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Contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full text of articles appearing in international business and management publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide.
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This scholarly database contains over 3,600 peer-reviewed publications in full-text on every subject.

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The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

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Alternate Name(s):History Commons

Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications, including The Liberator 1831-1865, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1889, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, and The South Carolina Gazette.
** On August 30, 2024, Accessible Archives moved to the History Commons platform **

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"Public data is everywhere, collected by government agencies, advocacy groups, news organizations and an ever-expanding set of specialty sites. But that data is online in too many different locations to easily search. The Accountability Project is an effort to cut across these data silos and give journalists, policy professionals, activists and the public at large a simple way to search huge volumes of public data about people and organizations." (by The Investigative Reporting Workshop) Focused on the USA.
Bringing together two formerly separate products - Accounting & Tax and Banking Information Source – this database provides centralized access to top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations and more.
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The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book Collection contains 5,400 scholarly books from 250 publishers in the subject areas of anthropology, area studies, international history, literature, philosophy, political science, and women's studies.

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Collection of citations and full text journals, newsletter articles and conference proceedings from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
To access your user profile and settings off the campus network, please visit https://dl.acm.org/ and sign in with your personal login credentials.
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Online access to Creativity, a sibling publication to Advertising Age that focuses on the creative community in advertising, marketing and design. Includes the annual "Creativity Awards Report" that compiles results from the seven most significant advertising awards shows: ADC, AICP, ANDYS, Cannes, Clios, D&AD, and One Show.
Navigate to Creativity via the link in the header on the Ad Age website.
** This database can only be accessed when connected to the secure campus network (includes AU VPN). **
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Rankings, lists, and data on marketing, media, advertising, and digital industries provided through AdAge.com. Includes detailed information on company family trees, advertising spending, media properties, jobs data, and annual industry statistics.
Navigate to Datacenter via the link in the header on the Ad Age website.
** Access to this resource is temporarily unavailable as of June 10, 2024. **
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Online access to Advertising Age, a marketing trade publication that focuses on media sales, advertising, digital marketing, public relations, and more. Includes special reports and lists related to top agencies and marketing blogs.
** This database can only be accessed when connected to the secure campus network (includes AU VPN). **
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The Audio Engineering Society's E-library contains over 17,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day.
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This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal and foreign affairs contain a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats.
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The Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African Studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984.
Coverage: 1984-2022.

There is a known issue preventing OpenURL queries from working correctly. To find full text, either copy and paste article titles into AU Library Search, or connect to the secure campus networ (includes AU VPN) and click on Google Scholar links.

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Covers 270 newspapers from every region of the United States, including 7 from Washington DC.

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Full text access to seven 19th century African American newspapers.

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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

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Alternate Name(s):African; African diaspora; African migration; African immigration; African migrants; African immigrants

This database is a global (non-U.S.) collection for international study of black history and culture. The contributions, struggles, and identities of the African Diaspora are presented through personal accounts, video, and primary sources with a focus on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. The collection includes digitized primary source documents, including books, government documents, personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

The National Agricultural Library (AGRICOLA) from the United States Department of Agriculture, provides citations to agricultural literature.
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Alternate Name(s):Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Contains abstracts and bibliographic citations covering all the primary sources for 11 abstracting journals, plus full text of hundreds of scholarly, trade, and popular sources.
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Founded in 1875, al-Ahram was nationalized and became Egypt's newspaper of record in 1960.
Coverage from 1875-2020.

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Cross-searches AU-subscribed Alexander Street Press video collections, including: American History in Video, Opera in Video, Filmaker's Library, and Dance in Video.
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Alternative Press Index is an index of articles from more than 300 alternative, left and radical newspapers and periodicals from 1991 to present. Born of the New Left, it was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change.
The Alternative Press Index Archive (APIA) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals that cover the period of 1969 through 1990. 
To limit search to only one of the collections, once on the EBSCO search screen, click on the link above the search box to "Choose Databases", then deselect the other collection.
**Access limited to 5 concurrent users.**

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Altmetric tracks attention and engagement with scholarly outputs through a wide variety of online outlets, including social media, policy documents, news outlets, academic blogs, and more, which can be used to document non-scholarly research impact. Users can summarize attention at the university or school level, or create a custom group of researchers, sources, or keyword searches in Dimensions to track and even benchmark internally or externally using Altmetric.
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Declassified FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The collection also includes surveillance on a variety of other antiwar groups and individuals, with an emphasis on student groups and communist organizations. Covers the period 1967 to 1975.

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An index of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

Alternate Name(s):OpenDissertations

American Doctoral Dissertations provides electronic access to the print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. The enhanced database includes more than 153,000 theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present.

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Full text access to the historical American newspapers The American Hebrew (1879-1902 and 1922), The Jewish Messenger (1857 to 1902) and the combined The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1903 to 1922).

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A collection of more than 5,700 documentaries and newsreels on American history, each accompanied by a transcript. There are film clippings from as early as 1898. Includes newsreels from United News (1942 to 1946) and Universal (1929 to 1967). Transcripts of all programs provided.

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Among the topics covered are educational methods, expenses, Indian customs, treaties with the government, and the Indians' reactions to denying their heritage - often a condition of accepting new faith.

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Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.

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Full-text access to the longest-running English language newspaper serving the community of Reform Jews in the United States, from 1854 to 2000.

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Spanning many genres and historical periods, this collection contains over 69,000 tracks from over 4,000 albums.

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Includes two collections, American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL), that contain digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century.

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The American Digital Research Archive (AUDRA) houses digitized and born-digital selections from American University Library’s Archives and Special Collections and the Humanities Truck. AUDRA includes correspondence, artworks, oral histories, audio, video, documents, publications, and images detailing university history and other manuscript and ephemeral collections.
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This collection of photographs documents the early history of American University and its campus in northwest Washington D.C., near Ward Circle, at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues.

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A selection of documents dating from the 1890s to 1920 relating to the development of American University.

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Coverage: 2004 to present. Updated: Every two years.
Multi-country, regularly conducted survey of democratic values and behaviors in the Americas. From the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University.

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Papers from the renowned and outspoken poet, playwright, and critic, born LeRoi Jones, who was a key member of the Beat Generation and the Black Power movement.

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Coverage: 1300 to present. Updated: Weekly, often daily.
A large collection of census records, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Russia, eastern Europe, and China. From Ancestry.com.
The U.S. collections contain census records; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.

Alternate Name(s):L'année philologique
A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics. Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, and science.
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Annual Reviews is a collection of more than 50 annual review journals covering many science and social science disciplines. Each journal exclusively publish review articles which synthesize and summarize research within a field or discipline. This database includes full-text access to every historical article and issue within the collection as well as the most recent articles published.

The Antarctic Bibliography covers all disciplines related to the region, including biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and political geography.

The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in The Anthropology Library at the British Museum.

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Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index. Anthropology Plus provides extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

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Anthrosource is a complete electronic archive of all American Anthropological Association journals through 2003. Additionally, current issues for eleven of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist and Cultural Anthropology are available at the site.

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AP Images: Over 3.5 million news photographs from the 1840s through today. Also includes maps, timelines, logos and graphs. AP Interactives: A collection of multimedia content from the archives of the Associated Press. Interactives are fully-licensed for educational use.

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The AP Newsroom collection features more than 3.5 million historical and contemporary images to help your audiences connect with the story.

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A guide to the style used by writers, editors and others in the media field.

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Interdisciplinary collection containing 140+ scholarly journals (the majority featuring Arabic full text), plus magazines, trade publications, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports and conference papers relating to the Arab World.

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Alternate Name(s):Living Atlas

The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a collection of geographic information from around the world. The content is frequently updated and intended for use with ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro software.
 

Alternate Name(s):ArchivesUSA, NIDS UK/Ireland

Archive Finder is an index of over 206,000 manuscript collections as well as a directory of primary source repositories in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Researchers can use it to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work. Archive Finder is comprised of ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland).

ArchiveGrid is a database of archival finding aids from libraries, museums, and archives. It helps identify archival materials such as historical documents, personal papers, and family histories and where they are.

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Database’s scope focuses on LGBTQ history, culture, and the study of sex and sexuality from the 1600 to present. A primary source database, Archives of Sexuality and Gender supports research in queer history and activism, human rights, gender studies, and erotic literature as well as related fields including psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, medicine, biology, anthropology, law, the classics, and art. These fully searchable collections include rare and unique content from newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources. Additionally includes primary source materials of underrepresented and often excluded groups even within the LGBTQ communities. Includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Parts I & II; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

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Historical documents covering a broad range of topics. Strengths include U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, gender, sexuality, and women's studies, the Holocaust, and modern history of Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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Alternate Name(s):Art and Photography, Architecture and Design
Comprises the digitized backfiles of 22 journals covering studio art and photography, and 17 journals covering architecture and graphic design.
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Art & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
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Streaming video programs from distributors including ArtHaus, Michael Blackwood, BBC, and many others. Over 500 art titles and 130 architecture titles, from pre-Columbian to the present.
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Art Magazine Collection Archives gives access to the digitized historical content of three prominent art magazines: Art in America (1913-2015), ARTNews (1902-2006), and Magazine Antiques (1922-2016). These publications provide broad coverage of American and international art, art exhibitions, and issues in the art world.
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Alternate Name(s):The Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper provides a monthly edition containing news, reviews and commentary; a daily online news service; a daily newsletter; and a weekly podcast; and special daily editions at major international art fairs. The Art Newspaper also publishes in-depth reports on annual museum attendance figures and forthcoming exhibitions.
** Access limited to current AU students, faculty, and staff.
Users must register for a sponsored account by completing a registration form using their @american.edu email address.
Registered users can also access content via the iOS app and Android app.**
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides access to full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, Ph.D. dissertations, and exhibit reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
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A collection of digitized French language texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, ranging from classic works of French literature to journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy

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This is the backfile for ArtForum, an influential contemporary art magazine. ArtForum is a good source of information about individual artists, including interviews, exhibition reviews, original art and essays. It also covers fields related to art such as architecture, film, fashion, and music.

Bibliographic and citation information from over 1,700 scholarly arts and humanities journals from around the world.

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Artstor content is now available on JSTOR. The Artstor website was retired on August 1, 2024.
Read about the transition on this information page.

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arXiv is an open access repository of pre-print (aka e-print) and white paper publications, primarily within physics, mathematics, statistics and computer science. Coverage dates back to 1991 and contains over 1 million e-print articles.
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Alternate Name(s):Formerly Asian Business
English-language database containing economic and business data, as well as analyses, current news, policies, statistics, and political developments for countries across Asia and Europe.
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This three part collection includes News Features & internal communications from 1848-2000, Washington, D.C. Bureau records from 1938-2009, and U.S. City Bureaus from 1931-2004).
This resource was made possible through the Samuel & Lucy Keker Endowed Library Fund. endowment smart growth graphic

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Alternate Name(s):ADS

The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 15 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable through the new ADS modern search form.

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Produced by Atla, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology, Atla Religion Database is a major international index for the scholarly study of religion. All major religious faiths are represented. The Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials collection contains over 2.7 million records, indexing over 2,300 journals, 276,000 essays, and 826,000 reviews. Full text is provided for more than 340 journals.

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A digitized version of the complete Atlanta Constitution newspaper starting in 1868 and running to 1945. Every year three additional years of content will be added.

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The Atlanta Daily World offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It examines major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explores everyday life. 
Contains full-text and full-image articles as well as digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue in downloadable PDF files, including news stories, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.

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Alternate Name(s):theatlantic.com

The Atlantic is a news magazine with coverage that spans current affairs, politics, science, literature, technology, culture, and the economy.
Coverage: 1857-present.
** Access limited to current AU students, faculty, and staff. **

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Alternate Name(s):Global Road Warrior

Country cultural database featuring information on 175 countries including general culture and society, business, negotiations, women in culture and in business, greetings and courtesy, music, education, and a language video dictionary.

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AU Research Archive is the repository for institutional outputs for American University’s faculty, staff, and other knowledge creators. The AU Research Archive preserves and makes a variety of research outputs openly available, including working papers, preprints, manuscripts, datasets, theses & dissertations, and more.
Find more information about AURA, including self-depositing scholarly materials.
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Provides detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. Know auditing details and fees paid for specific services. Create reports by auditor, fees, location, and industry.
Access is provided by Wharton Research Data Services.
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ABC audit reports and publishers' statements for newspapers and periodicals from the last 3 years, as well as limited historical circulation data from 1995 onwards.

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Complete issues, from 1893 to 1988, of one of the most widely-circulated African American newspapers.

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Access to the Baltimore Sun from 1837-1994. This resource was made possible through the Class of '32 Library Fund. endowment smart growth graphic

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Twenty Shakespeare plays available for instant streaming.

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Provides over 170,000 entries on artists, plus museum listings, bibliographies, and exhibition information.

Database indexing articles pertaining to Asia in multiple disciplines.

This database contains references to scientific research on the impact of cold environments on human beings and on materials.
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Bill Gentile was Newsweek Magazine's Contract Photographer for Latin America and the Caribbean. His collection (1983-2002) of over 30,000 images covers 16 Caribbean and Latin American countries including Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, and Nicaragua. The slides and negatives document agriculture, daily life, demonstrations, earthquakes, elections, religion, politics and women’s health. The collection also includes images of the Persian Gulf War.
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Billboard has been the premier publication for music industry. It features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video and more.

Contains more than 15 million citations covering nearly 5 million people. Contains names, birth/death dates and bibliographic references.

Biological & Agricultural Index provides access to more than 490,000 citations from agricultural and biological literature. This database indexes articles, reports of meetings, review articles, special supplements, and book reviews, dating 1983 to the present.
Biological Abstracts encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research. This includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included.
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Provides access to over 100 open access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine.
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Collects the full text of journals published by scientific societies together into one database. Coverage generally goes back to the 2000s. Subject coverage includes the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Alternate Name(s):Birds of North America Online
The online version of this reference work from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology contains a comprehensive index birds, including photographs, videos and audio recordings.
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Alternate Name(s):Slavery, Colonial, Colonial America, Civil War, Abolition, Slave, Black History, History, American History, African American
This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves.
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1,700+ full text plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.

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A news media digital archive on the African American experience.

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Scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays, and historical indexes. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index, and more.

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Collection comprises approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history, and includes letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts in addition to familiar works.

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Online version of the 11-volume Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007).
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Includes 4,100 back issues of Bloomberg Businessweek, from 1929 to 2000. Entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.
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Alternate Name(s):Bloomberg, Businessweek
First time users: Create an account by visiting the Bloomberg registration page. Enter your @american.edu email address, then enter the verification code.
Bloomberg.com is a news source that provides global news and analysis, as well as focused business-specific coverage on companies, industries and markets. Includes access to Bloomberg Businessweek articles. Does not include the securities and financial information that can be found on the Bloomberg Terminal Workstations in Bender Library and the Kogod FSIT lab.
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Contains the contents of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, the 33 1/3 book series, and other reference titles.
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Presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic way to evaluate science, social science, and humanities books and their scholarly impact and influence. Book Citation Index has citation data from 2005 to present.

British Humanities Index covers more than 320 humanities journals, weekly magazines, and newspapers published in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries.

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Contains full runs of 48 newspapers representing nineteenth century Britain, including national and regional newspapers, as well as those from country, university, and industrial towns in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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Hundreds of periodicals, both popular and scholarly, published from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.

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Actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses.
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Major business resource that provides access to scholarly and peer-reviewed articles from all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and industry information, in addition to market research reports. Articles, many of which are full-text, are from thousands of scholarly business journals.

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Alternate Name(s):Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
Helps authors find information about journals in many science and social science fields. It includes two products, Journalytics and Predatory. Journalytics includes information about academic journals to help authors select a journal to publish in. Predatory includes information about possible predatory journal publishers to avoid.
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110 films from the California Newsreel (CN) catalog. CN produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Founded in 1968, CN is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, the first to combine media production and contemporary social movements. The streaming collection contains such high use titles as Color Adjustment, Ethnic Notions, and Race: The Power of an Illusion.

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Alternate Name(s):Cambridge Core

Access to hundreds of electronic books, introductions to the major works and figures in the areas of literature, philosophy, religion and the classics.

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Alternate Name(s):Cambridge Core
Collection of full-text e-books published by Cambridge University Press. Covers a wide range of subject areas. The content is best searched in AU Library Search on the Library's home page.
AU Library owns selected titles on this platform.
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Alternate Name(s):Cambridge Core

Online version of over 300 volumes of the Cambridge Histories book series published since 1960. Covers the history of the ancient and modern world, literature, language and linguistics, philosophy and religion, political thought, music and theater, science, economic history, and law in America.

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Alternate Name(s):Cambridge Core
More than 350 full-text journals published by Cambridge University Press covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. Contents are cross-disciplinary and discoverable in a full-text search in AU Library Search.
AU Library subscribes to selected titles on this platform.
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Alternate Name(s):Canadian Newsstand Complete
Canadian Newsstream offers unparalleled access to over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers providing full-text access to articles, columns and features as far back as the late 1970s.
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Provides abstracts and full text from more than 500 full-text magazine, journal, and trade titles addressing all aspects of career studies.
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A collection of poetry, drama, and fiction produced by writers of the greater Caribbean region. It includes works in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
Also includes several creole dictionaries.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
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Now on the AnswerConnect platform, the accounting and auditing resource library is designed to assist practitioners with authoritative and interpretive literature from accounting standards organizations and government regulators. Contains select publications from the AICPA, PCAOB, IASB and SEC.
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CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) is a non-profit that maintains a global environmental reporting system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts.
AU library has access to CDP climate change data 2010 through 2023.
You will be directed to a form to request access to the data and your request will be processed within two business days. Access is restricted to current AU students, faculty, and staff.

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Economic working papers from the Centre for Economic Policy Research. CEPR research covers areas such as banking and corporate finance, development economics, labor economics, political economy, and public economics.
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Provides comprehensive and authoritative integration of tax code analysis, explanations, annotations, headnotes and primary tax sources. Also includes four tax treatises: Bittker & Eustice – FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS AND SHAREHOLDERS; McKee Nelson FEDERAL TAXATION OF PARTNERSHIPS AND PARTNERS; Saltzman & Book IRS PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE; Bittler & Lokken FEDERAL TAXATION OF INCOME, ESTATES, AND GIFTS
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A digitized version of a leading African American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. This database contains the complete run of the Chicago Defender from 1910 to 2010.

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The online version of the18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, a popular style guide used in the field of history and in some humanities and social sciences. It primarily provides guidance in citing sources but also addresses editorial practice, including grammar and usage, and document preparation and formatting.
18th and 17th editions are available.
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A digitized version of the complete Chicago Tribune newspaper starting from 1849 to 1990.

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Provides the full-text of thousands of resources relevant to the field of childcare and early education. Interactive tools allow users to refine their searches, download full-text documents, build customized tables on state policies, compare state demographics, and analyze research data online.

References to the current and historical scholarly literature on the growth and development of young people up to the age of 21.

CLCD contains more than 150,000 full-text reviews of children's books, multimedia, and other publication formats. Reviews are from 27 major sources such as Booklist, Horn Book Magazine, and Kirkus Reviews. In addition, the content includes over one million fiction/non-fiction titles, thousands of awards, author/title links, authoritative web resources, lesson plans, and teaching guides.

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Full-text Chinese-language articles from more than 3832 scholarly journal articles published in mainland China. Publication years vary widely, but most are from the 1990s to present. The articles can be searched in English as well as Chinese. Some articles have titles and abstracts translated into English.
American University's subscription encompasses the following classifications:
(G) Politics/ Military Affairs/ Law
(H) Education & Social Sciences
(J) Economics & Management

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Official government, social, economic, and industry statistics of the People's Republic of China. Data is available on a national, provincial, county, and city level. Is the online equivalent of the "China Statistical Yearbook" and is comprised of the China Statistical Data Online and the China Census Data Online databases.
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Declassified by the State Department, the Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955, provide valuable insight into numerous domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period.
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A database of book reviews primarily used by academic librarians to buy books. A broad spectrum of subject areas are covered.
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A newspaper and website that focuses on higher education issues and college and university personnel. It includes news stories, opinion pieces, data, and job listings.
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A collection of research and analysis in international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.Types of publications include working papers, policy briefs, current analysis and commentary, scholarly journal articles, e-books, and videos.

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Provides historical, personal, and professional information about the inhabitants of major cities within select states and information about civic, social, religious, and commercial organizations. Coverage ranges from the late 18th century through 1929.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest History Vault

This collection of primary source materials documents the struggle for Black civil rights in the United States during the 20th century. In addition to NAACP papers, there are federal government records, organzational records, and personal papers of civil rights activists and leaders.

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Newspaper founded by Garrett Morgan, inventor of the gas mask and traffic light. Contributors included noted journalists Charles H. Loeb and John Fuster. The newspaper is well known for its support of the Scottsboro trial defendants with letters, clothing, stamps, and donations to the defense fund. Coverage from 1934 to 1991.

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Alternate Name(s):epa, clean energy report, EPA, InsideEPA, InsideEPA/Climate, inside epa
News and analysis covering climate policy developments in U.S. federal and state governments.
Previously InsideEPA/climate, Clean Energy Report, and Carbon Control News.
Includes access to general news available on the InsideEPA.com homepage.
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A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Databases include Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
Note the open access, read only version of the Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions can be accessed via the library's catalog record.
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Alternate Name(s):African Blue Books

Primary source materials related to the British administration of its colonies in Africa.

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Contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field, including 150+ journals. Affiliated with the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) non-profit.
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ComAnalytics provides metrics for assessing the relative productivity of all publishing faculty at North American communication and journalism programs. Affiliated with the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) non-profit.
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Developed from a merger of Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communications Abstracts, Communication Source offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available.
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Covers publicly-traded companies in global markets. Provides income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow in local currencies in addition to time series data. Access is provided by Wharton Research Data Services.
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Alternate Name(s):Computing
Provides abstracts and full text from more than 1,300 journals and magazines on computing, the Internet and software development.
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Alternate Name(s):Business Knowledge RESEARCH
Full-text research reports, executive summaries, webcasts and podcasts on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. These reports include studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, and more. Full-text coverage begins with 1995 to the present.
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Provides access to published literature from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide, in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
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Consisting of documents from The National Archives, UK, this database has the complete volumes of all British Government Confidential Print for Africa, from the Colonial, Dominion, Foreign and War Offices covering 1834 to 1966. It includes diplomatic dispatches, statistical charts and tables, accounts of tours, correspondence, maps, minutes of meetings and conferences, texts of treaties as well as profiles of leading political, military and economic figures.

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Alternate Name(s):Formerly known as ProQuest Family Health
Covers over 370 journals on a wide range of health issues, from diseases to nutrition to sports injuries.
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Provides online access to full-text reviews and advice on consumer products and services. It is the online version of the print Consumer Reports magazine.
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Alternate Name(s):Washington Consumer Checkbook

Checkbook surveys consumers and evaluates the quality and prices of local services and products for the Washington D.C. metro area.
 

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Contains biographical information on more than 3,600 important figures in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae.

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Political Risk Services' (PRS) 100 Country Reports monitor the risks to international business over the next five years, using the tried and true Coplin-O'Leary methodology. Additional International Country Risk Guides monitor 140 developed, emerging, & frontier markets, rating a wide range of risks facing international businesses & financial institutions.
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Alternate Name(s):CQ Plus, CQ Roll Call

CQ provides comprehensive news and updates from the United States Congress alongside official congressional documents. Homepage changes daily with updated content. Browse by topic, committee, or member name.
**Access limited to 5 concurrent users.**
Request an account to sign up for newsletters, alerts of legislative updates, transcripts, legislator/committee activity, etc.

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CQ Almanac provides narrative accounts of significant legislation considered by the United States Congress. Coverage begins in 1945 (79th Congress) and included roll call votes for all major legislation.
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Profiles of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior and interest group ratings,as well as information on key votes, the legislative process, and public policy legislation.
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Formerly CQ Weekly. Comprehensive source for coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon.

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Alternate Name(s):CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions
CQ Press books: Politics in America (2000 to 2018); Washington Information Directory; Congress and the Nation (1945 to present); Political Handbook of the World (2005 to present); Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 to present); Vital Statistics on American Politics; and Historic Documents (1972 to present).
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CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
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Analysis and statistics on U.S. presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections.

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Contains multimedia materials that provide instruction on critical thinking and information literacy skills.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

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Alternate Name(s):CNTSDA
The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive, launched in 1968, contains domestic conflict, political, legislative and economic data (around 200 variables) on over 200 countries from 1815 onward.
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Congressional Research Service Reports provide a variety of in-depth policy analysis and background summaries on every subject of interest to Congress.

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CRSP Indices database contains five groups of CRSP indices: the CRSP Stock File Indices, the CRSP Cap-Based Portfolios, the CRSP Indices for the S&P 500 Universe, the CRSP Treasury and Inflation (CTI) Indices, and the CRSP Select Treasury Indices. Access is provided by Wharton Research Data Services.
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The Center for Research in Security Prices US Stock database provides access to daily and monthly trading data back to December 31, 1925 for stocks trading on the NYSE, AMEX (July 2, 1962 - October 1, 2008), NASDAQ (from December 14, 1972), and ARCA (from March 8, 2006). Includes closing price, shares outstanding, and return for the stock. Also includes index level data.
Access is provided by Wharton Research Data Services.
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This database contains primary source documents from the Casa de las Americas in Havana, an institution devoted to preserving and promoting the arts and culture of Cuba since it was founded immediately after the Cuban Revolution.

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Alternate Name(s):Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Current Digest of the Soviet Press

English translations of news articles published in the Soviet Union and Russia from 1949 to 2010. Includes translations of Soviet government documents, laws and treaties, five-year plans and reports of their implementation, as well as speeches by leaders.
Note that we do not have access to The Current Digest of the Russian Press, 2011-present.

The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields.

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Provides access to information such as duration, instrumentation, chorus type and soloists on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers
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The Data Citation Index on the Web of Science platform provides access to the data sets and data studies connected to journal articles, books, and conference proceedings. It links directly to data repositories across disciplines and around the world. Many types of data are available, including quantitative, qualitative, and survey.

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An alphabetical arrangement of individuals who have appeared in ITERATE and Edward Mickolus' previous chronologies of international terrorism; includes individuals who have been named in open sources as somehow involved in terrorist attacks or organizations. This list does not purport to be globally comprehensive - it is limited solely to international incidents or other incidents of sufficient import to be included in previous chronologies.
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Alternate Name(s):DataCite Metadata Search
Searchable database of metadata records for works that have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), including datasets, texts, and images. (For background information on DOIs, see https://subjectguides.library.american.edu/dois).
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Alternate Name(s):Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections provides access to election statistics from United States races for President, Governor, House of Representatives, and Senate, as well as voter turnout figures. Data is in Excel and/or CSV format. Coverage dates are from 1912, and coverage varies by type of election.
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DBLP is a full text, freely-accessible database for many computer science journal articles, conference proceedings, and series. Notes: it is a smaller collection than other computer science databases, since it primarily materials freely available without subscription. Also, the database is not full text searchable, but is a central resource for those wishing to find many full text articles in computer science, as it collects full text publications from a variety of legal resources. Finally, not every resource is full text - please check AU Library holdings for options to access these materials.
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A vast collection of ebooks, including thousands from Central European, Cornell, Rutgers, Stanford, of California, of Hawaii, of Texas, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, New York, Princeton, and Yale University Presses.
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This interactive update of the standard six-volume set covering the regional vocabulary of the United States features audio and maps.

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A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temples, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources.

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Declassified documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Documents include presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, emails, confidential letters, and other secret materials.

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Alternate Name(s):Digital Theatre Plus DT+

Provides access to over 1000 full-length productions, interviews, written content, and educational resources that reflect contemporary theatre and performance around the world.

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Dimensions track citation metrics and altmetrics for research outputs, including journal articles, datasets, and some books and book chapters. Results can be filtered by institution, researcher, year, and more, and metrics can be analyzed and compared using its Analytics tools. Download up to 5000 records at a time for further analysis. Tracked sources include policy papers, grant funding, news, and more, and incorporates Altmetric information for research output. For assistance in using Dimensions, please contact Rachel Borchardt, borchard@american.edu.
And see Intro to Dimensions for Researchers video (for AU community members).
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Alternate Name(s):disability, ability
At completion, Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
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Access full text of dissertations and theses in PDF format authored by American students. Access includes digitized and electronic dissertations and theses from 1916 until present. To see other formats, check our library catalog.

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Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest) simplifies searching for dissertations and theses via a single access point to explore an extensive, trusted collection of 3.8 million graduate works, with 1.7 million in full text.
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Alternate Name(s):DOAJ
Find open access journals & articles.
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Coverage: UK government documents from 1898 to 1950s. Updated: Regularly.
A collection of over 50,000 U.K. government documents from 1898 to 1950s relating to Britain's international relations, including foreign policy instructions, letters and memos, business reports, and more. They have been selected by the official historians of Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office and many were formerly classified. The British equivalent to the U.S. Foreign Relations of the United States.

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Alternate Name(s):Docuseek2 Docuseek3

A collection of 2000+ streaming documentaries by Icarus Films, Bullfrog Films and other premier documentary distributors. Over 500 topic areas including anthropology, cultural studies, environmental health, social justice, and women's history.

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Streaming audio access to more than 3,700 albums' worth of recordings, spanning all genres. Includes liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.

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English-language drama from the late thirteenth century through to the early twenty-first century. Includes a selection of related ephemera, including posters, playbills, and photos.

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The collection presented here consists of Pearson's syndicated Washington Merry-Go-Round column published between 1932 and 1969. American University Library Special Collections Unit holds the typescript copies for the column that the syndicate sent to Pearson's office at the same time the typescripts were distributed to newspapers around the country.

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The online version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (current volume DSM-5) is the authoritative guide to psychological disorders currently recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. The manual is browsable by alphabetical listing, numerical listing, and by disorder type. Sections can be downloaded to PDF, e-mailed as a link, and/or printed.
Includes DSM Library comprising the DSM-5-TR, Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Cases, Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview, and legacy library,
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Link to access Duke University Press journals.

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Korean studies collection comprised of 8 databases in English and Korean. Offerings cover all academic disciplines, including arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, and physical education. E-books, e-journals, dissertations, classical literature, video lectures, and newspapers are included. North Korean academic journals are also available.
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A complete digitized copy of American University's undergraduate student newspaper, The Eagle, from 1925 to June 2009.
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This primary source collection contains digitized images of nearly every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819. Series I is based on a definitive work called the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and covers 1639-1800. Series II, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, covers 1801-1819.

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This resource contains digitized images of nearly every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800. Early American Imprints consists of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images; it is an important resource for information about every aspect of life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century America.

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Full images of over 36,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the U.S. in the early 19th century covering all aspects of American life. Based on the "American Bibliography 1801-1819" by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.

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A collection of over 125,000 titles, from the first book published in English, through 1700. Disciplines covered include literature, history, philosophy, theology, music, and the sciences.

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Full-text database of 2,000+ journals & periodicals published by academic and research institutes in South Korea. The database covers subjects such as humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, medical science, pharmaceutics, and agriculture. (formerly part of EKS)

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U.S. Department of State records relating to the internal affairs of East Germany
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Alternate Name(s):African American; Black; Black culture; Black history

Provides facsimile editions of a key 20th century publication covering African-American business, history, politics, entertainment, fashion and culture. Ebony's editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. Coverage: 1945-2014

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Ebook Central; ProQuest E-book Central; E book Central; E-book Central
Access over 200,000 ebooks here on a variety of topics.
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Provides abstracts of the world's economic literature produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

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Digitized version of the complete British weekly news magazine from inception in 1843 to 2020. The Economic Financial indicator tables from May 1983 to December 2020 are available for exporting into a spreadsheet format.

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Alternate Name(s):EIU CityData, EIU Country Commerce, EIU Country Reports, EIU World Investment Service, EIU Viewpoint
Country-level data providing advice on risk, foreign investment and industry, and the business climate. Our subscription provides access to a suite of products from EIU, including Country Data, Country Analysis Reports, and Market Indicators and Forecasts.
CityData was sunsetted in June 2024. Historical CityData files are available upon request.
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Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Includes mobile app and subscriber-only podcasts and events.
For quick access, click on the link above.
For a personalized experience or in the app, select the option to Log In, choose SSO, and select American University Library (not American University) from the list of institutions.

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Includes the complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio of 1623, and a range of theater adaptations, including one by Dryden.
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Abstracts and some full text of education journals and magazines. 1988 to present.

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Over 3,300 streaming videos for training and developing teachers. Footage of teachers and students in actual classrooms.
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Provides full-text coverage for over 1,700 journals dating back to 1929, plus more than 550 books and conference papers. Incorporates content from H.W. Wilson and EBSCO education databases.
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Alternate Name(s):EdWeek
Education Week online, plus benchmark reports, special reports, and 30 years of archives.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) features the digitized format of 150,000 printed works -- nearly every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

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eMarketer provides analysis, market data, and statistics on the internet, e-commerce, online marketing, social media, and emerging digital technologies around the world.
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Published by Brill, this is the authoritative encyclopedia on all aspects of the Islamic world. This database includes the complete 12 volume 2nd Edition, and the ongoing, completely new 3rd Edition, which has more entries on contemporary and current issues. Also includes the Historical Atlas of Islam.

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Profiles on over 1,000 industries, including but not limited to food, retail, finance and manufacturing, in every realm of American business. Industry information is presented in a quick and easy to read format.
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Provides information on literary works that engage with political issues and political writings that deal with literary concerns. Covers literary works, authors, theorists, critics and movements from ancient Greece to present day, with a focus on modern conflicts and controversies.

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This encyclopedia explores the evolution of the PR field, with examples from history describing events, changing practices, and the key figures who developed and expanded the profession.
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Provides comprehensive coverage of financial modeling from a range of experts from finance, economics and other disciplines.
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The collection contains documents related to collaborations, correspondences, AIDS/HIV-related correspondences, newspaper coverage, events, meeting minutes, board records, newsletters, promotional materials, finances, and founding documents between 1987-1995 from ENLACE, the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Latino Lesbian and Gay Coalition, was the first organization in the DC area to center the experiences of lesbian and gay Latinas/os.

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Digital archive of facsimile editions of major trade and consumer magazines related to film, theater, music, television, and general entertainment industry. 
Includes 15 trade and popular magazines covering all aspects of the music industry, theatre and broadcast radio in the US and UK covering the period 1880-2000; 10 long-running and highly influential magazines which document all aspects of cinema going, the film industry and the evolution of television and popular culture between 1905 and 2000; and 12 further major consumer and trade publications from the US and the UK on film and television, from 1907 to 2015.
Provides complete runs of magazines from their inception to 2000, including Variety, Billboard, and Broadcasting & Cable, and the Hollywood Reporter to 2015.

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Daily coverage of U.S. and international environmental and energy policy and markets. Includes the full text of the following publications: Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, and E&E News PM.
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The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature and indexes over 700 journals in the field of education. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature and indexes over 700 journals in the field of education. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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Essential Science Indicators is a compilation of performance statistics and trends extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly, mostly science, journals. Helps discover the frequency of citation in each scientific field and the most highly cited papers in each field. Includes the citation information for top articles, which can be searched in AU Library Search.

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A collection of current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies, and historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

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More than 1,000 ethnographic films with transcripts. The collection covers every region of the world and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides. Transcripts of all programs provided.

Information on over 7,000 living languages. Includes profiles for every language and country on earth, maps of where each language is spoken, search and cross-referencing.
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Passport is a global market information database examining countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, market reports and interactive visualization tools.
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Economic, political, and geographical background information and statistical data by country. Includes a listing of around 1,900 international organizations.

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English-language database containing economic and business data, as well as analyses, current news, policies, statistics, and political developments for countries in Europe.
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Citations to more than 32,000 printed material about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. This database is the online version of the 6 volumes "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750," edited by John Alden and Dennis Landis (New York: Readex Books, 1980-1988).

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The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church includes information on the establishment of indigenous churches, educational facilities, hospitals, orphanages, and seminaries. Includes correspondence, sermons, diary accounts, receipts of sale, and field accounts.

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A major source of newspapers, web news, and industry news, containing 28,000 sources from over 200 countries in 23 languages. Includes Wall Street Journal television transcripts and newswires. Includes company profiles.

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Faculti videos and podcasts cover the latest research and academic insight, delivered by the leading academic figures and institutions and course-mapped to support college undergraduate and professional graduate courses.
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Over 500 feature films, including classics, blockbusters, foreign films, animated films, and more.
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FBI files on radical U.S. figures and organizations. Documents cover 1956 to 1971.

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Contains files of the FBI Counterintelligence Program (CONTELPRO) from 1956 to 1971 on prominent black Americans and their organizations.

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Alternate Name(s):FBI; Federal Bureau of Investigation; independence movement; Puerto Rico

This collection highlights the FBI's efforts to disrupt the activities of the largest of the Puerto Rican independence parties, Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, and compromise their effectiveness. In addition, these documents provide documentary history and analysis of why independence was the second-largest political movement in the island, (after support for commonwealth status), and a real alternative.

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A collection of Cuban documents, most of which are in Spanish, of works by feminists about feminists and their causes, of works by men on the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that illustrate or discuss the condition of women. Includes personal letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, and memoirs from women's congresses.

The FIAF International Film Archive Database is published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and contains several databases: the International Index to Film Periodicals, the International Index to Television Periodicals, the List of Periodicals Indexed, the Treasures from the Film Archives, the FIAF Affiliates Publications and the Film and TV Documentation Collections.

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Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI) is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more, as well as full text for more than 90 journals. The FLTI is a continuation of the Film Literature Index Online database and covers 1988 to the present.

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340+ award-winning streaming documentaries in subject areas including gender studies, sociology, journalism, politics, international studies, and psychology.

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Alternate Name(s):American Film Scripts

Full text access to 1,000+ film scripts from 1903 to 2006, with PDF versions as available. Includes the ability to search by writer, director, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, year of writing, and other elements.

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A database of streaming videos, all academic-level documentaries, across all subject areas. Transcripts of all programs provided. NOTE: This collection also includes the contents of Filmakers Library Online, volume 2.

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Choose from over 7500 streaming films in the humanities and social sciences, business, science and mathematics, health, and newsreels. About 50% of content has captioning available. No transcripts are provided.

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Alternate Name(s):Global Financial Data, GFD

Provides historic economic and financial data for more than 200 countries, with some data sets tracked as far back as the 13th century.

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The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, commentary and analysis from the Financial Times.
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The Financial Times provides international business, finance, economic and political news, commentary and analysis. This archive is a complete, fully searchable facsimile edition of the FT. It offers the complete run of the London edition of the newspaper, from its first issue to the end of 2021.
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Alternate Name(s):D&B First Research
Provides industry profiles covering over 900 industry segments in United States. Updated on a quarterly basis, the profiles contain critical analysis, statistics and forecast data.
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Social history through a collection of more than 300 printed and manuscript recipe collections from 1669-1990 with related content such as home medical remedies, etiquette guidance, and household management.

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Includes 2,500 back issues of Forbes Magazine, from 1917 to 2000. Entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.
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Magazine covering international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
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The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports are U.S. government transcriptions and translations of radio broadcasts from foreign countries. Annexes comprise an additional 7,000 transcripts to the Daily Reports. The modern successor to the FBIS Daily Reports is the World News Connection.

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Reporting and analysis on global affairs, foreign policy, and international relations.
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This collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues. It sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries. In the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are represented. This collection includes cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.

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Fortune is an American multinational business magazine. Fortune regularly publishes ranked lists, including the Fortune 500, a ranking of companies by revenue that it has published annually since 1955.The magazine is also known for its annual Fortune Investor's Guide. This archive Includes 1,200 back issues from 1930 to 2000. Provides access to entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.
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Alternate Name(s):Candid
Information on over 100,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities with over 2.4 million recent grants.
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Fuente Academica Premier is a rapidly expanding collection of over 570 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. The database is updated weekly.

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Collection of directories, including the Encyclopedia of Associations, the Encyclopedia of Government Advisory Organizations, the Directory of Early Stage Investment, the Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Market Share Reporter, the Medical and Health Information Directory, and the National Faculty Directory.
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides news, overview information, case studies, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents, and statistics. Search by keyword or browse by topic to gather a wide variety of sources related to environmental topics - excellent for non-science majors researching environmental topics.
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Alternate Name(s):Gale Literary Databases

In-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works.
Includes:
Literature Criticism featuring Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and more
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography

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Searchable resource of 70+ years of public opinion data and analysis compiled by Gallup, Inc. Includes answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by the Gallup Poll since 1935. Data is available from the United States as well as 160 countries dating from 2005. User can create custom tables and export data.

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Searchable resource of 70+ years of public opinion data and analysis compiled by Gallup, Inc. Includes answers to more than 125,000 question, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by the Gallup Poll from 1935 to 2016.
See Gallup Analytics for current content.

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Instructions for obtaining microdata from the Gallup World Poll and the Gallup Daily US Tracking Survey.

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Datasets (in SPSS format) and their codebooks (in Excel format) from the Gallup Poll Social Series (GPSS). For each month, the dataset contains a common set of basic indicator variables, and different sets of topical variables, for years going back to 2001, as indicated in its codebook.
For more information on the GPSS, please see How Does the Gallup Poll Social Series Work?
** Items in this collection are labeled 'under embargo' and can be accessed when connected to the secure campus network (includes AU VPN). **

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Contains over 1,200 essays on the indigenous, popular, and classical music of every region in the world.
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Alternate Name(s):Gender Watch

GenderWatch indexes over 200 scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers (about 1970 to present) on the evolution of gender roles as they affect men and women. Many of the articles are full-text and there are 19 full-text books.

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Global Health features key literature within global public health. Coverage goes back to 1973 and features over 2 million articles, many of which are exclusive to this database.
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This collection documents the broad range of 19th century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the U.S. by reproducing pivotal personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries, and churches. Includes missionary activities among Native Americans, African Americans, Africa, Fiji and the Sandwich Islands, India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Hawaii.

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Alternate Name(s):MarketLine

Includes company and industry profiles and country PESTLE reports, as well as alternative data, such as tenders, social media, and job analytics.

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Google Scholar may be the world’s largest academic search engine, indexing peer reviewed articles, books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and other scholarly literature. The full text of items may not be available for free, but those that overlap with AU Library’s collections can be accessed there.
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Streaming video collection of over 150 famous speeches given by key contemporary and historical figures. Includes many speeches by U.S. politicians and former presidents.

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Provides citations and abstracts to journal and magazine articles, book chapters and government documents on many aspects of the environment, including global warming, energy conservation, and pollution.
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A completely revised and updated version of the original work published in Germany in 1960, this edition incorporates recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community.
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Guangming Ribao is the official Chinese newspaper and has the longest publication history of any newspaper in China. Database provides access to full content from 1946-2017.

Alternate Name(s):Candid
Search for reports on non-profits, including organizations and more than 3.3 million individuals. For some groups, up to 5 years' worth of IRS tax forms, balance sheet, and income and distribution data is available.
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Compiles CRS reports, US Supreme Court briefs, legislative histories, and other related materials on the topic of firearm regulation in America. Accessed on the HeinOnline platform.

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An Israeli newspaper providing English language news from Israel and the Middle East.

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This major resource contains updated tables of physical and chemical data.
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Alternate Name(s):HarpWeek

An interactive database of Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War Era through the Gilded Age.
Coverage: 1857-1912

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Alternate Name(s):Harvard Business Review Case Studies

Provides access to over 2,000 HBS case studies as well as 76 core curriculum readings that cover entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, marketing, operations management, organizational behavior and strategy.

Alternate Name(s):Hathi Trust

HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward this collection under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests. HathiTrust holds the largest set of digitized books managed by the academic, research, and library community.

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Alternate Name(s):Formerly known as ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
Includes over 1,900 medical and health administration sources, many in full-text.
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A comprehensive collection of full-text PDF (or text) images of major law journal articles, including back issues.

Citations to articles, book reviews, literary works, and other materials about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US, from journals published throughout the world.

Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history, excluding the United States and Canada. Equivalent to the printed version of Historical Abstracts.

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Social and economic statistics of the United States from colonial times to 2000.

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Alternate Name(s):Women's Studies Manuscripts from the Schlesinger Library; Struggle for Women's Rights 1880-1990; Margaret Sanger Papers; Women at Work during WW II; ProQuest History Vault

Primary source documents from women's organizations in the 19th and 20th Centuries that chronicle the struggles for voting rights and reproductive rights.

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An African-American oral history collection, featuring interviews with thousands of individuals from the worlds of art, business, entertainment, politics, religion, science, and sports.

Collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Proprietary information on more than 65 million public and private companies, along with executive biographies and industry descriptions.
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The most important directory for media contacts in the Washington area. Includes: news services and newspapers; news service syndicates; DC newspapers, foreign newspapers; radio and TV; magazines and newsletters; freelance writers and photographers.
Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of relevance to the discipline. Indexed titles include Journal of Human Resources, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Development International.

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Provides estimates of company performance made by both company management and analysts. Allows users to compare analyst and management expectations on company performance for more than 8,200 companies. Access is provided by Wharton Research Data Services.
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Developed by the Cleantech Group, it provides updates on clean technology investments, IPOs, mergers, acquisitions, business relationships, and other financing activity.
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Alternate Name(s):IBIS

Contains detailed reports on over 700 industries in the United States. Also includes company and segment benchmarking metrics. Reports are based on the NAICS code.

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Alternate Name(s):IBIS ibis

Reports contain data and analysis related to product or service pricing dynamics, product characteristics that affect the purchasing decision, supplier benchmarking and supply chain risks, and negotiation questions and tactics.

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This resource includes both publicly available and non-publicly available datasets on public policy and social science research.
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IDC publishes market forecasts, industry analyses, case studies, vendor decision toolkits, and blog posts on the tech sector, including big data/analytics, cloud computing, consumer tech, infrastructure software, Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, networking, security, semiconductors, social business, storage, telecommunications and more.
Once on the platform, use the search at the top of the page to search our subscribed content and visit the MyIDC link to access your dashboard.
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Access International Energy Agency statistics on coal, electricity, oil, natural gas, and renewables. Also features IEA energy projections for member countries, general statistics, CO2 emissions from fuel consumption, and world energy statistics and balances.
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Alternate Name(s):IEEE Electronic Library IEL, Computer Society Digital Library CSDL
More than 5 million IEEE documents in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and communication. The library includes extensive conference proceedings, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles and industry standards.
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Contains the working papers as well as books, periodicals, and reports published by the International Monetary Fund.
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Includes the following statistical databases from the International Monetary Fund: Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS); Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS); Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS); Financial Access Survey (FAS); Government Finance Statistics (GFS); International Financial Statistics (IFS); and International Reserves Template.
Index Islamicus contains citations and abstracts from over 3,000 journals, as well as books and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world. Publications are in mostly European languages.
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Indexes the art of the entire Christian world from apostolic times up to 1400 C.E.
Alternate Name(s):Nineteenth Century

This database indexes 42 art journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century. It covers all subjects in the visual arts including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, decorative arts, exhibitions, and collecting.
 

Citations to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in over 190 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works.
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Indiastat offers a comprehensive compilation of socio-economic statistical information about India and its states on various socio-economic parameters.
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Collection of Department of State and CIA documents concerning South and North Vietnam.
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This collection includes Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees subject files on virtually every group of racial, religious and political refugees from 1938 to 1947.
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Alternate Name(s):IABO, International African Bibliography
International and interdisciplinary specialist bibliography of African Studies. Includes non-English language publications and is searchable by authors, editors, titles, publication years, ISSN/ISBN, keywords, full text and categories like regions and countries or the African Diaspora.
Coverage: 1971-present.
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This successor database to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) indexes over 500 core journals, plus monographs and conference proceedings. Coverage begins in 2008.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is the online database equivalent of four separate print indices: the International Bibliography of Political Science, International Bibliography of Anthropology, International Bibliography of Economics, and the International Bibliography of Sociology. It covers journal articles and book titles and includes literature from more than 100 different languages and countries.

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Books, journal articles, and dissertations on all aspects of theatre and dance are indexed and annotated. Over 500 titles are available in full-text.

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Alternate Name(s):GDF Online (Global Development Finance),
External debt and financial flow data for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. From the World Bank.
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Over a thousand articles across twenty-five areas of this interdisciplinary field.
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In-depth reference work that explores print journalism, radio, film, TV, photography, computing, mobile phones, and digital media. Scholarship from over 200 contributors discusses history, production, content, audiences, effects, and futures.
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International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
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Citations and abstracts from roughly 900 journals and yearbooks in the fields of political science, international relations, and public administration. Covers publications from 1975 to the present. In most cases the abstracts are in English, and in some cases (non-English articles) in French. When the original article is not in English, the title in the record is in its own language, English and French.

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This is a collection of British and American magazines from 1786 to 1993 that were aimed at a female audience. Some of the titles were conceived and published by women, for women. There are 103,870 page images. This database is part of Gale's Archives Unbound collection of primary sources.

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Full-text access to more than 60 IOP (Institute of Physics Publishing and partners') journals, including more than 450,000 journal articles and core physics journals. This does not include full-text access to their archives, but the archives can be searched.
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A library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
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U.S. and international public opinion polls (iPOLL) and datasets (RoperExpress) from 1935 to present. Includes the major academic, commercial and media survey organizations.
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The ITERATE project is an attempt to quantify data on the characteristics of transnational terrorist groups, their activities which have international impact, and the environment in which they operate. The datasets include characteristics of incidents, terrorists, and victims; and life and property losses.
** Items in this collection are labeled 'under embargo' and can be accessed when connected to the secure campus network (includes AU VPN). **

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A collection of images collected by Jack Child, alumnus and former faculty member at American University. Child was a specialist in Latin America and Latin American culture, with an emphasis on Antarctica, Chile and the Falkland / Malvinas Islands.

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A collection of stamps, first day covers, stamp covers, and stamp albums collected by Jack Child, alumnus and former faculty member at American University. Child was a specialist in Latin America and Latin American culture, with an emphasis on Antarctica, Chile and the Falkland / Malvinas Islands.

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Alternate Name(s):Jane's, Jane's Security News, Jane's Defence News, Jane's Terrorism & Insurgency Centre, Jane's Sentinel: Country Risk

Defense and security news, intelligence, and analysis. Our subscription includes modules in the following areas:
Country Intelligence
Defence Budgets
Defence Equipment & Technology
Military Capabilities
Terrorism & Insurgency
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Collection of U.S. diplomatic and consular documents concerning Japan during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Digitized selections from American University's collection of ukiyo-e and Japanese woodblock prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts. Populated with selections from the Charles Nelson Spinks Collection, the Dorothy A. and Charles A. Moore Jr. Japanese Woodblock Print Collection, and purchased prints.

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This is a collection of 25 newspapers in Japanese-American internment camps run by the War Relocation Authority from 1942 to 1945. Most of the articles are in English, but many are in Japanese. Many of the titles are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted.

Detailed catalog of over 100 years of recorded jazz.
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Jet Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

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Full-text access to an information source serving the Jewish community in the United States from 1905 through 2020.

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Full-text access to an award-winning Jewish newspaper, from 1887 to 1990.

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Documents of the Kennedy Administration (1961 to 1963) taken from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library related to international affairs. The documents span from 1958 to 1964.

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The John R. Hickman Collection consists of more than 10,000 broadcast quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programs, from the 1920s through the 1970s.

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Comprehensive historical survey of the important figures, movements, and schools of thought in literary theory and criticism.
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Presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic way to evaluate science and social science journals and their impact and influence. JCR Web has the latest five-year data on a journal.

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JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal, with videos dating back to 2006. As part of the JoVE Unlimited package, we subscribe to all sections of JoVE, which covers many aspects of science and medicine, including Biology, Neuroscience, Chemistry, Behavior and more.
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A series of educational videos demonstrating proper laboratory technique in various scientific disciplines. Video modules include biology, psychology, environmental science, chemistry and clinical skills.
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Alternate Name(s):Artstor

Full-text of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, plus a collection of more than one million digital art images for teaching and research.

American University is participating in JSTOR’s interactive research tool beta testing. View our FAQ for details.

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This streaming video collection includes documentaries and feature films from distributors including California Newsreel, First Run Features, Frameline, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, and others. Due to financial limitations, requests for licensing from Kanopy are mediated and restricted to faculty curricular needs. Area public library systems also subscribe to Kanopy and are a better source for entertainment needs.
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Alternate Name(s):Civil rights; African American; Black; African American Culture

Founded in 1919, The Call played a crucial role in providing leadership for the Black community. Over the course of its 102-year history, it has emerged as one of the most successful Black newspapers in the United States, consistently covering civil rights issues and fighting against segregation, discrimination, and other important issues facing African Americans. The paper has a long-standing history of encouraging African Americans to register and vote,
Coverage: 1919-2010 with some exceptions

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A summary of the world's political, social, and economic events from 1931 through 2017.

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Provides access to industry benchmarking data based on aggregated financial statements of public and private companies in 800 lines of business in Dun and Bradstreet’s (D&B) database. Features 14 key business ratios for the critical areas of business performance – solvency, efficiency and profitability. Ratios are arranged by the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.
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Provides access to company financial information and valuation analysis for private firms.
** Does not include access to RMA, Duff & Phelps, SBBI, BizMiner, or First Research modules. **
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Alternate Name(s):Korean Studies Information Service System KISS
KISS (Korean Studies Information Service System) is a multidisciplinary, full-text database of scholarly journals from universities and research institutions based in Korea.
Note that as of Q3 2023 ebooks are no longer provided in this collection.
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A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, including nearly 1.5 million articles from 1,600 scholarly journals published by prominent academic societies and research centers in South Korea. The journal titles are arranged by subject categories such as economics, engineering, education, and medicine.
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Alternate Name(s):LatinNews

Political, economic, security and strategic news and analysis on countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes the Latin American Weekly Report (1967 to present), the Latin American Regional Reports, and other reports. Some of the publications are also available in Spanish.

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Alternate Name(s):female, hispanic, latinx, latina
This collection comprises 100,000 pages of literary works, along with memoirs and essays, in their original language, by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century to the present.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
This database includes historical and cultural research, interviews, art, poetry, fiction and nonfiction, in addition to book reviews. It features a wide range of original works by artists, writers, and scholars that showcase the depth and breadth of the Latinx cultural experience.
Please provide an evaluation on the Database Trial Feedback Form. | Collection Manager: Stella Hudson | Expires: October 5, 2024
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Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Data files are available for different years, in various formats and in both Spanish and English.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde (1944-2000)

Considered one of the newspapers of record for France and one of the best-known and most influential publications in the world, this French-language newspaper was created at the request of General Charles de Gaulle as the German army was vacating Paris during World War II.

Alternate Name(s):Leadership Library

Directory of 400,000 individuals in U.S. federal, state, and local governments, news media, law and lobbying firms, business, and non-profit organizations. Also includes foreign representatives in the U.S. Updated daily. Online version of the Yellow Book directories.
** Our subscription is for read-only access and does not include the ability to download results sets. **
Faculty and administrative staff may request a user account to save searches and lists by sending email with your name, title, and @american.edu email address to liberm@american.edu.

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Full-text access to peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings that cover technology integration and teaching.
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Provides access to the literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals

English-language newspapers and magazines from 1900-2010 covering Communist, Marxist, and Socialist thought, theory and practice.

Provides timely and comprehensive contact and biographical data on congressional staff. Tracks legislative issues covered, roles and titles, education and work histories, disclosures, social media links, and other contextual information.
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Alternate Name(s):transgender, gay, bisexual, lesbian, gender, sexuality
An online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
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Alternate Name(s):LGBT Life with Full Text

Index to international literature on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues.

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Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party; this collection provides two unique views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles.

Contains 20 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections. The Library serves as the research arm of Congress and is recognized as the national library of the United States.
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An index to over 600 periodicals on the subject of library science, information management, and retrieval.
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Life was one of the most popular general interest magazines in the United States from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, particularly known for its high quality photography. The Archive covers 1936 to 2000.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Coverage is from 1973 to the present and there are currently over 447,000 records in the database.

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Alternate Name(s):Lynda Lynda.com, Linked In
Online training and courses in such subjects as Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Office, digital photography, Web design, digital video, and more.
** Connecting your LinkedIn Learning account with your LinkedIn profile is OPTIONAL, however, if you want to preserve your learning history and certificates after leaving AU, you will need to connect it. **
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Archives from the Federal Writers' Project, a component of the Work Projects Administration of Roosevelt's New Deal.

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A digital collection of Greek and Latin works of history, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, religion, the sciences, and theater, translated into English.

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The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S. Coverage 1934-2005.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times

Access to the Los Angeles times from 1881 through 2012.

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Alternate Name(s):African American; African American Culture; Black Culture

The Louisville Defender is a weekly newspaper and has been one of the main Black newspapers in the local Louisville area. It is an excellent source for coverage on issues affecting African Americans. The newspaper played an integral role in the fight for integration in the 1960s. Coverage is for 1951-2010.

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A digital collection of more than 10,000 titles and around two million pages of printed material on U.S. trials from 1600 to 1925. Includes unofficially published accounts of trials, official trial documents, briefs and arguments, and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitration. It is comprised primarily of holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries, as well as the Library of the Bar of the City of New York.

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Digitized images of 22,000 British and American legal treatises from 1800 to 1926. They include books, casebooks, practice books, pamphlets, letters, speeches, essays and other works about the making of law, but not the transcript of actual laws or actual cases.

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A digital archive of cases, statutes and regulations in America's history. Among the materials included are: significant codes and code-like compilations from all states up to 1926; documents from significant constitutional conventions from all states up to 1926; enacted and proposed city charters and ordinances as well as official documents relating to them; all the major American law dictionaries up to 1926; digests or indexes to reported cases arranged by subject; and a collection of more than 60 printed titles with the records and documents that detail the legislation and court proceedings of the American colonies. Most of the material in this database is derived from the collections of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University.

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Images from 61,000 works of literature on economics and business published from 1450-1945.
Part I, Goldsmith-Kress Collection 1450-1850; Part II, 1851-1914; Part III, 1890-1945; Part IV, 1800-1980.

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A collection of streaming video from the March of Time newsreel series, produced by Time, Inc. from 1935-1967. The newsreels include reporting, location shots, and dramatic reenactment of events, and have a subjective point of view. Videos are fully transcribed and cross-searchable by subject, historical event, people, and more.

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Provides full text market research reports on services, consumer goods, demographics, food and beverage, heavy industry, life science, public sector and technology industries. Coverage varies depending on the type of report.
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Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.
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Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.
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Alternate Name(s):Ad Fontes

A visual analysis display charting the left, right, center biases of various media platforms including newspapers, television programs, podcasts, and periodicals.

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50 titles from the Media Education Foundation (MEF). MEF produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media. The streaming collection contains such high use titles as Edward Said on Orientalism, Killing Us Softly 4 and Toxic Sludge is Good for You.
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The Media History Digital Library contains digital scans of hundreds of thousands of magazine pages from thousands of issues from 1904 to 1963. This open-access collection is a rich resource for the study of the early years of film and radio, including practitioner and fan-oriented publications.
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Provides circulation data, website usage, social media engagement, and audit reports for U.S. newspapers, magazines, and business journals.
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Alternate Name(s):Medici TV
Streaming videos of classical concerts, operas, and ballets with over 700 programs available.
Register for an individual, sponsored account to access and cast content via iOS and Android apps.
An online database of over 18 million citations on biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine.

Descriptions and critical reviews of over 2,200 commercially available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence, attitude measures, aptitude measures, educational, speech and hearing, and sensory motor.

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Alternate Name(s):Mergent WebReports
Contains:
Mergent Manuals - Corporate Manuals 1909 to 2018, and Municipal Manuals 1918-2018. These were print volumes with company descriptions.
D&B (Dun & Bradstreet) Manuals - Key Business Ratios 1979 to 2018. These were benchmarks for public and private companies.
Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) 1959 to 2019. These were directories of America's leading corporations.
Annual Reports - covering over 100 years dating back to 1844.
CRB Commodity Yearbook Collection - 1939 to present. This has historical commodity prices.

Built upon the Hoover's directory, this database provides financial data for private companies.

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Alternate Name(s):Mergent Online
Provides corporate information on over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading.
Market Atlas replaces Mergent Online. Access to Mergent Online will be available concurrently until it is discontinued in August 2025.
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Streaming video and audio collection of the Metropolitan Opera performances.
Alternate Name(s):Mideastwire.com, MideastWire
Concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Register for the daily newsletter using your AU email address.
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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.
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Alternate Name(s):Mintel Market Sizes, Mintel Oxygen Academic
Provides 600 yearly industry reports covering consumer markets, financial services, media, retail, leisure, and industrial spaces for the U.S. and select international markets. Mintel Trends also available.
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Alternate Name(s):Mintel Global Market Navigator
Provides 600 yearly industry reports covering consumer markets, financial services, media, retail, leisure, and industrial spaces for the U.S. and select international markets.
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This Massachusetts Institute of Technology “lab is a clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted. Find election data and research tools produced by us and others.”
Alternate Name(s):MLA Directory of Periodicals

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

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Alternate Name(s):labor; unions; strikes; farm workers; National Farm Worker Ministry

This collection reproduces correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes; included are materials relating to the farm workers, poverty programs, Public Law 78, Braceros, labor camps, the United Farm Workers Union and the Delano Grape Strike.

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Mometrix Test Preparation offers study guides, flashcards, practice questions, and video lessons for over 1,800 different standardized exams, including Praxis (teacher certification exams), GRE, ATI TEAS, NCLEX, HESI A2, CLEP, ACCUPLACER, medical technology certifications, computer technology certifications, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, and many, many more.
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Includes diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers are complemented by accounts of the development of farming and mining communities, family histories, and folklore.

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Alternate Name(s):MSCI ESG Manager
MSCI ESG Direct is an integrated online environmental, social and governance (ESG) research, analytics and ratings platform designed to provide asset managers and owners with an integrated suite of tools to efficiently manage ESG analysis and compliance tasks across the spectrum of ESG factors. The subscription is comprised of the Intangible Value Assessment (IVA) and the Impact Monitor.
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Historical MSCI ESG Ratings dating back from 2007 through present. Includes top level scores in addition to underlying data.
Link will direct you to a form to request access and instructions.
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Music and Dance Online delivers the multimedia sources from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.
Music Index surveys 775 music periodicals from more than 40 countries in 22 languages. The index covers articles, books, and news about all aspects of music.
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Traditional and modern music representing every genre from every region in the world are contained in nearly 200,000 tracks.
Music Online: The Qwest TV Collection
See entry for Qwest TV.
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IIMP Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for more than 440 international music periodicals, plus full text for 130 journals. The index also contains retrospective articles dating from as far back as 1874. The emphasis of the database ranges from scholarly music research to popular articles on recent trends.
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A source for breaking music industry news, including people, competitions, awards, reviews, and more. Also included is the Musical American International Directory of the Performing Arts, a directory of more than 14,000 worldwide arts organizations.
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TrademarkEd is a platform for student entrepreneurs to learn about trademarks, marketing, and branding through educational videos, guides, and virtual consultations.
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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest History Vault

Digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This archive examines the realities of segregation and coverage spans from 1909 to 1972. Includes nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries from the association's offices throughout the United States.

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Web-enhanced premier journal on public policy and politics covering all branches of government with past issues back to 2008. Includes the National Journal Daily, The Hotline, Daybook, [Election] Race Tracker, and an Almanac of American Politics,
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Alternate Name(s):National Review, National Review Bulletin

An archive of the National Review, a conservative magazine covering news, politics, current events, and culture with detailed analysis and commentary. Also includes the National Review Bulletin.
Coverage: National Review November 1955-2020, National Review Bulletin April 1959-1979.

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Naxos Jazz offers close to 23,600 tracks of jazz from over 3,000 albums by more than 500 jazz artists; it is comprised of Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.
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Naxos provides access to a large collection of audio streaming files in the genres of Classical, Jazz/Blues, Film, World and Folk Music. The database includes the content from more than 41,380 CDs released by the Naxos label as well as other labels. More than 1,000 new CDs are added every month.
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Working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts economic research. Key focus areas of the papers include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.
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Built on software developed by the Urban Institute, NCCS provides a user-friendly interface for non-profit researchers. Users of this site can select from a variety of data tools including the Report Builder, Record Viewer, Table Browser, and Extract Data and then apply the selected tool to a number of available data sets. Most data is based on IRS records and data collection from 501(c)(3) and other exempt non-profit organizations.
Alternate Name(s):Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

The NCJRS Abstracts database is produced by the U.S. Department of Justice and contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications on research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. The publications covered are from 1970 to present and include federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.

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Neighborhood boundaries can change from one census year to the next, making it hard for researchers to compare the same area over time. The Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) reconciles those changing boundaries in census data from 1970 to 2010. Data extracts are GIS-compatible.
**Access limited to 3 (three) concurrent users.**

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The official newspaper of the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik from 1946 until reunification, the paper continues publishing as one of Germany's national dailies, offering contemporary Communist and Socialist perspectives. The Digital Archive provides access to all content from 1946 to the end of the previous calendar year.

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Streaming videos in this collection are documentaries from independent filmmakers on topics including African-American studies, children & families, disabilities, immigration, human rights, criminal justice, and LGBT studies.

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The revised edition of the classic scholarly work. There are over 1900 articles from 1500 contributors.
This resource was purchased through support from the Lewis M. Alexander Economic Library Fund.endowment smart growth graphic
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Alternate Name(s):National New Play Network, NPX, NNPX

The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. It offers an inclusive platform for writers worldwide to share their work and for others to discover it.


 

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Archive of an American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.
Coverage: November 1914-2020.

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The archive encapsulates the history and development of natural science, technology and modern biomedical sciences, and documents anti-intellectualist sentiments towards scientists. The archive includes chronicles of efforts by governments and corporations to influence research into the exploitation of natural resources, labor conditions, and the environmental and economic impacts of mining, drilling, industrial waste and pollution.
After authenticating, visit this link to the NYAS Archive in the same browser window.

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The leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance. Coverage from 1922 to 1993.

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Alternate Name(s):New York Tribune, Historical newspapers

The Tribune, founded by Horace Greeley, contained influential editorials on abolition, and other major issues such as the settlement of the West. In addition to politics and reform, this newspaper also reported on the arts, New York society, sports, business and finance, and is useful for researching key events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Access to the New York Times from 1851 to 2017.

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Alternate Name(s):nytimes.com NY Times NYT

First time users: Follow the instructions in the library's account registration guide.
Access to the website of the New York Times - one of the world's leading newspapers.
Includes access to the New York Times InEducation curated reading lists.
Click the Log In button and sign in to access full news content 1981-present.

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This collection of French-language newspapers comprises the British Library's holdings of newspapers and periodical titles published in France from 1848 to 1852. Includes publications from the 1848 Revolution through the coup d'etat in 1851 to the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.

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Newspapers.com is a large online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 7,500+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond.

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Alternate Name(s):Lexis, LexisNexis, LexisNexis Academic

An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s. U.S. and international sources are available for most content areas. Includes Company Dossier content.

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The only black newspaper to provide on-the-scene, day-to-day coverage of the Scottsboro trial, and was one of the best researched and well written black newspapers of its time. Coverage from 1916 to 2003.

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Alternate Name(s):Native American, North America
This database brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment

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Alternate Name(s):Safari Tech Books Online
Digital library featuring thousands of up-to-date technical books. Books are full-text searchable, and book contents can be printed or emailed. Some collection content is in audiobook format.
The link for this collection was updated February 7, 2023. Please clear cookies and cache and restart your browser to ensure proper authentication, see the library's FAQ, How do I clear my web browser's cache and cookies?
Guests of Bender Library may access O'Reilly content on site only by following these instructions.
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Books, periodicals, statistics and working papers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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A streaming video database of dance and theater performances.
Alternate Name(s):Bibliography of the History of Art, Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie, Répertoire International de la littérature de l’art / International Repertory of the Literature of Art

OpenBibArt covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles published between 1910 and 2007. Its successor is the International Bibliography of Art (IBA) database.

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Contains more than 500 hours of streaming video of performances from top opera companies. Transcripts of all programs provided.
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OSF is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle. Find papers, data, and materials; search public projects; start a project and add collaborators; store data, code, and other materials; share papers so others can find and cite your work.
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A collection of digitized Hebrew texts encompassing religion, philosophy, ancient and modern scholarship on Jewish history.
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Alternate Name(s):Oxford Dictionaries Online

Bilingual English - foreign language dictionaries published by Oxford University Press for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

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Alternate Name(s):Grove Art Online
Articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present.
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Authoritative guides to recent scholarship in art history.
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An online collection of over 50 subject-specific research guides written by leading scholars in the fields of Journalism and Mass Communication. Each guide provides an overview of a key topic or term within communication studies, including the names of major related authors, resources, and scholarly publications.
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Alternate Name(s):International Relations, International Studies
Oxford Bibliographies Online is a powerful reference source that offers substantial peer reviewed bibliographies for numerous disciplines, including International Relations. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and are keyword searchable. The database combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
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Authoritative guide to the literature and current research in this subject area.

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Over 50,000 biographies of people who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the year 2000. All the people included in this work died before 31 December 2000.

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Includes the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series.
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Oxford Handbooks Online provides introductions and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship on major topics. The handbooks date from 2004 to present. Subject areas include Criminal Justice, Law, Music, Political Science, History, Religion, Psychology, Literature and Classical Studies.

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Alternate Name(s):Grove Music Online
Access to Oxford Music Online 3 concurrent users. Oxford Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes), The Oxford Dictionary of Music (second edition), and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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A full collection of more than 200 scholarly reference resources, including dictionaries and subject specific works.
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Access American University's subscription journals from Oxford University Press.
Note that we subscribe to only a subset of the titles on this publisher platform.
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Transcript-synchronized audio of United States Supreme Court oral arguments from October 1955-present. Includes full-text opinions and plain-English case summaries.

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The PAIS International database from ProQuest contains references to more than 634,401 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
PAIS Archive is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976.

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Coverage: 1941-1961.
Updated: None. Includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from prior to World War II through his presidency. The documents, many previously classified, were selected from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. This is the online version of the 21-volume The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.

Over 6.9 million papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library.

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The Peace Corps Community Archive consists of materials created and acquired by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers during their service such as correspondence, diaries, films, photographs, reports, scrapbooks, and sound recordings.

Indexes and abstracts journal and magazine articles, books, chapters, conference papers, and government publications on peace and conflict studies.
Alternate Name(s):WCL Library, Law Library
American University Washington College of Law's Pence Law library catalog
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Transcribed text of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a prominent early American newspaper.

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An international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup. It brings together books, periodicals, archival material, and instructional videos, to cover design concepts for a range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
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This index of about 210 periodicals covers the variety of performing arts including dance, film, television, theater, and related subjects. As of Summer 2003, 36 of the periodicals contain full text articles back to 1998.
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Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the back files of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. Currently, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 600 journals, providing access to over 14 million article pages - representing over 2.8 million articles.

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 6,400 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Periodicals Index Online was formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). As of April 2010, Periodicals Index Online indexes over 15 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.

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The oldest continuously published black newspaper, is dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation. Coverage from 1912-2001.

The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

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An open access research archive and publication index of philosophy articles, books, and reviews.

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Robert Nickelsberg worked as a TIME magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. Currently, the digital collection covers the first four years of Nickelsberg's photographic career (1980-1984), where he covered the U.S.-backed armed conflicts, genocides, and civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala for Time magazine. Warning - the collection contains violent and graphic imagery. The collection will grow as we receive more images.

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Photographic collection from former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University, Economist Herbert E. Striner.
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This collection contains the documents of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first U.S. lesbian rights organization, and its founders, Phillis Lyon and Del Martin. Covering the 1950s to 1980s, it also includes materials related to homophile and gay liberation organizations, lesbian mothers, and violence against women. The magazines The Ladder and Sisters are also included.

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Alternate Name(s):Pitch Book

Pitchbook tracks the private and public equity markets. It provides data on the venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape, including information about funds, limited partners, service providers, founders, investors and buyers.
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One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Pittsburgh Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. Coverage from 1911 to 2010.

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Identifies research funding opportunities and matches them with researchers within or outside of an organization. Allows faculty to set up individual alerts for new funding opportunities and track them amongst individual researchers or teams. More information about Pivot and other grant opportunities is available from the Office of Sponsored Awards & Research Administration's Find Funding page in the help.american.edu portal.
Resource provided through the Office of Sponsored Awards & Research Administration (OSARA).
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Platino Educa is designed by and for Spanish teachers in Spain and Latin America, and offers 300+ Spanish and Ibero-American movies, classified by subjects and covering themes across Environment, Social Sciences, Language and Literature, Arts, and Social Justice
Includes key sequences and teaching guides.

Provides information on over 31,000 plays from all time periods, including publication details, new editions and translations, plot summaries, scenery and technical requirements.

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Alternate Name(s):Global Think Tanks, North American City Reports, World Cities

Search 3.2 million reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources and media in the Global Think Tank collection; surveys, reports, and research from the governments of 600+ North American cities, plus publications from local governments around the world in World Cities.

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Resource for the identification of public policy research and analysis.
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Integrates data including demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, labor data and more with web-based GIS. This allows users to view data on maps, table, and charts.
** Access restricted to current AU students, faculty, and staff. **

** There was an update made to our authentication to this resource on August 20, 2024. Existing users will be prompted to verify their accounts by inputting a code sent to their @american.edu email. **

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Alternate Name(s):Political Extremism and Radicalism in the 20th Century

An archive of far-right and far-left movements in the United States, Europe and Australia.

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Political Science and International Relations journal articles, 1985-present

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Alternate Name(s):Politico, Politico Pro

Policy news, analysis, and intelligence. ** Due to technical limitations, some PoliticoPro content cannot be accessed via the website, including articles from other geographic editions and biographical profiles of members of Congress.
Current AU students, faculty, and staff may request PDFs of such articles and reports by sending email to liberm@american.edu.**
Platform also hosts E&E News and our subscription includes four titles: Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, and E&E News PM.

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Polling the Nations is a database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 500,000 questions and responses from 15,000 surveys conducted from 1986 to the present in the United States and 90 other countries.
**Access limited to 4 concurrent users.**

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Pravda ("Truth") was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991. Founded in 1912, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper and became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.

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Most recent 2 months of over 400 U.S. and international newspapers, many in foreign languages. All newspapers are in their entirety and are available on the day they are published.

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Over 115 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences on the subject of Latin America and Latino/a studies.
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PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on US-based major privately held companies, including family owned, private equity owned, and venture backed companies. PrivCo covers more than 180,000 private companies, including financial data, more than 70,000 M&A transactions, and more than 50,000 funding rounds. It also includes more than 10,000 investor profiles.
**Create an account using your AU credentials or access the database by clicking the 'Direct Access' button on the landing page.**

A worldwide index of conference proceedings. Covers conference proceedings, congresses, exhibitions, meetings, symposiums, and workshops received by the British Library Document Supply Centre.

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Includes 30+ peer-reviewed full-text journals in theoretical and applied mathematics, and statistics. Access to mathematical journals published by MIT Press and Cornell University Press. Includes Open Access content. Access varies by title.
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Full-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.

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Project Syndicate provides access to original commentaries by prominent political leaders, policy makers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world to readers everywhere.
** Users must register for a personal account. ** When prompted on the database landing page, search for 'American University' to proceed with authentication.
Already registered? Visit https://www.project-syndicate.org/account/login and log in with your AU email address and the password you created when you registered.

Language learning software for 80 languages in any of 50 languages. You will be asked to register and thereafter will receive a username and password for continued use.
** Use your AU email address to get instant access or register for a sponsored account.**
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Multi-subject reference source covering general and academic periodicals; full-text is available for many articles.

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Contains documents published by Congress including hearings, floor debates, bill text, legislative histories, and reports from the Congressional Research Service. Dates vary by publication and range from 1789-present.
This resource was made possible in part through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment

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Searches over 500 publications (with full text of 400) either about or authored by the US Government. Though the primary focus is the military, topics covered include many that intersect with security from aeronautics to climate change to international relations. Dates vary by publication with almost all going back to at least 1990-present.

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Emphasis on 20th-century historic newspapers. Coverage includes major American newspapers and prominent publications from underrepresented voices such as African American news, Jewish news, and publications covering gender issues.

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Searches several Newsstream databases containing US, Canadian, and international newspapers from the 1980s to the present. Full-text articles from over 1,200 newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. Also includes 85 newspapers from the company Gannett.
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Covers the literature of nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine. Includes scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews. Coverage dates: 1976-present.

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Alternate Name(s):Literature Online, LION

2.5 million pages of poetry, fiction, and drama from around the world, plus criticism, reference works, and full-text literary journals.

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U.S. statistical information from the American Statistics Index. Includes Statistical Abstract of the United States and a selection of full-text documents. Subject areas are wide ranging including population, health, industry, agriculture, culture and society, housing, labor, recreation, science and technology, education, energy, criminal justice, government, and politics.

Alternate Name(s):TDM, text data mining

ProQuest TDM Studio is a web-based tool that allows users analyze large amounts of content while collaborating with colleagues in real-time on one cloud-based platform. Using content retrieved from ProQuest databases that AU Library subscribes to, including current and historical newspapers, scholarly and trade journals, magazines and theses and dissertations, you can conduct data analysis, text mining, and data visualization to uncover relationships, patterns, and connections.

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APA-published books and other classic psychology books and book chapters are included. New APA-published books are added monthly, but titles are added a year after initial publication. These materials are directly linked to and can be searched in PsycInfo. The APA Style Manual is NOT included in this resource.

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The PsychiatryOnline Premium collection covers diagnosis and differential diagnosis, case vignettes to bring abstract concepts to life, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, the latest research - all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.
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