Most important databases
Indexes and abstracts approximately 1700 journals in the field of United States
and Canadian history. It also includes entries for collections of essays, books, dissertations, and
conference papers. America: History and Life has full-text links to 103,000
articles and book reviews available through various online databases.
Coverage: 1964–
Users: unlimited
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Indexes and abstracts approximately 1700 journals covering world history since
1450, excluding America and Canada. Journals include titles from 90 countries, published in 40 different
languages. Books and dissertations have been indexed since 1980. Historical Abstracts provides full-text
links to nearly 76,000 articles available through various online databases.
Coverage: 1955-
Users: unlimited
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Electronic full text of over 550 core journals in disciplines ranging from
history to business to literature to science and mathematics. Coverage begins with the first issue
of a title. The most recent three to five years worth of issues for a title are not normally included.
All text is completely searchable. Holdings are updated annually.
Coverage: varies by journal
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Other helpful databases
This collection of letters and diaries provides firsthand accounts from politicians, generals, soldiers, prisoners, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. The authors are the famous and the unknown, giving both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers. Over 100,000 pages of source material indexed for easy searching. Includes 4,000 pages of facsimiles of previously unpublished manuscript material.
Coverage: n/a
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Over 440 hours and more than 1,400 titles of videos on various topics in American History. Sources include newsreels, government and commercial films, and significant documentaries. Researchers can find both contemporary films and works that analyze events long after they occurred.
Coverage: n/a
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Over 1,500 periodicals published in America between 1741 and 1941, covering specialized, literary, and general topics. Searchers can retrieve images of the pages, including all graphic elements and article layouts.
Coverage: 1741-1941
Access: unlimited
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This is the official source of bibliographic information for U.S. Government publications. Users can search the entire catalog or specific subsets, choosing either a basic, advanced, or expert search option. Recent material may also have links to full text.
Coverage: 1976-
Access: unlimited
Free resource
Includes single-themed reports from CQ Press, dating back to 1923. All kinds of topics are covered, including social trends, health concerns, the economy, education, and technology.
Coverage: 1923-
Users: 99
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A collection of more than 80,000 declassified documents, comprising more than 500,000 pages on 31 different topics dealing with national security. Researchers can browse through collections or perform key word searching on the full text of documents. Bibliographies and chronologies have been added for context and further research.
Coverage: 1945-2000
Access: unlimited
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Full text of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials printed in the United States between 1639 and 1800.
Coverage: 1639-1800
Access: unlimited
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Full text of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials printed in the United States between 1801 and 1819.
Coverage: 1801-1819
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Personal accounts and unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes narratives, diaries, journals, and letters and documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. Includes maps and images.
Coverage: 1534-1850
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700. An exhuastive source for those interested in the first books in English through the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare, and the English Civil War.
Coverage: 1473-1700
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An analytical database of worldwide economic indicators and forecasts, providing more than 300 series for 150 countries and 45 regional aggregates, dating from 1980 and. Data can be manipulated, displayed, graphed, analyzed and downloaded in various formats. Select series include GDP, demographics and income, foreign payments, and commodities.
Coverage: 1980-
Access: unlimited
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EIU Country Reports provide comprehensive updates on the latest economic, political, and market conditions for nearly 200 countries. Each report highlights major business events, analyzes recent political and economic developments.
Coverage: n/a
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A multidisciplinary collection of electronic reference books. Subjects include business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, and science. To search a specific reference book, click the plus (+) sign to show publication titles, then click the title you wish to search. Otherwise, you will be searching all the reference books simultaneously.
Coverage: n/a
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Digital versions of award-winning
books presented by the American Historical Association and the Columbia University Press. Currently,
Gutenberg-e is a very small collection, but plans to expand over the coming years.
Coverage: n/a
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Harper's Weekly was one of the leading literary and news publications of 19th century America. It was noted for its use of illustrations and carried information on a variety of topics to a national audience. Searchers can search the full text of articles and retrieve both images and text files of relevant stories.
Coverage: 1857-1912
Access: unlimited
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Digitized version of the New York Times since its first issue in 1851. Patrons can search the full text of articles to find articles on a wide variety of topics.
Coverage: 1851-2006
Access: unlimited
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The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security's Digital Library includes full text material from a variety of Federal, State, international and private sources related to security policy, strategy and management. Content is primarily current, but some historical material is included. To access the Restricted Collection and take advantage of special options, users must set up an individual HSDL account.
Coverage: n/a
Access: unlimited
Free resource
Online, fully searchable collection of
high-quality books in the humanities, sponsored by the American Council
of Learned Societies. Titles consist of new books in electronic-only
format and time-tested works originally published in paper but
converted to electronic format.
Coverage: n/a
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Around
100,000 citations from German periodicals dating from 1750-1815.
Bilingual German/English interface.
Coverage: 1750-1815
Users: unlimited
Free resource
Evaluate and compare journals
in the sciences and social sciences using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical
journals. JCR is related to Web of Science and is based on similar data. Use JCR to find the
most frequently cited journals in a field and/or a journal's impact factor, among other information.
Coverage: 2002-
Users: 8
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The NSTC aims to catalogue
all works printed in English from the beginning of the nineteenth
century to the end of World War One. As well as indexing books,
the catalogue includes periodicals, directories and other publications
from the period. It currently consists of more than 1.2 millions
records from major university and national libraries in the United
Kingdom and the United States. The NSTC is an invaluable tool
for nineteenth century research.
Coverage: 1801-1919
Users: unlimited
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Personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from 1840 to the present. Includes some audio files and facsimiles of personal scrapbooks. Primary source documents from immigrants who have come from virtually all over the world.
Coverage: n/a
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Historical resources on nearly 500 North American groups. Autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Also includes 2,000 oral histories presented in audio and transcript form and at least 20,000 photographs.
Coverage: n/a
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Letters and diaries detailing the personal lives and experiences hundreds of women spanning over 300 years. Includes over 1,500 biographies. Ideal for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy, as well as other disciplines.
Coverage: Colonial times - 1950
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A collection of full-text primary sources in the Humanities. Each unit usually includes the complete works of an individual author or specific subject field. All terms in the collections are searchable.
Coverage: n/a
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Consists of large-scale plans of cities and towns in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado. In addition to street names and location of buildings, the maps also include details such as the construction materials and function of buildings, property boundaries, railroads, wells, etc. Because the key is very detailed it may take a while to load onto the screen.
Coverage: 1867-1970
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This complete digital collection from LexisNexis includes both the United States Congressional Serial Set and its predecessor, the American State Papers. These two titles cover a broad spectrum of topics addressed by Congress and the President from this country’s early history to recent times.
Coverage: 1789-1969
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35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
World Music, Smithsonian Folkways, historical speeches, poets and authors reading their own works, an extensive children's collection (kindergarten through middle school).
Coverage: n/a
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Online version
of the three Citation Indexes: Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In
addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 8,000 journals, one
can do a "cited reference" search to see how frequently
and where an article has been cited. Web of Science is one of our best databases. Also an excellent source for finding
book reviews.
Coverage: Science
1945-; Social Sciences 1956-; Arts & Humanities 1975-
Users: unlimited
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Examines
perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times
to the present by bringing together books, images, documents,
scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting
the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
Coverage: 1600-2000
Users: unlimited
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