Recommended Databases
Broad collection from leading journals, newspapers and reference sources.
Coverage: 1980 - current
Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the
following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed
academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty
titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of
The
New York Times from 1990,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and
Christian
Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture,
general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry
topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any
National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced
by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the
Census and the State Department are also available.
Nearly 4,500 multi-disciplinary journals covering most subjects.
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)
In addition to full text that includes over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals,
Academic Search Premier also offers
indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly
collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including:
computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Bibliographic entries covering all eras of U.S. and Canada history.
Coverage: 1964 - current
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature for 1,700 journals covering the history and culture of the United States
and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media
reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and
events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource that contains overviews of historical periods and detailed chronologies
for major events and issues.
Citations and abstracts concerning world history from 1450 to the present.
Coverage: 1954 - current
Historical Abstracts includes 75-120 word abstracts to journal articles and
citations to books and dissertations. Every year over 20,000 new entries are
added from over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide. Over 600,000 entries
currently available. The Web version is updated monthly.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource that contains overviews of historical periods and detailed chronologies
for major events and issues.
Databases
Over 2,200 books of major importance, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Coverage: 1956 - 2003
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of 2,200 books of high quality in the humanities.
The collection allows users to search full text across all titles in the database, in selected titles,
or in a single title, by author and title as well as by Library of Congress subject headings.
Users may also search important book reviews. Search engines allow readers to find text and graphics, and
to perform complex string searches for names, dates, phrases, or concepts in great depth and context.
New XML titles are enhanced with hypertext links and search features, some with
direct links to web-based digital archives of appropriate source materials so
that the reader can access many of the original source materials used by the
author; and some titles feature enhanced illustrations, graphs, charts, maps,
and other visual materials, often in full color, as well as video, sound, and
music in appropriate titles.
Biographies of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives shaped America.
Updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of
previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency, the
ANB
includes thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked
cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
Appended to each article is a descriptive bibliography, which may include
mention of primary sources, the most useful published biographies, articles or
monographs about specific aspects of the person's career, and obituaries.
Contains over 1,100 digitized page images of early-American periodicals.
Coverage: 1740 - 1900
APS titles range from America's first scientific journal,
Medical Repository, to popular magazines like
Vanity Fair and
Ladies' Home Journal.
American Periodicals Series Online (APS)
chronicles the development of America across 200 years. The journals in this collection cover three broad
periods:
* 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's
transition from a British colony to an independent nation.
* More than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century
showcase "the golden age of American periodicals." General interest magazines,
children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women are among the
historically-significant content.
* 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction
(1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the
1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern
America.
Biographical information about current and historical people.
Biography Resource Center integrates over 1,000 volumes of Thomson Gale publications with full-text
magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic
people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and
places, or gender, or by keyword and full text.
Marquis Who's Who provides
quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose
entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to
the present. Narrative biographies provide an in-depth overview of the
subject's life and accomplishments. Over 538,000 full-text magazine articles
bring coverage of the subject up-to-date and broaden the view of his or her
place in history, society, a particular field of endeavor, or the news.
A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
Coverage: 1936 - current
Handbook of Latin American Studies is edited
by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. the multidisciplinary
Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works
for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook
offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Works
reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers
in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and
Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History,
International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology. Starting
with Volume 54, the Handbook also includes a section on Electronic Resources for
Latin American studies. In addition, some of the earlier volumes included other
disciplines such as Cartography, Film, Folklore, Law, and so forth.
Cover-to-cover full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: March 4, 1872 - Dec. 31, 1925
The
Historical Boston Globe covers not only news, editorials, letters to the
editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical
photos, stock photos, and advertisements. Each article and page image is available as searchable ASCII text.
Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching
techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed
bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title,
publication, issue date, author, page, etc.
Full issue coverage of this influential black weekly newspaper.
Coverage: 1910 - 1975
The
Chicago Defender has been the voice of the African-American Community in Chicago and across the United States.
It was the nation's largest and most influential black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I,
with more than two thirds of its readership base located outside of Chicago.
Cover-to-cover full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: Sept 18,1851 - Dec 31, 2005
The database covers The
New York Times from its first issue in 1851
through 2002. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the
editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical
photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search
by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching
techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed
bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title,
publication, issue date, author, page, etc.
Cover-to-cover full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: July 8, 1889 - Dec 31, 1991
The database covers
The Wall Street Journal from its first issue in
1889 through 1991. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the
editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical
photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search
by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching
techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed
bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title,
publication, issue date, author, page, etc.
Complete archives of 18 leading Irish newspapers searchable by full text.
Coverage: (varies)1763 - current
The
Irish Newspaper Archive is the largest on-line database of Irish Newspapers in the world.
It contains complete archives of the
Irish Independent (1905-Current),
The Freeman's Journal (1763-1924),
the
Nation (1842-1897) and many more leading national, regional and out-of date titles.
To date the INA has digitized 15 newspaper titles with over 25 more titles scheduled
for digitization this year alone. The vast majority of titles run from their inception to current and will be
updated on a monthly basis. All titles are rendered fully word searchable and date indexed.
Besides newspapers, the INA is in the process of digitizing other documents of historical
interest such as directories and the vast Lawrence photographic collection, consisting of over 50,000 prints
from early Victorian Ireland.
Bibliographic citations pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods.
Coverage: 400-1700
Iter contains more than 935,000 citations from articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts,
encyclopedia entries and reviews collected from over 6,600 publications, including over 1,600 journals.
The search interface permits expert searching by keyword, title, author and, for selected records, by Library of
Congress subject headings and Dewey Decimal Classification. The interface
supports Boolean and positional operators, and allows limiting by language,
publication type and publication year. Results lists can be sorted by author,
subject, title, relevance or publication year. Records can be marked and
conveniently e-mailed or downloaded.
Arts & Science Collections I - IV offering over 500 full-text journals.
Coverage: 1800s - 1 to 5 years before current month (varies by title)
UML has access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I through IV. These collections combine to offer
509 full-text academic journal titles from the first issues until one to five years before the current month.
Most of these titles include decades worth of issues, some dating back to the nineteenth century. Topics covered
branch across all aspects of the humanities including literature, history, folklore, music, mathematics,
economics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and much, much more.
General coverage of regional history, law, government and current events.
Coverage: 1980 - current
Massachusetts History Online combines searches from the Boston Globe and Boston Magazine with the
Massachusetts, BU, and BC Law Reviews plus William and Mary Quarterly, American
Heritage, History Today, Journal of American History, Presidential Studies
Quarterly along with 15 other titles in a database collection of nearly 200,000 documents.
Combined coverage of 14 Massachusetts newspapers such as the Globe and Lowell Sun.
Coverage: varies by title, oldest is 1980 - current
ProQuest Newsstand offers full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe,
Boston Herald, Lowell Sun, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other
regional sources. Detailed indexing helps researchers quickly find the news information they need. The indexing
covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic
areas. Not only are top news stories indexed, but also detailed information on the arts, sports,
business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters
to the editor from well know people are indexed.
Access over 300 journal titles covering the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Coverage: varies (earliest date 1995) - current
The
Project MUSE Standard Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed
journals focused extensively in the humanities and social sciences. It is particularly strong in literature
and history, but also global in scope with political and social coverage of Africa, Latin America, Asia, Canada,
and the Middle East.
Search for books, journals and non-print materials.
Signup for your own personal account so that you can create a personal bookshelf in order to
create and save highlights, notes, and more. Download the ebrary Reader in order to take notes, highlight, and use
other advanced features. Click on the help icon above for information on how to take advantage of the
many special features in ebrary.
Over 4,400 ebooks covering all major subject areas.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - current
NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four
criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by
publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the
Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four
books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline,
downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session.
By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your
personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.
28 Companions, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Guides covering world history.
Oxford Reference: History covers a broad range of historical areas related primarilary to the United States
and Britain, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Other areas include military history, the Reformation and
Renaissance, family history, and much more. The subject can be searched or browsed as a whole or within
individual works.
48 encyclopedias and handbooks covering the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Coverage: Publication dates 2002 - 2008
Sage eReference titles, including the
Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods,
can be searched together or separately by keyword or browsed by subject. Individual
titles have a Reader's Guide that combines entries into thematic categories. You can also limit searches by images, tables,
or sidebars. Subjects covered include African American Studies, Anthropology, Business and
Management, Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, History, Politics, Psychology, Research Methods,
Social Issues, Sociology, and much more.
