| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Search Premier | General information from journals, magazines, and newspapers in all subject areas. | 1984 - present; fulltext, 1990 - present. | Partial |
| AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive | News photos from the 1840's to today are covered. this resource is updated continuously. | 1840's - present | Partial |
| Ad*Access | Historical advertisements from U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines. | 1911 - 1955 | Yes |
| African American Newspapers: The 19th Century | U.S. and some Canadian cultural life and history during the 1800s. | 1827-1900 | Yes |
| African American Periodicals: 1825-1995 | Over 170 African American newspapers and magazines published in the U.S. from 1825-1995, from slavery during the Antebellum Period to the struggles and triumphs of the modern era. | 1825-1995 | Yes |
| America: History and Life with full text | U.S. and Canadian history. | 1964 - present | Partial |
| Archive Finder | Directory of archival repositories and special collections of manuscripts and papers. | not applicable | Partial |
| ArchiveGrid | Descriptions of archival holdings and special collections of manuscripts and other primary source materials nationwide. | 00-present | Partial |
| Art Bibliographies Modern | Art History, Industrial Design, Photography, Fine Arts, Graphic Arts, Aesthetics are covered. | 1974 - present | Partial |
| ArticleFirst | Business, Humanities, Medicine, Popular Culture, Science, Social Science, Technology. | 1990 - present | Partial |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Bibliographic information and cited references from arts and humanities journals plus relevant items from science and technology journals are covered. | Since 1977-present. | Partial |
| Associations Unlimited | Information for international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. | Partial | |
| Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas | Living and working overseas; registration is required. | Full | Yes |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | Indexes reference works containing multiple biographies. | No | |
| Biography Resource Center | Worldwide coverage of past and present noteworthy people. Narrative biographies, key facts, selected articles, and more. | Partial | |
| Books in Print Online | BIP provides current bibliographic information and prices for books published and distributed in the U.S. Many records include published reviews. Lists prize winners. | 1979-current | Partial |
| British Newspapers, 1600-1900 | Provides access to historic national & regional papers from British Isles. Searches across two collections: 1)The 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 2) 19th Century British Library Newspapers. | 1603-1900 | Yes |
| Chicago Tribune Online | Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national, and international news. Articles are in full-text 1985-present. | 1985 - current | Yes |
| ClimateWire | "ClimateWire is designed to bring readers unmatched coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society." | Yes | |
| Conference Papers Index | Subject emphasis since 1995 in the life sciences, environmental sciences, and aquatic sciences. Older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| Contemporary Authors | Biographical and bibliographical information on 20th and 21st century U.S. and international authors. | 1962- present | Partial |
| CQ Researcher | Weekly, in-depth reports on current issues in the news. | 1991 to present | Yes |
| Credo Reference | Online reference library provides advanced searching of hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Many images are included. | ancient - current | Yes |
| Directory of Published Proceedings | DoPP provides information on locating and procuring published proceedings from conferences in many fields, including sciences, medicine, ecology, and humanities. | 1965 - current | No |
| Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) | Index of theses and dissertations from U.S. and international universities. | 1861 - present | Partial |
| Early American Newspapers, Series, VI & VII | Fully searchable runs of 215 newspapers from 27 states and the District of Columbia from 1741-1922. | 1741-1922 | Yes |
| Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003 | Delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003, including supplements. | 1843-2003 | Yes |
| Eighteenth Century Collections online | ECCO offers full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century. | 1701-1800 | Yes |
| Electronic Enlightenment | Letters of over 7,000 correspondents from Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, including the correspondence of philosophers, scientists, clerics, government ministers, merchants, and people of many other occupations. Limited to one user at a time. | 1619-1878 | Yes |
| Essay and General Literature Index--EBSCO Portal | Indexes essays and chapters in anthologies, and multi-author collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. | 1985-present | No |
| Ethnic NewsWatch | The ethnic, minority, and native press in America. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| Factiva | Use for articles on business news, commentary, pictures, company, and industry information and stock quotes. | Partial | |
| Fiction Connection | A readers' advisory service that browses fiction titles in the Books-in-Print Online database. Browses by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe. Finds similar titles. | 1979-current | Partial |
| Funding Opportunities Database | Grants information. | Partial | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Selected reference e-books from Thomson Gale. | Varies by title | Yes |
| Gannett Newsstand | Text of 87 local and regional U.S. newspapers published by Gannett, including The Indianapolis Star (1991-nearly current), The Lafayette Journal & Courier (2003-nearly current). Text only. | nearly current, with earlier issues from 1990s, depending on title | Yes |
| GPO Index | U.S. Government Documents. | 1976 - present | Partial |
| Grove Art Online | Art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) and images from numerous collections. | ancient to 21st century | Yes |
| HathiTrust | A growing collection of several million scanned books, journals, and other digital resources, comparable to Google Books. Benefits include full-text and advanced bibliographic search capabilities, and full PDF downloading of works in the public domain (26% of the collection). | 15th c. - 21st c. | Partial |
| Historical Abstracts with full text | Indexes materials covering World history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 onward. | No | |
| Humanities Full Text | Leads to scholarly journal articles on the Arts, Classical Studies, Communications, History, Literature, Religion. Can be searched with Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance | IBTD, a fully-indexed databank of journal article, book, and dissertation citations on all aspects of theatre and performance the world over, includes full-text from over 140 journals and 300 books. | 1910-current | Partial |
| Journal Citation Reports: Social Science Edition | Presents quantifiable statistical data that helps determine the relative importance of journals in the area of social science. | 1998 - present | No |
| JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive | Full-text digital archive of over 700 scholarly journals. | Varies | Yes |
| Keesing's World News Archive | Comprehensive, accurate, and concise reporting of major world events since 1931 selected and summarized from various news reports from around the world. | 1931 - current | Yes |
| LexisNexis Academic | General news; business, medical, and legal news and information; reference information. | Varies | Partial |
| Literature Resource Center | Biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works. | Ancient - present | Partial |
| Lynda.com Online Training Library | Contains a collection of video tutorials on a multitude of technology and software applications. | last 3 years to current | Partial |
| MAS FullTEXT Ultra | Wide range of subject areas from general-interest periodicals appropriate for high school age group, some full text reference books, and image collection. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| MasterFILE Premier | Wide range of subject areas from general-interest periodicals, some full text reference books, biographies, and image collection of photos, maps, and flags. | 1984 - present; fulltext, 1990 - present. | Partial |
| McClatchy-Tribune Collection | A 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the Knight Ridder wire service. | Last 90 days | Yes |
| MedlinePlus | MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free. | Current | Yes |
| Middle Search Plus | Wide range of subject areas from magazines appropriate to middle and jr. high school age group, biographies, historical essays, pamphlets, and image collection. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Military & Intelligence | Provides access to articles and other materials on U.S. and international military and intelligence topics. | Yes | |
| MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest Software) | Literature, Criticism, Drama, Film, Folklore, and Linguistics are covered. | 1926 - present | Partial |
| NetLibrary>>Now EBSCO eBook Collection | A collection of 3,400 publicly-accessible eBook titles. | Yes | |
| New York Times Historical | Complete cover-to-cover backfiles of the New York Times with page images. | 1851 - 3 years prior to current year | Yes |
| Newspaper Source | Content from newspapers and newswires. | 1994 - present | Partial |
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers | Searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to represent 19th-century Britain. Includes national and regional newspapers. | 1800-1900 | Yes |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) | A growing database of fully cross-searchable primary and secondary works organized into four collection-modules: 1) British Politics and Society; 2) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; 3) British Theatre, Music and Literature; 4) European Literature, 1790-1840: the Corvey Collection. Additional collection-modules are planned. | 1750s-1930s | Yes |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides searchable facsimile images of urban and regional newspapers, advertisements and illustrations included. | 1800-1900 | Yes |
| Oceanic Abstracts | Focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment | Yes | |
| OmniFile Full Text Mega | Indexes Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers´ Guide, Social Sciences, Business, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Legal Periodicals, Library Science. | 1982 - present; full-text, 1994 - present | Partial |
| Oxford Art Online | Gateway to major reference works in the visual arts includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Includes images. | ancient to 21st century | Yes |
| Oxford Reference Online | Searchable full-text of more than 150 reference books published by Oxford University Press on many subjects in the arts, history, and sciences. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and several of the Oxford Companion series. | Yes | |
| Patron Books in Print | Provides a user-friendly interface designed to enhance browsing of the Books-in-Print Online database. | 1979-current | Partial |
| Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 | The newspaper of record for the eastern side of North America, the West Indies, and parts of South America during the eighteenth century. | 1728-1800 | Yes |
| Periodicals Archive Online | PAO provides online access to over 700 periodicals that are indexed in its companion database, Periodicals Index Online, which indexes over 6,000 journals and is accessible from the PAO homepage. Like JSTOR, PAO is strong in the humanities and social sciences. | 1665 - 1995 | Yes |
| Picture Book Database | Combines data from many online and print sources, picture books, publisher, author, and illustrator websites, to catalog picture books by author/illustrator, subjects, artistic styles, characters, genres, age ranges, etc. | 1845-current | No |
| PressDisplay | 1,700+ newspapers from 92 countries, in 48 languages. Full-color, full-page format includes all articles, pictures, advertisements, and classifieds. | Current issues with 90-day backfile | Yes |
| Primary Search | Content from children's magazines and pamphlets. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Project Muse | Provides full-text online editions of over 340 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. | 1990 - current | Yes |
| ProQuest Congressional | Indexing and full text coverage of congressional and executive branch publications from 1789-2000 | 1789-1997 | Yes |
| ProQuest Newsstand | Text of 1,300+ newspapers from the U.S., U.K., and around the world, including The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Times [London], Le Monde [Paris]. Text only. | Current, with backfiles from 1980s to 2010, depending on title. | Yes |
| Proquest Research Library | Wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology. | 1986 - present | Partial |
| ProQuest Statistical Datasets | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. | International. | Yes |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. | 50+ years | Yes |
| PsycINFO | Covers literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. | 1806-present | Partial |
| Readers' Guide Full Text Mega and Retrospective:1890-1982 | Wide range of subject areas in popular general-interest periodicals. Especially good for U.S. cultural history. | 1890-1982 | No |
| Science in Context | Basic topic overviews, experiments, biographies, "toolkits", pictures and illustrations and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. | Pre-2000 to present | Partial |
| Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers | 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers provide full-text access to the British Library's collection of newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Rev. Charles Burney. | 1603-early 1800s | Yes |
| Short Story Index--EBSCO portal | Index of more than 90,000 short stories published in anthologies and journals. Indexes 3,000-4,000 stories per year. Includes the full-text of more than 16,000 stories published since 1994. | 1984-present | Partial |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | Bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from social science journals are covered. | Indexes from 1977-prsesent. | Partial |
| Social Sciences Full Text | Anthropology, area studies, family studies, law and criminology, political science, psychology, sociology, women´s studies. Can be searched with Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Something About the Author Online | Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. Full-text with illustrations from 200+ volumes of Something About the Author and the Autobiography series (1971-current). | 1971-current | Yes |
| Springer E-Books | Contains full-text of books, book chapters and conference papers published by Springer. This site also includes journal articles. | 2005 - present | Yes |
| Statistical Abstract of the U.S. | The classic annual statistical compendium of U.S. Government and non-government information on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S., formerly published by the U.S. Census Bureau. | various years up to current | Yes |
| Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 | Provides access to the complete back run of The Times (London), 1785-1985. | 1785-1985 | Yes |
| TopicSearch Host | General information on current issues from magazines, newspapers, government information, and more. | 1992 - present | Yes |
| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory | Bibliographic and access information for over 240,000 current periodicals from around the world. Entries provide pricing, subscription and distribution details as well as publisher, editor contacts. | Current | Partial |
| Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels | A collection of adult comic books and graphic novels from the first underground comix of the 1960s to the works of contemporary independent creators. Still growing, the collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics (mostly from the USA) and 25,000 pages of secondary sources, including a complete run of The Comics Journal. | 1960s - 2010 | Yes |
| Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780 | Virginia Gazette newspapers, published in Williamsburg, 1736-1780, served as a critical source of news for the colonists. | 1736-1780 | Yes |
| Wall Street Journal, Historic | The Wall Street Journal (1889-1988) | 1889 - 1988 | Yes |
| Washington Post Online | Coverage of national, international, and local news. Full-text of articles 1987-present. | 1987 - current | Yes |
| Web Of Science Proceedings | References proceedings papers delivered at prestigious international scientific and technology conferences. | 1990 - present | Partial |
| WorldCat | Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. | 1000 A.D. - present | Partial |
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