New Databases
Databases Added March 2008
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. (EBSCOhost) 
Institute of Civil Engineer's Library gives access to the largest repository of full-text civil engineering papers in the world. 
Databases Added January 2008
ExamMaster is an online tool to prepare students for the USMLE, board certification exams. It presents comprehensive reviews of health sciences subjects.
Databases Added December 2007
PubChem is a database of chemical molecules. It includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data.
Databases Added November 2007
The PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) bibliographic database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has the goal of including citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental-health stress related issues. (CSA) 
Databases Added October 2007
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3047 texts covered in the corpus.
Databases Added September 2007
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for more than 420 journals, with selected coverage of nearly 200 more. Includes full-text from 301 journals. (EBSCOhost)
Dictionary of Natural Products
Includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. Simultaneous users: 1.
Databases Added August 2007
Film & Television Literature Index
Film & Television Literature Index is a bibliographic database for film and television literature. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. (EBSCOhost)
Databases Added May 2007
The University of Louisville Libraries has launched a new web site, Digital Collections that provides online access to digital versions of selected materials from University of Louisville archives, special collections, and other campus units. This growing resource will include rare and unique images, documents, and oral histories that are freely available for educational and research purposes.
OAIster reveals digital resources (digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, datasets) in an easy-to-use, searchable interface providing access to academically-oriented digital resources. OAIster catalogs the metadata and provides links to these digital resources. As of May 2007, OAIster provides access to nearly 12 million resources from over 800 contributors.
Databases Added March 2007
A digital library of source materials for studies in the humanities. It originated as a collection of Greek and Roman classics, and that remains its largest component, but has expanded to include secondary sources and digital archives of other times and places.
Databases Added February 2007
Cross-searchable, healthcare reference that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools. (Maximum number of simultaneous users: 7.)
Databases Added January 2007
A bibliography of articles published in 45 major 19th century British monthlies and quarterlies covering a variety of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Because many articles were published anonymously, the database includes an index to the authorship of the articles with supporting evidence and brief biographical details. (ProQuest)
Databases Added December 2006
Citations to over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present, either individually or in collections or anthologies.
Databases Added November 2006
FIRSTconsult is an evidence-based primary care decision support tool providing quick concise information to medical clinicians.
For Love of Learning is a searchable database containing brief descriptions of over three hundred of the thousands of special collections, archives, and rare materials held in the University of Louisville Libraries and Archives.
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide as a small subset of the total bibliographic space.
Databases Added October 2006
Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and related fields.
(CSA)
Databases Added August 2006
The Kentuckiana Digital Library is a gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning.
Users can cross-search multiple resources simultaneously: Multidisciplinary resources such as Web of ScienceŽ; Analytical tools such as Journal Citation Reports, Journal Use ReportsTM and the Analyze Tool; and Bibliographic management tools such as EndNoteŽ. (ISI)
Databases Added May 2006
Homeland Security Digital Library
The HSDL collection includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, and research institutions, universities, and think tanks. Full-text.
Databases Added April 2006
Sustainability Science Abstracts
Covers literature on topics such as the management of human use, conservation of natural resources, maintenance of species diversity, genetic diversity, and protection of ecosystems. (CSA)
Database of Recorded American Music
Streamed audio of recordings by American composers and artists including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World Composers, Inc., and other important labels. (Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.)
Databases Added March 2006
Indexes and provides summaries for articles in several hundred journals in the fields of archaeology, cultural and physical anthropology and linguistics. Speech, physiology, artifacts, history, environment, and social relations are described, analyzed, interpreted, and compared within the human and animal realms.
Databases Added February 2006
Streamed audio of African American music which includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives. (Alexander Street Press)
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource. Physician editors and authors review and update our content on a continuous basis. The published evidence is summarized and specific recommendations made for patient care. (There is no off-campus access for this database.)
Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. (EBSCO)
Population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Databases Added January 2006
The American Historical Association, the Organization of American
Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy
Press provide the full text of current issues of the affiliated journals of the associations.
(American Historical Association)