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ABC-CLIO E-books
A collection of ebooks on hundreds of different topics in the fields of history, sociology, and cultural and regional studies.
ABI/Inform Complete Plus
A great starting place for business research, this database covers business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Includes articles from magazines, trade publications, and scholarly journals.
Academic Search Complete
This academic multi-disciplinary database provides than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition , it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1887.
Access Medicine
Mobile version available Complete full-text (including graphics, images and illustrations) of the most recent editions of medical reference textbooks in internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacology, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, and patient care.
Access World News Research Collection
The database provides access to over 528 million current and archived articles from thousands of global and U.S. news sources, most only available through this resources. Each source provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid ads are excluded. Search interface includes a world map.
AccessEngineering
320+ full text titles with comprehensive authoritative content from a broad range of McGraw-Hill engineering publications.
AccessSurgery
Integrated online resource with information about surgery including videos, animations, full-text textbooks, surgical atlas, and board review materials.
Accounting & Tax Database
Covers articles published in nearly 300 accounting and tax publications, as well as official releases from the AICPA and FASB, and selected tax-related information in thousands of business journals.
ACM Digital Library
Access to the text of Association for Computing Machinery journals and proceedings.
Africa Development Indicators
Africa Development Indicators (ADI) is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. The ADI Data Availability Query shows where data is available for a given country, series, and year. It contains the value "1" for available data and ".." for missing data.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Readex)
Provides access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. The collection features papers from more than 35 states and was in part created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the U.S.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (Accessible Archives)
This database provides full-text access to articles from a number of historic African American newspapers, beginning in 1827 with Freedom's Journal. The collection contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and offers first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
This database is a collection of periodicals which covers African American history, societal and cultural issues over a period of one hundred and seventy years.
African Development Data Explorer
Development and economic intelligence data from international, trade, NGO, national, regional, and local sources on each of the 54 African countries. Data covers 15 industry sectors, and is both historic and current with selective data beginning in the 1940's. Includes charting functionality.
AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database consisting of citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, technical reports and other sources pertaining to all aspects of agriculture.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
Provides abstracts for more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad. The database also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Covers significant articles, news items, and editorials appearing in English-language military and aeronautical periodicals.
Al Manhal
Al Manhal is a major full-text searchable database of scholarly and analytical publications from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Material is primarily in Arabic, with selected material in English, French, and Turkish. Includes ebooks, peer-reviewed journals, and think tank publications.
Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED)
Produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. Covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and allied professions.
America: History & Life with Full Text
America: History & Life with Full Text offers extensive coverage of scholarly articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Includes selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, as well as full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1-5
Provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. This rich library from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) covers subjects including advertising, health, women's issues, education, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
American Book Prices Current
American Book Prices Current, which began in 1895, is a record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, and broadsides sold at auction. Regions covered include North America and England, with sales from other countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, the Netherlands, Australia, and France. ABPC Online currently lists sales beginning in 1975.
American Chemical Society Web Editions
GW subscribes to MOST of the titles on this site, but not all.
American Civil War Research Database
An online resource for researching the individuals, regiments and battles of the American Civil War.
American Institute of Physics (AIP) E-journals
Provides full-text access to the following journals: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Chemical Physics, Physics of Fluids
American Mathematical Society Online Journals
Full-text access to American Mathematical Society journals.
American National Biography Online
Offers full-text biographical articles for more than 18,300 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the United States. No. of concurrent users: 5.
American Periodicals Series (1741-1940)
Page-images from more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers illuminating the development of American culture, politics, and society across 150 years. Articles can be searched by author, source, or words in the complete text.
American Physical Society Journals
Provides full-text access to the following American Physical Society journals: Physical Review A-E, Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA), Physical Review Index, Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics
American Society of Civil Engineers Online Journals
Access to American Society of Civil Engineers Journals
American Song (North America)
A history database of 50,000 songs that can be listened to online. American Song encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singingâcombined with powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy âThe Chiefâ Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, and many others. The music comes from Rounder Records, the Smithsonian Institution, Document Records, and other labels and sources.
Annual Reviews
Online versions of Annual Review titles held in print by Himmelfarb and Gelman Libraries. Covers the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
Anthropology Plus
International coverage of the fields of anthropology and archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Brings together the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) from the UK.
AnthroSource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003. Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist.
AP Images Collection
A photographic archive of high quality images from the Associated Press news wire covering 1820s to the present. Includes news, entertainment, and fashion photography; maps; timelines; graphics and logos; graphs; AP news stories; and audio clips.
Aqualine
Aqualine provides indexing and citations for trade, technical and scientific literature on all aspects of water resources. Subjects covered include water resources and supplies management, legislation, water quality, potable water distribution, wastewater collection, water treatment technologies, wastewater and sewage treatment, water pollution, and more.
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: The Middle East Online Series 1
This database provides searchable, primary source documents held by the National Archives, Kew (U.K.) that chronicle the politics, wars, administration, and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab Israeli conflict.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid contains the descriptions of nearly one million archival collections held in archives around the world.
Art & Architecture ePortal
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Searchable ebooks, including monographs and exhibition catalogues, from Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, The MIT Press, Yale University Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Art Museum and more.
Art & Architecture Source
Art & Architecture Source includes full text for over 600 journals and 230 books, and includes a collection of over 63,000 images. It supersedes Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective. There is strong international coverage.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles. Simultaneous Users: 4
Art Museum Image Gallery
High-quality art images from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Images include paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts from around the world and all eras.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, second exhibition reviews, with many links to full text. Includes artists and movements from late 19th century Impressionism to the present day. Includes photography from its beginnings as well as new and lesser-known artists.
ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
Access to databases containing the full-text of a broad range of significant books, texts, bibliographies and other works supporting the study of French language and literature.
ArticlesPlus
From a single search, ArticlesPlus connects you to a large selection of library resources, including journal and newspaper articles, books, ebooks, and special collections material.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Covers the scholarly journal literature in the arts and humanities. Full indexing of 1,144 leading arts and humanities journals, and of selected relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
ARTstor
Searchable database of more than 750,000 images applicable to different times, cultures, and disciplines. Combination of images, data, and texts provides comprehensive art-related teaching, learning, and researching capabilities. Use the Register link to create a free personal account to download and save images. NOTE: Mobile version requires creating a login by registering on ARTstor using a regular workstation first.
ArXiv
The ArXiv preprint server provides access to over a half million articles on physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
Asahi Shimbun Onrain Kiji Detabesu (朝日新聞オンライン記事データべース)
Kikuzo II Visual (朝日新聞オンライン記事データべース) is one of the largest newspaper article databases in Japan, with over eight million articles from over 130 years of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The database also includes Who's Who and Historical Photo Archives.
Asia Pacific (Reference Corporation World Area Studies)
Provides area coverage (especially for economic development, investment, trade and technological industries) for Northeast Asia and Asia-Pacific. The database is designed to provide easy bibliographic and fulltext access to journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, press releases, books, manuals, magazines, and ephemera.
AskART
Provides biographical and professional data on over 120,000 American artists from the early 16th century through the present. Includes images, artists' biographies, and limited auction records, where available, for valuation and provenance research.
ASME Transactions Journals (Current)
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library
Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 10.3 million records.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA). This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Coverage of this database dates back to 1949.
Audit Analytics (WRDS)
Provides detailed research on over 150,000 active audits and more than 10,000 accounting firms, covering all SEC registrants. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Covers journal articles on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Citations from scholarly and popular sources from the U.S. and abroad, including professional associations, regional periodicals, and major international journals. Also included are citations to professional obituaries (often the only available sources of biographical information for less-published architects).
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Balance of Payments Statistics
The Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS) database includes annual aggregate and detailed time series for balance of payments and international investment position for countries; provides world and regional tables of balance of payments components and aggregates; and descriptions of methodologies, compilation practices and data sources used by individual countries.
Baltimore Afro-American (Historical, 1893-1988)
The Baltimore Afro-American (Historical), a prominent, historic African American newspaper, offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Baltimore Sun (Historical 1837-1991)
The Baltimore Sun (1837-1991) provides unprecedented access to news from this major port city. The database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Bank Regulatory (WRDS)
Provides accounting data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loans institutions. The source of the data comes from the required regulatory forms filed for supervising purposes. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Banking Information Source
Covers essential banking industry publications, providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Includes Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, and more.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Includes the online archives of the Biblical Archaeology Review, the Bible Review, and Archaeology Odyssey.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Citations to scholarly journal articles and monographs relating to all areas of Asia. Western-language materials. Entries may be browsed by journal title and country of relevance.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most extensive guide available to published writing on British and Irish history. It covers the history of British and Irish relations with the rest of the world, including the British empire and the Commonwealth, as well as British and Irish domestic history.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from over 4,000 periodicals. Published from 1975-2007, this database is succeeded by the International Bibliography of Art which covers records from 2008 to the present.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Citations to biographical entries in over 3000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books and volumes of literary criticism, covering both contemporary and historical figures.
BioMedCentral
BioMedCentral Open Access
BioOne
Access to scholarly journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. A joint project by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), and other partners.
Biosis Citation Index
Part of the Web of Science, this database indexes over 5,300 high quality journals and serials back to 1926, as well as providing indexing for selected relevant patents, conference proceedings and books.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century (Proquest History Vault)
The link goes to the History Vault main page; then look for Black Freedom Struggle under Browse Collections. This database gives allows researchers to study both well-known and unheralded events in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of men and women who waged it. Consists of two modules: "Federal Government Records," and "Organizational Records and Personal Papers."
Black Studies Center
A multi-faceted resource that includes: The Chicago Defender, 1909-1975, an influential historical African American newspaper; International Index to Black Periodicals, coverage from 1902 onward; Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience-- Topical overviews by leading Black Studies scholars; Dissertations-- Full-text dissertations
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
Major reference title incorporating definitions, key concepts, theories, and research on historical and contemporary topics. Primarily US and Western Europe.
Blockholders (WRDS)
Provides standardized data for blockholders of 1,913 companies, for the period 1996-2001. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Books@Ovid
Access to books in Ovid's electronic library of core clinical texts.
Bridgeman Education
A digital library of high-quality art, cultural, and historical images from museums, galleries, and private collections. Covers most aspects of art, archaeology and ethnography, history, science and medicine from prehistoric and ancient times to the present day.
Brill Online Reference Works
Brill's Encyclopedia of China Online
The main focus of this encyclopedia is China from the mid-19th century to the 21st century. It contains the information on the history, geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China.
British extra-territorial jurisdiction in the Gulf, 1913-1971.
This study presents an account of the exercise of extra-territorial jurisdiction by Britain in the Arab Gulf States during the period before the Gulf States gained full sovereignty and independence. It provides avaluable analysis of the working of the British Court System in the Arab context. The material is based on the author´s original research among thejuridical records of the British Court for Bahrain and on interviews with judges and lawyers of the period.
British Library Newspapers: Pts. l & ll, 1800-1900
British Library Newspapers, Pts. I & II, offer full runs of national, regional, and local nineteenth-century British newspapers, taken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library. The papers provide a broad, yet detailed view of British life in the nineteenth century; from business to sport, from politics to entertainment and the arts. The two collections together cover 69 titles.
British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem, 1920-1944
This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Jerusalem pertaining to the protection of interests of American citizens,foreign trade, shipping, and immigration.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides both bibliographic and full text content covering all fields of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
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Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
The library has access to Cabell's Directories in the fields of Education and Business. The directory helps scholars identify journals for publication and guides users in evaluating journal quality. Entries include contact information, manuscript guidelines, acceptance rates, review process, number of reviewers, and audience.
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Cambridge Collections Online includes over 600 titles, updated regularly, with emphasis on literature, classics, religion, philosophy, and cultural studies.
Cambridge Journals Online
Mobile version available. Access to most e-journals published by Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge Structural Database
To install additional software used by this database, see Chris Cahill in the Chemistry Dept. The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a repository of experimentally determined crystal structures of a range of materials and is maintained by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. Criteria for inclusion require that the compound is small molecule and contains at least one C-C bond. Thus inorganic AND organic materials are represented. CSD does NOT include protein structures.
CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
High quality images of fine and decorative art from leading museums around the world. Covers art from around the world from 3000 BCE to the present. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. Content is rights-cleared for educational use in the classroom or to illustrate papers, web projects and other assignments.
Canadian Newsstream
Full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star, along with newswires and broadcast transcripts.
CANVAS - Corcoran Archival Network for the Visual Arts
This collection showcases and expands access to original research accomplished by graduate students at the Corcoran College of Art + Design from 2006-2013. (This database is restricted to authorized users of the George Washington Universities Libraries.)
Career and Technical Education
Covers vocational and technical periodicals relevant to a vocational curriculum. Fields covered include technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, forestry, criminal justice, nursing, and more.
CBOE Indexes (WRDS)
Provides the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index® (VIX®) which is a measure of market expectations of near-term volatility. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
CEIC Global Database (with China and Brazil premium data)
NOTE: Register for a CEIC account (no charge) to save searches and download data, or click guest access to search without downloading. Limit: 5 simultaneous users. Please log out when finished! Over 2.5 million item time series covering economies from the United States and China to Vietnam, Bulgaria, Chile, and Kenya. It offers a quick country reference on key indicators such as GDP, GNP, FDI, and CPI, as well as detailed, hard-to-find information on 18 macroeconomic and 14 industrial sectors.
Chicago Defender (Historical)
The Historical Chicago Defender, an influential, historical African American newspaper, offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue, 1910-1975.
The Historical Chicago Defender (1909-1975), an influential, historical African American newspaper, offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The Proquest collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
The Chicago Manual of Style Online includes the complete 17th edition of the popular guide to writing and citation styles, as well as the Chicago Style Q&A, Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide and the CMOS Shop Talk blog. The Manual, Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide and Chicago Style Q&A are fully searchable.
Chicago Tribune (Historical)
The Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1992) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The Collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every issue through 1992.
China Academic Journals Full-text Database 中国期刊全文数据库
Includes full text and/or full image articles from 2,000+ journals published in China. GW subscription covers the following subject areas: Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/Military Affairs/Law, Education & Social Sciences, Economics & Management. IE browser is recommended.
China Core Newspapers Full-text Database 中国重要报纸全文数据库
With an archive beginning in 2000, this database collects full-text articles from more than 350 core newspapers in China. GW's subscription includes the following subject areas: Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/Military Affairs/Law, Education & Social Sciences, Economics & Management. IE browser is recommended.
China Data Online
Access to current statistical data on a variety of economic and demographic aspects of China. Includes monthly and annual reports on economic development, as well as data from various industries, information on specific companies, statistical yearbooks for China as a whole and from various regions, and a range of census-related information.
China Doctoral Dissertations (中国优秀博士学位论文全文数据库)
The database contains thousands of such texts from higher education institutions and research institutes in China since 1984, in the broad subject areas in arts, humanities and social sciences, including art, literature, language, history, philosophy, military affairs, law, education, economics and management. Coverage of dissertations and theses from top universities and research institutes, including "985 Project" and "211 Project" universities and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is almost complete.
China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database (Pi Shu)
The database contains white papers "pi shu" written by key think tanks and academic institutions in China. Pi shu address a comprehensive breadth of issues surrounding the development and governance of modern day China including trade, the environment, military development, and economic growth. The contents of the database fall into the following thematic categories: China Society and Culture; China Economic Development; China Regional Analysis (Provincial, Municipal, and Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan); China Industrial Sectors; Global Economy, Politics, Security. All pi shu volumes are aggregated from 1996 to present as a full-text, full-image database.
China Geo-Explorer
China Geo Explorer is an intelligence spatial data service. It offers China demographic and economic data, maps, charts and reports in the web-based delivery system. With this spatial intelligence, users are able to make rapid, accurate spatial decisions with greater confidence for regional planning, business investment, population, housing, environmental assessment, public health and many other spatial applications. Data sources in this database includes demographic and business information for all PRC geographies, including 31 Provinces, 345 Prefecture Cities, 2,873 Counties, and over 50,000 Townships.
China Masters Theses (中国优秀硕士学位论文全文数据库)
China Proceedings of Conferences Database (中国重要会议论文全文数据库)
China Proceedings of Conference Full-text Database collects proceedings of domestic and international conferences sponsored by societies, associations, universities and institutions, and governments of the first and second levels in China.
China Statistical Yearbooks Database
A full-text searchable database consisting of 847 titles with 5740 volumes of statistical yearbooks published in China. Database features include keyword data search, data analysis, and browse by category and title. In English & Chinese.
Chinamaxx Digital Libraries (超星中文电子书)
ChinaMaxx contains full-text Chinese e-books from cover to cover on the subject areas of China economy, politics, military affairs, international relations, security and social studies.
Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Departmentâs Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
Comprehensive documentation examines the political background of the civil war, the failed efforts of American mediation, and the ramifications of Communist victory.
Chinese Cultural Revolution Database
Original documents including CCP notices, instructions, proclamations, speeches and major media commentaries.
Chinese Literature and History Database (Zhongguo wen shi zi liao ji cui)
This is an important primary source for scholars of twentieth-century China. The Chinese Literature and History database 中国文史资料集粹 contains full texts of more than 20,000 volumes (650,000 articles) of publications arranged by regions and provinces. The articles are mostly first-person narratives on history, culture, politics, economy, literature and ethnicity among other themes.
Chosŏn ilbo akʻaibŭ
Full-text, keyword searchable PDF's of this major Korean newspaper from 1920 to the present
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle's online version features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Churchill Archive
The papers of Winston S. Churchill comprising more than 80,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, and including Churchill's official and personal correspondence. The database replicates the Churchill Papers on deposit at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text offers authoritative coverage of nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.
CiNii (サイニィ)
Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, CiNii (pronounced like "sigh-knee"), enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic journals, university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. Access to full text documents is possible with 3.2 million of the 12 million articles currently available.
CIS/Baltic periodicals
Includes a number of authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union and the Baltics, both in Russian and in English.
Civil Engineering Database
Indexes all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers, including books and conference proceedings as well as journals. Includes links to full text articles from those ASCE journals that GWU subscribes to.
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Full text of articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Major events described in detail by both Union and Confederate papers, so their opposing perspectives are readily available.
Claritas Segmentation & Market Solutions
(Formerly Local Market Audience Analyst.) Provides sophisticated demographic, segmentation, and targeting data for media planners and consumer marketers. The link will take you to the Kanter Media/SRDS home page. Once there, select Nielsen Segmentation & Market Solutions from the list of services to the left.
Classical Music Library
Fully searchable classical music resource including tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to online. Audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Selections range from Gregorian chants to works by modern composers including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms. Content is published under licensing agreements with more than 30 music labels, including major labels and independents.
ClimateWire
Monitors information on all matters related to climate change and its effects on business, the environment and society.
ClinicalKey
Clinical information tool searches extensive full-text holdings for clinical answers in journal articles, books, and videos. Searchable by keyword as well as disease, finding, procedure or drug.
ClinicalKey for Nursing
Nursing clinical knowledge system provides full-text online access to evidence-based nursing monographs, textbooks, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, clinical updates, and patient education materials.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of evidence-based medicine databases, providing independent up-to-date, high-quality evidence to inform decision-making in health care. Includes systematic reviews, controlled trials, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and methods.
Colonial State Papers
Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Access to scholarly materials related to international affairs, including working papers, conference proceedings, journal articles, case studies, and other resources.
CommonWealth Knowledge Bank
Commonwealth Magazine is a storehouse of information on Taiwan's economic development and the transformation of its society. This electronic journal includes over 310 issues, from the first issue in 1981 through the current issue.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Covers magazines and scholarly journals in the fields of mass media and communication studies. Combines the resources formerly known as CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
Compendex
Available through Engineering Village. Covers engineering journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. Areas covered include chemical and process engineering; computers and data processing; applied physics; electronics and communications; and civil, mechanical and materials engineering.
Compustat
This sophisticated database provides a detailed financial data (but no text) on thousands of companies with publicly traded stock, world-wide. George Washington University faculty members and graduate students may set up free individual Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) accounts by going to http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu. George Washington University faculty members may also set up free accounts for their classes.
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Congressional Research Reports
Provides access to research reports on a wide variety of public policy issues prepared by the Congressional Research Service for members of Congress.
Contemporary World Music
Allows searching and browsing of over 50,000 tracks by instrument, country, region, artist, genre, recording label, and other categories. Search, click, and listen to 50,000 tracks of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. There is also traditional music, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. The albums' original liner notes are included.
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1
With content filmed from 1985 to 2010, this database provides a firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. Volume I features 400 hours of training video.
CPC History Database (党史数据库)
This database covers over ten thousand periodicals of 200 kinds established and participated in by Chinese Communist Party before 1949.
CQ Federal
Formerly called CQ.com on Congress, this database provides extensive coverage of the activities of both Houses of Congress, including Committees. Includes daily articles and reports analyzing Congressional activity, as well as member profiles, the text of bills, schedules and agendas, committee reports and testimony, and more. Simultaneous users: 30 (across all CQ.com products)
CQ Health
Formerly known as CQ HealthBeat, this online news service tracks issues, events and individuals related to U.S. national health care policy. Simultaneous users: 30
CQ Historic Documents
Presently contains 32 annual volumes of primary sources, each volume with approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. Documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions, to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
CQ Magazine
Formerly known as CQ Weekly, a weekly review of events in Congress.
CQ Political Moneyline
Formerly PoliticalMoneyLine, CQ MoneyLine contains data from the past 25 years on money in politics. Users can: * Track contributions from PACs, individual donors and politicians to elected officials, candidates and party committees. * Find out which industry sectors raise and distribute the most, and where the dollars are going. * Follow the flow of soft money through 527 groups. * Retrieve information on thousands of lobbyists, indexed by client and issue. Simultaneous Users: 30
CQ Press Library
Provides information on historical and current issues in American politics and government, including: Political Handbook of the World; Washington Information Directory; Guides to Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Presidency, U.S. Elections and Political Campaigns; Historic Documents (1972-2017); Vital Statistics on American Politics; and Supreme Court Yearbook.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher Online features original, comprehensive reporting and balanced analysis on issues of major political import. CQ Researcher is a particularly good source of bibliographies on current topics.
CQ Vital Statistics on American Politics
Covers a wide range of topics in American politics, such as elections, Congress, the presidency, the judiciary, the media, campaign finances, policy, and a variety of issues related to state and local government. Includes rankings of public officials' reputations, content analyses of media coverage, and public opinion data about policy issues. Sources of material include reference volumes, government publications, political science journals, monographs, and press releases.
CQ Voting and Elections
CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates data, analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide research material on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
Criminal Justice Periodicals
Covers criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, forensic sciences, and criminal and family law.
Critical Collective
Critical Collective is an initiative by art curator and critic Gayatri Sinha. Critical Collective works towards building knowledge in the arts in India. This website is intended to fill in the lacuna caused by an absence of publishing in the arts, a lack of reprints and a shortage of institutional infrastructure to support knowledge in the domain of the arts.
Cross-National Time-Series (CNTS) Data Archive
The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive offers annual data for a range of countries from 1815 to the present, organized in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. The data includes over 200 economic, social and political variables for over 200 countries.
CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) (WRDS)
Provides security price return and volume data as well as stock indices, beta-based and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk free rates, mutual funds information, and real estate data. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Crystallography Journals Online
Our subscription includes access Acta Crystallographica Sections A-F: A: Foundations of Crystallography B: Structural Science C: Crystal Structure Communications D: Biological Crystallography E: Structure Reports Online F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Cultural Imaginings: The Making of the Arab World in the Western Mind
About 2,500 monographic volumes and a number of bound manuscripts from the Middle East and North Africa will eventually be part of this database.
Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect® is a current awareness database that provides easy Web access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals, as well as from more than 7,000 relevant, evaluated websites.
Current Digest of the Russian Press
The Current Digest of the Russian Press (formerly Current Digest of the Soviet Press and Post-Soviet Press) was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
CUSIP (WRDS)
The CUSIP Service Bureau (operated by Standard & Poor's for the American Bankers Association) uniquely identifies issuers and issues of financial instruments within a standard framework, and disseminates this data to the financial marketplace. The CUSIP Master Files provide CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal and government securities offered in North America. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
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DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
Covers articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals. Disciplines surveyed include graphic design, fashion and clothing, furniture, interior design, architecture, web design, computer-aided design, garden design, and more.
Dacheng pre-1949 journals full-text database (大成 老旧刊全文数据库)
Consists of approximately 7,000 Chinese periodicals published from 1830 to 1949 in all fields of knowledge as well as popular journals. A unique and valuable source for the studies of Chinese politics, history, culture, society, philosophy, literature and arts in that period.
Data Citation Index
Data Citation Index indexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets.
Data USA
Visualization of US public data. Topics include: demographic, economic, education, occupation and geographic. Users may download tables via the API tool.
Data.gov
DATA.GOV provides public access to datasets generated by United States federal agencies with searchable "raw data," tool, and geodata catalogs.
Database of Korean Historical Culture Research
A database of excavation reports and full-text articles in history, archeology, anthropology, literature and folklore, in 3,000 volumes from 76 organizations.
Database of the Chinese Government
This database includes archives and publications of the Chinese central government, its ministries and subsidiaries, and regional authorities. Simultaneous Users: 2
Database of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议资料库)
The CPPCC Database is a collection of archives and documents of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), including: Resolutions and Statements, Pictures, Press Conferences, Important Commentaries, Representatives Lists, Agendas, Session Updates, Reports, Leaders' Activities, Selected Proposals and Suggestions from Representatives, News Reports, Video Reports, etc. Simultaneous Users: 2
Database of the Communist Party of China
This database contains archives and publications of the Communist Party since its establishment in 1921.
Database of the National People's Congress
NPC Database is a collection of reports, primarily by Peopleâs Daily and Peopleâs Daily Online, on National Peopleâs Congress, from the 1st Session of 1st NPC to the 3rd Session of the 10th NPC. Simultaneous Users: 2
Declassified Documents Reference System
Provides access to declassified U.S. government documents drawn from Presidential libraries.
Derwent Innovations Index
Index for 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities.
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources. Mostly intended for professional researchers, but also accessible to beginners and casual users.
Direction of Trade Statistics
Presents, for most member countries of the International Monetary Fund, current figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports disaggregated according to their most important trading partners. Data is available from 1980 onwards for annuals/quarters and months. Area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world are presented as well. Simultaneous users: 5
Directory of Open Access Journals
Dissertations and Theses Online
Contains information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities. Includes citations ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to ones accepted as recently as last semester. Of over 1.5 million titles listed, Proquest offers over a million in full text. For these titles, the citation includes the Proquest order number.
DMEF Academic Data (WRDS)
DMEF (Direct Marketing Education Foundation) provides four data sets, each containing customer buying history for about 100,000 customers of nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses, to approved academic researchers for use within academic situations. Corporate names and customer names/addresses have been removed, but the business type is indicated and ZIP codes have been retained (if possible) to provide a potential link to Census ZIP level demographics. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Dong-A Ilbo and Archive
Dow Jones Averages & Total Return Indexes (WRDS)
Provides daily and monthly averages and returns. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
DSM Library (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Library)
Search and browse the new DSM-5 (2013), the standard diagnostic tools used by mental health professionals worldwide for research, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Also includes the Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and Clinical Cases.
Duke University Press Journals
A collection of nearly 40 online journals provided by Duke University Press, primarily in the arts and humanities.
Duxiu (读秀)
Provides information about and, in many cases, full-text searching and / or limited views (up to about 20 pages) of 2,600,000 Chinese books. A useful tool for discovering bibliographic information; for locating particular search terms within a text; and for getting a preview of a text. Works best on Internet Explorer.
DynaMed Plus
Point-of-care information resource includes drug and disease information.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in America from 1639-1800. Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans (14 vols., 1903-34, 1955-59); and subsequent bibliographic works by Roger Bristol, James Mooney and Clifford Shipton. Includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America in the early part of the 19th century. Based on the noted “American Bibliography, 1801-1819” by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, offers more than four million pages from over 36,000 items. Complements Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.
Early American Newspapers
This database features images and full-text from newspapers across the country. While assembling the original collection, Readex focused its publishing efforts on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, concentrating primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820.
Early English Books I (Pollard and Redgrave, STC I), 1475-1640
Early English Books II (Wing, STC II), 1641-1700
Early English Books Thomason Tracts
Early English Books Tract Supplement
EBL (Ebooks)
Now part of Ebook Central.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.
Ebrary
EBSCO eBooks
Multidisciplinary collection of ebook titles from a range of disciplines. Instructions on downloading and more.
EconLit
Premier source for economic literature in scholarly journals (including book reviews), books, dissertations, and working papers. Covers accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more. Published by the American Economic Association.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Provides political, economic, and business information on countries. Generally, the best way to use the database is to select country report under My Reports and Services and then select the country from the list that is then displayed.
Education Source
Includes Education Abstracts and Education Index back to 1929, with full text for 1,700+ journals, 550 books and monographs, and education-related conference papers, plus citations for over 4 million articles and book reviews. Coverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.
EEBO Early English Books Online
EEBO contains over 100,000 books published in English since 1475. Based on Pollard & Redgrave's "Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640)" and Wing's "Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700)," plus revised editions and supplements. Subjects covered include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, math, and science. Update: Texts continue to be added to the online version as they are scanned from the microfilm.
EEBO TCP (Text Creation Partnership)
Contains some searchable and readable editions of Early English Books (texts published in English since 1475). Based on Pollard & Redgrave's "Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640)" and Wing's "Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700)," plus revised editions and supplements. Subjects covered include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, math, and science. For more non-searchable full text of Early English Books, see EEBO.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online: Law
A searchable, full-text database of English-language works published between 1701 and 1800 relating to the development of law in the British Empire. Topics include acts, criminal and international law, appellantsâ cases, and more.
Electrochemical Society Digital Library
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Digital Library provides full-text articles from the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and other ECS journals.
Emerald Library
Full-text articles from management journals. Note that current content is not being added to this database.
Empire Online
Database will contain, when complete, over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed documents, enabling researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. Section I (now available) examines cultural contacts throughout five centuries of Empire, from Columbus to decolonization. It draws upon sources such as diaries and eyewitness accounts of European travelers, correspondence and periodical literature.
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Online version of the 22 volume, 2nd edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (2006). Covers all aspects of Jewish life, culture, history and religion.
Encyclopaedia of Islam First Edition 1913-1936
The Encyclopaedia of Islam First Edition was originally published between 1913 and 1936. The demand for an encyclopaedic work on Islam was created by the increasing (colonial) interest in Muslims and Islamic cultures during the nineteenth century. The scope of this still unique reference work is philology, history, theology and law until early 20th century. Such famous scholars as Houtsma, Wensinck, Gibb, Snouck Hurgronje, and Lévi-Provençal were involved in this scholarly endeavour.
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online
The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is an authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. Includes access to the First, Second and Third Editions, the Second Edition Glossary, and the Historical Atlas of Islam.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Mobile version available. Contains the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. Also includes an Internet directory with more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press with the sponsorship of the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives both American and within the global American Studies movement.
Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It covers pre-Classical, Classical, Modern Standard, vernaculars and mixed varieties of Arabic.
Encyclopedia of Associations
The Encyclopedia of Associations provides information on United States and international businesses. Entries provide the names of directors, executive officers or other personal contacts; contact information, websites and bulletin boards; the group's history, governance, staff, membership, budget and affiliations; goals and activities, including research, awards, certification, education, lobbying and other important activities; and publication and convention information.
Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (Second Edition)
An interdisciplinary collection of article covering forensic activities, with an emphasis on the analysis of evidence, forensic investigation and the interpretation and presentation of analytical findings.
Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions.
Encyclopedia of Social Work
The Encyclopedia of Social Work contains about 400 subject entries and 200 brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work, plus a comprehensive index and topical outline. Each article is fully cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide readers to primary sources and important scholarly works on a given subject. Includes new areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 edition, including technology, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, and more.
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a reference work reflecting research on gender studies and the Islamic world. Useful for researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
EnergyWire
Offers expansive coverage of developments in the energy sector, focusing on fossil fuels and related issues such as cybersecurity, technology, market conditions, government regulations, and environmental concerns.
Engineering Village
Database platform that links to materials in physics, engineering and related fields. Provides access to the databases Compendex, Inspec and GEOBASE, which can be searched separately or together. NOTE: For the FindIt button to work, you must allow the computer to access pop-ups when asked. Also IE 8 is no longer supported for this database.
English Short Title Catalogue
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) indexes English or English-language letterpress materials published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English from 1473-1800, including Pollard and Redgrave (1473-1640), Wing (1640-1700), Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, and Evans' Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800). Materials indexed in ESTC may be available in Early English Books Online or Literature Online, or in the microform STC collection on Gelman's third floor.
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database (EPA)
Provides information about Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) prepared by federal agencies, as well as EPA's comments concerning the EISs. Includes records of all EISs since 1987, and full text of all since 2012.
Environmental Impact Statements (ProQuest)
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that U.S. federal agencies or anyone receiving federal funding prepare detailed analyses of any of their actions that significantly affect the quality of the environment. Abstracts available back to 1985; the full-text, including maps and SIS, is available for statements issued in and since 2003.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Index and abstracts, with some full-text included. The premier bibliographic database covering the literature on education. Covers both journal articles and unpublished research documents. Updates: Ongoing
ERIC.gov
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
Erudit
Erudit (Freely Accessible)
Essential Evidence Plus
Concise, point-of-care information summaries for more than 700 common diseases, conditions, and procedures. Also includes 3,000 calculators and tools, Cochrane abstracts, Daily POEMs e-mail alerts and 3,000 Archived POEMs, EBM Guidelines, visual dermatology differential diagnosis tool, and ICD-9 codes
Essential Science Indicators
A compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data.
Eurasia Atlantic (Reference Corporation World Areas Studies)
Provides intensive area coverage (especially for economic development, investment, trade and technological industries) for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and lesser coverage to Western Europe. The database provides unusual historical depth for Soviet and WWII history, including diplomatic/historical documentation such as diplomatic papers and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in fulltext.
Europa World Plus
Provides detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, statistical and directory data available for over 250 countries and territories. This resource also provides analytical essays on the following regions: Africa South of the Sahara Central and South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, The Far East and Australasia, The Middle East and North Africa, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, South Asia, The USA and Canada, and Western Europe.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Indexing of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. Among subjects covered are natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and slavery. Based on "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750," the recognized authoritative bibliography on the subject.
Eventus (WRDS)
Performs event studies using data from CRSP stock databases or other sources. It includes utility programs to convert calendar dates to CRSP trading day numbers, convert CUSIP identifiers to CRSP permanent identification numbers, and extract event study cumulative or compounded abnormal returns for cross-sectional analysis. WRDS has created several queries that allow the user to execute different programs without needing to know Eventus syntax. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Evolutionary Ecology Research
A professional scientific journal focusing on the overlap between ecology and evolution.
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Factiva
Source for global news, and business, financial, and company information, providing access to thousands of newspapers and other publications. Stock quotes are also available. Simultaneous users: 6
Fama-French & Liquidity Factors (WRDS)
The Fama-French Portfolios are constructed from the intersections of two portfolios formed on size, as measured by market equity (ME), and three portfolios using the ratio of book equity to market equity (BE/ME) as a proxy for value. Returns from these portfolios are used to construct the Fama-French Factors. Eugene Fama and Kenneth French showed that their factors capture a statistically significant fraction of the variation in stock returns. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (1941-1996)
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was a United States government operation which translated the text of daily broadcasts, government statements, and select news stories from non-English sources. Succeeded by World News Connection after 1996; scope of coverage may be significantly different.
FDA Compliance Expert
Information and tools to conduct quality clinical trials of new drugs, devices and biologics. Provides explanations of laws, federal regulations and international harmonization efforts and analysis of accepted good clinical practices. Also provides news and analysis on key developments in conducting clinical research, and access to clinlaw, an online database of state and federal clinical trial requirements.
FDsys - Government Publications
GPO's official system of record for online Government information. Replaces GPO Access.
Fieser and Fiesers Reagents for Organic Synthesis
This resource features an A to Z listing of all reagents cited in synthetic literature with concise descriptions and illustrations of chemical reactions. All information about a particular reagent is collected in one single article. Entries abstract the most important information on commonly used and new reagents, including preparation, uses, sources of supply, critical comments, references and more.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
A database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing, designed for diverse users including film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books. It also includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
Films on Demand
Films on Demand is a streaming video platform for educational content from the Films Media Group. Films are provided as Flash Video streams, with Windows Media and QuickTime also available for most titles.
Financial Times (FT.com)
Must use GWU VPN for off-campus access. FT.com will require you to set up an account with your gwu.edu email address. Contains articles from this leading British business newspaper back eight years.
FIRSTConsult
An electronic evidence-based point-of-care information system. Differential Diagnosis files allow users to evaluate patients' presenting signs and generate lists of possible diagnoses by clinical benchmarks, age and prognosis. Medical Condition files provide condition-specific information on patient evaluation, treatment, tests and prevention. Patient Education files provide consumer-level information, including therapeutic guidelines and general information, in English and Spanish.
Foreign Exchange Rates (Federal Reserve Board's H.10 Report) (WRDS)
Provides rates for over thirty world currencies and trade-weighted indices. WRDS carries all of these FX rates in currency units per U.S. dollar (e.g. yen/$), and a few are also available in "inverted form" (e.g. $/pound). Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Foreign Law Guide
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
Offers a significant collection of British diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles addressing the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia. Commercial interests are also scrutinized, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations’ economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.
Foreign Policy
Online complement to Foreign Policy magazine, a leading publication on international relations, including a link to the print publication. Users accessing this title should use the GW VPN (https://it.gwu.edu/vpn)
FORENSICnetBASE
Access to all CRC Press forensic sciences books. (NOTE: These books are now provided by Taylor and Francis.) Print editions may also be available in the library catalog: http://catalog.library.gwu.edu
Foundation Directory Online
Foundation Directory Online contains information on over 120,000 grant makers plus 20,000 grantmaking public charities and 4000+ companies.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Gale Encyclopedia of American Law (3rd ed.)
Covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important documents. Includes topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library consists of hundreds of reference titles ranging across the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and business. The titles are individually listed in the catalog but can be searched here as a group.
Gallup Analytics
Contains two sets of polling information: the Gallup Poll Social Series,
public opinion surveys on social, economic, and political topics accessible
to all users, and the U.S. Tracker and World Poll providing, respectively,
U.S. public opinion datasets at the country, state and U.S. city respondent
levels, and international public opinion datasets. Note: Dataset access is
restricted to GW students, faculty, and staff. Interested users should
contact either Megan Pottersbusch, mpotterbusch@gwu.edu, or David Ettinger,
dettingr@gwu.edu.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has more than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world.
Gartner Research
Access to selected content via myGW portal. Log into myGW and then click on the link to Gartner in the Tool & Resources box. Provides research on the business of information technology.
Gender Studies Database
Gender-related scholarship inside and outside academia, combining Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies and relevant contributions from the Child Development and Adolescent Studies and Family and Society Studies Worldwide databases.
GEOBASE
Available through Engineering Village. GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.
GeoRef (ProQuest)
Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. Covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.
Global Breaking Newswires
Access to global newswire content that may not be captured by traditional print or online sources.
Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
Global Economic Monitor (GEM) provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency data that is refreshed daily. It provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts and access to the iSimulate modeling platform.
Global Health
Encompassing the Public Health and Tropical Medicine database and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS, Global Health covers communicable, tropical, and parasitic diseases, and parasitology-medical entomology, human nutrition, community and public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants.
Global Newsstream
Full text access to over 2,500 U.S., Canadian and international newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites.
Global Plants
This database draws its content from community based users, like that of Wikipedia, but also provides a unique opportunity for its users to connect for online discussions. The content ranges from a body of over 160,000 reference works, 20,000+ high resolution images of plant specimens / herbaria with examples of over 2 million plant specimens stretching over a geographic area of over 70 countries.
Google Magazines
Google Magazines. Google has scanned a number of full-image magazines cover to cover (with original ads) which they make available at no charge. This includes full color images from Life Magazine. Often limited years are available.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes scholarly publications in a variety of fields.
Grant Forward
Grant Forward (formerly called IRIS, the Illinois Researcher Information Service) contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, Grant Forward also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most records contain live links to sponsor Web sites or portals. It also displays upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas.
GreenFILE
Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Greenfile provides abstracts and indexing to over 600 journal titles, drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Some full text is included.
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HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly: 1857-1877)
Searchable page images from Harper's Weekly magazine for 1857-1877, the Civil War era through Reconstruction.
Harrison's Online
Includes the complete text and illustrations from Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
Health Policy Reference Center
HeinOnline
HeinOnline consists of four major library collections that are image based and fully searchable: the Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, and U.S. Supreme Court Library. There are also minor libraries like Legal Classics that includes historic legal treatises or the U.S. Attorney General Opinions collection.
HeinOnline: Animal Studies: Law, Welfare, and Rights
This database is a collection of philosophical books, videos, journals, brochures, etc. from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute with a focus on foundational laws pertaining to animals and the evolution of animal rights.
HERO: Health & Environmental Research Online
HERO contains the key studies EPA uses to develop environmental risk assessments for the public. EPA uses risk assessments to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and the ecosystem from pollutants and chemicals in the environment. You can browse through the bibliographic references in HERO by topic or assessment, or search for articles by author, title, etc
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
HAPI is a multi-subject index to periodical literature on Latin America and on Hispanics in the United States.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, provides full text for more than 349 journals and more than 120 books.
Historical Annual Reports
Over 800 companies' annual reports available through searchable pdf images. The collection includes digital reproductions of over 1.3 million pages found in more than 43,000 reports. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date.
Historical Newspapers
Search all historical newspapers from ProQuest: The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Baltimore Sun (1837-1991), Chicago Defender (1909-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1993), Los Angeles Times (1881-1993), The New York Times (1851-2013), The New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962), and The Washington Post (1877-2000).
Historical Statistics of the United States
Contains over 37,000 statistical time series from the earliest dates of United States history to most recent available at the time of publication in 2006.
History of Afghanistan
The Siraj al-tawarikh is the most important history of Afghanistan ever written. The roots of much of the fabric of Afghanistan's society today - tribe and state relations, the rule of law, gender issues, and the economy - are elegantly and minutely detailed in this immense work.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Integrates four bibliographies to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology, and medicine. It reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present. Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations and other materials.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
The Homeland Digital Security Library compiles documents relevant to homeland security policy and related national strategy. Information in the HDSL comes from federal, state and local agencies, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. Includes documents created since 2002, plus some earlier documents relevant to current initiatives. Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Grants & Training and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense & Security.
Hoover's Company Records
Proprietary information on more than 40,000 public and non-public companies.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
The Parliamentary Papers are the most detailed primary source for Nineteenth Century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy. This comprehensive digital collection includes all 79,000 papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-1900. Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.
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IBES Academic (WRDS)
Provides both summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
ICLR Online
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) provides this online platform for authoritative case law from 1865 to the present. Contains Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports, Business Law Reports, Industrial Cases Reports, and Public & Third Sector Law Reports.
ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
This resource includes both publicly available and non-publicly available datasets on public policy and social science research. Users must create an account and log in to access data.
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
Mobile version available. Access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics, including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE Standards.
Index Islamicus
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. (With links to full-text where available.)
Index of Medieval Art
A thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval objects from early apostolic times to 1550 A.D. Includes primarily Christian iconography, although some Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects are covered. Entries include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership, bibliographical references, and a photograph of the work of art when available. The Index is property of Princeton University, and users must credit the index in publications arising from research for which the Index was used. NOTE: In a search results screen, click on an entry number to see its full view.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)
Multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide. Coverage 1960-present.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
An index of English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories on Jewish history, thought and activity from more than 160 journals on Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
Indexes over 750 publications. Includes law journals, annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, and annual reviews of works in a given field or topic.
Index Translationum
The Index Translationum, begun in 1932, is an international bibliography of book translations.
India - Economic Outlook (CMIE)
Users must create a login user name and password for access to database. Provides macro-economic forecasts and insights on India as well as real-time analysis of data releases and copious time-series data. Published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
Indiastat.com
Click on "IP Login" to connect. Off-campus users should click "IP Login" and then return to this page and click on Indiastat again. Indiastat.com is a gateway to comprehensive and authentic socio-economic information related to India. It includes data on subjects and areas such as agriculture, education, tourism, health and industry. Simultaneous users: 1.
Industry and Economy Journal Database (產經期刊全文資料庫)
Contains 10 periodicals and reports published in Taiwan, including Taiwan Economic Research Monthly, Annual Survey on Economic Trends, APEC Newsletter and Research Reports. The database features domestic and overseas economic situation and trends, in-depth analyses on substantial industrial and economic issues, and informative research reports.
Inspec
Available through Engineering Village. Inspec® covers articles and papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. Included in the INSPEC Database is the INSPEC Archives, provides citation/abstracts from 1898 to 1968. The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) produces and maintains the database.
INSPIRE
Next-generation High Energy Physics (HEP) information system including journal articles, preprints, technical reports, conference papers and more. INSPIRE is run by a collaboration of CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC.
IntelliConnect
A unified search platform providing access to CCH's content for tax and legal research. For off-campus access, please log into GWU's VPN (see https://it.gwu.edu/vpn for details).
Intelligence Online
This database compiles news about corporate and government intelligence in France, Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.
Interest Rates (Federal Reserve Board's H. 15 Report) (WRDS)
Provides selected interest rates for U.S. Treasuries and private money market and capital market instruments. All rates are reported in annual terms. Daily figures are for Business days and Monthly figures are averages of Business days unless otherwise noted. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art. Now published by ProQuest, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). It includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-9 as part of BHA, with ProQuest adding 25,000 new records yearly to maintain unbroken coverage. Subjects include fine art in all media; archaeology; museum studies and conservation; and more.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
A comprehensive multicultural and interdisciplinary research tool for theater students, educators and professionals. Indexes over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. Full text provided from over 100 of the journals indexed and for more than 100 of the books.
International Debt Statistics
International Debt Statistics (formerly titled Global Development Finance) focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing and advanced economies. Data is from the Quarterly External Debt Statistics and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases.
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. Editorial areas include: communication theory and philosophy, interpersonal communication, journalism, intercultural and intergroup communication, media effects, strategic communication, public relations and advertising, communication and media law and policy, media systems in the world, and communication and technology.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition)
26-volume second edition with 3,900+ chapters providing broad, deep interdisciplinary knowledge and comprising all areas of the social and behavioral sciences.
International Financial Statistics Online
Standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. Users must create an account and log in to access data. Simultaneous users: 5
International Newsstream
Current and archival content from over 800 of the world's top news sources such as The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series.
International Political Science Abstracts
Current indexing and abstracting of the world's leading journals in political science. Simultaneous users: 8
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
Full-text periodicals, news, reports, books, and proprietary background information summaries relating to terrorism and security. Combines deep background from scholarly sources with expert commentary from a range of organizations, agencies, and publishers and reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social, and technical spectrum.
Investext (ThomsonOne.com)
Investext (ThomsonOne.com) provides the full text of stock brokerage reports on individual companies and on industries. IMPORTANT NOTE: This database requires Internet Explorer 9 or 10. If using IE 10, you must turn on Compatibility Mode in the Tools menu (alt-T).
IOP Publishing AAS Journals
IOP Publishing Historic Journals Archive
IOPscience platform
iPoll (Roper Center)
Archive of US nationwide public opinion data including downloadable datasets. Users must create an account and log in to download raw data.
IPUMS
Provides demographic data resources including IPUMS-USA from back to 1850, IPUMS-International from 1960, Current Population Surveys every March from 1960, National Health Interview Series from the 1960s, American Time Use Survey-X, National Historical Geographical Information System and North Atlantic Population project. Users must create an account and log in to access data.
Iraq administration reports, 1914-1932
This Cambridge Archive Editions title is a comprehensive series of British administration reports for Mesopotamia (Iraq) from the outset of World War I up to the independence of Iraq.
IRJ (Information Resources, Inc.) Marketing Fact Book (WRDS)
Contains data on grocery store purchases from a representative sample of static qualifying U.S. panelist households to help make intelligent inferences for strategic planning and decision making. These purchases are continuously tracked across all UPC-coded brand-items in all categories. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Israel political & economic reports, 1948-1953 : Israel under the premiershop of David Ben Gurion, 1948-1953
These are the collected British government political and economic reports on the State of Israel from its creation in May 1948 to the end of the first Premiership of David Ben Gurion during the first 5 years of the Israeli State, throughout the War of Independence, the first wave of immigration, the implementation of mass settlement, development projects and the signing of a reparations agreement with Germany.
ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services, formerly RiskMetrics) (WRDS)
Contains corporate governance data. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
ISSM (Institute for the Study of Security Markets) (WRDS)
Contains tick-by-tick data covering the NYSE and AMEX between 1983 and 1992, and NASDAQ between 1987 and 1992. Each year of data is divided into two files, one for trades and one for quotes. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
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Japan Knowledge (ジャパンナレッジ)
Japan Knowledge is one of the largest collections of resources about Japan. It provides access to various reference sources including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (Illustrated), English-Japanese dictionaries and full text books. Simultaneous Users: 1
Japan Times Digital Archive
Searchable full-image archive of this English-language newspaper published in Japan from its inception in 1897 through 2016.
Jazz Music Library (United States)
Jazz Music Library is a collection of jazz recordings available online - covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres, from all over the world, from the beginnings of jazz to today. It's an excellent resource for the study and teaching of jazz history, performance, theory, or appreciation.
JFK's Foreign Affairs and International Crises, 1961-1963
This collection provides insights into President Kennedy's views on foreign affairs, U.S. leadership of the "West," and various worldwide crises. There are documents on the Bay of Pigs and Cuba, Berlin, American efforts to support Third World countries, balance of payments and foreign trade, Alliance for Progress and Latin American relations, nuclear weapons and testing, NATO and the Multilateral Force in Europe, Southeast Asia and regional security, and much more.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually. It includes almost 300 alphabetically arranged entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Journal Citation Reports
A compilation of articles' cited references to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and to show the relationship between citing and cited journals.
Journals@Ovid
Full-text access to over 45 core biomedical journals. Access to the table of contents and abstracts only for additional scientific, technical, and medical journals.
JPRS (Joint Publications Research Service) Reports
The Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) was a translation and publishing service created in the U.S. Commerce Departmentâs Office of Technical Services in 1957 to provide government agencies with translations of unclassified foreign source documents, including scientific and technical reports, scholarly journals, trade and commercial statistics, defense reports, and more. Succeeded by World News Connection in 1996; scope of coverage may be significantly different.
JSTOR
Back issues of core scholarly journals in subjects including African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Includes free Early-Journal Content, journals published before 1923 in the U.S. and before 1870 outside of the U.S.
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Kanopy Streaming Video
Thousands of full-length streaming videos including documentary, eductional, art, and popular films.
Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries (朝日新聞オンライン記事データべース)
Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
This resource presents articles on chemical substancesâincluding their properties, manufacturing, and uses, industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, and fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.
KLD Research (now MSCI) (WRDS)
Provides information on corporate social responsibility. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Knovel Civil Engineering & Construction Materials Library (must use VPN for Off-Campus Access)
Contains reference material on Civil Engineering and Construction Materials.
Knovel ebooks
Reference sources on engineering, biology, biochemistry, and biotechnology.
Knovel Electrical & Power Engineering Library
Contains reference material on Electrical and Power Engineering.Contains reference material on Electrical and Power Engineering.
Knovel Electronics & Semiconductors Library
Contains reference material on electronics and semiconductors.
Knovel General Engineering & Engineering Management
Knovel Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering Library
Includes reference material on general engineering and engineering management.
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
Authoritative English language encyclopedia of Japanese history, culture and society. Access is via Japan Knowledge database.
Kokushi Daijiten (国史大辞典)
Accessible through the JapanKnowledge site, Kokushi Daijiten is one of the largest encyclopedias of Japanese history. It encompasses every aspect of Japan's history, including entries in related fields such as archaeology, folklore, religion, art, Japanese language and literature, and geography. Users can search among the main entries (about 54,000 entries) as well as subentries (about 4,000 entries carefully chosen from subentries of all levels), or search by articles' references or authors.
KoreaA2Z
Includes selected full-text publications including encyclopedias and, dictionaries and primary documents on Korean history, art and culture, and access to the digital arts and culture lecture series.
Korean Citation Index
Contains more that 2,300 journals and over one million articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Includes Korean and English abstracts.
Korean Studies Digital Culture and Art Courses
Lectures presented by well-known Korean scholars and specialists on architecture, literature, culture, art, cinema, music, and philosophy. The continuing education lecture series contains a wide variety of video casts on each topic. (Part of KoreaA2Z.)
Korean Studies Electronic Journal Service--DBpia
Databases includes approximately 2,300 Korean scholarly journals. All the journal titles are divided into 10 subject categories, and all the back issues of each journal title are available. Keyword searchable.
Korean Studies History Culture Series
A multimedia database dedicated to Korean history and culture. The database includes 17 titles covering subjects such as archeology, Korean history, and art history.
Korean Studies Information Service System (KISS)
Full text database of Korean scholarly journal articles, university publications and research papers published by over 1,200 research institutions in Korea. The database covers a wide range of subjects, including languages, history, philosophy, literature, education, sociology, business/economics, law, science, mathematics, agriculture, engineering, medical science, arts, and physical education.
Korean Studies Knowledge Reference Service--KRpia
Keyword-searchable database of primary sources in Korean history, literature, medicine and philosophy. The database is also keyword searchable, and includes image files of original texts in classical Chinese with a searchable translated version in Korean.
Korean Studies LawnB's Legal Information Service
A database of South Korean legal materials including law information, judicial precedent, administration data, lawyer and law firm information, etc.
KSI eBook (Database from Korea)
Provides 4,500 full-text e-books including academic monographs, dissertations and theses in PDF format, covering subjects throughout the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
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Latin America & Iberia Database
Full text academic journals published by scholarly organizations and educational institutions in Latin America.
Latin American Newsletters
The Latin Intelligence Service (LIS) provides a premier comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, covering political, security, economic and strategic issues. The database includes Latin American Weekly Report. Simultaneous users limited to 10.
Leadership Connect
Leadership Connect, formerly Leadership Directories, provides contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.
LearnTechLib
Online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in Learning and Technology.
Legal Source
Information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Includes international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. International coverage includes periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Legislative Insight
Federal legislative history service providing full-text digital access to Congressional publications created during the legislative process leading up to the enactment of a U.S. Public Law.
Leisure & Tourism eBooks
Contains a collection of ebooks on leisure, tourism, and hospitality.
Leisure Tourism Database
The online version of Leisure, Recreation, & Tourism Abstracts. Covers worldwide research on and strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services. Comprises over 50,000 bibliographic references originally published in Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts.
Lexicomp
Comprehensive drug information database includes access to Lexi-Drugs, AHFS Drug Information, AHFS Drug Essentials, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs, Lexi-Drugs International, Lexi-Natural Products, Lexi-Infectious Diseases, Lexi-Lab & Diagnostic Procedures, Lexi-Pharmacogenomics, and Lexi-NBCA (Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Agent Exposures). Also provides access to Clinicianâs Guide to Diagnosis, Clinicianâs Guide to Internal Medicine, and Clinicianâs Guide to Laboratory Medicine.
LexisNexis Academic
Database is being replaced by Nexis Uni. Access to major newspapers from around the world, as well as: industry and market news; company financial information; general medical topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information; legal news, law reviews, and case law; and the U.S. and state codes. Please use Google Chrome or IE browsers with this database.
Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918
This series consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States' diplomatic post in Liberia. The topics covered by these records include all aspects of relations with Liberia, and interactions of American citizens with the Liberian government and people.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, and information management from over 600 periodicals, as well as materials from books, research reports and conference proceedings.
Lily, The: A Temperance and Abolitionist Newspaper
Provides full-text articles from "The Lily, A ladies' journal devoted to temperance and literature," issued from 1849 until 1853. The newspaper began as a temperance journal, but gradually began to include articles about other subjects of interest to women, many from the pen of social activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (pseudonym: "sunflower").
LLMC Digital Law Library
Full text access to a vast collection of law and law-related literature courtesy of the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a non-profit library cooperative.
Loeb Classical Library
Full-text searchable digital editions of all volumes of the Loeb Classical Library currently in print, with new texts added biannually. Provides Greek and Latin text with facing English translations.
Los Angeles Times (Historical)
The Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1992) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Lynda.com
Lynda.com contains a vast variety of training videos on software applications. Access is available to all GW users. You will be asked to log in with your GW NetID.
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Ma'agarim: the Hebrew Language Historical Dictionary Project
The Historical Dictionary Project (HDP) is the research arm of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. It aims to encompass the entire Hebrew lexicon throughout its history; that is, to present every Hebrew word in its morphological, semantical, and contextual development from its first appearance in written texts to the present.
Mainichi Shimbun (Maisaku)
Provides access to 6 million articles from the Mainich Shimbun and precursor titles from 1872
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, Part 1 1600-1970
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources is a digital collection of statutes and codes for northern, central, and eastern European jurisdictions from 1600-1970.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
This database is a collection of foreign and international legal literature, including access to pre-1926 treatises and monographs.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources II, 1763-1970
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620–1926
Offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. Primary sources include cases, statutes, and regulations.
MarketResearch.com
Provides market research reports and industry analysis. There is an advanced search option that allows for more sophisticated searching. It is not permitted to distribute reports to anyone who is not a student, faculty member, or staff member of the George Washington University, nor to use the reports for any commercial purpose (such as at an internship or job).
Material ConneXion
Provides access to images, detailed material descriptions, usage characteristics, and manufacturer and distributor contact information for over 7,000 materials for use in all design disciplines.
MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society)
The online equivalent of Mathematical Reviews, which comprehensively indexes the research literature on theoretical and applied mathematics.
MathSciNet (EBSCOhost)
Indexes the research literature on theoretical and applied mathematics.
Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts
Covers the periodical literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation.
MEDLINE (Ebsco)
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The premier source for journal literature worldwide in all fields of biomedicine. Contains citations from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, the biological and physical sciences, the humanities, and information science, as they relate to medicine and health care.
MEDLINE (Ovid)
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The premier source for journal literature worldwide in all fields of biomedicine. Contains citations from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, the biological and physical sciences, the humanities, and information science, as they relate to medicine and health care. Over 4,600 journals are indexed.
Medline (WOS)
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Now part of the combined Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print database. Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, it provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information for evaluating test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Simultaneous users: 4
Mergent Archives
Mergent archives is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system.
Mergent Online
For business and financial research. Provides access to: U.S. Company Data, U.S. Company Archives Data, U.S. Annual Reports, International Company Data, International Company Archives Data, International Annual Reports, Institutional Holdings Data, Insider Trading Data, FactSheets, FactSheets Express, Expanded Long-Term Debt, Global Earnings Estimates, D&B Million Dollar Database Plus, U.S. Company Data.
Middle East & Africa (Reference Corporation World Area Studies)
Provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel & the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide. Provides access to journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, press releases, books, manuals, magazines, and ephemera.
Middle East & Africa Database
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
Bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
MidEast Wire
Mideastwire.com offers a daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab Diaspora.
Military & Government Collection
Providing current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database covers about 400 titles, with the full text of nearly 300 journals and periodicals and 245 pamphlets. Includes CountryWatch's Country Review.
Military Database
Scholarly and technical literature covering a broad range of military-related topics.
Minorities in the Middle East : Christian minorities, 1838-1967
This large collection of primary source material consists of original political despatches, correspondence and reports covering Christian communities in the Levant: the affairs of the Assyrian communities, the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Jacobite, Chaldean and Syrian Catholic communities, and Protestant communities in the Levant and Iraq, in particular. Includes further detail about the Maronite communities in the Levant, and Coptic Christian communities in the Levant and Egypt.Includes further detail about the Maronite communities in theLevant, and Coptic Christian communities in the Levant and Egypt.
Minorities in the Middle East : Jewish communities in Arab countries,
This six-volume Cambridge Archive Editions set covers the arrangements and conditions for Jewish communities living under Islam, throughout the Arab world, from 1840 to 1974. Although they cover more than 100 years the papers do not form a continuous record of events but rather provide a series of snapshots of history.
Minorities in the Middle East : Kurdish communities, 1918-1974
These Cambridge Archive Editions volumes of original dispatches, correspondence and reports chart the modern history of the Kurds in theMiddle East, starting with the aspirations of the Kurds before the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and ending with the plans for Kurdish autonomyannounced in 1974 by the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraq.
Minorities in the Middle East : Muslim minorities in Arab countries,
These Cambridge Archive Editions volumes, concerning Muslim minority communities from 1843 to 1973, consist of contemporary politicaldespatches, correspondence and reports composed by British diplomats. Theevidence found in these volumes provides a series of glimpses of conditions within different Arab states over more than a century.
Minorities in the Middle East : religious communities in Jerusalem, 1843-1974 and minorities in Israel
In these Cambridge Archive Editions volumes the selection of documents combines to give an overview of the interplay within and between thedifferent faiths existing in Jerusalem. The 2400 pages contain documents exploring the treatment and position of the diverse religious minoritieswithin Jerusalem and more generally in Israel after 1948.
MIT CogNet
For brain and cognitive sciences. Includes links to jobs, graduate studies, discussions, and a library with a growing collection of searchable electronic texts. The Library contains works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work.
MLA International Bibliography
Covers journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Coverage of rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature. Simultaneous users: 7
Music Online
A combined music sound database including classical, world, jazz, and American music. Contains audio, video, scores, liner notes, biographies, images, and full-text reference materials from all Alexander Street Press music databases.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database (NCJRS)
Covers reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.
National Journal Central
A collection of resources on US politics and policy, including The National Journal, The Hotline, The National Journal Daily (formerly CongressDaily), The Almanac of American Politics, Daybook and more.
National Security Archive (GW)
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive 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.
National Security Archive (ProQuest)
Declassified documents regarding critical U.S. foreign policy decisions organized into 24 thematic collections.
Natural Medicines
Information on natural medicines, including alternate and scientific names, uses, safety, efficacy, mechanism of action, active ingredients, adverse reactions, interactions, drug influence on nutrient levels and depletion, dosage and administration, brand names, and patient education handouts.
Nature Online
An international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Also provides news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. Note: Not all journals on this site are part of GW's subscription.
NBER Working Papers
Provides full text of all working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
Neighborhood Change Database
This database provides access to US Census data from 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 at the census tract level. It contains Long Form data with details such as: population, household, and housing characteristics, income, poverty status, education level, employment, housing costs, immigration, and other variables. It serves as a resource for those seeking to analyze changes that have occurred in US neighborhoods over four decades. NOTE: This database requires Internet Explorer. Simultaneous users: 5
Neighborhood Change Database 2010
Provides access to U.S. Census data at the tract level from 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 normalized to the 2010 tract boundaries as well as 2010 SF1 and ACS data sets. You can do time series analysis covering 5 decades of data all in a common boundary set. NOTE: This database requires Internet Explorer. Simultaneous users: 5
New Catholic Encyclopedia
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
New Day Digital
A collection of documentaries about social issues, available as streaming videos. Previews are available for all videos, but only the videos GWU has purchased can be viewed in full.
New York Times (Historical)
Offers full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times. Includes digital reproductions of every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.
New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (Historical)
The New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Newspapers in Taiwan (Xin wen zhi shi ku) 新聞知識庫
This database includes parts of full-text from the United Daily News Group (covering United Daily News, United Evening News, Economic Daily News, and Min Sheng Daily) and news clips from the following other newspapers including China Times, Commercial Times, Star News, Liberty Times, Central Daily News, and Apple Daily. Searchable using Chinese characters or Pinyin.
Nexis Uni
Formally LexisNexis Academic. Access to major newspapers from around the world, as well as: industry and market news; company financial information; general medical topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information; legal news, law reviews, and case law; and the U.S. and state codes. Please use Google Chrome or IE browsers with this database.
Nikkei Telecom21 (日経テレコン21)
Major Japanese newspaper database focusing on business and economics from 1876 to the present; content is in Japanese and English; includes a wide variety of newspapers, statistics and corporate information.
Nikkoku Online (日国オンライン)
Nikkoku Online: A database version of the largest Japanese dictionary, âNihon Kokugo Dai-jiten, 2nd ed.â The dictionary consists of 13 volumes, and contains 500,000 subjects as well as 1 million usage examples, which cover from classical Japanese to modern Japanese.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Offers a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished.
North China Herald
The North China Herald was a major English-language newspaper published in China from the 1850s to the 1940s. It is a major source for the history of the foreign presence in China in that period. It was the official journal for British consular notifications and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and published translations of Chinese official notifications and news from across China.
North Korean News (NK News Pro)
News, opinion and analysis, research tools, and primary and secondary data from and about the politics, military, society and culture of North Korea. Sections include: News, Intelligence, KCNA Watch, Analysis & Opinion, Investigation, Tools & Data, Real Life, Travel, Ask a North Korean.
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Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. It has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. Provides comprehensive coverage of topics including marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
OECD iLibrary
Provides access to the books, journals, and statistical databases of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, providing information on member countriesâ economics, politics, and international affairs. Publications include country studies, forecasting publications, reports, periodicals, and socio-economic databases. Statistical data can be downloaded as Excel files.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961 (ProQuest History Vault)
Contains 3,500 World War II and Cold War era special, classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa commissioned by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the U.S. State Department and written by the days’ leading scholars. At the time, the reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions. Search the database from the History Vault platform by choosing Advanced Search (grey bar at the top) and then limiting by the name of the database (checkbox below).
Okinawa Times
Provides access to the full-text of the Okinawa Times and its archive. Only one user at a time may use this database. Please log out when finished.
Option Metrics (WRDS)
Provides historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, implied volatilities, and option sensitivities. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
OTC Markets (WRDS)
Provides end of day pricing for over the counter stocks. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Oxford Art Online
The complete text of The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Grove Dictionary of Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, with ongoing additions of new material and updates. No. of Concurrent Users: 5
Oxford Bibliographies Online : Art History
Oxford Bibliographies in Art History offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: African American
Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History
Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies
Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
Oxford Dictionaries Online
Online, bilingual dictionaries and audio pronunciation guides in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is an illustrated collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. The Oxford DNB was published in print and online in 2004. It is extended with three annual updates (each January, May and October), adding new biographies from the Romans to the 21st century. No. of concurrent users: 3
Oxford English Dictionary
Access to the definitive dictionary of the English language. Revisions and additions ongoing.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
Review essays evaluating the current thinking in these fields, including key issues, arguments and concepts, and new research perspectives.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Psychology
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
A wide variety of in-depth content addressing various aspects of Islamic culture.
Oxford Journals
Mobile version available
Oxford Music Online
Includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Online
Includes over 200 titles, updated regularly, in the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion
Offers substantive, peer-reviewed articles; regularly updated.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Full text access to Oxford University Press books from 2016 forward across the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Core publishing areas include Political Science, History, Literature, Law and related themes, Economics and Finance, Business and Management, Religion, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics and Biology.
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PAIS Index
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other literature on the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Also included is information about websites, publications and organizations.
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
This database provides online access to the papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower beginning with documents written prior to World War II through the end of his Presidency.
Papers of George Washington
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition (PGWDE) contains the entire text of the fifty-two volumes of the print edition published by the University of Virginia Press through 2005, in six series: Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement.
Passport
Passport (formerly called Global Market Information Database) provides international market intelligence for countries, consumers and industries. Please note: All access to this database is restricted to GW students, faculty and staff who will have to login - even on campus. Walk-in use by others is not permitted.
Pastor-Stambaugh Liquidity (Fama-French & Liquidity Factors) (WRDS)
The Pastor-Stambaugh Liquidity series are described by L. Pastor and R. F. Stambaugh in "Liquidity risk and expected stock returns" (2003, Journal of Political Economy 111, 642-685). This set includes 'non-traded' and 'traded' liquidity factors, with the latter series derived from dividing common stocks (in the CRSP monthly stocks file data) into 10 groups based on each stock’s sensitivity to the 'non-traded' liquidity innovation factor (as described in the paper). Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Peace Research Abstracts
Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 267,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Pediatric Care Online
Pediatric clinical knowledge system provides access to Point-of-Care Quick Reference, AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, Bright Futures, Antimicrobial Therapy Guide, Visual Library, Pediatric Care Updates, and AAP policy statements. Also provides access to tools including interactive periodicity schedule, signs & symptoms search, algorithms, patient handouts, and clinical calculators. Provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Penn World Tables (WRDS)
The Penn World Tables provides national income accounts-type of variables converted to international prices. The homogenization of national accounts to a common numeraire allows valid comparisons of income among countries. Data comes from Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania, October 2002 (CICUP). Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Pennsylvania Gazette
Part of the Accessible Archives collection. The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States' most prominent newspapers from 1728 - before the Revolutionary period - until 1800. It provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the new republic. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements provide insight into social, political and cultural topics of the time in the US and throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Periodicals Archive Online
Historical (not current) coverage of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, going back to Volume 1 for most titles (in some cases, over 200 years). Full-text articles are available from several hundred titles.
Pharmaceutical News Index
Covers pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information from important newsletters and specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Philosopher's Index
Covers journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews in all areas of philosophy.
PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. It indexes all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. PhilPapers is also an open access archive in philosophy.
PHLX (Philadelphia Stock Exchange) (WRDS)
Provides information on currency options and implied volatility. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)
The PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) bibliographic database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and produced at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, VT. Its goal is to include citations to all literature, both current and retrospective, on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations.
Plant Science
Contains citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focussing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology.
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
A multi-disciplinary scientific journal
Policies, Laws & Regulations of China (中国政策法规资料库)
The database Policies, Laws & Regulations of China provides valuable information on Chinese jurisdiction, legislature, and business laws. The database holds more than 1,000 records covering a comprehensive range of Chinese policies, regulations and Laws of both national and regional levels from 1949 onward. Simultaneous Users: 2
Policy File Index
Policy File Index includes full-text report, paper, document and other sources on U.S. public policy research including over 75 public policy topics (both foreign and domestic) from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
PolicyMap
A place-based data library with simple mapping and reporting tools for creating and sharing maps, downloading data, comparing data across locations, generating on-the-fly reports, and running analytics. Users may also upload data. The geodatabase includes demographics, real estate, health, jobs, and more from sources like the Census, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and GreatSchools.
Political diaries of the Arab World: Palestine and Jordan
The various different types of report gathered together in this Cambridge Archive Editions collection, ranging from 1920-1965, capture in great detail the convulsions wrought within the old land area of Palestine by the agreements at the end of the World War I, in particularthe Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917; the Anglo-French Declaration of 7 November 1918 and the recommendations of the King-Crane Commission of 28 August 1919.
Political Science Database
Full text access to over 450 political science and international relations journals as well as dissertations, country reports, and policy papers.
Polling the Nations
Data from public opinion polls and surveys conducted in the US and abroad. Simultaneous Users: 4
Popular and General Resources
Covers popular general interest and current events publications. Also includes the text of reference books, biographies, and other educational documents.
Population Index
Online version of the Population Index periodical. Covers international research on demographic topics.
Pravda Digital Archive
A complete archive extending back to 1912 of Pravda, official newspaper of the Communist Party of Russia/the USSR. Issues are displayed as full-page images.
Presidential Recordings Digital Edition
This rich resource features annotated, searchable transcripts of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon White House tapes. Audio files, as available, accompany the transcripts.
Primary Search (Articles for Children)
Access to more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
A multi-disciplinary scientific journal.
Project Euclid
Project Euclid is a cooperative venture for the distribution of electronic journals in mathematics and statistics.
Project Muse
Articles and reviews from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive
ProQuest Agricultural Sciences
ProQuest Agriculture Science Collection includes over 400 full-text agricultural journals from around the world. covers a wide range of agriculture-related topics, such as: animal and veterinary sciences, plant sciences forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition
ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection
ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection provides indexing, citations and full text articles from over 300 leading aquatic journals from around the world. Includes Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (also linked separately).
ProQuest Asian Business & Reference
ProQuest Atmospheric Science Collection
The ProQuest Atmospheric Science Collection includes indexing, citations and full-text articles from over 130 journals from around the world. Includes Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) produced by the American Meteorological Society. Subjects covered include weather forecasting, climatology, atmospheric structure, the hydrologic cycle, and pollution.
ProQuest Biological Science Collection
The ProQuest Biological Science Collection offers indexing, citations and full text articles from over 600 leading journals on biology, biomedicine and related subjects.
ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary database covering both scholarly sources and popular content. Includes the contents of ProQuest Research Library, ABI-Inform, and U.S. and International Newsstreams, as well as various ProQuest disciplinary collections.
ProQuest Computing
ProQuest Congressional
(Formerly LexisNexis Congressional.) A comprehensive source of Congressional information including bills, hearings, testimonies, and legislative histories.
ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection: Part A (1824-1979)
ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection: Part B (1980-2003)
ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection: Part C (2004-2010)
ProQuest Earth Science Collection
The ProQuest Earth Science Collection offers indexing and full text articles from over 600 journals covering geology, seismology, mineralogy, oceanography, paleontology and all aspects of earth sciences.
ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest Environmental Science Collection
Pulls together in one resource all ProQuest databases and journal collections related to environmental science, including ASFA, Environmental Impact Statements, Environment Abstracts, and TOXLINE.
ProQuest Environmental Science Journals
Over 1,600 journals covering topics related to major fields of study in environmental science, including physics engineering, astronomy, biology, earth science chemistry.
Proquest European Business
This database contains the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune and European Business Journal.
Proquest History Vault
Proquest Religion
ProQuest Religion covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many, worldwide religions. In addition, there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. This resource presently has more than 170 journals, with most of them available with full-text. The content is full-text, scholarly, and designed to meet the needs of both religious studies programs and general library collections.
ProQuest Research Library Plus
Covers a wide range of subject matter in both popular and scholarly periodicals. Also includes Proquest's Computing, Education, Religion, Science, Social Science and Telecommunication Journal modules.
ProQuest Science Journals
ProQuest Social Science Journals
ProQuest Statistical Insight
(Formerly Lexis Nexis Statistical.) ProQuest Statistical Insight provides access to statistics on a wide variety of topics produced by Federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental and international organizations.
ProQuest Telecommunications
ProQuest U.K. Parliamentary Papers: House of Commons 19th Century
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
Psychiatry Online
Mobile version available APA textbooks and journals, guidelines, and patient education materials. Some content also available via smartphone or PDA.
PsycINFO 1887-Current
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, linguistics, business, law and more. Journal coverage, spanning from 1887 to present, includes international material.
PsycTESTS
PsycTESTS is a 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. Updated monthly.
Public Administration Abstracts
Includes citations and abstracts on subjects such as: Administration and Economy, Administration and Politics, Administrative Structures and Organization, International Relations, Organizations, and Policy, Public and Social Services, Taxation, Budgeting, and Finance, Theory and Method. Indexes important sources in the discipline, such as Journal of Public Economics and Public Administration Review.
PubMed
Public access version of the Medline database. Includes life and health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information. Incorporates Himmelfarb Library's customized search filters for EBM/Clinical Reviews, EBM/Clinical Trials, and Reviews. Includes links to related genetic, chemical and taxonomic information. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
PubMed Central
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. The articles are all full-text, but comprise only a subset of the literature available through PubMed. Mobile version available.
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Qur'anic Studies Online (formerly Encyclopedia of the Qur'an)
Qur’ānic Studies Online is a set of three encyclopaedic dictionaries of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur’ān to appear in a Western language.
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R2 Digital Library
Full-text searching and online access to medicine, nusring, and allied health books.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
A selective bibliography of academic articles covering all of the fields of Jewish studies and Israeli studies.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
Records of Bahrain, 1966-1971
This Cambridge Archive Edition is a comprehensive collection oforiginal British government documents detailing the history of Bahrain between 1966 and 1971. The years 1966-71 are of particular interest toresearchers because of the intense political and diplomatic activity engendered by the announcement of the British, in 1968, of their intention to withdraw from the Gulf States by 1971.
Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering Online
This resource compiles tables, figures, nomograms, formulas, statistics, standards, and explanatory text for systems engineers and technicians. It provides essential data telecommunications professionals need on a daily basis. Compiled by industry expert Roger L. Freeman, this online resource offers information on the most commonly used standards of the ITU, IEEE, and ANSI. The initial content is derived from the 3rd print edition of Freeman's Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering.
RefWorks v.3
An online reference management tool, allowing you to save citations from the catalog and databases, organize them, and use them in your writing. Free to GW users. To continue using RefWorks v.2, click here. Alumni should use the link on the E-Resources for Alumni page.
Regional Business News
Provides full-text coverage for over 50 regional business publications; indexing for an additional 16 titles.
RIA Checkpoint Tax and Accounting
A database of RIA and WG&L tax and accounting products. It provides online access to the Federal Analytical Reporter Library including the US Tax Reporter and Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, the Public Domain Library including federal tax case law, IRS rulings and the RIA Citator 2d, Journal of Taxation, Corporate Taxation journal, Practical Tax Strategies journal, state and local tax materials for all 50 states, a tax alerts service, and Worldwide Tax Law.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Covers journal articles, books, dissertations, and reviews in a variety of scholarly fields related to music. International in scope. Simultaneous users: 1
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (with iPOLL)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period, and is the ideal starting point for any research in modernism. With over 1,000 articles from experts in the field, supported by over 100 images, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism is a vital tool for students and researchers. The content is fully cross-referenced, allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields.
Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals
Access to journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
RSV.com
The RSV (Revenue from Sports Venues) database provides data on venues hosting major league pro sports, minor leagues in baseball and ice hockey, and the NCAA's top divisions in football and men's basketball.
Russia/NIS Military and Security Periodicals
Includes several dozen publications covering military and security developments in Russia from both official and independent sources and from all branches of the armed forces. Includes both Russian and English language sources. In addition to journals and newspapers published in Moscow, the database presents imprints from military districts and some armies and divisions.
Russia/NIS Newspapers/Journals
Access to Russian newspapers, military periodicals, and parliamentary publications.
Russia/NIS Statistics
Covers Russian and English publications, reports and data sets from the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Covers scholarship in the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe: books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Materials in English, Russian, and other languages.
Russian Central Newspapers
Provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. Official sources (Rossiiskaia gazeta, Krasnaia zvezda, ITAR-TASS), independent media and partisan publications are all represented on this database offering a wide array of opinions and perspectives. Includes also several English-language newspapers such as the Moscow Times.
Russian Governmental Publications
Provides records of the hearings of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation including also Biulleten' Schetnoi palaty, published by the State Audit Chamber subordinate to the Duma, and Vestnik Tsentrizbirkoma, or The Herald of the Central Electoral Committee, responsible for all types of elections in Russia. Also includes texts of laws, presidential decrees, government resolutions and Constitutional Court decisions, as well as popular legal journals Zakon and Gosudarstvo i pravo.
Russian Legal Database (Kodeks)
Source for Russian legislation comprising hundreds of thousands of documents. It includes legislative acts issued by approximately 200 executive, legislative and judiciary bodies in Russia.
Russian Regional Newspapers
Presents newspapers from all seven Federal Districts of the Russian Federation including Northern Caucasus, Western Siberia, the Volga region, and many others. Also provides coverage of local issues of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The list of titles will continue to be expanded.
Ryukyu Shimpo
One of the largest and oldest newspapers in Okinawa.
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Sadka Liquidity (Fama-French & Liquidity Factors) (WRDS)
The Sadka Liquidity measures are described in R. Sadka in “Momentum and Post-Earnings- Announcement Drift Anomailes: The Role of Liquidity Risk” (Journal of Financial Economics 80, 309-349). The measures are non-traded, market-wide, undiversifiable risk factors. Price impact is separated into permanent (variable) and transitory (fixed) price effects. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Safari Books Online
Contains online versions of information technology titles from major publishers, including O'Reilly, Que and SAMS. Specific titles are selected by Gelman Library and may change from month to month. Simultaneous users: 3.
Sage eReference Books
This collection includes online encyclopedias from a variety of disciplines, primarily in the social sciences.
SAGE Research Methods Core
Comprehensive online resource providing material to guide users through every step of the research process, including datasets, cases, books, articles and videos. For more information, see http://sagepub.libguides.com/research-methods/researchmethods
Sage Research Methods Datasets
SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets that can be used to support the teaching and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods used in the social sciences. These are datasets taken from real research projects, but edited and cleaned for teaching purposes. Each dataset is accompanied by a short, clear narrative description of the data and easy-to-follow instructions on how to apply the research method.
SciELO Citation Index
Indexes almost 1200 open access scientific journals from SciELO (scientific electronic library online) a virtual library for Latin-America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Abstracts may be in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
Science Careers.org
A merger of Science's Next Wave and GrantsNet, a fully integrated career service and development site for scientists.
Science Citation Index Expanded
Part of the Web of Science covers scholarly literature across the sciences, with citations culled from a vast array of journals. Also allows cited reference searching (i.e., searching for articles that have cited a given author or work).
Science Online
Access to articles from Science Magazine and Science NOW! Other links at this site may require separate subscriptions.
ScienceDirect Journals
Scientific American Medicine
A continuously-updated resource for internal medicine teaching principles and practice.
SciFinder Scholar
Provides access to the following databases: Chemical Abstracts--Chemical literature (journals, patents, books, etc.; 1907 - present); Registry File--Chemical compound information (structure, molecular weight, spectral information, etc.); Medline--Medical literature (journals, books, conferences, etc.; 1958 - present); CASREACT--Information on chemical reactions (1985 - present); CHEMCATS--Chemical sources (i.e., supplier information); CHEMLIST--Regulatory information (1979 - present).
SciTech Connect
Your connection to science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy
SEC Order Execution (WRDS)
In 2000, as a result of the SEC's Rule 11Ac1-5, market centers that trade national market system securities must make monthly, electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis, including how market orders of various sizes are executed relative to the public quotes and information about effective spreads. In addition, market centers must disclose the extent to which they provide executions at prices better than the public quotes to investors using limit orders. Data is available on WRDS through 2005, and is no longer updated. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (《大美晚报》)
This database covers issues from 1943-1946 of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury This English-language newspaper represented the perspective of Shanghai's American business community.
Shen Bao (申报)
The Shen Bao (ç³å ±, also spelled Shunpao) database is full-text searchable and contains PDF page images of this newspaper published from 1872 to 1949. This database, containing more than 2 million articles, works best on Internet Explorer.
Siku Quanshu (四庫全書)
Users must download a reader (using Internet Explorer) in order to access this resource. Please click on database link for more information. Please email The Global Resources Center at grc@gwu.edu or call 202 994-7105 for questions. Simultaneous users: 1
Simmons OneView
Provides demographic, geographic, and psychographic data on consumer buying behavior, largely as it relates to brands and media. Instructions Instructions for how to search it can be found at http://libguides.gwu.edu/simmons
SIPRI Yearbook
Covers armaments and arms control, conflicts and resolutions, security arrangements and disarmament, as well as longer-term trends in international security. (Access to SIPRI Yearbooks from 2010 onward.)
Slavery and the Law (Proquest History Vault)
Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 states and the District of Columbia. This database also includes the State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
Primary sources and histories of slavery, with an emphasis on legal aspects. Includes all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.
SMA: Sports Market Analytics
Covers market research and industry news for the sporting goods and sports marketing industries. Sources include the National Sporting Goods Association, the US Department of Commerce, sports governing bodies, buyTRACK (a tracking study of sporting goods purchasing habits on the Internet), and several magazines and newsletters.
Smithsonian Global Sound
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, comprised of over 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels, as well as recordings from Africa and South Asia, and more.
Social Explorer
U.S. historical census data, 1790-present, and American Community Survey data, 2005-2011 with interactive thematic maps, customized reporting, graphing and charting capabilities. No. of concurrent users: 1.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Part of the Web of Science covers scholarly literature across the social sciences, with citations culled from a vast array of journals. Also allows cited reference searching (i.e., searching for articles that have cited a given author or work). Simultaneous users: 5
Social Services Abstracts
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,304 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journals Online
Access to articles from journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Full text access to 1700 +sociological journals and books, conference proceedings, working papers with abstracting for additional titles with coverage back to 1895. Searchable cited references are included.
Sociological Abstracts
Covers the international literature in sociology and related social and behavioral sciences. Included are citations to journal articles and book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Many records for articles from major journals added since 2001 also include lists of works cited.
Sociology Database
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.
Soshoo (搜数)
Provides access to real time business news, China general news articles and magazines, information and statistics.
Soviet Cinema. Film Periodicals 1918-1942.
Includes full-text Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the most interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian film. These publications shed light on the production side of Soviet cinematography, as well as on the theoretical and practical concepts developed by the period's leading directors and critics, and also highlight the role of film in Soviet cultural life.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Sport database covering recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning. Includes journal articles and books. Produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre. Simultaneous Users:4
Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet)
Springer Online Journals
SpringerLink ebooks
A collection of full-text monographs covering Math and Statistics, Professional and Applied Computing, Energy, Computer Science, and Biomedical and Life Sciences. Users can browse individual titles or search across the entire collection.
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This database covers the years 2005-2013.
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Mathematics Contemporary (1997-present)
State Composite Indexes (Federal Reserve Bank) (WRDS)
A set of coincident indexes for the 50 states has been developed at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, based on a national coincident index methodology developed by James Stock and Mark Watson. For details and documentation on the development of the state indexes, see Theodore Crone, "Consistent Economic Indexes for the 50 States," Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Working Paper 02-7, May 2002. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
States of India
Users must create a login user name and password for access to database. Provides statistics, state government official documents, and comments of CMIE analysts on the data and CMIE forecasts. Published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
Statista
Statistics and Studies from more than 18,000 Sources. Aggregates statistics and data sets from a variety of international free and proprietary sources, including industry and marketing. Data sets can be displayed in multiple graphical formats.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
Published since 1878, the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. This database includes editions through 2012; for later editions, see the ProQuest version.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States (ProQuest)
Published since 1878, the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. For editions before 2013, see the U.S. Census Bureau version of this database. NOTE: If you get asked to select your library, please choose GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Contains 50- to 100-page self-contained electronic documents--lectures, which are organized into a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series. Each lecture synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.
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Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)
Offers full-text Taiwanese periodicals in five main categories: Social Sciences, Humanities, Applied Sciences, Medical & Life Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Searchable in English or Chinese. Abstracts are in English. Full-text (PDF) articles are in Chinese.
Taiwan Shibao (Taiwan JIHO) 臺灣時報
Access to this Japanese magazine published by the Taiwan Governor House during the Japanese colonial period. Issues included were politics, industry, trade, transportation, military, education, judiciary, police, civil engineering, technology, handicraft and arts.
Taiwan Wenxian Congkan (Taiwan History: 618-1945) 臺灣文獻叢刊
Covers a time span from the Tang Dynasty to the Japanese colonial period and incorporates local histories, and official documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The database covers a wide variety of dimensions of Taiwan, including history, geography, local customs, politics, economy, sociology, laws and culture.
Tax Analysts Online
Online access to Tax Notes, Tax Notes International, State Tax Notes, Exempt Organization Tax Review, Tax Notes Today, State Tax Today, Worldwide Tax Daily, and Highlights and Documents. Registration (www.taxnotes.com/user) using your GW email address (gwu.edu or email.gwu.edu) is required to access these materials. You must be within GW's IP range or connected to the GW university network via the VPN the first time you sign in.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Teacher Reference Center
Indexes over 260 titles from the teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
TeachingBooks.net Original
Includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Team Marketing Report FactBook
HOW TO ACCESS: 1. Click on the link above. 2. Click "log in" in the FactBook box. 3. In the login window, click "log in based on ip." 4. Then click on the FactBook. A directory of companies, agencies, media, and properties in the sports industry. Especially informative regarding company sponsorships.
Tests in Print (includes Mental Measurements Yearbook)
Tests in Print is now part of the combined Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print database. Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
The Arab League : British documentary sources, 1943-1963
On 22 March 1945 the Pact of the Arab League States was signed in Cairo by Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Saudi Arabia. Its objectives were closer unity between members, the safeguarding of their sovereignty and coordinated political action. Here now in facsimile are the authentic documents of that time, and the following 20 years, following the aims and the progress of the main organ of Arab unity this century.
The slave trade into Arabia, 1820-1973
In tracing the massive effort made to stop the sea trade, this collection of documents also conveys the scale of the diaspora out of East Africa. It includes naval reports and diplomatic records to convey both the actions that took place and the background political guidance on which this was based; interviews with captured slave dealers, informants and freed slaves as well as correspondence between British officials and their counterparts; and documentary evidence of the efforts made to monitor and deter the slave trade.
Theatre in Video: Volume I
From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions.
Theatre in Video: Volume II
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972, the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present. Includes digital versions of Greek texts, searchable in Greek, with links to English translations where available.
Thomson Datastream
This database is only accessible on PCs on the first floor and GRC (7th Floor) of Gelman Library. Use is limited to 1 simultaneous user. Please request assistance at the Ask Us Desk.
Thomson-Reuters Institutional Holdings (13F) Database (WRDS)
Provides Institutional Common Stock Holdings and Transactions, as reported on Form 13F filed with the SEC. This database contains ownership information by institutional managers with $100 million or more in Assets Under Management (Section 13(f) Securities). Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations, 1989-1993
This collection offers unique primary source documents relating to the demonstrations and their aftermath: public mail, memoranda, reports, cables, meeting notes, news clippings and much more.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2011
The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the Falklands War. "The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2011" makes 200 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th and 20th century history.
Toxline
TOXLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database for toxicology. It provides bibliographic information on the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Most citations include abstracts and/or indexing terms and CAS Registry Numbers. TOXLINE references are drawn from various sources organized into component subfiles which are searched together but which may be used to limit searches as well.
Toxline (ProQuest)
5-year rolling backfile of the database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens.
TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) (WRDS)
The TRACE Historical Time and Sales data is available through WRDS. The information collected and disseminated for all publicly traded corporate bonds by TRACE includes the time of execution, price, yield, and volume. Users must create a WRDS account. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Transitions Online
An online journal providing news coverage for 28 post-Communist countries.
TRB Publications Index
Online publications index (1923-present) to over 50,000 documents published by the Transportation Research Board, Highway Research Board, Strategic Highway Research Program, and Marine Board.
TRID
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS ) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD ) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.
TV News Archive (Vanderbilt)
Catalog of materials in the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University, which contains network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN), as well as special news-related programming (including ABC’s Nightline). Streaming online video is available for CNN news broadcasts from 1999. VHS copies of other broadcasts are available for loan, for a fee.
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U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995
This unique collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond.
U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009
Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community's spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran's nuclear program.
U.S. Newsstream
Full text access to over 500 U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune, as well as wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
U.S. Serial Set Maps Digital Collection
U.S. Statutes at Large (HeinOnline)
U.S. Travel Association Publications
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Udndata-United Daily News (聯合知識庫-聯合報)
ulrichsweb.com (Ulrich's Periodicals Directory)
Contains information on more than 300,000 periodicals and serials of all types, from academic journals to popular magazines and more. Includes the Ulrich's database and reviews from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal.
UNCTADstat
UNCTADstat is a free database of statistics produced by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). It incorporates all of UNCTAD's online statistical databases, including both current and historical data. Topics covered include population and labor forces; economic trends; foreign direct investment; commodity prices; and many more.
Unified Database of Korean Modern History (Kdatabase)
Universal Database of Russian Individual Titles
Universal Database of Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Journals
Urban Studies Abstracts
Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 51,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
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Virginia Gazette 1736-1780
Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, The Virginia Gazette contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries. The paper appeared in three competing versions from a succession of publishers over the years, some published concurrently, and all under the same title.
voxgov
Provides access to real-time documents, publications, press releases, and social media posts from all branches, offices, agencies, and elected officials of the U.S. Federal Government. Extensive search and filtering options; most content is from 2000-present.
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Wall Street Journal
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as current events.
Washington City Paper
Washington DC's alternative free weekly. Search archives by using key terms in the search box.
Washington Information Directory Online Edition
A single source for locating contacts (including brief descriptions) in U.S. government and non-governmental organizations and international organizations
Washington Post (Historical,1877-1999)
Online archival access to The Washington Post. Includes page images from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF files. Fully searchable.
WCEE Online Proceedings
Provides free access to all volumes of the Proceedings of the World Congress on Earthquake Engineering from the National Information Centre on Earthquake Engineering.
Web of Science (WOS)
Includes several citation indices covering sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search by a specific index, or across all indices. Citations to articles in more than 8,000 major research journals. Also permits cited reference searching (searching for articles that cite a particular author or work).
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Includes Compustat Database. Users must create a WRDS account and log in to access data. See http://libguides.gwu.edu/wrds for more information.
Wiley Online Library (Core Collection)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
A collection of full-text primary materials documenting various movements and events in the history of women's social reform activities. Sources include documents, images, and books, and are organized around topical document projects.
World Bank Data Catalog (includes Public Sector Debt Statistics)
Apps for mobile devices. The Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSD) database, jointly developed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, brings together detailed quarterly public sector debt data of selected countries, initially mainly developing /emerging market economies. The database facilitates timely dissemination in standard formats of public sector debt data, to support macroeconomic analysis and cross-country comparison.
World Bank e-Library
The World Bank e-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,600 World Bank publications and over 2,400 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. See also http://www.worldbank.org for additional access to free WorldBank publications. Coverage: includes all official World Bank publications back to 2000.
World Development Indicators (WDI)
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).
World News Connection (1995-2013)
Offers translated and English language news and information compiled from non-United States media sources. Coverage includes political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events. Coverage: 1995-2013. Continued "Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports," published in print from approx.1944-1996.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Citations to books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. Includes international and non-English-language materials.
World Tourism Organization
This database contains UNWTO publications such as books, journals, and statistics in their respective languages. In addition to more than 900 books in English, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic, the e-unwto also provides access to a growing number of documents which can be defined as "Gray Literature." The latest statistical information and aggregated data on inbound and outbound tourism are very conveniently presented within the "Tourism Factbook."
WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
mobile version available. Access to the OCLC online union catalog. Includes library holdings from across the United States and around the world. NEW: try the next generation of WorldCat and FirstSearch here.
WorldCat Discovery
WorldCat Discovery allows you to search OCLC's online union catalog, containing books and other materials from libraries across the US and around the world. It replaces OCLC FirstSearch and WorldCat.org.
WorldCat.org
Search our collection and the collections of many other libraries worldwide using WorldCat, the world's largest network of library-based content and services. NEW: try the next generation of WorldCat and FirstSearch here.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations to the international periodical literature in political science and its complementary fields.
WRLC Libraries Catalog
Catalog of the holdings of academic libraries in the Washington Research Libraries Consortium: American University, Catholic University, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Howard University, Marymount University, and the University of D.C. Users at one university may borrow materials (books and journal articles) from any other library in the Consortium via the online Request option.
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Yomiuri Online (Yomidas Rekishikan)
Full-text of the Yomiuri Shimbun from 1874 to present, the Daily Yomiuri & its English equivalent, and a biographical dictionary of modern Japanese figures. Full-text searching is available from Sept. 1986 to present.
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Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Databesu (雑誌記事索引集成データベース)
The Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Databesu (雑誌記事索引集成データベース) database consists of index data of magazines and periodicals published from the Meiji Era to the present. In addition to the full National Diet Library current periodicals index, the database includes general and local periodicals and academic journals from before World War II. The number of the articles within the database is well over 110 million.
Zhurnalnyĭ­ zal
Zhurnalnyĭ­ zal provides selected full text from a number of Russian literary journals, including Novyi Mir, Voprosy Literatury, Oktyabr', and many others.
Zoological Record
Zoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world's leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1864, has long acted as the world's unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences. Covers over 5,000 serials, plus many other sources of information including books, reports, and meetings.
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1990 Long Form in 2000 Boundaries
This database allows users to access US Census data from 1990 and compare it with the 2000 Census data. It is based upon the Long Form questions and includes detailed demographic data about topics such as population, household structure, income, poverty, education level, employment, housing costs, immigration, and other variables. Simultaneous users: 5
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.
조선일보 아카이브 (Chosun Ilbo Archive)

 

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