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Hit Songs Deconstructed

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Insight into the craft behind hit songs, using data and analysis of songwriting and production techniques not found elsewhere. Includes interactive tools such as compositional filters and downloadable digital audio workstations to identify and track music industry trends.

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Hitler. Quellen 1924-45

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Hitler's written legacy as contained in the database represents a unique source for studying Hitler's world-view and his political ambitions.

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An outstanding and comprehensive site providing in-depth information about HIV/AIDS.

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HLAS Online, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, is the major bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration Files collection documents forty years of self-regulation and censorship in the motion picture industry. The Production Code was written in 1929 by Martin J. Quigley, an influential editor and publisher of motion picture trade periodicals, and Reverend Daniel A. Lord, a Jesuit advisor to Hollywood filmmakers. Officially accepted in 1930 by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), the precursor organization to the MPAA, the Production Code presented guidelines governing American movie production. The five hundred titles selected were chosen by the staff of the library’s Special Collections Department, with advice from film historian Leonard J. Leff.

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The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management collected from a wide variety of sources.

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A full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education.

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Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010.

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Humanities Full Text includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals €”of which 470 are peer-reviewed €”dating as far back as 1984.

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IBFD

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The IBFD database, from the Amsterdam-based International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, provides tax information for countries throughout the world.

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IBISWorld

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Industry Market Research reports and Industry Risk Ratings. Focuses on United States, but has some data on global markets.

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Icarus Films Collection

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Icarus Films is a leading distributor of documentary film. With over 40 years in the film distribution business, Icarus Films has assembled an impressive collection in many area of social and political concern.

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IEEE Draft Standards

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The IEEE Draft Standards include 770 unapproved drafts—a combination of revisions of previous standards and new ideas that are in the standards development process, all approved drafts awaiting standards publication, and 1,500 archival drafts to trace the evolution of a standard.

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Enhance technical communication skills when speaking, reading, and writing English. IEEE, in partnership with Cambridge University Press, has developed a program of online English communication instruction for engineers and other technical professionals.

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IEEE Smart Grid Research is a collaborative effort that leverages the work of over 100 industry experts and pioneers in the field to share a view of the future of smart grid as far as 2030 and beyond.

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IEEE Xplore

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A comprehensive database delivering full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

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The Institute of Health Economics in Alberta Canada provides free access to web-based statistics generated by national and global agencies and research groups. Focus on Canadian and American statistics, with some international coverage.

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Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera provides over 1400 images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society, enabling researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America

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In the First Person

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In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.

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The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection traces the evolution of Mexico during this pivotal period. Comprising over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929).

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This collection includes more than 400 of the most important films produced from the early 20th century to today. It proudly turns the spotlight on preeminent independent distributors—Milestone Films, Zeitgeist Films, Pragda, and Oscilloscope. More than just a cinema studies collection, these films support disciplines, such as cultural history, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, theatre, African- American studies, and more.

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Index Chemicus

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Index Chemicus, accessed via Web of Science Core Collection, provides access to the chemical compound information to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share their findings.

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Index Islamicus

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The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.

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Index of Medieval Art

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The Index provides access to descriptive and bibliographic information on approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art in the east and west from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400.

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The Index Theologicicus indexes both American and European religion and theology journals which can be searched by subject, author, title, or document source.

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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law, providing complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more.

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Index of Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 is a retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records.

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Locate musical works contained in printed collections, sets, and series; indexes individual compositions printed in complete works of composers, anthologies of music, and other scholarly editions.

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Online Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, an index of medical and scientific publications from 1880-1961; eTK, covering medieval Latin; eVK2, covering medieval English texts; and other selected historical resources.

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India, Raj and Empire

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Manuscript collections from the National Library of Scotland covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Includes collections from across Canadian and American institutions, from the 17th-20th century. Includes manuscripts; books; tribe and Indian-related newspapers; Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages.

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Consumer-focused research evidence on safety of using medication while pregnant or breastfeeding.

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Infoplease

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Online version of the Information Please Almanac.

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Information Services Latin America (ISLA) is a press monitoring service providing full text images of news articles related to individual Latin American countries and to regions such as the Caribbean area, Andean region, or Latin America in general.

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