Databases A-Z
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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. -
RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions (RISE)
The only electronic resource for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present. Content is searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments, and results can be limited by genre and/or language.
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RIPM - Retrospective Index of Music Periodicals
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international, highly annotated bibliography with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950--from Beethoven to Bartok, from Berlioz to Berg, and from Schubert to Shostakovich--all provided by internationally-recognized scholars and editors. RIPM is updated biannually and currently indexes the contents of 120 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more. RIPM's highly annotated indexing is based upon a detailed analysis of the content. In addition, RIPM offers more than 5,000 English-language translations of articles from journals in other languages. -
RIPM Jazz Periodicals
The initial installment of RIPM Jazz Periodicals contains periodicals published exclusively in the United States of America. RIPM hopes to include a number of important jazz journals published in other countries eventually. As an organization directing its attention to historical journals, RIPM focuses its jazz collection on supplying access to publications that ceased to appear in the twentieth century. -
Risk.net
Risk.net, designed to complement Risk magazine, is a unique resource dedicated to anyone who needs to manage risk. Risk.net now allows members to access the full content from Risk magazine, including all special reports and topical supplements, as well as a searchable archive of past issues of Risk." Also includes access to the following journals: Risk, Operational Risk & Regulation, Structured Products, Custody Risk, Energy Risk, Insurance Risk, Asia Risk, Hedge Funds Review, Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Energy Markets, Journal of Financial Market Infrastructure, Journal of Investment Strategies, Journal of Operational Risk, Journal of Risk, Journal of Risk Model Validation. -
RISM : Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti. It is the most comprehensive, open-source annotated index to music manuscripts produced after 1600. -
Rolling Stone Archive
The backfile of Rolling Stone, from its launch in 1967 to the present. One of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th-21st centuries, it initially sought to reflect the cultural, social, and political outlook of a generation of students and young adults. It has been a leading vehicle for rock and popular music journalism, as well as covering wider entertainment topics such as film and popular culture. -
Roman de la Rose Digital Library
The goal of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library is to create an online library of all manuscripts containing the 13th-century poem Roman de la Rose. We currently have digital surrogates of more than 130 Roman de la Rose manuscripts, and our collection continues to grow. -
Romanticism: Life, Literature & Landscape
Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse in this powerful digital resource. Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.Take a moment to browse the rich collection of fine art pieces which include works by such eminent artists as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Benjamin Robert Haydon. This evocative collection vividly brings to life the landscape that inspired literary creativity and poetic genius. -
Roper iPoll
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. You can search for datasets by keyword, country, surveying agency, timeframe and type of sample.
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Rosenne's Law and Practice of the International Court: 1920-2015
The 5th edition of the definitive work on the law and practice of the International Court of Justice, updated through 2015. -
Rossiiskaia Gazeta (current year)
Boasting a nationwide circulation, this newspaper covers domestic and foreign news, economics, culture, sports, and governmental affairs. As an official newspaper, its editorial policy reflects the government’s policy on any given issue, although it also frequently publishes commentaries and opinions that differ from official government positions. The newspaper also features interviews with influential Russian politicians, business, and cultural figures. Rossiiskaia Gazeta is an authoritative source of official government policy and an important venue of official commentary on laws and regulations enacted by the Russian legislature. -
Rossiiskaia Gazeta Digital Archive
Founded in 1990 by the government of the Russian Federation, Rossiiskaia gazeta (Российская газета, Russian Newspaper) is a Russian newspaper of public record based in Moscow with 13 regional offices, and foreign bureaus in the US, France, the UK, Germany and elsewhere. Boasting a nationwide circulation, the newspaper covers domestic and foreign news, economics, culture, sports, and governmental affairs. As an official newspaper, its editorial policy reflects the government’s policy on any given issue, although it also frequently publishes commentaries and opinions that differ from official government positions. The newspaper also features interviews with influential Russian politicians, business, and cultural figures. -
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Thousands of entries written by scholars. Fully searchable with hot-links among the articles. Regular updates. Covers Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.