A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. [info]

Coverage:  1915 - Present
Updated:  Monthly

Little explanation is needed for the importance of the Times of London-- the most important newspaper in the United Kingdom when the United Kingdom was arguably the most powerful nation in the Western World. [info]

Coverage:  1880-1890
Updated:  Varies

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A collection of searchable texts from the works of major philosophers. [info]

Provides "comprehensive news of the most important intellectual property cases, statutes, trends, and other key developments in all areas of the law." [description from website] [info]

Note(s):  Also available to UNC-CH Law Library and School of Law faculty, staff and students via Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw.
Coverage:  February 15, 1996- to date
Updated:  Published weekly, except for the week of July 4th, Labor Day week and the last week in December.

The searchable full-text database of the Latin Fathers' writings. [info]

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Coverage:  200 AD.-1216 AD

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Peace Research Abstracts covers over 120 academic journals which provide articles investigating peace research, conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and similar topics. [info]

Coverage:  1964 - present

This database is an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP) at the University of Sydney, Australia. [info]

This database of the published works of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) will contain all of Peirce's philosophical and scientific texts published during his lifetime. [info]

This database includes the complete 8-volume edition of The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (vols. [info]

Periodical Index Online provides keyword indexing to the contents of over 4700 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. [info]

Coverage:  1665-1995

This website provides images of hundreds of maps in the public domain of the world’s nations, major cities, state outlines, national park maps as well as thematic maps for high-interest topics. [info]

Updated:  Continuously

PERSEE is a portal that grants online access to entire back runs of French journals in the social and human sciences. [info]

Coverage:  1980s - last 3-5 years
Updated:  Continuously
Language:  French

Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly provides in-depth coverage of U.S. [info]

Coverage:  2000 - present

This is the major index of scholarly journals, books, and book reviews in the many fields of philosophy, including aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of religion. [info]

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Limited to 4 SUs

Coverage:  1940-present

The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson contain the five volumes of his essays published by Oxford University Press. [info]

Physical Education Index covers a wide variety of literature in this discipline, including peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. [info]

Coverage:  1970 to present
Updated:  Monthly

The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. [info]

The Pink Sheet: Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology provides weekly in depth coverage of regulatory, financial, and congressional news affecting the prescription pharmaceutical and biotech industries. [info]

Coverage:  1994 - present

Plant Information Online (plantinfo.umn.edu) is a subscription web-based service which provides mail order sources for over 70,000 plants with detailed source information. [info]

Note(s):  This resource is also available in CD-ROM format at the Botany Library, currently housed in Wilson Hall (with the Zoology Section). Ask at the desk and Library staff will help provide access to this resource.
Coverage:  1982 to present
Updated:  Daily; Sources & Nurseries current info only

The database includes Plato: The Collected Dialogues by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns ©Bollingen Foundation 1961, published by Princeton University Press, and The Dialogues of Plato, translated and edited by Benjamin Jowett, 4thedition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953. [info]

“This archive constitutes a resource for studying the literary history of popular British and American poetry. [info]

POIESIS provides access to a searchable database of over 30 important scholarly philosophy journals. [info]

Coverage:  Varies with each title

Indexes research and publication abstracts addressing the complete range of public policy research. [info]

Coverage:  1990-present

Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data. [info]

Coverage:  late 18th century - present
Updated:  Continuously

The database includes works by Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Edmind Burke, Thomas Paine, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill. [info]

Polling the Nations, from ORS Publishing, is a unique compilation of questions and responses from more than 12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other countries from 1986 through the present. [info]

Note(s):  Please log out of this resource when finished.
Coverage:  1986-

The database provides scientific and commercial information on polymers invaluable to Polymer Science and Technology professionals and academics in a single polymer dictionary in a fully searchable system. [info]

Few works of scholarship can match the significance of William Frederick Poole's great Index to Periodical Literature, which remains a core resource for researching nineteenth--century topics. [info]

Coverage:  1802-1907
Updated:  Varies

POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE) is a collection of bibliographic citations that provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. [info]

Coverage:  1970-present; selected citations dating back to 1886
Updated:  Monthly

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Based on United Nations data sources and publications, this database allows one to calculate and display past (back to 1950) and future (up to 2050) population statistics for all major regions of the world, the entire planet, and many specific countries. [info]

Coverage:  1950 - 2050
Updated:  Annually

Population Index, published since 1935, is a primary reference tool for the world's population literature. [info]

Note(s):  Population Index has ceased publication, but the years 1986-1999 are still available for searching.
Coverage:  1986 - 1999

Primary Search is a reference source designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms. [info]

Note(s):  Minimum browser requirements: Explorer 5.5, Firefox 1.0, Netscape 7.x, Safari 1.2x
Coverage:  Indexing, 1984-present; Full-text, 1990-present
Updated:  Monthly

Primary Source Microfilm, part of the Gale Group, has constructed a very large library of microfilm sets of primary source materials covering the humanities and the social sciences. [info]

Coverage:  7th Century C.E. to 20th Century C.E.
Updated:  Regularly

Procedures Consult is an online procedure reference tool that offers complete details on how to prepare for, perform and follow up on the most common procedures required in today's hospital setting. [info]

Information on new consumer packaged goods with more than one million new SKU's for new foods, beverages, health & beauty aids, household, pet and tobacco products from around the world. [info]

Coverage:  1980-
Updated:  Five times a month

Project Muse provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. [info]

Coverage:  Varies
Updated:  Continuously

This database contains over 29,000 of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. [info]

Search seven historic newspapers together: The Atlanta Constitution (1868 to 1929), the Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986), the Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986), the New York Times (1851 to 2 or 3 years ago), the Washington Post (1877 to 1990), the Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1992), and the Baltimore Sun (1837-1985). [info]

Coverage:  varies by title -

ProQuest Newspapers provides full text access to the Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition from 1984 to present. [info]

Coverage:  1984 - Present
Updated:  Daily

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An introduction to the structural basis for the biological activities of proteins, this is a fully illustrated text with special emphasis on the interpretation of gene sequence in terms of protein function. [info]

Updated:  Annually

Provides full-text articles from leading psychological journals. [info]

Coverage:  1980s - Present
Updated:  Daily

PsycCRITIQUES is a searchable database of book reviews in psychology. [info]

Coverage:  1995 - present
Updated:  Weekly

PsychiatryOnline is an online collection of resources for mental health. [info]

Coverage:  1997 -

The American Psychological Association's PsycINFO database, with over 2,000,000 records, is the most comprehensive international database of psychology. [info]

Coverage:  1887 - present
Updated:  Monthly

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. [info]

Public Administration Abstracts covers about 140 academic journals which focus on the study of the administration, functions, and outcomes of public and governmental institutions. [info]

Coverage:  1974 - present

Public Health Grand Rounds is a series of satellite broadcasts and webcasts presenting real-world case studies on public health issues; it is a collaborative effort between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [info]

Note(s):  Site includes archived programs and relevant online resources for each program topic.
Coverage:  June 11, 1999 -

Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. [info]

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. [info]

Note(s):  Our instutional membership currently covers some fees for UNC-Chapel Hill authors.

The Public Papers of the Presidents is published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and is the official publication of United States Presidents' public writings, addresses, and remarks. Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. [info]

Coverage:  1992-
Updated:  Twice per year

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. [info]

Note(s):  PubMed is not compatible with Netscape or Mozilla. Try another browser, such as IE or Opera. Provides access to MEDLINE and In Process MEDLINE (Pre-MEDLINE). Also includes many links to full text of UNC-CH's electronic journal subscriptions.
Coverage:  1957-present
Updated:  MEDLINE: Weekly; PREMEDLINE: Daily.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). [info]

Coverage:  Early 1900s-present

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. [info]

Coverage:  1957-present
Updated:  MEDLINE: Weekly; PREMEDLINE: Daily.