Databases & E-Reference Materials

This title presents nearly 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business and industry profiles, geographic profiles, and more.

Provides online access to Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Gale Virtual Reference titles in literature. Resources can be cross-searched simultaneously. Content includes includes biographies, critical essays, reviews, full-text articles, and audio files.

This database allows for searchability across all available Gale digital archives from a single interface. Contains full text of primary sources in the following collections: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, British Library Newspapers, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, American History and Culture, Sabin Americana, The Times (London) Digital Archive, and U.S. Declassified Documents Online.

Access encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This platform allows users to search multiple resources at one time. The reference library includes titles such as Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of American History, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Something About the Author, and many others. Full text is available.

Browse and search hundreds of articles about the music of every continent. This resource contains overviews of world regions with surveys of musical heritage, traditions, themes, and descriptions of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.

A part of Elsevier's Engineering Village, GeoBASE covers human and physical geography, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, ecology, nature conservation, international development, and related disciplines. Materials indexed include journals, books, conference proceedings, and reports.

This database consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America and contains information from the print publication The Union List of Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America, sixth edition.

A part of Elsevier's Engineering Village, GeoRef is an international database of geoscience literature of the world. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. This database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and is the electronic equivalent to Bibliography and Index of Geology.

GeoScience World is a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. Built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals, this database is linked and inter-operable with GeoRef. Provides access to journals by over 30 earth sciences publishers and indexing for over 2,000 books.

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. It includes a growing herbaria community-contributed collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials. Also includes reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, and links to taxonomic literature.