Databases A-Z
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Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
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Oxford Reference Online Bilingual Dictionaries
A list of bilingual dictionaries available through Oxford Reference Online. -
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Working with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, the Oxford University Press is developing new comprehensive on-line collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics. The JHU Libraries currently subscribe to the following encyclopedias:
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: African History
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Communications
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: International Relations
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Latin America History
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Linguistics
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Literature
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Oxford Classical Dictionary
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Political Science
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Religion
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO)
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) currently includes writers active between the 8th and 20th century, plus Classical Latin poetry, history, and drama, including all of Shakespeare’s plays, the complete works of Jane Austen, Ovid, and Virgil, the poetry of John Donne, and works by Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham. OSEO provides full-text access to hundreds of editions, showcasing their authoritative editorial notes directly alongside the text and enabling advanced search within and between editions. -
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 2,000 Oxford books.##In addition to Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion, Oxford Scholarship Online now access to new Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Psychology.##Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level (free to non-subscribed users), and up to 400 new and recently-published books are added each year.
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O’Reilly for Higher Education
O'Reilly for Higher Education provides instruction and reference materials on computer programming, technology, and business transformation. The platform includes books, videos, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and structured learning paths. Content is provided by over 200 publishers, and includes the famous O'Reilly "animal books" and Safari books online.The JHU subscription also provides access through the O'Reilly app available in the Apple App Store and Google Play. Login to the app using your jhed-based JHU emal address in the format [email protected].
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PAIS Index
The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
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PapersFirst
Over 580,000 papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library. This database is on the FirstSearch platform. -
Parker Library on the Web
Parker Library on the Web is a multi-year undertaking of Corpus Christi College, the Stanford University Libraries and Cambridge University Library, to produce a high-resolution digital copy of every imageable page of most manuscripts in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College (Cambridge University Press, 1912). -
Pascal and Francis Database Archive
Pascal and Francis is an archive of the Pascal and Francis bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS since 1972 and hitherto accessible with a subscription. Three search modes are featured: simple, advanced, expert. You can also browse the content of PASCAL and FRANCIS by keywords (vocabulary) or by thematics (classification).
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Passport GMID - Euromonitor
Euromonitor International offers quality international market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. Euromonitor International has more than 30 years of experience publishing market reports, business reference books, online information systems and bespoke consulting projects.
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Past Masters: Full Text of Classic Works in the Humanities
Past Masters provides electronic editions of selected texts by philosophers and political economists, along with basic search and retrieval software. The English collection includes these databases: Locke, Berkeley, Hume; Hobbes; The Utilitarians: Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick; Economics: Smith, Ricardo, Mill; Peirce; Political Philosophy: Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Paine, Bentham, Mill, Constitution of the United States. The French collection includes these databases: The Continental Rationalists: Descartes; Political Philosophy: Rousseau. The German collection includes these databases: Wittgenstein; The Continental Rationalists: Leibniz, Spinoza. The Greek & Latin collection includes these databases: Plato; Aristotle; Spinoza; John Duns Scotus. The Italian collection contains Machiavelli. The Women Writers collection includes not only the correspondence and journals, but also the primary works of important women writers in the English language, such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Conway, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and more.
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Patent Public Search
The Patent Public Search database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. ####Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent's full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent. Information from Certificates of Correction and Reexaminations is not included in the full-text database per se, but can be found as pages attached to the full-page images of the original patent. ####Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number and the current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only by those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent.
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Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865). This full-text version of the Abbe Migne's edition of Patristic and early Medieval religious texts provides a thorough overview of the making of Western religious thought from the late Classical period to the early 13th century.
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PCI Peer Community In
PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles and preprints in open access for free.
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Peace Research Abstracts
This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 115,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline. -
PEDro : The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
The database was developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.
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Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue
This database primarily is a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from The Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Users will also find information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, and more within this collection. The collection also includes records from The American Republican, Chester & Delaware Federalist, Eden Star, Literary Magazine, and the West Chester Gazette. -
People's Daily (1946-present)
People’s Daily, or Ren min ri bao, is the flagship newspaper that serves as the voice of the government of the People’s Republic of China. The database provides full text access to the newspaper from its beginning issue in 1946 to the present, with functions of browsing by date, full text searching, full text of articles, and full-image reproductions of the original newspapers. To access newspaper, look for "click here to enter if your library/institute subscribes ..." -
Perdita Manuscripts
This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA.