Research Databases
Alphabetical Listing

A source for major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,140 in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.

Best's Library Center provides online access to A.M. Best insurance company ratings and Best's Insurance Reports. The database includes in-depth reports on thousands of U.S., Canadian and Non-U.S. insurers, reinsurers and groups.

Need journal articles for a research paper, homework assignment, or professional / business project? Academic OneFile contains over 6,000 full-text articles from peer-reviewed sources, as well as more than 8,000 additional abstracts / citations. Additional materials include podcasts and transcripts from news outlets such as NPR, CNN, and CBC.

Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources, access to 21 of the databases listed here.

Shared catalog for materials owned by most PA libraries.

Full text information on African American history and culture.

African American Song is now a part of American Song! To listen to historical recordings of African American music, visit American Song or Music Online Plus

Log in to watch historic newsreels, award-winning PBS shows, History Channel content and more directly in your web browser. Browse by historical subject/era or search for specific topics. Also includes video transcripts and specialized playlists, as well as the option to create your own list of historical favorites.

Streaming audio of 50,000 tracks from America's musical past. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

A comprehensive source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research.

Current and historic photos and graphics from the Associated Press.

From the rise and fall of drugs such as Thalidomide to the business of oil, the evolution of satellite technology to the emergence of the global economy, this is a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, company profiles, iconic executives and scientists, and much more. This unique reference is the ideal single source for information on the most important events, issues, and trends in the history of business and industry.
Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective features:
Citations to more than 4.5 million articles from more than 2,000 periodicals.
Updated subject headings, ensuring that a search using either old or new search terms will return all the information on that subject.
Original subject headings to offer insight into the way the issues of the day were framed.

Provides articles from major scientific and technical journals in all areas of engineering and technology, including topics ranging from acoustics to waste management.

American Reference Books Annual online.

Index to articles from art, architecture & design magazines, back to 1929. Some full text and abstracts.

Auction records for antiques & collectibles, used by the experts on the Antiques Roadshow

Auction records (1985-present) for fine arts.

Detailed information on national, international and regional associations.

Detailed and diagrammed automotive repair and maintenance information covering most major manufacturers.

A comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Avery indexes not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s) to the present. Updated weekly.

View Barrons in digital microfilm format from January, 2008.

Comprehensive index to biographical reference works.

Comprehensive database of biographical information. Includes full text biographical articles from many popular magazines.

Company profiles, industry descriptions, association information, investment reports, full-text articles and citations.

Career profiles, assessment tools, and other career-related information.

The Chronicle Career Library provides comprehensive descriptions of more than 2,000 jobs. Each occupational brief includes information on the work performed, training, education or certifications needed, hours and earnings, and employment outlook.

Listen to classical music online. Now part of Music Online Plus.

There are four databases you can search, all using the same search page or interface. Use advanced search to limit it to only one database. (Formerly Lexis-Nexis)

• Congressional
  This collection includes the full text of congressional publications, finding aids, a bill tracking service, and the full text of public laws and other research materials.
  
  
• Congressional Hearings, 1824 - 1979
  Both published and unpublished Hearings contain the full transcripts of proceedings, including all oral statements, committee questions, and discussion. They also contain texts of related reports, statistical analyses, correspondence, exhibits, and articles presented by witnesses or inserted into the record by committee members and staff.
  
  
• United States Serial Set
  Considered one of the most important sources for the study of American history, politics and society, this collection of government publications begins in 1789 with the American State Papers and details Congressional business through 1969. It includes reports and documents either produced or ordered by Congress, as well as presidential communications and treaty materials.
  
  
• United States Serial Set Maps
  The more than 56,000 maps found in the collection, some of which represent the first geological, soil and population maps of many states and territories, are of paramount importance to historians, other social scientists, students and scholars.

This full-text database covers health topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

Biographical and critical articles on current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television.

A new addition, this site aims to be one that “delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent.” Currently this constantly growing site features over 8,000 tracks of music from around the world.

CQ Researcher Plus Archive provides unbiased coverage of current issues, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist providing an overview, chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; pro/con viewpoints of opposing positions; and supporting data including bibliographies of key sources. The CQ Researcher archive includes more than 3,000 reports published between 1923 and 1990.

Built by Simon Frazer University, CUFTS allows you to look up a journal title, see in which databases it is indexed, and what the date ranges of full-text coverage, if any, are. Once you've found your databases, check this alphabetical list to see if the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh subscribes.

A scholarly resource of recordings, including liner notes and essays, from New World Records, Composers Recordings (CRI) and other labels such as Albany, Frog Peak, Mode, and XI.
Only available within the Main Library of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

14 million companies, from the smallest to the largest, with extensive information on each and downloading capabilities.

Full text electronic books.

Citations, with some abstracts & full text, for approximately 200 scholarly journals.
*Only available at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Library

Only available in the Pennsylvania Department of the Main Library. To access FOLD3 use the desktop icon on Pennsylvania Department PC's in the Main Libray.
Fold3 provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served, as well as access to naturalization records/indexes, city directories, historical newspapers and more. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.

Only available at the Foundation Center of the Main Library.
Foundation Directory Online Professional is the grantseeker's most valuable resource of information on nearly 100,000 foundations, grantmaking public charities, and corporate donors throughout the United States. This database also provides information on over 1.8 million recent grants, access to nearly 650,000 IRS 990s, and is updated weekly.

Only available at the Foundation Center of the Main Library.
Search grant and fellowship programs offered to individuals by more than 6,200 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.

Online reference books.

Looking for high-quality information on current events and controversial issues? Global Issues in Context gathers together journal articles, news reports, and other sources of credible information on topics of worldwide interest. Explore all sides of society's most important issues with this full-text database. Great for students and concerned citizens alike!

This collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles on environmental issues. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

Encyclopedia of art, architecture & design.

Encyclopedia of music of all kinds, especially classical, ethnic, opera and jazz.

Only available at the Foundation Center
GuideStar provides information on the programs and finances of more than 1.8 million IRS-recognized nonprofits across the United States. GuideStar Premium is a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on both grantmakers and grantseeking tax-exempt charities. It is easy to use and updated each day.

View thousands of images documenting Pittsburgh history, as well as historic maps, and much, much more

The name of this database has been changed to U.S. History in Context.

The name of this database has been changed to World History in Context.

IEEE Journals accessible online
IEEE Xplore contains a comprehensive collection of full text documents, reports and standards, providing access to the world's most highly cited journals in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
* ONLY accessible in Downtown & Business, the Main Library, and Squirrel Hill.

This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.

The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna. It is an on-line audiovisual library of the world's birds (based on Handbook of the Birds of the World) that is available to the general public free of charge, though registration is required.

Everything you need to know about virtually any jazz record ever released. The Jazz Discography gives you accurate, detailed information on over 100 years of recorded jazz in all genres.

The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project from the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries features The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962). Two other Jewish newspapers, The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present) will be added to the PJN database.

Search full-text archives of many core scholarly journals, particularly in the humanities, social sciences & music.

A bibliographic database that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literature Criticism Online provides more than 200,000 reprinted essays of both critical perspectives and in-depth contextual information needed to understand the social, political and historical implications of hundreds of literary works, writers and literary periods. These scholarly overviews and analysis are copied from the print editions of Gale's popular and authoritative Literary Criticism series, and are available in PDF format.

Author information, literary criticism and plot summaries for authors from every age and literary discipline.

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Learn Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and a host of other languges, or improve your ESL skills, with Mango's web-based lessons.

Catalog of U. S. Government publications from 1976 to the present.

Full text coverage of the most popular magazines and journals. Also includes many reference books, photographs and maps.

Authoritative consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

14 million companies, from the smallest to the largest, with extensive information on each and downloading capabilities.

Online Access to the complete contents of all back issues of the following Moody's or Mergent Manuals to 1909

Contains mutual fund and stock ratings and reports, including detailed analyst reports, from Morningstar Inc.

Lists currently available printed music.

Citations to articles appearing in music periodicals back to 1979. The Library owns paper copies of Music Index from 1949 - 1996.

Explore all of our Alexander Street Press music databases via the Music Online Plus interface. This portal lets you search and use materials from American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound without having to jump from database to database.

Listen to classical, jazz & world music online.

Listen to streaming audio of jazz music.

Listen to streaming audio of adult and children's classic fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry.

Free access to full-text articles in .PDF format between 1850-1930, and 1980-present.

Although initially centered on New York City, you can input your zipcode to find out the racial makeup, income, home values (increase/decline), and education levels of any neighborhood. Data is from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.

View the New York Times in digital microfilm format from January, 2008.

An historical newspaper database which contains newspapers from every state and 7 foreign countries- over 2,434 titles. The archive's newspapers date from 1759 to the present.

Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title.

Information about more than 38,000 fiction titles of interest to students in grades K-8. Full text reviews from professional journals and book talks for selected titles are available in this database.

Only available at the Foundation Center
The NOZASearch database helps nonprofits identify, cultivate, and solicit major gifts for their organizations and is considered one of the top 5 most used prospect research tools. NOZA information comes from publicly available sources, including annual reports and donor lists. The database lists nearly 50 million donations to U.S. nonprofits, providing access to donor name, gift amount, donation type, gift year, recipient organization and more.

Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. Contains Indexing and Abstracting of 4000 journals, with Full Text from more than 2500 journals. Includes Full Text from 1995 forward, and Indexing from 1982 forward.

100% full-text multi-disciplinary database Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more.

Opera in Video allows library cardholders to watch opera on demand and free of charge. This frequently updated database contains streaming video of great operas from the Baroque period through the 20th century as well as interviews and documentaries focusing on opera.

Full text of books that cover both sides of social issues.

Contains the complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary from its 20-volume Second Edition and its 3-volume Additions Series.

Oxford Art Online includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online (includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Dictionary of Jazz and Grove Dictionary of Opera) and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Full-text entries from over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries on subjects such as art, history, languages, literature, philosophy, quotations, science, and more.

Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources, access to 21 of the databases listed here.

Four series of passenger lists containing over 6 million names of immigrants from Germany, Italy, Russia and the famine years of Ireland.

Explore local history with this full-text archive of The Pittsburgh Courier. Covers the years 1911-2002.

Articles posted on post-gazette.com since 1998. Does not include the entire archives of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

View the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in digital microfilm format from January, 2009.

A searchable directory of the 1,400 Southwestern Pennsylvania member companies of the Pittsburgh Technology Council.

Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources, access to 21 of the databases listed here.

For over 100 years, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature has become the ultimate index of subjects in the popular press, has earned the trust of researchers at all levels, and has been hailed by Library Journal as one of the "50 Best Reference Sources for the Millennium." All the information from 44 Readers' Guide annuals in a single database that you can search easily and precisely; access to over 3 million article citations from approximately 375 leading magazines; many of the articles are peer reviewed.

Full-text database containing indexing, abstracting, and full text of 200 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

Reference Universe searches the complete indexes of more than 10,000 designated reference titles, and then indicates which titles are in the collection at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Main Library. Nearly 2,000 of these titles are online editions. Reference Universe places the reference collection of Carnegie Library’s Main Library at your fingertips and is updated monthly.

Please contact Reference USA at 1.800.808.1113 if you have any problems accessing the database with your Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card.

Step-by-step resume instruction, job search advice, and career information are available to you via the ResumeMaker portal. Users can create a free account to save document drafts and other career information. Also contains job and career-related video clips and tutorials.

Electronic access to over 1,000 articles on diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and medical issues. Also contains over 400 photographs and illustrations. This electronic resource includes the entire contents of both Magill's Medical Guide and Salem Press's reference book, Cancer.

Salem History provides full-text digital access to primary source documents and reference resources from prehistory through the present day. Historical fields covered include religion, sports, American history, world history, and interdisciplinary biographies.

Searchable literary criticism of selected authors and works. More titles added as they arrive. Current offerings include volumes on Toni Morrison and Jane Austen, and individual works by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.

Online access to Salem Press's Forensics Science Reference. Science reference itles will be added to the Salem Science portal as purchased.

Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

100% full-text database covering the sciences. Includes the full text from 360 journals from Wilson's Applied Science, Biological & Agricultural, and General Science databases, as well as science related articles from other Wilson databases.

Magazine & journal articles, reference books, websites and more on science topics from biology to polymorphism.

Science Experiments and more. This database will not only help you find a science experiment, but it will provide definitions, diagrams, facts, timelines, and essays, too.

Full-text articles and graphics from newspapers and magazines for elementary and middle school students.

Listen to world, folk and traditional music online.

Online access to Standard & Poor's stock, bond and mutual fund research and reports plus the investment newsletter The Outlook. Also includes access to the in-depth S&P Industry Reports [no remote access], Corporation Records, and directories of corporations, their executives, and securities dealers in North America.

Provides abstract information from over 260 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals.

Database of college, graduate & vocational schools that also offers test preparation & practice exams.

Explore 20th-century theatre history via this streaming video database. Contents include the complete BBC Shakespeare performances, live television broadcasts from the 1950s, experimental theatre of the 60s and 70s, important contemporary performances, and theatre documentaries.

Site search is limited to articles published on the website since 2001. Does not include all articles published by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Students can search the TFS databases for scholarships and other forms of financial aid, take personality and career aptitude tests, and search for detailed college information. TuitionFundingSources.com also maintains a large database of athletic scholarships. When registering, new users should select "Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh" as their school.

TumbleBooks add animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books, producing an electronic picture book which you can read or have read to you. TumbleBooks are created in flash animation and require the Adobe Flash Player Plugin.

One-stop source for U.S. history, including primary documents, full-text articles, images, maps and more.

View USA Today in digital microfilm format from January, 2009.

A sister website to STAT-USA by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce it provides U.S. import and export data on over 18,000 commodities.
*ONLY accessible in Downtown & Business and Reference Services of the Main Library in Oakland; fee-based offsite.

There are four databases you can search, all using the same search page or interface. Use advanced search to limit it to only one database. Includes Congressional publications, Congressional Hearings, United States Serial Set (1789-1969) and United States Serial Set Maps.

View the Wall Street Journal in digital microfilm format from January, 2008.

This online version of the World Almanac provides facts and statistics on topics ranging from economics to pop culture, history to current events.

This online version of the World Almanac for Kids provides facts and statistics on many topics, including states, countries, animals, U.S. presidents, space, and more.

One-stop source for world history, including primary documents, full-text articles, images, maps and more.

Search the holdings of over 9,000 libraries at one time. If you find something that you want, and we don't have it, you can use Interlibrary Loan.
Non-CLP cardholders: Search WorldCat

A global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.