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Showing 21–40 of 79 Databases starting with ‘P’.

  • Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2010)

    This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

  • Philosopher's Index

    The Philosopher’s Index, an important and oft-requested philosophy resource, is now available via EBSCOhost®, one of the most popular platforms available for scholarly research.

  • PhilPapers

    Phil Papers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, we monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy. PhilPapers has over 70,000 registered users.

  • Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957

    Picture Post’s innovative use of photo-journalism captured the imagination of the British people, with readership at its peak estimated at 80% of the population. In the era before television, it became the window on the world for ordinary people, bringing the major social and political issues of the day into popular consciousness.

  • Pitchbook

    Pitchbook features real time data to research and analyze deals and funding for private and public companies. Users can browse reports or create their own analysis with customized criteria. Users may print, download, or export up to 10 rows of deal, fund, people, or entity data per day, up to a maximum of 25 rows per month.  

    Content covers: 

    • Startup trends and news
    • Mergers & acquisitions
    • Private equity (PE) & venture capital (VC) deals and funding
    • Public and private company information
    • Industry and market analysis

  • Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010)

    This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

  • Pivot-RP

    Pivot-RP is a web-based discovery and workflow tool that combines a comprehensive source of global funding opportunities with the largest collection of scholar profiles into one intuitive solution. With Pivot-RP, researchers, faculty and research administrators can explore new avenues for funding, view funding opportunities uniquely matched to their scholar profile, collaborate with colleagues and manage the results of the process to build a funding strategy that supports both immediate and long-term funding needs.

  • PKU Law: Laws & Regulations Database

    PKU Law is a database of Chinese legal sources created and maintained by Chinalawinfo Co., Ltd., and the Legal Information Center of Peking University. The database contains both Chinese and English translations of laws & regulations, cases, tax treaties, and other legal sources. Please note that the JHU library only subscribes to the Chinese edition of Laws and Regulations.

  • Policy Citation Index

    Discover published policy reports from leading government, think tanks, and other non-government organizations. View cited references and navigate to research publications used to formulate public policy recommendations.

  • Policy Commons

    Policy Commons makes local, state, regional, and national government data available alongside research produced by IGOs, NGOs, and think tanks. It's a comprehensive database for policy grey literature. JHU subscription includes these modules: Policy Commons Global Think Tanks, Public Health and Social Care, World Cities, and World Governments.

  • Policy File Index

    PolicyFile is updated weekly with additions of approximately 250 records per week. Currently, users may access over 91,000 records from 1995 to current, most of these with links to the full-text documents. This resource for difficult-to-find gray literature covers all foreign and domestic policy papers produced by an impressive and growing number of nongovernmental agencies, research institutes, and think tanks in the U.S. The 387 organizations included in PolicyFile are reviewed daily to gather the most recently published papers, reports, and documents for inclusion. All records have subject indexing and abstracts, and the vast majority of PolicyFile records include links to the full-text documents.

  • PolicyMap

    An easy-to-use web-based Geographic Information System (GIS), use Policy Map to create maps of the United States down to the Census block group in many cases. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.

  • Political Extremism and Radicalism

    A compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera. The collections cover a period of just over a century (1900s to 2010s) when the world saw the formation of several civil rights movements for the rights of minorities, women's rights, and gay rights. It also encompasses the rise and fall of a number of peripheral groups deemed ‘extreme’ or ‘radical’ by contemporaries, such as anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-war, communist or socialist, creationist, environmentalist, hate, holocaust denial, new left, survivalist, white supremacist, and white nationalist. It is global in scope, however, the majority of the materials are largely from the US and Britain.

  • Political Handbook of the World

    Comprehensive country profiles chronicling national history, government, and political parties, as well as profiles on intergovernmental organizations, development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.