E-resources and databases
starting with "I"
- Informit Online
RMIT Publishing provides a source of online full text, multi-media and index databases on Australasian scholarly research. It has a very strong Australian focus and includes thousands of articles from scholarly Australasian journals, monographs, conference proceedings and other research material.
- IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary collections of academic and professional research articles online, providing researchers with online access to abstracts and sometimes full text of electronic articles.
- INIS: International Nuclear Information System
INIS (The International Nuclear Information System) hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. It offers online access to a unique collection of non-conventional literature. INIS is operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in collaboration with over 150 members.
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
The ICSD contains an almost exhaustive list of known inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including their atomic coordinates. ICSD provides information on structural data of pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds, structural descriptors (Pearson symbol, ANX formula, Wyckoff sequences), bibliographic data and abstracts, and keywords on methods, properties and applications.
- Instrumentation Abstract Service (part of ADS)
Instrumentation Abstract Service is part of Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 10.1 million records including astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and arXiv e-prints. All abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher and their use is free for personal use only.
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Covering the social sciences with focus on anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, this resource provides bibliographic references to articles, books, chapters, reviews, and English language abstracts. It includes international material and over 100 languages and countries from 1951 onwards.
- International Index to Film Periodicals Database
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing and preserving films. FIAF's editorial staff, along with its Affiliates, produces the International Index to Film Periodicals which offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. This database contains FIAF's “Treasures from Film Archives”; a detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world, a selection of Reference volumes and the linked full-text of over 60 journals.
- International Music Score Library Project(IMSLP)
An online library containing PDF files of public domain music, which can be downloaded and printed for use. Some are scans from older editions, some are newly typeset. Features solo instrumental, chamber, orchestral scores and parts, vocal and opera music. Also includes public domain sound recordings of some works.
- IOP ebooks
IOP ebooks brings together innovative digital publishing with leading voices from across the physical sciences. Created through collaboration with leading researchers in their field, IOP ebooks™ includes the IoP Expanding Physics Collection and IoP Concise Physics Collection.
- IPA Source (International Phonetic Alphabet)
An online library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias, art song texts, and common liturgical Latin texts. A source of over 5,500 texts including 919 aria texts. Also includes a guide to the Fach system of voice-type classification, sources for libretti, help on diction and recordings of select song texts.
- ISI Proceedings
ISI Proceedings is an index to the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines from anthropology to zoology. It lets you track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields before the material appears in journal literature. Source publications include books, journals, reports, series, sets of pre-prints, and international proceedings. With ISI Proceedings you can search more than 4.3 million records. It is searchable on the Web of Knowledge platform.
- Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive
Renowned as one of Russia’s premier journals of cinema, Iskusstvo kino offers Russian and foreign movie reviews, articles on filmmaking and cinema culture, criticism, and essays. More than that, Iskusstvo kino traces Russian arts and culture from the ‘socialist realism’ era — when film became the prime propaganda tool (“agitki”) for instilling Communist fervor in the masses — all the way through contemporary filmmaking.