Databases & E-Reference Materials

Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Texts available include the full text of the Public Law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.

Provides information relating to library and information science, knowledge management, technology and information issues. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, and book reviews. Some full text is available.

This bibliographic database indexes hundreds of periodicals, books, book chapters, academic journals, conference proceedings, and theses related to library scholarship. Subjects covered include copyright, censorship, rare books, publishing, indexing, education for librarianship, cataloging, personnel administration, reference services, and more. 

Web access to the Library of Congress classification schedules and the Library of Congress Subject Headings.

The Library of Latin Texts is the world's leading database for Latin texts with works from the ancient period to the 20th century. Series A consists of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Second Vatican Council while series B provides access to Latin texts of all periods and genres. This resource includes the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis.

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Provides access to citations in the literature of information science and related disciplines. Indexes more than 600 periodicals, as well as books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

This database covers all aspects of the study of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Victorian manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. This collection includes digitized works of the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Alfred Tennyson and more. Contents include unpublished poems, working notebooks, and drawings.

Provides full text access to documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.

This collection provides access to over 900 newspapers from over 340 Ukrainian cities. While most newspapers in the collection are in Ukrainian and Russian, there are also papers written in German, Armenian, Crimean Tatar, Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian, and more. Together, these newspapers document the regional consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the early period of Ukraine's independence, and events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004-2005).