Databases A-Z
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. -
Reaxys
Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, chemical reactions, chemical properties, related bibliographic data, and substance data with synthesis planning information. Reaxys is the direct replacement for Beilstein Crossfire and Gmelin Crossfire. In addition to these two data sources, chemical patent literature and associated properties are also included. -
Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO)
Recent Researches in Music Online is a subscription service for libraries, providing online access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series.
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Reference Universe
Reference Universe provides a single search across more than 47,000 specialized subject encyclopedias and scholarly compendia, both print and e-versions. Search “local results” to find reference sources held by JHU libraries, or “non-local results” to identify titles not available at JHU, but requestable via interlibrary loan. -
Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement
Chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950, bringing together over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II. Subscription access includes both modules titled: Forced Migration and World War II, and, The Early Cold War and Decolonization.
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Refworks
Refworks is an online citation manager that helps you keep track of citations to books, articles, and other documents. It can also create properly formatted bibliographies and insert citations into your documents, using various citation styles.
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Regional Business News
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources. -
Religion and the Law
Contains hundreds of unique titles and nearly one million pages, including books, periodicals, and bibliographies. This collection provides a research platform for the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. The collection also includes the Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, and rare historical bibles. -
Religion Database
Search a comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies. -
Religions of America
Religions of America traces the history and unique character of religious movements that originated in or were re-shaped by the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection pays especially close attention to America’s unique role as a birthplace for new religious movements within the context of the nation’s origins as a home for religious dissenters.
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Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions and Other Advisory Bodies
This unique resource contains the most current and extensive listing of publications created by presidential advisory bodies. The companion database features not only the bibliographic listing of reports, but also related hearings, scholarly articles, and more. -
Research Commons (Web of Science)
Research Commons includes data from open sources that can improve the discovery of items not otherwise indexed on the Web of Science platform.
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Research Library
This database provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. -
Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD)
RCMD provides data resources for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.
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Resources for Researchers - National Cancer Institute
Resources for Researchers is a directory of NCI-supported tools and services for cancer researchers. Resources are developed and maintained by NCI scientists or were created with grant funding. Most resources are free and available to anyone. Each resource is owned by an NCI division, office, or center.
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Responsa Project Online
Searchable database of rabbinical literature. Provides special keyboard display for Hebrew letters. The database includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature -rabbinic case-law rulings which represent the historical-sociological milieu of real-life situations. In addition, the database includes: the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major codes of Jewish law.
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RetroNews : le Site de Presse de la BnF
RetroNews, the newspaper website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, provides access to more than 2000 newspaper titles published between 1631 and 1951. The archives on RetroNews come from already digitized resources by the BnF, which are also accessible on Gallica, or are digitized by BNF-Partenariats. -
Revolution and Protest Online
A database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements. This collection examines the most studied and important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century. This collection includes over 180 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials (personal papers, organizational and government documents, journals, books, reports, videos, monographs, and speeches), and more than 1,000 images. -
Rhizome ArtBase
Rhizome, featuring ArtBase, is an online archive of reviewed digital art -- works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers. ArtBase provides open access to new media art objects. Interested patrons can also register their individual email account to use Rhizome’s other open source software programs.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present)
RILM offers broad international coverage base. It includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes, provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields.