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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.

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17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features London newspapers and pamphlets gathered by antiquarian and printer John Nichols. This collection, sourced from the Bodleian Library, spans the years 1672 to 1737 and complements the titles and issues found in 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

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The National Archives released the 1940 census population schedules more than 3.8 million pages) to the public. In order to find a person in the census, you first need to determine the appropriate enumeration district (E.D) number. The E.D can be found by searching census district maps and descriptions. The digitized schedules can be saved,shared or downloaded.Besides name, age, relationship, and occupation, the 1940 census included questions about internal migration; employment status; participation in the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and National Youth Administration (NYA) programs; and years of education.

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Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.

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Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from 500 newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

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19th Century UK Periodicals is a new multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. It provides an invaluable fully-searchable facsimile resource for the study of British life in the 19th century - from art to business, and from children to politics. Few of the materials in this extensive online collection have ever been reissued, in any format since original publication. All the original color work has been specially captured for this program.

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Includes two databases. National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile, 1933-1945, is a database containing fundamental primary sources on the Nationalist Socialist State and the NSDAP, Nazi ideology and propaganda, National Socialist justice and legislation, on resistance and persecution, and annihilation and expulsion in the Third Reich.

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5 Minute Consult

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Evidence-based monographs on diseases, drugs, procedures, and laboratory tests. Includes patient handouts on drugs, aftercare, and physical therapy exercises. Combines access to all contents of the "5 Minute Consult" book series.

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60 Minutes: 1997-2014

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This collection from Alexander Street grants access to the CBS News archives from the period 1997-2014, including many episodes not widely seen since their original broadcast.

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This TV news archive provides access to broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.

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Violence & Abuse Abstracts (available through EBSCOhost) includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

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This collection of the Ferrar Papers, 1590-1790, from Magdalene College, Cambridge, is an essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States.

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The private manuscript libraries of Yemen, estimated at 50,000 codices, constitutes the largest and most important set of unexamined Arabic manuscripts in the world today.

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Visible Body

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An interactive 3d anatomy tool for the study and review of human anatomy and function. This tool is broken down into different applications: Anatomy and Physiology, Human Anatomy Atlas, Anatomy and Function, Muscle Premium, Skeleton Premium, Physiology Animations, and Heart & Circulatory.

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With Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary Online either search ideas within organized subject fields to quickly locate more than 20,000 terms with full definitions or consult over 6,000 illustrations of a wide variety of objects from all aspects of life.

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VisualDx

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Clinical information tool with emphasis on dermatological and opthalmological disorders. Thousands of images of diseases and disorders on different locations and skin tones. Search by diagnosis or build a differential diagnosis.

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A current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals, covering articles in English, French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, and, occasionally Spanish.

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Vogue Archive

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A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. Every article, cover, photo shoot, illustration and advertisement has been digitized to the highest standard, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by designer and brand names.

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Vogue Italia Archive

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The complete run of Vogue Italia – one of the most influential and renowned international editions of Vogue – from its launch in 1964 to the present. Recognized as the least commercial and most artistic edition, it has a tradition of innovation and bold treatment of current issues and events.

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W. B. Yeats Collection

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The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.

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Wall Street Journal

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New users are required to create an individual user account using their USC email address.
  • Students will have seamless access through graduation
  • Faculty and staff will be required to refresh access once a year. An email will notify the user when they need to refresh
  • For those who have a personal WSJ membership and want to take advantage of the complimentary school-sponsored membership can call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel

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Includes thousands of Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences from mainland China from 1997 on. Also includes select monographic series titles, such as 元史及民族与边疆研究集刊, 藏外佛教文献, etc.

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Contains full text and abstracts of theses and dissertations in the humanities and social sciences from key research institutions in mainland China.

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Covers a wide range of Chinese laws, regulations and policies at both national and regional levels, international treaties and conventions, and judicial cases and interpretation from 1949 onward.

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WARC

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Previously known as the World Advertising Research Center, WARC provides a wide range of information on advertising and marketing trends around the world including expenditure data, case studies, industry trends and consumer insight.

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Washington Post

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The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provides cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).

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Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries from 1967 to the present of the world's technical, scientific, and public policy literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources as well as the legal aspects of water supply, use, control, or management.

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Web of Science

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Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.

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The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.

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Images from British Wellcome Museum holdings including historical, contemporary, biomedical, and clinical collections.

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Includes 20,000+ volumes and 650,000+ articles of Chinese literary and historical materials compiled by the national and local government agencies mostly during the 1980s and 1990s. To access the database, please click the link “click to enter” on the homepage, then click “文史资料专题库 (第一期)" under “SuperStar specialty” section, and then you will then be able to browse and search the wenshi ziliao collection.

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Collection of databases designed for quantitative analysis of financial data: Compustat Global & EMDB; Fama French Momentum and Liquidity; Audit Analytics; EVENTUS; Blockholders; CUSIP Master File; Federal Reserve Bank Reports; Bureau van Dijk; DMEF - Direct Marketing Educational Foundation; FDIC; Bank Regulatory; CBOE Indexes; Execcomp; CRSP - Center for Research in Security Prices; Compustat North America; Dow Jones; Mutual Funds Links (MFLINKS); Thomson Reuters; TRACE; NYSE TAQ; PHLX; SEC Disclosure of Order Execution; I/B/E/S International; IRI - Information Resources Inc.; Penn World Tables.

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With prominent links to the President'€™s Weekly Address, the NationalBudget, and the economic recovery plan, the searchable site also provides links for both current news (The Briefing Room), the administration's Agenda (nicely narrowed by topic), and ways to learn about €œOur Government€, especially the Executive Branch.

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Whole Brain Atlas

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Good resource for CNS imaging combining clinical data with MR, CT, and nuclear medicine images.

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An online collection of freely available, high-quality, copyright compliant, images, sound, and video clips.

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Wiley Digital Archives

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A collection of historical primary sources digitized from: The New York Academy of Sciences, Royal Geographic Society, The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, The Royal College of Physicians and British Association for the Advancement of Science: (Collections on the history of science: 1830-1970).

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Wiley Online Library

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A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Select "Medicine" from the Browse Column, then the resource of interest from the next menu.

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Organized around the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present,

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A finding aid to women's studies resources in the National Archives, Kew, combined with original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and Colonial Territories.

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