Databases: I

Some databases are restricted to the Washington University community. Information about access from outside WU campuses.

• IBR Online (1985 - )
  Officially titled: Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen or International Bibliography of Book Reviews, contains over 990,000 entries for book reviews, primarily from Humanities and Social Science journals. More info
• IBZ Online (1983 - )
  Journal index. An index of periodical literature covering basic research from all fields of knowledge. Particularly strong in the humanities and the social sciences. More info
• ICPSR: the Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research
  Access to very large computer data files in the social sciences, including election results, polls, surveys, and census. More info
• IEEE Xplore
  Full text. Search and access the full-text of IEEE and IET journals, IEEE and IET conference proceedings, and IEEE standards.
• In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
  Provides in-depth indexing of oral history in English from around the world. Future releases will include other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies. More info
• Index Islamicus
  Journal index. Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. More info
• Index of Christian Art
  From Princeton University; records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. More info
• Index to American Botanical Literature (late 1995 - )
  From the New York Botanical Garden; entries deal with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics (traditional and molecular), floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany. More info
• Index to Jewish Periodicals (1988 - )
  Journal index, some full-text. A comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. More info
• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
  No longer available online via FirstSearch. Current WU students, faculty, and staff may use it in person at the WU Law Library, via WilsonWeb.
• IndexCat (1880-1961)
  Online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. More info
• Indiastat (1 concurrent user allowed; username & password required)
  Statistics. Indiastat 'is a cluster of 51 sites including India-specific, Sector specific and State specific sites rendering its dedicated services to the research fraternity from academic, professional and corporate world with authentic and comprehensive compilation of secondary level socio-economic statistical data about India and its states on more than 35 variables.' (from About us on the site). Note: click Access Info for Selected Online Resources to get the username and password required for full access.
• InfoTrac©General BusinessFile is no longer available. Please use Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost©) instead. More info
• IngentaConnect
  Includes more than 13,000 publications that you can search or browse the tables of contents. You can sign up for email table of contents alerts. More info
• INIS Database (International Nuclear Information System)
  'This initiative provides easy access to reliable nuclear information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, including nonconventional literature, and makes nuclear knowledge readily available worldwide. Established in 1970, INIS represents the world’s largest database of scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture, health and industry. Currently, the INIS Database contains over 3 million bibliographic records and almost 200,000 full-text nonconventional documents, consisting of scientific and technical reports and other non copyrighted information.' (from database homepage)
• INSPEC (1898 - )
  Journal index. Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. More info
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951 - )
  Some full-text. Provides indexing, abstracts and some full text; broad coverage of international material from over 100 languages and countries. More info
• International Directory of Company Histories
  Full-text. Provides detailed histories of many of the largest and most influential companies worldwide. These multi volume sets of ebooks are fully searchable.
• International Encyclopedia of Dance
  Full-text. 'With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the Encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.' (from database homepage)
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2nd edition)
  Full-text. 'The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Special attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. This interdisciplinary focus makes the encyclopedia an invaluable resource not only for linguistics but also for scholars working in the fields of computer science, mathematics, philosophy, the social and behavioral sciences, and literary studies.' (from database homepage)
• International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (2007)
  Full-text. '...a key reference guide to theoretical and empirical research about men, masculinities, and masculinity studies around the world. It reflects multidisciplinary perspectives in the social sciences, humanities and, to a lesser extent, the sciences, and in such fields as popular culture, feminist, women’s, gender and sexuality studies.' (from Introduction to the book)
• International Financial Statistics
  Approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries starting in 1948. Includes exchange rates, Fund accounts and the main global and country economic indicators.
• International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (1995 - ) (3 concurrent users allowed)
  Full-text (partial). Provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text coverage of the most important music journals. More info
• International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (1997 - ) (3 concurrent users allowed)
  Full-text (partial). '...the only online resource covering the performing arts. It enables you to search and browse citations, abstracts and selected full text in a comprehensive range of journals.' More info
• International Medieval Bibliography (1967 - ) (3 concurrent users allowed)
  Journal index. '...the world's leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.' Please logout when finished. More info
• IRIS
  Grants database that searches some 7,500 funding opportunities available to graduate students, faculty, undergraduate students, and institutions. Available on the WUStL campuses due to a subscription by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. More info
• (Oxford) Islamic Studies Online (3 concurrent users allowed)
  Full-text. "...brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture,..." More info
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  "The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases." More info