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Documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice - are indexed. Masthead documents (formerly referred to as mimeographed documents), Official Records, sales publications, limited and restricted documents, and documents emanating from sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences and regional bodies are the basis of the Index.

Full-text resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Council are appended to their respective bibliographic citations.

Most articles included are in English; all abstracts are in English.

Also covers book reviews and dissertations.

Note that USC has access to all ACS journals via SciFinder Scholar in the ISD Computing Labs, etc. More information under the SciFinder Scholar record.

Search tips for ACS journals can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/query/subscriberSearch.jsp ."

Part of the Literature Online collection.

The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.

• The 17,435 original biographies
• 125 or more new biographies added every three months, including articles on recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition
• Nearly 2,000 illustrations from the Library of Congress to start, and more added each quarter
• Regular updates to the bibliographies
• Regular updates to the biographies that incorporate new facts and new interpretations

You may search the ANB Online in a number of ways:

• By full text (words and phrases)
• By subject name
• By gender
• By occupation or realm of renown
• By birth date
• By birthplace
• By death date
• By contributor name

Part of the Literature Online collection.

• Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS)last published in 1988.
• Resource 2: Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LCUs subject and name indexing of the collection. Only ArchivesUSA( makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form.
• Resource 3: Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

ASFA Search Tutorials (three levels -- quick, advanced, command) are here: http://md1.csa.com/help/tutorials.html"

The Avery Index is the only comprehensive American index to the literature of architecture and architectural design. It surveys more than 700 U.S. and foreign journals, 75% of which are not indexed in any other source. It covers not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional periodicals, and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage of the literature goes back to the 1930s, with selected coverage going back to the 1860s. The Avery also includes the Burnham Index, which covers 214 serial publication from the 1830s to the mid-1960s.

Subjects covered include:

• Archaeology
• Architectural design
• Architecture
• Furniture and decoration
• Historic preservation
• History of architecture
• Interior design
• Landscape architecture
• Public art
• Urban planning

Compiled by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

See also: Project Bartleby Arhive

BHA is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art and material culture from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, bibliographies, conference proceedings, dissertations, corpora, festschriften, exhibition and dealers' catalogues, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Abstracts are in English or French.
BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989. Updated quarterly.

Topics covered include:

• Art of Europe and the Americas (4th century CE to modern)
• Art history
• Painting, sculpture, drawings, prints
• Decorative and applied arts
• Architecture and industrial design
• Popular and folk art

Compiled by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST-CNRS).

Other resources include:

• Links (and some catalogs) to international universities
• financial aid information and assistance
• career planning links
• college entrance exam information

The Record is divided into four parts and paginated as follows in the daily edition.

• The debate and other floor action of the House and of the Senate are paginated separately, with page numbers beginning "H" (as in H8793) for House debate and "S" (as in S3987) for Senate debate.
• Material not spoken on the floor may appear in the Extension of Remarks (paged as in E2347) section that appears in the Record after the Senate and House floor debate sections. If a member speaking on the floor requests permission "to revise and extend my remarks," those revisions appear in the Extension of Remarks portion of the Record.
• The fourth portion of the Record, known as the Daily Digest (paged as in D739), contains a brief synopsis of floor action in both the House and Senate and in all the committees that met on that day. The Daily Digest is especially useful for identifying each day's floor amendments and their disposition.

Updated daily (available same day as printed version is released).

Public access to this material is also available at Thomas, a service of The Library of Congress.

For more than 30 years, Contemporary Authors has been the primary resource for information on modern authors, including those who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue to influence contemporary literature. The database covers more than 100,000 current writers in a wide range of media, including:

• current writers of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and drama whose works have been issued by commercial publishers, risk publishers, or university presses
• prominent print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists, screenwriters, television scriptwriters, and other media people
• authors who write in languages other than English, provided their works have been published in the United States or translated into English literary greats of the early twentieth century whose works are popular in today's high school and college curriculums and continue to elicit critical attention

Seach tutorial is here:http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/ccc3/"

New collections will be added yearly.

All collections are searchable by keyword, person, and date. Each collection may be searched separately or in combination with other collections.

EEA Search Tutorials (three levels -- quick, advanced, command) are here: http://md1.csa.com/help/tutorials.html"

Part of the Literature Online collection.

Today, HRAF has over 400 member institutions located in over 30 nations. In its early years the collection was distributed on paper slips. In 1958, HRAF began to reproduce the paper slips on microfiche. In 1993, with installment 42, microfiche production ended. Annual installments are now distributed to members on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web (spring 1997); currently there are three installments: 43, 44, and 45. Click here for a complete list of cultures available in these installments. More than 25% of each installment is new material not already in the microfiche files. New and recent documents are added to each culture to provide the researcher with a broader, more current selection of source material.

Information on eHRAF on CD-ROM

Microfiche HRAF is available in the Doheny Reference Center.

Part of the Literature Online collection.

Part of the Literature Online collection.