America: History and Life  
Bibliographic database covering the world’s scholarly literature relating to the history of the United States and Canada. It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present; there are some links to full text. “CLIO Notes,” an alternative search interface, guides you through U.S. history by allowing you to browse through chronologies and hundreds of brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Online (ABHLO)
Published on behalf of the Historical Association, this online journal provides a selective and critical analysis of new historical books, journals, and journal articles. Reviews, all written by acknowledged experts and extensively cross-referenced, place new works in the context of ongoing and emerging debates. There are also links from citations to books to reviews in History: The Journal of the Historical Association.

Historical Abstracts  
Bibliographic database covering the world’s scholarly literature relating to history, excluding the United States and Canada. It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Journals Database is a bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 500 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. The Books Database (under construction) is a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
“A comprehensive online guide to writing about British and Irish history.” Includes London's Past Online, a bibliography of London history, created by the Centre for Metropolitan History in association with the Royal Historical Society.

Magazine Stacks
Tables of contents of historical journals, monographic series, and occasional volumes primarily in German and English.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index  
A component of the Web of Science (ISI Databases), which provides access to scholarly literature and offers the functionality of cited author or cited works searching.

Black Studies Center
Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), the Chicago Defender newspaper, and the Black Literature Index.

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. HLAS Online provides rapid, comprehensive access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the Handbook.

International Medieval Bibliography Online
Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. The database comprises over 300,000 articles derived from regular coverage of some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). All articles are classified with full bibliographical details and subject classifications and indexing familiar to medievalists.

ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)  
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics.

Social Sciences Citation Index  
A component of the Web of Science (ISI Databases), which provides access to scholarly literature and offers the functionality of cited author or cited works searching.

Web of Science  
The Web version of the three citation databases produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI): Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address.

English Short Title Catalogue
ESTC contains descriptions of English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801. It includes records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English anywhere in the world from 1473 to 1800.

Historical Index to the New York Times
When complete, the database will provide complete indexing to The New York Times newspaper from 1851 to 1923. (Coverage of 1863-1905 and 1913-1922 is all that is presently available.) It is one component of the Historical Newspapers Online database.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective  
Citations to articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.

Historical Newspapers Online
Includes The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1923, and Palmer's Index to the Times [London], 1790-1905.

Index to Early American Periodicals
Provides access to individual articles in the microfilm sets American Periodical Series, Eighteenth Century (APS I) (Microfilm S 10), American Periodical Series, 1800-1850 (APS II) (Microfilm S 10), and American Periodical Series, 1850-1935 (APS III) (Microfilm S 10.5). APS (American Periodical Series) Online provides access to page images of some of this collection.

London Times Index
Includes Palmer's Index to the Times, which covers the period from 1790 to 1905. It is a component of the Historical Newspapers Online database.

New York Times Index
Provides complete indexing to The New York Times newspaper from 1851 to 1922. This index to The New York Times is a component of the Historical Newspapers Online database.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Formerly known as Poole’s Plus, the primary component is an online version of W.F. Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. Nineteenth Century Masterfile now includes a number of indices to 19th and early 20th century periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC)
NSTC aims to provide increasingly complete listings of British books printed between 1801 and 1919. British books are taken to include all books published in Britain, its colonies, and the United States of America; all books in English wherever published; and all translations from English.

Periodicals Index Online  
Indexes thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Areas of coverage include ancient civilizations, area studies (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Middle East), and history (general and of the Americas).

Readers' Guide Retrospective  
Indexes popular periodicals, 1890-1982.

Academic OneFile
Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering all subject areas. Most of the journals are in full text, available in HTML and PDF formats.

Accessible Archives
Consists of six databases: Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1865); The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800); The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (1860-1865); African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County (1819-1870); and The Pennsylvania Genealogy Catalogue: Chester County (1809-1870).

African American Newspapers: The Nineteenth Century
This database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States and Canada during the 19th century. Presently included are: Freedom’s Journal, New York, March 16, 1827 - March 28, 1829; The Coloured American (Weekly Advocate), New York, January 7, 1837 - December 25, 1841; The North Star, Rochester, New York, December 3, 1847 - April 17, 1851; The National Era, Washington, D.C., January 7, 1847 - March 12, 1860 (completed through December 1853); the Provincial Freeman, Chatham, Canada West, 1854-1857; Frederick Douglass’ Paper, Rochester, New York, 1851-1859 (completed through December 1852); and The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, 1861-1902.

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
The American Civil War: Letters & Diaries contains 460 authors and approximately 32,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs. The collection is based on leading bibliographies. Included are some previously unpublished manuscripts. When complete, will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials. The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.

American County Histories to 1900
Full text and graphics from 19th county histories of the thirteen original states and Vermont. Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania are the first available states.

America’s Historical Newspapers
Digitized historic newspapers. The early series is based largely on Clarence Brigham’s History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.

APS (American Periodical Series) Online
Eventually APS Online will provide more than 1,000 periodical titles in full page images, from the American Periodicals Series (APS I, APS II, and APS III), American journals and magazines from the 18th and 19th centuries. Presently, some 461 titles have been digitized. The project is scheduled for completion in 2002.

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900
Includes the immediate experiences of 91 women, as revealed in approximately 24,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Digital Sanborn Maps: Delaware
A series of 140 map sets of urban areas in Delaware from 1884 to 1958.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Will eventually include digitized images of all American imprints of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online offers images of the original pages in more than 96,000 historical literary works listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 (STC I) and Donald Wing’s A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641 to 1700 (STC II). EEBO provides unique research opportunities in literature, history, linguistics, religion, art, music, the history of printing, and other disciplines.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published in Great Britain and the colonies during the 18th century. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.

The Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online
The Gerritsen Collection, one of the most significant collections of books and periodicals relating to women’s history, includes two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. You can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country’s movement on those of the others.

HarpWeek
A comprehensive index to, and digitized images of, Harper’s Weekly, the leading illustrated American periodical of the last half of the nineteenth century.

In the First Person
Keyword searching of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world.

JSTOR
Full-text backfiles of more 40 scholarly journals in Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, and sociology. Titles for history are: The American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Journal of American History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Military History, The Journal of Modern History, Journal of Negro History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Renaissance Quarterly, Reviews in American History, Speculum, Studies in the Renaissance, and The William and Mary Quarterly.

Keesing’s World News Archive
Comprehensive world news archive since 1931. The site offers access to the latest 20 years of the archive in electronic format. For complete text of earlier articles, consult the print edition. Finding information for Keesing’s Contemporary Archives (1931-1986) can be found in DELCAT.

Making of America
A collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Michigan collection contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints; the Cornell collection, 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles. Both collections are made up of images of the pages in the books and journals. When you find something you want to look at, you will see a scanned image of the actual pages of the 19th century volume.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
“A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.”

New York Times
Full page digitization of every page of the New York Times from 1851-1999. Every word of every article is searchable, but you may choose to use it in conjunction with an index. The New York Times is indexed by the print New York Times Index, in the Reference Room (Ref AI21 .N44). Current issues of the New York Times are also available in the Periodicals Room, Morris Library; older issues are available on microfilm (Microfilm S 4). A variant edition of the newspaper is available on the Internet as The New York Times on the Web.

The Nineteenth Century in Print
Twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. The longest run is for The North American Review, 1815-1900.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial - 1950
When complete, North American Women’s Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of American and Canadian women’s diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers. It will include over 1,000 volumes of published and unpublished material. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women’s diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform.

Parliamentary Papers
Comprehensive collection of all the papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-1900 in all formats, including: Bills (e.g. abolition of slavery, electoral reform), Reports of Royal Commissions (e.g. the poor, health, and sanitation), Reports of Select Committees (e.g. mining and railway accidents), Accounts and Papers (e.g. correspondence relative to the affairs of the British in North America), and Command Papers.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Full text of the newspaper, without graphics. Includes the complete text of all news items, columns, features, business stories, editorials, and sports stories with staff bylines, and letters to the editor, syndicated columns and wire services. Not included are advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, photographs, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements, and puzzles.

Project MUSE
Full text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. History journals include American Jewish History, American Quarterly, Book History, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Studies, French Historical Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, History & Memory, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Social History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Women's History, Journal of World History, Late Imperial China, Modernism/Modernity, Reviews in American History, and Technology and Culture.

The Times Digital Archive
A complete digital edition of The Times (London) for 1785-1985. The entire content of the newspaper, including advertisements, is searchable. (This edition does not include The Sunday Times, a separate publication.)

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
The Times Literary Supplement in full facsimile, 1902-1990. (Current coverage is 1902-1980.) The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is recognized as the most authoritative English-language journal covering the world of literary and cultural activity.

Wall Street Journal
Digital edition of the newspaper, 1889-1989.

ArchiveGrid
Nearly a million collection descriptions and online archival finding aids of archival material from more than 2,500 libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives around the world.

National Union Catalog of Manuscripts Collections (NUCMC)
Access to National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Online Cataloging from 1986/1987 to date, via the RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) AMC (Archives and Mixed Collections) file. The RLIN AMC file contains nearly 500,000 records for archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies located throughout North America.

Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials. The catalog records reside in a single integrated database; they are not separated according to type of material, language of material, date of cataloging, or processing/circulation status. As an integrated database, the Online Catalog includes 3.2 million catalog records from an earlier database. These catalog records, primarily for books and serials cataloged between 1898 and 1980, are being edited to comply with current cataloging standards and to reflect contemporary language and usage. The legend [from old catalog] indicates that the headings may deviate from current Library of Congress cataloging policy. For a complete search of books and serials cataloged prior to 1980, researchers onsite at the Library should also use the Main Card Catalog. Many items from the Library's special collections are accessible to users but are not represented in this catalog. In addition, some individual items within collections (microforms, manuscripts, photographs, etc.) are not listed separately in the Catalog, but are represented by collection-level catalog records.

WorldCat
Contains cataloging records to more than 30 million items held at libraries around the world. It covers thousands of subjects and includes records for items dating as far back as 1000 A.D. It includes records for a range of materials including books, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.

American National Biography
The authoritative source for biographical information on American men and women, colonial times to the present.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to a large number of current and retrospective biographical compilations.

Biography Reference Bank
Full text of the biographies from more than 100 print volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, such as Current Biography, Nobel Prize Winners, American Reformers, as well as biographical resources from other publishers.

Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 242,000 biographies from printed Gale Group publications with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who(r). The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Comprehensive and authoritative source of British biographical information.

AccessUN
Provides access to the latest two years of United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals, as well as bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series, are indexed. Older coverage is provided by Index to United Nations Documents and Publications.

Index to United Nations Documents and Publications
Provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. The Index benefits researchers who need information on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature. Coverage of the most current two years is provided by AccessUN.

LexisNexis Congressional
Provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information. In addition to indexing and abstracting the CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress from 1970 forward, LexisNexis Congressional also provides links to Congressional documents, bills, public laws, Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Congressional hearings and committee reports. One of the components, Congressional Indexes, 1789-1972, provides indexing and abstracting of congressional publications, including the Congressional Serial Set, from 1789 to 1969, and of transcripts of unpublished hearings, 1823 to 1972.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
Indexes articles appearing in more than 175 periodicals published by departments and agencies of the U. S. government.

LexisNexis State Capital
Comprehensive access to state government information. LexisNexis State Capital contains information on bills, statutes, regulations, and legislators from the fifty states, as well as information from State Capitol Journal and other news sources, and links to other Web sites with useful information about the states.

MarciveWeb DOCS
Index to United States government publications cataloged by the Government Printing Office.

Parliamentary Papers
Comprehensive collection of all the papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-1900 in all formats, including: Bills (e.g. abolition of slavery, electoral reform), Reports of Royal Commissions (e.g. the poor, health, and sanitation), Reports of Select Committees (e.g. mining and railway accidents), Accounts and Papers (e.g. correspondence relative to the affairs of the British in North America), and Command Papers.

ABI/INFORM
Citations and abstracts for articles from over 800 business and management journals. Some coverage of business history.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
Current and historical images from the Associated Press digital image archive. The historical collection features historical figures, political leaders, sports greats, and celebrities. The Photo Archive also offers images from significant news and features events of the 20th century, such as World War II, civil rights, the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and space exploration.

Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment “Library 2000” Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

Art Abstracts
Citations and abstracts to articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins relating to archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and related fields.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975
Monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.

Book History Online
BHO contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries. Materials include all scholarly valuable books and articles relating to the history of the printed book and libraries and to book production, distribution, conservation, description and analysis. Also included are articles referring to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques, and equipment in relation to books; and to the book and library in their economic, social and cultural environment.

EconLit  
A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature. Some coverage of economic history.

Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

Gallup Brain
A 70-year archive of public opinion, from the Gallup Organization. Gallup Brain contains the answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.

GenderWatch
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women’s and gender issues.

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Multidisciplinary bibliography of published material on Latin America, 1935 to the present.

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Provides full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals, with citations and abstracts from many other periodicals. Full text is available from 1998 to the present.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
“Guides to Microforms” are online finding aids for selected microfilm collections published by University Publications of America. The University of Delaware Library has not acquired all of these microfilm collections. Check DELCAT for availability.

LexisNexis Statistical
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications issued by the federal government, state governments, and private publishers. Includes a searchable version of the tables in Statistical Abstract of the United States, from the 1996 edition and all more current editions.

National Register Information System
The official database of the National Register of Historic Places. The NRIS contains information on more than 80,000 properties and includes an searchable index of more than two million terms.

Oxford English Dictionary
A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It shows not only the current meanings of words, but also traces their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world.

PAIS International  
An index to the world’s public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences.

Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 400 journals and related interdisciplinary fields. It does not include citations to privately published works, pamphlets, or book reviews. It is a major source of information in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. It is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion, and science.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author.

Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
An index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly by the Library of Congress from 29 African countries.

University of Delaware Library Postcard Collection
Over 2000 postcards of Delaware and nearby areas.

Willard Stewart Photographs for the WPA and HABS
246 photographs of landscapes and buildings in Delaware.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Documents, teaching tools, and document projects about Women and Social Movements.

Women's Studies International  
An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, drawn from a variety of essential women’s studies databases.

Zeitschriftenfreihandmagazin: Inhaltsverzeichnisse geschichtswissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften in deutscher Sprache
Tables of contents of the more important historical journals, Festschriften, and monographic series in the German language.