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Academic Search Premier Provides access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers in a wide range of subject areas. Features abstracts and indexes for over 3000 publications, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and approximately 1700 peer-reviewed journals. Over 1200 publications are available in full text. 1984 - present; fulltext, 1990 - present. Partial
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive This database is a full text and image collection of the Associated Press Service photographs. Retrospective in nature it offers visual images on an extraordinary range of subjects across all manner of activity where photographers are engaged. 1840's - present Partial
Ad*Access The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. 1911 - 1955 Yes
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Cultural life and history during the 1800s in the U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario: first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements, all of which portray the African-American experience. 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. Publications include African Repository (1825-92), Black Panther (1967-75), Black Worker (1929-68), and Soul (1966-76). Search full-text by any or all of these periods: Slavery and Antebellum Era (1825 to 1860), U.S. Civil War (1861 to 1865), Reconstruction and Post War South (1866 to 1895), Segregation and the Rise of Black Protest Thought (1896 to 1920), African American Culture in the New Era (1921 to 1945), Civil Rights Era (1946-1960), The Second Reconstruction (1961-1972), Modern / Contemporary Era (1973-1998). The collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998) and drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society. 1825-1995 Yes
America: History and Life with full text Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of book and media reviews, and dissertations covering the history of what is now the United States and Canada for all time periods. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. All abstracts are in English. Every year about 16,000 new entries are added. Includes some 6,000 citations of book and media reviews. 1964 - present Partial
Archive Finder Provides information on primary source materials from nearly 4,500 manuscript repositories in the U.S.. Includes records, complete with detailed indexes, of nearly 100,000 manuscript and other special collections. Describes each repository's holdings. Three major info. resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA: (1) A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory replaces the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988. (2) Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), info. gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection. Only ArchivesUSA makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form. (3) Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in Chadwyck-Healey's major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). not applicable Partial
ArchiveGrid Descriptions of archival holdings and special collections of manuscripts and other primary source materials nationwide. Includes full text finding aids describing the contents of archival collections at various libraries, museums, and archival repositories throughout the U.S. with links to the repositories. 00-present Partial
Art Bibliographies Modern Coverage of articles, monographs, dissertations, museum catalogues, etc. for modern and contemporary studies in art history, critical theory and criticism, industrial design, photography, fine arts, graphic arts, and aesthetics. International in scope, its includes other valuable language sources; i.e. French, German, Italian, etc. 1974 - present Partial
ArticleFirst ArticleFirst is an index to articles from over 12,000 academic journals in all disciplines. Some entries include abstracts. 1990 - present Partial
Arts and Humanities Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Searches may focus on authors, contents of individual journals, ranges of publications dates, keywords, and by combinations of the above. An added feature is the capacity to trace citatons to given authors, etc. A Representative selection of non-English language journals is included. Since 1977-present. Partial
Associations Unlimited Contains information for more than 450,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. Partial
Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas Gives international career information, including about prospective companies, and guides to living in another country. Full Yes
Biography and Genealogy Master Index The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches appearing in more than 2700 biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, selected indexes, and other reference works. Coverage includes contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. No
Biography Resource Center A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 280,000 biographies from various sources , with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals compiled over the past 40 years. Researchers will find thousands of "thumbnail" entries as well as "narrative" biographies, providing an in-depth overview of the subject's life and accomplishments. Lists of "Additional Resources" are also provided for more than 30,000 of the most famous people included in the database. Partial
Books in Print Online BIP provides current bibliographic information and prices for books published and distributed in the U.S. Forthcoming books six months in advanced are included. Many records include published reviews. Lists prize winners. Includes publishers directory. 1979-current Partial
British Newspapers, 1600-1900 Provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles. This interface searches: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 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 covers in-depth every day the key issues that surround the debate over climate change, including: -Federal agency programs, legislation, policies and funding; -State program development and implementation; -Kyoto implementation; -Post-Kyoto negotiations and nation-state positioning; -International agency activities; -Carbon market development; -Alternative energy research and deployment; -Financial community investment decisions; -Corporate/multi-national response to climate concerns; -Positions and lobbying by stakeholder groups; -Consequences and lessons learned from GHG-reduction efforts; -Science findings; -Effects on water resources, species, ecosystems and agriculture; -Trends and effects for traditional and non-traditional fossil fuel resources; -Consequences for electric utilities; -Economic effects; -Costs to consumers; and much, much more." Yes
Conference Papers Index Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. 1982 - present Partial
Contemporary Authors A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, journalism, poetry, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S.. This is part of the database Literature Resource Center. 1962- present Partial
CQ Researcher CQ Researcher explores a single, current issue in the news each week on topics ranging from social issues to environment, health, education, science and technology. Forty-four reports are produced each year, with four expanded reports. Each 12,000-word report features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of the issue. Charts, graphs, a pro-con feature, chronology, bibliographies and a list of contacts complete each report. 1991 to present Yes
Credo Reference Online reference library provides advanced searching and full-text of hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Cross-reference links and interactive concept maps provide answers and enable further exploration of topics. Images include 17,000 works of art from the Bridgemann Art Library Archive. ancient - current Yes
Directory of Published Proceedings Directory of Published Proceedings (DoPP) provides information for locating and procuring literature from thousands of conferences, meetings, and symposia in the fields of Science/Technology. Medical/Life Sciences, Pollution Control/Ecology and Social Sciences/Humanities. Also links to MInd: The Meetings Index, which offers provides information on future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia. 1965 - current No
Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Digital Dissertations receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward. 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. Series 6 includes the Detroit Plaindealer; Detroits first successful black newspaper, The Colored American; also the Arkansas Gazette, one of the first papers west of the Mississippi. Series 7 includes New Orleans' Times-Picayune, established in 1837, and The Oregonian, founded in 1850 in Portland and still the states largest daily. 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. Color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers are included. 1843-2003 Yes
Eighteenth Century Collections online Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 items published in the British Isles, colonial America, the United States (1776 - 1800), Canada, and territories governed by Britain during any period of the eighteenth century, in any language; plus all relevant items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any part of the world. ECCO includes a variety of materials from books, directories, Bibles and sermons to shipping lists, advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection in History, Geography, Science, Technology, Medicine, Law, Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Literature, and the Fine Arts. ECCO is based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). 1701-1800 Yes
Electronic Enlightenment Edited 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. A research project of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, EE provides a network of interconnected documents allowing scholars to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period. Forty-five nationalities, 11 languages, and 688 occupations are represented. 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, from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film. 1985-present No
Ethnic NewsWatch Provides access to full-text articles from 200 magazines, journals, and newspapers published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Searchable in both English and Spanish. 1985 - present Partial
Factiva Provides full text article from more than 8,000 global publications includintg 1,000+ newspapers, 6,500 periodicals and 270+ newswires, 20,000 company reports, and more than 8,500 Web sites. Pictures of major news events and reports also are available. 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 The Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities Database is the most comprehensive source of research funding information available on the Web, with more than 15,500 (as of 10/1/99) awards from around the world. Partial
Gale Virtual Reference Library Corresponding to print format Thomson Gale reference publications, selected e-book titles deliver reference content in database format. Can search a single title or multiple titles by keyword, title, ISBN, or full text. 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), Detroit Free Press, The Tennessean, and The Des Moines Register. Text only. nearly current, with earlier issues from 1990s, depending on title Yes
GPO Index Government Printing Office (GPO) is an index to U.S. congressional, judicial and executive information from 1976 to present. 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). 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
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
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 Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition contains quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within subject categories. Covering about 1,600 journals, JCR: Social Sciences Edition has many uses. Students and faculty use it to identify journals in which to publish, confirm the status of journals in which they have published, and identify journals relevant to their research. Online coverage extends back to 1998. There are CD-ROMs for 1994 and 1997. 1998 - present No
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive Full-text digital archive of over 700 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics. 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 Provides full text access to federal and state court cases and laws, European Union law, patents, tax law, law review articles, newspaper articles, and additional reference information. Includes U.S. Supreme Court opinions from 1789 to present. Varies Partial
Literature Resource Center Access and simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography and other literature reference tools. Ancient - present Partial
Lynda.com Online Training Library Contains a collection of video tutorials on a multitude of technology and software applications. 655 courses on multimedia, Internet, and related technologies. last 3 years to current Partial
MAS FullTEXT Ultra 1985 - present Partial
MasterFILE Premier Provides access to articles from nearly 2800 general magazines and periodicals. Over 1800 publications are available in full text. 1984 - present; fulltext, 1990 - present. Partial
McClatchy-Tribune Collection A 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the Knight Ridder wire service. Includes primarily U.S. city newspapers. Last 90 days Yes
MedlinePlus MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 800 diseases and conditions. There are directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, easy-to-understand tutorials on common conditions, tests, and treatments, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. Current Yes
Middle Search Plus 1984 - present Partial
Military & Intelligence Provides access to articles and other matierials on U.S. and international military and intelligence topics. Yes
MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest Software) International coverage of the modern languages and literatures, including film and folklore. Indexes jounal articles, and book chapters in all languages, and N. American dissertations. Does not index book reviews. 1926 - present Partial
NetLibrary>>Now EBSCO eBook Collection NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. Yes
New York Times Historical Complete cover-to-cover backfiles of the New York Times from 1851 up to three years prior to the current year. Fully searchable content includes articles, photos, ads, editorials, maps, graphics, and cartoons. (Current issues available via Lexis Nexis). 1851 - 3 years prior to current year Yes
Newspaper Source Provides selected full text coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers, with indexing and abstracting for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. 1994 - present Partial
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers 19th Century British Library Newspapers provide searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to represent nineteenth-century Britain. This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from: established country or university towns; the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands; and Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included. There are also contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes and a chronological overview. 1800-1900 Yes
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) NCCO will be an extensive database with multiple content types, developed in a rolling release over several years. Sources will include monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps, ephemera, and statistical data. The collection modules are topically based, in addition to some devoted to specific regions. AVAILABLE MODULES: 1) British Politics and Society; 2) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; 3) British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture; 4) European Literature 1790-1840: the Corvey Collection. FORTHCOMING MODULES will include: 5) South Asia; 6) History of Science; 7) History of Photography; 8) Nineteenth-century Americana. A large portion of the initial content will come from the British Library and the British National Archives. A key criterion for inclusion is avoidance of overlap with existing digitized nineteenth-century source documents, e.g. the content scanned in the Google Books project and available in HathiTrust. 1750s-1930s Yes
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers 19th Century U.S. Newspapers is a searchable database of digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century. 1800-1900 Yes
Oceanic Abstracts The database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. Yes
OmniFile Full Text Mega Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database. 1982 - present; full-text, 1994 - present Partial
Oxford Art Online Gateway to major reference works in the visual arts includes Grove Art Online (based on the 34 volume Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner), the Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Includes images from ARTstor, the Bridgeman Art Library, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and numerous international art galleries and artists. 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; images, timelines, and subject links to web resources. Yes
Patron Books in Print Provides a user-friendly interface designed to enhance browsing of the Books-in-Print Online database, including the ability to browse by fiction and non-fiction genres. The specialized Fiction Room and Children's Room provide yet another way for your patrons to find the books they most want to read. 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, 1728-1800. Articles, news, editorials, advertisements, and letters. Social, political, religious, and cultural content. Includes the full text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Paine`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc. 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. PAO contains the full-text backfiles of over 700 journals, including many in foreign languages. It also indexes and links to articles in JSTOR. 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 1984 - present Partial
Project Muse Project MUSE Premium Collection provides full-text online editions of over 340 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For some journal titles Project Muse provides links to back issues archived in JSTOR. 1990 - current Yes
ProQuest Congressional Provides access to historic and recent U.S. Government publications from 1789-2000 on including U.S. Congressional Serial Set documents, federal agency reports, congressional committee publications, statistics, maps, and congressional debates. 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 A general database of magazine, journal, and newspaper articles from approximately 2350 publications in a wide variety of subject areas. The database consists of two components: a core list of about 740 periodicals, and 15 subject-specific modules in the areas of Arts, Business, Children, Education, General Interest, Health, Humanities, International, Law, Military, Multicultural, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests. Any combination of modules may be searched simultaneously. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed titles or only newspapers. Many articles are available in full-text, full image format. 1986 - present Partial
ProQuest Statistical Datasets Brings together a collection of statistical data in a single search interface, with additional features such as descriptive abstracts, detailed indexing, full-text PDFs of source documents and tables, and down-loadable spreadsheets containing table data. International. Yes
ProQuest Statistical Insight Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Search between approximately 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. 50+ years Yes
PsycINFO The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to dissertations and journals (1,300 + ). It includes the fulltext article links from the PsycARTICLES database. 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. Continued by Readers' Guide Full- Text. No abstracts, no full-text. 1890-1982 No
Science in Context Introductory or basic information for the non-science major. Pre-2000 to present Partial
Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) The nearly 1270 titles and one million pages are predominantly London newspapers from 1603 up to the early 1800s. 1603-early 1800s Yes
Short Story Index--EBSCO portal Index of more than 90,000 short stories in English or in English translation published in anthologies and journals. Searchable by author, title, and, in many cases, by subject. 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 The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, and is searchable by keyword, author, journal title, and by date. An added feature is searching for citations to individual authors and/or publications. This database indexes a representative selection of non-English language journals. 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, conference papers, and journal articles published by Springer. Purdue University Libraries' subscription to e-books starts in 2005 and covers many disciplines. 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. Updated monthly, it features an interdisciplinary variety of up-to-date statistical information in table format with detailed bibliographic information. various years up to current Yes
Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 provides access to the complete digital edition of The Times (London) using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. 1785-1985 Yes
TopicSearch Host A selective index to full text articles on current issues from over 2700 newspapers, magazines, biographies, public opinion polls, and government information. 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. Direct links to URLs and e-mail addresses given when available, along with nearly 8,000 reviews excerpted from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal. Current Partial
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels A collection of adult comic books and graphic novels from the first underground comix from the 1960s to the works of contemporary creators. Still growing, the collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics (mostly from the USA) along with 25,000 pages of secondary sources, including a complete run of The Comics Journal. Includes some material from the 1950s, notably Dr. Frederic Werthams Seduction of the Innocent, as well as influential works by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. 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. Collection includes images of almost all the known extant issues, which can be searched using the index or browsed by date. 1736-1780 Yes
Wall Street Journal, Historic The Wall Street Journal (1889-1988) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. 1889 - 1988 Yes
Washington Post Online Coverage of national, international, and local news. Full-text of articles 1987-present. The Washington Post is renowned for its political reporting, editorials and columnists. 1987 - current Yes
Web Of Science Proceedings Web of Science 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. <ul><li>The source publications for the Web of Science Proceedings are books, journals, reports, and series produced by publishers or societies. </li> <li>This index contains approximately 2 million records from more than 60,000 conferences, and includes the abstracts of proceedings articles.</li> 1990 - present Partial
WorldCat WorldCat is an index to library cataloging records for over 40 million items, including books, journals, music, computer programs, etc., from 1000 AD to present. The cataloging records are submitted from over 30,000 libraries. 1000 A.D. - present Partial
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