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Provides access to 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals, as well as newspapers, reference works, podcasts, and video content.

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database from EBSCO, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Features over 7,500 historical American periodicals from the 17th through the late 19th century.

Contains hundreds of periodicals and ebooks on art and architecture, as well as a collection of 63,000 images.

Includes over 2.4 million high-quality images from art history and other disciplines. Images are taken from across historical periods, geographic regions, and global cultures.

Indexed full-text biographies and news items covering a wide range of individuals from many fields, gathered from reference sources and periodicals.

Includes information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building, including energy efficiency, recycled-content materials, land-use planning and indoor air quality.

Includes peer-reviewed journals and academic ebooks published by Cambridge University Press.

Academic eBook publisher on range of historical topics

Explore the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres; multi-series.

Search across multiple EBSCO databases.

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for fine arts students.

Multidisciplinary eBook collection covering social sciences, history, business, literature, medicine, law and others.

This search platform includes Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Gale Virtual Library, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center - LRC, and LitFinder.

Use the power of Google to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

Full-text literary criticism articles covering works from the ancient world to the present, including poetry, short stories, drama, and children’s literature.

Full-text literary criticism articles, reviews, work overviews, and biographical information.

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

The definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.

Full text and searchable digitized version of the New York Times from 1851 through 2018. (Current NYT content is available through our New York Times site license.)

Notes: As of July 2023, Nexis Uni has been replaced by Westlaw Campus.

Research management/citation management tool.

Offers full text of 1,500 plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.

A long-standing authority on the English language, the OED provides the past and present meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world.

Multi-disciplinary academic publisher

Interdisciplinary collection of over 300 journals published by Oxford University Press.

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Collection of over 700 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Set up a personal account while on campus to use this citation management tool.

Note: This system will be retired October 2024. Consider an alternate tool, such as EndNote or NoodleTools.

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.

A collection of 1,000+ high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering many disciplines, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 350 scholarly and professional societies.

Historical publications related chiefly to the hard sciences: mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, geology (including mining), and the like. It also contains a few social sciences titles and literary magazines with science content.

SpringerLink is a collection of ebooks and journals covering scientific, technical and medical literature.

Primary source materials, periodical articles, reference works, and multimedia. Over 375 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about people, events, movements, and ideas from the precolonial period to the present.

Women's-oriented periodicals from the 18th through the 19th century, drawing from the Colonial through the Jacksonian Era. Includes a broad range of subjects and places of publication, with a focus on radically changing perceptions of womanhood and ideas about the role of women over time.

Primary source materials, periodical articles, reference works, and multimedia. Over 350 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about people, events, civilizations, and ideas from the ancient world to the present.

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database from EBSCO, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries. A product of Ancestry.com.

North America's most complete assembly of original rare maps focusing on early Africa. Contains 5,000 maps, engravings, archive papers, texts, and references from rare books. This collection includes materials written in English, Latin, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Collection items originate from the years 1480 to 1900.

This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: 1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860) -- 2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877) -- 3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932) -- 4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945) -- 5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975) -- 6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). The documents presented here represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases. The databases represented in this website include American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street's Black Thought and Culture

Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.

Search or browse resources on American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences. Includes CQ Almanac, CQ Researcher Plus Archive, Politics in America, and Supreme Court Yearbook

Multidisciplinary eBook collection covering social sciences, history, business, literature, medicine, law and others.

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

Contains over 10,000 articles, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines. Core content includes Black Women in America and African American National Biography.

Primary source materials, periodical articles, reference works, and multimedia. Over 375 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about people, events, movements, and ideas from the precolonial period to the present.

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database from EBSCO, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

North America's most complete assembly of original rare maps focusing on early Africa. Contains 5,000 maps, engravings, archive papers, texts, and references from rare books. This collection includes materials written in English, Latin, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Collection items originate from the years 1480 to 1900.

Features over 7,500 historical American periodicals from the 17th through the late 19th century.

Contains hundreds of periodicals and ebooks on art and architecture, as well as a collection of 63,000 images.

Includes over 2.4 million high-quality images from art history and other disciplines. Images are taken from across historical periods, geographic regions, and global cultures.

Includes peer-reviewed journals and academic ebooks published by Cambridge University Press.

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for fine arts students.

Multidisciplinary eBook collection covering social sciences, history, business, literature, medicine, law and others.

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

The definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.

Full text and searchable digitized version of the New York Times from 1851 through 2018. (Current NYT content is available through our New York Times site license.)

Collection of over 700 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

A collection of 1,000+ high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering many disciplines, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 350 scholarly and professional societies.

Provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries. A product of Ancestry.com.

North America's most complete assembly of original rare maps focusing on early Africa. Contains 5,000 maps, engravings, archive papers, texts, and references from rare books. This collection includes materials written in English, Latin, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Collection items originate from the years 1480 to 1900.

Features over 7,500 historical American periodicals from the 17th through the late 19th century.

This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: 1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860) -- 2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877) -- 3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932) -- 4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945) -- 5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975) -- 6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). The documents presented here represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases. The databases represented in this website include American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street's Black Thought and Culture

Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.

Full text and searchable digitized version of the Boston Globe from 1872 through 1991.

Current events of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes reports on economics and government affairs, periodicals dedicated to United States history, as well as regional and local news and interests

Contains over 4 billion records from genealogical and historical sources including census records from the U.S. and other countries, family histories, and military records.

National and regional data from the 18th century to present day. Includes essays to contextualize historical data.

Covers the period 1972-present.

Full text and searchable digitized version of the New York Times from 1851 through 2018. (Current NYT content is available through our New York Times site license.)

ProQuest Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive collection of Congressional publications from 1789-present available. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. Users will find indexing and abstracts for House and Senate reports and documents, Congressional committee prints and published hearings, information on members and committees, topic pages covering key concepts and policies, as well as the full text of many House and Senate documents, Hearings, Bills, nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, Executive Orders, and more.

Historical publications related chiefly to the hard sciences: mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, geology (including mining), and the like. It also contains a few social sciences titles and literary magazines with science content.

Covers U.S. involvement in the region from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the escalation of the war during the Johnson administration, to the final resolution of the war at the Paris Peace Talks and the evacuation of U.S. troops in 1973. Traces the actions and decisions at the highest levels of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus, as well as events on the ground in Vietnam, from the perspective of State Department officials, Associated Press reporters, and members of the U.S. Armed forces, including the Marines and the Military Assistance Command Vietnam. Collections also highlight all of the most important foreign policy issues facing the United States between 1960 and 1975

Full text and searchable digitized version of the Wall Street Journal from 1889 through 2004.

Women's-oriented periodicals from the 18th through the 19th century, drawing from the Colonial through the Jacksonian Era. Includes a broad range of subjects and places of publication, with a focus on radically changing perceptions of womanhood and ideas about the role of women over time.

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database from EBSCO, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Indexed full-text biographies and news items covering a wide range of individuals from many fields, gathered from reference sources and periodicals.

Academic eBook publisher on range of historical topics

Includes peer-reviewed journals and academic ebooks published by Cambridge University Press.

Multidisciplinary eBook collection covering social sciences, history, business, literature, medicine, law and others.

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

Interdisciplinary collection of over 300 journals published by Oxford University Press.

Provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.

Collection of over 700 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Primary source materials, periodical articles, reference works, and multimedia. Over 375 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about people, events, movements, and ideas from the precolonial period to the present.

Primary source materials, periodical articles, reference works, and multimedia. Over 350 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about people, events, civilizations, and ideas from the ancient world to the present.

Contains hundreds of periodicals and ebooks on art and architecture, as well as a collection of 63,000 images.

Includes over 2.4 million high-quality images from art history and other disciplines. Images are taken from across historical periods, geographic regions, and global cultures.

Includes information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building, including energy efficiency, recycled-content materials, land-use planning and indoor air quality.

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

Material ConneXion maintains the world’s largest subscription-based materials library with more than 7,500 innovative materials and processes across all disciplines of design.

Collection of over 700 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database from EBSCO, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Includes peer-reviewed journals and academic ebooks published by Cambridge University Press.

Explore the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres; multi-series.

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

Full-text literary criticism articles covering works from the ancient world to the present, including poetry, short stories, drama, and children’s literature.

Full-text literary criticism articles, reviews, work overviews, and biographical information.

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

The definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.

Offers full text of 1,500 plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.

Collection of over 700 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Learn over 100 foreign languages. Please note: you must initially create a personal account

Women's-oriented periodicals from the 18th through the 19th century, drawing from the Colonial through the Jacksonian Era. Includes a broad range of subjects and places of publication, with a focus on radically changing perceptions of womanhood and ideas about the role of women over time.

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database from EBSCO, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Indexed full-text biographies and news items covering a wide range of individuals from many fields, gathered from reference sources and periodicals.

Multidisciplinary eBook collection covering social sciences, history, business, literature, medicine, law and others.

A highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals. The Sawyer Library has enhanced this collection with additional subscriptions in the life sciences, business studies, and Irish studies.

Collection of over 700 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.

A collection of 1,000+ high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering many disciplines, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 350 scholarly and professional societies.

Multidisciplinary academic publisher