A-Z Databases: C
List of the databases you can use to access journal articles, reports, conference papers, ebooks, newspapers, and many other resources.
C - Databases
- C19: The Nineteenth Century index This link opens in a new windowC19 Index is a dynamic and growing resource, currently containing over 24 million bibliographic records for a full range of 19th century source material and provides integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
Contains the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 - The Cabinet Papers This link opens in a new windowCore records of the British Cabinet have been digitized, and include: Conclusions of cabinet meetings, Cabinet memoranda, Cabinet Secretaries' notebooks, Cabinet Office precedent books, etc. ... Cabinet records are regularly released to the public throughout the year, usually 30 years after they have been created; in adherence with the 30-year rule. The main conclusions and memoranda of Cabinet are generally released at New Year. ... Some of the files on this site contain redactions under the Public Records Act. Where material becomes open to public view as a result of a Freedom of Information request the papers on this site will be updated
Records are added yearly as they are released to the public domain, per the UK 30-Year copyright rule
- The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics This link opens in a new windowoffers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context, their major works are analysed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed.
- The Cambridge Companions to Music This link opens in a new windowcontains information on a range of topics about composers, instruments and musical instruments. Includes a series of specially-commissioned essays offering comprehensive coverage
- The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture This link opens in a new windowspecially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists. Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowincludes over 250 volumes of the Cambridge Histories, including a variety of subject areas including American and British History, Language and Linguistics, Political and Social Theory and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Structural Database This link opens in a new windowThe online version of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). A repository for structural data of organic, metal-organic and organometallic molecules
- Canadian Poetry (via LION) This link opens in a new windowCreated in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth.
Formerly part of LION (Literature Online) - The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology This link opens in a new windowa collection of over 4000 articles on individual hymns, authors of hymns, tunes, composers and hymnals.
- Caribbean literature This link opens in a new windowIn Caribbean Literature, students and scholars can find, view, and analyze the interplay of language and culture, for an understanding of the struggle between indigenous and European languages. For the first part of the 20th century Caribbean writers defined themselves and their culture in the languages of their colonizers. But after independence, with a new self-determination and pride of origin, authors increasingly used local styles and vocabularies.
- The Cecil Papers This link opens in a new windowa collection of approximately 30,000 16th and 17th century manuscripts, consisting principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son Robert Cecil, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612), both Secretary of State to Elizabeth I
- Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) This link opens in a new windowaccess to over 985 scholarly, full-text humanities and social science e-journals, and digitised material on Central, Eastern and South Eastern European topics
- Chatham House Online Archive This link opens in a new windowDigitised version of the Chatham House's archive from 1920 to 2008. The Archive contains almost 100 years of research, publications, speeches and archives of the leading international affairs think tank, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London.
- ChemSpider This link opens in a new windowChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 25 million structures, properties and associated information. Provided by the RSC.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new windowprovides authoritative guidance on citing sources, reference formats, grammar and usage, and on how to deal with punctuation, names, numbers, tables, quotations, dialogue, spelling, abbreviations, etc for Chicago-style citation
- Child Development and Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new windowindexes historical and current articles relating to the growth and development of children
- China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals (1817-1949) This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials from archives including the Second Historical Archives of China and the British Library providing an insight into China during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Missionary, sinology, and literary periodicals: A collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in, or about, China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded. This corresponds to the periods of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era (1911-1949), when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic with modern approaches to politics, literature, education, public morality, and intellectual life. - Chinese film and newsreel scripts from the Cultural Revolution online This link opens in a new windowProduced mostly by the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of China, documentary films and newsreels were two of the major mass media and communication channels in China from the 1950s through the 1970s. They covered all aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on developments and achievements in the building of a socialist country. In order to reach even broader public audiences, government agents produced and printed the transcripts and shot lists for the films and sent them to cities and rural areas. The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- Churchill Documents and Official Biography This link opens in a new window31 volume set made up of the raw materials of history; the letters, notes, memos and records of Sir Winston Churchill.
- CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama 1977-2010. This link opens in a new windowPart of the Digital National Security Archive, This collection provides a detailed account of the operational and diplomatic history of U.S. covert operations, encompassing the time period beginning with the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977, and concluding with the George W. Bush administration, although a few Obama-era documents are also included. Containing 2,337 declassified documents from a wide range of sources, the set provides a wide-ranging look into the intricacies of CIA covert action.
- CIA Family Jewels Index This link opens in a new windowPart of the Digital National Security Archive, CIA Family Jewels Indexed is the work of the National Security Archive's efforts over 15 years to obtain the CIA's most closely held secrets about their domestic intelligence activities conducted at the height of the Cold War, through 1973. Among the most controversial documents ever compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the "Family Jewels" represents the CIA's own view, in 1973, of those domestic activities it had engaged in up to that time that were outside its charter, hence illegal.
- Civil rights and social justice This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline's Civil Rights database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans including disabled Americans and those identifying as LGBTQ. Containing hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislations, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still. A curated list of scholarly articles, a varied collection of books on many civil rights topics, and a list of prominent civil rights organizations help take the research beyond HeinOnline
- ClasePeriodica This link opens in a new windowindex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Over 600,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
1975 - to present; updated every 3 months. Select ClasePeriodica from the database list. - CNKI This link opens in a new windowIncludes access to full-text journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspapers and yearbooks published in China. The site is updated daily. Some databases supply articles from as early as 1912; most information is from the late 1990s or early 2000s to date.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowincludes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register and others
- Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new windowThe Colonial State Papers offers access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records with this incredible resource on Colonial History. In addition to Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, this collection also covers the Caribbean and Atlantic world. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.
- Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot This link opens in a new windowCollected, uncollected and unpublished prose of T.S. Eliot. Currently includes the following 8 volumes - The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Apprentice Years, 1905-1918, The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926, Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927–1929, English Lion, 1930–1933, Tradition and orthodoxy 1934-1939, The War Years 1940-1946, a European Society 1947-1953 and Still and Still Moving 1954-1965
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science - see Web of Science This link opens in a new window
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science and Humanities - see Web of Science This link opens in a new window
- Confidential Print, Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowaccess to the Confidential Print series issues by the British Government covering the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan.
- COPAC - SEE Library Hub Discover This link opens in a new windowsearch over 70 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues
- CREDO Reference This link opens in a new windowoffers over 650 major reference books - dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri, biographies, books of quotations, atlases and quick reference works on every subject
- CSD - see Cambridge Structural Database This link opens in a new window
- Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update This link opens in a new windowPart of the Digital National Security Archive, a collection containing the latest declassified documentation on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, supplementing the DNSA’s collections, with never-before-published records from U.S. and Soviet archives, highlights from the archive of Anastas Mikoyan - the Soviet leader who negotiated the end of the crisis, U.S. Navy tracking reports, briefing documents for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and formerly classified U.S. intelligence materials. Also in this update are 4 volumes of the CIA’s internal history of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.
- Current Controlled Trials - see ISRCTN registry This link opens in a new window