Databases: R

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

• Race Relations Abstracts
  Index, some full-text. Covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. More info
• Radical Scatters
  Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886. More info
• RAMBI: Index to Articles on Jewish Studies (1966 - 2001)
  Ami is an excellent multi-language bibliography of articles in Jewish studies and the study of Israel. The records are citations (not abstracts or the full-text) of journal articles across all disciplines that have been cataloged by Hebrew University in Jerusalem. To obtain articles perform a journal title search in Full Text Journal Holdings and/or the WU Catalog. If the journal is not part of the holdings of WU or a title we have electronic access to, you will need to request the article via interlibrary loan by first establishing an ILL account on ILLIAD.
• RAND Voices of Jihad Database
  'This online database is a compilation of speeches, interviews, statements, and publications of jihadist leaders, foot soldiers, and sympathizers. Nearly all content is in English translation, and has been collected from publicly-accessible websites. Original links are provided, along with excerpts and full-text content when available.' (from database homepage)
• RDS Business Suite is no longer available, due to budget cuts.
• Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982) (4 concurrent users allowed)
  Article index. 'The most detailed account of U.S. culture and history you’ll find anywhere.' Covers 'Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biographies, Business, Children, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Gardening, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Radio, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel.' (from database description on the site) Use Academic Search Premier for coverage of the same topics since 1982.
• Regional Business News
  'This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.' (from database description on the site)
• Religion Database (ATLA) (1949 - )
  Journal, essay, and book review index. Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion. More info
• Responsa Project (10 concurrent users allowed)
  Full text. The Responsa Project contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew. The database includes: rabbinic case-law rulings; the Bible and the Talmud with their principal commentaries; the major codes of Jewish law, i.e., Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and other significant primary texts of Jewish law and life. More info
• Rich and Poor in America (2008)
  Full-text. 'This handbook is a primer on the dimensions, the trend lines, the causes, and the consequences of the widening gap between America’s rich and poor. It also considers some of the policy options for slowing or halting the current trend.' (from Preface on the site)
• RILM Abstracts (1969 - ) (4 concurrent users allowed)
  Journal index. Major international abstracting and indexing publication for music, music theory, musicology and ethnomusicology. Updated quarterly. More info
• RIPM (1800 - 1950) (1 concurrent user allowed)
  Journal index. International coverage of the music periodical literature published from the late 18th- to mid-20th- centuries in Europe and the United States. Updated twice a year. More info
• Roper Center
  Polling data. The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.
  • This membership includes on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using RoperExpress. Search the catalog of data set holdings.
  • Membership also offers access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. (free registration required)
  These combined services permit you to locate questions and topline results in iPOLL and then download the documentation and datafiles for the studies. Please see these user responsibilities.
• Rotunda: American Founding Era and 19th-Century Literature and Culture
  Full-text. Contains numerous historical collections of letters, journals, and other papers, including those of Dolley Madison, George Washington, and John Adams. Will also include the papers of Thomas Jefferson. More info
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (1 concurrent user allowed)
  Full text. More than 2,000 entries, continually updated and revised, covering 'an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.' (from About REP/Background) One concurrent user; please Logout when finished.