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Cluedumps and IAP Classes
- SIPB organizes dozens of IAP classes each year on technical topics both serious and fun. During the fall term SIPB also offers a series of Cluedump talks, with a different topic each week. Add yourself to cluedump-announce@mit.edu if you're interested. We're also looking for MIT students to help keep them running smoothly.
Courseroad
- Maintaining and adding features to the courseroad.mit.edu website, a degree planning tool for MIT courses. Our backend is shared with Fireroad (fireroad.mit.edu) and our frontend is written in VueJS.
doorpi
- Currently offline due to W20 renovation, doorpi senses when the SIPB Office door is closed & open and displays this information in at http://doorpi.mit.edu.
DormDigest
- (Formerly dormsp.am). Our project will take emails from dormspam, extract the event's time, date, title, and location, and automatically add it to a website that MIT students can peruse through! We expect to have it operating by Summer 2023 and ready for Fall 2023.
Hydrant
- Hydrant is a class planner for MIT students.
Mastodon
- https://mastodon.mit.edu is an instance of the Mastodon federated social networking platform, a part of a Twitter-like communications network of independently-run servers. Anyone on any individual server can communicate with the global ecosystem of federated servers, creating a decentralized social network where no one person or corporation has control of everyoneâ��s data.
MIT Matrix
- SIPB Matrix (codename Uplink) is SIPB's effort to bring the Matrix (matrix.org) network to MIT, providing not just another hosted homeserver, but a practical way to communicate that works with the school's existing social dynamics and ecosystem (class group chats, Moira lists, etc), aiming to reduce the usage of proprietary alternatives such as Facebook Messenger, and exclusionary and proprietary alternatives such as iMessage.
SIPB Documentation Project
- The SIPB Documentation Project is a project to document in written form the collective knowledge that SIPB members take for granted or use in maintaining services and projects that is not otherwise written down anywhere.
SIPB Mattermost
- SIPB's Mattermost instance for communication. Mattermost is an open source, private cloud Slack alternative hosted on XVM. By the way, a lot of SIPB communication happens on Mattermost -- would recommend joining if you haven't already!
SIPB Mirrors
- SIPB is a download mirror for various open source software projects. In particular, we mirror the package repositories for popular Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, providing a fast local copy for the MIT community. We also serve as the upstream for local mirrors at other universities and research labs.
SIPB Project Database
- SIPB Project Database is focused on supporting the process of creating and developing projects within SIPB. We want to make it easier for people to join in SIPB projects and for project maintainers to more easily train new people and advertise their projects to the community. Currently we're responsible for the development of the SIPB project listing website (which you see here), and are looking at expanding our scope to things like: hosting regular project showcases, creating informational workshops about SIPB services, and launching initiatives for supporting onboarding of new members.
SIPB Scripts
- Scripts is SIPB's most used service, which hosts thousands of websites for the MIT community. scripts.mit.edu is a Linux/Apache web hosting platform for the MIT community. Any Athena user or group locker can host dynamic web applications written in PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, or any other language, or automatically install blog, wiki, and other software via the quick-start autoinstallers.
SIPB Website
- Keeping the SIPB website nice-looking and up-to-date

Miscellaneous Services

XVM
- xvm.mit.edu is a virtualization service for the MIT community. We offer virtual machines—your own complete system on which you can start from our three-minute Debian or Ubuntu install or install the operating system of your choice. The service is free to any Athena account holder.
MIT SIPB Script Services for Athena
- scripts.mit.edu is a hosting service for the MIT community that provides several popular web packages such as MediaWiki and WordPress, as well as CGI script, MySQL, cron, and procmail hosting. The service is free to any Athena account holder or group locker. It has over 3000 registered user accounts, and is used by a number of student organizations and academic groups at MIT.

MIT Libraries

A-Z Databases

Architecture & planning

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
- Coverage: 1955 to present This is a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by the Getty since 1983. AATA Online contains over 156,000 records and adds approximately 4,000 new records each year through regular updates. Formerly named Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts.
Architectural Publications Index
- Coverage: 1984 - present Catalog of Royal Institute of British Architects Library, including an index to articles in over 300 of the world's most respected architectural periodicals.
ArchNet
- An international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures & civilizations.
Art and Architecture in Video
- Collection of online video illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- Coverage: 1934 - presentComprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934, covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.
Building Green Approved
- Information on green design, including information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building.
Building Green Suite
- MIT's access includes: Environmental Building News, Greenspec Database of Green Building Products, and High Performance Buildings Database.Information on green design, including information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building.
Building Types Online
- Information on contemporary buildings, including case studies, thematic articles, photographs, and drawings.
CuminCAD
- Cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design.
Design and Applied Arts Index
- Coverage: 1973 - current Design and Applied Arts Index is the definitive abstract and index database for all areas of design and craft, with coverage from 1973 to present.
DETAIL Inspiration
- Coverage: 1988 - 2018 Inspiration from DETAIL Verlag is an full text online image and reference database for architects in English and German. This database includes photos, drawings and technical information sourced from DETAIL print magazine. More than 3,300 DETAIL projects/references from 1988 to present are available for download (pdf files). The database is updated monthly.
Digital Sanborn Maps
- Coverage: 1867-1970Digitized maps of cities & towns across the United States that show building footprints, building use, addresses, parks, cemeteries, industrial uses & more.
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Encyclopaedia Islamica Online
Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition
- Extensive reference encylopedia with over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Encyclopedia of Information Systems
- Encyclopedia covering topics in computer and information systems.
Green Cities: an A-Z Guide
Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
High Performance Buildings Database
- A database of more than 160 high-performance sustainable building case studies.
Index Islamicus
- Coverage: 1906 - 1996 Indexes works on the Muslim world from journals, books and reviews in English and European languages.
Index Islamicus
- Format: CD-ROM Coverage: 1906 - 1996 Indexes works on the Muslim world from journals, books and reviews in English and European languages.
National Register of Historic Places
OnArchitecture
- Streaming videos documenting architects and architecture.
Public Transportation Fact Book
- Coverage: 1942 - present Contains national aggregate statistical data covering all aspects of the transit industry in the United States and Canada.
Regional Economic Information System
- Format: CD-ROMCoverage: 1969 - presentConsult Database Workstation Locator for specific access information.Annual estimates of U.S.personal income by state, county and metropolitan area.
SNL Real Estate
- Tracks real estate companies including North American REITs (public and private), REOCs, home builders and gaming companies as well as listed companies in Europe and Asia. Property level data is categorized by property type such multi-family, office, regional mall, shopping center, industrial, health care and hotel. Click on New User Signup and select S&P Capital IQ Pro New User Signup to register for an account using your MIT email. Follow the instructions sent to your email to complete registration.
Tradweb
- Directory of custom building and restoration services
TRID
- TRID is an integrated database of records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 1.4 million records of transportation research worldwide.
ULI Development Case Studies / Urban Land Institute
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1 Coverage: January 1985 - present as of 1/1/2022 we no longer have a membership and therefore cannot access this Provides a project data profile and graphic documentation for selected real estate development projects since 1970.
Urban Studies Abstracts
- Coverage: 1939 - present Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to the study of cities and regions, such as urban affairs, community development, urban history and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This database contains more than 120,000 records from key discipline resources with coverage back to 1939.

Art & performing arts

A&AePortal
- 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. Peer-reviewed born-digital content is also available on the A&AePortal.
Analecta Carminum
- A database of Latin love poems and secular poetry of the high and late middle ages.
Analecta Hymnica
- Coverage: 500 - 1400 Searchable full text of hymns of the Catholic Church from 500-1400.
Art & Architecture Source
- Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. International in scope. Contains full-text, detailed indexing, and abstracts.
Art and Architecture in Video
- Collection of online video illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture.
Art Index Retrospective
- Coverage: Citations contained in printed Art Index volumes 1-32, published 1929-1984.Find abstracts for articles about the arts, architecture, art history, design, video, landscape architecture and more from 1929-1984 only.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
- Coverage: 1974 - presentProvides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, and exhibition catalogs and reviews on all forms of modern & contemporary art.
Artforum Index
- Coverage: June 1962 through December 1968Covers the years prior to Artforum's inclusion in Art Abstracts.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Coverage: 1975 - presentIndexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals, 1899-present.
Arts and Humanities through the Eras
ARTstor
- Users must create an individual ARTstor account in order to access the core collections
Asian American Drama
- Plays by Asian American playwrights, from late 19th century to the present.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- Coverage: 1975 - 2007Find abstracts covering European and American visual arts, architecture, theatre and material culture from late antiquity to the present.
Black Drama, 3rd. ed.
- Plays from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
CAA Reviews
- Scholarly and critical reviews of studies and projects in all areas and periods of art history, visual studies, and the fine arts, providing peer review for the disciplines served by the College Art Association.
César: French Theatrical Database
- Searchable database of titles, dates, venues, and pertinent treatises on the French theater of the 17th and 18th centuries. CESAR covers the entire Francophone world.
Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
- Coverage: 1946-1985 Transcripts in Chinese for documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, produced mostly by the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of China. The bulk of the collection spans 1966-1976.
Database of Recorded American Music
- Offcampus access is activated for this product. Click "OK" for any error message related to mismatched certificates. Please see the DRAM site for information aboutneeded plugins and other technical requirements. Audio recordings of American music, including classical, folk, jazz, Native American, early rock, musical theater, electronic, and beyond.
Design and Applied Arts Index
- Coverage: 1973 - current Design and Applied Arts Index is the definitive abstract and index database for all areas of design and craft, with coverage from 1973 to present.
DETAIL Inspiration
- Coverage: 1988 - 2018 Inspiration from DETAIL Verlag is an full text online image and reference database for architects in English and German. This database includes photos, drawings and technical information sourced from DETAIL print magazine. More than 3,300 DETAIL projects/references from 1988 to present are available for download (pdf files). The database is updated monthly.
Digital Concert Hall
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3 Create a personalized user account for access. Account revalidation is required every 90 days. Berlin Philharmonic live broadcasts and videos plus a large archive of recordings.
Digital Theatre Plus
- Access: Sign in with MIT e-mail account to be authenticated through Touchstone. Streaming films of current leading British theater productions and Broadway plays. Also includes cast and director interviews.
Dis.art
- This streaming platform features artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
- Coverage: mid 1995 - present An index of in-progress and completed music dissertations since mid-1995. Also includes records from the 1984 edition of DDM.
Drama Online: Core Collection
- Digital playscripts from publishers such as Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, and Faber and Faber. Coverage is from ancient times to the present day. Also includes production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center.
Drama Online: TCG Books Play Collection
- E-book versions of plays published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG).
Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection
- Streaming video collection of performances from the National Theatre in London.
Encyclopedia of African American Music
Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers
- Essays on Arab women filmmakers and filmmaking in the Arab world.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th edition
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
- In-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals.
Film & Television Literature Index
- Coverage: 1988 - presentIndexing and abstracts for hundreds of articles and reviews from publications related to film and television studies.
Filmakers Library Online
- Coverage: editions 1-2Collection of roughly 1800 documentary films in a variety of subjects, available as streaming video.
Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
IAI TV
- Streaming video package from the Institute of Art and Ideas that includes thousands of video debates, articles and courses, all featuring world-leading thinkers across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
- Over 500 core journals covering European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
- Search articles, books, book chapters, reviews, and dissertations on theatre and performance. Includes some full-text articles and books.
International Encyclopedia of Dance
- Covers the full spectrum of dance--theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free downloads of thousands of classical music scores that are in the public domain.
IPA Source
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions of texts to works for the solo voice in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English.
JSTOR Music list
Klassiki
- The world’s first streaming platform dedicated to classic and contemporary cinema from Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

To access this resource, sign up using this link and you will receive a password reset button within 24 hours. If you are outside of the US, please use VPN.

Medici.TV
- Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Met Opera on Demand
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Video and audio opera performances from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, spanning more than 75 years of the company's broadcast history.
Multicultural Films: A Reference Guide
- Offers brief synopses and critiques of a variety of motion pictures that take up issues of race/ethnicity.
Music and Performing Arts
- Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press provides access to four collections of streaming audio (American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound) from one search screen.
Music Index Online
- Coverage: 1978 to the present Indexes hundreds of music periodicals covering many musical styles and genres.
Music Online: American Music
- A history database that includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 865 albums, equaling 14,632 tracks.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
- This audio database provides classical music with some of the world's finest orchestras and soloists.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
- Contains over 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 25,000 musical scores.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3 Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, including genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
- Comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music from the early 1920s to today with thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels.
Music Online: Listening
- Music Online: Listening is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content that includes audio, video, and some classical music scores. It includes over 910,000 albums and is fully searchable, with browsing available by collection and broad subject categories.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
- A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Naxos Jazz
- Simultaneous users allowed: 6 PC users : Plug-in: Must have Windows Media Player 9 / 10 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site. Browser: Features are optimized through IE; Cookies must be enabled in any browser used Mac users: Plug-in: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player ; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9 Offcampus Mac Users: Access via the VPN if you are having any technical problems. Unix/Linux is not supported. If having problem with 'breaks' in the music, try switching from Near CD Quality [64Kbps] to FM Quality [20Kbps]. For more technical information, click on FAQ at the Naxos site and look for "Technical FAQs." Users may view playlists but may not create or edit playlists. Contains audio recordings of jazz, including hundreds of jazz artists and several jazz recording labels.
Naxos Music Library
- PC users: Plug-in: Must have Windows Media Player 9 / 10 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site. Browser: Features are optimized through IE; Cookies must be enabled in any browser used. Mac users: Plug-in: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player ; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9. Offcampus Mac Users: Access via the VPN if you are having any technical problems. Unix/Linux is not supported. If having problem with 'breaks' in the music, try switching from Near CD Quality [64Kbps] to FM Quality [20Kbps]. For more technical information, click on FAQ at the Naxos site and look for "Technical FAQs." Users may view playlists but may not create or edit playlists. The mobile app asks for an activation code when it is being accessed off campus and the "Connection with your Institution" button is clicked. Please contact esubs@mit.edu if you are asked for a code and someone will follow up with you shortly. Contains audio recordings that cover a wide range of classical music from the Naxos recording label and many other labels.
Naxos Video Library
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 This streaming video database provides a large collection of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
OntheBoards.TV
- Coverage: 2009 - presentStreaming video of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance art.
Opera in Video
Oxford Art Online
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3Comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts and architecture worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Music
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides by music scholars.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in cinema and media studies.
Oxford Companion to Music
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Oxford Dictionary of Music
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
- Covers theatre and performance from ancient Greece to the present. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and other forms of popular performance.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Music
- Coverage: Select coverage from 2012 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in music.
Oxford Music Online
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3 Encyclopedia of music that includes articles written by the world's leading music authorities with links to images and digital sound.
Recent Researches in Music Online
- Coverage: 2018 - present Provides access to all titles published in 2018 and later in the following RRIMO series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th-20th Centuries, American, Oral Traditions, Collegium Musicum.
Repertoire de la Litterature de l'Art (RILA)
- Coverage: 1975 - 2007 Covers Western art from 4th century A.D. to present. Indexes books, exhibition catalogues and provides abstracts of journal articles.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- Coverage: 1967 - present Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and other publications that cover music.
Rolling Stone Archive
- Coverage: 1967 to the present. The archive supports research in 20th and 21st century history, politics, music, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and more.
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
- Provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.
Theatre in Video
- Streaming video database with plays, live television broadcasts, and productions from the 1950s-1970s.

Business & management

ABI/INFORM Collection
- Articles from scholarly journals and trade magazines worldwide covering accounting, finance, marketing, management theory & techniques, operations research, and more. Includes dissertations, working papers, industry reports and news.
Aktienfuehrer-Datenarchiv
- This dataset can only be accessed on the MIT campus. This dataset, published by the University of Mannheim in Germany, contains detailed economic information on all listed companies in Germany (currently from 1979 to 2015, eventually from 1870 onwards) based on digitized copies of historical books.
Amadeus (in WRDS)
- European public & private company information. Includes financial statement data and basic company and management information.
Audit Analytics (in WRDS)
- Audit fees, audit opinions, sarbanes-oxley disclosures and internal controls, financial restatements and corporate governance.
Aviation Week Intelligence Network
- Covers commercial defense, business aviation, space and advance air mobility, company profiles, fleet data and includes advertisements.
Bank Regulatory Database (in WRDS)
- Accounting data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loans institutions
Banking Statistics
- Financial statements and structure of the financial system and their components for all OECD member countries. 1979-2010.
BCC Research
- Global market research reports on advanced materials, biotech, chemicals, energy, engineering, environment, healthcare, manufacturing, medical devices, pharma, photonics, IT and more.
Blue Chip Economic Indicators
- Coverage: 2000 - PresentForecasts of U.S. economic growth, inflation, interest rates, and a host of other critical indicators of future business activity from America's top business economists.
Blue Chip Financial Forecasts
- Coverage: 2001 - PresentForecasts of the future direction and level of U.S. interest rates by top financial institutions.
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective
- Articles from major business journals and magazines between 1913-1983.
Business Source Complete
- Articles from academic journals, magazines, and trade publications, as well as current company, industry and region reports. Includes full-text of Harvard Business Review.
Capital IQ
- Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. To register for an account, log-on to VPN and follow the New User? link on the database screen.
Capital IQ Transcripts (in WRDS)
- Historical transcripts of earnings conference calls from around the world including U.S. public companies. Other types of transcripts available include shareholder/analysts calls, M&A calls, and company conference presentations.
CBOE Indexes (in WRDS)
- The CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices.
CEIC Data
- Macroeconomic, industrial and financial time series data for over 200 countries. Data for China and India for certain series is available at provincial and city level.
Ci Technology Data Set
- Tracks technology installations and purchase intentions of businesses, governments, and institutions across all industries and sizes. From single location businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises, data is gathered at the site level through surveys and interviews with IT professionals who are knowledgeable about the technology available at their locations and are directly involved in sourcing technology products and services. Each firm is assigned a unique ID that can be used to group data from multiple sites. Types of data available includes annual spending/expenditure on information technology and telecommunications, number of information technology staff, and counts on installed technology including computer hardware, software, networks, storage and telecommunications. In each applicable section, all spend numbers are in local currency. Years of coverage: 2015 - 2021
Compustat (in WRDS)
- Standardized annual and quarterly financial statements, and market data for most publicly traded companies. Compustat North America covers companies in U.S. and Canada and Global covers companies from rest of the world.
Conference Board
- Reports on key issues in business management and economics, news and analysis, and annual surveys for executive compensation and corporate contributions.
Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence
- Additional license restrictionsThis quarterly report, based on a survey of approximately 100 CEOs in a wide variety of industries, details Chief Executives' attitudes and expectations regarding the overall state of the economy as well as their own industry.
CRB Commodity Yearbook
- Historical prices and a brief analysis of various commodities going back to 1939.
CRSP Mutual Funds
- Open-ended U.S. mutual fund data from 1961- (quarterly updates).
D&B Historical Records
- Over 45 years of point-in-time data for U.S. private and public companies. Register for an account using your MIT email. This resource is also available via Dataverse.
D&B Hoovers
- Searchable directory of millions of public and private companies worldwide.
Data Axle Reference Solutions
- Additional license restrictions Searchable directory of millions of public and private U.S. companies.
Datastream
- Format: Local SoftwareSimultaneous users allowed: 1Must show MIT ID to useConsult Database Workstation Locator for specific access information.International financial and economic information on equities, bonds, market indices, exchange rates, interest rates, and derivatives.
Dictionary of Taxation
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1
Directory / Association for Manufacturing Technology
eMarketer
- Analysis and data on Internet usage, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies across a range of industries and products.
EMIS Professional
- News and reports on industries, markets, and companies in emerging markets covering Africa and the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe and Central Asia.
Entertainment Industry Archive 5
- This collection includes the backfiles of more than 40 gaming magazines devoted to computer and video gaming with coverage 1980s to 2020 containing 800,000+ pages. Game studies researchers can derive insights into the history of game design, marketing, consumption, platforms/consoles and more.
ESG Scores
- ESG scores and metrics for public companies worldwide. The oldest data goes back to 2013 and coverage increases.
Execucomp (in WRDS)
- If authentication fails, restart your browser and try again. Top executives' salary, bonus, and stock option data since 1992 is available. The database also has company-specific financial statement information to supplement the compensation data.
Factiva
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 News articles and business information from over 8000 sources.
FitchConnect
- Industry sector, economic, political and company research on various countries. Includes political and economic risk analysis.
Forrester Research
- Research on IT, internet and communications technologies, consumer behavior, online advertising, marketing and business strategy.

Additional license restrictions Register for an account first using your MIT email. To set alerts or to use Forrester App,register for an account.

Fortune Magazine Archive
- Coverage: 1930-2000 The Fortune Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing of the American business magazine Fortune, published by Time Inc.
Frost and Sullivan
- Global market research reports, technology impact analysis, trends, and forecasts for ten technology industries.
Gartner
- Additional license restrictionsProvided by MIT's Information Services & Technology (IS&T) Department.Research on business applications of information technologies, market share analyses, and evaluations of IT products and vendors for selected sectors.
Global Financial Data
- Global coverage of economic and financial time-series and historical data. U.S. and U.K. stocks, real estate modules not covered by our subscription.
GlobalData Medical
- Covers medical device and medical equipment industries with a focus on pipeline and marketed technologies, clinical trials, projections, and analysis. To log-in, click on IP Access.
GlobalData Pharma
- Data and information on marketed and pipeline drugs, clinical trials, analysis and forecasts on numerous disease markets. To log-in, click on IP Access.
I/B/E/S
- Summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other financial items.
IBISWorld
- U.S., Global, and China industry reports that cover industry performance and demand drivers. Industry wizard allows extracting data from reports.
IHS Connect
- Economic and financial time series for United States at various geographic levels. Main economic indicators for countries worldwide. Register for an account using your MIT email. Follow the instructions sent to your email to complete registration.
IHS Global Insight (in WRDS)
- Economic and financial data and political coverage of countries and industries.
Institutional Shareholder Services (in WRDS)
- Data on corporate directors and takeover defenses for S&P 1500 companies and Incentive Lab executive compensation data.
International Directory of Company Histories
- Coverage: vol. 120 (2011) - vol. 186 (2017)Profiles and background of over 11,000 companies, including mergers and acquisitions, expansion history, and labor/management actions.
International Financial Statistics (International Monetary Fund)
- Time-series international and domestic finance and economic data for IMF member countries.
Mergent Archives
- Collection includes Moody's Manuals (Industrial Manual 1920-, OTC Industrial Manual 1970-, OTC Unlisted Manual 1986-, Bank & Finance Manual 1928-, Public Utility Manual 1914-, Transportation Manual 1909-, International Manual 1981-, Municipal & Government Manual 1918-), Mergent Historical Reports, a collection of international annual reports going back to 1920s, Mergent Bond Record : covers corporate, government, municipal, industrial development/environmental control revenue and international bonds, plus structured finance and equipment trust issues, medium-term notes, convertible issues, preferred stocks and commercial paper issues and CRB Commodity YearBook:1939-
Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (in WRDS)
- Database of publicly-offered US corporate bond data.
Mergent Municipal Bond Securities Data
- Provides information on U.S. domestic bonds from all 50 states including bonds issued by states, counties, and cities as well as other municipal entities such as hospitals, community colleges, schools, and water districts. Coverage begins in 1996.
Mintel Academic
- Market research data and reports for products and services. U.S. focused with some global coverage.
Nuclear eTrack
- As of April 2014 the information in this database has now been subsumed into the GlobalData Power database, covering all power-related sectors. Data and reports on the nuclear industry sector worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Oil & Gas eTrack
- Data and reports on the oil & gas industry sectors worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Option Metrics (in WRDS)
- Historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets.
Orbis
- Information on public and private companies worldwide. It can be used to research individual companies, or to screen for companies meeting certain financial, geographic or operating criteria.
Panjiva
- Provides import and export data for millions of products worldwide. Request an account: sharmash[at]mit.edu
Passport GMID
- International market research on industries, companies, and consumer lifestyles. Data on market size and trends for a range of consumer products.
Pitchbook
- Private equity and venture capital database with in depth information on firms, funds, deals, investors, portfolio companies, and key executives. User registration required.
Preqin
- Global coverage of alternative investments including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, and hedge funds. Detailed information on firms, funds, deals, investors, and portfolio companies.
Prowessdx
- Financial data for public companies in India. Includes financial statements and data on ownership and governance, deals, stock price, capital history, and business segments. User registration required.
Refinitiv Workspace
- RWS provides access to information on global public & private companies including financials and filings, news & corporate events, earnings estimates, price quotes, M&A transactions, PE/VC data, ESG ratings, ownership data, and analyst reports. Screen and analyze companies, deals, PE/VC firms, funds, portfolio companies and more.
Russell U.S. Equity Indexes
- Closing positions, contribution to return, and global sector weights for all constituents of the 21 U.S. Russell Indexes. Includes security level information such as returns, market values, sector and industry classifications, and security weights.
Sage Business Cases Database
- Cases covering topics in marketing, operations, international business, entrepreneurship, human resource management and more. Security level information such as returns, market values, sector and industry classifications, and security weights.
SimplyAnalytics
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Access:Sign in as a guest if you do not wish to register for a personal account. Personal accounts save your preferences, reports, and maps. To create an account, please go to http://app.simplyanalytics.com. Click on "create an account" and enter your e-mail address and a password. You will then receive a confirmation e-mail sent to your e-mail address - please click on the link in this e-mail to activate your account. Create customized maps and detailed location reports including rankings for thousands of U.S. demographic, business and marketing variables as well as D&B's points-of-interest file. Data is available at the State, Congressional District, County, City, ZIP Code, Census Tract and Block Group level in addition to custom trade area and can be exported as images, shapefiles or in tabular formats.
Smart Grid eTrack
- As of April 2014 the information in this database has now been subsumed into the GlobalData Power database, covering all power-related sectors. Data and reports on the grid industry sector worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
SNL Energy
- Additional license restrictions To use this database, please use Chrome or Internet Explorer as a browser. New users will need to set up an account to access this database. To do so, on the database screen, click on New User Signup and select Market Intelligence New User Signup. Use your MIT email to register and follow the link from email confirmation to set up a password. A comprehensive source for data on U.S. and Canadian power plants, energy companies, coal mines, and gas pipelines. Provides detail on financials, filings, supply and demand fundamentals, emissions, hourly market pricing, electricity rates, and more. Includes daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering various segments of the energy industry. To use the database, please register for an account using your MIT email. You will receive an email confirmation from S&P Global Market Intelligence within minutes.
SNL Metals & Mining
- Additional license restrictions . A comprehensive source for data on U.S. and Canadian power plants, energy companies, coal mines, and gas pipelines. Provides detail on financials, filings, supply and demand fundamentals, emissions, hourly market pricing, electricity rates, and more. Includes daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering various segments of the energy industry. To use the database, please register for an account using your MIT email. You will receive an email confirmation from S&P Global Market Intelligence within minutes.
SNL Real Estate
- Tracks real estate companies including North American REITs (public and private), REOCs, home builders and gaming companies as well as listed companies in Europe and Asia. Property level data is categorized by property type such multi-family, office, regional mall, shopping center, industrial, health care and hotel. Click on New User Signup and select S&P Capital IQ Pro New User Signup to register for an account using your MIT email. Follow the instructions sent to your email to complete registration.
Structural and Demographic Business Statistics
- Data from 1990 at a detailed sectoral level including: turnover, value-added, production, operating surplus, employment, labour costs, and investment for OECD countries.
TAQ (in WRDS)
- Intraday trades and quotes for securities listed on the NYSE, ASE, and Nasdaq NMS and SmallCap issues.
Technavio Reports
- Global market research reports covering a wide range of sectors including consumer and retail, automotive and components, food and beverage, energy, healthcare, life sciences, heavy industry and manufacturing, chemicals, semi-conductors, industrial automation, transportation and logistics.
The Economist
- Global reporting and analysis on economics, business, geopolitics, technology, and culture. Register for an account using your MIT email address. For more information about access to the direct subscription, visit The Economist guide. Please note The Economist's terms of use and privacy policy.
Vivvix
- U.S. advertising expenditure data across various media (television, magazines, newspapers, radio, internet, outdoor). Data covers when and where companies spend their advertising budget and can be ranked by brand, product, or media.
Wall Street Journal
- Coverage: 1997 - present
After verifying your school credentials, you will be directed to WSJ.com to create your account. If you have a problem with access contact IASupport@dowjones.com First-time users must create an account and set up their own, individual username and password.

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MIT access includes the WSJ app and WSJ.com (once you have registered as an MIT user). Content includes full WSJ daily 1997 to today, WSJ magazine, and multimedia offerings like videos, podcasts and virtual events.

Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1889 - 2000 Historical file of the Wall Street Journal. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Wards Intelligence
- Automotive industry data for US, Canada, and Mexico. Includes data on production, inventory, sales, equipment installation rates, vehicle specifications and engine installation volumes.
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
- Time series on ICT access and use by households and individuals in over 200 countries. Indicators covered include fixed-telephone networks, mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions, and more. Use kerberos to log-in, VPN when off-campus.
WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services
- If authentication fails, restart your browser and try again.An Internet-based business and economic data service from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Zephyr
- Data on M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals. Coverage past January 2003 is global, with earlier coverage focusing on Europe.

Engineering

AAPG Datapages / American Association of Petroleum Geologists Datapages
- Full-text publications covering petroleum geology.
ACerS - Phase Equilibria Diagrams
- critically-evaluated phase diagrams for ceramic materials
ACM Books
- Books published by ACM, covering current computer science research, textbooks and handbooks, and computing history.
ACM Digital Library
- Full text ACM publications, including journals and conference proceedings.
ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System)
- Indexes major astronomy and astrophysics journals; includes abstracts for most entries and full text scans of tens of thousands of articles.
Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology
- A book series reviews current trends in biotechnology, biochemical engineering, and related fields.
Advances in Computers
- Coverage: v.69-123 2007-2021
Agricultural and Environmental Science Database
- Find journal & conference articles, reports, books & government publications with comprehensive coverage of environmental & pollution issues.
Airline Data Project
- Comprehensive U.S. airline data and analysis, including individual carrier and aggregate airline industry trends.
Airport Activity Statistics of Certificated Air Carriers
- Contains important data, research and technology transfer assets of the Department of Transportation.
American Energy Society
- Content related to energy and sustainability intelligence, including research reports, maps, white papers, research datasets, and publications, such as Energy Matters and Energy Today.
Users must create an account with their name, @mit.edu email, and password. Once signed up, they will be redirected to the Members homepage to start using the resources/services/etc.
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Ebook Collection I
- Collection of ebooks focused on the physical sciences for scientists, researchers, and students.
American Society for Engineering Education Conferences
- Coverage: 1996 - presentContains thousands of papers from ASEE conferences.
American Society of Civil Engineers Research Library
- Coverage: ASCE Conference Proceedings beginning in 1996, and all 31 ASCE Journal and Periodical volumes published since 1983. Ebooks and Standards from 2014 - present.
AOPA airports
- Official airport and facilities data from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Aeronautical Navigation Services (formerly known as NACO). The directory displays information collected from business managers, airport managers, certified flight instructors, flight schools, and pilots.
ARC [Aerospace Research Central]
- Coverage: 1963 - present Contains full-text technical papers covering every aspect of aerospace and related policies and standards from conferences.
Artech House Ebooks Library
- Collection of technical books for professionals, researchers, and students focused on computer science and electrical engineering.
ASCE Civil Engineering Database
- Coverage: 1921 - present Index to journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
ASM Alloy Center Database
- ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. This replaces the print Alloy Digest.
ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database
- Includes 40,300 binary and ternary alloy phase diagrams, from over 9,000 inorganic systems and with associated crystal and reaction data. Provided by the ASM International.
ASM Failure Analysis Center
- The ASM Failure Analysis Center features case histories in materials engineering along with authoritative handbook information for failure analysts, materials engineers, and product designers who need to investigate, analyze, remediate, and prevent component failures.
ASM Handbooks Online
- Comprehensive handbooks on materials engineering published from 1923 to present.
ASM Materials Information
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.
ASM Medical Materials Database
- Mechanical, physical and biological response properties of implantable cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices
ASM Micrograph Center
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3Over 2500 micrographs for industrially important alloys.
ASME Digital Collection
- Coverage: Proceedings: 2002 - present. Journals: 1990 - present ASME’s online reference of current and archival literature. Includes journals, conference proceedings and ASME Press books.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library
- Contains full text of all current ASTM standards, as well as full text of ASTM journals, symposia papers, research reports, and other technical engineering information.
Audio Engineering Society (AES) eLibrary
- Coverage: 1953 - presentThe AES E-Library contains fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day. The E-library includes every AES paper published at a convention, conference or in the Journal.
Aviation Week Intelligence Network
- Covers commercial defense, business aviation, space and advance air mobility, company profiles, fleet data and includes advertisements.
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
- Self-reported environmental data from companies worldwide regarding their dependencies on natural resources and their strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, safeguarding water resources, and preventing deforestation.
China Academic Journals -- Series C: Industrial Technology and Engineering
- Coverage: 1994 - present NOTES: *You will be prompted to download the Chinese simplified fonts to read the documents in Chinese. *Documents may be viewed in either of two formats: CAJ documents, which are full-text, or PDF documents, which are full-image. The PDF documents are generally of higher quality. *Optimized for access via Internet Explorer (IE). Indexing and fulltext content of articles in scholarly Chinese-language journals in industrial technology and engineering. Predominance of articles in Chinese, with select in English.
Compendex
- Coverage: 1884 - present Article citations in all engineering fields, plus physics, electronics, robotics, and related fields.
Comprehensive Biomaterials II
- Find background information on biomaterials from basic science to clinical applications in this updated 2nd edition.
Comprehensive Biotechnology
- Find background information on the principles and practice of biotechnology from environmental biotechnology and safety to medical biotechnology and healthcare.
Comprehensive Hard Materials
- Deals with the production, uses and properties of the carbides, nitrides and borides of these metals and those of titanium, as well as tools of ceramics, the superhard boron nitrides and diamond and related compounds.
Comprehensive Materials Processing
- Provides authoritative analysis of all processes, technologies, and techniques for converting industrial materials from a raw state into finished parts or products.
Comprehensive Microsystems
- 3-volume reference work on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS).
Comprehensive Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2nd edition
- This reference covers covering a broad spectrum of disciplines including material sciences, chemistry, physics and life sciences. It focuses on the major classes of nanomaterials in terms of their synthesis, structure and applications, reviewing nanomaterials and their respective technologies.
Comprehensive Nuclear Materials, 2nd edition
- Provides fundamental information on the vast variety of materials employed in the broad field of nuclear technology.
Comprehensive Remote Sensing
Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology
- Six-volume comprehensive reference work on all aspects of semiconductors.
Comprehensive Structural Integrity
- Nine-volume reference work on structural integrity and the interaction between mechanics and materials in areas including bioengineering, mechanical engineering, and nanotechnology.
Corrosion Handbook
- Covers corrosion data and the chemical resistance of all technically important metallic, non-metallic, inorganic and organic materials in contact with aggressive media.
Crop Protection Compendium
- Simultaneous users allowed: 2 Extensive global coverage of pests, diseases, weeds and their natural enemies, the crops that are their hosts, and the countries in which they occur.
Current Protocols in Toxicology
- Best practices collection of lab protocols for assessments of toxicity in whole organisms, organs & tissue, cells and biochemical pathways. Coverage:1999-2020
DieselNet
- Includes technical papers, summaries of standards, and business information concerning diesel engines, emissions, fuel, and other technology. Includes the DieselNet Technology Guide and a business directory.
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
- Coverage: 1948 - present Database of citations to energy related research output, largely from DOE and its predecessors, and others,1948 to date.
Ecology Abstracts
- Coverage: 1982 - present Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts covering ecology, microbes, ecosystems and human impacts.
ECS Digital Library
- Provides searchable online access to the various journals and other content published by The Electrochemical Society.
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
- Coverage: 1985 - present Contains tens of thousands of detailed abstracts of government-issued EIS.
EIS: Environmental Impact Statements (Digests and Full Text)
- Coverage: 1985 - present Provides detailed abstracts and indexing of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued each year by the U.S. federal government, in addition to offering the statements themselves in full text. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, legal mandates and the PDF full text.
EIS: Environmental Impact Statements, Full Text
- Coverage: 1985 - present Provides detailed abstracts and indexing of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued each year by the U.S. federal government, in addition to offering the statements themselves in full text. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, legal mandates and the PDF full text.
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
- Find background information on how biomaterials are used in biomedical technologies.
Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering
- Find background information on multi- and cross-disciplinary field of biomedical engineering.
Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel, and Their Alloys
- Covers all the fundamental, theoretical, and application-related aspects of the metallurgical science, engineering, and technology of iron, steel, and their alloys. Published: 2016, 5 volume set.
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
- Find background information on polymer science.
Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Analysis and Assessment
- Includes risk management pertinent to life scientists, engineers, policy makers, healthcare professionals, the finance industry, the military and practising statisticians.
Encyclopedia of Renewable and Sustainable Materials
- This reference overviews research and development on all aspects of renewable, recyclable and sustainable materials. The use of renewable and sustainable materials in building construction, the automotive sector, energy, textiles and others can create markets for agricultural products and additional revenue streams for farmers, as well as significantly reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, manufacturing energy requirements, manufacturing costs and waste.
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies
- Coverage: 2017 edition vols. 1-4
Endpoints News
- How to Create Your Enterprise access: 1. Please sign-up at https://endpts.com/subscribe using your @mit.edu address. The system will automatically upgrade you to Enterprise users. You may now set a new password for your account from your reader profile. 2. If you are not logged in, set a new password by clicking on the 'Change my password' link on the sign-in sign-in page at https://endpts.com/reader-profile 3.To log-in WITHOUT a password, select 'Get my magic email link.' A Magic Link will be sent to your email address (check your Spam folder if it does not arrive). Contact help@endpointsnews.com if you need assistance. An independent news organization, reporting and analyzing the top global biotech and pharmaceutical R&D news geared at professionals discovering, developing, and marketing biopharmaceutical drugs.
Energy Projections for IEA Countries
- Provides forecasts on energy balances, coal supply, and electricity capacity for 26 IEA countries.
EngrXiv
- The open archive of engineering. An eprint server for the engineering community, covering all fields of engineering.
Environment Abstracts
- Encompasses all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies, featuring more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad. The database also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters.
Environment and Energy Daily
- Coverage: 1996 - present Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more.
Environment Index
- Coverage: 1973 - present Topics covered: air, water, energy, and land resources; industrial, scientific and technological issues; human ecology, nutrition and health.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- Coverage: 1990 - present
  Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts of the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
esp@cenet: Europe's Network of patent databases
- Coverage: 1970 - present, some countries patents available back to 1920 Contains the full text or citations of patents and patent applications from over 80 countries worldwide.
ETDEWEB
- Energy Technology Data Exchange provides information on energy research, science, technology and policy to and through member countries under the aegis of the IEA, International Energy Agency. "In addition to the energy research and technology information from ETDE member countries, the database contains citations published worldwide regarding nuclear, coal, and global climate Chan, Tinage information"; their site states. The exChan, Tinage began in 1987,and ETDE now includes more than 4 million citations.
GlobalData Power
- *** FOR ACCESS, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW THE LOGIN BOX, WHERE IT READS "If you have IP Access Click Here" As of April 2014, this database was newly established by GlobalData. Content from databases: Alternative etrack, Nuclear etrack, SmartGrid etrack, and Power etrack are included in this database. As of May 2017, tables can now be downloaded directly into Excel.Data and reports on power/electricity sectors worldwide, including: thermal, wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, smart grid, geothermal, bio, and ocean. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, news and events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Ground Vehicle Standards
- Collection of SAE Ground Vehicle (J) Standards
Handbook of Clean Energy Systems
- Comprehensive overview of renewable energy, clean energy conversion technologies, mitigation technologies, intelligent energy systems, energy storage, and sustainability of energy systems.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
- Full-text books with review articles on environmental chemistry.
ICSD Web (Inorganic Crystallographic Structure Database)
- A database on fully determined inorganic crystal structures.
IEA Energy Technology R&D Statistics
- Government budgets for energy technology R&D for 23 IEA member countries, including conservation, renewable energy, nuclear fission, and storage.
IEEE Ebooks
- Wiley-IEEE published book collection on a variety of topics related to electrical engineering, telecommunications and other topics.
IEEE Xplore
- Full-text journal and conference articles published by IEEE and conference articles published by IET. IEEE standards are also included.
IET Ebooks (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- Coverage: 1979 - present Books from the IET on a variety of engineering topics.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (known through 2008 as IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)
- Coverage: 1997 - present Edited books and conference proceedings on information technology.
INIS Database
- Information system on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
International Astronautical Congress (IAC) Technical Meeting. Papers and preprints of the International Astronautical Federation
- Coverage: 54th (2003) - presentContains papers from the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).
International Heat Transfer Conference Digital Library
- Coverage: v.3 (1966) - v.16 (2018) These proceedings dating back to 1966 include all available years of the International Heat Transfer Conferences (IHTC), the Heat Transfer Olympics and cover areas from the fundamentals and traditional roles of heat and mass transfer to sustainable energy issues of today, heat transferÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s role in technology and many more.
JoVE Unlimited
- Coverage: 2006 - present. 16,000+ videos from peer reviewed journals and educational modules detailing laboratory methods and science concepts.
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Contains hundreds of articles on chemical substances, with a focus on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Updated yearly.
Material ConneXion
- A resource for materials and processes with access to 7,500+ material samples as well as contact information for manufacturers. Materials are categorized by type of material including polymers, cement, carbon, glass, and more.
Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing
- Published: 1998 Guide for writing technical and scientific documentation from MIT's Writing Program. Requires MIT personal certificates for all use, on and off campus. Touchstone access is not offered.
Mechanical Engineer's Handbook, 4th ed
- Published: 4th ed, 2014.
MRS Online Proceedings Library
- Consists of over 70,000 articles from proceedings of Materials Research Society Meetings from 1980 to 2016. After 2016, MRS conference proceedings have been published in the journal MRS Advances.
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online
- Helps students understand the mathematics behind fluid flows through experimental and computational demonstrations across eight key modules from Dynamics to Turbulence.
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
- Contains millions of extragalactic objects, including names, positions, basic data, and references to published papers.
NTIS
- Coverage: 1899 - present Resource for U.S. government-sponsored research reports & studies. Contains some govt. sponsored R&D from countries outside the U.S.
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
- Coverage: 1915 - 1957 (NACA) , 1958 - presentContains abstracts of most NASA and NACA reports as well as other open aerospace literature; some full text is available online.
Nuclear eTrack
- As of April 2014 the information in this database has now been subsumed into the GlobalData Power database, covering all power-related sectors. Data and reports on the nuclear industry sector worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
O'Reilly for Higher Education
- Access:Select "Not listed? Click here" when prompted to Select Your Institution and enter your MIT e-mail address. Books, videos, practice exercises and more on programming and business topics. Includes O'Reilly book titles as well as other computer science publishers.
OAG Worldwide Historical Flight Schedules
- Format: OtherCoverage: 1979 - presentProjections of commercial airline flight schedules worldwide. Describe characteristics of each flight such as: departure and arrival airports, flight times, carrier, fares, capacity, and more. Projections are made at the beginning of every time period (month or year) and project the schedules for that time period until the next update is received. Data from 1979-March 1987 are available monthly. Data from 1987 onward are available annually. (2013)
OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals
- Contains test guidelines for hazard characterisation testing.
Oil & Gas eTrack
- Data and reports on the oil & gas industry sectors worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
One Petro eLibrary
- Coverage: 1925 - present
OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Includes Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) journals and proceedings.
OpenDOAR
- Directory of open access repositories.
PatSnap
- Off campus users must access Patsnap via the VPN and use the get URL or come through Vera. Note: An individual login, which can be set up for free within Patsnap, is necessary to access all tools. If you receive an error message, you may need to disable IPv6 on the computer you are using to access Patsnap. To do so, follow instructions at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929852/guidance-for-configuring-ipv6-in-windows-for-advanced-users Please note that this product is not governed by the terms of the MIT Libraries Privacy Policy: https://libraries.mit.edu/about/policies/privacy-policy/ Please see the PatSnap privacy policy for applicable privacy terms. Patent search tool covering United States, Europe, WIPO/PCT and China, with sophisticated patent management and analytics which can be visualized, customized, and exported in various ways.
Pauling File: Inorganic Materials Database and Design System
- Format: CD-ROMComprehensive source of thermodynamic, crystal structure, powder diffraction and physical property data for binary systems.Includes binary phase diagrams.
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
- Chemical engineering reference with chemical and physical property data and fundamentals of chemical engineering and processes. Includes interactive tables and graphs.
Photonics Buyers' Guide
- Coverage: Latest year only availableIncludes profiles and contact information for manufacturers and suppliers of photonics products and services worldwide.
Pollution Abstracts
- Coverage: 1981 - present Hundreds of thousands of abstracts pertaining to research and government policies on air, land, marine and freshwater pollution, sewage and wastewater treatment, waste management, toxicology and health, noise, radiation and environmental action.
Power eTrack
- As of April 2014 the information in this database has now been subsumed into the GlobalData Power database, covering all power-related sectors.Data and reports on the power industry worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on technologies, companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection
- Coverage: 1962 - presentAeronautics, astronautics, space sciences & international coverage & supporting fields - chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications & electronics
ProQuest Environmental Science Journals
- Covers publications, many in full text, in a broad range of environmental science topics.
Public Transportation Fact Book
- Coverage: 1942 - present Contains national aggregate statistical data covering all aspects of the transit industry in the United States and Canada.
SAE Mobilus
- Coverage: 1906 - presentAdditional license restrictionsFull text of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) technical papers published after 1906. Also includes full text of all current Aerospace Standards. Current and historical Aerospace Material Specifications and Ground Vehicle Standards are also available.
SIMBAD
- Contains basic data, cross-identifications, measurements, and references to published works for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
Smart Grid eTrack
- As of April 2014 the information in this database has now been subsumed into the GlobalData Power database, covering all power-related sectors. Data and reports on the grid industry sector worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991
- Coverage: 1784-1991 Primary sources documenting the history of flight, including images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, and government documents. The sources are held by the National Air and Space Museum Archives, National Air and Space Museum Library, Smithsonian Archives, and Smithsonian Libraries.
SNL Energy
- Additional license restrictions To use this database, please use Chrome or Internet Explorer as a browser. New users will need to set up an account to access this database. To do so, on the database screen, click on New User Signup and select Market Intelligence New User Signup. Use your MIT email to register and follow the link from email confirmation to set up a password. A comprehensive source for data on U.S. and Canadian power plants, energy companies, coal mines, and gas pipelines. Provides detail on financials, filings, supply and demand fundamentals, emissions, hourly market pricing, electricity rates, and more. Includes daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering various segments of the energy industry. To use the database, please register for an account using your MIT email. You will receive an email confirmation from S&P Global Market Intelligence within minutes.
SNL Metals & Mining
- Additional license restrictions . A comprehensive source for data on U.S. and Canadian power plants, energy companies, coal mines, and gas pipelines. Provides detail on financials, filings, supply and demand fundamentals, emissions, hourly market pricing, electricity rates, and more. Includes daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering various segments of the energy industry. To use the database, please register for an account using your MIT email. You will receive an email confirmation from S&P Global Market Intelligence within minutes.
SPIE Digital Library
- Full-text electronic books, journal and conference articles in optics, photonics, and imaging.
Springer Materials
- Find curated physical & chemical property data in Materials Science, including Landolt-BÃ¶rnstein series.
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
- Coverage: v.1 (2003) - present Book series on new developments and advances in robotics research.
Stat Plus
- News resources for in-depth biotech, pharma, policy, and life science coverage and analysis. New users must register for an account with their MIT email address.
Studies in Computational Intelligence
- Coverage: v.1 (2005) - presentBook series devoted to artificial intelligence, including robotics.
Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
- Coverage: v.12 (1998) - presentBook series devoted to numerical and computational methods and systems, and information theory in engineering.
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
- Full-text 50-100 lectures on computer science and engineering topics, including artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, communications, signal processing, and more.
Technical Library of the ASABE
- Includes Journals, Annual Meeting Papers, Section Meeting Papers, Conference Proceedings, Textbooks, Monographs, and Distinguished Lectures from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
ThomasNet (Thomas Net) (formerly Thomas Register)
- Information about American and Canadian companies that provide manufacturing services and products.
Toxicology Abstracts
- Coverage: 1981 - present Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts pertaining to toxic substances: their effects, impacts, and issues.
TOXLINE
- Devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries.
TRID
- TRID is an integrated database of records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 1.4 million records of transportation research worldwide.
Tunnels Buyer's Guide
- Search for companies who provide services related to designing and engineering for tunnels.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
- The benchmark reference in chemistry and chemical and life science engineering.
Water Intelligence Online
- Coverage: 2014 - presentAccess to reference books, research reports, papers, and conference proceedings covering water, wastewater, and related environmental topics.
Water Resources Abstracts
- Coverage: 1967 - present Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts pertaining to all aspects of water resources: supply, treatment, pollution, and more.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Starting point for research with context-setting articles about all topics in electrical engineering.
World Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems
- Coverage: 2013 - 2014Contains timely intelligence and analysis on the systems as well as requirements on a country-by-country basis.

Humanities

ABELL: The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (part of Literature Online))
- Indexes journals, books and dissertations covering the field of literatures in English languages.
African American Almanac, 10th edition
- Provides a range of historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture. Includes coverage of such topics as Africa and the Black diaspora, film and television, landmarks, national organizations, population, religion, science and technology, and sports. 10th ed., 2008.
African American Historical Serials Collection
- African American Serials Collection contains over 60,000 pages of unique content, including annual reports, conference proceedings, and periodicals from African-American religious organizations and service agencies.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
- Online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers that chronicle the African American experience. Papers are from more than 35 states.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
- Features more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports, and other genres.
African Americans in Science: an Encyclopedia of People and Progress
- Covers the accomplishments and struggles of African American scientists. Includes entries on people, scientific fields, and institutions, as well as a chronology.
Agriculture in History
- Covers events and developments, from the origins of plant cultivation and animal husbandry, in different parts of the world to innovations in techniques, the development of modern farming equipment, the introduction of chemical fertilizers, and experiments in the genetic engineering of food plants and animals.
Air and Space Smithsonian
- Coverage: v.1:no.1 (1986:Apr.) - v.25:no.6 (2010:Dec./2011:Jan.)
American Decades Primary Sources
- Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Part I-V Digital Archive
- Coverage: 1681 - 1877 American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Part I-V. The collection offers a highly comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America. These periodicals present history through the eyes of those who experienced it, showing its impact on citizens from all walks of life.
American Men and Women of Science
- Coverage: editions 22 - present
American National Biography (ANB)
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1 An illustrated collection of biographies of men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation.
American Periodicals Series Online
- Coverage: 1740 - 1940Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
American Women of Science Since 1900
American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
- Biographies and critical overview of American women authors who wrote their most significant work between 1900 and 1945.
ArchiveGrid
- Database of descriptions of primary sources such as family and corporate histories, personal papers, and historical records held in archives, libraries, and museums around the world.
Archives Unbound: American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
- Coverage: 1969-1979A digital archive of FBI files that illustrate the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
Archives Unbound: Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocations Centers, 1944-1946
- Coverage: 1944-1946Demographic information on the Japanese Americans interned at various relocation camps during World War II.
Archives Unbound: Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
- Coverage: 1942-1945First-person accounts of concerns and challenges of interned Japanese-Americans.
Archives Unbound: Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment
- Coverage: 1981Testimony from the 1981 hearings of the of Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, which concerned the internment of Japanese Americans and Aleuts during World War II. Includes testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses, including personal stories, publications, reports, press releases, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Archives Unbound: Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945
- Coverage: 1894-1945Records from the British-run police force in Shanghai's former International Settlement (an area administered by an international group of merchants and bankers). Includes information about political demonstrations, strikes, labor and social unrest, foreign and domestic subversive activities, and areas of dispute between the International Settlement and the Chinese government. The most extensive coverage documents the years 1929-1945
Archives Unbound: Reporting on the Coal Industry: The Coal Trade Bulletin, 1901-1918
- Coverage: 1901-1918This publication "devoted to the coal industry" traces the industry's expansion in the early 20th century.
Archives Unbound: Shanghai Municipal Council: The Municipal Gazette, 1908-1940
- Coverage: 1908-1940Official publication of the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC), a group of Western businessmen that governed the daily operation and infrastructure of the Shanghai International Settlement.
Archives Unbound: The Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Confrontation between the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Workers Party
- Coverage: 1979-1981Collection of documents about the 1979 Greensboro [North Carolina] Massacre from the FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
Archives Unbound: The Minutes of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1854-1943
- Coverage: 1854-1943Minutes of meetings held by the Board of Directors of the Shanghai Municipal Council, covering topics such as sanitation, transportation, telecommunication and postal service, taxation, urban planning, gas supply, street lighting, rickshaw operator management, animal protection, and the police system.
Archives Unbound: The Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
- Coverage: 1965-1979Records of the United Domestic Workers Union documenting the union's involvement in the black community, the Manpower Program, the Career Learning Center, the Homemaking Skills Training Program, Maids Honor Day, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), and various federal agencies.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Coverage: 1975 - presentIndexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals, 1899-present.
Arts and Humanities through the Eras
Asian American Drama
- Plays by Asian American playwrights, from late 19th century to the present.
Asian American History and Culture
- Offers coverage of the arts, culture, community, education, family, gender, marriage, occupation, and work of more than twenty national-origin groups, both historically and in contemporary American society.
Atlanta Constitution Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1868 - 1984 Historical file of the Atlanta Constitution. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Baltimore Sun Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1837-1991 Historical file of the Baltimore Sun. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Coverage: 1971 to presentIndexes books, journal articles, and book chapters about Asian studies in humanities & social sciences in English & other languages.
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women
Black Drama, 3rd. ed.
- Plays from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Blackwell Companion to Phonology
Boston Globe Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1872 - 1985 Historical file of the Boston Globe. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
British Association for the Advancement of Science
- Collections on the History of Science (1830s-1970s) is an interinstitutional archive, comprised of materials and collections from British universities. This archive connects the works, thoughts, and interactions of the most influential scientists of the time, from Darwin to Ramsay, documenting the history of British science from the 1830s through the 1970s across disciplines and universities.
British Writers
- Covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- Coverage: 1841 - 1963 Searchable text and full-page image of the newspaper. Sponsored by the Brooklyn Public Library.
Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
- A history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today. Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease 2003.
Cambridge World History of Food
- A two-volume history of food and nutrition, and their relation to human health and culture. 2v, 2000.
Caribbean Literature
- Coverage: 1900 - present Fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, and interviews from 1900 to present, representing writers from the entire Caribbean region.
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive
- Streaming video database of music, dance, interviews, cultural programming, and more from the archives of Banyan Productions in Trinidad & Tobago.
César: French Theatrical Database
- Searchable database of titles, dates, venues, and pertinent treatises on the French theater of the 17th and 18th centuries. CESAR covers the entire Francophone world.
Chicago Manual of Style
- Quick answers to writing style and editing questions.Includes guidance on citing electronic sources and a section on American English grammar and usage.
Chicago Tribune Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1849 - 1992 Historical file of the Chicago Tribune. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949
- China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals, 1817–1949 is a collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in or about China during a period of over 130 years extending from 1817 until 1949, when the People’s Republic of China was founded. This corresponds to the periods of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era (1911-1949), when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic with modern approaches to politics, literature, education, public morality, and intellectual life.
Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
- Declassified by the State Department, "Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955" provide valuable insight into domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the postwar period. This collection comprises all 41 reels of the former Scholarly Resources microfilm product entitled Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955.
Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
- Coverage: 1946-1985 Transcripts in Chinese for documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, produced mostly by the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of China. The bulk of the collection spans 1966-1976.
Chinese Students' Monthly
- Coverage: 1906 - 1931 The Chinese Students' Monthly was the first magazine published by Chinese students in the United States. This English-language magazine was published by The Chinese Students' Alliance, a nationwide organization of Chinese students studying in the United States.
Companion to World Literature
- Covers major authors, texts, and topics from around the globe, from ancient times to the present.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography [DSB] Core reference work in the history of science. Includes lengthy biographical essays about deceased natural scientists and mathematicians from all countries and historical periods. Vol. 1-16 are the original DSB (published 1970-80). Vol. 17-18 are supplements (1990). Vol. 19-27 are the New DSB (2007), including 575 new articles and 250 supplementary or replacement articles about figures covered in the original DSB.
Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1
Contemporary American Religion
- The set includes profiles of religious groups as well as articles on cultural, social, and legal issues; holidays and celebrations; the arts; and other topics. 2v, 2000.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
- Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a corpus composed of more than 450 million words in 189,431 texts, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2012.
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)
- Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) is composed of more than 400 million words of text in more than 100,000 individual texts.
Current Digest of the Russian Press Digital Archive
- Current Digest of the Russian Press presents a weekly selection of Russian-language press materials, translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research, and are presented as documentary materials without additional analysis, commentary, or correction. First published as The Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991), followed by The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010), and now The Current Digest of the Russian Press.
Detroit Free Press Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1831-1922 Historical file of the the Detroit Free Press. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Dictionary of Literary Symbols
- Dictionary of nearly 200 symbols found in literature with an emphasis on English literature. Entries range from the Bible and classical authors to contemporary writing through 1999, taking in American and European literatures.
Dictionary of Medical Biography
- Almost 1100 biographical entries on prominent figures in medicine, in addition to overview essays on the important medical traditions of the world.
Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
- Exposition and analysis of the works of American thinkers writing on psychology, pedagogy, anthropology, political science and other fields after the Civil War. Includes many little known women and minority scholars.
Digital Sanborn Maps
- Coverage: 1867-1970Digitized maps of cities & towns across the United States that show building footprints, building use, addresses, parks, cemeteries, industrial uses & more.
Digital Theatre Plus
- Access: Sign in with MIT e-mail account to be authenticated through Touchstone. Streaming films of current leading British theater productions and Broadway plays. Also includes cast and director interviews.
Documenting White Supremacy and Its Opponents in the 1920s
- The KKK Newspapers collection brings together for the first time local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the U.S. during this period. It also includes the voices from several anti-Klan newspapers.
Drama Online: Core Collection
- Digital playscripts from publishers such as Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, and Faber and Faber. Coverage is from ancient times to the present day. Also includes production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center.
Drama Online: TCG Books Play Collection
- E-book versions of plays published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG).
Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection
- Streaming video collection of performances from the National Theatre in London.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- Page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Text Creation Partnership
- Contains modernized transcriptions of a portion of the works in Early English Books Online (EEBO).
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Books, pamphlets, and broadsides in all subjects published or printed between 1701 and 1800 in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Online encyclopedia covering a wide variety of subjects.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Coverage: 2nd ed, 2007 (22 volume set) The standard reference work on Judaism covers Jewish life, culture, history, and religion in more than 21,000 signed entries.
Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition
- Extensive reference encylopedia with over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
- Coverage: 2nd Ed., 6v, 2006 Biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces about all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to now. Over 2,300 articles. 6v, 2nd ed., 2006.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration
- Articles about U.S. immigration from the earliest colonial settlements to the present. Covers major immigrant groups and offers detailed analysis of social, legal, political, economic, and demographic factors. 4v, 2001.
Encyclopedia of Anthropology
- Over 1000 entries in cultural and social anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, physical and biological anthropology, and applied anthropology, as well as related subjects. Encyclopedia of Anthropology 5v, 2006.
Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers
- Essays on Arab women filmmakers and filmmaking in the Arab world.
Encyclopedia of Archaeology
- Coverage: 3 vol, pub. 2008
Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Online
- Comprehensive overview of the languages of China.
Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels
- Focuses on English-language comics, plus a small selection of influential Japanese and European works, with special emphasis on the new graphic novel format that emerged in the 1970s.
Encyclopedia of European Social History: from 1350 to 2000
- The history of ordinary people's experiences in Europe, late Middle Ages to the present. 6v, 2001.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Covers food and its place in human culture and society. 3v, 2003.
Encyclopedia of India
- Coverage: 4v, 2006 Surveys the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
- Coverage: edition 2Comprehensive, international, multimedia reference source in linguistics.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed.
- Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts. 2nd ed. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture 6v, 2008.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
- A survey of modern Asia, covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics. 6v, 2003.
Encyclopedia of Modern China
- Information about the people, politics, economics, religion, philosophy, traditions, art, and literature of China from the beginning of the 19th century to present day. 4v, 2009.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
- Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism, the historic origins of ideas of race and racism, and their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of theorists and leaders.
Encyclopedia of Religion
- The standard reference in the study of religion includes over 3000 entries. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. 2nd ed., 15v, 2005.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
- Explores links between religion and nature via interdisciplinary studies of theology, ecology, philosophy. Covers major thinkers, religious traditions, and events.
Encyclopedia of Religion in America
Encyclopedia of Russian History
- Russia's people, politics, economics, religion, and social systems from the beginnings of the Russian nation to the fall of the Soviet Union. 4v, 2004.
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
- The standard reference in the study of religion includes over 3000 entries. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. 2nd ed., 15v, 2005.
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
- Covers the professional ethics of science and technology and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics 4v, 2005.
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
- Covers depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society and culture. 2v, 2004.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
- Covers the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with major sections on Colonialism and Imperialism, the World Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and United Nations involvement in the region. 2nd ed., 4v, 2004.
Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture, 1st edition
- Major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations about time. Explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and artists from ancient times to present. 3v, 2009.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
- From a global perspective, this set traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism. 3v, 2007.
Enhanced Electronic Grammars
- Comprehensive descriptions of languages from around the world. Full grammars are made available together in an interlinked and semantically-annotated format, allowing granular access to the grammatical data and enabling cross-language research of several grammars at the same time. In addition to cross-linguistic queries, each grammar can also be read and researched individually.
EthicShare
- A comprehensive collection of ethics materials, including research materials, group discussions, current news articles, and upcoming events.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
- Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world'Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚â„¢s known living languages. It is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive source of information of its kind.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
- European Views of the Americas: A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. A wide range of subjects are covered, including the history of European exploration, portrayals of Native American peoples, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and slavery.
Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
- Explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times.
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia
Foundation Directory Online, Professional
- Find information on private and community foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S. and recently awarded grants.
Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
- Information on topics relating to magic, witchcraft, the supernatural and other mysterious phenomena. Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained 3v, 2003.
Gale Literature Resource Center
- Includes biographical and critical material on thousands of literary authors of all periods and many geographical areas.
Gallica
- Provides access to tens of thousands of digital works (major editions, journals, dictionaries) and images; multi-disciplinary; from the Bibliotheque nationale de France.Texts are in French.
HathiTrust Digital Library
- Find full text PDFs of digitized books and other content from libraries around the world. You can search within the full text of all the items in the collection, but viewing some items is limited by copyright/licensing - check: full view only to search only for downloadable books.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
- Coverage: 1907 - 1984 Indexes journals in the humanities and social sciences covering the period 1907-1984.
IAI TV
- Streaming video package from the Institute of Art and Ideas that includes thousands of video debates, articles and courses, all featuring world-leading thinkers across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts.
Independent Voices
- Independent Voices provides open access to nearly 1,000 journals, newsletters, zines, and newspapers from the alternative press. The collection represents the powerful voices of feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, gays, lesbians and more from the period 1950 to 2016, with a special focus on the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Index Islamicus
- Coverage: 1906 - 1996 Indexes works on the Muslim world from journals, books and reviews in English and European languages.
Index Islamicus
- Format: CD-ROM Coverage: 1906 - 1996 Indexes works on the Muslim world from journals, books and reviews in English and European languages.
International Encyclopedia of Dance
- Covers the full spectrum of dance--theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
- This scholarly encyclopedia's 850+ articles emphasize multidisciplinary approaches, such as psycholinguistics, ethnolinguistics and neurolinguistics.
International Historical Statistics
- Coverage: 1750-2010A unique collection of statistics covering a wide range of economic and social issues. Access to over 200 years of statistics covering most countries in the world.
Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945
- Sourced from the rich FO 371 and FO 262 series at The National Archives, UK, this resource unites formerly restricted Japan-specific documents and is enhanced by the addition of a selection of FO 371 Far Eastern General sub-series, and Western and American Department papers.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
- Provides an overview and historical survey of literary and cultural theory from Plato to postmodernism.Coverage is international.
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive
- Additional license restrictions A collection of scholarly journals in many fields. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Linguistic Data Consortium
- Coverage: 2016 - 2021 Text, sound, image files of corpora in various languages. MIT Libraries provide access to web hosted corpora via login https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login Corpora available in tangible formats are available via MIT library catalog.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- The most comprehensive index to articles in Linguistics and Language Development and use.
Literature of Latin America
- Offers a historical and critical overview of the development of key movements in Latin American fiction from writers of the early twentieth century to contemporary authors.
Literature Online (LION)
- Contains biographical essays and literary criticism, primarily from authors writing in English. Also includes some digital versions of prose, poetry, and drama. Also provides access to The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
LitFinder
- Provides coverage to primary source material as well as secondary sources for authors and literary works from around the world and across history. Includes poems, short stories, speeches, and plays.
Loeb Classical Library
- Collection of Greek and Latin classical literature. Covers Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; medicine and mathematics. In English, Greek, and Latin.
London Review of Books
- Coverage: v. 1 (1979) - present
Los Angeles Times Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1881 - 1992 Historical file of the Los Angeles Times. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Mango Languages
- Register at the site for the system to remember what youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve covered and what progress you've made when you return. Online language learning for 60+ languages. Also includes ESL modules, specialized mini-courses, and a limited number of foreign films.
Medici.TV Jazz
- Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Merriam-Webster Online
- An online library of dictionaries, thesauri, crossword puzzles and word games.
Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary
- A collection of online dictionaries and other reference tools.
Middle English Compendium
- Includes the Middle English Dictionary covering the years 1100-1500, a bibliography of material published during that period, and selective full text of Middle English prose and verse.
MITSFS Library Pinkdex
- Catalog of the material held in the MIT Science Fiction Society's Library.
MLA Handbook Plus
- Online version of the citation style handbook published by the Modern Language Association.
MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes over 4,000 journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies.
Modern South Asian Literature in English Literature
- Introduces significant Indian, Pakistani, or Sri Lankan writers. Includes brief biographical backgrounds, an overview of the author's major works, and the explication of a single work.
Nation Archive
- Coverage: 1865 - present; Latest 28 days not available Backfile of The Nation magazine back to volume 1, issue 1. Updated monthly
National Geographic
- Coverage: 1884 - present
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
New Catholic Encyclopedia
- Coverage: 2nd Ed., 15v, 2003 Thousands of articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and more. 2nd Ed., 15v, 2003.
New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009
- A supplement to the New Catholic Encyclopedia that focuses on the theme of science and the church.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Coverage: 6v, 2005 700 entries survey the history of Western thought and culture.
New Republic Archive
- Coverage: 1914 - present A searchable full-text backfile of all issues of The New Republic, one of the country's leading journals of opinion on politics and the arts.
New York Review of Books
- Coverage: v.1:no.1 (1963) - present
New York Times
- Coverage: 1851 - current
New York Times Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1851- present ; latest 3 years not available Historical file of the New York Times. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
New Yorker
- Coverage: v.1 (1925) - present Complete archive of The New Yorker, including full page images.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): British Theatre, Music, & Literature
- Primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Children's Literature and Childhood
- Primary sources related to the experience of childhood in the 19th century.
Oregon Health and Science University # 0681-G Kids' Speech v1.1 Corpus
- The Kids' Speech Corpus was developed to facilitate research about the characteristics of kids' speech at different ages and to train and evaluate recognizers for use in language training and other interactive tasks involving children. For instance, this corpus was used to train recognizers used in language development with deaf children. In cooperation with the Forest Grove School District speech was gathered from children in grades K through 10. Approximately 100 children at each grade level have been recorded. Further details: https://apps.ohsu.edu/research/tech-portal/technology/view/212836
Oxford Bibliographies Online Anthropology
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in anthropology.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Art History
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in art history.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Communication
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in communication.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Geography
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in geography.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Latin American Studies
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in Latin American studies.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Linguistics
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in linguistics.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in classics.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides by Islamic Studies scholars.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in philosophy.
Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd edition
- Articles examining human evolution and culture. Covers biographies of the great figures in the field, methods used in archaeological research, and subjects related to material culture.
Oxford Companion to Philosophy
- Over 2000 articles about all areas of philosophy and the ideas of philosophers from antiquity to the present.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1 Contains biographies of remarkable people who shaped British history worldwide from the 4th century BC to the year 2004.
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
- Covers American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
- Covers the history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Includes accounts of individual authors and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
- Covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
- Covers the historical and contemporary experiences in the U.S. of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Addresses identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. Includes meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words. Updated quarterly.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Archaeology
- Coverage: 2009 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in archaeology.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Classical Studies
- Coverage: 2007 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in classical studies.
Oxford Handbooks Online: History
- Coverage: 2009 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in history.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Linguistics
- Coverage: 2007 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in linguistics.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Literature
- Coverage: 2007 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in literature.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Philosophy
- Coverage: 2009 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in philosophy.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion
- Coverage: Select coverage from 2012, 2014 - 2015 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in religion.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3 Dictionaries and other resources for Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish languages.
Oxford Reference Online
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Find reference sources and key titles from Oxford University Press.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
- The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics offers long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online: Greek Comedy, Greek Tragedy, Plato, Latin Drama, Latin Poetry, Latin Prose
- E-book package from Oxford University Press in classics. Latin titles include access to the Oxford Latin Dictionary.
Oxford Scholarship Online -- Linguistics
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Coverage: 2011 - present
Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy Collection
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Coverage: 2006 - present Access to full text of Oxford University Press publications in Philosophy.
Past Masters
- Full-text collections of philosophical and historical scientific books.
Persee
- Full-text access to hundreds of Humanities and Social Science journals from France.
Philosopher's Index
- Simultaneous users allowed: 4 Coverage: 1940 - present Indexes hundreds of journals and books in Philosophy and related fields. Includes author-written abstracts. Updated quarterly.
PhilPapers
- A comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
Play Index
- Indexes a variety of plays, including one-act plays, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama, and monologues from several time periods. Does not include full text.
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 2012
- Covers all aspects of poetry, including terminology and history. Includes 1993 and 2012 editions.
Project MUSE
- A collection of major journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is roughly from 2000 to the present.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- Search all of MIT's ProQuest Historical Newspapers simultaneously.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World
- Coverage: 1931 - 2003 The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century.
Proquest Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor
- Coverage: 1908 - 2004 Historical file of the Christian Science Monitor. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier
- Coverage: 1911 - 2002 Pittsburgh Courier is one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers. A conservative voice in the African American community, its journalism challenged the misrepresentation of African Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India
- Coverage: 1838 - 2008 Full text of the world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper, originally published for British residents in India. Note that the newspaper has had title changes due to mergers: The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce(1838-1859), Bombay Times and Standard (1860-1861), and The Times of India (1861-present).
Radical Scatters : Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886.
- Collection of later writings by Emily Dickinson, including poems, fragmentary texts, and letters.
Readers' Guide
- Coverage: 1890 - present Includes indexing, abstracting and some links to full-text for many general interest magazines, in both Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982) and Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983 to present).
Readers' Guide Abstracts
- Coverage: 1984 - present See Readers Guide Retrospective for earlier years. Includes indexing, abstracting and some links to full-text for many general interest magazines. Covers 1982 to the present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Coverage: 1890-1982 See Readers Guide Abstracts for current years. Indexing and abstracting for many general interest magazines, 1890-1982. Great source for historical material on the 20th-century.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
- Covers eight key subject areas including Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Over one thousand articles, global in scope, with interdisciplinary content on the Modernist period.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
- Simultaneous users allowed: 4 Thousands of original articles, covering Anglo-American, ethical, political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental, and contemporary philosophy
Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia, third edition
San Francisco Chronicle Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1865 - 1922 Historical file of the San Francisco Chronicle. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Science and Its Times
Scribner Writers
- Literary criticism and overviews of writers and individual literary works from around the world. Antiquity to the present.
Smithsonian
- Coverage: v.1:no.1 (1970:Apr.) - v.41:no.8 (2010:Dec.)
Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991
- Coverage: 1784-1991 Primary sources documenting the history of flight, including images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, and government documents. The sources are held by the National Air and Space Museum Archives, National Air and Space Museum Library, Smithsonian Archives, and Smithsonian Libraries.
Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions
- Coverage: 1840 -1923 Includes primary source documents covering landmark exhibits.
Smithsonian Collections Online. Trade Literature and the Merchandising of Industry
- Coverage: 1820 - 1926 Catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and ephemera on essential industries that emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
- The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) provides access to finding aids for the Smithsonian Institution's libraries, museums, and archives.
Social History of the United States
South and Southeast Asian Literature in English
- Coverage: 19th C to presentA searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their diasporas, spanning the end of the colonial era to the present
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2nd edition
- Entries that cover all aspects of popular culture in the United States, including art, theater, film, sports, social life, music, and television. 5v, 2000.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- An open-access encyclopedia that is responsive to new research in Philosophy, with each entry maintained by experts in the field. All entries and updates refereed before they are made public.
The Asian American Experience
- This database includes a rich and diverse variety of primary sources, perspective essays from leading Asian American studies scholars, and search and citation tools for streamlined academic research.
The Economist
- Global reporting and analysis on economics, business, geopolitics, technology, and culture. Register for an account using your MIT email address. For more information about access to the direct subscription, visit The Economist guide. Please note The Economist's terms of use and privacy policy.
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
- HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive.
The Map as History
- An online collection of nearly 200 animated historical maps.
TLS, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- Simultaneous users allowed: 2 Coverage: 1902 - 2019 Includes reviews, articles, and letters.
Twayne's Authors
- Literary criticism and in-depth introductions to writers from around the world, from antiquity to the present.
UXL Graphic Novelists
- Covers authors and illustrators.
Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience
- This work presents contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.
Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1889 - 2000 Historical file of the Wall Street Journal. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Washington Post Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1877 - 1999 Historical file of the Washington Post. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie Online
- An international bibliography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's life and works.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- Coverage: 1960 - present. Comprehensive bibliography of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide.
19th Century UK Periodicals Series I
- An online collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers from the 19th Century includes Series I: Women's, Children's, Humor and Leisure/Sport.

Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Complete
- A multi-disciplinary database which indexes and abstracts periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, books, and other publications and provides thousands of full-text articles.
All Access Comics
- Package of simultaneous-use comics and graphic novels from publishers such as Disney, Dark Horse, Marvel, Image Comics, and IDW.

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Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search (formerly Kikuzo II Visual)
- Simultaneous users allowed: 23 Coverage: 1879 - present Full-text database of Asahi Shimbun, one of the two major newspapers in Japan (1879-present). Also includes two leading weekly magazines, Shukan Asahi (April 2000-present) and AERA (May 1988-present); the annual new-word dictionary Chiezo; Asahi Shinbun Jinbutsu (Who'Ã‚â„¢s who) Database; Asahi Graph (1923-1945), a pictorial magazine; and the Historical Photo Archive (over 10,000, mostly from Asia in World War II).
Authors Alliance
- Resources to help authors understand their rights and promote policies that make knowledge and culture available and discoverable. Resources cover copyright, fair use, open access, author contracts, etc.
Cambridge Core ebooks
- Access to ebooks published by Cambridge University Press and their publishing partners. All years of publication and all subjects are included in MIT's access.

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Caribbean Search
- Caribbean Search is the most extensive research database of full-text content pertaining to the countries and people of the Caribbean. Covering all areas of Caribbean study, it includes full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books.
CEIC Data
- Macroeconomic, industrial and financial time series data for over 200 countries. Data for China and India for certain series is available at provincial and city level.
China Research Gateway
- Immense collection of Chinese information resources including content in English and Chinese languages. Content includes news sources, scholarly journals, dissertations, government documents, statistical publications, monographs, patents, and more.

Full text access is temporarily unavailable for theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, patents, and statistics.

Dimensions Analytics
- Dimensions Analytics is an innovative research database that connects publications, awarded grants, patents, datasets, clinical trials and policy documents to deliver an unparalleled look at research globally. Access: Requires MIT Touchstone authentication and registration with your MIT email.
Dimensions Analytics API
- Dimensions Analytics API enables users to perform analytics on the Dimensions Analytics database, which contains publications, awarded grants, patents, datasets, clinical trials and policy documents to deliver an unparalleled look at research globally.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Discovery service for peer-reviewed monographs and edited collections published under an open access license.
Dissertations and Theses Global (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: Indexing and abstracting of non-MIT dissertations and theses 1861 - present. Full text for most dissertations 1997-present and selective full-text for earlier dissertations. Comprehensive coverage of North American universities and selective coverage worldwide. See also the MIT Theses Collection in DSpace.
DSpace at MIT
- Contains research products of MIT faculty, including preprints, articles, tech reports, working papers, theses, conf. papers, images, datasets & more.
East View Geospatial LandScan Global Archive
- Coverage: 2000 - present
High-resolution population distribution data (30 arc seconds or ~1km at equator) in a GIS raster (ESRI Grid) format that depicts ambient (24 hr. average) population distribution
EBSCOHost Ebooks
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1 Provides access to a select digital collection of books (e-books) across numerous disciplines.
Entertainment Industry Archive 5
- This collection includes the backfiles of more than 40 gaming magazines devoted to computer and video gaming with coverage 1980s to 2020 containing 800,000+ pages. Game studies researchers can derive insights into the history of game design, marketing, consumption, platforms/consoles and more.
Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
- Explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times.
FinAid - The Financial Aid Information Page
- Comprehensive source of information on different kinds of financial aid.
Global Newsstream
- Access to over 2500 US and international news sources including today's issues the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, etc. Archives for most sources go back to the 1980s. Sources include newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites.
IAI TV
- Streaming video package from the Institute of Art and Ideas that includes thousands of video debates, articles and courses, all featuring world-leading thinkers across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts.
Journal Citation Reports
- Coverage: Annual data from 1997 - present Provides ISI Impact factors, rankings, and half-lives for journals indexed by the Web of Science.
Marquis Who's Who
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1
MIT GeoWeb
- MIT Geoweb provides a web interface to search, view, and download geospatial data from the MIT Libraries collection and beyond.
MIT Libraries Dataverse
- MIT Libraries repository for purchased datasets. Enables online analysis for some studies.
MIT Press Direct
- Find ebooks published by MIT Press.
MIT Theses in DSpace
- A collection of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses.
MLA Handbook Plus
- Online version of the citation style handbook published by the Modern Language Association.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in various disciplines.
Oxford Handbooks Online
- The Oxford Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Oxford Handbooks offer thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
- Regularly updated encyclopedia focused on interdisciplinary climate science topics.
Peterson's Test Prep
- Provides materials to support students taking standardized graduate entrance exams and other exams (GRE, MCAT, LSAT, PCAT, MAT, TOEFL, US citizenship). Also includes graduate school and financial aid guides and resume, cover letter support.
PressReader
- Coverage: Current three months onlyCurrent editions of hundreds U.S. and international newspapers from scores of countries in dozens of languages in full-color, full-page format. For use online or as an app.
Project MUSE
- A collection of major journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is roughly from 2000 to the present.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and the Observer
- The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003), give online access to facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about the most significant and fascinating political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past two centuries.
Readers' Guide
- Coverage: 1890 - present Includes indexing, abstracting and some links to full-text for many general interest magazines, in both Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982) and Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983 to present).
Readers' Guide Abstracts
- Coverage: 1984 - present See Readers Guide Retrospective for earlier years. Includes indexing, abstracting and some links to full-text for many general interest magazines. Covers 1982 to the present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Coverage: 1890-1982 See Readers Guide Abstracts for current years. Indexing and abstracting for many general interest magazines, 1890-1982. Great source for historical material on the 20th-century.
Rolling Stone Archive
- Coverage: 1967 to the present. The archive supports research in 20th and 21st century history, politics, music, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and more.
South Asian Newspapers
- Collection provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English-, Gujarati- and Bengali-language papers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent between 1864 and 1922.
TDM Studio
- A text and data mining solution for research, teaching and learning that allows MIT users to analyze the eligible content from MIT Libraries ProQuest subscriptions.
Technology Review
- Coverage: 1899 - presentUsers must be on the VPN to gain Direct subscription access to all articles. per Adam Shire 210914khamiltoDaily online news and feature stories from the MIT Technology Review, digital magazine, and full PDF magazine archive back to 1899.
The Asian American Experience
- This database includes a rich and diverse variety of primary sources, perspective essays from leading Asian American studies scholars, and search and citation tools for streamlined academic research.
The Economist
- Global reporting and analysis on economics, business, geopolitics, technology, and culture. Register for an account using your MIT email address. For more information about access to the direct subscription, visit The Economist guide. Please note The Economist's terms of use and privacy policy.
The Lens
- The Lens is a global index of scholarly works and patents. It provides normalized and linked open metadata with persistent identifiers from the original sources. Register for an account with your MIT email to access the full functionality of Lens.org.
The Lens API (Institutional Toolkit)
- The Lens API provides programmatic access to Patent and Scholarly Works meta records. Follow the link for more information.
USPTO Patent Database
- Coverage: 1790 - present Authoritative source for all U.S.patents and patent applications.
Virtual Reference Collection
- Links to web sites that provide quick answers using fact sources such as those found in a library reference collection.
Wall Street Journal
- Coverage: 1997 - present
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Web of Science
- Coverage: 1900 - present Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals.
Web of Science API Expanded
- The Web of Science™ API Expanded supports rich searching across the Web of Science to retrieve full item-level metadata from an expanded list of fields. Follow the link for more information.
Web of Science Book Citation Index: Science (BKCI-S)
- Coverage: 2005 - present Index to science and engineering books and book chapters. Identify journal articles, books, and proceedings that cite these works in the Web of Science.
Web of Science Book Citation Index: Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH)
- Coverage: 2005 - present Index to social science and humanities books and book chapters. Identify journal articles, books, and proceedings that cite these works in the Web of Science.
Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
- Coverage: 1990 - present Index to conference proceedings in science, engineering, and medicine. Includes conference papers published in journals as well as in separate conference proceedings. Links to articles that cite the conference papers.
Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)
- Coverage: 1990 - present Index to conference proceedings in social sciences and humanities. Includes conference papers published in journals as well as in separate conference proceedings. Links to articles that cite the conference papers.

Science

AAPG Datapages / American Association of Petroleum Geologists Datapages
- Full-text publications covering petroleum geology.
ACM Books
- Books published by ACM, covering current computer science research, textbooks and handbooks, and computing history.
ACS Division Proceedings Online
- Coverage: Includes proceedings from the following American Chemical Society (ACS) divisions: Environmental Chemistry (2004-2008), Fuel Chemistry (1957 -2012), Petroleum Chemistry, Inc. (1956 - 2012), Polymer Chemistry, Inc.(1963 - 2012), and Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering [PMSE] (2001 - 2015), Energy and Fuels (2012 -2016). Proceedings from other divisions are selectively published as edited book in ACS Symposium Series Access: VPN users: You must use the friendly URL above or other means to authenticate besides VPN.
ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
- ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides guidance to scholarly communication process, especially those related to research and publishing in chemistry-related fields. Formerly titled ACS Style Guide, this Fourth Edition of the guide presents best practices for scientists across the STM disciplines. Access: VPN users: You must use the friendly URL above or other means to authenticate besides VPN.
ACS In Focus
- The ACS In Focus e-books provide fundamental and brief overview of emerging topics and techniques from across the sciences, especially those relevant to chemical sciences. Access: VPN users: You must use the friendly URL above or other means to authenticate besides VPN.
ACS Journals (American Chemical Society)
- All journals from American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Access: VPN users: You must use the friendly URL above or other means to authenticate besides VPN.
ACS Symposium Series
- Contains peer-reviewed edited books developed from the ACS technical divisions' symposia covering a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others. Coverage: 1974 - Present Access: VPN users: You must use the friendly URL above or other means to authenticate besides VPN.
ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System)
- Indexes major astronomy and astrophysics journals; includes abstracts for most entries and full text scans of tens of thousands of articles.
Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Coverage: 2007 - presentReview articles and descriptions of recent developments in the fields of atomic, molecular, and optical physics.
Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology
- A book series reviews current trends in biotechnology, biochemical engineering, and related fields.
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics
- Coverage: v.145-220 2007-2021
Advances in Polymer Science
- A book series reviews current trends on plymer and biopolymer sciences.
Advances in Solid State Physics
- Coverage: 41 (2001) - present Invited lectures presented at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society's Working Group on Solid State Physics.
Agricola
- Comprehensive coverage of U.S. agricultural and life sciences information and allied disciplines.
Agricultural and Environmental Science Database
- Find journal & conference articles, reports, books & government publications with comprehensive coverage of environmental & pollution issues.
Agriculture in History
- Covers events and developments, from the origins of plant cultivation and animal husbandry, in different parts of the world to innovations in techniques, the development of modern farming equipment, the introduction of chemical fertilizers, and experiments in the genetic engineering of food plants and animals.
Air and Space Smithsonian
- Coverage: v.1:no.1 (1986:Apr.) - v.25:no.6 (2010:Dec./2011:Jan.)
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Online Conference Proceedings
- Coverage: v. 1 (1970) - present Additional license restrictions Full text proceedings of scientific meetings published by the American Institute of Physics.
American Institute of Physics Scitation
- Additional license restrictions Full text access to journals from AIP and member societies.
American Physical Society (APS) Online Journals
- Additional license restrictions Full text access to all American Physical Society journals.
American Women of Science Since 1900
Annals of Mathematics Studies
- Esteemed math book series from Princeton University Press.
Applied Science & Technology Source
- Covers journals, trade magazines, conference proceedings, and other specialized publications.
Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality
- Coverage: 1990 - present Covers research and policy on the contamination of oceans and other bodies of water.
arXiv
- E-print service covering most topics in physics and extending to mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
- Coverage: v.1 (1988) - present Publishes original research in astronomy and astrophysics on innovations in instrumentation.
British Association for the Advancement of Science
- Collections on the History of Science (1830s-1970s) is an interinstitutional archive, comprised of materials and collections from British universities. This archive connects the works, thoughts, and interactions of the most influential scientists of the time, from Darwin to Ramsay, documenting the history of British science from the 1830s through the 1970s across disciplines and universities.
Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre
- Open Access. Contains seismological data contributed by seismological agencies from around the world from 1904 - present. These data, which may include hypocentres, phase arrival-times, focal meChan, Tinaism solutions, etc., are automatically grouped into events, which form the basis of the ISC Bulletin.
Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
- A history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today. Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease 2003.
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
- Highly curated repository of small molecule crystal structures. Access: Access available via desktop clients and analysis tools or CSD Web portal. The friendly URL above links you to a guide page with more details. Additional license restrictions
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) Web
- Highly curated repository of small molecule crystal structures. The friendly URL above links you to the web portal access. See CSD Guide Page for how to Sign in to access Advanced Search functions on WebCSD and how to access via desktop applications and other analysis and visualization tools.
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Cancer Handbook
- A comprehensive overview of all major areas of cancer research and oncology.
CASSI: CAS Source Index Search Tool
- Search tool for expanding journal abbreviations from Chemical Abstracts Service.
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
- Self-reported environmental data from companies worldwide regarding their dependencies on natural resources and their strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, safeguarding water resources, and preventing deforestation.
CHEMLIBnetBASE
- Online edited books from Taylor & Francis on new research, historical works, and primers in chemistry related fields. Access available for selected titles. Use filter "Licensed Content " or "Open Access" to focus on fulltext available items.
Climate Vulnerability
Climatewire
- Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more.
Cochrane Library
- A resource for high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
- Coverage: 2006 - present A source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging.
Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
- Coverage:v.1 (1933) - present.
Combined Chemical Dictionary
- Find chemical, physical, and biological information on chemical compounds.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography [DSB] Core reference work in the history of science. Includes lengthy biographical essays about deceased natural scientists and mathematicians from all countries and historical periods. Vol. 1-16 are the original DSB (published 1970-80). Vol. 17-18 are supplements (1990). Vol. 19-27 are the New DSB (2007), including 575 new articles and 250 supplementary or replacement articles about figures covered in the original DSB.
Comprehensive Biomaterials II
- Find background information on biomaterials from basic science to clinical applications in this updated 2nd edition.
Comprehensive Biophysics
- Coverage: 2013, Vols. 1-9 Provides definitive introductions to a broad array of topics, uniting different areas of biophysics research.
Comprehensive Biotechnology
- Find background information on the principles and practice of biotechnology from environmental biotechnology and safety to medical biotechnology and healthcare.
Comprehensive Energy Systems
- A reference work that describes traditional and novel energy systems, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies, strategies, environmental impacts and sustainable development. High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management.
Comprehensive Gut Microbiota
- Published: 2022, vols.1-3 Authoritative sources of information for novel human gut microbiome and health research.
Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II
- Covers interdisciplinary and high impact areas of inorganic chemistry including biological inorganic chemistry, solid state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanoscience.
Comprehensive Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2nd edition
- This reference covers covering a broad spectrum of disciplines including material sciences, chemistry, physics and life sciences. It focuses on the major classes of nanomaterials in terms of their synthesis, structure and applications, reviewing nanomaterials and their respective technologies.
Comprehensive Nuclear Materials, 2nd edition
- Provides fundamental information on the vast variety of materials employed in the broad field of nuclear technology.
Comprehensive Physiology
- Authoritative and comprehensive collection of physiology information from the American Physiological Society; updated quarterly.
Comprehensive Remote Sensing
Comprehensive Renewable Energy
- Provides overview of all renewable energy technologies.
Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology
- Six-volume comprehensive reference work on all aspects of semiconductors.
Contemporary Mathematics
- Refereed proceedings from worldwide conferences and symposia sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and other organizations.
Crop Protection Compendium
- Simultaneous users allowed: 2 Extensive global coverage of pests, diseases, weeds and their natural enemies, the crops that are their hosts, and the countries in which they occur.
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
- Coverage: 1998 - 2020 Covers the full range of molecular, cellular, physiological and chemical techniques used for discovery and development of novel therapeutics.
Current Protocols in Protein Science
- Coverage: 1995-2020 Best practices methods for expression, characterization and purification of recombinant proteins.
Dictionary of Medical Biography
- Almost 1100 biographical entries on prominent figures in medicine, in addition to overview essays on the important medical traditions of the world.
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
- Coverage: 1948 - present Database of citations to energy related research output, largely from DOE and its predecessors, and others,1948 to date.
E & E News
- E&E News’ five daily publications deliver original journalism on energy and environment issues.
E & E News PM
- Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more. E&E NEWS PM highlights late-breaking news.
Ecology Abstracts
- Coverage: 1982 - present Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts covering ecology, microbes, ecosystems and human impacts.
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
- Coverage: 1985 - present Contains tens of thousands of detailed abstracts of government-issued EIS.
EIS: Environmental Impact Statements (Digests and Full Text)
- Coverage: 1985 - present Provides detailed abstracts and indexing of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued each year by the U.S. federal government, in addition to offering the statements themselves in full text. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, legal mandates and the PDF full text.
EIS: Environmental Impact Statements, Full Text
- Coverage: 1985 - present Provides detailed abstracts and indexing of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued each year by the U.S. federal government, in addition to offering the statements themselves in full text. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, legal mandates and the PDF full text.
eLS
- Coverage: 2001 - present Commissioned articles covering all areas of life sciences.
eMagRes
- Covers every aspect of the theory, applications, and history of magnetic resonance. Includes NMR, MRI, and MRS.
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
- Comprehensive analytical chemistry reference.
Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
- Comprehensive, searchable encyclopedia of applied physics, including optics, laser physics, solid state and semiconductor physics, atom and nuclear physics, and biophysics.
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, third edition
- Complete resource on biochemistry and molecular biology.
Encyclopedia of Cancer
- 4th edition, 2017.
Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics
Encyclopedia of Drug Metabolism and Interactions
- Find preclinical and clinical aspects of drug metabolism and interactions, including toxicological, regulatory and marketing information.
Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry
- Find background information on electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering
Encyclopedia of Environmetrics
- Includes Environmetrics techniques and applications in areas such as ecological statistics, climate change, geostatistics, natural resources, environmental health, chemometrics, and pollution.
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
- Comprehensive reference of all aspects of the forensic process, including DNA analysis and toxicology.
Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences
- Covers many aspects of hydrology such as hydrometeorology, remote sensing, soil, erosion, rainfall-runoff, and water flow.
Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
- Find reference information in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.
Encyclopedia of Marine Natural Products
- One of the largest resources on marine natural products.
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology
- Comprehensive coverage of the broad and multidisciplinary field of materials.Includes bibliographies, cross-referencing and indexes.
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
- Comprehensive, searchable encyclopedia of mathematical physics.
Encyclopedia of Modern Optics
- Reference work covering topics in optics and optical physics.
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
- Explores all areas of neuroscience, with basic information on many topics; articles are written by experts and are peer-reviewed. Published: 2009
Encyclopedia of Physical Organic Chemistry
- Comprehensive and easy reference to physical organic chemistry (POC) methodology and techniques.
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
- Find background information on polymer science.
Encyclopedia of Radicals in Chemistry, Biology and Materials
- Find information about free radicals within a multidisciplinary context, connecting structural characteristics and chemical properties to their applications in chemistry, life sciences, and materials science.
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-Eros)
- Find reagents for performing specific chemical reactions.
Encyclopedia of Renewable and Sustainable Materials
- This reference overviews research and development on all aspects of renewable, recyclable and sustainable materials. The use of renewable and sustainable materials in building construction, the automotive sector, energy, textiles and others can create markets for agricultural products and additional revenue streams for farmers, as well as significantly reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, manufacturing energy requirements, manufacturing costs and waste.
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
- The standard reference in the study of religion includes over 3000 entries. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. 2nd ed., 15v, 2005.
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
- Covers the professional ethics of science and technology and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics 4v, 2005.
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, 3rd edition
- Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of spectroscopy and closely related subjects that use the same fundamental principles, including mass spectrometry, imaging techniques and applications. Includes the history, theoretical background, details of instrumentation and technology, and current applications of the key areas of spectroscopy.
Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science
- Coverage: third edition Covers current utilization of surfactants, colloids, emulsions, foams, gels, and nano particles.
Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture, 1st edition
- Major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations about time. Explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and artists from ancient times to present. 3v, 2009.
Energy Projections for IEA Countries
- Provides forecasts on energy balances, coal supply, and electricity capacity for 26 IEA countries.
Energywire
- Coverage: 2012:Mar. - present Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more.
Environment Abstracts
- Encompasses all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies, featuring more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad. The database also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters.
Environment and Energy Daily
- Coverage: 1996 - present Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more.
Environment Index
- Coverage: 1973 - present Topics covered: air, water, energy, and land resources; industrial, scientific and technological issues; human ecology, nutrition and health.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- Coverage: 1990 - present
  Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts of the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
Essential Science Indicators
- Analysis tool for research publication output by country, research field, and institution.
Fieser and Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis
- Find information about reagents used in chemical reactions.
GeoRef
- Provides an index of and access to journal articles, books, maps, reports, conferences proceedings, and USGS publications in the subjects of geology, geophysics, petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, hydrology, and soil science. Users can search the database using multiple fields. Use “Get this @ MIT” links to access or request paywalled materials. The contents of GeoRef are also searchable using GeoScienceWorld.
GeoScienceWorld
- Journal articles and ebooks covering the subjects of geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, paleontology, stratigraphy, geophysics, hydrology, and areal geology. Also provides access to all the content available from the GeoRef database. Includes OpenGeoSci, a map-enhanced interface that allows users to search and discover content by geographic location.
GlobalData Power
- *** FOR ACCESS, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW THE LOGIN BOX, WHERE IT READS "If you have IP Access Click Here" As of April 2014, this database was newly established by GlobalData. Content from databases: Alternative etrack, Nuclear etrack, SmartGrid etrack, and Power etrack are included in this database. As of May 2017, tables can now be downloaded directly into Excel.Data and reports on power/electricity sectors worldwide, including: thermal, wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, smart grid, geothermal, bio, and ocean. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, news and events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
- Coverage: 1993 - 2018Users should not be prompted to login with username password, but if this happens, please remove all ams.org cookies from browser. Vendor is aware of this problem and working on resolving it.The AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics has over 100 textbooks, which can also be used for supplemental reading.
Greenwire
- Coverage: 2000 - present Provides daily coverage of environmental and energy news with a focus on politics and policy.
GSA Field Guides
- Coverage: v. 1 (1999) - present
GSA Memoirs
- Coverage: v. 1 (1934) - present
GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology
- Coverage: v. 1 (1962) - present
GSA Special Papers
- Coverage: v.1 (1934) - present
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC)
- Classic handbook of chemical and physical properties.
Handbook of Clean Energy Systems
- Comprehensive overview of renewable energy, clean energy conversion technologies, mitigation technologies, intelligent energy systems, energy storage, and sustainability of energy systems.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
- Full-text books with review articles on environmental chemistry.
Handbook of Green Chemistry
- Covers green catalysis, green solvents and green processes.
Handbook of Porphyrin Science
- A treatise of porphyrins, phthalocyanines and their numerous analogues and derivatives. Coverage: 2010 - present
Handbook of Statistics
- Book series devoted to specific topics in statistics.
High-energy Physics Literature Database
- Contains hundreds of thousands of high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses.
IEA Energy Technology R&D Statistics
- Government budgets for energy technology R&D for 23 IEA member countries, including conservation, renewable energy, nuclear fission, and storage.
Inorganic Syntheses
- Coverage: v.1 (1921) - present. Find evaluated procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Open Access journal.
INSPEC
- Coverage: Annual data from 1997 - present Provides ISI Impact factors, rankings, and half-lives for journals indexed by the Web of Science.
International Heat Transfer Conference Digital Library
- Coverage: v.3 (1966) - v.16 (2018) These proceedings dating back to 1966 include all available years of the International Heat Transfer Conferences (IHTC), the Heat Transfer Olympics and cover areas from the fundamentals and traditional roles of heat and mass transfer to sustainable energy issues of today, heat transferÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s role in technology and many more.
International Tables for Crystallography
- Contains articles and data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials
JBC Thematic Minireview Series
- Find a concise, expert-level summary of a particular biochemical research field.
JoVE Unlimited
- Coverage: 2006 - present. 16,000+ videos from peer reviewed journals and educational modules detailing laboratory methods and science concepts.
Knovel -- Engineering and Scientific Handbooks
- Search for scientific & engineering information via an extensive collection of engineering & scientific e-books. Includes interactive tables & graphs.
Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd edition
- Published: 2017 Comprehensive encyclopedia covering learning theory and behavior, cognitive psychology of memory, memory systems, and molecular meChan, Tinaisms of memory.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Coverage: v.1 (1973) - presentConference proceedings on a wide variety of computer science topics.
Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
- Coverage: v.222 (1997) - presentConference proceedings on control engineering, vibration, and dynamical systems.
Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
- Coverage: v.64 (1997) - present
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
- Coverage: v.541 (2005) - present Book series on new developments in mathematical economics, economic theory, econometrics, operations research and mathematical systems.
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
- Coverage: v.1649 (1997) - presentConference proceedings on new developments in mathematics.
Lecture Notes in Physics
- Coverage: v.477 (1997) - presentFull text books covering modern, specialized topics in all fields of physics.
Lyell Collection
- Access to journals and books from the Geological Society of London. Subjects include geochemistry, petroleum geology, and engineering geology.
Machinery's Handbook
- Published: 29th ed, 2012. A comprehensive reference for mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists. Fully searchable through Knovel.
Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
- Published: 11th ed, 2006. Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Covers more than 100 essential mechanical engineering topics.
MathSciNet
- Coverage: 1940 - presentIndexes and reviews of the mathematical literature; start here to find mathematical papers by topic or keyword.
Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing
- Published: 1998 Guide for writing technical and scientific documentation from MIT's Writing Program. Requires MIT personal certificates for all use, on and off campus. Touchstone access is not offered.
MEDLINE
- Coverage: 1966 - present MEDLINE is the core literature indexed in PubMed.
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
- Coverage: 1959 - presentBook series from AMS publishing research in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Merck Index
- Authoritative source of information on chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
MetaCore
- MetaCore is an integrated software suite for functional analysis of experimental data such as microarray, SNPs, and pathway analysis. Includes the Pathway Map Creator, Data Annotation and Processing Tools, and Genomics Analysis Tools. MIT access to MetaCore is restricted to the MIT community and registration is required, send requests to biosciences-ref@mit.edu.
Methods in Organic Synthesis
- Coverage: 2000 - 2014, replaced by Synthetic Reaction Updates in 2014.
MIT CogNet
- MIT Press platform for cognitive and brain sciences. Includes full-text of books, journals and reference works.
MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
- A multidisciplinary encyclopedia divided into several subcategories, including computational intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology.
MRS Online Proceedings Library
- Consists of over 70,000 articles from proceedings of Materials Research Society Meetings from 1980 to 2016. After 2016, MRS conference proceedings have been published in the journal MRS Advances.
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online
- Helps students understand the mathematics behind fluid flows through experimental and computational demonstrations across eight key modules from Dynamics to Turbulence.
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
- Contains millions of extragalactic objects, including names, positions, basic data, and references to published papers.
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
- Coverage: 2007 - presentFull text books on security issues related to chemical and biological issues or solutions.
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
- Coverage: 2007 - presentArticles covering topics such as detectors, sensors, multisensor processing, explosion detection, biosensors and biotechnology, and nuclear safety and protection.
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
- Coverage: 2007 - present
Natural Product Updates
- Coverage: 2000:Jan. - presentContains graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry.
NCBI Bookshelf
- Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
NCBI Entrez
- NCBI's open, integrated discovery platform. Includes PubMed, databases containing nucleotide and protein sequences, protein structures, genomes, and more.
OECD Telecommunications and Internet Statistics
- Time-series data 1980 to 2006 on both telecommunication and economic indicators, covering thirty OECD Member countries.
Optics Encyclopedia
- Find background optics information from classical optics to the latest applications.
Oregon Health and Science University # 0681-G Kids' Speech v1.1 Corpus
- The Kids' Speech Corpus was developed to facilitate research about the characteristics of kids' speech at different ages and to train and evaluate recognizers for use in language training and other interactive tasks involving children. For instance, this corpus was used to train recognizers used in language development with deaf children. In cooperation with the Forest Grove School District speech was gathered from children in grades K through 10. Approximately 100 children at each grade level have been recorded. Further details: https://apps.ohsu.edu/research/tech-portal/technology/view/212836
Organic Reactions
- Coverage: Volume 1 (1942) - present A comprehensive online resource for synthetic organic chemists. It focuses on ca. 300 of the most important and useful synthetic reaction types. Each evaluated reaction review provides: an in-depth discussion of the reaction mechanism, the reaction conditions and experimental procedures, as well as a discussion of the scope and limitations of the reaction, extensive tables that catalog published examples of the reaction in the literature, and safety and procedural guidance to help ensure safety and success in their execution.
Organic Syntheses
- Coverage: v.1 (1921) - presentRequires plugin called "ChemDraw Pro" which works on PCs and Macs, but not UNIX machines. The Chemstore.com site offers more information about the plugin.Find procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds.
PATAI'S Chemistry of Functional Groups
- PATAI'S Chemistry of Functional Groups is a comprehensive reference of characterization and characteristics, formation, transformations and rearrangements of the functional groups, and includes their important industrial applications. Updated yearly.
Petrochemicals eTrack
- Data and reports on the petrochemical industry worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Planet
- Acess:Email gishelp@mit.edu to request an MIT account. Do not sign up with a personal account. Planet provides access to global satellite imagery at a 3 to 5 meter resolution.
Pollution Abstracts
- Coverage: 1981 - present Hundreds of thousands of abstracts pertaining to research and government policies on air, land, marine and freshwater pollution, sewage and wastewater treatment, waste management, toxicology and health, noise, radiation and environmental action.
Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference
- Reference work covering polymer science from chemistry/chemical engineering to materials science, biological aspects, applications and fate of polymers in the environment.
Power eTrack
- As of April 2014 the information in this database has now been subsumed into the GlobalData Power database, covering all power-related sectors.Data and reports on the power industry worldwide. Contains numerous statistical databases; detailed information on technologies, companies, deals, and key events; plus in-depth industry research. To download tables, copy and paste them into Excel page by page.
Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics
- Coverage: v.1 (1949) - present Book series that publishes the proceedings of the symposia in applied mathematics, which have been held since 1947.
Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
- Each volume includes papers in a specific area of mathematics, from symposia sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and other organizations.
Progress in Optics
- Coverage: v.1-66 1961-2021
Project Euclid
- Journals in mathematics and statistics from a variety of publishers. Search or browse by title or topic.
ProQuest Environmental Science Journals
- Covers publications, many in full text, in a broad range of environmental science topics.
PsycARTICLES
- Coverage:1894 - present Full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
PubChem
- An open chemistry database hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, patents, health, safety, toxicity data of biologically active substances.
PubMed
- Coverage: 1946 - present Definitive NCBI citation index for research in medicine and biosciences. Includes MEDLINE, other full-text resources, links to NCBI sequencing databases.
PubMed Central
- An open full-text archive biomedical and health sciences journal articles hosted my the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Reaxys
- Comprehensive information resource of organic, inorganic, and organometallic compounds, their syntheses and properties. Access: If acess via proxy link is slow, please connect via VPN. . Chrome browser often gives smoother search experience and it may be necessary to clear your cache for better results.
Royal Society of Chemistry Ebooks
- eBooks in chemistry and related fields published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Coverage: 1968 - present
Science and Its Times
Science Citation Index Expanded
- Coverage: 1899 - present Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals.
Science History Institute
- The Science History Institute preserve collections on the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences, including an openly available digitized collection online.
Science of Synthesis : Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations
- Critical review of the synthetic methodology developed from the early 1800s to-date for the field of organic and organometallic chemistry. Structure and reaction search enabled.
Science.gov
- Science.gov is a gateway to U.S. government science information. The portal offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. It searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Scientific Exploration and Expeditions
SciFinder-N
- Comprehensive chemical information database with chemical substance and reaction indexed. Covers scientific journals, patents, conference proceedings, and technical papers. 1907 - present. The updated platform SciFinder-n includes new features such as retrosynthesis planning and biosequence search. Tutorials available at https://www.cas.org/support/training/scifinder-n Additional license restrictions Access: Requires MIT Touchstone authentication. Must register before using the first time at http://libraries.mit.edu/cas-reg
SEG Digital Library
- Additional license restrictions
SIAM Ebooks
- Coverage: 2011 - present
SIMBAD
- Contains basic data, cross-identifications, measurements, and references to published works for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
Smithsonian
- Coverage: v.1:no.1 (1970:Apr.) - v.41:no.8 (2010:Dec.)
SNL Energy
- Additional license restrictions To use this database, please use Chrome or Internet Explorer as a browser. New users will need to set up an account to access this database. To do so, on the database screen, click on New User Signup and select Market Intelligence New User Signup. Use your MIT email to register and follow the link from email confirmation to set up a password. A comprehensive source for data on U.S. and Canadian power plants, energy companies, coal mines, and gas pipelines. Provides detail on financials, filings, supply and demand fundamentals, emissions, hourly market pricing, electricity rates, and more. Includes daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering various segments of the energy industry. To use the database, please register for an account using your MIT email. You will receive an email confirmation from S&P Global Market Intelligence within minutes.
SNL Metals & Mining
- Additional license restrictions . A comprehensive source for data on U.S. and Canadian power plants, energy companies, coal mines, and gas pipelines. Provides detail on financials, filings, supply and demand fundamentals, emissions, hourly market pricing, electricity rates, and more. Includes daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering various segments of the energy industry. To use the database, please register for an account using your MIT email. You will receive an email confirmation from S&P Global Market Intelligence within minutes.
Solid State Physics
- Coverage: 2007 - presentReview articles covering all areas of solid state physics.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences
- Coverage: 1997 - present Books in all areas of optics.
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
- Coverage: v.135 (1997) - presentFull text review books surveying topics of current interest in physics.
SpringerNature Experiments
- Coverage: 1980 - present Search Engine for Nature Protocols; Nature Methods; Protocol ExChange, Tinage; Springer Protocols.
Structure and Bonding
- Coverage: v.86 (1997) - presentFull text books with review articles on chemical structures and bonding.
Subcellular Biochemistry
- Full text books with review articles on cell biology and related subjects.
Synthetic Reaction Updates
- Coverage: 2015 - present Contains graphical abstracts of new developments in synthetic chemistry.
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resources)
- A database of genetic and molecular biology data for Arabidopsis thaliana.
Topics in Applied Physics
- Coverage: v.73 (1997) - presentFull text review books surveying different applied physics topics.
Topics in Current Chemistry
- Coverage: v. 1 (1949)-v. 373 (2016)Full text books with reviews on latest chemistry research.
Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Coverage: v.1 (2006) - present Full text books with review articles on heterocyclic compounds
Topics in Organometallic Chemistry
- Coverage: v.1 (1999) - present Full text books with reviews on organometallic chemistry.
Toxicology Abstracts
- Coverage: 1981 - present Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts pertaining to toxic substances: their effects, impacts, and issues.
TOXLINE
- Devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries.
Treatise on Geochemistry
- Coverage: 2003 Comprehensive, searchable encyclopedia of geochemistry. 9 volumes.
Treatise on Geophysics
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
- The benchmark reference in chemistry and chemical and life science engineering.
Understanding Complex Systems
- Coverage: 2005 - presentBooks on theory, methodology and applications for complex systems.
US Pharmacopeia
- Find quality standards for drugs, dietary supplements, excipients, procedures for tests, assays, and analytical methods. Access: Simultaneous users allowed: 1. You must obtain a subscription key and create a New USP Access Point Account. Contact uspnf-lib@mit.edu to associate your Access Point account to the Libraries' subscription key. Coverage: USP 36-NF31 - current
USGS Publications Warehouse
- Coverage: 1990 - presentIndexes USGS publications, including maps, open-file reports, and other series; includes some full text access.
Water Data
- A comprehensive and intuitive market intelligence platform for the global water sector. Data and analysis of global water market forecasts, includes detailed country and corporate profiles.
Water Intelligence Online
- Coverage: 2014 - presentAccess to reference books, research reports, papers, and conference proceedings covering water, wastewater, and related environmental topics.
Water Resources Abstracts
- Coverage: 1967 - present Contains hundreds of thousands of abstracts pertaining to all aspects of water resources: supply, treatment, pollution, and more.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology
- Find information about the role of chemistry and chemical techniques in the life sciences.

Social sciences

Africa Bibliography
- Coverage: 2004 - present All users must log in via Institutional Account. Click on "Log in". Click on "Log in via Shibboleth or Athens". Search "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" to find institution, then click "Continue to log in"
Africa Development Indicators
- Coverage: 1960-2012Time series data for over 50 countries. Includes social, economic, financial, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
African Americans in Science: an Encyclopedia of People and Progress
- Covers the accomplishments and struggles of African American scientists. Includes entries on people, scientific fields, and institutions, as well as a chronology.
African Newspapers
- Coverage: 1800 - 1922 Full text of more than forty African newspapers, in English and other languages.
AIP Center for History of Physics
- Links to primary sources in the history of physics, including: dozens of digitized oral history transcripts; the Emilio Segre Visual Archives (over 30,000 photos); the Physics History Finding Aids database; the International Catalog of Sources (ICOS), which gives summary information about thousands of collections; and additional digitized archival collections.
Aktienfuehrer-Datenarchiv
- This dataset can only be accessed on the MIT campus. This dataset, published by the University of Mannheim in Germany, contains detailed economic information on all listed companies in Germany (currently from 1979 to 2015, eventually from 1870 onwards) based on digitized copies of historical books.
Alternative Press Index
- Coverage: 1991 - present Indexes alternative, radical, and left publications covering political, economic, social and cultural issues.
Aluka. African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes
- High-quality visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites.
Aluka. Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
America: History and Life
- Simultaneous users allowed: 6Key resource covers US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media. With abstracts
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
- Coverage: 1684 - 1912Thousands of searchable U.S. historical periodicals, covering science, medicine, agriculture, business, literature, women's fashion, family life, religion, politics, etc.
Anthropology Plus
- Indexes articles, reports, edited works, and other publications in Anthropology and related fields.Combines the Anthropological Literature database (from Harvard University) and Anthropological Index (from the UK's Royal Anthropological Institute).
AnthroSource
- Contains full text of the publications of the American Anthropological Association. Includes current issues of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- Articles in the areas of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. 1987 - present.
Archives of the Chinese Government
- 2001 - present Archives of the Chinese Government contains archives and Documents of the Chinese central government, its ministries and subsidiaries, and regional authorities, mostly from 2001, some back to 1983, including national policies, regional policies, speeches and publications of Ministerial/Provincial Officers, national/provincial/ministerial government annual statements, Foreign Minister's spokesperson's statements & speeches, and Foreign Minister's press conference.
Archives Unbound: Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
- Coverage: 1942-1945First-person accounts of concerns and challenges of interned Japanese-Americans.
Archives Unbound: Reporting on the Coal Industry: The Coal Trade Bulletin, 1901-1918
- Coverage: 1901-1918This publication "devoted to the coal industry" traces the industry's expansion in the early 20th century.
Archives Unbound: The Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
- Coverage: 1965-1979Records of the United Domestic Workers Union documenting the union's involvement in the black community, the Manpower Program, the Career Learning Center, the Homemaking Skills Training Program, Maids Honor Day, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), and various federal agencies.
Asian American History and Culture
- Offers coverage of the arts, culture, community, education, family, gender, marriage, occupation, and work of more than twenty national-origin groups, both historically and in contemporary American society.
Atlanta Constitution Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1868 - 1984 Historical file of the Atlanta Constitution. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Bank of Israel
Banking Statistics
- Financial statements and structure of the financial system and their components for all OECD member countries. 1979-2010.
Black Abolitionist Papers
- Coverage: 1830 - 1865Primary sources documenting the world of black abolitionists in the U.S. and abroad.
Blue Chip Economic Indicators
- Coverage: 2000 - PresentForecasts of U.S. economic growth, inflation, interest rates, and a host of other critical indicators of future business activity from America's top business economists.
Blue Chip Financial Forecasts
- Coverage: 2001 - PresentForecasts of the future direction and level of U.S. interest rates by top financial institutions.
Boston Globe Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1872 - 1985 Historical file of the Boston Globe. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- Coverage: 1841 - 1963 Searchable text and full-page image of the newspaper. Sponsored by the Brooklyn Public Library.
Cambridge World History of Food
- A two-volume history of food and nutrition, and their relation to human health and culture. 2v, 2000.
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
- Self-reported environmental data from companies worldwide regarding their dependencies on natural resources and their strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, safeguarding water resources, and preventing deforestation.
CEIC Data
- Macroeconomic, industrial and financial time series data for over 200 countries. Data for China and India for certain series is available at provincial and city level.
Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Papers
- Coverage: 1999 - presentAdditional license restrictionsSearchable interface to the full text of all CEPR Discussion Papers since 1999, along with abstracts to earlier papers.
CEPREMAP
- Web access to the activities and publications of CEPREMAP (Center for Economic Research and its Applications), a Paris-based research centre.
Charles Babbage Institute. Center for the History of Information Technology
Chicago Defender Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1909 - 1975 Leading African-American newspaper; fought against racial, economic, and social discrimination, reporting on lynching, rape, mob violence, and black disfranchisement.
Chicago Tribune Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1849 - 1992 Historical file of the Chicago Tribune. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
China Academic Journals -- Series G: Politics / Military affairs / Law
- Coverage: 1994 - present Indexing and fulltext content of articles in scholarly Chinese-language journals in political science, military affairs, and law. Predominance of articles in Chinese, with select in English. NOTES: *You will be prompted to download the Chinese simplified fonts to read the documents in Chinese. *Documents may be viewed in either of two formats: CAJ documents, which are full-text, or PDF documents, which are full-image. The PDF documents are generally of higher quality.
China Academic Journals -- Series H: Education and Social Sciences
- Coverage: 1994 - present NOTES: *You will be prompted to download the Chinese simplified fonts to read the documents in Chinese. *Documents may be viewed in either of two formats: CAJ documents, which are full-text, or PDF documents, which are full-image. The PDF documents are generally of higher quality. *Optimized for access via Internet Explorer (IE). Indexing and fulltext content of articles in scholarly Chinese-language journals in education and social sciences. Predominance of articles in Chinese, with select in English.
China Academic Journals -- Series J: Economics and Management
- Coverage: 1994 - present NOTES: *You will be prompted to download the Chinese simplified fonts to read the documents in Chinese. *Documents may be viewed in either of two formats: CAJ documents, which are full-text, or PDF documents, which are full-image. The PDF documents are generally of higher quality. *Optimized for access via Internet Explorer (IE). Indexing and fulltext content of articles in scholarly Chinese-language journals in economics and management. Predominance of articles in Chinese, with select in English.
China Data Online
- Statistics and reports on China's population, economy, and industries at the national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels, including Census data.
China Geo-Explorer II
- Demographic and business information for mainland China, including provinces, prefecture cities, Counties, and townships. Can do online spatial analysis, mapping, and export data in charts, tables, or GIS format.
Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
- Coverage: 1946-1985 Transcripts in Chinese for documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, produced mostly by the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of China. The bulk of the collection spans 1966-1976.
Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)
- Includes English-language historical Chinese newspapers.
Chinese Students' Monthly
- Coverage: 1906 - 1931 The Chinese Students' Monthly was the first magazine published by Chinese students in the United States. This English-language magazine was published by The Chinese Students' Alliance, a nationwide organization of Chinese students studying in the United States.
Choice Reviews Online
- Coverage: 1988 - present
Climate Vulnerability
Climatewire
- Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
- Indexes hundreds of communication and media journals with full-text for many articles.
Communist Historical Newspaper Collection
- The ProQuest Communist Historical Newspaper collection provides full-text access to major American communist and British newspapers.
Complete Work of Charles Darwin
- Complete publications; 20,000 private papers; bibliography and manuscript catalog; plus specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works.
Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1
Consumer Confidence Survey
- Additional license restrictionsThe Consumer Confidence Survey reflects prevailing business conditions and likely developments for the months ahead. This monthly report details consumer attitudes and buying intentions, with data available by age, income, and region.
CQ Almanac
- Coverage: 1945 - current Annual reference covering the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress.
CQ Press Electronic Library
CQ Press Voting and Elections Collection
- Historic and current data on voting and elections in the U.S. Includes analyses of voting behavior, election processes, voter demographics.
CQ Researcher
- Coverage: 1923 to presentOverview of a contentious American social or political issue each week.
Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive
- Coverage: 1815 - presentThe Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive is a data set comprised of more than 200 years of annual data from 1815 onward for over 200 countries.
Current Digest of the Russian Press Digital Archive
- Current Digest of the Russian Press presents a weekly selection of Russian-language press materials, translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research, and are presented as documentary materials without additional analysis, commentary, or correction. First published as The Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991), followed by The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010), and now The Current Digest of the Russian Press.
Digital National Security Archive
- Coverage: 1945 - present4/3/2014: Usage Stat information updated. [harolyn] The Digital National Security Archive is a collection of primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. More than 35,000 declassified documents - totalling more than 200,000 pages - have been gathered through use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
- A collection of online encyclopedias and other reference books.
E & E News
- E&E News’ five daily publications deliver original journalism on energy and environment issues.
E & E News PM
- Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more. E&E NEWS PM highlights late-breaking news.
E-LIS
- Established in 2003, e-LIS is an international digital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS), including Communication.
Econlit
- Coverage: 1886 - present Find literature in all fields of economics. Includes journal articles, working papers, essays, books, dissertations, and book reviews.
Econometric Society Monographs
- Coverage: 1982 - 2022
Economic Indicators
- Coverage: 1995 - presentMonthly statistical compilation of indicators prepared for the U.S.Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisers.Available as PDF.
Economist Intelligence Unit Country Intelligence (EIU)
- We recommend patrons use Firefox when accessing this database off campus. At the moment, IE puts up a warning about a certificate mismatch. However, the warning can be ignored by clicking on "Continue to this web site." Once you click "continue" you can access database.Analysis of historical political, infrastructural, and economic trends; forecasts of economic and political conditions; and business conditions.
Education Source
- Fulll-text access to hundreds of journals. Indexes thousands of journals, books, and conference papers.
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
- Coverage: 2nd Ed., 6v, 2006 Biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces about all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to now. Over 2,300 articles. 6v, 2nd ed., 2006.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration
- Articles about U.S. immigration from the earliest colonial settlements to the present. Covers major immigrant groups and offers detailed analysis of social, legal, political, economic, and demographic factors. 4v, 2001.
Encyclopedia of American Race Riots
- Coverage: 2v, 2006
Encyclopedia of Associations
- Coverage: 50th (2011)-56th (2017) as of 1/1/ 2018 we no longer subscribe to this product. This will show in our catalog until it is deactivated by the vendor.
Encyclopedia of European Social History: from 1350 to 2000
- The history of ordinary people's experiences in Europe, late Middle Ages to the present. 6v, 2001.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Covers food and its place in human culture and society. 3v, 2003.
Encyclopedia of India
- Coverage: 4v, 2006 Surveys the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Information Systems
- Encyclopedia covering topics in computer and information systems.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed.
- Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts. 2nd ed. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture 6v, 2008.
Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
- A survey of modern Asia, covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics. 6v, 2003.
Encyclopedia of Modern China
- Information about the people, politics, economics, religion, philosophy, traditions, art, and literature of China from the beginning of the 19th century to present day. 4v, 2009.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
- Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism, the historic origins of ideas of race and racism, and their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of theorists and leaders.
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Encyclopedia of Sociology
- A comprehensive encyclopedia of sociology, published by Macmillan. 2nd ed. (2000)
Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History
Energy Projections for IEA Countries
- Provides forecasts on energy balances, coal supply, and electricity capacity for 26 IEA countries.
Energywire
- Coverage: 2012:Mar. - present Geared for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; covers hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, positions of key legislators, stakeholders and more.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
- The most comprehensive source of scholarship in the field of education.
Ethnic NewsWatch
- Coverage: 1990 - present A full-text collection of newspapers, journals and magazines published by ethnic and minority presses.
Ethnographic Sound Archives
- Over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ metadata. Includes the following collections: Hugh Tracey (3356): southern and central Africa. Raymond Clausen (2487): Oceania. Louis Sarno (1909): Central African Republic. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (801): South Asia. Mark Slobin (336): Afghanistan. Walter Garwick (192): American folk music/U.S.A. South Negro Folklore Collection.
Eurostat
- Coverage: 1960 - presentStatistical Office of the European Communities. Data and publications contain harmonized data from EU member countries.
Factiva
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 News articles and business information from over 8000 sources.
Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources
Federal Reserve Economic Data
- National and international economic time series data covering: money, banking and finance; national accounts; population, employment, & labor markets; production and business activity; and prices. Includes tools to understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data.
Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
- Explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times.
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia
Food Studies Online
- Coverage: 1706 - 2016Primary sources covering the topic of food from social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political perspectives. Includes archival content, advertisements and other visual ephemera, text, and video.
Foreign Affairs
- Coverage: Sept. 1922 to current issue
Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
- Information on topics relating to magic, witchcraft, the supernatural and other mysterious phenomena. Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained 3v, 2003.
Gender Studies Database
- Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship with emphasis on sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, and theses & dissertations.
Global Financial Development
- Contains statistical data on the global economy for over 550 development indicators and time series data from from 1960 to the most current data available. for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
Globalisation
- Provides statistical data for assessing and analysing the role played by multinationals in the industrial sectors of OECD countries.
Government Finance Statistics Online
- Coverage: 1990 - presentAnnual data on government financial operations for most IMF member countries. Data on revenue, expense, transactions in nonfinancial and financial assets/liabilities, and stocks of assets/liabilities of general government and its subsectors.
GreenFILE
- A database of open access literature which focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment.
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th edition
- Published 2010 Classic reference covering the field of social psychology.
Handbooks in Economics Series
- To access the handbooks, click on H in the alphabetical index.Full text of core reference titles in many fields of economics.Each volume identifies current research topics and important developments.
HeinOnline Academic (formerly called HeinOnline Government, Politics and Law for Academics and HeinOnline Political Science Research Package)
- Coverage: 1700s - presentFull-text legal history collection of image-based documents. Includes more than 1,700 legal journals back to the first issue and over 3000 books. Also includes world constitutions, treaties, US Supreme Court reports, US Code, Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, presidential papers, Foreign Relations of the United States, federal agency reports and records, Philippine law collection, GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions and resources for researching legislative histories. Also includes searchable 5th-7th editions of Leiter's "National Survey of State Laws."
Historic Documents
- Coverage: 1972 - presentAnnual publication featuring documents covering the most significant events of the year. Documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decision, scientific findings, cultural discussions, and other primary sources.
Historical Abstracts
- Resource covers world history (excluding US & Canada), 1450-present. Indexes articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, media. With abstracts.
Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS)
- as of 2006: 1)Historical Statistics is optimized to work on the latest versions of IE (6+ on PC, 5+ on Mac), as well as Safari and Firefox and other major browsers. 2) Popups and javascripting should be enabled. Session cookies should be allowed. 3) Browser security settings should be on Medium or lower. Settings that disable scripting will cause a problem with the site's functionality. Compendium of US historical statistics from over 1000 sources, plus scholarly essays. Tables can be viewed in PDF/HTML & downloaded in Excel or CSV.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, reviews, dissertations. Combines 4 key indexes in history of science, technology, & medicine: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science: 1975-present, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology: 1987-present, Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine, 1991-present, and Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza: 1982-present.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
- Coverage: 1907 - 1984 Indexes journals in the humanities and social sciences covering the period 1907-1984.
IAI TV
- Streaming video package from the Institute of Art and Ideas that includes thousands of video debates, articles and courses, all featuring world-leading thinkers across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts.
ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- NOTE: While authentication is based on IP address, direct access via the ICPSR site also requires creation of a personalized account.Also available via the Harvard-MIT Data Center.World's largest archive of digital social science data. Search and browse for data and related publications. Provides training in data analysis.
IDEAS
- Open access database of economics working papers, articles, and other research.Includes many freely-available full text working papers.
IEA CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Statistics
- Provides comparative analysis of CO2 emissions by sources of fuel combustion across OECD and non-OECD countries.
IEA Coal Information Statistics
- Presents data on world coal markets, including price, production, trade and consumption.
IEA Databases
- Time series of cross-national data on energy consumption, production and other variables compiled by the International Energy Agency.
IEA Electricity Information Statistics
- Data on electricity production, consumption, prices and trade, plus heat production and consumption in OECD countries.
IEA Energy Prices and Taxes Statistics
- Offers OECD and selected non-OECD country statistics on energy prices and taxes by energy source in the main consuming sectors.
IEA Natural Gas Information Statistics
- Data on gas supply, demand, trade and consumption by end-use sector for the OECD countries and regions.
IEA Oil Information Statistics
- Data on supply, demand, trade, production and consumption by end-user for 20+ oil products in OECD countries and regions.
IEA Renewables Information Statistics
- Statistics on electricity and heat production, supply and final consumption, and installed capacity of renewables and waste sources in OECD countries.
IEA World Energy Statistics and Balances
- Annual historical data on production and demand for OECD and non-OECD countries.
Illustrated London News 1842-2003
- Digital archive of the world's first pictorial newspaper. Covers British and world events. Full-color facsimile and searchable text.
IMF eLibrary: Periodicals and Books
- Coverage: Varies, but some items 1951 - presentFor International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade, and Balance of Payment Statistics, use Global Insight.Provides access to IMF publications: books, analytical papers, periodicals and reports.
Indiastat.com
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1Please use Internet Explorer for access. Click on "IP Login" to gain access to MIT subscription. If you get a "page cannot be displayed" error, please use the reload or refresh button -- this will allow printing, or downloading to Excel.Statistical tables on socio-economic parameters in over 16 classifications with analyzed & condensed tables; data can be downloaded in Excel or HTML.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
- This revision of a classic reference work covers topics in social science research and practice. 2nd ed., 9v, 2008.
International Handbook on the Economics of Energy
International Historical Statistics
- Coverage: 1750-2010A unique collection of statistics covering a wide range of economic and social issues. Access to over 200 years of statistics covering most countries in the world.
International Telecommunications Union Recommendations
- Coverage: All ITU-T standards - both historic/withdrawn and currentGlobal telecommunication standards from the ITU-T are published as ITU-T Recommendations.
International Trade by Commodity Statistics Database
- Data from 1961 for imports and exports by commodity in quantity and value between OECD countries and 264 different partner countries.
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive
- Additional license restrictions A collection of scholarly journals in many fields. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
LGBT Thought and Culture
- Books, periodicals, and archival materials that document LGBT political, social, and cultural movements from the early twentieth century to present, as well memoirs, biographies, fiction and other creative works about the LGBT experience.
LGBTQ+ Source
- Provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Contains a specialized thesaurus and also provides full text from a number of the most important and historically significant LGBT sources including dozens of full-text monographs.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
- Coverage: mid 1960's to the presentComprehensive index to worldwide periodicals in Library and Information Science.
Literature of Latin America
- Offers a historical and critical overview of the development of key movements in Latin American fiction from writers of the early twentieth century to contemporary authors.
Los Angeles Times Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1881 - 1992 Historical file of the Los Angeles Times. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Main Economic Indicators Database
- Includes a wide range of areas from 1961, such as quarterly national accounts, industry, consumer prices, employment, finance, trade, and balance of payments for OECD countries and non-member economies.
Meet the Press
- Coverage: 1947-2013 Streaming video of the surviving broadcast run through 2013 of the TV news program Meet the Press. Includes transcripts.
Monthly Statistics of International Trade Database
- Monthly data from 1961 on imports and exports of goods by partner countries.
Nation Archive
- Coverage: 1865 - present; Latest 28 days not available Backfile of The Nation magazine back to volume 1, issue 1. Updated monthly
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers
- Coverage: no.1 (1989) - presentAdditional license restrictionsDatabase of NBER working papers. Full text available.
National Geographic
- Coverage: 1884 - present
NationalJournal
- Resources on current U.S. government, politics and policies. Includes National Journal magazine, National Journal Daily, and NJ Hotline. Coverage from 1977.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
- Coverage: 2008 - presentProminent reference work in Economics. Articles by influential economists in their fields of expertise.
New Republic Archive
- Coverage: 1914 - present A searchable full-text backfile of all issues of The New Republic, one of the country's leading journals of opinion on politics and the arts.
New York Times Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1851- present ; latest 3 years not available Historical file of the New York Times. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Nexis Uni
- Additional license restrictions Please note: a month long embargo is in effect for the Fin Times via Nexis Uni. Nexis Uni Academic provides access to the full-text of many news, business, and legal resources, including the New York Times.
Norfolk Journal and Guide Historical Archive (from ProQuest)
- Coverage: 1916 - 2003 A Virginia newspaper that became one of the leading black newspapers in the U.S. It was the only black newspaper to provide on-the-scene, day-to-day coverage of the Scottsboro trial.
OECD Agriculture Statistics
- Agricultural statistics and detailed support estimates for both OECD and transition economies.
OECD Banking Statistics
- Data from 1979 on classification of bank assets and liabilities, income statement and balance sheet and structure of the financial system for OECD countries.
OECD Economic Outlook Database
- Analyzes the major trends that shape short-term economic prospects. Provides in-depth coverage of the economic policy measures in each member country.
OECD Education Statistics
- Covers outputs, policies, investments, structural characteristics, and economic and social outcomes of education.
OECD Education Statistics
- Comparative education statistics and indicators from OECD and non-OECD countries. Includes investments, access to, and completion of education.
OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics
- Annual labour market statistics and indicators from 1960 broken down by various worker characteristics for OECD countries and non-member economies.
OECD Factbook Statistics
- Data selected from more than 40 statistical databases illustrating the demographic, social, economic and environmental developments for OECD member countries and major additional countries.
OECD Health Data
- Coverage: 2004 Comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems in OECD economies.Interactive database with over 1,200 indicators.
OECD iLibrary
- OECD's online library of statistical databases, books and periodicals. Search for statistics or get the fulltext of any OECD publication.
OECD Insurance Statistics
- Major official insurance statistics for all OECD countries.
OECD International Development Statistics
- Data on the volume, origin and types of foreign aid and other resource flows from donor to recipient countries, as well as comparative data on gender equality.
OECD International Direct Investment Statistics
- Comprehensive set of statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) into and out of OECD countries from 1982 onwards.
OECD International Migration Statistics
- Data on foreign and foreign-born population, migration flows, naturalisations and labour market outcomes.
OECD National Accounts Statistics
- Annual and quarterly data of a wide range of areas from 1955, such as income, government accounts, and debt for OECD countries and non-member economies.
OECD Science, Technology and R&D Statistics
- Basic Science and Technology Statistics covers R&D resources and scientific output, whereas Main Science and Technology Indicators covers the scientific and technological performance of the OECD Member countries.
OECD Social Expenditure Statistics
- Statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level.
OECD Statistics on International Trade in Services
- Data from 1970 on trade in services by category of service and partner country for OECD countries.
OECD Statistics on Measuring Globalisation
- Data on the industrial activity (manufacturing, service) of multinationals in OECD. Covers variables such as production, employment, research, and investment.
OECD Tax Statistics
- Revenue Statistics provides tax and other government revenues since 1975. Taxing Wages provides taxes paid and benefits received by workers; mainly recent data, but some tables available back to 1979. Both cover all OECD countries.
OECD Telecommunications and Internet Statistics
- Time-series data 1980 to 2006 on both telecommunication and economic indicators, covering thirty OECD Member countries.
OECD.stat
- Enables users to search for, merge, and extract data from across OECDÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s many databases.
Oxford African American Studies Center
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1Contains over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, nearly 150 maps, and 150 charts and tables to complement the reference articles.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Political Science
- Annotated bibliographies and research guides written by scholars about topics in political science.
Oxford Dictionary of Economics, third edition
- Covers all aspects of economic theory as well as related areas such as mathematics, statistics, business and finance.
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- International and spans all human history. Articles range from brief entries on inventors and theoreticians to broad essays on markets and industries.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
- Covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
- Covers the historical and contemporary experiences in the U.S. of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Addresses identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Economics and Finance
- Coverage: 2009 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in economics and finance.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
- Coverage: 2009 - 2019 Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in political science.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
- Provides articles on both fundamental and innovative topics, presenting various perspectives on important approaches, issues, and topics. Articles in the encyclopedia are published and updated on a continual basis and include multimedia content.
Penn World Table (PWT)
- Coverage: 1950 - presentData on purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries.
People's Daily
- Simultaneous users allowed: 2 Coverage: 1946 - present The official daily newspaper of the central government of the People's Republic of China.
People's Liberation Army Daily
- Coverage: 1956- presentPLA Daily (Jiefangjun Bao) is the official newspaper of the military of the PeopleÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚â„¢s Republic of China. This Chinese language database is searchable from 1956-present using an English interface.
Planet
- Acess:Email gishelp@mit.edu to request an MIT account. Do not sign up with a personal account. Planet provides access to global satellite imagery at a 3 to 5 meter resolution.
Political Handbook of the World
- Coverage: 2010 - present
Political Science Complete
- Indexing and abstracting for political science journals, with many available in full text. Also included are full-text political science reference books and conference papers.
Project MUSE
- A collection of major journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is roughly from 2000 to the present.
ProQuest Congressional
- Indexing and abstracts for U.S. Congressional publications 1789 - present. Includes the full text of reports, bills, public laws, and legislative histories; full text of Congressional hearings 1824 - 1979; and links to selected full text documents, committee prints, and Congressional hearings testimony 1980 - present. Also contains information on members of Congress, campaign financial data, Congressional voting records, and other information about the legislative process.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World
- Coverage: 1931 - 2003 The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century.
Proquest Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor
- Coverage: 1908 - 2004 Historical file of the Christian Science Monitor. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier
- Coverage: 1911 - 2002 Pittsburgh Courier is one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers. A conservative voice in the African American community, its journalism challenged the misrepresentation of African Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India
- Coverage: 1838 - 2008 Full text of the world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper, originally published for British residents in India. Note that the newspaper has had title changes due to mergers: The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce(1838-1859), Bombay Times and Standard (1860-1861), and The Times of India (1861-present).
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- Archive of data from public opinion surveys. Download data from their catalog or search IPoll, their question-level database of survey results.
Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History
- Simultaneous users allowed: 1Coverage: 2013Provides access to a digital collection of books (e-books) across numerous disciplines.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
- An index to the science content in several 19th-century British general periodicals.
SimplyAnalytics
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Access:Sign in as a guest if you do not wish to register for a personal account. Personal accounts save your preferences, reports, and maps. To create an account, please go to http://app.simplyanalytics.com. Click on "create an account" and enter your e-mail address and a password. You will then receive a confirmation e-mail sent to your e-mail address - please click on the link in this e-mail to activate your account. Create customized maps and detailed location reports including rankings for thousands of U.S. demographic, business and marketing variables as well as D&B's points-of-interest file. Data is available at the State, Congressional District, County, City, ZIP Code, Census Tract and Block Group level in addition to custom trade area and can be exported as images, shapefiles or in tabular formats.
Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions
- Coverage: 1840 -1923 Includes primary source documents covering landmark exhibits.
Smithsonian Collections Online. Trade Literature and the Merchandising of Industry
- Coverage: 1820 - 1926 Catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and ephemera on essential industries that emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Social Explorer
- Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
Social History of the United States
Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
Social Science Research Network: SSRN
- Coverage: 1993 - presentWorking papers (fulltext or abstracts) for research in economics, management, and other social sciences.
Social Sciences Citation Index
- Coverage: 1899 - present Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals.
STAN: OECD Structural Analysis Statistics
- Analyse detailed industrial performance across countries. Includes annual measures of output, labour input, investment and international trade.
States of India
- States of India is a statistical compendium of the 36 states and union territories and 675 districts of India.The statistics covered include a wide spectrum of economic and socio-economic indicators.
Statista
- Portal providing access to statistics from market researchers, trade associations, scientific publications, and government sources. Starting place for research on industries, markets, demography, countries & economies.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Coverage: coverage varies by series - 2012Summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S. Contains statistical tables and detailed source citations.
The Economist
- Global reporting and analysis on economics, business, geopolitics, technology, and culture. Register for an account using your MIT email address. For more information about access to the direct subscription, visit The Economist guide. Please note The Economist's terms of use and privacy policy.
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020
- Coverage: 1843-2020 Historical archive of The Economist magazine. 1843-2020.
Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics: World Population, GDP and PPP
U.S. Declassified Documents Online (formerly known as Declassified Documents Reference System )
- Coverage: 1916 - 2018 Contains selected, previously classified government documents from 1916 - 2018. Important for research related to post-World War II domestic and foreign policy studies, journalism, public policy studies, international law and security, and other disciplines, it contains declassified documents from U.S. government agencies including the CIA, FBI, White House, State Department, and more. Documents are keyword searchable full-text PDFs.
Ulrich's Web
- Contains comprehensive information about selected magazines, journals, and serials in all fields and published throughout the world.
UN Statistics Division
UNCTADstat (formally called Commodity Price Statistics)
- Coverage: 1960 - present
UNdata
UNIDO Statistics Data Portal (IDSB, INDSTAT4, INDSTAT2)
- Coverage: INSTAT2, INSTAT4, IDSB
United Nations Comtrade
- Coverage: 1962 to present Statistics on annual exports and imports of commodities by UN members. Data presented in six trade classifications and may be downloaded in .csv.

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Urban Best Practices Database
- Coverage: 1996 - present This searchable database contains over 2000 proven solutions to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which public, private and civil society sectors are working together to improve governance, eradicate poverty, provide access to shelter, land and basic services, protect the environment and support economic development.
Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience
- This work presents contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.
Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1889 - 2000 Historical file of the Wall Street Journal. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Washington Post Historical Archive (from Proquest)
- Coverage: 1877 - 1999 Historical file of the Washington Post. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
Water Data
- A comprehensive and intuitive market intelligence platform for the global water sector. Data and analysis of global water market forecasts, includes detailed country and corporate profiles.
Women Writers Online
- Additional license restrictions Provides full-text of English language works by women from the period 1300-1850. Includes literature, sermons, diaries, letters, etc.
Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1st edition, 2 vols.
- Coverage: 2013
World Bank e-Library
- Provides electronic access to books, reports, journals, and working papers published by the Bank, many going back as far as the 1970s.
World Development Indicators Online
- Coverage: 1960 to presentStatistical time-series data on development for countries and country groups worldwide. Includes social, economic, and environmental indicators.
21st Century Economics
- Provides summaries of theory and models in key areas of micro and macroeconomics. Topics include an introduction to relevant theory and empirical evidence.

Streaming media (audio, film)

Academic Video Online
- Streaming video service with documentary, instructional, and feature films from producers such as BBC, Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Icarus, PBS, and Sony Pictures Classics.
Art and Architecture in Video
- Collection of online video illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture.
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive
- Streaming video database of music, dance, interviews, cultural programming, and more from the archives of Banyan Productions in Trinidad & Tobago.
Database of Recorded American Music
- Offcampus access is activated for this product. Click "OK" for any error message related to mismatched certificates. Please see the DRAM site for information aboutneeded plugins and other technical requirements. Audio recordings of American music, including classical, folk, jazz, Native American, early rock, musical theater, electronic, and beyond.
Digital Concert Hall
- Simultaneous users allowed: 3 Create a personalized user account for access. Account revalidation is required every 90 days. Berlin Philharmonic live broadcasts and videos plus a large archive of recordings.
Digital Theatre Plus
- Access: Sign in with MIT e-mail account to be authenticated through Touchstone. Streaming films of current leading British theater productions and Broadway plays. Also includes cast and director interviews.
Dis.art
- This streaming platform features artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology.
Docuseek2
- Streaming video collection of documentary films. Producers and distributors include Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, the National Film Board of Canada, MediaStorm, Terra Nova Films, KimStim, and Scorpion TV, and other independent filmmakers from around the world. Subjects covered include environmental studies and sciences, sociology, anthropology, global studies, area studies, womenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s studies, history, political science, criminal justice, health, psychology, and the arts.
Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection
- Streaming video collection of performances from the National Theatre in London.
Ethnographic Sound Archives
- Over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ metadata. Includes the following collections: Hugh Tracey (3356): southern and central Africa. Raymond Clausen (2487): Oceania. Louis Sarno (1909): Central African Republic. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (801): South Asia. Mark Slobin (336): Afghanistan. Walter Garwick (192): American folk music/U.S.A. South Negro Folklore Collection.
Filmakers Library Online
- Coverage: editions 1-2Collection of roughly 1800 documentary films in a variety of subjects, available as streaming video.
IAI TV
- Streaming video package from the Institute of Art and Ideas that includes thousands of video debates, articles and courses, all featuring world-leading thinkers across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts.
Kanopy
- Streaming video service with documentary and feature films from producers such as Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.
Labocine
- A hybrid platform, streaming diverse science cinema, showcasing research videos and connecting artists and scientists. Note: Users must sign up for a personal account using their @mit e-mail address at https://www.labocine.com/auth/signup. Once you create your personal account, Labocine will enroll you in the Libraries’ PRO account within 24-48 hours. (If you need access sooner, please email pro@labocine.com.) The next time you login to your personal account, you will see both profiles for both your personal account and the Libraries’ PRO account. Click on the profile for the Libraries’ PRO account to access the database.
Medici.TV
- Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Medici.TV Jazz
- Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Met Opera on Demand
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 Video and audio opera performances from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, spanning more than 75 years of the company's broadcast history.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
- This audio database provides classical music with some of the world's finest orchestras and soloists.
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
- Comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music from the early 1920s to today with thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels.
Music Online: Listening
- Music Online: Listening is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content that includes audio, video, and some classical music scores. It includes over 910,000 albums and is fully searchable, with browsing available by collection and broad subject categories.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
- A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Naxos Jazz
- Simultaneous users allowed: 6 PC users : Plug-in: Must have Windows Media Player 9 / 10 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site. Browser: Features are optimized through IE; Cookies must be enabled in any browser used Mac users: Plug-in: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player ; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9 Offcampus Mac Users: Access via the VPN if you are having any technical problems. Unix/Linux is not supported. If having problem with 'breaks' in the music, try switching from Near CD Quality [64Kbps] to FM Quality [20Kbps]. For more technical information, click on FAQ at the Naxos site and look for "Technical FAQs." Users may view playlists but may not create or edit playlists. Contains audio recordings of jazz, including hundreds of jazz artists and several jazz recording labels.
Naxos Music Library
- PC users: Plug-in: Must have Windows Media Player 9 / 10 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site. Browser: Features are optimized through IE; Cookies must be enabled in any browser used. Mac users: Plug-in: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player ; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9. Offcampus Mac Users: Access via the VPN if you are having any technical problems. Unix/Linux is not supported. If having problem with 'breaks' in the music, try switching from Near CD Quality [64Kbps] to FM Quality [20Kbps]. For more technical information, click on FAQ at the Naxos site and look for "Technical FAQs." Users may view playlists but may not create or edit playlists. The mobile app asks for an activation code when it is being accessed off campus and the "Connection with your Institution" button is clicked. Please contact esubs@mit.edu if you are asked for a code and someone will follow up with you shortly. Contains audio recordings that cover a wide range of classical music from the Naxos recording label and many other labels.
Naxos Video Library
- Simultaneous users allowed: 5 This streaming video database provides a large collection of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
OntheBoards.TV
- Coverage: 2009 - presentStreaming video of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance art.
Opera in Video
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
- HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive.
Theatre in Video
- Streaming video database with plays, live television broadcasts, and productions from the 1950s-1970s.

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Handshake
- Features job and internship postings targeted to MIT students.
OpenCourseWare
- A free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.
Student T-Pass Program
- For students, MIT subsidizes 50% of the cost of an MBTA public transit pass (or “T-pass”), which is available in a variety of options either monthly or – for even greater savings – as a semester bus and subway pass.
Student Discounts on Lenovo, Apple, Dell Computers
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Doesn't work on Firefox.
Reuse at MIT
- a group email list for exchanging free and for-sale items located at MIT or within the greater Boston area
- Extra food
- What to do with leftovers from a meeting or event? There are two email addresses you can post to: freefood@mit.edu and vultures@mit.edu. Send an email to either or both lists when there is food leftover. In your email indicate whether people should bring their own container to carry the food away.
- MIT Equipment Exchange: holds surplus lab, computer, and office furniture for reuse within the Institute
- MIT Student Furniture Exchange: sells used furniture at bargain prices
- Swapfest: the third Sunday of each month, April through October. Buy, sell, and swap amateur radio, electronic, and computer equipment.
Discounted Arts Opportunities
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