Databases A-Z

This regularly updated collection of audiovisual presentations by recognized experts includes over 900 talks. The talks are organized into categories and series, including Economics; Finance & Accounting; Global Business Management; Management, Leadership & Organization; Marketing & Sales; Strategy; and Technology & Operations. Videos can be freely viewed by all JHU affiliates and embedded into course management software platforms.

This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work, available both in print and electronic editions, reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

History Commons, formerly Accessible Archives, databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records.

HistoryMakers' is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. As a non-profit educational institution, the organization is committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories which seeks to preserve and elevate the cultural equity of the African American community to the level of its historical record, as well as to increase the cultural understanding of present and future generations.

Presents monographs (books), manuscripts, and ephemera that provide a historical view of disabilities from the seventeenth to twentieth century. The archive provides many avenues to approach disability history. It demonstrates how persons with disabilities have worked for equal rights through activism and advocacy. Some materials include personal memoirs of experiences with disabilities or the accounts of those who treated them. Rehabilitation, treatments, methods of education, and other forms of remediation are documented. Reports and proceedings of organizations and institutions that sought to help or heal those with disabilities are available for review. Policies and programs concerning persons with disabilities are also available (i.e. labor laws, legal rights, rehabilitation programs, etc.).

ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of archival materials from its University Publications of America (UPA) Collection with a single search. Researchers can access letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface. Subscribed collections include:

• Slavery and the Law
• Papers of the NAACP, 1913-1965
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
• African American Police League Records (1961-1988)
• Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Law and Order in the 19th Century (1636-1880)
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915
• American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate (1960-1975)
• American Politics in the Early Cold War - Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961
• U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
• World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961
• Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
• Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics and Reproductive Rights
• Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration
• Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
• Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946

Provides comprehensive data on human inherited disease mutations. Its compilation of structured, manually curated data from the peer-reviewed literature enables quick access to both single mutation queries, such as checking whether a mutation is novel, and advanced search applications, such as finding all mutations linked to a certain disease.

Featuring video and audio clips alongside ebooks and images, Human Kinetics Dance Technique is a dynamic collection that presents instruction-focused material and fills in the gaps of dance in digital learning. Recently updated, the carefully curated content supports students developing their dance technique and provides instructors with valuable tools that can be implemented within their curriculum.

The Human Protein Reference Database represents a centralized platform to visually depict and integrate information pertaining to domain architecture, post-translational modifications, interaction networks and disease association for each protein in the human proteome. All the information in HPRD has been manually extracted from the literature by expert biologists who read, interpret and analyze the published data. HPRD has been created using an object oriented database in Zope, an open source web application server, that provides versatility in query functions and allows data to be displayed dynamically.