Databases A-Z
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African-American Almanac
The African American Almanac provides historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture in 28 topical chapters (e.g., African American Firsts, Politics, Family & Health). It also includes a chronology, a chapter of important primary documents, directories of organizations and businesses, a bibliography of recently-published works, annotated lists of crucial court cases, a filmography, hundreds of brief biographies, and more than 650 photographs, illustrations, maps, and statistical charts located within the most appropriate text. -
Afro Newspaper Morgue Collections
Founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy Sr., the Afro, as it is most commonly called, began publication with the specific mission of documenting the news in the black community of Baltimore City, Maryland. Over the course of its long history, the Afro compiled numerous primary document sources which were held in the newspaper's "morgue" files. These files are presently held in the Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center. In 2006, with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Afro-American Newspapers partnered with the Johns Hopkins University, to catalog and improve accessibility to stacks of AANARC within the online environment. -
Age of Exploration
Delve into the earliest voyages of Vasco da Gama, the opening of trade with the Spice Islands, the colonisation of the Americas and Australasia, the search for the Northwest and Northeast Passages, and finally the race for the Poles with this robust primary source collection. Featuring rare manuscript and early printed material, highly illustrated maps and documents, diaries and ships' logs from some of the most well-known voyages in history, this collection provides access to key events in the history of European maritime exploration from c.1420-1920.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. As one of 12 agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, AHRQ supports health services research that will improve the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decisionmaking.
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AGU Journals
The American Geophysical Union journals provides a comprehensive collection of articles on Earth and space science research.
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AIAA Aerospace Research Central
Conference papers and journals from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1963- present. American Rocket Society journals and AIAA books can be searched on the site but are not available online to JHU.
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AIDA Online
AIDA contains 287,000 articles in the humanities from 1,388 Italian periodicals. Publications from the entire spectrum of the humanities, including peripheral disciplines, are covered. In AIDA the titles of articles are sorted and compiled by an Italian-speaking editor. AIDA is therefore an ideal supplement to the IBZ.##Each entry includes information on author, title, subject (in German, English, Italian), journal title, subtitle (year of publication, volume, issue, page number), ISSN, publisher, box number of union catalogue and the Italian catalogue of journals, ZDB-ID, holdings of Italian libraries. -
AIP Conference Proceedings
AIP Conference Proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world. Published proceedings of the American Institute of Physics are valuable as topical status reports providing quick access to information before it appears in the traditional journal literature.
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AIP Publishing
AIP Publishing is the online home of leading journals and conference proceedings from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and AIP Member Societies.
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Air and Space Law
HeinOnline’s Air and Space Law illustrates the history of air and spaceflight through the programs and people that made these dreams possible. Bringing together documents on private-sector pioneers with government-funded programs, users of this database are able to see how governments and regulators reacted to these new technologies, the accidents and disasters that prompted reform, and the new frontiers that await as technology advances at an improbable speed. Topics covered include: airline deregulation; air traffic control modernization; airline safety concerns in a post-9/11 world; drones; satellites and their essential function in modern life; the Space Shuttle Program, including investigation of the Columbia and Challenger disasters; the growing problem of space debris; and the increasing amount of private, commercial companies and their stake in space. -
Air University Index to Military Periodicals
The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously. -
Alloy Finder: Alloy Center Database
An authoritative database of more than 100,000 alloy designations, specifications, standards, and commercial grades in the U.S. and globally from ASM International. -
Alternative Press Index
Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. -
AM : Your Primary Source Hub
This new, updated resource, formerly AM Explorer, provides a quick and convenient way to search all Adam Matthew digital archive collections at one time. Documents are generally sourced are from the National Archives, UK.
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AM Research Skills
A modular tool designed to support students of the humanities and social sciences, AM Research Skills introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence. -
AM Scholar
AM Scholar provides a single search interface for all subscribed Adam Matthew digital resources. From Renaissance literature to 20th-century global politics, Research Source brings a vast and varied array of sources to students and researchers in eleven thematic modules, covering key subject areas and supporting multi-disciplinary research. Modules available: Area Studies: India; Area Studies: Japan; Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia; Church Missionary Society Archives; Empire Studies; Literary Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Missionary Studies; Women's Studies; World War Two Studies; and Business, Economic and Labour Studies.
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AM Scholar: Area Studies, China and Southeast Asia
This SM Scholar module includes the following collections: China Through Western Eyes; China Inland Mission, 1865-1951; and, Asian Economic History.
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AM Scholar: Area Studies, India
This AM Scholar module includes the following collections: Colonial Discourses; Curzon, India and Empire; The Empire Writes Back; India during the Raj; India in the Age of Empire; and Indian Newspaper Reports c. 1868-1942.
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AM Scholar: Area Studies, Japan
This AM Scholar module includes the following collections: Japan Through Western Eyes; East Meets West; Asian Journals: The Anglo-Japanese Gazette; and, Asian Journals: The Eastern World. -
AM Scholar: Business, Economic and Labour History
This AM Scholar module includes the following collections: Business and Financial Papers; Economists' Papers; Fabian Economic and Social Thought; Labour, Social Justice and World Affairs; The Stock Exchange Official Year-Book, 1875-1945; and, Treasury Papers.