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Sanborn Maps (Tennessee, 1867-1970) Digital Sanborn Maps is a collection of large-scale landbook maps which includes information such as outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Textual information includes construction details, ownership and building use. Includes most of the fire insurance maps of Tennessee produced by the Sanborn Map Company from the mid-1880s to around 1950. The black and white digital images were produced from microform of the Sanborn maps in the Library of Congress collection. Digital collection is searchable by city and date. [Info] Full Text Resource!

SBRnet: Sports Business Research Network Articles with news and market research information from sports industry sources. Includes market reports on international sporting goods equipment for 35 countries, export and import statistics, etc [Info] Full Text Resource!

Scholars' Edition -- See Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

SciELO Latin American Social Sciences Journals English Edition "The objective of SciELO Latin American Social Sciences Journals English Edition is to contribute to the promotion of international access to Latin American scientific journals in Social Sciences. Its main characteristic is to make available English full texts, at no charge to the public, in order to increase Latin America Social Sciences visibility and accessibility" (from home page). [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Science Citation Index Expanded -- Web of Science Contains bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles, in the sciences, including agriculture, astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, oncology, pediatrics, pharmacology, physics, plant sciences, psychiatry, surgery, veterinary science, and zoology. Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Covers over 5,800 major journals across a broad range of scientific disciplines [Info]

Science of Synthesis Popup blocker must be deactivated or Science of Synthesis added as an exception to use Science of Synthesis is a relaunch of the Houben-Weyl series, a classical reference work in organic chemistry. It is intended to be the first point of reference through the large amount of synthetic information in the primary chemical literature. It contains synthetic methods selected by world-renowned chemists, giving full experimental procedures and background information. The electronic version provides a very accessible way to access this wealth of detail. [Info] Full Text Resource!

ScienceDirect Database of fulltext electronic journal articles from over 1500 journals. [Info] Full Text Resource!

SciFinder Login -- Requires registration. Provides access to Chemical Abstracts, the world’s largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information. The principal databases, Chemical Abstracts (CA), and REGISTRY include over 18 million document records and more than 32 million substance records respectively. Sources for CA include more than 8,000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. About 14,000 records are added every week. Dates of coverage: 1949 to present. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE [Info]

SciFinder Registration Information Provides access to Chemical Abstracts, the world’s largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information. The principal databases, Chemical Abstracts (CA), and REGISTRY include over 18 million document records and more than 32 million substance records respectively. Sources for CA include more than 8,000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. About 14,000 records are added every week. Dates of coverage: 1949 to present. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE [Info]

Scribner Writer's Series "Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series." [Info] Full Text Resource!

Scripta Sinica 漢籍全文資料庫計畫 The project for the Scripta Sinica database began in 1984. The first aim of this project was to digitize all documents essential to research in traditional Sinology. Secondly, a full-text database was established for academic research. Until present, Scripta Sinica is the largest Chinese full text database to encompass an enormous breadth of historical materials of this scale. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Searchable Greek Inscriptions Collection of ancient Greek inscriptions. Can be used in tandem with PHI Workplace Version 10. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Searchable text! -- See Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership

Searchable Texts! -- See Evans Early American Imprint Collection -- Text Creation Partnership

Security Futures Fact Book Provides Access to contract specifications on 650 equity-based products, single-stock, ETF and narrow-based index futures and options on 17 global exchanges and broad-based index futures and options on 44 worldwide exchanges. [Info]

Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Images of more than 400,000 pages of manuscripts from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.

You can use this resource on any computer in the Divinity Library with a DVD drive. The DVDs are located in the Divinity Library Subject Study Area 6, BX8607 .A1 S454 2002 v.1-v.2. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Senate Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866 [Info] Full Text Resource!

Shakespeare in Quarto The most significant value of this well-designed and multi-faceted database lies in the British Library's 93 quarto texts of 21 plays, which can be studied individually or compared in their variant editions. The database also provides background information about Shakespeare, his works, the theatre world of his time, and the printing of his plays, as well as a list of references and links to websites of special relevance to the quartos. An "Afterlife" section traces changes in the plays in print and performance from the Restoration to the 21st century. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Shen Bao [Info] Full Text Resource!

Short Story Index Electronic version of the standard reference work. Indexes short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in monograph collections and selected periodicals. The latter are those periodicals indexed in Readers Guide to Periodicals and Humanities Index. [Info]

Short Title Catalog (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!

Si bu cong kan Sibu Congkan is a fully searchable collection of the authoritative editions of the 504 original and historical monographs published by the Commercial Press in 1919-1936. Holdings span Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties including early manuscripts and rare prints (antiquarian, out-of-print books). [Info]

Slave Narratives -- See American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu "From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation of Africans in slavery in Muslim societies."

This collection is one of the Center for Research Libraries' ecollections. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 This digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Topics covered include the African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba. [Info]

Small Business Resource Center Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Smithsonian Global Sound Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. [Info]

Social Explorer - Demographic Reports Create demographic reports from decennial Census of Population and Housing data from 1790 to date for states and counties: urban/rural, sex, race, age nativity, literacy, school attendance, families, own/rent, unemployment, farms, wages, manufactures, and wholesale/retail. Topics vary from census to census. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) "Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--Web of Science The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a multidisciplinary database that covers 1,730 of the most significant social sciences journals spanning 60 disciplines, as well as selectively covering items from over 5,800 science and technical journals related to the social sciences. The database contains complete bibliographic data as well as author abstracts for approximately 65% of the articles in the social sciences since 1992. Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. [Info]

Social Services Abstracts Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Indexes journal articles and dissertations, and includes citations to book reviews. [Info]

Society for Political Methodology / the Political Methodology Section of the APSA View abstracts of conference and Working Papers online and download papers for local printing. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Sociological Abstracts Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters,dissertations, and conference papers and citations to book reviews. Subjects covered include: culture and social structure, demography and human biology, economic development, environmental interactions, evaluation research, family and social welfare,health, medicine and law, management and complex organizations, mass phenomena and political interactions, methodology and research technology, policy, planning, forecast and speculation, religion and science, rural and urban sociology, social psychology and group interaction, sociology of the arts, business, education, studies in violence and power, and substance abuse and addiction, and women's studies. (This database was formerly known as Sociofile.) [Info]

Something about the Author (SATA) (Gale) Something about the Author is a major reference source for biographical information on children's and young adult authors and illustrators. The essays examine the lives and works of authors and illustrators from English-speaking countries as well as authors from around the world. Well-known and emerging authors and illustrators are covered by the series. Included with each essay are photos and illustrations. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Something About the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS) (Gale) Something About the Author Autobiography Series includes original essays by prominent authors or illustrators written specifically for the series. The Autobiography Series was started in 1985 as a companion to the Something about the Author series. Beginning in 1999, the autobiographical essays are included with the original Something about the Author series and no longer published separately. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Soncino Classics Collection (Judaic Classics Library) The classic works of Judaism: the Talmud, Midrash rabbah, and Zohar are presented on one CD, in the original Hebrew and Aramaic, complete with the authoritative Soncino English translation.

Access on the CD-ROM Workstation in the periodicals area of the Divinity Library. [Info] Full Text Resource! Available on CD-ROM Workstation in the Divinity Library

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables. Sections include Criminal justice characteristics; Public opinion; Crime, victims; Arrests, seizures; Courts, prosecution, sentencing; Parole, jails, prisons, death penalty. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

SourceOECD Education and Skills SourceOECD Education and Skills. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development publications cover a wide variety of topics, all dedicated to helping governments and citizens understand and take on the challenges of a globalised world. SourceOECD Education and Skills is the online library of e-books in the field of education. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800 Bibliographic database of over 1600 sermons from pre-1800 Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

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

SPIE Digital Library The SPIE Digital Library contains the world's largest collection of optics and photonics research and provides user-friendly tools for researchers to optimize their valuable time. Content covering the broadest range of applied optics and photonics science and engineering papers anywhere. Technologies span applications from imaging, sensors, biomedicine, manufacturing, and energy to nanotechnology, communications, entertainment, and electronics. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Sports Business Research Network [Info] Full Text Resource!

Springer Images SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.5 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables. [Info]

Springer LINK LINK contains over 400 fulltext journals and books published by Springer-Verlag and other publishers. You may browse the entire list of journals and select individual titles or search the entire database. You can also browse by Online Libraries in the life sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering,environmental sciences, and economics. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Springer Protocols Springer Protocols provides access to more than 18,000 molecular biology and biomedical protocols, many from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology. Protocols are step-by-step procedures that enable researchers to reproduce laboratory experiments. Protocols are taken from a variety of Springer publications including books and journals. A few video protocols are also available. By using the My Protocols feature, users can upload their own protocols or save favorite protocols. [Info] Full Text Resource!

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book "The Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included." "The Data Book is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal Agencies, and private organizations." [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

State Papers Online (Parts 1 - 3) State Papers contains facsimile manuscript pages of 16th and 17th century British government documents linked to fully-searchable calendar entries.

Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers DomesticThe National Archives of the UK: SP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15British Library: Lansdowne Collection's Burghley PapersHMC Calendars and Haynes/Murdin transcriptions of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy CouncilThe National Archives of the UK: SP 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, PC 2British Library: Selected Cotton, Harley and Yelverton Papers

Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers DomesticThe National Archives of the UK: SP 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 44

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Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest) Extensive selection of statistics for the United States, with selected data for regions, divisions, states, metropolitan areas, cities, and foreign countries from reports and records of government and private agencies. The best single-volume important statistical handbook on the social, political, and economic aspects of American life. It includes numerous tables and charts and is used as a guide to other statistical reports and sources. It supersedes the U.S. government version, which was issued annually from 1878 to 2012. [Info]

Statistical Office of the European Communities -- See Regions Statistical Yearbook 2002

Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean = Anuario estadístico de America Latina y el Caribe Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean = Anuario estadًístico de America Latina y el Caribe Includes annual data for 1997 to date of the main statistical series available on economic and social trends in the countries of the region. It represents a systematic effort of ECLAC (the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to make the data internationally comparable. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Statistisches Jahrbuch Österreichs [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library Only

Story Finder [Info]

Strategic Survey Assessment of global developments over the past year, essays on particular strategic policy issues, developments in individual countries, grouped by region. and the strategic outlook for the coming year. Articles cover regional security, proliferation, and military conflict. [Info]

Street Atlas USA (Available only on Science-Engineering Reference CD-ROM workstation) Extensive street-level and geographic detail for the entire United States. Over 600,000 new streets or street names have been added. Search by address, the intersection of two streets, area code and exchange, latitude and longitude points and ZIP Codes. A comprehensive USA street atlas with many special features. [Info]

SUR, 1931-1992 SUR was "one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin American in the 20th Century". This resource includes images of the complete magazine including covers, photographs and advertisements as well as a comprehensive index. A set of images of manuscripts from the first issue and an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo are also included. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Synoptic Gospels Primer This site includes a number of tools for the literary analysis of the Synoptic Gospels, including a search engine (powered by Google), a glossary of important terms and key figures, and links to other resources on the issue of the relationship among the three gospel texts. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)