Databases & E-Reference Materials

A list of databases available from FirstSearch on various subjects, including AnthropologyPlus, ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica, Ebooks, ECO (Electronic Collections Online), ERIC, GEOBASE, GPO, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Medline, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, World Almanac, WorldCat, and WorldCat Dissertations.

Provides access to international yearbooks and serials, U.S. law digests, international tribunals and judicial decisions, as well as other major works related to foreign and international law. Full text is available.

Provides access to the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. This resource includes translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and commentary. Full text is available.

Provides access to current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world. Full text is available.

Contains the proceedings of the Foundation's Annual Institutes (from 1955) and Special Institutes (from 1970). Covers all aspects of natural resources law, and includes articles on oil and gas, mining, water, environmental, and public lands issues. Full text is available. This resource was formally known as Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Digital Library.

Presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.

A digital collection of primary source documents covering the lives of immigrants and Indigenous peoples in various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia. Topics covered include land and property, women's history, religion, the natural world, warfare, health and medicine, family, business and trade, agriculture, arts and entertainment, politics, and more. Resources include correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books and pamphlets.

Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Entries include various images and brief biographies. Full text is available.

Containing approximately 200 articles, this encyclopedia includes brief descriptions of each issue's historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; and details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state.

Covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories, terminology, landmark case studies and experiments, applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports, and career information.