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Pacific Archive of Digital Data for Learning and Education (PADDLE ) "[P]rovides full text access to a comprehensive collection of Pacific education material. This includes publications from the participating Ministries of Education including strategic plans, education legislation, curriculum frameworks and school policies. It also contains national development plans, statistics and budget information for the fifteen Pacific countries. PADDLE also includes material from international and regional organisations including UNESCO, the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth of Learning, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat" (from home page). Countries covered include Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Vanuatu. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

PAIS International, 1915 - current Public Affairs Information Service Covers current events, public policy issues, and the social sciences in general--including economic and social conditions, government and politics, and international relations. Indexes a broad range of materials--books, pamphlets, and publications of the U.S. government and of international organizations, in addition to selected articles in periodicals, including Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and National Journal, scholarly journals like The American Political Science Review, and opinion magazines like National Review and New Republic. Index and short abstracts. [Info]

Palmer’s Index to the London Times, 1790-1905 Provides keyword and main heading searching to The Times (London) Newspaper. [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 "Digital collection of pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by Center for Research Libraries." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Papal Encyclicals Online Encyclicals and other Vatican documents from Pope Honorious III (1216-1227) to the present. Many of the documents are in English, some are available only in other languages (e.g., Latin or Italian), and some are available in multiple languages. Various church council documents are also included. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Papers of George Washington Digital Edition "The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition (PGWDE) contains the entire text of the fifty-two volumes of the print edition published by the University of Virginia Press through 2005, in six series: Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement. For the most part, documents and annotations are presented on screen in a format similar to that of the printed versions. However, PGWDE was conceived as an independent edition that would take full advantage of the online environment, so it differs in some respects from the print edition." (Source: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8080/pgwde/dflt.xqy?mode=menu&keys=menu-info-about-scholar) [Info] Full Text Resource!

PapersFirst Contains citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. It covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center. [Info]

PARES: Portal de Archivos Españoles A searchable database of digitized documents on Spain and its colonies in Spanish archives, including the Archivo General de Indias, the Archivo General de Simancas, and other historical archives. Includes images of the Spanish Civil War (Archivo rojo). [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database) International industry, consumer statistics and analysis. Historical and forecast data. Industry reports, consumer trends, articles, company profiles, and global reports. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Past Masters Scholarly editions of major philosophers, from Aristotle to Santayana; and the collected letters of major English writers: Austen, Burney, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and selected Romantics. Also includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Oxford Duden German Dictionary. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Patents (European Patent Office) Search patent applications from the EuropeanPatent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization, andJapan and other countries. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Patents (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) Conduct patent and trademark searches, downloadapplication forms, view images of U.S. patents. Search the rosterof patent agents and attorneys. Look up current fees and announcements. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Patrologiae Graecae Electronic version of J.P. Migne's Patrologiae Graecae. PG contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. PG is a collection of the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century. It includes, for example, the early writings collectively known as the Apostolic Fathers, such as the Epistles of Clement and The Shepherd of Hermas, the church historian Eusebius, the controversial theologian Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. The texts are generally interlaced, with one column of Greek and a corresponding column on the other side of the page that is the Latin translation. Where the Greek has been lost, such as in Irenaeus, the full text appears only in Latin, and the extant Greek fragments of the work are interspersed throughout the Latin text. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800) The Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, provides a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements as well as full-text of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) This version will be going away in Summer 2013. My Archive accounts won’t be migrating to ProQuest. One must extract data manually to the repository of your choosing. Indexes millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues through 1995. Covers three centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. The database includes bibliographic citations, but no abstracts. Formerly called Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). [Info]

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) through ProQuest Indexes millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues through 1995. Covers three centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. The database includes bibliographic citations, but no abstracts. Formerly called Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). [Info]

Perseus Digital Library The Perseus Project was founded to present materials related to the Classical Greek world. It contains texts in Romanized Greek and English translation (many edited from the Loeb series), the Intermediate Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon, and morphological and translation tools. It has since expanded into the Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, site plans, maps, and art and archaeology catalogs and images. Additional collections in the Perseus Library are: the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri; Renaissance Collection (Marlowe, Shakespeare); Bolles collection on the history of London; American Memory: California Collection and the Upper Midwest Collection. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

PHI workplace version 10 (Disk 5.3) The Packard Humanities Institute CD (5.3) is a searchable archive of Latin texts, including various Bible versions. PHI Workplace provides a software interface to search and use the PHI Latin disk. [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available only on workstations in the Divinity Library

PHI workplace version 10 (PHI disk.7) The Packard Humanities Institute CD (7.0) is a searchable archive of Greek inscriptions and papyri and Coptic texts. PHI Workplace provides a software interface to search and use the PHI Latin disk. [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available only on workstations in the Divinity Library

Philosopher's Index The Philosopher’s Index provides citations to articles, books, and dissertations in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. It is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion, and science.

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

Picture Collection Online (New York Public Library) "The Picture Collection Online (PCO) is a select group of images from The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, Picture Collection". The collection, which covers over 12,000 subjects, may be search the collection online by keywork or by browsing a variety of indexes. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

PILOTS Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. [Info]

The Pluralism Project The Pluralism Project studies and documents the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities. Recounts the project's history and offers access to an events calendar, project affiliates, images, and related articles. Lists advisors and includes project research. Provides access to project files, bibliographies, syllabi, and a directory of religious centers. Links to the committee and university home pages and to other religious resources. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Points of View Reference Center (POV) Points of View Reference Center provides a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Included are 200 topics, each with an overview, point, and counterpoint. The Center "contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 800 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books." [Info] Full Text Resource!

PolicyArchive PolicyArchive is a digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It collects and disseminates summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Political Database of the Americas Country summaries, constitutions, laws, government, elections, parties, & groups. Includes reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Western Hemisphere. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Political Handbook of the World (CQ) For eachy country covers country introduction, government and politics, political parties, legislature, cabinet, communications, intergovernmental representation. Also provides profiles of more than 100 international organizations. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Political Science sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Pollard and Redgrave (Early English Books Online) Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will be added soon. Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn. EEBO covers all material types from the period, including monographs, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Polling the Nations Poll questions and responses from more than 14,000 national, state, local and special public opinion polls and surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 80 other countries. [Info] Full Text Resource!

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Portuguese Language and Literature sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) The Post-Reformation Digital Library is a collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation/Early Modern era (late 15th-18th c.), hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary. The library provides links to full text of many of the resources which it indexes, as well as indexing and links to various secondary sources and reference materials. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Powder Diffraction File (Datasets 1-47) (Available only on Science-Engineering Reference CD-ROM workstation) A compilation of X-ray diffraction patterns of inorganic & organic crystalline compounds. [Info]

Powerspeak Languages Powerspeak Languages is an online language learning course that uses a variety of methods to engage learners. The offerings are Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. For ESL patrons the resource offers ESL – Spanish and ESL-Mandarin. Provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library. [Info]

Presidency in History This resource provides information on the presidents as well as "biographies of each first lady, biographies of each cabinet member, listings of presidential staff and advisers, and timelines detailing significant events in the lives of each administration". Includes some images. (Future plans include enhancing the resource with additional multimedia materials.) [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson (Digital Edition) The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition currently consists of three series: War on Poverty, 1964, Civil Rights, 1964, and Vietnam, 1964-65. The entire edition is fully searchable, accessible via a timeline view, and each transcript page includes the original audio. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Presidential Recordings Program This resource provides access to American presidential recordings in the White House between 1940 and 1973 as well as presidential speeches, and presidential oral histories. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Princeton University -- See UChannel

Prior Year Forms, Instructions and Publications - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [tax forms] Web version Comprehensive site to download forms and instructions and to download or browse tax publication booklets for 1980 up to the current year. Fulltext. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas "PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content." [Info] Full Text Resource!

PrivCo Business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations: family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. Information on private investors, private equity deals, M&A and VC firms. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Pro and Con -- See Congressional Digest Debates Online

ProceedingsFirst ProceedingsFirst contains citations of publications from worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. It covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center. [Info]

Project Euclid A collection of independent and society electronic journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Project MUSE Provides 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. [Info] Full Text Resource!

A project of the Center for Research Libraries -- See World Newspaper Archive

ProQuest Business Combined search of these databases: ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry; Accounting & Tax, Banking Information Source, Hoover's Company Records, Asian Business and Reference, European Business, Business Module, Snapshot Series. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Central ProQuest Central provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text or full images of articles in a wide range of magazines and journals. It includes the following ProQuest specialized databases.

• ABI/INFORM® Complete, including ABI/INFORMGlobal, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORMTrade & Industry databases

• ProQuest Accounting & Tax

• ProQuest Banking Information Source™

• ProQuest Asian Business and Reference™

• ProQuest European Business

• ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™

• ProQuest Biology Journals™

• Pharmaceutical News Index

• ProQuest Research Library

• ProQuest Science Journals™

• ProQuest Education Journals™

• ProQuest Telecommunications™

• ProQuest Computing™

• ProQuest Family Health

• ProQuest Career and Technical Education

• ProQuest Social Science Journals™

• ProQuest Religion™

• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete

• Canadian Newsstand Complete

• Snapshots Series

• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

• ProQuest Newsstand™

• Criminal Justice Periodicals Index

• ProQuest Military Collection™

• ProQuest Psychology Journals™

• Hoover’s™ Company Records

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Proquest Congressional (PQ Cong) Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Indexes, abstracts, and provides full-text of Congressional publications from 1789 to the present. Includes documents from the U.S. Congress relating to nearly every aspect of American history and society from 1789 to the present. Using a single interface, the suite of databases contains Congressional publications—Hearings (1824-2012), Serial Set (1789-2012) and Maps (1817-2012), Committee Prints (1830-2012), Congressional Record (1789-1999), CRS Reports (1916-2012), Bills and Resolutions (1789-2013) and full text of laws (1789-2012), and Legislative Histories (1969-2012), and finding aids. If you analyze the Congressional publications on a given subject, you can gain an understanding of how public policy was created in that subject. Online version of CIS (Congressional Information Service) Index. Formerly called LexisNexis Congressional. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Proquest Congressional Hearings Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Indexes Congressional hearings. Indicates witnesses and gives topics of testimony. Full text for hearings issued 1824 to present. Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Hearings. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Proquest Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports Reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports Historical Annual Reports is a digital database comprising decades of annual reports from over 800 North American companies. Included is information on companies, including financial performance, key officers, competitors, and market trends. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Historical Newspapers ProQuest Historical Newspapers contain full-text access to the following newspapers, Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945), The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975), Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986), The New York Times (1851 - 2006), and The Washington Post (1877 - 1993). [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Newspapers 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Includes The Tennessean. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Serial Set Maps 1789-1969 Maps printed as part of the Congressional Serial Set. Several Executive Branch agencies are the most prolific publishers of the maps including the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Statistical Insight Web version Indexes statistical publications issued by the U.S. government from 1973 (from American Statistics Index [ASI]) and about 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations since 1983 (from Index to International Statistics [IIS]). For each source includes bibliographic date; subjects covered; content and currency, and sources of the data. "Power Tables" includes over 130,000 statistical tables. Formerly known as Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis). [Info] Full Text Resource!

PsycARTICLES Provides fulltext articles from 46 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), along with 9 Canadian and European titles. Topics include basic, applied, and clinical psychology. Note: all articles in PsycArticles are also indexed and linked from the PsycINFO database, which provides broader subject coverage. [Info] Full Text Resource!

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

PsycINFO Indexes articles and provides descriptive, nonevaluative abstracts. Since 1987, PsycINFO also provides content summaries and tables of contents for book chapters and books. Subject coverage includes basic and applied psychology, abnormal and clinical psychology, experimental psychology, human and animal development, social psychology, professional psychology and educational psychology.
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Public Affairs Information Service -- See PAIS International, 1915 - current

Public Agenda The Public Agenda website provides "unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life". Issue Guides, Research Studies, Articles & Speeches as well as a Newsletter and other resources are available. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Public Libraries in the U.S. Links to public libraries arranged by region and then state. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Public Opinion Poll Question Database "The Odum Institute's Public Opinion Poll Database allows any researcher to search for specific poll questions among the more than 230.,000 questions in the Institute's archive by key words, date, study number, study title or state. The system displays the full question text, study information, and frequency distributions..." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Public Policy Issues and Groups sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

PubList directory of information about periodicals and other serial publications [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

PubMed (Medline) from the National Library of Medicine International coverage of over 3800 journals in the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Medline encompasses information from three print indexes, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. [Info]

PubMed Central PubMed Central is an electronic repository for freely available journal literature in the life sciences. PubMed Central, a joint venture of the National Center for Biotechnology Information and the National Library of Medicine, contains selected journal issues from publishers who have elected to make their content available; some journals allow access to back issues only. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)