Databases & E-Reference Materials

Includes the full text (PDF) of more than 50 publications from the Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia Law School. Highlights of the collection include the 22-volume set A Bibliography of Foreign and Comparative Law: Books and Articles in English compiled by Charles Szladits and the full run (5 vols.) of the Parker School Journal of East European Law.

Full text of the rolls of parliament (translated and in the original Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English). The rolls were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272) until the reign of Henry VII (1509).

Access the electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Full text is available.

Reference work for toxicological information on a large number of industrial chemicals that pose potential health hazards. Contents include CAS numbers, physical and chemical properties, exposure limits, and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures.

Access abstracts related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Includes bibliographic references and abstracts for scientific and technical articles from more than 300 journals and conference proceedings, patent descriptions, government documents, dissertations, books, and other sources.

The publisher has decided to cease publication of this database. This database will no longer be accessible after December 31, 2024. 

Philosopher's Index covers all major fields of philosophy. Materials indexed include books, book reviews, and articles from more than 400 scholarly journals. Articles indexed come from over 35 countries and span 37 different languages, including English, Spanish, German, and French.

Provides access to peer-reviewed surveys of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline of philosophy. Full text is available.

Archives the historical African-American newspaper, Pittsburgh Courier, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

This online research platform, covering 25 legal practice areas, offers full text access to over 100,000 documents, including PLI Press treatises, course handbooks, answer books, transcripts, forms, and journals.

Provides hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, dramatic works, audio recordings, video content, biographies and essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements, and techniques. Includes teaching and learning guides, and lesson plans from the Poetry Foundation. Some full text is available.