Databases A-Z
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Polling the Nations
A 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. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants answers. Only 4 simultaneous users can access Polling the Nations.
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Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest
Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history.
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Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
This unique collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals. Explore an array of printed sources, including rare books, pamphlets, trade cards, and visually-rich advertising ephemera.
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Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-50
This online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. -
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, and explore the government policy, social reform movements and philanthropic efforts of charitable institutions that sought to alleviate poverty.
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Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press
Showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture of the counterculture and many disparate organizations that represent this moment in modern Western history. Although the archive concentrates mainly on the United States and the United Kingdom, it also covers events and topics from around the globe. -
Pravda (2010-current)
Pravda has been a newspaper of record since the dawn of the Soviet era, and remains a prominent news source in today’s Russia.
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Pravda Archive, 1959-1996
Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, from 1959 to 1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA. -
Pravda Digital Archive, 1912-2009
Pravda (Truth) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991 and the most important newspaper of the Soviet era. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.
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Preprint Citation Index
Preprint Citation Index is a multidisciplinary collection of preprints from a wide range of leading preprint repositories. Coverage includes research areas in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social science, and humanities.
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Press Reader
PressReader delivers an endless stream of top news stories to read, discuss and share. Get full issues of thousands of top magazines and newspapers, just as they appear in print. -
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. -
PrivCo - Private Company Financial Data Authority
PrivCo is a key source for financial, operational, and competitive information on over 120,000 major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. The database also includes details on thousands of financing arrangements of all sorts, inlcuding venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions.
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ProceedingsFirst
A database of over 19000 citations to every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library. This database is on the FirstSearch platform. -
Project Euclid
Project Euclid's mission is to provide powerful, low-cost online hosting and publishing services for theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics scholarship worldwide. As a non-profit community-driven international partnership of academic libraries, independent and society scholarly publishers, and scholars, Project Euclid actively supports broad, sustainable access to this scholarship. -
Project Muse
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers, as well as the UPCC Book Collections. -
Projectr
A platform for watching independent films. Projectr partners with educational institutions and public libraries throughout North America to present a curated and ever-expanding collection of acclaimed movies, archival restorations, award-winning documentaries and artist-made works from around the world. -
Projekt DYABOLA
Projekt Dyabola is a software interface designed for creating and browsing bibliographic data and image collections, specifically targeted to the humanities community. Currently, 15 databases are available in the online system. -
Propaganda and the Chinese Press: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996
An archive of articles published by Xinhua or New China News, the major communist Chinese newspapers, from 1946 to 1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA. -
ProQuest All Subscribed Content
Provides access to the periodical and newspaper indexes available through the ProQuest company platform, all of which include abstracts and some full text. Search a single database by clicking on its name. Databases with checkboxes can be cross-searched.