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.
An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
A collection of North American Indigenous Peoples music and information.
"The music is provided here as a reference for other singers, researchers, and the general public to enjoy. It is not offered as music to be downloaded or shared, but only accessed for these reasons. The music in this library comes from a variety of sources including private and published recordings."
e-LIS features over 20,000 open access, full text e-prints from the field of library and information science.
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.
A complete annotated bibliography and full-text of all Executive Branch Documents listed in the Checklist of Public Documents, 1789-1909, indexed by subjects, names, agency report numbers, and SuDocs Classification.
Crucial to understanding many policy, process, and legal issues, Executive Orders are the formal means by which the President of the United States executes a wide range of actions related to the Federal Government’s internal operations and organization, as well as foreign and domestic policies.
Includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.
Enables users to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
A collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBTQIA activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has an historical web collection (the Wayback Machine).
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.
(Access Provided by University of Denver)
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.
(Access Provided by University of Denver)
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.
(Access provided by Univserity of Denver)
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.
(Access Provided by University of Denver)
Historical newspapers covering agriculture, agricultural technology, and economics of farming published between 1788 through 1894.
(Access Provided by University of Denver)
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.
(Access Provided by University of Denver)
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.
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.
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.
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.
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.
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.
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
An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
Contains over 160,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles from the 8th century to around 1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, more than 1,250 poets are represented.
A complete annotated bibliography and full-text of all Executive Branch Documents listed in the Checklist of Public Documents, 1789-1909, indexed by subjects, names, agency report numbers, and SuDocs Classification.
Crucial to understanding many policy, process, and legal issues, Executive Orders are the formal means by which the President of the United States executes a wide range of actions related to the Federal Government’s internal operations and organization, as well as foreign and domestic policies.
Features publications and working papers of interest to policymakers, academics, business and banking professionals, and the general public.
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 152,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 202,000 titles into one source.
Offers a diversity of unabridged voices, ranging from intellectuals and literary notables to politicians, union organizers and grassroots figures.
Historical contemporary reviews, essays, and commentary related to more than 500 influential authors from the 17th to the early 20th century.
Records of floor action from the early U.S. Senate and House of Representatives (beginning 1789)
Provides thoroughly researched, accurate and current business information with expert analysis about economic, demographic and government data.
Contains the entire run of this historical news source, including all Special Numbers and Reports, reproduced in high-quality color facsimile images.
This digital archive contains translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Sources collections from Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth (17th) into the twentieth (20th) century. Includes diverse manuscripts, book collections, and newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations.
A valuable online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research covering the four core social science subjects: sociology, economics, politics and anthropology.
Part of ProQuest Central, ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.