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Subject Specific Databases

• Accessible Archives
  Full text primary source materials from 18th & 19th century periodicals. Collections include African American Newspapers and Civil War Perspectives.
• African American Studies Center (Oxford University Press)
  Full text reference materials, including primary sources, on African American and African history and culture.
• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies(Ebsco)
  Information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Coverage ranges from 1990-present.
• America: History & Life (Ebsco)
  Indexes and abstracts journal articles, dissertations, book reviews, and books in the field of American history. Some full-text articles.
• Historical Abstracts (Ebsco)
  Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life).
• Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
  An international digital library that spans 4 centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas.
• Hartford Courant Historical Archive (Proquest)
  The Hartford Courant (1764 - Current ) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• History Reference Center (Ebsco/iCONN)
  Full text reference books, magazines, documents, biographies, photos, video.
• JSTOR Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.
• Mergent Online
  Financial reports, general information, company histories, etc. Searchable by name or SIC.
• New York Times Historical Archives (Proquest)
  Full text articles from the New York Times, 1851-2001 (rolling window).
• Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 (Accessible Archives)
• The Street: Primary sources in arts & literature. Collections:
  
  • American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street)
    100,000+ pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.
  • American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street)
    Information on the scenes, characters, and people related to 300+ scripts.
  • Asian American Drama (Alexander Street)
    Hundreds of plays with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
  • Black Drama (Alexander Street)
    Information on 1,000+ plays, related productions, theaters, production companies, selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
  • Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street)
    Hundreds of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, most in full text.
  • British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street)
    The experiences of over 400 women, as revealed in approximately 80,000 pages of diaries and letters.
  • Early Encounters in North America, Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (Alexander Street)
    Over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
  • North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
    Primary sources provide insight into what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street)
    Primary sources reveal the experiences of 1,300+ women.
  • Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street)
    Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, and otehr material.
  • Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press)
    The website currently includes 65 document projects with 1,800 documents, and more than 23,000 pages of additional full-text documents. It includes as well book, film and website reviews and teaching tools.
• Teatro Espanol del Siglo del Oro
  Contains approximately 850 full-text works of more than 16 authors who wrote during the Golden Age of Spain (1500-1700), including Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and Tirso de Molina. The entire text of each play can be viewed from the beginning, or by going directly to a particular act and scene

Subject Related Databases

• American Humanities Index (Ebsco)
  Indexes 1,000+ literary, scholarly and creative journals.
• Anthropological Literature (OCLC)
  Indexes and abstracts literature in anthropology.
• AnthroSource
  Full-text journal collection from the American Anthropological Association.
• AP Photo Archive (iCONN)
  Provides access to a huge collection of historical and current photographs from the Associated Press.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI)
  Searchable database of cited and citing articles in the arts and humanities. Allows author, title, and subject searching of references from scholarly journals.
• ArtStor
  ArtStor is a digital library of art images and related data. It contains about 400,000 images from a range of cultures and time periods.
• Humanities International Index (Ebsco)
  Covers journals, books and other sources in the humanities. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 journals
• IPSA: International Political Science Abstracts (Ebsco)
  Produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present.
• Military and Government Collection - pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
• Newsstand (Proquest/iCONN)
  Full-text coverage of the Christian Science Monitor, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
• Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI)
  Searchable database of cited and citing articles in social science fields. Allows author, title, and subject searching of references from scholarly journals.
• SocIndex with Full Text (Ebsco)
  Full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
  Indexes/abstracts sociological literature.
• Wilson Select Plus (FS)
  Full text articles in a variety of humanities and social sciences.

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
  Indexes/abstracts articles in 3000+ scholarly journals in social sciences and humanitites, and general interest magazines and newspapers. Many articles available in full text.
• Article 1st (FS)
  Index of articles from c.12,500 journals.
• Book Index with Reviews
  Provides full-text searchable reviews on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats.
• Books in Print (Bowker).
  List of all books currently in print in the U.S.
• CQ Researcher
  Full text of the weekly CQ Researcher, covering multiple viewpoints on current controversial social issues.
• Dissertation Abstracts Online (FS)
  Index/abstracts of dissertations in all fields.
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/iCONN)
  Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.
• General Reference Center Gold (Gale/iCONN)
  Multi-source general interest reference tool.
• Ingenta
  Index and abstracting for over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. Searching is free. Articles may be ordered for a fee (the price list is included in this link).
• Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe, and Statistical Universe
  Full text bills, statutes, regulations; statistics from local, state, national, and international sources.
• Project Muse
  Full text access to 167 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
  Online access to Oxford Companions, Dictionaries, and other reference sources.
• Westlaw (iCONN)
  Articles from major and local newspapers; legal resources.
• WorldCat (FS)
  Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Subject Guides

• United States History Primary Sources
• United States Women's History