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- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary periodical index which provides access to popular press magazines and scholarly (including peer-reviewed) journals from nearly every academic discipline. Includes content from international publishers, a growing collection of open access journals, and a large historic collection of video recordings from the Associated Press.
- ACLS Humanities Ebook This link opens in a new window
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians.
- David Rumsey Map Collection Database This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
The David Rumsey Map Collection Database is an historical map collection containing many thousands of maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. - De Gruyter Online This link opens in a new window
An integrated comprehensive research portal for access to primary sources, text collections, reference works, and bibliographies across multiple disciplines.
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1861+
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A comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses that includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and provides strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. - Eight Centuries This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1106-1960
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Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) is a database covering source material dating from 1106 until 1960 (varies by source). 8C aggregates indexes, catalogs, collections, and other finding aids, and includes citations to 9,000 periodicals in 30+ languages. 8C provides access to articles, newspapers, books, U.S. patents, government documents, and images. Links to open access and subscription full-text sources are included where available. - HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
HathiTrust is a collaborative partnership of major research institutions and libraries worldwide. It is a shared digital repository of library books and journals converted from print owned by research institutions. It is an emerging repository which has collection spans over several centuries, and in hundreds of languages. - Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Database covers the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to present with indexing to historical articles from more than 1800 journals in over 40 languages published since 1955. Citations to books, dissertations and theses are included plus the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books. The related disciplines of archeology, anthropology and sociology are also covered.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database that provides citations to articles in a wide range of English language journals in the humanities and social sciences for the period 1907-1984.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access millions of articles, books, and primary sources, focusing on back issues of scholarly journals; an essential resource for research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
- Project MUSE Journals and Books This link opens in a new window
A collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and e-books from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers, and scholarly societies, offering full-text content in literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
- Retraction Watch Database This link opens in a new windowThe Retraction Watch Database is the largest and most comprehensive source for finding article retractions, notices of concern, etc. It includes more than 18,000 retracted papers and conference abstracts dating back to the 1970s.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
Includes a large collection of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Subjects include LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, human rights, gender studies, and more.
- Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Indexes biographical information on notable people from antiquity to 1983, found in resources published from 1946 to 1983.
- Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method This link opens in a new window
A digital resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods using a global approach, featuring scholarship in the form of exclusive articles contributed by historians from many different countries.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Histories Online provides full text online access to volumes of the Cambridge Histories reference series. (Current coverage includes works published through 2016). It includes political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. This resource is particularly useful for providing in-depth historical context. It is also a great resource for online history students.
- Film Scripts Online This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
American Film Scripts contains authorized versions of over 1000 screen plays with bibliographic information about the writers and movie characters. Researchers can browse by title or search scripts by character, scene, nationality, age, subject, or year of writing. - Internet Ancient History Sourcebook This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Ancient History
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Provides links to the full text of primary sources in ancient history. - Internet History Sourcebooks Project This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Varies
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Provides links to the full text of primary sources in history. Includes sections for ancient, medieval, and modern history, as well as for African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Gay and Lesbian History, Womens History, and the History of Science. - Internet Medieval Sourcebook This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Medieval History
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Provides links to the full text of primary sources in medieval history - Internet Modern History Sourcebook This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Modern History, 1300 +
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Provide links to the full text of primary sources in modern history. - Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1998+
Maximum Concurrent Users: 14
A gateway resource that includes: Grove Art Online, a reference for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s; The Oxford Companion to Western Art; The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Covers information on artists, worldwide art, artistic techniques, and other art-related topics. - Oxford Bibliographies: Art History This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History is a guide to scholarly literature in the field of art and architectural history, covering major categories of research with bibliographies and recommended resources.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new windowCoverage: The fourth century BC - 2000.
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The online dictionary contains 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000. An illustrated collection of remarkable people in any walk of life excluding living people, it includes not just the great and good, but people who have left a mark for any reason, good, bad, or bizarre. - Oxford Handbooks Online: Law This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 2017
The Oxford Handbooks Online : Law contains the following titles: American Sports Law, Citizenship, Corporate Law and Governance, Intellectual Property Law, International Organizations, Islamic Law, Law, Regulation and Technology, the Canadian Constitution, and the Indian Constitution. Oxford Handbooks Online in Law is an ambitious project that reflects, facilitates, and shapes the transformation of law into a multifaceted global discipline. Supplementing and enhancing Oxford Handbooks in book form, Oxford Handbooks Online seizes the unique opportunities for systemic interconnection and quick publication presented by online publication to capture the continuously evolving body of research on all aspects of law from the wide variety of methodological perspectives that are being brought to bear on law as a field of study. - Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Oxford Reference Online brings together encyclopedias and scholarly reference titles from many of Oxford University Press language and subject reference works, into a single cross-searchable resource.
- Economist Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowA searchable collection of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to present (with the exception of the last five years). Each weekly issue contains news reporting and analysis, commentary, editorials, statistics, demographics, letters to the editor, obituaries, and historical photographs.
- Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new windowEighteenth Century Journals draws together material from some of the finest archives across the UK and the US representing the rich variety of the eighteenth century press. It makes available unique and extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals online conveying the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835. While the journals were published predominantly in the UK, there are items published in other English-speaking areas such as India.
- PAO- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1770-1995
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It contains an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. ASU access includes collection 1-7.
- Associated Press Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowExtensive historical news coverage, imagery, and internal documents from the mid-1800s through the twentieth century, supporting research across multiple disciplines.
- Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) This link opens in a new window
International repository for archaeological data and resources.
- Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
The DLIR Archive was established as part of the Cooperative Digitization of International Research Materials (CDIRM) project. CDIRM utilized participating American overseas research centers’ (AORCs) connections to collaborate with foreign archives and special collections that hold unique and rare research materials. Selected materials from Guatemala, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Yemen, Mongolia, and numerous other countries where AORCs are located are made easily and freely available over the Internet to American and international scholars and students. - Parker Library on the Web This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
An interactive, web-based workspace created by Cambridge Corpus Christi College and Stanford University, designed to support research and teaching associated with the manuscripts in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The database provides high-quality images of manuscripts, as well as bibliographic information and summaries of manuscript contents. Works in a variety of languages: Old and Middle English, French, Latin, Greek, and Arabic. - PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 1,600 streaming videos, including documentaries and series covering a wide range of topics such as science, history, art, and business from one of television’s most trusted networks.
- World Digital Library This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Varies
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WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films in the public domain. Documents are available for each United Nations member country.
- Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Provides historical context and diverse perspectives on border and migration issues across over 30 global border areas, featuring 100,000 pages of text, 175 hours of video, and 1,000 images covering topics like refugee camps, human trafficking, and undocumented migration.
- Global Terrorism Database This link opens in a new windowOpen source database of terrorism events from 1970 forward. Published by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.
- International Medieval Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window
A multilingual database covers journal articles and miscellaneous publications (conference proceedings, essay collections) on the Middle Ages in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
- Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600--1926 (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowConsists of Law, Islamic Law, Jewish Law, and Ancient Law sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries.
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800--1926 (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowProvides legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926 with full-text searching.
- Manchester Studies in Imperialism This link opens in a new windowWhen the Studies in Imperialism series was founded the emphasis was laid upon the conviction that ‘imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies’. With well over a hundred titles now published, this remains the prime concern of the series. Cross-disciplinary work has indeed appeared covering the full spectrum of cultural phenomena, as well as examining aspects of gender and sex, frontiers and law, science and the environment, language and literature, migration and patriotic societies, and much else.
- Political Extremism and Radicalism (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources on far-right, fascist, and radical left movements, providing insights into fringe political groups through rare materials that support research on diverse ideologies and contemporary issues such as gender, race, religion, and civil rights.
- Urban Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic research database offering citations and summaries of articles on urban affairs, community development, urban history, and more, crucial to urban studies. It serves as an essential resource for studying cities and regions across various relevant disciplines.
- World News Connection Archive This link opens in a new windowCoverage: November 1995 – December 31, 2013
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World News Connection (WNC) Archive is compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. It covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. It includes translations and English language versions from newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports. Regions included are Central Eurasia, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, China, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
This database links Latin terms to vernacular equivalents (English, French, German) and offers deep connections between dictionary entries, allowing users to explore meanings, translations, and historical word usage in context.
- Library of Latin Texts This link opens in a new window
A database of Latin texts that encopases all periods since the begining of Latin literature, covering thousands of works and hundreds of authors (Series A and B).
- Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new windowMaximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
The digital Loeb Classical Library provides electronic access to the classic series of Greek and Latin literature. The database includes the complete print series and covers all literary, historical, philosophical, medical, and religious texts in Greek and Latin, with English translation. Users can browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content. - Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 200-1216 AD
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Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina. Contains works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian to the death of Pope Innocent III. Includes prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus & indexes, Migne's column numbers, & references.
- Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
From the first book published in English in 1473 to 1700, the EEBO contains over 125,000 titles printed in the British Isles and British North America.
- Middle English Compendium This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1100-1500
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Connects to the online editions of three major Middle English resources: Middle English Dictionary (MED), a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse based on bibliographies in MED, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Also provides links to other related sources online.
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