The most frequently-used databases
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Collections spanning from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990, focusing on gender and LGBTQ studies, women's studies, American studies, civil and human rights, journalism, social movement history, and British twentieth-century history.
History of the Associated Press. Contains the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive.
ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®) with ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's full text collection of 300+ major religion and theology journals. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities. The collections that are part of Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements draw on primary source materials from colleges and universities, historical societies, public libraries, community archives and other institutions.
Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
This primary source collection of U.S. congressional publications spans challenges of civil rights such as freed slaves, and women’s suffrage.
A daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion, and curation.
A browsable and searchable database to federal legislation including bill text, bill summary and status, roll call votes, public laws, the Congressional Record, House and Senate reports, and much more.
The official record of the proceedings, debates, and activities of Congress. Although the Record contains a substantially verbatim account of the proceedings and debate, it also contains extensive inserted materials, communications from the President and executive agencies, memorials, and petitions.
The Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving Old English text, an essential electronic reference for all scholars of Old and Middle English.
Includes more than 100,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions. Over 40 complete collections, each offering specialized insights. Integrated, they allow you to explore policy across several different areas at once.
The eBook Religion Collection provides titles ranging from introductory texts for undergraduate coursework to more complex and detailed works for advanced students and scholars in the Religion discipline. The eBooks included in the subscription cover diverse worldwide religions and explore popular areas of study such as the social, cultural, and historical impacts of religion.
Includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world; unpublished doctoral dissertations are covered for the period 1920–1999.
Includes important full‐text journals and much sought‐after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports
Includes important full‐text journals and much sought‐after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports
Provides cover-to-cover, full-images complete with illustrations and advertisements. Contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.
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Provides business professionals with critical information about companies, products, and executives as well as in-depth news and analysis of industry trends and developments.
Provides extensive news coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. Features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand hard-to-find local and regional titles, and offers searchable news video clips and over two thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
Brings together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with key resources for locating quick and precise results covering current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues of the day.
Contains content from Banking Information Database.
Electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels.
Database of articles relevant to aeronautics, astronautics, communications, computer and information technology, electronics, lasers, solid-state materials and devices, space sciences, and telecommunications. Source types include scholarly journals, trade journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newspapers, and more. Content dates from 1962 - present.
Provides access to U.S. newspapers from more than 35 states chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
Diverse periodicals - which have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, African American culture - will enable new discoveries on lives of African Americans as individuals, as an ethnic group and as Americans.
Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Created from the Library Company’s acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection - an accumulation that began with Benjamin Franklin and steadily increased throughout its entire history - this unique online resource will provide researchers with more than 12,000 printed works.
Includes ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management); EIS (Environmental Impact Statements); TOXLINE; and AGRICOLA (a comprehensive agricultural research database from the USDA -- ProQuest's version of AGRICOLA provides convenient links to DU's full-text subscriptions when available). Sources include scholarly journals, trade journals, newspapers and magazines, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications.
Amateur Newspapers were a genre of 19th century newspapers, written and published mainly by juvenile enthusiasts for the goal of publishing, not profiting.
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Offers early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials, illuminating centuries of American history, literature, culture and daily life.
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Thousands of titles chronicle centuries of American history, culture and daily life. Includes titles from all 50 present states. This database provides access to digitized versions of primary source material.
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Full text from such popular magazines as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, People Weekly, Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated, and many others.
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The American Archive of Public Broadcasting has over 7,000 historic public radio and television programs available to stream in addition to approximately 2.6 million items inventoried by public broadcasting stations.
Based on the American Antiquarian Society’s landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera, this full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900.
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Historical newspapers covering agriculture, agricultural technology, and economics of farming published between 1788 through 1894.
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Historical newspapers covering business, industry, and international trade published between 1783 through 1900.
Featuring more than 13,500 works published between 1860 and 1922, this fully searchable collection offers printed items addressing all facets of the Civil War and its aftermath.
Contains more than 1,500 dramatic works from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Contains more than 17,800 titles and encompasses prose fiction written by Americans from colonial times to the early twentieth century.
A national filmography documenting the history of American cinema. Cataloging currently covers the years 1893-1974 comprehensively, with additional records covering selected major films from 1975 onward.
Historical newspapers containing official announcements, transaction records, legal decisions, and business notices published between 1796 through 1884.
Enables researchers to investigate Jewish immigration, genealogy, history and so much more.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society provides a history of the American people and a testament to the growth of the nation from the colonial period through to the twentieth century.
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Enables researchers to investigate Jewish immigration, genealogy, history and so much more.
Features various newsletters, magazines, and journals published within the ALA, sorted by title, including those which are only available over the Internet.
A biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological and related sciences.
Open access database of AMNH Scientific Publications, AMNH scholarly output and other original and published materials digitized by the Library.
These rare items addressing slavery, suffrage and dozens of other divisive issues include speeches, orations, debates, sermons, treatises, tracts, narratives, poems, songs, memoirs, announcements, legal notices and more.
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources.
Presidential and regional campaign coverage from historical newspapers published between 1803 through 1876.
Reports, publications, and news broadcasts covering America's fight for racial justice, with firsthand analysis of race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Historical newspapers covering religious news and the role religion played in American life and society published between 1799 through 1900.
Slavery and abolition materials, all filmed in full-resolution color, include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera; among them are a large number of invaluable Southern imprints.
Enables students and scholars to easily search and browse legislative and executive documents of the first 14 U.S. Congresses.
Delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.
A year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758. A valuable source of contemporary opinion, historical context and biographical information for the historian.
An online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists.
Translated news broadcasts and publications on the international reaction to apartheid throughout the African continent and from around the world.
Designed to meet the information needs of the caring professions, and spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Streaming video from newsreels and archives
A current directory which describes collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
ArchiveGrid provides records for over five million archival resources, including historical documents, personal papers, and family histories from over 1,000 different archival institutions.
From the Smithsonian, history of visual art in America
An archive of digitized primary documents focus on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period sourced from collections in the U.S. and abroad. (Formerly known as World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean)
Collections spanning from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990, focusing on gender and LGBTQ studies, women's studies, American studies, civil and human rights, journalism, social movement history, and British twentieth-century history.
Part of ProQuest Central, this resource contains information about the visual and applied arts. Subject strengths include design, classical studies, anthropology, architecture, history, languages and literatures, and cultural studies.
A major research resource comprising the digitized backfiles of many of the foremost art and architecture magazines of the twentieth century. Offering unprecedented access to the archives of key consumer and trade publications, it is a unique collection of the essential primary sources for studying the history of these subjects.
Focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications.
Includes European Business Database.
History of the Associated Press. Contains the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive.
Gives today's researchers a vivid, first-hand account of one of the most turbulent periods in American history: post-Civil War reconstruction.
Provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Free audio books and poetry featuring digital recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, Maria Lectrix, and Internet Archive users.
Provides researchers with unique insights into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of Texas, as well as the southwest U.S. from the late 19th through the 20th century.
Part of ProQuest Central, this resource includes ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study include business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Represented the bustling port city of Baltimore by reporting on pivotal issues and events of the 19th and early 20th centuries: immigration, the slave trade, commerce, the Civil War, and Washington D.C. politics.
Digitized newspaper of Barron's national business and financial weekly. View the page, not just the article.
Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities. The collections that are part of Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements draw on primary source materials from colleges and universities, historical societies, public libraries, community archives and other institutions.
A guide for communicating about people involved in the carceral system.
The work of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) holds up a mirror to the literary and political tumult of the twentieth century. A collection of Brecht's works and writings in six volumes with brief notes on each text.
Contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
Provides free access to biomedical research publications.
Presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves.
A living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day.
Provides continuous newspaper runs of vital primary source materials essential for the study of U.S. history, African-American history, culture, politics, genealogy, the arts, media, and communications.
Brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.
Bookshelf from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides free access to over 5,000 books and documents related to life science and healthcare.
The devastating 1872 Boston fire. The suspenseful 1893 Lizzie Borden ax murder trial. The catastrophic 1919 police strike. Mid-20th-century decline and renewal. These dramatic stories as well as accounts of everyday life in historical New England await your online researchers in the digitized pages of The Boston Globe (1872-1979).
From the Oliveira Lima Library, Manoel de Oliveira Lima's travels in Europe and the Americas afforded him privileged access to dealers in books, manuscripts, works of art, and other materials for the study of Brazil, Portugal, and the Ibero-American world.
More than 160 regional and local newspapers, held by the British Library, published in Britain between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.
Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the mid twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Including papers of British statesmen, Home Office records, ordnance surveys, working class autobiographies, and other unique collections, this database is a remarkable resource for scholars looking to explore the political and social history of Britain. Source libraries are the British Library, Oxford University, and The National Archives, Kew.
Features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history.
Part of ProQuest Central, this database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
Comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
The complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) subset of PubMed/MEDLINE. Brought to you by a partnership between the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
An ideal source for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.
Includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features.
Containing more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets drawn from over 700 printed sources, many of them rare and inaccessible outside Canada, the collection comprises essentially the complete canon of English-language Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century up to the early twentieth.
Part of ProQuest Central, this resource contains vocational information in technical topic fields including computing science, building trades, graphic design, and healthcare.
Includes over 140 Caribbean newspapers published in the 18th and 19th centuries from 22 countries. Essential for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, and New World slavery.
A privately held archive of approximately 30,000 sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts, consisting principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son Robert, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612).
Contains over 90 years of high level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues, this searchable online archive brings international affairs knowledge and expertise directly to you.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
When first incorporated, Chicago was a swampy little town populated only by a few hundred people. Soon after, the historical Chicago Tribune (1849-1989) began chronicling the city's challenges, achievements, and evolution into one of America's finest cities.
China from Empire to Republic: Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals 1817-1949 documents the thoughts of Chinese intellectuals and Western missionaries and diplomats about China, and their efforts to understand Chinese culture and transform the nation in the years before 1949. The collection contains missionary, academic, and literary periodicals in English published in or about China.
Gain insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers.
After being provoked by Joseph Pulitzer's New York World newspaper for her unconventional religious ideas, 87-year-old Mary Baker Eddy founded The Christian Science Monitor.
Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
This primary source collection of U.S. congressional publications spans challenges of civil rights such as freed slaves, and women’s suffrage.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Reports, publications, and news broadcasts offering firsthand analysis, descriptions, and viewpoints of every facet of the Cold War.
Provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Colorado State Publications Library's digital repository provides permanent public access to Colorado's born-digital state government publications and records for print-only publications.
A project in progress with the goal of digitizing Colorado's historic newspapers from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
A daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion, and curation.
Published by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), these newspapers cover workers' rights, communist party activities, social issues, and politics for the years 1917-2013.
Topics include artificial intelligence; computer applications, programming, systems organization, and hardware; information systems, mathematics of computing, software engineering, and more. Sources include scholarly journals, trade journals, conference proceedings, government publications, dissertations, books, magazines, and more.
Database that includes product reviews plus articles about database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management. Sources include scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles. Content dates from 1998 - present.
The official record of the proceedings, debates, and activities of Congress. Although the Record contains a substantially verbatim account of the proceedings and debate, it also contains extensive inserted materials, communications from the President and executive agencies, memorials, and petitions.
Covers an enormous range of subjects of value from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Explore the lives of today’s most influential voices. Discover biographical details on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Features current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world.
Part of ProQuest Central, this database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries including France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
A broad history of crime in the long 19th century derived from French, German, Spanish, Australian, British and U.S. sources. The collection includes trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic documents, photographs, true crime literature and detective novels, and newspaper account
CJA indexes more than 550 national and international journals, covering subject areas including criminology, criminal justice, criminal law and procedure, corrections and prisons, police and policing, criminal investigation, forensic sciences and investigation, history of crime, substance abuse and addiction, probation, and parole.
A comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
Part of the Social Science Premium Collection, this collection supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services. It includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database, with further index and full-text coverage of scholarly journals. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other relevant material for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.
A data set comprised of more than 200 years of annual data from 1815 onward for over 200 countries.
Browse a collection of vibrant texts uploaded to the CUNY Manifold platform. You can find a broad range of projects here, including original scholarship undergoing peer review, teaching handbooks, collaborative student projects, and customized course versions of texts and textbooks in the public domain.
More than 100 years of this major UK national newspaper can be viewed in full digital facsimile form, with copious advertisements, news stories and images that capture 20th century culture and society.
The Densho Digital Repository (DDR) provides access to over 900 visual histories and thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, and letters describing the Japanese American experience including immigration in the early 1900s and a focus on the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The DDR also includes a Names Registry.
Provides news, business, features, sports and an editorial section for the region and has bureaus throughout the state of Colorado and in Washington, D.C.
A premier source of information for all aspects of design and applied arts, including architecture; advertising and product design; crafts; textiles, ceramics & jewelry; fashion; sustainable design; interior design; graphic design; and more.
Published its first edition before Michigan entered statehood and when wild animals outnumbered the people living in the city. Its editor assigned a writer to walk the waterfront and record the shipping news each day, creating the first news "beat."
Provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world’s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Digitized to match the look and feel of the acclaimed print originals, including thousands of images.
The Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving Old English text, an essential electronic reference for all scholars of Old and Middle English.
The Digital Miscellanies Index allows searching of the contents of over 1,750 poetic miscellanies published between 1557 and 1800 and records of the poems and people featured in them.
Includes more than 100,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions. Over 40 complete collections, each offering specialized insights. Integrated, they allow you to explore policy across several different areas at once.
Provides access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Contains fire insurance maps of the United States.