Databases for Reference

Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.

Guidelines for citations, writing style, and manuscript preparation.

Encyclopedia includes 3 English editions, a French edition, and the Historical Atlas of Islam.

This encyclopedia includes some four dozen entries on ethic conflicts around the world.

Combines Europa World Yearbook and Europa World Regional Surveys; covers politics, government, history, economics, statistics and directory data.

The directory contains information about the largest public and private foundations in the U.S. and links to foundation web sites. This edition includes full text access from more than 250,000 IRS 990 forms, 80,000 detailed funder profiles, half a million recently awarded grants, RFPs, key staff affiliations, publications, news and job postings.

Journals in all academic subjects with many peer-reviewed articles.

Includes: Consultants & Consulting Organizations Directory and the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources

Language learning resources for 60+ languages.

Authoritative research guides on a wide variety of subjects.

Encyclopedia covering multiple topics.

Provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, the arms trade and arms production, and armed conflicts, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

Covers key historical events, population, city profiles, social statistics, climate, recent elections, current leaders, defence, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, international trade, religion, culture, and diplomatic representatives, as well as fact sheets for countries world wide.

On-demand learning with access to online courses on software training, business, technology, and leadership skills.

Bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types.


Westlaw
Ginn Library/Tufts no longer subscribes to the Westlaw database for legal research.  Former Westlaw users are encouraged to contact the Ginn Research and Instruction Librarians regarding access to Lexis Advance, a database featuring largely U.S. cases, international materials, and secondary sources. 

A directory of over 66,000 international organizations including Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) and International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs) in 300 countries and territories.