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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index	Indexes more than 400 international social science and humanities journals that feature articles, book reviews, documents, and original literary works about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.	1970 - present	Partial
HarpWeek Archives	Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), one of America's leading illustrated newspapers. is an important primary resource for examining nineteenth century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. All pages, including advertisements, have been scanned as facsimile images. These are integrated with searchable full-text and thesaurus-based indexing. The Purdue community has access to all segments of the database: The Civil War Era: 1857 1865 Reconstruction I: 1866 1871 Reconstruction II: 1872 1877 Gilded Age I: 1878 - 1883 Gilded Age II: 884 - 1889 Gilded Age III: 1890 - 1895 Gilded Age IV: 1896 - 1901 Gilded Age V: 1902 - 1907 Gilded Age VI: 1908 - 1912	1857-1912	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). HathiTrust is a partnership of more than 50 major research libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. It ingests digital content from its partner institutions as well as from Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft. In some cases, books that are only available in snippet view through Google Books are full text at HathiTrust, which is actively investigating the copyright status of works published up to 1964. Hathi (pronounced HAH-tee) is the Hindi word for elephant, a symbol of memory, wisdom, and strength.	15th c. - 21st c.	Partial
Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health	Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites have been selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Health and medical video content and physician-authored articles is provided by Healthology. The latest health news from Harvard Health Publications, a division of the Harvard Medical School, is also available.	Current	Partial
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition	Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides abstracts and indexing for over 800 journals, with nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, focusing on many medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.	1975 - present	Partial
Historical Abstracts with full text	Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of books, book reviews and dissertations on the history of all parts of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts currently covers over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Besides article citations, each year it adds approximately 3,000 book citations, for a total of over 20,000 entries added each year. All abstracts are in English, and titles in languages besides English also appear in English translation. Historical Abstracts on the Web also includes in-process English-language article entries prior to their completion and inclusion in the print and CD-ROM versions. For these, the abstracts, subject terms, and chronologies are not yet available.		No
Historical Statistics of the United States	The electronic version of Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to Present; Millennial Edition (Cambridge UP, 2006) presents thousands of annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations. Chapters are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, and provide a guide to the sources. Enables searching, combining, and downloading of data using Excel or CSV spreadsheets.	1500-2000	Partial
Home Economics Archive	HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950, these titles were selected by teams of scholars for the great historical importance they hold. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available.	Between 1850 and 1950	Partial
HRAF World Cultures (eHRAF)	World cultures in all their manifestations are included, primarily form the anthropological and ethnographical perspective.		Partial
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984--EBSCO portal	Indexes a wide range of important scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. Search this resource with Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text for coverage up to the present.	1907-1984	Partial
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