Databases & E-Reference Materials

Chemical Abstracts Service database of the chemical literature; indexes journals, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations, reports, and books. Includes step-by-step synthetic procedures for reactions, as well as retrosynthesis information. Some full text is available.

This reference work deals primarily with the chemistry of aliphatic acids bearing hydroxy, amino, and carbonyl groups (including a second carboxylic function).

Translated from the original French, this dictionary serves as both a research tool and a general introduction to language theory.

Contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as governmental session laws from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Bahamas. Full text is available.

The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

Provides access to streaming videos of BBC Shakespeare plays on the Ambrose Digital website.

Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 (2008-2015) and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018) include 30 landmark productions from the theater's 2008-2018 seasons. Opened in 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the theatre for which he wrote. Recorded live on the Globe stage in high definition and surround sound, the videos in this collection feature performances from leading actors including Stephen Fry, Gemma Arterton, and Mark Rylance. Highlights include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Henry IV, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure. 

This site integrates the full text of Shakespeare's plays and poems with the entire glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

This resource is a Japanese edition of the Oxford Learner's Thesaurus: A dictionary of synonyms. The thesaurus contains roughly 10,000 synonyms, 26,000 examples of usage, approximately 2,600 notes and columns that explain the differences and usages between synonyms, and an index that makes it possible to look up words in Japanese as well as English.

Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.