Databases A - Z

17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features London newspapers and pamphlets gathered by antiquarian and printer John Nichols. This collection, sourced from the Bodleian Library, spans the years 1672 to 1737 and complements the titles and issues found in 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

AccessPhysiotherapy from McGraw-Hill Medical is devoted exclusively to the study, instruction, and practice of physical therapy. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online physiotherapy resource integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, and a unique cadaver dissection tool. Includes National Physical Therapy Exam® Review Section (NPTE Review) and simulated exam.

The Airiti Library / 華藝數位 is a search platform combining the academic resources of both Taiwan and mainland China. NYU subscribes to both the Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) / 台灣電子期刊庫 database and Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service (CETD). TEPS features full-text searchable content covering academic journal articles from Taiwan. CETD has theses and dissertations from major universities in the Asian region.

American Fiction, 1774-1920, demonstrates the utility of having more than 18,000 works of fiction in one place, in a consistent format. Titles up until 1900 are sourced from Lyle H. Wright's American Fiction: A Contribution Towards a Bibliography. Titles after 1900 are sourced from the Library of Congress Shelf List of American Adult Fiction and the Geoffrey D. Smith bibliography.

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection is an archive of publications focused on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Available in two series, Series 1 focuses on the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics. Series 2 focuses on Hispanic American civil rights, religion and women’s rights from the 18th through the 20th century. Content is written, indexed and searchable in Spanish and English.

Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies is a digital platform offering systematic and comprehensive coverage of education and childhood studies around the world.

British Literary Manuscripts Online is a digitized collection of manuscripts of British authors. It contains poems, plays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other papers from major library collections, reproduced in facsimile and searchable via detailed descriptive information.

The research, publications, speeches and archives of the leading international affairs think tank, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London. High level analysis and research on almost 100 years of global events and issues. Includes 'behind the doors' insight into the real movers and shakers, influencers and deal brokers. For researchers of international affairs, economics, law, and business, diplomacy, security and terrorism, environment, development, war and peace studies.

The Daily Mail has been at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate. As well as providing access to the regular edition of this path-breaking newspaper, the archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900) is a full-text searchable digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books.

Most of the texts are OCR-ed, but the accuracy rate varies considerably.

The F.A. Davis PT Collection on AccessPhysiotherapy is the a comprehensive digital collection for educators and physical therapy students. The collection includes a wide range of cases designed to help physical therapy students learn in the context of real patients by applying the PT principles to real-life situations. Instead of simply fact memorization, students foster a better understanding of real-life scenarios and patient-therapist interaction. A robust library of videos from leaders in the PT field is designed to teach exercise and rehabilitation techniques, kinetics, and physical therapy interventions.

Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index is an archive of indexed art history journals. Covering Western European and American fine arts and some decorative arts, it indexes prominent international art history periodicals from the mid-1850s through the 1960s.

The Global Plants database features high-resolution type specimens. The collection also includes partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, and photographs.

H&T (慧思拓) has developed a platform that aggregates various Chinese media sources such as newspapers, magazines, online news, blogs, forums, Weibo, WeChat, video, to allow for web search and trend analysis. It allows for opinion monitoring, crisis warning, media research, Internet word-of-mouth research and marketing effectiveness evaluation.

The Harvard Business Collection database encompasses ebooks on a variety of topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship.

ImpactAlpha, including ImpactAlpha’s daily newsletter, The Brief, is a digital media company redefining business journalism around social and environmental value. ImpactAlpha's open database, ImpactSpace, aka “CrunchBase for Impact,” includes profiles on impact ventures, funds and deals.

The L2 Political Academic Voter File is a person-level dataset
that represents the entire population of the United States that is
registered to vote. L2 Political aggregates data from each of the states'
public voter roles and supplements each record with modeled demographic
variables, such as party affiliation, income, and many others. NYU licenses
access to a map-based data extraction tool (VoterMapping) and also provides
access to the underlying data files via NYU Research Workspace. The data
file is updated on a continuous basis.

LearnTechLib is an online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on developments and applications in learning and technology.

Liberty flourished when illustrated magazines were the most important form of mass entertainment. This was an era of unique creativity and growing involvement in world affairs. Middle class America became much more interested in world events and their impact on everyday life in America. This digital collection provides a unique opportunity to view Liberty and how it charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle class America through its three most significant decades.

Thieme's MedOne-Education is a collection of textbooks and atlases of anatomy, including 100 E-textbooks for MD, PT, PA, and programs in health sciences, 42,000 images for download and re-use in teaching materials and course packs, videos of physical therapy manipulation techniques.

Brill’s Nag Hammadi Bibliography Online (NHBO) is a cross-searchable database of books, articles and reviews, which contribute to the study of Gnosticism and early Christianity. The main objective of the NHBO is facilitating the work and international collaboration of all scholars working in this field.

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

The Picture Post Historical Archive contains every issue of the pioneering photojournalism newspaper. High-principled yet entertaining, and featuring a whole stable of extraordinarily talented photographers, Picture Post (1938-1957) was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its peak. It is an essential resource for studying international social and political issues of the day, and how they were brought into popular consciousness.

Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century offers researchers a diverse range of content including campaign materials, periodicals, propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera that allow researchers to explore a wide variety of fringe political movements in new and innovative ways.

Primary Research Group publishes research reports, surveys, and benchmarking studies for businesses, colleges, libraries, law firms, hospitals, museums, and other institutions. Based on primary and secondary research, the benchmarking studies allow institutions to compare their budgets, managerial decisions, technology purchases, and strategic visions to those of their peers.

Quan Song shi fenxi xitong / 全宋诗分析系统 is a fully searchable database of Song dynasty poetry comprising 72 volumes of roughly 9,000 poets published by Beijing Daxue chubanshe. Searching is possible across multiple fields, including full-text, rhymes, tones, schemes, etc.

Quan Tang shi fenxi xitong / 全唐诗分析系统 is a fully searchable database from Peking University of Tang dynasty poetry comprising poems by roughly 3,700 poets. Searching is possible across multiple fields, including full-text, rhymes, tones, schemes, etc.

A result of Gale's partnership to create searchable archives of the Smithsonian's vast collections, this resource combines rare 19th and 20th century archival materials on topics such as the evolving modes of flight, World's Fairs, and trade literature, with recent and backfile issues of Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine. This comprehensive resource presents unique insight into history, science, nature, the arts, innovation, technology, and world culture.

The Independent is a UK daily national newspaper. Since its launch in 1986 it has been one of the most innovative papers available in terms of design and avenues of investigation, while its freedom from party political affiliation and neutral ownership make it unique in British journalism.

Developed as the medium for reproducing broadcasts, The Listener (1929-1991) was the weekly newspaper published by the BBC. The complete archive of this landmark publication is an essential witness to the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century, and also to the golden years of radio and television.