Databases

The American Turpentine Farmers Association Minute Books, 1936-1999 provide the administrative record of the American Turpentine Farmers Association (ATFA), which was established in March of 1936 by Judge Harley Langdale of Valdosta, Georgia, along with 900 other men from the Southern turpentine industry. ATFA was formed to represent the interests of gum naval stores factors, producers, and dealers in the United States "turpentine belt" (Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas). Activities of the American Turpentine Farmers Association (ATFA) document the interconnection of land use and environmental stewardship to the broader issues and policies of modern Georgia's rural development.

The Ancestry Library Edition collection has more than 10 billion records in more than 8,000 databases. Content categories include birth, marriage, and death records; census records; immigration and travel; military; schools, directories, and church histories; tax, criminal, land, and wills; references, dictionaries, and almanacs; stories and publications; and photos and maps. The databases also include World War I and World War II draft cards, obituaries from Newspapers.com dating back to the 1800s, Social Security Death Index, U.S. Federal Census, federal slave narratives, and more. Ancestry Library Edition also allows researchers to search by geographic location.

ArchiveGrid is a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web. It's supported by OCLC Research as the basis for experimentation and testing in text mining, data analysis, and discovery system applications and interfaces. Archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives are represented in ArchiveGrid

Arts & Humanities Database includes both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies, and the subject strengths of the collection are:

• Art, design, crafts, and photography
• Archaeology, anthropology, and classical studies
• Architecture, interior design, and urban planning
• History, philosophy, geography, and religion
• Modern languages and literature
• Music, theatre, film, and cultural studies

The contents reflect the full interdisciplinary of contemporary study in the arts and humanities, with the inclusion of selected titles from related fields that are also covered by these indexes, such as ethnic and area studies, politics, economics and women's studies.

Primary documents related to the history and culture of Asia, sorted by region (East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia) and country.

ProQuest Asian & European Business Collection provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, and markets as well as international trade and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.

The Australia & New Zealand Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions located in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, education, arts, literature, history, and others.

Designed for touch-enabled devices such as laptops and tablets, Auto Repair Source offers a user-friendly search experience and access to a wealth of information to help users diagnose, repair and maintain today's complex vehicles. Diagrams and images can be easily magnified and printed.

Auto Repair Source contains the following:

• Service information optimized for the most common maintenance and repair operations
• Technical service bulletins and recall notices
• Component location diagrams for most domestic and imported cars and light trucks
• Precise and comprehensive wiring diagrams for all systems
• Maintenance schedules and estimated labor times for the most commonly performed operations in a mechanical repair shop
• Engineering specifications/standards for the most common repairs and adjustments
• Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTCs), flowcharts, and step-by-step diagnostic instructions covering powertrain, chassis, body, and network communication
• Part numbers, diagrams, and pricing for thousands of the most commonly replaced parts, including manufacturer-suggested retail price to help users validate the cost of repairs and identify all iterations of a part number or part status (current, superseded, split, discontinued)

The Bartleby.com site, originally created at Columbia University, includes a host of e-texts, all browsable and searchable, including such reference works as:

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed., 2000) [UCSB call #: PE 1628 .A623 2000]
• Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (20th ed., 1918) [UCSB has later editions at: QM 23.2 .G73]
• The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Farmer (1918)
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921) [various call numbers at UCSB]
• The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed., 2001) [UCSB call #: Ref AG 5 .C725 2000]
• Columbia Gazetteer of North America (2000) [UCSB call #: Ref E 35 .C65 2000]
• Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett (10th ed., 1919) [UCSB call #: Spec. Coll. PN 6081 .B29 1902; later editions at: PN 6081 .B29 and in Reference at: PN 6081 .B27]
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915) [UCSB call #: Ref JF515 .W42 for latest edition]
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd ed., 1995) [UCSB call #: Ref PE1591 .B35]
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) "The Most Notable Quotes, 1950-1988" [UCSB call #: Ref PN 6083 .S53 1988]
• The World Factbook (2008)

Bepress Digital Commons is a database of full-text, open-access scholarship that is curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, representing thousands of disciplines and subject areas from architecture to zoology. It includes scholarships from hundreds of universities and colleges, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. It continues to grow rapidly thanks to the contributions of researchers, librarians, faculty, and students who believe that scholarship is a community enterprise.