Databases by Name

  • The opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in a set of case books called the United States Reports
  • View full-length, high-quality films of live theatre performances.
  • Free, open textbooks for college courses
  • Find ebooks from libraries across the country.
    Access note: Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.
  • Videos include documentaries, historical events, educational and ephermeral topics, and lectures.
  • An open access discovery tool searching over 240 million works, similar in scope to Google Scholar.
  • Makes electronic theses and dissertations more accessible to researchers worldwide.
  • Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
  • An ever-expanding filmed encyclopedia of the organ and its history and repertoire, created by Fugue State Films and the Royal College of Organists.
  • Find research results from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
  • North Carolina’s premier travel, food, and culture publication, available in full text online.
  • Allows faculty, students and staff to borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices.
  • Journal articles and ebooks in the health and life sciences with particular focus on nursing.
  • Contains the full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
    Access note: Limited to 11 simultaneous users.
  • Provides annotated lists of reliable resources for a variety of topics in music.
  • Offers over 8,000 articles across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres.
  • Over 12,500 entries covering musical subjects of all kinds including entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics.
  • Biographies of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
    Access note: Limited to 1 user at a time.
  • A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
  • Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
  • Provides full text access for nearly 200 journals published by Oxford University Press.
  • Provides access to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which includes The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
  • Provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences.
  • Offers access to about 18,000 Oxford ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
  • Develops, collects, catalogues, and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in higher education, in research, teaching, and learning.
  • Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs.
  • Includes journal articles covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of relevance.
  • Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals, covering a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry.
  • Citations with abstracts of scholarly research in philosophy and ethics.