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Resources A-Z: S
This guide contains a full list of electronic resources organized by name.
Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana – A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to large-scale maps of American towns and cities, originally created for fire insurance needs.
Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, provides access to bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share findings concerning the sciences.
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
Science in Context aids research on scientific study with topic overviews, biographies, periodical articles from publications such as Science Weekly, images and video, detailed experiments, biographies, and dictionaries.
First-time users need to create a User ID using your IUN e-mail address. SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows users to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is a collection of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, including extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays.
Searchasaurus provides full-text elementary school magazines, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and includes thousands of photos, maps, flags and more with lexile reading levels.
The Shakespeare Collection brings together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare, the world's most recognized scholarly edition.
This product’s aim is to index all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered.
Silent Film Online brings together films which represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP’s Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s.
The Sixties is an academic journal featuring cross-disciplinary scholarship from academics and public figures. It includes essays, book reviews, conversations, interviews, graphics, and analyses of the ways the decade continues to be constructed in contemporary popular culture.
The Slavery and Anti-Slavery database includes books, articles, court records, etc about the transatlantic slave trade, abolition movements, legal and economic aspects, etc from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes.
Smithsonian Collections Online provides digitized magazines and documents pertaining to the exhibits and collections held by the Smithsonian Institution.
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, provides access to bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share findings concerning the social sciences.
Social Sciences Full Text provides access and indexing for over 625 social science periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews.
Social Work Abstracts provides citations and abstracts for social work and human services, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
It includes 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965, and is produced by the National Association of Social Workers.
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines, including for journal articles, book reviews, conference papers, etc. These articles can then be found with 360 Link or requested through ILLiad.
South and Southeast Asian Literature is a collection of fiction and poetry written by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas, focused on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras.
This site offers resources in Spanish for all ages in two unique interfaces, each with its own comprehensive encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Moderna (Enciclopedia universal en Espanol) for high school ages and up and Britannica Escolar Online for ages 6-12.
Covers areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more.
State Papers Online, 1509 -1714, offers a digital manuscript archive covering two hundred years of British and European history. The collection especially aids study of the Tudor and Stuart governments.
Formerly LexisNexis Statistical Universe. ProQuest Statistical Insight provides federal and international statistical publications, state government and business statistical reports, statistical tables, and statistical data sets.
Sunday Times Digital Archive is a database of one of the major British national Sunday newspapers.
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