers 1962 - present.
  • Open access for all users
Watch and listen to lectures on new and innovative ideas. Topics include science, education, technology, human relationships, and others.
 
Primary source documents of territories of the United States before statehood, 1764-1953.
 
Performances of works by American, European, Asian, and other dramatists worldwide from the past several centuries. Also features dozens of documentaries and interviews about theatre, discussing the history of theatre, acting methods, pioneering dramatists and actors, and much more.
 
Collection of reference materials, playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera. providing users with a more comprehensive picture of the life and evolution of dramatic works.
 
Provides streaming video access to original productions of plays, along with film documentaries on the subject of theater.
 
Classic and contemporary plays and documentaries in streaming video.
 
Searchable database of Greek texts from Homer to A.D. 1453. Free personal registration required.
 
Reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China's human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990.
 
Covers journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, and other literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Covers 1999-present.
  • Open access for all users
Toxicology data, citations and abstracts for the toxicology literature, Toxic Release Information and chemical information.
  • Open access for all users
U.S. government agency technical reports. Digitized reports are made available through HathiTust and the University of North Texas Digital Library.
 
300-800 A.D. English translations of key historical sources in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, and Armenian, from the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages. Includes introductions and notes.
 
Accounts by American women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.
 
Linguistic maps detailing the distribution of languages, dialects, words, and grammatical features.
 
TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.
  • Open access for all users
Clinical search engine designed to allow users to find and use research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
 
Brings together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of conduct.

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Access to almost 300 text, image, and finding aid collections that provide access to over a million digital objects.
  • Open access for all users
Searchable index to over 5,000 print reference volumes shelved in the Thompson Library.
  • Open access for all users
A collection of bibliographies and indexes in the Reference Collection of the UM-Flint Thompson Library.
  • Open access for all users
Directory of U-M faculty with expertise in sustainability projects and goals.
 
Documents from Parliament, concerning parliamentary affairs, legislation, policy, politics.
  • Open access for all users
Authoritative data on the U.S. population.
  • Open access for all users
Compilation of all general and permanent laws currently in effect. Every six years public laws are incorporated in the US Code. The US Code is arranged by subject and displays the current status of a law.
 
1905-present. Documents on government, politics, foreign relations, domestic affairs from various government agencies, including the White House, CIA, FBI, State Department, others.
  • Open access for all users
Identifies presidentially appointed positions within the Federal Government. Published every four years.
  • Open access for all users
Find government information and services by topic.
 
Allows users to find, visualize, and compare data on Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency.
  • Open access for all users
Find current information about the Supreme Court. See the court and docket schedule as well as recent decisions and some briefs.
 
Contains nearly 11 million pages of transcripts, petitions, and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.
 
Provides bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, refereed (i.e. peer-reviewed) titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more, from around the world.
  • Open access for all users
Global statistics from the Statistics Division, Department of Economic & Social Affairs, United Nations.
  • Open access for all users
Official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. Open access for all users.
 
Primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels.
  • Open access for all users
"Many resources on literacy, gender, youth, environment, arts and other disciplines directly and indirectly related to development issues have specifically been made available online to use for free. These include books, journals, magazines, video presentations, data, and other forms of information."
 
United Nations Industrial Development Organization's database comprising statistics of industrial growth, business structure, and more.
 
Comprises the full text of all United Nations parliamentary documents since 1993 and resolutions issued since 1946.
 
1946-present. Includes status and full text of all multilateral treaties deposited with the United Nations; bilateral and multilateral treaties registered with and published by the UN; and recently deposited multilateral treaties not yet published.
  • Open access for all users
The official handbook of the Federal Government, updated to provide comprehensive and authoritative descriptions of the programs and activities of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. Includes information about quasi-official agencies, international organizations with U.S. membership, and Federal boards, commissions, and committees.
 
Compendium of drug information for the United States published annually by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. See "more..." for important login information.
  • Open access for all users
Images from this collection are part of the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Imageworks which is housed in the lower level of the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library. The collection primarily serves the College of Architecture & Urban Planning and the School of Art & Design. Unique highlights of the collection include recent gifts of images of architecture from Japan, India, and the Middle East.
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Over 7,000 high quality digital images of works in the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
 
Online clinical information resource with emphasis on internal medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, and family practice. Requires login both ON and OFF campus. You must then create a personal account.
iOS and Android mobile apps available. You can then access your account on your mobile device.
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Evidence-based information and clinical guidance, including clinical information for care teams, patient resources, and other resources.
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"A nonpartisan think tank founded in 1968, produces a broad range of authoritative information on social and economic policy issues," such as education, housing, and race, ethnicity, and gender. CHOICE card 51-1568, Nov. 2013
 
Covers essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance. Covers 1990-present.
 
Full text of hundreds of contemporary newspapers from across the U.S. including the Detroit Free Press and Detroit Free Press.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Contains career and employment resources for job-seekers covering the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the USA.
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Trade information from the U.S. government. Export and import data for over 18,000 commodities.
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The U.S. government's official web portal. Find brief description, contact information, and websites for all government agencies and programs. Also available are free government publications on a wide variety of topics.
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Searchable database of United States patents and patent applications.

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Concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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Website dedicated to accessing veteran records. Most of the holdings are not available online, but you are able to request them. Includes guides on searching databases, requesting records, and correcting records.
 
Wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930.
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Works by British women writers of the 19th century.
 
Index to scholarly literature of violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault and emotional abuse.
 
Records relating to the Virginia Company, 1606-1624.
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Open access, global digital resource that collects, preserves, and shares nursing research and evidence-based practice materials.
 
Why choose this? Visible Body is an interactive visual database of the human body, with thousands of 3D models, animations, CTI & MRI scans, definitions, pronunciations, and more. Instructors can use Courseware for assignments and tracking students' progress.
Target audience: Students in the health sciences and biology.
What it covers: Five modules (with mobile apps) covering anatomy, physiology, muscles, and pathology.
Special instructions: You must create a user account with your umich.edu email. Please use an up-to-date version of Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.
 
Designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, this full-text resource offers scholarly content most relevant to vocational programs
 
Online access to Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to three months ago, in high-resolution color page images.
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Transcriptions of interviews of Holocaust survivors.
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Data on thousands of slaving voyages between 1514 and 1866.

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All available editions of the Wall Street Journal.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Current content of the Wall Street Journal.
 
Access to automotive production data reports from Wards.
 
Directory of contact information for government and non-governmental (NGO) organizations.
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Archive of websites and social media from government and organizations about access to clean water in Michigan.
 
Provides cross-search of multiple Web of Science databases. Mobile app available.
[User's guide]
 
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. Mobile app available.
[User's guide]
 
World wide repository of small molecule crystal structures hosted by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC).
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Database of fiction book series held by the Kent District Library (Kent County, Michigan). Searchable by author, book title, series title, and genre.
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The official website of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. Find executive orders, speeches, press briefings, and other official documents in the "Briefing Room."
 
Digital archives of two organizations, which can be searched individually or simultaneously, including administrative records, correspondence, data, gray literature, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, proceedings, reports, and more.
 
Provides access to online journals and books published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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"This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US."
 
Digital archive of texts related to witchcraft dating from the 15th century to the early 20th century.
 
Primary texts & commentary; dictionary of social movements and organizations; chronology of U.S. women's history; teaching tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the document projects; quarterly news from the archives about U.S. women.
 
Primary documents from women activists in social movements world-wide.
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1948-present. Articles, legal documents, declarations. Free index.
 
An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading womens interest consumer magazines.
 
Numerous publications for women. and including many female writers.
 
1972-present. Covers sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education.
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Datasets from the World Bank. Includes World Development Indicators (WDI). Also includes Africa Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, and the Global Economic Monitor.
 
Online, fully cross-searchable and browsable collection of World Bank publications & Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book & paper as they are published. Browsable by region.
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Official open access repository for the World Bank's research outputs and knowledge products.
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Offers detailed subnational reports, which exhaustively cover business regulation and reform in different cities and regions within a nation. These reports provide data on the ease of doing business, rank each location, and recommend reforms to improve performance in each of the indicator areas.
 
Detailed information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world. Extensive data are available on 238 countries and 13,000 ethno-linguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. Updated quarterly.
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Provides economic, social and environmental indicators for 210 economies. From the World Bank.
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"Analyses, reports, and statistics about the current global food and hunger crisis." (CHOICE Reviews)
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Public health agency operating globally.
 
Documentaries covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania, from earliest civilizations to the present.
 
CIA-sponsored translations of local news sources from around the world, including newspapers, radio, and television broadcasts.
 
Facts on File coverage of all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
Keyword(s): United States
 
Provides full text searchable access to historical newspapers published in Africa, East Europe, Latin America, and South Asia.
 
Newsreels of significant historical events in streaming format.
 
Current news coverage of international affairs.
 
Primary source material from archives in the United States & Europe. The historical collections include original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, & more. Covers 1492 - late 20th century.
 
Fairs, including London’s Great Exhibition of 1851, American fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries, and 21st century EXPOs.
 
Holdings of libraries nationwide: books, Internet resources, journals & magazines, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films & slides, sound & video recordings.
 
Late 16th century to present. Dissertations & theses held by OCLC member libraries; UM-Flint master's theses are not included (check the Library Catalog for UM-Flint titles).
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Search for books, music, videos, articles and more in libraries near you.
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Information on global civil society bodies and networks, including organization contact details, origins, relations, members, bibliography, biographies, events, statistics, and more.
 
English - Yiddish dictionary from Indiana University Press.
 
Collection of magazines dating from 1940 to the present highlighting topics and trends of youth and popular culture.

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Provides information about M&A, IPO, & venture capital deals, including over 500,000 transactions with up to 100,000 new deals added each year.
 
Chinese-language texts. (Currently requires a login even on campus.)
 
Extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. Mobile app available.
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Downloadable tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Tool for creating citations and bibliographies, manually, or by entering URL, ISBN, DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, or title. Supports APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, and thousand of other citation styles.