Databases & E-Reference Materials

Streaming academic video content, including acclaimed and award-winning interdisciplinary documentaries, independent non-fiction films, training and instructional videos, foreign films and shorts, and other educational titles. 
 

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This six-volume set provides comprehensive information and evaluations on musicians from all musical genres.

This reference work provides descriptions of the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, physiology and other biological properties of all named prokaryotic taxa.

This database indexes western-language articles and book chapters on East, Southeast, and South Asia. All subjects are covered with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.

Covers Native North American history, life, and culture from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). Materials indexed include the cumulative eight volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America, books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, dissertations and U.S. government documents. This database was formerly known as Bibliography of Native North Americans.

Covers European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007. Also see International Bibliography of Art (IBA) for material published after 2007.

The Big Ten Geoportal provides access to geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps. The resources in the portal are selected and curated by librarians and geospatial specialists at twelve research institutions in the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

This two-volume set includes approximately 1550 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times.

Covers biographical material on over 6 million individuals from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of activity. BGMI indexes material from current and major retrospective publications and includes over 20 million entries covering more than 2,000 year of human history.

Indexes over 50 bioscience research journals focusing on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text access is available.