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17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collection.
19th Century Masterfile
An index to nineteenth century periodicals, newspapers and government documents, including British Parliamentary debates. Nearly every periodical of the Nineteenth Century is covered. Full-text links are available for some articles.
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AAPG Data Pages/Archives
Provided by a generous donation from alumni Dan and Pamela (Hall) Billman. A collection of petroleum geology books and papers from 37 geological publishers.
ABI/Inform Complete
Includes thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data, with international coverage that gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Academic Search Alumni Edition
Articles from thousands of magazines, newspapers and journals are available to members of the WVU Alumni Association.
Academic Search Complete
Offers a good starting point for research on nearly any topic, covering most areas of academic study and containing full text for 5,500 periodicals, including 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals.
Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online is a comprehensive video platform, delivering 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Access World News Research Collection (formerly America's News)
This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface. Includes 26 resources from West Virginia.
AccessEngineering
AccessEngineering is a redesign of the online engineering resource formerly known as McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library. The new-user focused design enhances this online resource of engineering content, and will support all levels of scientific and technical research in the corporate, industrial, government and academic sectors.
Accessible Archives
Primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals, particularly useful for civil war and genealogical research. Includes: Godey`s Lady`s Book, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Charleston Mercury, The New York Herald, Richmond Enquirer, 19th Century African American Newspapers, The 19th Century American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County, The Industrial Revolution in Delaware County /w Vital Statistics, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County.
AccessPharmacy
AccessPharmacy is a comprehensive online resource for pharmacy education. It includes several full-text books, case studies, interactive questions and answers, and functional calculators, as well as news relevant to the field of Pharmacy.
AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online (4 users)(Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 1/15/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
This ProQuest database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
ACLS Humanities E Book
A digital collection of more than 5,400 full-text high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
ACM Digital Library
The ACM DL is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. It provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews and full text articles on computer science and information technology. This includes an archive from the 1950's forward (where available).
ADA Nutrition Care Manual (5 users)
The ADA Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) is a publication of the American Dietetic Association. It contains research-based nutrition information and clinical tools available to dietitians, dietetic technicians, and other health care professionals. The online manual features information about risk screening, diseases, nutrition care, conversion calculators, a formulary, materials for client education, and a link for resources.
ADA Pediatric Nutrition Care Manual (2 users)
The ADA Pediatric Nutrition Care Manual is a publication of the American Dietetic Association. It contains research-based nutrition information and clinical tools available to dietitians, dietetic technicians, and other health care professionals. The online manual features information about risk screening, diseases, nutrition care, conversion calculators, a formulary, materials for client education, and links to other resources.
ADA Sports Nutrition Care Manual (2 users)
This new resource contains research-based nutrition information written by authors who are Board Certified as Specialists in Sports Dietetics (CSSDs) from the American Dietetic Association. It contains printable client education handouts and meal plans, as well as calculators for BMI, energy expenditure, sweat rate, lean body mass, and healthy body weight. Provides for two simultaneous users.
Advertising Red Books (now Winmo)
Extensive directory information about advertising agencies and the companies that advertise with them, including budgets, brands, and personnel information.
AgEcon Search
AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development. AgEcon Search will serve as the permanent archive for this literature and encourages authors and organizations to use this electronic library as the storehouse for additional appropriate scholarly electronic works. AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics is a World Wide Web site developed and maintained at the University of Minnesota by Magrath Library and the Department of Applied Economics. The site has received encouragement and financial support from the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Farm Foundation as well as the University of Minnesota.
Agricola
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although AGRICOLA does not contain the materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to online full-text documents, with new links being added every day.
Agricola (Ebscohost)
The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Ninety percent of the records describe journal articles and book chapters, and the remaining ten percent describe monographs, series, microforms, audiovisuals, maps, and other types of materials. Together they provide worldwide coverage of the agricultural literature. In addition, AGRICOLA contains subfiles of related bibliographic citations that have been prepared by sources other than the National Agricultural Library, for example, the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) and the American Agricultural Economics Documentation Center (AAEDC). These and other information centers and cooperators contribute subfiles to AGRICOLA covering special subjects. Pre-1979 AGRICOLA records are derived from the CAIN format; from 1979 on, MARC-formatted records are used to create the database.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Agris
AGRIS is an international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centers participate from all over the world.Compiles by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Indexes and abstracts international agricultural literature from over 135 nations.
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest. This content is updated monthly.
AIAA
WVU subscribes to selected titles from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) publications list: AIAA Meeting Papers, AIAA Journal, Journal of Aircraft, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, and Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
Alexander Street Press
The Alexander Street interface is a powerful learning and research platform for video and audio collections, and select text resources. Use this link to access all available content from Alexander Street Press.
Alt HealthWatch (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Alt HealthWatch focuses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles from more than 140 international and often peer-reviewed reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Full text publications include JMPT: Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, Vegetarian Times, American Herb Association Quarterly Newsletter, Massage & Bodywork, Macrobiotics Today, Guidepoints: Acupuncture in Recovery and many others. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
AM Explorer
AM Explorer contains hundreds of thousands of primary source documents from 88 unique collections. Themes include area studies, cultural studies, empire and globalism, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality, history, politics, literature, theatre, war and conflict. Content ranges from medieval times to the present.
America History and Life
Covers North American (US and Canadian) history from prehistory to the present, providing references to journal articles, books, dissertations and reviews. America: History and Life covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide, including all key English-language historical journals and selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals.
America's Historical Newspapers
Contains more than 150 newspapers, including major titles from every region of the U.S. Coverage throughout the Civil War and into the critical postwar period.
American Civil War Collection
Featuring more than 13,500 works published between 1860 and 1922, this fully searchable collection offers printed items addressing all facets of the Civil War and its aftermath. These diverse materials, all filmed in full-resolution color, include broadsides, lithographs, maps, books, pamphlets, photographs, political cartoons, stereographs, and more. Coverage extends throughout the Civil War and well beyond into the critical postwar period.
American Civil War, 1855-1868
The American Civil War, 1855-1868 collection consists of periodicals that span the immediate years before the Civil War to the beginnings of Reconstruction. Significantly, this collection contains a number of long-running periodicals that chronicle the war from various perspectives, such as Harper's Weekly and the Atlantic Monthly. Less conventional titles can also be found in this collection, such as the Millennial Harbinger and Gleason's Literary Companion. Additionally, this collection contains a number of abolitionist and secessionist titles that led up to the war and record veterans' remembrances afterwards. Part of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections.
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
American Indian Histories and Cultures
American Indian Histories and Cultures features a wide range of materials including:Manuscripts (treaties, speeches, petitions, diaries, travel journals, ledger books, Artwork (illustrations, sketches, watercolours, oil paintings, American Indian art), American Indian Newspapers covering the 1960s to 1990s, Rare Printed Books,Photographs,and Maps. Scope of the Collection: Allowing for the study of American Indian history from the early colonial period to the civil rights movement of the twentieth century,American Indian Histories and Cultures provides a rich variety of material from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library. The project covers topics such as early encounters between American Indians and Europeans; American Indians and the colonial powers, and later, the US government; the indigenous peoples of Mexico; conflict, wars and military contact; the fur trade and Indian traders; education and American Indian boarding schools, and the civil rights movement and political activism.
American Men and Women of Science - 24th Edition
Profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Contains legislative and executive documents of the first 14 U.S. Congresses and extensive coverage of the major events that helped to shape the Early Republic.
Anatomy TV
Anatomy TV is a virtual cadaver and anatomy product that contains interactive 3D computer-generated models of human anatomy online. This resource contains an interactive library of common muscle movement and gross motor movement animations and anatomy videos. The animated 3D models can be rotated and moved to show the function of agonist and antagonist muscles during common movements. Layers can be added and subtracted by users. Modules on sports injuries, exercise, yoga, and resistance training are also included. Our subscription to Anatomy TV includes Functional Anatomy.
Ancestry Library Edition
A wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research, including United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more.
Anthrosource
A collection of journals from the American Anthropological Association.
AP Stylebook Online (25 Users)
The AP Stylebook is a must-have reference for writers, editors, students and professionals. It provides fundamental guidelines for spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style.
APA PsycArticles
Full text articles covering general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 34,000 searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 51 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1987 to the present.
APA PsycINFO
Contains two million references and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1872 to the present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Examples of titles offered in PsycINFO include: Academic Medicine, Academic Psychiatry, Behavior Genetics, Behavioral Disorders, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Journal of Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Psychological Medicine, etc.
APA PsycTESTS
PsycTESTS provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and citation information for each instrument. It contains resources that span the full breadth of testing in psychological research, including neuropsychological tests, personality assessments, skills and proficiency tests, measures of addiction, IQ and aptitude scales and instruments, and more.
Applied Science and Technology Source (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. It is focused on a core of around 500 of the most relevant English language scholarly journals covering aspects of health and social care from a broadly social scientific perspective.
APS Online - American Periodical Series Online
APS Online contains full digital images of over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. This unique collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Offers thousands of citations and abstracts from the world's research in aquatic sciences. An international network of information centers monitor serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature for content.
Archive Finder (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 07/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid is a free database that allows searching across hundreds of institutions' special collections records, including the collections of The West Virginia and Regional History Center.
Art Abstracts
Art Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for 378 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history. Coverage for this database spans from 1984 to the present. Examples of publications indexed in Art Abstracts include: American Art, American Artist, Archaeology, Ceramics Monthly, Creative Review, Entertainment Design, Journal of Popular Film and Television, etc. Covers publications in many languages. Subject areas include art history, interior design, performance art, textiles, photography, graphics, architecture, and folk art.
Art History Digital Image Database
Log in in the upper right with your WVU username and password. This image database contains primarily architecture and sculpture, but also two-dimensional works. These images are covered by copyright, and may be used for personal, educational or research purposes only. Please contact Beth Royall, beth.royall@mail.wvu.edu, for assistance.
ArticleFirst
An index of articles from the contents pages of 15,000 journals covering humanities, business, popular culture, science, social science, technology and medicine. Although full text is not included in this database, the Find it @ WVU service provides links to full text from other databases when available.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Articles from high impact research journals in each field of the humanities, with option for cited reference searching to trace scholarship. (Part of Web of Science)
Arts & Humanities Database
This ProQuest database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
arXiv.org
Started in August 1991, arXiv.org is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
ASM Handbooks Online
ASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty-six ASM Handbook volumes, several ASM Handbook supplements, and two ASM Desk Editions.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library
The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. The Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. It also includes American Petroleum Institute (API) standards.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials
Journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains more than 440,000 thousand entries surveying over seven hundred American and international journals. These include not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Articles are included from key publications such as American Architect, Baumeister, Byggekunst, Domus, and El Croquis, as well as architectural articles from art and planning journals such as American Art Journal, Burlington Magazine, Environment and Planning A, Metropolitan Museum Journal,and Revue de l'Art.
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Baptists, Quakers, and Independent Church Periodicals, 1797-1881
Periodical collection presents the growth of the Baptist church and contains periodicals representing smaller church communities such as the New Jerusalem Church, Quakers, Shakers, Mennonites, Moravians, Brethren, and Church of God. Part of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections.
BenchSci
BenchSci is a free online platform designed to help scientists find antibodies from publications. Their proprietary machine-learning algorithm was trained by PhD-level scientists to identify and understand the usage of commercial antibodies in the research literature. When searching for a specific protein target, BenchSci curates published data in the form of figures to simplify the literature search process. The figures can then be filtered by specific experimental contexts cited in the paper such as techniques, tissue, cell lines, and more, to help users pinpoint antibodies that have been published under experimental conditions matching their study interest. BenchSci is freely accessible to all scientists with a wvu.edu or affiliated emails at https://www.benchsci.com
Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL's global consortium of natural history, botanical, and research libraries cooperate to digitize and make their collections accessible as a part of a global “biodiversity commons".
Biological Abstracts - See Biosis Previews
Find high-impact articles from peer-reviewed, influential journals in the biosciences.
Biological Science Database (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 08/01/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
BioOne (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 9/30/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Biopolymers Online
Biopolymers Online provides a comprehensive overview of the occurrence, metabolism, and applications of all important biopolymer classes. This reference work treats processes for biotechnological production, isolation from organisms and modification, material properties and technical uses in areas such as chemical and food industries, medicine, pharmacy, and materials science. Covers the whole field of biopolymers from an application-oriented and biotechnological point of view and is comprised of approximately 180 articles with over 1500 figures and 600 tables Lists approximately 500 biopolymers and more than 3000 organisms related to the production of biopolymers. Also includes extensive patent information.
BIOSIS Previews
Index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more in high-impact articles from peer-reviewed, influential journals.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
Provides access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in the field of sociology.
Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1905-1982 (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 8/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu. Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Citations with excerpts of reviews of juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language are included. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, and most have at least two.
British Periodicals
Digital images of 500 periodicals, published from the 1680s to the 1930s, tracing the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals.'
Browzine Web
Browzine Web is now available from the WVU Libraries. This web-based version of BrowZine can be used in any internet browser and does not require a mobile device. BrowZine is also available as an app for both the Apple and Android mobile environments. Browzine Web allows you to browse WVU online journals by subject, or look up your favorite title. BrowZine can also help you create a personal virtual bookshelf of favorite journals.
BuildingGreen Suite
The BuildingGreen Suite of online tools provides information on green design. This online resource features comprehensive, practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building--from energy efficiency and recycled-content materials to land-use planning and indoor air quality.
Business Source Alumni Edition
Articles from business and trade magazines, available to members of the WVU Alumni Association.
Business Source Complete
Business research database, providing full text for 8,800 periodicals, including 1,100 peer-reviewed publications, plus company profiles. Subjects covered include marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Business Source Elite (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
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CAB Abstracts (6 users)
CAB Abstracts is a database covering international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences. The database contains over 3.5 million records from over 11,000 journals, books, conferences, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally. CAB abstracts covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense. It includes: agronomy, biotechnology, crop protection, dairy science, economics, environmental degradation and remediation, forestry, genetics, herbicides, irrigation, leisure, recreation and tourism, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, rural development, veterinary medicine, and much more.CABCD is the largest professionally-produced database covering international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences. The database contains over 3.5 million records from over 11,000 journals, books, conferences, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally.
Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 3/31/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Journal information for business (accounting, marketing, economics & finance, management),education, psychology, nursing, health administration, computer science & business information systems.
ChemIDplus
Provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. Includes structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet. Searchable by name, synonym, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and structure.
Chicago manual of style online
Online version of the 16th and 17th editions of The Chicago Manual of Style.
Chronicle of Higher Education
Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students. Includes the Almanac of Higher Education that is updated annually.
Chronicling America
Chronicling America provides free access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Users can also access the list of digitized newspapers from West Virginia.
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is a major research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, with more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1982. The database provides full text for more than 1,300 nursing & allied health journals indexed in CINAHL.
CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)
Research databases from CIOS support research and education in communications-related disciplines (human communication studies, speech communication, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, etc.)
Civil Engineering Database
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Journal papers with abstracts go back to 1970. Non-abstract journal records go back to 1958. The book records are complete dating back to the early 1900s. The database is constantly expanded and enriched. Engineering subject areas include: Aerospace Engineering; Architectural Engineering; Bridges; Cold Regions; Computer Practices; Construction; Earthquake Engineering; Education; Engineering Mechanics; Environmental Engineering; Forensic Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Geomechanics; Highways; Hydrology; Hydraulics; Irrigation and Drainage; Management; Materials Engineering; Structural Engineering; Transportation; Urban Planning; Water Resources; Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering
Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction, 1843-1877
Primary source documents for research into the American Civil War - provides access to more than 150 newspapers, 50,000 government documents and 4,000 rare broadsides and pieces of ephemera. Extensive local and national coverage of American culture, politics and society during this tumultuous period.
Clinical Key
ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge. The database contains over 1,100 medical reference books and over 600 e-journals, in addition to drug monographs, guidelines, and patient education materials.
Clinical Ophthalmic eBooks Collection
Complete Basic and Clinical Science Course eBook Collection from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Clinical Pharmacology (Restricted Access to HSC Only. Off Campus only through SOLE.)
Clinical Pharmacology is an electronic drug information and medication management resource. This database provides up-to-date, peer-reviewed, clinically-relevant information on all U.S. prescription drugs, as well as off-label uses and dosage, herbal supplements, nutritional and over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs. The database is accessible from both the HSL's website and SOLE.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including the Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Reviews of Effectiveness, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Published on a quarterly basis, it is designed to provide information and evidence to support decision-making in health care and to inform those who are receiving care.
Collins Bartholomew Mobile Coverage Data
The Collins Bartholomew Mobile Coverage Explorer GIS collection is a set of ESRI shapefiles that shows mobile network coverage on a global level. This data can be broken down by provider, data type, country, and year, and is usable with ArcGIS, QGIS, or other mapping software that can use shp shapefiles.
ComAbstracts
A comprehensive database of article and book abstracts from the scholarly literature of the communication field.
ComAnalytics
A system for the comparative assessment of article publication productivity for individual scholars and for academic departments.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides references to journal articles, handbooks, and encyclopedias related to communication and mass media. This database was created by merging CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources
This database has merged into Communication Source
Communication Source
Communication Source is the most comprehensive resource on the market for communication research. Communication Source was developed from a merger of high-quality EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by Sage), and includes many unique sources not previously available in other databases. Communication Source offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.
Compendex
Compendex is a bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research that covers all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
ComUpdate
Quickly and efficiently scan and review new communication studies research articles in your area of interest.
ComVista
An interactive directory of scholars and degree programs in communication and the best guide to leading graduate programs.
Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities
Indexes literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. Part of the Web of Science.
Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science
Indexes literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. Part of the Web of Science.
Consumer Health Complete (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Consumer Health Complete is a portal for consumer health care information. The database provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Consumer Health Reference eBook Collection
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general health topics, including disease such as cancer and diabetes; weight management and exercise; allergies; senior care; social emotional health; developmental disorders; and natural health.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video is a multi-part online collection that addresses this need by providing more than 1,000 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions. These recorded counseling sessions, conducted by practitioners worldwide, provide an opportunity to view expert therapists at work and learn intricacies of behavior, tone, facial expression, and body language that define successful counseling experiences.
CQ Almanac
Coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the US Congress from 1945-2008, providing in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy for each year, organized by policy area. Comprehensive roll call votes for all major legislation.
CQ Magazine (formerly CQ Weekly)(Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
CQ Researcher
In-depth reports and analysis on political and social issues, each covering a single theme and providing solid background information, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each 13,000-word CQ Researcher report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Online version of the standard reference book for chemistry and physics. Search by substance or property or browse by table of contents. The online handbook also provides interactive tables.
CREDO Reference
A collection of nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference books provides a good starting point for research.
Criminal Justice Database
Criminal Justice Database is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.
CRL - Center for Research Libraries
CRL holdings include newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other resources from all world regions. While these shared collections are largely paper and microform, CRL provides online access to a substantial and expanding body of digital materials.
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Dance in Video (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 3/31/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Data Citation Index
Discover research data, including data studies, data sets from a wide range of international data repositories and connect them with the scientific literature to track data citation. This is part of Web of Science.
Datapedia of the United States
A factbook containing data on several hundred indicators of social, economic, political, and cultural developments in United States history, from 1790 to 2003.
Derwent Innovations Index
Value-added patent information from Derwent World Patent Index® as well as patent citation information from Patents Citation Index®. This is part of Web of Science.
Diction Police
Diction Police provides singers with a comprehensive set of tools for the study and application of lyric diction. It offers text readings of songs and arias by native speakers, IPA transcriptions, translations into several languages, and video tutorials about the rules of lyric diction.
Digital National Security Archive
Collections of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events - including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions - from 1945 to the present.
Dissertations and Theses @ WVU
Searchable database of WVU doctoral and masters theses, from 1970 to present - for earlier dates and comprehensive indexing, please search the ProQuest Global ETD.
DMPTool
The DMPTool is a free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans. These plans, or DMPs, are now required by many funding agencies as part of the proposal submission process. The DMPTool provides a click-through wizard for creating a DMP that complies with funder requirements. It also has direct links to funder websites, help text for answering questions, and resources for best practices surrounding data management.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1630-1800
37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides provide primary source documents on nearly every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft.
Early English Books Online (ProQuest)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700. Over 200 libraries worldwide have contributed to EEBO. From the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War, EEBO's content draws on authoritative and respected short-title catalogues of the period and features a substantial number of text transcriptions specially created for the product.
East View Global Press Archive (GPA)
Newspaper digital archives in more than 30 languages including open access and commercial collections from around the world. You can access the old East View platform here, East View Information Services UDP Platform.
East View Information Services
Russian-language resources, including digital archives of periodicals and academic journal titles. Collection includes Pravda Digital Archive and Izvestiia Digital Archive.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
A collection of e-books covering a wide variety of subjects-- arts, humanities, business, education, computers, science, social science, and technology. The collection includes recent books from more than 180 publishers and many titles from public domain sources.
EBSCO Discovery Service
Search interface for locating and accessing resources the library owns or subscribes to.
EBSCO Open Dissertations
EBSCO Open Dissertations is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
EbscoHost
All EBSCOhost databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page. Many include links to full text of the articles indexed.
Ecology Abstracts (Agricultural & Environmental Science Database)
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
EconLit (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Economist Historical Archive
A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
Education Database (from ProQuest Central)
Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. The database supports global study and research, including thousands of full-text journals, dissertations and other relevant sources.
Education Source (previously Education Research Complete)
Education Source is a full-text research database designed for education students, professionals and policymakers. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 60,000 records, which are selected from sources within the discipline, such as: Educational Administration Quarterly, Review of Higher Education, Journal of Educational Administration, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1966.
eHRAF World Cultures
The eHRAF World Cultures is an online cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups from around the world-- unique because each culture contains a variety of full-text source documents (books, articles, and dissertations) that have been indexed and organized according to HRAF's comprehensive culture and subject classification systems: the Outline of World Cultures (OWC), and the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). These retrieval systems extend search capability well beyond keyword searching, allowing for precise culture and subject retrieval, even in a foreign language. As a multicultural database, eHRAF appeals to many academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, and any other area with an interest in cultural diversity.
Eight Centuries
Eight Centuries is a comprehensive database aggregating vast scholarly indexes to journals, newspapers, books, documents, artwork, and images.
This growing database contains 27,408,426 discrete links to primary source historical documents.
Formerly known as 19th Century Masterfile.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
138,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, digitized and fully searchable. ECCO includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE
ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE is a collection of handbooks that are full-text searchable. These encompass the entire field of electrical engineering, including circuits, signal processing, electronics, electromagnetics, electrical effects and devices, and energy, and the emerging trends in the fields of communications, digital devices, computer engineering, systems, and biomedical engineering.
Empire Online
Original documents, primary source material, essays, and biographical information related to empire studies, with an emphasis on the British Empire.
Encyclopedia of Associations (Gale Directory Library)
Detailed information for nonprofit membership organizations such as professional societies, labor unions, cultural groups, and trade associations.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
This broad-based set surveys clothing, body adornment, and examines the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress. It also presents information on representative costumes from a wide variety of historical eras, which are frequently the topic of student research. Topics range from the bustle, sari, and toga to Polyester and body piercing. The short entries explain the history of garments (necktie, codpiece, cocktail dress, bathing suit, burqua, Nehru jacket), techniques and manufactures (batik, dry cleaning, zipper, stone washing), body adornment (makeup, mask, tattoo, wig), and important persons and institutions (Coco Chanel, Edith Head, Yves Saint-Laurent, Fashion Institute of Technology). The longer essays provide cultural context: class, gender, sumptuary laws, costume design for stage and screen, advertising; fashion careers; ecclesiastical dress; military uniforms; etc. The set includes a comprehensive general index in the last volume, a timeline, and a topical outline.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Comprehensive in coverage and international in scope, the Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. Clearly arranged in A-Z format, each article is fully cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and the most important scholarly works on a given subject.
EndNote Basic
Use EndNote Web to create a personal database of references to articles, books and other research sources - create an account to begin. You must be on campus or connected to the campus network through VPN to create an account. You must also connect to the campus computer network either in-person or through VPN every 12 months to renew the cookie that authorizes your access to EndNote Web.
Engineering Case Studies Online (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 3/31/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Engineering Village--EiCompendex, Inspec, GEOBASE, and GeoRef
Engineering Village provides an easy to use, integrated interface for finding the engineering information you need. Engineering Village includes 5 independently searchable databases with journal citations, indexed and evaluated web-sites, up to date patent information, and technical engineering information including product information.
EngNetBase
EngNetBase is a collection of engineering handbooks that are full-text searchable. Coverage includes biomedical engineering, digital signal processing, electric power engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, mobile communications, structural engineering, telecommunications, and vibration.
engrXiv
engrXiv provides a free and publicly accessible platform for engineers and engineering researchers to upload working papers, pre-prints, published papers, data, and code. engrXiv is dedicated to open dissemination of engineering knowledge, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
An archival research resource containing primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.
ERIC (EbscoHost)
ERIC is sponsored by the US Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Comprehensive coverage of the journal and report literature in the field of education. Composed of indexing and abstracts for articles and reports.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750." Part of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections.
ExamMaster
Users must register through the gateway URL using a WVU email account to access the site. Exam Master is an online test prep resource for the Health Sciences. Coverage includes Dentistry (NBDE), Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Family Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Nursing (NCLEX- PN & -RN), OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Pharmacy (NAPLEX), Physician Assistant (PANCE), Surgery, SPEX, and USMLE (Steps 1-3). Extensive question banks for each discipline allow the user to take realistic practice exams.
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Factiva
Factiva provides access to sources of local, regional, national, and international news, general insight, selected financial information and profiles for publicly traded U.S. and international companies, industry reports, quotes for financial instruments, and stock market data. News content types include: newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, transcripts, images, blogs, and websites.
FAO Forestry Databases
The FAO Forestry Department maintains an array of online databases where information covering various aspects of forestry is stored for analysis and further dissemination.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 07/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 8/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu. Indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals.
First Research
First Research, an affiliate of Hoover’s and Dun & Bradstreet, is a leading industry intelligence company designed to help sales teams perform more effectively. This industry database may be searched by keyword, SIC or NAICS code. State Profiles are also available here to provide a quick snapshot of the business climate in individual states and Canadian provinces. Industry profiles include industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, call preparation questions, financial and industry ratio's, industry forecast, web links and acronyms.
FirstSearch
A collection of online databases, providing coverage of much of the journal literature for academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page. Although full text is not included in databases from FirstSearch, the Find it @ WVU service provides links to full text from other databases when available.
Fold3 (formerly footnote)
Historical documents collections, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U S Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. Users will need to create an account in order to download PDFs.
FORENSICnetBASE
A collection of books in the fields of forensics and law enforcement.
Foundation Directory Online Professional - Now available campus-wide.
Foundation Directory Online Professional offers detailed information on grant-making private foundations and public charities, as well as the grants they make.
FREIDA (Fellowship & Residency Electronic Interactive Database)
FREIDA Online is a database with over 8,600 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. Besides searching for specialty and subspecialty programs, you can also search for training institutions, medical schools, aggregate training statistics by specialty, and career plans of recent graduates. A new feature called “Search Plus" allows you to compare key aspects of programs side by side.
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Gale Literature
A new integrated search for literature information from Literature Resource Center and Gale Virtual Reference Library. Features include the ability to search for term frequency and term cluster information.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Full-text literary criticism and reviews and author biographical information on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Gale Primary Sources
Discover primary sources from 7 digital archive collections including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, the Times Digital Archive and 19th Century British Newspapers. Special tools for analysis include term frequency and term cluster.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical, business and literary sources.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is an online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Contains than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study.
Gender Studies Database
Gender Studies Database combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues and the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Internet are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected and important websites. This database includes more than 921,000 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to the present
GenderWatch (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 9/30/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
GeoBase
Indexes research on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation. Geobase covers thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, book series and conference proceedings
GeoRef
Subject access to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses, covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities.
GeoScienceWorld (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 9/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Global Breaking Newswires (from ProQuest Central)
Global Breaking Newswires provides timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.
Go2Knowledge
Go2Knowledge is an online training platform designed to provide on-demand instruction for the on-the-go learner. The platform offers a wide variety of training options from 6 different categories, including technology and online learning, student success, teaching & learning, student populations, institutional effectiveness, and campus safety and security. Access is provided through a partnership between the Office of Student Success and the Teaching and Learning Commons.
Google Scholar
Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research, with full text accessible via WVU Library subscriptions. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Links to library electronic resources are available to WVU students and faculty.
GPO Monthly Catalog (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 9/30/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
GreenFILE (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering human impact on the environment, including the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Ground News
Ground News is a news aggregation platform that helps users expand their view of the news and easily compare how a story is being reported across the political spectrum. They identify all news articles written on a story and arrange the organizations reporting on the event into categories of political bias, geographic location, and chronology. News is aggregated from over 50,000 news sources, including many alternative, independent sources.
Grove Art Online (3 users)
Grove Art Online provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove, 1996, 34 vols.) with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text. Covers both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more). Also includes 30,000+ links to color images from and other art sites, and 100,000+ images from the Bridgeman Art Library, as well as biographies of artists of all types (architects, patrons, collectors, dealers theorists, writers, and scholars). Allows access for three simultaneous users.
Grove Music Online (3 users)
An English-language encyclopedia of music and musicians, covering most aspects of art music, folk music, world music and jazz. Coverage of popular music is more selective. Includes biographies of composers and performers, and historical and technical information. Some articles will require a working knowledge of musical terminology. Cross-references and bibliographies. Updated quarterly (January, April, July, October).
Grow: Plant Health Exchange
Grow is a place for plant health management professionals to exchange knowledge and discover the latest applied research. Access this collection of resources produced to enhance professional knowledge, increase profitability, and improve sustainability of plant production. Grow is an outreach service of The American Phytopathological Society.
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Handbook of Child Psychology 6th Edition
The handbook spans the entire field of child psychology including topics such as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. v.1 Theoretical Models of Human Development, v.2 Cognition Perception and Language, v.3 Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, v.4 Child Psychology in Practice.
HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments) (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly) (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. We suggest Harper's Weekly (partial serials index), an open access index of historical Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of the Penn Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, as an alternative resource. This serial archive offers partial digital access to persistent holdings of complete issues of Harper's Weekly, an important 19th century political and social magazine, published from 1858-1870.
For additional assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Health & Medical Collection
The Health & Medical Collection is a comprehensive medical information resource for researchers, students, faculty, and healthcare professionals. Inside users will find biomedical content from MEDLINE®, built on a core of premier scholarly journals in full text such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and The BMJ.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health periodicals covering topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, and women's health. The database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. This database is provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
HeinOnline
Extensive collection of legal information, including international law resources.
HeritageQuest Online
The Libraries' subscription ended on 07/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering world history. Subject coverage is from 1450 to the present and includes Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Middle East. See America: History and Life for coverage of North America (U.S. and Canada).
Hospitality & Tourism Complete (Discontinued)
The Libraries subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
House and Senate Journals, Series 1, 1789-1817
Essential record of floor action from the early U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Includes matters considered on the floor, votes and other actions taken, executive department communications, and more.
Household Products Health & Safety Information
This database links over 8,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients. Categories of products include household cleaners, automotive products, personal care items, pesticides, yard and home maintenance supplies, home office supplies, products used for pet care, and materials used for hobbies and crafts.
Human Resources Abstracts
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 11/30/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Covers essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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IBISWorld
Industry market research reports, economic, and demographic data to support business research; reports include statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players, market share, and 5-year forecast analysis for 680+ industries.
ICPSR -Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data which can be used for secondary research, instructional activities, and to write articles, papers or theses - set up MyData account to begin. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account which must be done from an on-campus computer. Once the account is created, access is from anywhere. The account remains active for 6 months, after which time it must be reactivated from an on-campus computer.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
The IEEE Xplore Digital Library provides a single source to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, granting unparalleled access to publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers(IEE).
IET Digital Library
The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) offers this eBook collection featuring world-class engineering and technology research covering subjects including control, telecommunications, radar, electromagnetic waves, renewable energy, and computing. Beginning in 1979, these eBooks cover both academic and professional topics.
Incites Journal Citation Reports (formerly Journal Citation Reports)
Journal impact factors and citation data for scholarly and technical journals. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison. Users must create an account in order to export data.
Index of Medieval Art
The Index of Medieval Art includes images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century.
IndexCat
This is the online version of the print Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series). It is a valuable resource, especially for pamphlets, dissertations, and journal articles regarding the history of medicine from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
InnovationQ (10 users)
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 12/14/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
InnovationQ Plus is a unique patent search and analytics platform that combines an AI-based search engine with a global patent database and critical IEEE content to quickly sift through millions of complex documents to find relevant prior art and uncover powerful insights. The database can be accessed by 10 simultaneous users.
INSPEC
INSPEC is a bibliographic information database covering the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology with more than seven million records taken from 3,500 technical and scientific journals and 1,500 conference proceedings. Coverage is from 1969 to present. The database is updated weekly.INSPEC is produced and maintained by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. It indexes journal articles, conference papers, books, technical reports, and dissertations in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. The database includes information since 1969 and is updated weekly.
INSPEC Analytics
Inspec Analytics looks at 50 years of literature in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics to find and analyze articles; subjects, concepts, and topics in various fields of research; areas of high research output at any research institution; research trends over times; and new areas of cross-disciplinary research. The data found in Inspec Analytics can be turned into easy to read graphs and charts, and shared.
International Code Council Online Library
The International Codes®, or I-Codes®, published by ICC, provide minimum safeguards for people at home, at school and in the workplace. The I-Codes are a complete set of comprehensive, coordinated building safety and fire prevention codes. Building codes benefit public safety and support the industry's need for one set of codes without regional limitations
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas
International Encyclopedia of Dance
The International Encyclopedia of Dance provides access to nearly 2,000 articles on all aspects of dance, including theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers. You can also browse entries A-Z. This resource is limited to one user at a time.
International Medieval Bibliography (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
IPA Source
IPA Source is a large library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Includes over 4639 texts including 757 aria texts!
Iter
Scholarship related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies). Includes more than 842,000 records. Updated daily and with thousands of new records added annually, this research tool is useful to scholars of the Middle Ages and / or Renaissance (400-1700).
Izvestiia Digital Archive
Among the longest-running Russian newspapers, Izvestiia was founded in March 1917 and during the Soviet period was the official organ of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Remarkable for its serious and balanced treatment of subject matter, Izvestiia has traditionally been a popular news source within intellectual and academic circles. You can access Izvestiia on the old East View platform here, East View Information Services UDP Platform.
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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. We maintain access to the following JoVE Journals:
Behavior (7/1/14 - 12/31/23), Bioengineering (1/1/22 - 12/31/23), Biology (1/1/12 - 12/31/23), Cancer Research (1/1/19 - 12/31/23), Immunology & Infection (7/11/14 - 12/31/23), Medicine (7/11/14 - 12/31/23), Neuroscience (1/1/12 - 12/31/23)
For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
JoVE publishes scientific research in a video format to help researchers overcome poor reproducibility and the time and labor-intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques. Video articles are available in the areas of Biology, Neuroscience, Medicine, Bioengineering, Engineering, Immunology & Infection, Chemistry, Behavior, Environment, Cancer Research, Basic Biology Science Education, and Advanced Biology Science Education.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, primary sources, and high-quality images. It has an archive of more than 1,000 scholarly, interdisciplinary journals, with full coverage for all but the most current 3-5 years. Images are contributed by universities, museums, and community and private collections. JSTOR is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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Kanopy Streaming Video
Kanopy Streaming Video provides access to more than 8,500 videos from major educational film distributors and covers diverse subject areas including early film, humanities, arts, media, and business. Kanopy does not support older versions of Internet Explorer.
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Part of Web of Science, provides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI. KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea.
Keesings World News Archive
Keesing's publishes approximately 150 new articles each month on topics ranging from Political and Military Conflict, Human Rights, Major Legal Cases and War Crimes Trials, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, Budgets and Major Economic Developments just to name a few. Coverage only includes 2012 - 2016.
Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Provides information for chemists, biochemists, and engineers. It contains information on topics such as recycling, vitamins, antibiotics, graphite fibers, and pesticides.
Knovel
Knovel is a database which includes some of the leading science and engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. Knovel provides aggregated engineering and applied science data that can be accessed globally utilizing proprietary tabular analysis tools. The combination of aggregated information, proprietary analysis tools, and technology empowers librarians, engineers, and researchers to attain information across multiple sources and information formats, bringing unprecedented reach and capabilities to research needs.
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Latin America & Iberia Database (from ProQuest Central)
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Learning Express Library (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Test preparation (GRE, GMAT, MCAT) career planning & job search, skills training for software packages and more.
Legal Source (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on Aug. 31, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Lexis Nexis Academic (now Nexis Uni)
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis™ including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 — with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
LGBTQ+ Source
LGBTQ+ Source provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings; subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Linguistics Database (from ProQuest Central)
This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Literary Reference Center Plus
Literary Reference Center Plus is a literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of full-text poems, short stories, synopses, critical essays, literary journals, reference books and author biographies, plus lesson plans and literary study guides. It gives students a complete foundation of literary reference works.
Literary Reference eBook Collection
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of literary-related subjects. Selections include literary criticism, study guides, and classics such as Emma, Dracula and Frankenstein.
Liverpool University Press Modern Languages Collection
WVU Libraries is supporting Liverpool University Press’s Modern Languages Package which fosters OA publishing of new books and journals related to Modern Languages. Additionally, WVU receives access to 36 back list titles from their Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series and the Liverpool Latin American Studies series.
LLMC-Digital
This resource provides more than 9,000 digitized historical legal publications and government documents.
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MagillOnLiterature (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 8/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu. Plot summaries, author biographies, book reviews and critical analyses of frequently studied works of literature. The database provides electronic access to the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews.
MarciveWeb DOCS
Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Also called GPO Monthly Catalog or Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.
Masterfile Premier (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Full text for nearly 1,750 general reference periodicals with information dating as far back as 1975. Covering subject areas of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.
MathSciNet (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
MechanicalEngineeringnetBASE
MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE is a collection of over 192 ebooks covering the area of mechanical engineering from CRC Press.
Media Intelligence Center
From the Alliance for Audited Media, media analysis and data including audited circulation reports and publisher statements from newspapers, magazines and journals.
MEDLINE (EbscoHost)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.
MEDLINE (OVID)
MEDLINE through OVID is a version of the premier, comprehensive biomedical database designed for advanced users. Updated daily, MEDLINE on OvidSP offers seamless and up-to-the-minute access to the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,500 biomedical journals published in more than 70 countries. Abstracts are included in more than 75% of the records.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
MEDLINE is a National Library of Medicine bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Access to full-text WVU journal subscriptions is available through the LinkOut icons.
MedlinePlus
Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
Mendeley
With Mendeley Reference Manager, you can organize and search your personal library, annotate documents and cite as you write. Create a free account to begin.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (8 users) (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 8/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu. A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska.
Merck Index Online
The Royal Society of Chemistry's Merck Index is a source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. The advanced search offers a number of ways to discover chemicals using both text and properties. Researchers may also search by structure and named reactions.
Mergent Archives (previously Moody's Manuals from Mergent WebReports)
Moody's manuals, ranging back to the early 1900s, possess a richness of corporate history and business descriptions and in-depth financial statements. The collection is all searchable by company name, year or manual type.
Mergent Intellect
Companies (private and public), industries, and key business ratios.
MergentOnline
Extensive company information, including profiles of 10,500 companies traded on US stock exchanges, 17,000 non-US companies, fifteen years of financial statements, corporate annual reports and comprehensive market reports on over 100 countries. In addition to the as reported financials Mergent Online includes segment results, restated financials, preliminary results and historical ratios.
Met Opera on Demand: Student Access
Met Opera on Demand delivers access to more than 500 Met performances, including more than 70 past performances from the Met Live in HD series, as well as more than 350 classic full-length video and audio performances.
Mintel Oxygen
Consumer market research reports that focus on consumer attitudes, trend information, and market data in 14 consumer categories (Food, Drink, Foodservice, Beauty & Personal Care, Health & Wellbeing, Household, Lifestyles, Leisure & Entertainment, Multicultural, Retailing & Apparel, Finance, Technology, Transportation, and Travel).
Missionary and Charity Periodicals, 1793-1902
Focuses on missionary and charity work undertaken by various faith groups. The publications in this collection include those for both foreign and domestic missions and represent outreach to many different groups that include African-Americans, Native Americans, women, the poor, immigrants, and specific ethnic groups. Subjects include slavery, home missions, hospital work, and social problems.
MIT Press Direct to Open (D2O) eBooks
D2O is a new, collective action open access model for scholarly books. With library support, the model provides open access to all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections from 2022.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
Literature, language, linguistics, folklore references from the Modern Language Association. Includes references to journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Although full text is not included in the MLA Bibliography, the Find it @ WVU service provides links to full text from other databases when available.
Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications 1895-1976
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on Sept. 30, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Comprehensive index to historical information published by the United States federal government, describing over one million items published between January 1895 and June 1976, the Monthly Catalog helps you identify important and useful information on all subjects.
Moody's Manuals from Mergent WebReports (now Mergent Archives)
Moody's manuals, ranging back to the early 1900s, possess a richness of corporate history and business descriptions and in-depth financial statements. The collection is all searchable by company name, year or manual type.
Morgan & Claypool
Synthesis is an information service for the research, development, and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 75 to 125-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. These Lectures provide more synthesis, analysis, and depth than typical research journal articles. They are more modular and dynamic than traditional print or digital handbooks, such as collected volumes and monographs. They are ideal entry points to new areas for researchers, advanced developers, and students.
Music Index Online
Covering all styles and genres of music, the Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal subject list which includes both subject and geographic headings.
Music Industry Data
Music Industry Data is a growing repository of historical and current data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, Media Control and many more reporting agencies around the world. This data is presented in Relative Pitch Graphsâ„¢ which tell the story of the impact of music on society and cultures.
Musical Periodicals, 1781-1879
The Musical Periodicals, 1781-1879 collection gathers publications dedicated to various aspects of music, from the sacred to the secular, from the political to the comic. Before widespread use of the printing press in the nineteenth century, the popular culture of the United States was largely an oral one, and much of it revolved around music. Often including related content on the arts, literature, and sometimes science, these periodicals show music in a larger cultural context, as music was also an important leisure activity for families and communities. Representative titles include the Family Minstrel, the Musical Journal, Trumpet Notes: A Monthly Paper Devoted to the Interests of Bands and Orchestras, Aeolian Piano Forte Journal, the Musical Miscellany, the Vox Humana, and the New Yorker Musik Zeitung. Part of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections.
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.
National Faculty Directory (Gale Directory Library)
Find faculty by name, institution, or discipline, with contact information.
National Fire Protection Association Codes & Standards
NFPA publishes more than 300 consensus codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks. NFPA codes and standards, administered by more than 250 Technical Committees comprising approximately 8,000 volunteers, are adopted and used throughout the world. Users must create an account to access free, read-only codes. Documents cannot be downloaded or printed.
National Geographic Virtual Library
A complete archive of National Geographic magazine, every page of every issue, along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
The NGC mission is to provide physicians and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers, and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines.
Natural Medicines
This database was founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Grades reflect the level of available scientific data for or against the use of each therapy for a specific medical condition.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive online collection of music offering over 500,000 tracks of Classical, World, Folk and Chinese music.
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that, through leadership and innovation, promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. The NDLTD encourages and supports the efforts of institutes of higher education and their communities to develop electronic publishing and digital libraries (including repositories), thus enabling them to share knowledge more effectively in order to unlock the potential benefits worldwide. A collaborative effort of the NDLTD, OCLC, VTLS, and Scirus, the NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than four million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.
New York Times (Digital Edition)
Read the New York Times on your phone, tablet or computer. Create an account with your WVU email address, and your "Academic Pass" is good for four years or until your expected graduation date is reached.
Access to articles from 1923 to 1980 is limited to 5 articles per day.
New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers) (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 8/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu. Full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to the beginning of the paper in the 19th century.
Newspaper Source (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Includes the Morgantown Dominion Post plus cover-to-cover full text for 28 national(US)and international newspapers and selected full text for more than 260 regional newspapers. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis Nexis Academic)
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis™ including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 — with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Twelve collections of primary source material covering various aspects of the long nineteenth century. Coverage for literature, science & technology, women, commerce, travel and more.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Includes approximately 150,000 pages of women's letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. The material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings
Nursing & Allied Health Database
This ProQuest database offers comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
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O'Reilly Online Learning Platform (formerly Safari)
Safari Learning Platform provides unlimited access to books, videos, and training from 200+ publishers in computer programming, tech, business, design, and other fields. Safari arms you with the knowledge and skills you need to meet today's challenges and those of the future. Learn through live online courses, complete videos of O'Reilly conferences, case studies, learning paths, interactive tutorials, and more-only on Safari, O'Reilly's comprehensive learning platform. **Users will need to enter their university email and no password on the new platform. They will then confirm their email and be routed to the WVU SSO login.
Oceanic Abstracts
Indexing focused on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, with emphasis on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
OECD iLibrary Statistics
Statistics from the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, including key tables, searchable data sets, and fact books. All content prior to 2017 is available, and select content after 2017 is available through the "read online" option.
Olympic World Library (OWL)
The OWL collection includes all official publications from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Organising Committees of the Olympic Games, dating back to 1894, Games related publications by National Olympic Committees and International Sports Federations as well as a rich collection of academic books, articles, and journals.
OneMine
OneMine is a collaborative effort among multiple societies to place a comprehensive collection of mining and minerals based research in one place. The goal of OneMine is to collect a relevant and reliable aggregation of technical papers associated with mining and minerals in one, easy to navigate location.
OnePetro
OnePetro currently contains more than 80,000 documents, with more being added frequently. The number of documents is expected to grow as additional organizations choose to make their materials available through OnePetro. OnePetro is a multi-society effort that reflects participation of many organizations. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is operating OnePetro on behalf of the participating organizations.
Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities publishes international, peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology.
OpenBibArt
A freely available database of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues from 1910-2007, creating a single portal to the legacy data in RAA, RILA, and BHA.
Opera in Video (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 3/31/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
OT Seeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of over 10,000 systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. It is designed to help occupational therapists use research evidence about occupational therapy interventions to inform their practice by quickly locating it. Research evidence relevant to occupational therapy has been retrieved from over 1,000 different journals and has been located by comprehensive searches across numerous bibliographic databases. Surveys of people using OTseeker have indicated that having research relevant to occupational therapy interventions in one resource has improved their ability to locate research evidence quickly (Bennett et al 2007). Further, most trials (published prior to July 2013) have been critically appraised for their internal validity (risk of bias) and interpretability. Information about the critical appraisal details completed for each trial is also accessible in the database.
Overdrive
Enjoy popular eBooks & audiobooks on your computer, phone, tablet, or iPod.
OVID Resources
This portal provides access to the WVU journal subscriptions through OVID, a search portal for tables of contents and abstracts of ALL OVID journals, MEDLINE through OVID, the OVID Nursing Database, and Zoological Record.
Oxford African American Studies Center (5 users)(discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 7/1/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Oxford Art History Bibliographies (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Oxford Art Online (3 users)
Oxford Art Online is the innovative new gateway for searching Grove Art Online and other art resources from Oxford. Allows access for three simultaneous users.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Handbooks Online: History
Articles from 21 Oxford Handbooks review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research in history, on topics such as cities, food, fascism, witchcraft, Europe, and more.
Oxford Music Bibliographies
Authoritative research guides combining high-level encyclopedic overviews and annotated bibliographies on music topics including composers, instruments, style periods, countries, and more.
Oxford Reference (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to more than 16,000 books from the scholarly list of Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Physics
Provides full-text access to scholarly physics books.
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PAIS International
References to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International 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.
PapersFirst
Conference papers, including all published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting papers received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Covers a wide variety of subjects discussed at the covered meetings
Periodicals from Around the World, 1691-1880
The Periodicals from Around the World, 1691-1880 collection is comprised of titles that were either published outside of the United States, or published within the United States but largely concerned with foreign countries. They were read by both American and international audiences. Mostly published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they represent the continued influence of colonialism on literature, fashions, and politics. London, Calcutta, Ottawa, Montreal, Foochow, Bombay, Madras, Edinburgh, Halifax, and Toronto are among the many places of publication represented here. Part of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections.
Philosopher's Index (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.
PILOTS
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD. Although it is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the PILOTS database is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans.
Pivot
COS Pivot is a frequently updated database of funding opportunity announcements in all disciplines including physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health and medicine, and arts & humanities. It contains information on awards, fellowships, and grants from federal/non-federal and corporate/private foundations, as well as international funding sources. Pivot combines the most comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion with our unique database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles. If you create an account, you are required to use your WVU or UHA email account. Pivot is made available with funding from the Office of Sponsored Programs at WVU.
Points of View Reference Center (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Term paper resources and topics - Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Political Handbook of the World
Information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system, including: heads of government, heads of state, ambassadors, historical trends, regime changes, constitutional history, and regional and global policy issues of concern.
Pravda Digital Archive
Pravda ("Truth") was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers' newspaper, and it soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics. You can access Pravda on the old East View platform here, East View Information Services UDP Platform.
PrivCo (To access content, click on the "Direct Access" button beneath the sign in menu.)
PrivCo specializes in business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed, and international unlisted companies. Includes profiles for over 850,000 firms, 20,000 investors and 100,000 private market deals, with more information and analysis added daily. Recommended for company, investor, M&A, venture capital funding, and private equity research. To access content, click on the "Direct Access" button beneath the sign in menu.
ProceedingsFirst
An index of conference publications.
Project Muse
Project MUSE provides searchable, full text access to hundreds of academic journals and books. It covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
ProQuest Congressional
Abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. Full-text access to House and Senate Unpublished Hearings Parts A, B, & C.
ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection (Parts A-O)
ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection is a unique primary source collection presenting opinions and supporting materials on the issues of the day. Full-text coverage is available from 1824 to present.
ProQuest Databases
All Proquest databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
This is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
ProQuest Ebook Central
Online electronic books covering all academic disciplines.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full digital images of the New York Times, 1851-2014.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers includes 9 newspapers and offers primary source material for the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Newspapers included are: Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage includes 1786 - 2003.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage includes 1860 - 2001.
ProQuest International Newsstream
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. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
ProQuest Legislative Insight
ProQuest Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full-text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.
ProQuest Regulatory Insight
Regulatory Insight provides researchers with workflow solutions to facilitate research tasks associated with administrative law. As a companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories beginning in 1936, organized by federal statute and Executive Order.
ProQuest Science Database
This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.
ProQuest Statistical Insight (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on July 1, 2022. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
Supreme Court Insight, 1933-to present, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document-by-document basis. Supreme Court Insight is a companion product and offers links from case-specific records to Legislative Insight and Regulatory Insight.
PsycArticles
Full text articles covering general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 34,000 searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 51 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1987 to the present.
PsychiatryOnline
Web portal that includes the DSM-IV-TR and a selection of journals, practice guidelines and textbooks.
PsycINFO
Contains two million references and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1872 to the present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Examples of titles offered in PsycINFO include: Academic Medicine, Academic Psychiatry, Behavior Genetics, Behavioral Disorders, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Journal of Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Psychological Medicine, etc.
PsycTESTS
PsycTESTS provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and citation information for each instrument. It contains resources that span the full breadth of testing in psychological research, including neuropsychological tests, personality assessments, skills and proficiency tests, measures of addiction, IQ and aptitude scales and instruments, and more.
Public Health Database
ProQuest Public Health is designed to be the starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with centralized access to over 800 publications with over 500 in full-text and covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences and biological sciences to business.
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's gateway to MEDLINE, a National Library of Medicine bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,200 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.
The majority of the publications covered in MEDLINE are scholarly journals; a small number of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters considered useful to particular segments of NLM's broad user community are also included.
A growing number of MEDLINE citations contain a link to the free full text of the article archived in PubMed Central® or to other sites.
WVU LinkOut icons will be seen on PubMed citations that WVU has either electronically (full-text) or in print.
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Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)
Access qualitative and multi-method research datasets housed at Syracuse University. QDR allows researchers to store and preserve data and provides consultation through their Data Management Plans (DMP). Users will need to create an account in order to download data.
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Reader's Guide Retrospective
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, the standard index to articles in magazines, covering from 1890 to 1982.
Readex - AllSearch
Easily search across the entire ReadEx historic documents collections from a single search box. These collections include American Historical Imprints (Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera, Evans, and the American Civil War Collection), American Historical Newspapers, American State Papers, House and Senate Journals, Senate Executive Journals, and U.S. Congressional Set.
Red Book
The Red Book is considered the preeminent resource on pediatric infectious disease. Now in its 31st edition, it provides the most up-to-date information on a wide variety of infectious diseases that physicians encounter in children. Some of the features of this online version include a Vaccine Status Table, recommended immunization schedules, influenza resources, and a visual library of more than 3,000 images for use in diagnosis and presentations. It also contains links to recent research and the latest clinical recommendations for COVID-19.
Reference USA
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Find detailed information on 14 million US businesses, 100 million households, and nearly 1 million physicians and dentists. Searchable by name, line of business, geographic location, sales, and other parameters.
Refinitiv WorkSpace
Register for access through Workspace's
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Refinitiv Workspace (also known as Refinitiv Eikon) is a platform that features market trends, company financial and deals data, private equity and venture capital, breaking news, and After Market Research reports by leading analysts and firms. Refinitiv Workspace / Refinitiv Eikon replaces Thomson One.
For assistance getting started with Refinitiv Workspace, please see the
Refinitiv Workspace Academic Quick Start Guide
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Regional Business News (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Researchers Dataset (ICRG Table 3B - Political Risk)
The ICRG Researchers Dataset Table 3B provides annual averages of the 12 components of ICRG's Political Risk Ratings (Table 3B), as published in the International Country Risk Guide. Average ratings are provided for all countries covered by ICRG from 1984 through the last full calendar year.
Richard K. Miller & Associates Market Research Handbooks
Annual handbooks summarizing latest consumer market research for leisure, sports, restaurant,travel, healthcare, and entertainment.
RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive music index of publications from 184 countries and in 140 languages. Coverage extends back to the 1800s on traditional music, popular music, and classical music topics.
Roper iPoll
Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.
Russian Science Citation Index
Part of Web of Science, provides bibliographic information and citations to scholarly articles from Russian researchers in over 500 science, technology, medical, and education journals. Leading publications have been carefully selected and provided by the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU), Russia's largest research information provider.
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SAE Mobilus
This portion of the SAE Mobilus references thousands of SAE Technical Papers and/or SAE Standards covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Sample coverage includes fuels and lubricants, emissions, electronics, brakes, restraint systems, noise, engines, materials, lighting, and more. Your SAE service includes detailed summaries, complete documents in PDF, plus document storage and maintenance. Full-text access is from 1998 - present for technical papers, and 2007 - 2017 for journal content.
SafetyLit
SafetyLit is a free service of the Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice at San Diego State University, in collaboration with the World Health Organization. It is an injury prevention literature update and archive. This database provides abstracts of reports from researchers who work in the more than 30 professional disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. Among these are anthropology, economics, education, engineering specialties, ergonomics and human factors, health and medicine, law and law enforcement, psychology, sociology, and other fields. The SafetyLit database contains current and backfile article abstracts from 6,285 active scholarly journals, and abstracts from the backfiles of 2,671 additional "inactive" journals. The database contains article abstracts from 3,763 journals that are not included in PubMed/MEDLINE.
Sage Criminology
Electronic journal collection covering criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. Some of the journals have content back 23 years.
SAGE Knowledge
A collection of authoritative encyclopedias in the social sciences, including coverage for anthropology, criminology, environment, psychology, research methods, sociology, and women's studies.
Sage Research Methods
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects, linking over 100,000 pages of SAGE's book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
School of Art & Design Visiting Lectures
The School of Art and Design is committed to providing important guest artists, designers, art historians, educators, and related art professionals every semester for the benefit of students. This is an opportunity to hear firsthand about the work and life story of those who have forged successful careers in the arts.
SciELO Citation Index
Part of Web of Science, provides access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
Science Citation Index Expanded
Made available with funding from the WVU Research Corp. Part of the Web of Science, provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals in the world.
ScienceDirect
Collection of authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications in both journals and books. Includes access to multimedia features, such as video, audio and supplementary spreadsheet files.
SciFinder-n
Scifinder-n is the most comprehensive source for citations to the literature of chemistry and related disciplines. It includes PatentPak, MethodsNowSynthesis, formulations, biosequence searching, and the RetroSynthesis Planner with predictive capabilities. It explores chemical substances by chemical names, structures, formulas, or CAS Registry Numbers and much more.
SciTech Connect
Access to free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia and data information.
Scopus
Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, covering research topics across all scientific and technical disciplines, ranging from medicine and social sciences to arts and humanities.
Senate Executive Journals, 1791-1866
Fully searchable record of the Senate's proceedings in executive session from the years 1791-1866. Covers the confirmation of presidential nominees, the ratification of treaties, the careers of military officers, and more. Illuminates key moments in American history as they occurred and influential government decisions as they were made.
Serials Directory
Directory of 150,000 periodicals with publisher information.
Simmons Insights (5 users)
Simmons provides data of U.S. adult consumers on product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits, and more. It can be used to create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psychographic characteristics of product users and their media behavior. The database can be accessed by 5 simultaneous users. Users will need to enter their first name, last name, university email, and role on the new platform.
Slavery and Abolition, 1789-1887
The Slavery and Abolition, 1789-1887 collection chronicles the African-American experience during the 19th century. While subjects run the gamut and include a fair amount of titles covering religion and literature (including the Pathfinder, Slave's Friend, Anglo-African Magazine, and Youth's Emancipator), the bulk are related to slavery and abolition, including titles such as the Freedmen's Record, Genius of Universal Emancipation, the Liberator, the Massachusetts Abolitionist, the Mirror of Liberty, and the National Crisis: An Antidote to Abolition Fanaticism, Treason and Sham Philanthropy.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a streaming audio collection of world music. It currently provides streaming access to over 42,000 tracks from the Smithsonian archives and world music archives in Asia and Africa, and is growing regularly as new recordings are added.
Social Explorer
Features demographic research mapping tools that allow for demographic data analysis. The main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through present down to the zip code or a city block level.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 384,300 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 315,000 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Articles from high impact research journals in each field of the social sciences, with option for cited reference searching to trace scholarship. (Part of Web of Science)
Social Services Abstracts
Current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Social Work Abstracts
Coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice.
Sociological Abstracts
Research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Sociology Database
ProQuest's Sociology Database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies. It includes hundreds of full-text scholarly journals, as well as dissertations and other sources.
SPE eLibrary (OnePetro)
OnePetro currently contains more than 80,000 documents, with more being added frequently. The number of documents is expected to grow as additional organizations choose to make their materials available through OnePetro. OnePetro is a multi-society effort that reflects participation of many organizations. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is operating OnePetro on behalf of the participating organizations.
SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE Digital Library contains a large collection of optics and photonics research and provides user-friendly tools for researchers to optimize their valuable time. Content covering a broad range of applied optics and photonics science and engineering papers. Technologies span applications from imaging, sensors, biomedicine, manufacturing, and energy to nanotechnology, communications, entertainment, and electronics.
Sport Discus Full Text
SPORTDiscus offers bibliographic and some full-text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre. International database with abstracts on sports, physical education, outdoor recreation, physical activity, and leisure literature. Related databases included in the subscription and covering the same subject area include Heracles (1975-1997) a French language database, Atlantes (1980-1996), a Spanish language database, and Catalogue du Musee Olympique, a catalog of the Olympic Museum in Switzerland.
Sports Business Journal (SBJ)
Sports Business Journal’s weekly and daily content provides original reporting and news aggregation, plus newsletters, podcasts and video.
Sports Business Research Network
Focuses on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It's mission is to provide a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry, including sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. SBRnet is designed to capitalize on the capacity of Internet and its related technology to dramatically enhance the value of information by providing a variety of information sources in one place.
Sports Medicine & Education Index (Formerly Physical Education Index)
Sports medicine & Education Index provides scholarly and trade literature from 1970 to the present for physical education. CSA Sports medicine & Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered
Springer eBooks
Springer eBooks includes more than 23,000 eBook titles, divided into twelve subject collections: behavioral science; computer science; biomedical and life sciences; engineering; medicine; mathematics and statistics; humanities, social sciences and law; physics and astronomy; business and economics; earth and environmental science; chemistry and materials science; professional and applied computing; and architecture and design.
SpringerLink
SpringerLink provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
SpringerMaterials (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Stalin Digital Archive (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 12/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Statista
A statistics portal that integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform - categorized into 21 market sectors, providing direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Provides comprehensive summary of statistics on these major topics: Population, Health, Education, Crime, Environment, Government, Human Services, Labor Force, Income, Prices, Business, Science, Agriculture, Energy, Construction, Manufacturing, Trade, Transportation, Information and Communication, Finance, and Arts. The source notes can be used to find more detailed tables and machine-readable datasets.
StudentLingo
StudentLingo is a series of interactive on-demand workshops, action plans, and valuable resources focused on helping students achieve their academic, personal, and career goals. Access is provided by the WVU Center for Learning, Advising, and Student Success.
Supreme Court Yearbook
A collection of annual reporting on the actions and opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court with clear, in-depth analysis of every decision made by the nation's highest court since the 1989-1990 term and the justices who ruled on them.
Swank Motion Pictures
Swank provides semester-long access to select Hollywood and independent movie studio films.
Synthesis Computer & Information Science Collections (Morgan & Claypool)
This collection includes content in the subject areas of computer and information science, from artificial intelligence to visualization. This includes "hard" computer science fields such as computer architecture, networking, computer vision, and data management, as well as information science topics including human language technology, human computer interaction, and information retrieval
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TechRxiv
TechRxiv.org is a free preprint repository that provides researchers across a broad range of fields the opportunity to share early results of their work ahead of formal peer review and publication. It covers electrical engineering, computer science, and related technologies.
Tests in Print (now included in Mental Measurements Yearbook)
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 08/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska.
The index of Medieval Art
Princeton’s Index of Medieval Art provides digital images of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and secular art works from the Medieval Period.
Theatre in Video (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 3/31/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Thomas Register of American Manufactures
Search products and the companies that manufacture the products.
Times Digital Archive
Digital images of the Times (London) complete from 1785 to 2012.
TOPICsearch (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Treesearch
Treesearch is an online system for sharing free, full text publications by Research and Development scientists in the US Forest Service. Included in Treesearch are scholarly works published by the agency as well as those published by others, including papers appearing in journals, conference proceedings, or books. All publications appearing in Treesearch are based on peer reviewed research to make sure they provide the best scientific information possible.
TRID - Transportation Research Information Services
TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set
Historic reports, documents and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. Digitization is on-going. When complete, coverage will extend through 1980.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
The most comprehensive compilation of declassified documents from the executive branch. The types of materials include intelligence studies, policy papers, diplomatic correspondence, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, and domestic surveillance and military reports.
Ulrichsweb
Provides detailed information on periodicals published throughout the world, covering all subjects and including publications that are published regularly or irregularly.
UN Comtrade
A database of over 170 countries reporting annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries to the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Lag time is generally two years. Time series of data for reporter countries starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year. Only the basic version can be accessed, not the premium.
University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection
WVU Libraries has joined with more than fifty other institutions to support U-M Press in transforming the University of Michigan Press eBook Collection to be open access. Our partnership with U-M Press not only helps support OA access for recent U-M Press titles, but also provides WVU users access to their entire back list of roughly 1500 titles through 2024. Teaching faculty looking to adopt these OA books into their courses can consult U-M Press’s list of titles that have already been utilized for courses globally according to the Open Syllabus Project.
UpToDate (Restricted to HSC campus only. No remote access)
UpToDate is a point-of-care tool that synthesizes knowledge for clinicians and patients. The resource covers more than 7,400 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 76,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 254,000 references, and a drug database.
US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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Veterinary Education in Video (Discontinued)
The Libraries' subscription ended on 07/31/2023. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
VisualDX
VisualDX is an online clinical diagnostic support tool that features nearly 30,000 medical images and specialist-level knowledge to help diagnose, treat, and manage 1,300 diseases, drug reactions, and infections.
Vogue Archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
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Wall Street Journal (2010 - present - Proquest Newspapers)
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news.
Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com)
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 7/31/2024. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Access to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) is provided via the John Chambers College of Business & Economics. WSJ.com provides the latest business news from around the world (with a rolling archive of 4 years from today). For historical Wall Street Journal content, please see https://lib.wvu.edu/databases/search/?q=wall for other WSJ subscriptions provided by WVU Libraries. Morgantown-based students, faculty, and staff can create an account with your WVU email. Divisional campuses do not have access to WSJ.com.
Web of Science
Provides indexing for current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals from around the world.
West Virginia Newspapers from Newsbank (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Includes the Dominion Post (Morgantown), Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail, Herald Dispatch (Huntington). Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
West Virginia Newspapers Portal
Access to select West Virginia newspapers is provided free of charge courtesy of Potomac State College & Mary F. Shipper Library.
West Virginia State Data Center/Business and Industry Data Center
Thirty-one public agencies work together through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Bureau of the Census to facilitate use and delivery of Census and other data to the public. Data is narrowed to West Virginia geographic areas.
WGSN Fashion
WGSN Fashion is a trend forecasting service. They track near- and long-term trends across 14 fashion categories. They also offer retail intelligence, an image library, and design tools and resources.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide is an index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. It contains over 589,840 bibliographic records, including many with abstracts. The databases in this collection offer a global perspective covering all aspects of wildlife and wildlife management. Approximately 18,000 records are added per year. The geographic identifiers include global and broad regional levels as well as specific localities. One can search by species in a province, state, county, or even a community, park, lake, or stream.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering
The Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering contains a large biomedical engineering (BME) knowledge base. A representation of the vast diversity of the field and its multi-and cross-disciplinary structure, the Encyclopedia includes material to meet the needs of readers ranging from undergraduate and graduate students, and research scientists and experts. To access content, click on the "Articles by Title" or "Articles by Topic" links on the menu on the left.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science is an A-Z encyclopedia providing a comprehensive, definitive, and up-to-date reference of the main areas of specialist and expert knowledge and skills used by those involved in all aspects of the forensic process.
Winmo (formerly Advertising Red Books)
Winmo (formerly Advertising Red Books) is an advertising database that provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on companies, their ad spending and the agencies that represent them. Use the database to search by company or product, identify agency clients and more.
Women's Wear Daily Archive
A comprehensive archive of Women's Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included, with searchable text and indexing. The Women's Wear Daily Archive preserves one of the fashion industry's most influential reads. Key moments in the history of the industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers are all covered in this publication of record.
Women's Studies International
Is now part of The Gender Studies Database.
World Bank Data Catalog
Datasets available via Open Access (for free) including World Development Indicators Global Development Finance African Development Indicators Millennium Development Indicators Global Economic Monitor (GEM)"
World History Encyclopedia
The World History Encyclopedia covers a wide range of topics in world history, from ancient times to the first colonies in the Americas. It contains background information, multimedia, primary sources, and other learning materials in a range of formats.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Search 20,000+ library catalogs for books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
WorldCat Discovery
Library catalog for locating and accessing resources across multiple libraries. Best for finding items to request from another library.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Use Find it @ WVU to connect to full text articles.
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Zoological Record
Part of Web of Science, this is a leading taxonomic reference and the oldest continuing database of animal biology.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Download Zotero Standalone as a separate application or install as a Firefox extension to begin.