Databases & E-Reference Materials

Provides overview of all the major areas of importance in the field. Topics covered span aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence and include symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development, current theoretical perspectives, and more.

This database provides access to historical analysis and documents related to women and social movements in the United States. It also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's history. Resources include book, film, and website reviews, archival documents, and teaching tools.

Covers women of historical interest worldwide, from around 3100 BCE to the modern age, and from every walk of life, including artists, pirates, scientists, athletes, philanthropists, adventurers, politicians, pacifists, courtesans, and saints.

Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, marketing, education, psychology and health, politics, media history, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies’ Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005), and Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003).

Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them. 

Provides access to the archival holdings of the World Bank, along with tools that enable the discovery of World Bank historical information. Resources include archival findings aids, online exhibits, a photo catalog, digital collections, oral histories, archived projects, archived World Bank websites from 1998 to the present, and more.   

This website allows users to browse development topics across all major sectors of global development and easily access data and project resources in one place. Topics include agriculture and food, gender, climate change, debt, education, environment, health, infrastructure, poverty, nutrition, urban development, trade, and many more. 

This repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public to better share the institution's knowledge base. Resources include formal publications, working papers, legal agreements, loan/credit related documents, board documents, and in depth background studies. 

This database provides access to over 2,000 World Development Indicators (WDI) from the World Bank data sets covering over 200 countries.

Open Finances makes World Bank’s financials openly available for exploration. The platform offers advanced tools to export, download, and customize financial data, and to create unique visualizations and filtered views. Datasets include loans and credits, procurement, administrative budgets, financial statements, shareholder equity, and more.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Resources are organized by collection and include books, journal articles, technical papers, country strategy documents, working papers, economic and sector work studies, and speeches. Materials are in English, with over 1000 accompanying documents in other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Bosnian, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Spanish, and more.