African American Newspapers [collection]

The Charleston Mercury

Chester & Delaware Federalist

The Christian Recorder

The Civil War Part I. A Newspaper Perspective [collection]

The Colored American

Delaware County American

Delaware County Republican

Frederick Douglass Paper

Douglass Monthly

Freedom's Journal

Media Advertiser

The National Era

The New York Herald

The North Star

The Pennsylvania Gazette

The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog [collection]

Pennsylvania Newspaper Record [collection]

The Pennsylvania Packet

Porcupines Gazette

Provincial Freeman

Richmond Enquirer

The Upland Union

Village Record

Weekly Advocate [Info] Full Text Resource!

AccessUN/Access UN: The Readex United Nations Index (CD-ROM version, 1943-) CD-ROM version Indexes United Nations publications, including official records, sales publications, masthead (formerly called memeographed) documents, and limited and restricted documents. Includes publications issued by the six main bodies, sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences, and regional bodies. Provides full text of General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council resolutions. Selected full-text Provisional Verbatim (PV) and Summary Records (SR) containing voting records were included in 1997. Index with some full text of resolutions and voting. [Info] Available in Central Library only

AccessUN/Access UN: The Readex United Nations Index (web version, 1966-) Web version Indexes United Nations publications, including official records, sales publications, masthead (formerly called mimeographed) documents, and limited and restricted documents. Includes publications issued by the six main bodies, sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences, and regional bodies. Provides full text of General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council resolutions. Selected full-text Minutes and Summary Records (SR) containing voting records were included in 1997. Index with some full text of resolutions and voting. [Info]

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) The American Council of Learned Societies' History E-Book website contains over 1500 books of major importance to historical studies. Approximately 250 titles will be added annually. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ACM Digital Library -- full text from 1991 forward. ACM Digital Library provides full text access to: the Journals, Magazines, Transactions, ACM Proceedings, SIG Proceedings, Newsletters, and Publications by Affiliated Organizations. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ACORN - the online catalog of the Vanderbilt Libraries. Acorn is the catalog of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University, including the collections of the Central Library, Divinity Library, Eskind Biomedical Library, Massey Law Library, Peabody Library, Special Collections, Stevenson Science and Engineering Library, Walker Management Library, and Wilson Music Library. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Ad Access Image database which includes over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. [Info]

Adams Papers Digital Edition "The definitive record of the nation’s first great political family, The Adams Papers Digital Edition comprises John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. This XML edition presents in a searchable online environment all 30 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding generation that have so far appeared in print. The contents are fully annotated, feature linked cross-references, and may be accessed by date, series, author, or recipient, as well as through a master index (coming shortly). Future volumes will appear in installments." (Source:http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8080/founders/ADMS.html) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Adherents.com Provides statistical information on over 4,200 religions, denominations, churches, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements. Data are derived from census data, polls, surveys and organizational reports. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

ADMYTE: Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles A collection of texts, manuscripts, and images from medieval Spain covering almost every aspect imaginable of Iberian culture and civilization from that period. Although consisting primarily of items written in period Spanish, this set contains a significant number of pieces in other languages, such as Catalan, English, German, and Arabic. A number of programs are provided that enable the user to move easily through and between the tremendous amount of text provided. ** Note: Currently, only Disc 1 of ADMYTE is available here. Disc 1 includes a collection of pre-16th century incunabula and early 16th century books from the National Library in Madrid. ** [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, Duke University Libraries This digital archive contains more than 12,000 television commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s that were created or collected by the New York advertising agency Benton & Bowles. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

AfricaBib.org: African Women's Bibliography "In February 2008 this English-language database contained over 35,000 citations from 1986 onward. The database indexes six types of materials: books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes" (from "About the Bibliographic Databases" page). [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

African American Biographical Database Largest collection of biographical information on African Americans. Contains biographical information, including photographs and illustrations, for African Americans. From the famous to the everyday person, AABD includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. [Info]

African American Experience African American Experience contains hundreds of articles from Greenwood Press, Negro University Press, and many other sources covering all aspects of the African American experience. The database includes articles, audio clips, images, primary source documents, maps, monographs, and government documents. [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Historical Serials Collection [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Music Reference African American Music Reference contains text and liner notes that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American newspapers, 1827-1998 Part of the Readex America's Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States--those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Beginning with Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American newspaper published in the United States, the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (OH), Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser, Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN) and hundreds of others from every region of the U.S. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This database of seven African-American Newspapers provides information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and reports on major events and issues of the day. [Info] Full Text Resource!

African American periodicals The collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998). Drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society, African American Periodicals ranges over more than 150 years of American life, from slavery during the Antebellum Period to the struggles and triumphs of the modern era. [Info] Full Text Resource!

African-American Artists on Disc [Info] Available in the Central Library on Reference CD-ROM workstation. Available in Central Library on Reference CD-ROM workstation

African-American Studies sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians OLD URLhttp://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/afam.html [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Agricola -- catalog of the National Agricultural Library and its article citation database AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although the AGRICOLA database does not contain the materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to full-text documents online, with new links added daily. AGRICOLA is searchable on the World Wide Web. For information on how to obtain library materials from NAL, see NAL's Document Delivery Services web site. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Agricultural Statistics [USDA NASS] Annual compendium of statistics on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) (DTIC version) Web version Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English-language military and aeronautical periodicals. Provided by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

This version has a less intuitive advanced search than the Air University version. It offers options for: (1) search of entire index; (2) listing of articles by subject headings; (3)listing of articles by periodicals; (4) listing of articles by author. Boolean searching (and, or, not) is less straightforward. This version offers "must include," "should include," and "must not include" as search options, and it allows display of up to 100 results per page. -- Frank Lester [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Al Tafsir "[P]rovides the original Arabic texts of 110 or more books of Qur’anic Commentary, Interpretation and Explanation (tafsir or tafseer), recitation (tajwid) tutorials and hadith collections, and other fields, pertaining to the study of Qur’anic exegesis. . . . The site also includes audio Qur’an recitations; resources on Qur’an syntax; resources on the Contexts of Revelation (asbâb al-nuzûl); resources on the meanings of words found in the Qur’an, and other works on the Qur’anic sciences" (from the home page). [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Aldrich NMR Library with Spectral Viewer (Available only on the Science and Engineering Library CDROM Reference workstation) The Aldrich FT-NMR Library with Spectral Viewer is an electronic book of spectra and related structure and technical data. It is an electronic version of the data published in the Aldrich Library of 13C and 1H FT-NMR spectra, edition 1. The database can be searched by chemical name, CAS Registry number, the Aldrich catalog number, and molecular formula as well as by various properties: boiling and melting points, density, molecular weight and refractive index to name several. Results can be sorted by name or property. Using the Zoom button, users can see the entire spectra, or enlarge specific portions. The Integral feature will calculate the integrals under the peaks. Because the Spectral viewer must be installed on all the computers, this program is available only on the public workstations in the Science & Engineering Library. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Alim The Alim Web site contains key Islamic documents in both Arabic and English. One of its distinctive features is the ability to hear portions of the Qur’an recited. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Almanac of American Politics (AAP) / National Journal Almanac (NJA) For each state, provides profiles of Governors, U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, and each Congressional district. For Senators and Representatives gives biographical information, committee assignments, election results, key votes, and interest group ratings. Also gives data on campaign finances and zip codes for each Congressional district. Fulltext. 1998- ; latest print edition available at Govt Ref JK1012 .A44; 1972-1996 available with same call number on the 5th floor, Central Library. [Info]

Alt-PressWatch (Alt Press Watch) Contains journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Highly recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.Covers 1970 to present. [Info] Full Text Resource!

America History and Life (AHL) (EBSCO Interface) Contains almost 500,000 records for English-language journal articles and book titles dealing with American and Canadian history and culture. Abstracts relevant articles from about 1,700 journals and provides citations to book reviews and to dissertations. [Info]

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) ABSEES is "the most authoritative guide to North American scholarship on the countries of East-Central Europe, Eurasia, and the former Soviet Union". The database covers journal articles, book, book reviews, online resources, and selected book chapters and dissertations published in the United States and Canada. [Info]

American Chemical Society journals [Info] Full Text Resource!

American Community Survey (ACS) Annual survey of population and housing. Covers age, race, income, commute time to work, home value, veteran status, and other important data. Surveys about three million housing units annually. Beginning with the 2005 ACS, gives one-year estimates for geographic areas with a population of 65,000 or more, including 800 counties and 500 metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

American Factfinder - U.S. Census Bureau Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data, including Census 2000 The first place to look for Census statistics. Provides demographic, social, economic, and housing stastistics and data sets. Includes data from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Census, the 1997 and 2002 Economic Censuses, the American Community Survey (ACS), and annual economic surveys. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

American Jewish Committee Archives The archives include full-text of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899, interactive archival timelines, AJC radio from 1939, historic films and TV shows, and oral histories. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

American Memory American Memory provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

American Memory - Presidents Resources include the papers of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington; Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film; William McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition (films, 1901); Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies; World War I and 1920 Election Recordings; and Presidential Inaugurations (1789-2001). [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

American Museum of Natural History Library The American Museum of Natural History Library encompasses the complete legacy of the museum's scientific publications. AMNH scientific series disseminate the results of work conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoologicalsystematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

American National Biography The essays contained in this searchable database are biographical profiles of over 18,000 men and women from all periods of American history and culture. Bibliographic information is included. (Some illustrations and online resources are included.) [Info] Full Text Resource!

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 Searchable digitized images of the pages of over 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.These periodicals include popular titles, such as Ladies’ Home Journal and Harper’s, and professional journals. You can use this database to search for trends in politics, literature, cultural ideas, or religion. [Info] Full Text Resource!

American Rhetoric "Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. Links are arranged alphabetically by first name and checked for errors at least once every two weeks." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Slave Narratives Online, searchable database of indexed transcripts of interviews conducted between 1936 and 1938 by the WPA Federal Writers’ Project concerning the life histories of former slaves from seventeen states. Compiled by the Library of Congress.Follow SEARCH link at bottom of screen to reach SEARCH template. Searchable by Name of Narrator, Master, or Interviewer; Location; and Age or Year of Birth [Info] Full Text Resource!

American Social Leaders "A reference tool which provides biographical information for over 350 American social leaders from colonial times to the present. Contains photographs of almost all of the leaders featured, maps of relevant locations, hundreds of glossary words, and pronunciations of the names." [Info] Available in Central Library on Reference CD-ROM Workstation

American State Papers, 1789-1838 The American State Papers includes Congressional and Executive Department publications covering the period from 1789 to 1838. The collection also includes speeches and messages of Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Ancient Maps and Atlases "Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th century when Europeans were concerned primarily with determining the outline of the continents as they explored and mapped the coastal areas and the major waterways. Also included are 18th and 19th century maps documenting the exploration and mapping of the interior parts of the continents, reflecting the work of Lewis and Clark and subsequent government explorers and surveyors." This DVD includes 648 maps. [Info] Available in Central Library on Reference CD-ROM workstation

Anne Potter Wilson Music Library resources [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Annee Philologique / L'Année Philologique An indispensible index for research in Classics. Entries cover articles, books, book reviews, Festschrifte, and other collections dealing with the ancient Greek and Roman world, from the second millennium BCE to approximately 800 CE. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE [Info]

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) Bibliographical listing of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations about English language, literature, and culture published anywhere in the world. Literature includes poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, and studies of individual writers. English culture includes custom, belief, narrative, song, dance, and material culture. [Info]

Annual Reviews Online Published once a year, Annual Reviews’ researchers and editors provide critical reviews of primary research in 33 disciplines within the biomedical, physical and social sciences. Annual Reviews are highly cited in ISI’s Journal Citation Reports. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Annual Statistical Bulletin (OPEC) [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

AnnualReports.com Provides access to the largest collection of the fulltext glossy annual reports companies prepare for current and prospective stock holders (as opposed to the 10K report which is a required filing by the SEC). The focus here is on current reports rather than historical but there is a lot of information about corporate image, branding, and the story the company wants to tell about their history and their direction for the future. You can search for reports by company name, ticker symbol, exchange, industry, and industry sector. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Anthropological Bibliography Indexes books, reports, and manuscripts with a focus on anthropology, archaeology and related subjects. Derived from the collection of over 210,000 volumes of books, monographic series and publications owned by the Tozzer Library of Harvard University. Scope is international, with a particular emphasis on Mesoamerica and Mayan studies. [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

Anthropology and Archaeology sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Anthropology Plus Index to journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Includes materials published in English and European languages from the late 19th century to the present. The index combines Anthropological Literature, Harvard University Tozzer Library and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute, UK. [Info]

AnthroSource Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource is a searchable archive of all AAA journals, with access to current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications. Newsletters and bulletins are included. Full citations and seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR are provided. Registered individual users can take advantage of personalization options, such as saved searches and email alerts. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Anuario Estadístico -- Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Uruguay) [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library Only

Anuário Estatístico do Brasil / Annuaire Statistique du Brésil [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library Only

AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) (Associated Press Multimedia Archive) Created by The Associated Press, AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) consists of several databases--two photo databases (International and Euro/Asian), Graphics database (graphics, maps, illustrations, logos)as well as the AP Text database. Work continues on the Audio database which includes searchable audio clips dating back to the 1920s. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Arabic-English Lexicon Freely accessible PDFs of Edward W. Lane's important eight-volume lexical resource. PDFs can be viewed a page at a time, or you can download a zip file of each volume. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid provides online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

ARCHON Information about repositories and manuscript collections in the United Kingdom [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Arden Shakespeare [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 260 art related periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals (beginning in 1997) is also included. The database includes publications in the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography & films, and related subjects. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, book reviews, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ARTbibliographies modern An art bibliographic database covering modern and contemporary art and design. It includes brief abstracts from subjects ranging from art figures and movements from the late 19th century to the latest developments in the avant-garde, and including all types of decorative and applied art, history of photography and graphic design. [Info]

ARTFL: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language French literature A full text database ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction and technical writing. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ArticleFirst An index of articles, taken from the table of contents of approximately 12,600 journals. You can search by keyword, author, or title. For many journals, a list of libraries that hold the journal is available. This database is produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). [Info]

Artificial Intelligence Abstracts (AIDA) (Available only on the Science and Engineering Library Reference CDROM workstation) Provides abstracts to technical reports and dissertations from major artificial intelligence research laboratories in the U.S. This database does not cover published articles. [Info]

Artnet Artnet's Fine Art database is the most comprehensive fully-illustrated archive of auction results worldwide. Representing auction results from over 500 international auction houses since 1985, the database contains more than 5 million artworks by over 200,000 artists, ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art. It covers a full range of media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, watercolors, prints, photography and works on paper as well as 20th Century Design. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ARTstor ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Authorized users may create a 120-day subscription enabling access to advanced features including downloading image sets to PowerPoint.

Start your search by clicking "Enter Here" in the upper right corner of the page. [Info]

arXiv.org -- open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Asia-Studies Full-text Online Asia-Studies Full-text Online provide thousands of full-text reports on 53 countries. Data is provided by research institutions and includes information relating to business, government, economic, and social issues. Covers all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and the Pacific islands. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ASM Handbooks Online ASM Handbooks Online, featuring the complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes. [Info]

Association of Religion Data Archive (ARDA) The Association of Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. The ARDA solicits data collections on American religion that are currently not stored in a public archive. Most data files are from surveys, but all forms of quantitative data collections on religion are welcomed. The ARDA also collects data on religion internationally, presenting, country by country, statistics on adherents, information on religious freedom, and public opinion data related to religious issues. Comparison of up to eight countries is also possible. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

ASTM Digital Library The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. The Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. [Info]

Astrophysics Data System (NASA) The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics, containing 557,202 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 577,783 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 877,721 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,974 abstracts. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words.In addition, there is an extended abstract service which includes links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Athena Catalog of Nashville Area Library Consortium The Athena Catalog is the shared catalog of several Nashville area libraries. A patron at any participating library can simultaneously search the library catalogs of a number of area institutions. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Atlanta Historic Newspapers The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to fourteen newspaper titles published in Atlanta from 1847 to 1922. Consisting of over 67,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. The site will provide users with a record of Atlanta's history from its origins as a railroad terminus, through the devastation of the Civil War, to its eventual growth into one of the nation's largest cities.The archive includes the following Atlanta newspaper titles: Atlanta Daily Examiner (1857), Atlanta Daily Herald (1873-1876), Atlanta Georgian (1906-1911), Atlanta Intelligencer (1851, 1854-1871), Atlantian (1911-1922), Daily/Georgia Weekly Opinion (1867-1868), Gate-City Guardian (1861), Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader (1860-1861), New Era (1869-1872), Southern Confederacy (1861-1864), Southern Miscellany, and Upper Georgia Whig (1847), Southern World (1882-1885), Sunny South (1875-1907), Weekly Constitution (1869-1882). [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Authorized Vanderbilt users must create a personal password to use this database; complete the information on the signup screen and submit the form -- See Checkpoint (formerly RIA Checkpoint)

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Yale Law School) Provides digital documents, including ebooks, relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Covers ancient times (BCE) to the present. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions and indexes on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. The Avery covers the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, including the publications of professional associations. The Avery is also an excellent source of biographical information. [Info]