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19th Century Masterfile

Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century studies; includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906). Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and US/UK Government Documents.

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A to Z Maps Online

"World's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month."

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Academic Search Complete (funded by VIVA)

Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. Also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.

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American National Biography: ANB

Biographical articles for over 17,000 subjects. Updated quarterly.

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American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900

Digitized images of over 1,100 American magazines and journals originating between 1740-1900. Included are periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II.

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Annual Reviews Online (funded by VIVA)

Articles from the Annual Reviews Series; a separate issue is devoted to each of 35 disciplines within 3 major subject areas: biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.

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AP Images (formerly Multimedia Archive)

Photographs and other images with captions from the Associated Press library; does not include the audio, text and graphics files. Access is limited to one user at a time. If you see a login screen, the database is already in use and you will have to try again later.

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ArticleFirst (funded by VIVA)

Business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, technology. Articles, news stories, letters and other items drawn from the Table of Contents of over 18,000 journals.

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Arts & Humanities Search (funded by VIVA)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Articles from over 8,000 scholarly journals.

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Associates Programs Source (funded by VIVA)

Focuses on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs. Areas include accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding.

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

"Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world."

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Blackwell Synergy

Full-text journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies, in Medicine, Science, Social Science and the Humanities.

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Books in Print (Global) (funded by VIVA)

Over 11 million English and Spanish-language in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, audio, and video titles from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - CSA (funded by VIVA)

Life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials sciences and engineering, aerospace; also includes a few social sciences databases, such as Sociological Abstracts, ERIC, and Linguistics and Language Behavior. Collection of 70 databases. See title of individual database for further information.

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Cambridge University Press Journals

Sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Articles from over 100 journals.

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Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

Catalog of over 4 million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications, dissertations and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching; special strength in publications and archives from developing nations.

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Chicago Manual of Style Online

Searchable version of the 15th edition

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CQ Researcher (inc. CQ Global Researcher)

"In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy."

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Credo Reference

Credo is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology.

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Dictionary of National Biography

More than 50,000 biographies of British men and women, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

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Dissertation Abstracts (funded by VIVA)

Abstracts of dissertations and theses from U.S., Canada, Britain, and some European countries.

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Dissertations and Theses -- Full Text

Doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

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DSpace

W&M's DSpace digital repository provides access to research, publications, and primary sources from students, faculty, university departments, and other sources at the College of William and Mary. The databases' regularly updated resources include recent honors theses, student and faculty research, student publications, digitized material from the Special Collections Research Center, and select university records.

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ebrary

Thousands of full-text books in a variety of subjects.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm collection. English and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Nearly 150,000 titles will be made available online over the course of the next two years.

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FirstSearch (funded by VIVA)

Collection of over 20 databases devoted to a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, arts, and science. See title of individual database for further information.

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Fuente Academia (funded by VIVA)

Scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Subject areas include agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.

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Gale Cengage

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

All 15 reference works can be searched individually or collectively. Includes Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America; Contemporary Fashion; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Poets; Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine; Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer; Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders; Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine; Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America; Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health; Gale Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology; Gale Encyclopedia of Small Business; Gale Encyclopedia of U. S. Economic History; Nonfiction Classics for Students

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Gallup Brain

Gallup Public Opinion polls, Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.

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GPO Monthly Catalog (funded by VIVA)

U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

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Historical Statistics of the United States

Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.

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iPOLL

Comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. Includes surveys from The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Associated Press, and more. (Requires campus authentication)

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JSTOR

Almost 800 multidisciplinary and subject-specific full-text, scholarly journals. Please note: JSTOR does not include the most recent 3 to 5 years of the journals it indexes. Please use other databases to retrieve recent articles, especially for current events topics.

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Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan

Japanese politics, government, economics, art, music, culture, history, science, and technology.

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Leadership Library

Leadership in the United States. 14 Yellow Book directories of 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.

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LexisNexis Academic

General interest, current events, politics, economics, religion, entertainment, social, cultural, etc. Newspapers and business, legal, medical, reference publications, and wire services.

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LexisNexis Congressional (funded by VIVA)

Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research.

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LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index

Indexing and full-text access to publications produced by Federal departments and agencies responsible for business, agriculture, national security, the environment and natural resources, health and safety, food and nutrition, transportation, and more.

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LGBT Life with Full Text

Indexing and abstracts for more than 400 magazines, journals books and news sources covering Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Also includes full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs.

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MasterFILE Premier (funded by VIVA)

MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,650 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.

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Merriam-Webster Online

English language dictionary and thesaurus.

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MultiSearch

Simultaneously search up to 50 of our subscription databases at once.

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netLibrary

Full-text versions of over 27,500 reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction.

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New York Times, 1851-2006

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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NewsBank/Readex

Includes access to several historical collections: AccessUN (1991-present), American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, Early American Imprints Series I: Evans 1639-1800, Early American Imprints Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819, Early American Newspapers Series I-V (1690-1922), House and Senate Journals, Series I (1789-1817), and Senate Executive Journals, Series I (1789-1866). See individual databases for further details

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Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century studies; includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906). Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and US/UK Government Documents.

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Ovid

Database vendor providing access to many full-text journal articles.

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Oxford English Dictionary - OED (funded by VIVA)

22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, commonly known as the OED. complete Second Edition(1989) and the New Edition in progress

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Oxford Reference Online (funded by VIVA)

Includes more than 140 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. The titles cover virtually all subjects in the humanities, social sciences, business, the sciences, language, and general reference.