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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
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 AdAccess 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. AdAccess 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