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NASA Astrophysics Data System

URL: http://adswww.harvard.edu/

Off Campus URL: Same as above. This web site is freely available to anyone.

Subject Areas: Physics & Astronomy, Geosciences

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 5.3 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through our Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though our Browse interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. We currently have links to over 5.5 million records maintained by our collaborators.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Database Producer: NASA.

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers

URL: http://0-papers.nber.org.dewey2.library.denison.edu/papers.html

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Economics

NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals. The NBER Working Paper database provides online full text access to working papers from November 1994 through the present.

Format: Statistical Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1994-
Database Producer: National Bureau of Economic Research.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Media

URL: http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=nurfc

Off Campus URL: This resource is freely available to anyone.

Subject Areas: Black Studies

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Media is a collection of digital documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. The collection includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady, letters and speeches of President Lincoln and other presidents, and other historic letters, documents, and pictures.
The original documents are found in the Gilder Lehrman Collection of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The digital images were made available through the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
These documents are part of the Historic & Archival Digital Media collections of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center.

Format: Archival Resources, Digital Media
Database Producer: Contributed by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Natural & Alternative Treatments

URL: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip&site=wfh&return=y

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Subject Areas: Medicine

Natural & Alternative Treatments contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories.

Format: Reference Work
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.

Nature

URL: http://0-www.nature.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/nature/

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Subject Areas: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Studies, Geosciences, Math, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, Psychology

Nature is one of the most frequently-cited international journals, publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology.

Format: Full Text Journal
Dates of Coverage: 1997-
Update Schedule: Daily. Database Producer: Nature Publishing Group.

Naxos Music Library

URL: http://0-denisonuni.naxosmusiclibrary.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/

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Subject Areas: Music

Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of online classical music, offering over 85,000 tracks. Music is available for listening at a library listening station or from any computer on campus with internet access.

The Naxos Music Library offers the complete catalogue of Naxos recordings, including the Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues, plus Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. The equivalent to more than 4400 CDs of music is available in high quality streaming sound, on-demand, with accompanying background and composer notes written by experts in the field. Other content is available from third-party labels licensed by Naxos, including the recent addition of world music label Celestial Harmonies.

Format: Digital Media
Database Producer: Naxos Digital Services, LTD.

Naxos Music Library Jazz

URL: http://0-denisonuni.naxosmusiclibrary.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/jazz

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Music

Naxos Music Library Jazz is a comprehensive collection of online jazz music, offering over 20,000 tracks. Music is available for listening at a library listening station or from any computer on campus with internet access.

Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 20,000* tracks of jazz from over 1,900* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artist. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library Jazz and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Services Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies. (*As of October 2006)

Format: Digital Media
Database Producer: Naxos Digital Services, LTD.

netLibrary

URL: http://www.netlibrary.com/

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Subject Areas: General

Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of online classical music, offering over 85,000 tracks. Music is available for listening at a library listening station or from any computer on campus with internet access.

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (e-books) on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable. NetLibrary operates on the library check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: NetLibrary, Inc.

Newspaper Source

URL: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=nfh

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Current Events, Mass Media

Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Update Schedule: Daily.
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.

New Testament Abstracts

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rvh

Off Campus URL: This database is not currently available off campus.

Subject Areas: Religion

New Testament Abstracts contains more than 40,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 14,900 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,100 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition, approximately 800 current books are also summarized annually.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1985-
Update Schedule: Annual. Database Producer: ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

New York Times Archive 1851-2004

URL: http://0-proquest.umi.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTFhY2QmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=21128

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Mass Media

Full page images of the New York Times newspaper, dating from 1851 through 2004.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1851-2004
Database Producer: ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey.

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers Digital Archive

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ohlnk256?db=BNCN

Off Campus URL: This database is not currently available off campus.

Subject Areas: History

This collection includes 2 million full text newspaper pages from national and regional British newspapers. Contents were selected by experts in the field; full runs are included when possible.

Format: Archival Materials, Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1800-1900
Database Producer: Gale Publishing.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

URL: http://0-poolesplus.odyssi.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: History, U.S. History

19th Century Masterfile is a vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925.

19th Century Masterfile brings together over 60 subject indexes to:

  • Periodicals
  • Newspapers
  • Books
  • US Congressional Record
  • US and UK Government Documents
  • US Patents

You can query all of the 6 million citations in 19th Century Masterfile in a single search.

Format: Index
Dates of Coverage: 1800-1925
Database Producer: Paratext Electronic Reference Publishing.

Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ohlnk256?db=NCUK

Off Campus URL: This database is not currently available off campus.

Subject Areas: History

Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive includes 1.2 million full text periodical pages on women, children, leisure and sport, and humor. Contents were selected by experts in the field; full periodical runs are included when possible.

Format: Archival Materials, Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1800-1900
Database Producer: Gale Publishing.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

URL: http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/itw/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc6_NCNP?sw_aep=ohlnk256

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Subject Areas: U.S. History

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Advanced searching capabilities will enable researchers 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.

Format: Full Text Journals, Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1800-1900
Database Producer: Gale Publishing.

North American Women's Letters & Diaries

URL: http://0-www.alexanderstreet2.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/nwldlive/

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: History, U.S. History, Women's Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, People

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.

The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Format: Archival Resources
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press.

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Forestry Image Collection

URL: http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=oaesf

Off Campus URL: This resource is freely available to anyone.

Subject Areas: Biology, Environmental Studies

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Forestry Image Collection is a collection of photos of forestry, dating back to the early 20th century. Images portray trees, cultivation, care, and the effects of human activity. Many pictures were taken in Ohio but other states and countries are also represented. These photos are part of the Science Digital Media collections of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center.

Format: Digital Media
Database Producer: Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center at The Ohio State University.

OhioLINK Library Catalog

Old Testament Abstracts

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=oah

Off Campus URL: This database is not currently available off campus.

Subject Areas: Religion

Old Testament Abstracts includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Abstracts from over 450 journals are included. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1978-
Database Producer: ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association.

OSU WEBooks

OSU WEBooks

Electronic copies of valuable, out-of-print and fragile books owned by OSU Libraries. 

Oxford Art Online

URL: http://0-www.oxfordartonline.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Art, People

Oxford Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Articles are frequently updated. Many entries also include image links.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: Oxford University Press.

Oxford English Dictionary

URL: http://0-dictionary.oed.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/entrance.dtl

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: General

Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

The online OED corresponds to the Second Edition (20 volumes in print).

Format: Full Text Books
Update Schedule: Quarterly.
Database Producer: Oxford University Press.

Oxford Music Online

URL: http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/index.html

Off Campus URL: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Music, People

Oxford Music Online provides Web access to the entire text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. Articles are frequently updated and include links to related sites, illustrations and musical examples.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: Oxford University Press.

Oxford Reference Online

URL: http://www.oxfordreference.com/

Off Campus: CLICK HERE

Subject Areas: General, People

Oxford Reference Online contains full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: Oxford University Press.

Oxford Scholarship Online

URL: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/

Off Campus: CLICK HERE

Subject Areas: Humanities, Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Social Sciences.

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. New books are added regularly.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: Oxford University Press.

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