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The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research.
American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.
This fully indexed, primary-source database unfolds the historical development of anthropology from a global perspective—with archival collections from North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific — including key field notebooks, images, and recordings of the early- to mid-20th century. The collection brings together the work of early scholars who shaped the theories and methods students learn about, critique, and reshape in their own fieldwork endeavors today.
More than 410 active full-text, non-open access journals; more than 270 active full-text, non-open access peer-reviewed journals; more than 190 full-text books. Detailed indexing and abstracts for many leading academic journals, magazines and trade publications. Strong international coverage, including periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch. Coverage dating back to 1914.
HeinOnline’s Civil Rights database contains publications covering civil rights in the United States, including hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislations, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights. The database also includes a curated list of scholarly articles, a varied collection of books on many civil rights topics, and other resources that researchers may find helpful.
Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online. On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a not-for-profit streamed audio resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. DRAM is accessible only at the Eastman School of Music, but does not limit the number of users at any one time.
Online Reference Module designed to serve as an in depth and comprehensive compendium of Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Topics include Atmospheric Sciences, Bioscience, Energy and Natural Resources, Geosciences, Global Change, Hydrology, and Oceanography.
Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
Online reference specifically designed for the needs of linguists and typologists. Search across dozens of languages and hundreds of linguistic phenomena.
Contains a range of perspectives on many important issues, with over 21,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.
This database contains hundreds of titles that analyze the controversial topic of gun regulation in America, including periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, CRS reports, Supreme Court briefs, scholarly articles, and other resources. Research materials are available on the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.
Digitized documents from the Justice Department Library and U.S. National Archives covering the Hindu Conspiracy Case, a series of arrests and later trials against Indian Nationalists active in the United States, bankrolled by Germans interested in supporting the overthrow of British colonial rule in India.
Independent India’s first years were marked with turbulent events - partition, a massive exchange of population with Pakistan, the IndoPakistani War of 1947 and the integration of over 500 princely states to form a united nation. This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of the Subcontinent between 1945 and 1949, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned India in the postwar period.
For generations of British and Indian Officers and men, the North-West Frontier was the scene of repeated skirmishes and major campaigns against the trans-border Pathan tribes who inhabited the mountainous no-man’s land between India and Afghanistan. This collection contains Army Lists; Orders; Instructions; Regulations; Acts; Manuals; Strength Returns; Orders of Battle; Administration Summaries; organization, commissions, committees, reports, maneuvers; departments of the Indian Army; and regimental narratives.
Provides a robust, diverse, informative source that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada. This digital archive highlights the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge through the use of manuscripts, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, images of artwork, and more.
This database contains daily stock market indicators obtained from NYSE TAQ data. Special instructions: requires an account for use. Select "University of Rochester" from the institution list when registering.
Please contact Kathy Wu in Rush Rhees Library kathyw@library.rochester.edu.
Based on sources from the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this database provides insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. The database contains a variety of material types including correspondence, scrapbooks, autobiographies, reports and financial records, minutes and committee reports, surveys, and other printed materials.
Marketresearch.com is the platform that provides access to two leading collections of market research reports: Kalorama and Freedonia Focus. Freedonia Focus Reports provide analysis on a wide variety of markets and industries on 15 industry categories and two major geographic collections. Topics run the gamut from raw materials to finished manufactured products and various consumer goods and services. Kalorama provides worldwide business intelligence and syndicated market research in the life sciences industry (topics include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics.
Mergent Online provides detailed information on over 50,000 publicly traded companies worldwide and 30 million privately held companies. Special sections include the Investext collection of 18 million current and historical broker research reports on companies, industries, products and markets; and Mergent Horizon which offers supply chain data along with customer, competitor and product information. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.
Mirabile (Digital Archives for Medieval Culture) is an online content aggregator of Medieval Studies resources, with a focus on medieval Latin and romance languages, texts, authors, and manuscripts. Contains Medioevo latino : a bibliographical bulletin of European culture from Boethius to Erasmus, VI to XV centuries (MEL) ; Bibliotheca scriptorum latinorum medii recentiorisque aevi (BISLAM); Compendium auctorum latinorum medii aevi (500-1500) (CALMA); databases related to Romance-language texts and manuscripts; and several hagiographic databases. Includes full-text content from several related online journals, including Hagiographica, Iconographica, Itineraria, and Micrologus.
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.
Detailed collection of records documenting the history, mission, and intelligence collection and analytic operations of America's largest and most secretive intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and its predecessor organizations.
The jazz/R&B/roots music portion of the catalog comprises the Fantasy group of labels (Pablo, Original Jazz Classics, Prestige, Milestone, Stax/Volt, Riverside, Jazzland, Specialty, Takoma, Kicking Mule, Debut, Contemporary/Good Time Jazz, Bluesville, and others).
New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC Membership
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The Cornell Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) is one of 31 Federal Statistical Research Data Centers, part of a network managed by the U.S. Census Bureau. Researchers with approved projects are able to access confidential internal use files from various federal statistical agencies including the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Center for Health Statistics. This network of data centers is managed by the U.S. Census Bureau. CISER coordinates the relationship with the Census Bureau for Cornell and houses the secure facility that is managed by the Bureau.
For more information, contact Kathy Wu kathyw@library.rochester.edu or Bob Berkman rberkman@library.rochester.edu.
The Justice Initiative publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.
Osiris has information on listed, and major unlisted/delisted, companies across the globe. The financial reports provided by the database range from summaries, to standardized reports, to raw data. It covers a wealth of complementary information including ratings, earnings estimates, news, industry research, royalty data, corporate actions, stock data, corporate structures and economic backgrounds.
ProQuest Research Companion is an information literacy platform featuring more than 80 short videos that are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?" Different kinds of "pre" and "post" assessment questions make the viewing experience more interactive, while allowing educators to measure students’ learning and identify gaps in their understanding. The resource is designed to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.
TDM Studio provides text and data mining applications by permitting researchers to find and analyze millions of bits of text and accompanying data, derived from all of the current ProQuest newspaper and associated news subscriptions that the University of Rochester subscribes to. It is particularly valuable for PhD and other deep research analytical tools who can apply R and Python coding to do custom analysis. Another part of TDM studio is its visualization module, which is designed to help students and researcher learn and experiment to spot trends in generate insights.
Users must set up an account using a UR e-mail address. See the TDM LibGuide for instructions: https://proquest.libguides.com/tdmstudio/visualization Trial access ends October 3rd, 2021.
Please send comments to Robert Berkman rberkman@library.rochester.edu.
Punctum books is an open access and print-on-demand independent publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry of high-quality academic books in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, and Architecture & Design. Punctum is devoted to cultivating trans-disciplinary academic work that takes risks with form and style, and to fostering the work of both traditional and non-traditional scholar-researchers, including thought leaders at prestigious universities, early to mid-career researchers at a wide variety of academic institutions, precarious academics, independent scholars, and others who understand the importance of sharing their work with the Open Commons.
Database of representative repetitive sequences from eukaryotic species used worldwide as the reference standard for annotating the presence of repetitive DNA in genomic data.
Identifies articles, patents, conferences, books and dissertations in chemistry and medicine. Search by substance name, structure, substructure, reaction, CAS registry number, molecular formula, organization, research topic and author. Searches Chemical Abstracts, Medline and ChemZent databases simultaneously. Includes PatentPak, MethodsNow and Retrosynthesis Plan A separate registration is required before the first use. See About SciFinder for more detail. To use off campus, use VPN.
This collection brings together essential legal materials relating to the history of slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every federal, state, and colony statute on slavery, as well as all reported state and federal cases on the subject. In this database, slavery-related case coverage extends into the 20th century because long after slavery ended, courts were still resolving issues emanating from the practice. Materials include pamphlets and books written about slavery and English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920 from the U.S. and elsewhere. It provides not only access to pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century, but also many modern histories of slavery and modern law review articles on this subject.
Techstreet Enterprise provides full-text PDFs from leading publishers of industry standards including ASME, ISO, ANSI, ASCE, ASME and many more. Please note—if you request a standard typical turnaround time for access is 1-2 weeks.
The Thomson Reuters databases cover Mutual Funds Holdings (CDA/Spectrum s12) and 13f Institutional Holdings (CDA/Spectrum s34). The Insiders Filings database contains transaction and holdings information filed with the SEC. Special instructions: requires an account for use. Select "University of Rochester" from the institution list when registering.
Please contact Kathy Wu in Rush Rhees Library kathyw@library.rochester.edu.
Encyclopedia articles on industrial chemical science and technology.
Encyclopedia articles on industrial chemical science and technology covering inorganic and organic chemicals, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys, biotechnology and biotechnological products, food chemistry, process engineering and unit operations, analytical methods, environmental protection, and much more.
Interactive anatomy models and 3D physiology animations for reference and patient education. Current modules: Human Anatomy Atlas; Muscle Premium; Skeleton Premium; Physiology Animations; and Heart & Circulatory Premium. Click here for access to Visible Body - Anatomy & Physiology Module.
An introduction to human body systems in visual interactive chapters presented in 3D model sets, animations and illustrations; includes quizzes for assessing self-paced learning. Note that due to the image-rich nature of the resource, there will be a delay when loading Visible Body at the start. To access other modules from Miner Library subscription, click here: Visible Body (through Miner Library, URMC)..
WARC provides insight, intelligence, evidence, expertise, case studies, benchmarks and guidance for marketers. It focuses on providing a wide range of data on global advertising and marketing trends, such as expenditure data, industry trends and consumer insights. Advertising expenditure includes data both by medium and format from 1982 onwards.
Search through the contents of millions of SEC filings. Access Readability and Sentiment scores and Linking Tables. Special instructions: requires an account for use. Select "University of Rochester" from the institution list when registering.
Please contact Kathy Wu in Rush Rhees Library kathyw@library.rochester.edu.
Free, open source, easy-to-use reference manager tool that helps users collect, organize, cite, and share research sources. Create an account with your institutional email for unlimited cloud storage through a River Campus Libraries subscription (free cloud storage: 300 MB).
The Zotero browser extension will give an error wher you are at the item's individual page. Use "export to RIS" and use Zotero's import function. For more information, see: https://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/referencemanagers/Zotero
