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Electronic Databases


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ABI/Inform included in ProQuest Direct
AccessScience The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology; click the Subscriber Log-in button
AccessUN index to United Nations documents and publications
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library
Ad*Access
African American Biographical Database
African-American Poetry (1750-1900): please use Literature Online (LION)
African-American Studies: History Universe
Agricola
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals**
Almanac of American Politics
America: History and Life
American National Biography click Subscribers Enter Here
American Poetry (1600-1900): please use Literature Online (LION)
American Religion Data Archive**
AMICO Library digitized images of works of art
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Anthropological Index Online **
Anthropological Literature
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
ArchivesUSA
Art Abstracts
ARTbibliographies Modern (click on the ARTbibliographies Modern button to begin)
ARTFL fulltext French literature
ArticleFirst
Astrophysics Data System (NASA)
ATLA Religion Database
Baudelaire database (W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies)**
The Bible in English:
Beilstein Abstracts (ChemWeb) registration required
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biological Abstracts
Book Review Digest
Books in Print
Britannica Online
Business and Company ASAP
Business & Industry#
Cancerlit**
CCH Business and Finance Subscriptions
CHEMINFO
ChemWeb (Beilstein Abstracts) registration required
CISILO international health & safety literature
 
CogPrints Electronic Archive
Columbia Earthscape
Columbia International Affairs Online
ComAbstracts
Community of Science
Compendex
Congressional Universe
Contemporary Women's Issues
ContentsFirst
Cross-Cultural CD
Current Contents Connect provides access to contents of leading research journals in agriculture, biology, environmental sciences, clinical, medical technology and laboratory medicine, biochemistry, molecular biology, toxicology, and other life sciences
D&B Million Dollar Directory#
Digital National Security Archive
DISCovering Most-Studied Authors
Dissertation Abstracts Vanderbilt users may order dissertations directly from UMI through this database; they may also purchase or borrow dissertations through the Interlibrary Loan office
Early American Fiction
Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700): please use Literature Online (LION)
ECONbase**
EconLit
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911):
Education Abstracts FTX
Education Index
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780): please use Literature Online (LION)
Electronic Collections Online fulltext journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences
English Drama (1280-1915): please use Literature Online (LION)
English Poetry (600-1900): please use Literature Online (LION)
Entrez**
ERIC SilverPlatter version
ERIC FirstSearch version
ERIC Document Reproduction Service
Ethnic Newswatch
Exceptional Child Education Resources
Expanded Academic ASAP
The Faber Poetry Library
Facts.com
FactSearch
Famous First Facts
Fedstats**
FirstSearch
General Reference Center Gold
General Science Abstracts
GeoRef
GPO (Government Printing Office) SilverPlatter version
GPO FirstSearch version
GPO Access**U.S. government version
Grove Dictionary of Art
Handbook of Latin American Studies **
HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction Harper's Weekly from 1857-1876
Health Reference Center-Academic
Historical Abstracts
Historical Newspapers Online historical index to the New York Times and the Times of London
History Universe: African-American Studies
Hoover's Online#
HSELINE international sources on health & safety

IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur click IBZ link
IDEAL search fulltext journals published by Academic Press
IEEE Xplore
Index of Christian Art
Index to Legal Periodicals
!Informe! (Revistas en Espanol)
InfoTrac
INSPEC index to electrical engineering, physics, and computer science articles
INSPEC link to enhanced service mode for customization; requires registration
International Index to Music Periodicals
Investext#
jake find where a journal is indexed or which journals are covered by an index
JOLIS World Bank and IMF Libraries
Journal Citation Reports
JSTOR search fulltext journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences
Justice Information Center **
The King James Bible - 'Authorized' Version
Landolt-Bornstein Series
LANL Pre-Print Archive
LegalTrac
Lexis-Nexis Universe
Life Sciences Collection
Linguistics Abstracts
LINK (Springer) fulltext of over 400 Springer-Verlag journals
LION: Literature Online
Literary Market Place
Literature Online (LION)
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
MathSciNet
Medline** PubMed from the National Library of Medicine
MEDLINE FirstSearch version
MLA International Bibliography
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Modern Poetry (1972-1997): please use Literature Online (LION)
MUSE (RILM Abstracts of Music Literature)
NASA Technical Reports Server
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
National Newspaper Index
NetFirst
Newspaper Abstracts included in ProQuest Direct
NIOSHTIC occupational safety & health
Occupational Outlook Handbook**
Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
Oxford English Dictionary click Sign In
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
PapersFirst
Patrologia Latina
Periodicals Contents Index
Philosopher's Index
Poem Finder
Population Index**
PrePRINT Network
ProceedingsFirst
Project MUSE search journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University Press (most available in full text)
ProQuest Direct includes ABI/Inform, Newspaper Abstracts, Periodical Abstracts, plus abstracts and full text of articles in hundreds of popular periodicals and scholarly journals
PsycINFO
PubList** directory of information about periodicals and other serial publications
PubSCIENCEa peer-reviewed journal literature database from the Dept. of Energy
Religion Database
Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
ScienceDirect over 1,000 fulltext journals published by Elsevier. Click the group-wide login button
Short Story Index
Sigaux database (W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies)**
Sociological Abstracts
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
Springer LINK fulltext of over 400 Springer-Verlag journals
Statistical Abstract of the United States**
Statistical Universe
STAT-USA#
TableBase#
Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro
Television News Archive at Vanderbilt**
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1901-1997): please use Literature Online (LION)
Twentieth Century American Poetry (1901-1997): please use Literature Online (LION)
UnCover** tables of contents from over 17,000 journals
UnCover Reveal Vanderbilt users may create personal profiles for notification of newly published articles in subjects of interest
Union List of Artist Names: ULAN
Union Lists of Periodicals
United States Geological Survey Publications
U.S. Government Manual**
The W.B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995):
Water Resources Abstracts
Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Who's Who biographical information for over 750,000 people
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Wiley Interscience
Wilson Biographies Plus
Witchcraft in Europe and America
Women Writers Online
World Almanac and Book of Facts includes World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids
World Biographical Index**
WorldCat
World News Connection