Databases & E-Reference Materials

Provides access to a variety of tools and resources addressing small business topics. Resources include reference books, journals, business videos, case studies, and sample business plans.

Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. This resource also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University, as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE).

The revised edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables is comprised of 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data. The information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Full text is available.

Provides access to a selection of documents that focus on the nature of social behavior and organization. Includes full text materials by theorists from the eighteenth century to the present day, including Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, and Karl Marx.

Indexes and abstracts journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems.

Indexes literature in sociology, criminology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, books, and conference papers.

Covers a broad range of subjects relevant to sociology and its related disciplines including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure and more. Some full text is available.

Something About the Author examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. This series spotlights more than 12,000 individuals in entries that typically cover personal life, career, writings, adaptations, and additional sources.

SORA is an open access ornithological publications archive providing access to an extensive library of ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years.

Growing open access collection of historical and contemporary primary sources in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from and about South Asia. Resources include books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure. This collection is built through a collaborative initiative involving US research libraries and partners from South Asia.