Databases & E-Reference Materials

This database provides access to resources covering the global influence of oil, gas, and other resources. Explore the technological trends and related scientific knowledge surrounding the extraction, refining, transportation, and impact of petroleum products. Petroleum Source provides abstracts for over 100 journals, magazines, and trade publications and full text access to 93 of those. As of 2025, Petroleum Source replaces the discontinued Petroleum Abstracts. 

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.

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

PolicyMap is an interactive online data and mapping tool that contains thousands of indicators used to understand communities. Regularly updated indicators include demographics, real estate, health, jobs, income and spending, housing, crime, quality of life, education, socio-economic factors, and more. Data is available at many geographic entities including census tract, zip code, city, state, school districts and political boundaries. Data sources include the Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and CDC BRFSS and is accessible as interactive maps, tables, charts, and reports.

A database of 30,000 of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures.

The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century. These newspapers, some of which had a relatively short lifespan, provide important and critical insight into the events and personalities that defined post-Soviet Russian politics and history.