Information Services

Databases I

Databases beginning with the letter I.

 

IAReporter (Investment Arbitration Reporter )

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Description:

Investment Arbitration Reporter is a news and analysis service tracking international arbitrations between foreign investors and governments.   It offers proprietary insight into breaking legal developments and policy trends in investment treaty arbitration, as well as reports on the latest legal pleadings, decisions and arbitral awards

 

i-law Maritime

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Access on and off campus. 5 concurrent users. 

Individual registration required. Use you University email address and create a password.
Description:

Covers publications, forms & documents, legislation, practice notes & events relating to maritime law.

 

IBISWorld

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Description:

IBISWorld is an online industry intelligence solution.  Each of its industry reports provides the most detailed performance data and analysis on the market; supply chain information; forecasts; risk scores; operating strengths and weaknesses; analysis of external drivers; major player market strategies; and industry profit and costs benchmarks. Reports are updated 1-4 times per year depending on how fast moving the industry is ensuring the most up to date research possible.  In addition to coursework/assignments, these reports would be of use to students researching industries for placements, future careers (including start up research) and interview preparation.  A user guide can be downloaded here.

Coverage: Covering over 400 UK industries at SIC L5, over 700 US industries at NAICS L5 and over 400 UK Brexit Imact Statement reports.

 

 

IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Science) Online

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Description:

Produced by the British Library of Political and Economic Science, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research focusing on the four core social science subjects of anthropology, economics, politics, and sociology. IBSS includes over 2.5 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 book and chapter records are included each year. Abstracts are provided for around 80% of all current journal articles and users can link to the full text of articles in journals subscribed to by the University of Edinburgh.

Userguide: http://proquest.libguides.com/IBSS

 

ICC Dispute Resolution Library (jusmundi.com)

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Description:

Provided by the ICC International Court of Arbitration, this channel contains material from ICC publications on arbitration as well as other types of dispute resolution. Content includes material from the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, access to the Dossiers of the Institute of World Business Law, the Secretariat’s Guide to ICC Arbitration, extracts from awards from ICC arbitral tribunals, ICC reference documents, Commission Reports and the ICC Guide to National Procedures for Recognition and Enforcement of Awards under the New York Convention and the complete collection of ICC Dispute Resolution Rules.

 

Access Information: Freely available
Description: Access to RePEc's (Research Papers in Economics) collection of about 1.2 million on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software from 75 countries. Freely available full-text download for many.

 

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

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Description: Full text access to documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.

 

IFORS Developing Countries OR Resources Website

Access information: Freely available.
Description: Publicly-available materials on the topic of Operations Research for Development. Also provides a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work.

 

Illustrated London News

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Description:

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives students and researchers unprecedented online access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations. Facsimiles of articles and illustrations can be viewed, printed and saved either individually or in the context of the page in which they appear. Wherever possible Special Numbers covering special events such as coronations or royal funerals have been included.

Coverage: 1842-2003

 

Image System for Books of Japanese Ruled Period

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Description:

The National Taiwan Library has a collection of over 160,000 volumes of unique Japanese books, periodicals and newspapers which were originally stored in the Governor’s Office of the Japanese Government during the Japanese occupation period and the Southern Archives. The Library also holds a collection of 60,000 volumes of Chinese books from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The former collection of Japanese items has been micro-filmed and also partly digitised.

This database provides the digitised books and documents part of the collection, covering a broad range of topics about the old Taiwan, e.g. history, education, politics, economy and production, etc. Items are chiefly in Japanese, some in Chinese and English.

Newspapers and periodicals are found in the separate database of “Image System for Periodicals of Japanese Ruled Period”. 

 

Image System for Periodicals of Japanese Ruled Period

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Description:

The National Taiwan Library (國立台灣圖書館) has a collection of over 160,000 volumes of unique Japanese books, periodicals and newspapers which were originally stored in the Governor’s Office of the Japanese Government during the Japanese occupation period and the Southern Archives. The Library also holds a collection of 60.000 volumes of Chinese books from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The former collection of Japanese items has been micro-filmed and also partly digitised.

This database provides the digital archive of over 300 periodicals and newspapers of this collection, covering a wide range of topics.

Books and documents are found in separate database “Image System for Books of Japanese Ruled Period”.

 

International Monetary Fund (IMF) eLibrary

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Description:

Direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. Includes  information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice and poverty reduction.

Note Although free to all from 1st January 2020, some features require creation of a personal account.

 

Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930

Access information: Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024.
Description: Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930 presents the investigations made during the massive immigration wave at the turn of the 20th century. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930; and European immigration. There are also extensive files on the INS’s regulation of prostitution and white slavery and on suppression of radical aliens.

 

ImportGenius

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Access on campus only (via UoE login).

Description:

ImportGenius provides complete real-time shipment records for all imports and exports of the United States, Russia, India and 15 other countries. ImportGenius users can view the importer, overseas factory, product, date of arrival, port of entry, and other essential details for every shipment.

Note

First time users of ImportGenius will need to create an account with their UoE email address.

ImportGenius are providing free access to this service. Downloads are limited to 100K. Additional download capacity is only available via a paid subscription to the Import Genius API service.

 

Access information: Available via on and off campus from LexisLibrary. Select the ‘Source’ tab and select title from the A-Z list. Also available on campus and via the VPN from Factiva: Cookies must be enabled on your browser. Click on Source and select title from A-Z list or search for title.
Description: Full text of newspaper articles. Available on day of publication. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Click on info icon beside titles on LexisLibrary or Factiva for more information.
Coverage: LexisLibrary: Independent: 19th September 1988, Sunday Independent: From 28th January 1990.
  Factiva: Independent: 1st June 1988- present (Abstracts from 1st Jun 1988 to 29th Jun 1998. Selected coverage from 1st Jun 1998 to 28th Jan 1997). Sunday Independent: From 29th October 2006.
Additional information: For more information on finding newspaper articles see the Library's guide:  Newspaper content

 

Independent Labour Party Records, 1893-1960

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Description: The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British left-wing political party founded in 1893. The ILP was affiliated with the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932. This collection contains minute books, annual reports, committee reports, conference resolutions, and weekly notes for speakers from the party's archive. These documents cover a wide range of subjects, from questions of war and peace to housing and trade unionism. They provide an excellent insight into the early years of the Labour movement in Britain.

 

Independent Voices

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Description:

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

 

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Description: A comprehensive archive of the European literature on all aspects of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Coverage: From 1906 to current. Over 5000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.  Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.  Updated monthly.

 

Access: Freely available on and off-campus.
Description: A service of the Universitatsbibliothek Tubingen, the Index Theologicus (IxTheo) indexes more than 600 theological periodicals, Festschriften and congress publications. There is approximately 60% duplication with ATLA, but this index covers European journals not indexed elsewhere.

 

Index of Medieval Art

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Description:

The Index of Medieval Art houses, contextualizes, and presents images and information relating to the iconographic traditions of the medieval world. Originally called the Princeton Index of Christian Art, reflecting its beginnings as a focused resource for the study of early Christian art, the Index now sets its parameters more broadly, including works from multiple medieval faith traditions as well as secular imagery.

As of 1 July 2023, the Index is accessible without a subscription.

 

 
Access Information: Access on and off campus
Description: Use IPM to find individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. With over 425,000 records available for searching, IPM provides detailed indexing across a range of categories, including collection, composer, editor, format, genre, language, librettist, publication year etc. It is also possible to search for titles of music collections, as well as individual compositions.

 

 

Indianapolis Star

Access information: Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024.
Description: LEARN ABOUT THE 1903 train wreck involving the Purdue University football team, relive the excitement of the town’s first 500-mile automobile race in 1911, explore local coverage of one of the most lauded speeches of the 20th century, delivered by Robert F. Kennedy following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. These iconic moments in history are among the people and events covered in The Indianapolis Star, the largest paper in Indiana, and a staunch a watchdog and advocate for its community. Three times it has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize — once for meritorious public service and twice for investigative reporting. In 1975, the Star was honored for its 1974 series on corruption within the Indianapolis Police Department. It was cited again in 1991 for its 1990 series on medical malpractice. Serious researchers and casual readers alike also will be interested in the photographs and illustrations captured in this historical newspaper’s pages.
Coverage: 1903-2004.

 

 

Indian Claims Insight

Access information: Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024.
Description: Unique compiled docket histories provide full text of all content related to each Indian claims throughout U.S. history up to the present time. The compilation includes court documents, cites treaties, related congressional publications, and maps.  It also includes histories for both Court of Claims and Indian Claims Commissions dockets.

 

Informit Literature & Culture Collection

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Description: The Informit Literature & Culture Collection provides access to a range of publications covering Australia’s literary and cultural heritage. The database contains the best of new writing, thought and debate including essays, fiction, poetry and critical writing with over 74,000 full text records from 60 resources with back files from 1940.

 

Infotrac Newsstand

See entry for Gale Onefile News

 

Inspec

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Description: The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Inspec database has over 16 million indexed records with abstracts of articles published more than 6,500 physics, computer science, electronics, electrical engineering, control engineering journals and conference proceedings. Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Indexes arXiv content.
Coverage: 1896-present

 

INSPIRE High-Energy Physics Literature Database (formerly SPIRES)

Access information: Freely available.
Description: Searchable, full-text repository containing more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports and conference papers. Additional databases include HEP related institutions, researchers, conferences and experiment summaries. Email alerts or RSS feeds available.
Coverage: From 1930s onwards.
Additional information:

Limited cited reference searching is possible but for a published paper also use Web of Science

 

Integrum Profi

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Access on and off-campus via username and password - please see Electronic resources: usernames page for details. NB: SINGLE USER LICIENCE. For access off-campus, make sure you are NOT on the University VPN.

Description:

Searchable database provides varying sources of current information about Russia and the former Soviet Union.  Includes full text of central and regional newspapers and journals, with the archive of some of them back to the late 1980s - early 1990s.

Further information: Language note: Content in Russian, website interface in Russian or English.

 

Access information: Access on and off campus.

For off campus access please use the University VPN - Access to the University network via the VPN.

  An account is also required to view the content.  Users can access the site using their existing A&AePortal credentials
Description: Interaction of Color Complete Digital Edition from Yale A&AePortal: The Interaction of Color Complete Digital Edition website is packed with elegant and innovative features that help you understand the book’s fundamental concepts, study the plates, and experiment with their own designs. Your A&AePortal institutional access is the same for the Interaction of Color website. Users with A&AePortal accounts can use their same credentials to access the website. All users must have an account to use the Interaction of Color website.

 

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Description: Citations to scholarly literature on Western art. Indexes 500 core journals, with an emphasis on specialist and rare titles not covered by other indexes, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Approximately 60% of the content is aimed to be in languages other than English (primarily German, French, Italian and Spanish). The successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
Coverage: 1945 onwards.

 

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

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Description: International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. This database was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains more than 490 full-text titles, including more than 170 full-text journals, and more than 360 full-text books & monographs.

 

Access information: Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 30 December 2023.
Description: The International Commission of Jurists promotes and protects human rights through the rule of law. Created in 1952, the ICJ aims to ensure the progressive development and effective implementation of international human rights and international humanitarian law. It also works to secure the realization of civil, cultural, economic, political, and social rights, as well as strives to safeguard the separation of powers and guarantee the independence of the judiciary and legal profession.

 

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Description: This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope, is regularly updated and currently holds nearly 8,000 records dating from the 1890s to the present day.

 

International Index to Film Periodicals

See entry for FIAF Plus

 

Access information: Access on and off-campus. Select International Medieval Bibliography on the Brepolis Login Portal page.
Description: Covers articles published in journals and in miscellany volumes. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

 

International Tables for Crystallography

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Description:

Reference work for crystallography and structural science comprised of articles and tables of data with an emphasis on symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal-structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals.

The data are accompanied by discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples.

  For use in areas concerned with the structure and properties of materials, from physics and materials science to chemistry, biology and biochemistry.

 

Access information: Free access on and off-campus from Flickr
Description: Photos and drawings sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation.
Coverage: Copyright free on the basis image sources are from 1500s to 1922.

 

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

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Description:

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), based at the University of Michigan, is an international consortium of 750 academic institutions and research organizations.  ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioural sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

 

investorstatelawguide.com

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Access on and off campus - for off campus access please use the University VPN - Click here for Access to the University network via the VPN.

Description:

A comprehensive research tool for international trade and investment law.  It includes decisions and awards for investment-treaty claims cases, arbitration rules, and investment and trade treaties and agreements.  Through its research tools, including article, jurisprudence and publication citators, ISLG has mapped the world of investment treaty law by capturing the relationships between treaties, arbitral rules, cases and other key materials.

 

INVOLVE Libraries: public involvement in research

Access information: Freely available
Description: Publications and other literature on public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research.
Additional information: INVOLVE is part of, and funded by, the National Institute for Health Research.

 

 

Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy 1977-1980

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Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024.

Description:

As Iran continues to generate global security concerns, the need to understand the roots of the U.S.-Iran relationship remains critical.  More than 14,000 pages of documents are offered on United States policy towards Iran and events in Iran during the period from January 20, 1977, to January 29, 1980. This collection covers the Carter administration's relationship with the Shah; the seizing of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the holding of its diplomatic personnel as hostages in late 1979; popular protests and mass demonstrations that climaxed in the Iranian revolution; and failed efforts by the U.S. and the provisional government to normalize relations.  The collection includes a major internal Carter administration review of U.S.-Iranian relations, as well as an extraordinary collection of foreign policy memoranda and cables that were seized from the U.S. embassy in November 1979 and published in Tehran as "The Documents from the Den of Espionage.” 

 

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Description: The documents in this collection include every exhibit released by the official investigations of the Iran-Contra Affair, including the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Tower Commission, the joint select Congressional committees, and the Independent Counsel. Iran-Contra focuses on the period from Fall 1983, when Congress first put limits on official U.S. assistance to the Contras, to the criminal indictments of Oliver North, Richard Secord, and Albert Hakim in Spring 1988.

 

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Description: The collection brings together a wealth of materials which trace U.S. policy toward Iraq prior to the Persian Gulf War, as well as U.S. government reactions to revelations about the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) scandal and the secret arming of Saddam Hussein's regime. The set also focuses on the economic issues at play in the U.S. relationship with Iraq. Documents are derived from virtually every federal agency involved in U.S.-Iraq policy and the BNL affair.

 

Irish Newspaper Archives

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Description: Irish Newspaper Archives contains electronic versions of Irish newspapers from the 1700's to current day.  Title list at https://www.irishnewsarchive.com/plist_static/

 

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Description: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

 

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Description: Among the longest-running Russian newspapers, Izvestiia was founded in March 1917 and during the Soviet period was the official organ of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Remarkable for its serious and balanced treatment of subject matter, Izvestiia has traditionally been a popular news source within intellectual and academic circles. The database platform offers the option to go to “All Sources” so that you can cross-search the content with the Pravda Digital Archive and other digital resources.
Coverage: 1917-2013
Note: Current issues can be accessed freely at http://izvestia.ru