Databases by Subject

Subject encyclopedias in classics, Middle East and Islamic studies, African studies, and international law. UCLA has selected access. Titles with a green box are available.

Online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized reference sources, primarily in the social sciences and humanities.

Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.

A good place to start, but note that it is an index to over 15 million articles in 11,000 subject encyclopedias and handbooks, both print and online and does not provide full-text articles. Instead, it will connect you to our catalog so you know where to find the appropriate encyclopedia, dictionary or other reference work. You will be linked to UCLA's holdings for any entries you find.

Includes the complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. plus quarterly updates of new and revised entries. Trace the origin and history of words and their meanings in this etymological dictionary.

Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.

Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.

High-resolution Images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes. Images are contributed by museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, artists, and estates, from a variety of sources including the Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts. UC campuses contribute additional images including: the Archivision Library, Saskia Art & Architecture images, the Visual Resources Collections from UCB, UCSB, UCI, UCLA, UCR, and the UCSC Library Instructional Collection. Other institutions contribute open access digital media content.

The Associated Press Images Collection contains millions of photographs dating from 1826 to present day. Tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories and headlines from 1997 to the present.

Search portal for the digital collections of all UC campuses and other contributing institutions. Indexes "photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more."

Current and historical demographic and social data, plus online tools to create custom maps and reports. Optional personal login account required to save and share projects online.

Web-based mapping application that creates thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States. Licensed for use by 5 simultaneous users. Researchers may create a personal account or sign in as a guest. Previously named SimplyMap.

Geographical encyclopedia of names, descriptions, and characteristics of places in the world. Entries include: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.

Full-text articles from over 2400 US and international blogs, journals, newspapers, newswires, videos, and web sources. Date coverage varies with individual newspapers. Formerly called America's Newspapers or NewsBank.

Complete text of articles from 1959 to the present from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news, culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.

Full-text business and general news content covering more than 31,000 sources from more than 200 countries in 26 languages. Includes US and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, Web sites, photographs, and trade and industry publications. Also: company and industry profiles; company-to-company/company-to-industry financial comparisons; stock price data; and stock charting.

Full-text news (including broadcast transcripts), business, legal, and reference information. Also useful for finding full text of current performing arts and media industry news in major newspapers. Includes biographical information from Who's Who titles.

A repository of publicly, privately, and commercially sourced statistical time-series data, with integrated analysis and mapping tools.

Statistics on policy issues, with online tools for creating maps, tables, and reports. Statistical categories include demographics, income and spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, health, and federal guidelines.

Online portal to World Bank documents. Over 1,400 World Bank publications and over 2,000 Policy Research Working Papers.

Online library of e-books, e-periodicals, and interactive statistical databases produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Volumes covering 1879-2012 are on the US Census site.