This bibliographic database provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada. It is an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Citations and links to book and media reviews are added benefits to the America: History and Life database. It provides strong English-language journal coverage, balanced by an international perspective on topics and events. This includes English abstracts for articles published a variety of languages. (EBSCO)
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A to Z Maps Online -
The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. Updated monthly. (A to Z Maps Online)
AAPG Archives (Datapages) - Datapages endeavors to make geological publications accessible. The information contained in these publications can have a longer shelf life than the bound documents themselves. Over the years, books go out of print and become rare, or they suffer the ravages of moths and mildew. As a result, a great deal of valuable geological information is lost. To combat this loss, Datapages digitally captures geological publications and archives them to electronic media, thereby ensuring their future viability by making them indispensable to the geological professionals who need them most. By doing this, publications are easily accessible, searchable, and affordable. (AAPG)
ABI/INFORM Business Collection (ProQuest) -
Part of the Business Premier Collection (ProQuest), this database comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. (ProQuest)
Academic OneFile (Gale) - Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) -
Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,043 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.
Academic Video Online (Alexander Street) -
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 62,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. (Alexander Street Press)
Access Engineering (McGraw-Hill) - Engineering videos, graphs, curriculum maps, Excel spreadsheet tools, and an engineering news feed.
Access World News (NewsBank) -
Search state, national & international articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, videos and other sources. Full-text articles from 4,700+ domestic and international newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, Financial Times (London) and USA Today. Also includes Access Business News, Access International News, Access Military, Government, and Defense, Access Newswires & Transcripts, and Acceda Noticias.
Accessible Archives - Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, these databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading
historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily
life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements,
and genealogical records are available in a user-friendly online
environment. This resources includes the following components: African American Newspapers; America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers; American County Histories; The Civil War; Frank Leslie’s Weekly; Godey’s Lady’s Book; The Liberator; History of Woman Suffrage; National Anti-Slavery Standard; The Pennsylvania Gazette; The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County; Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets; Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman; South Carolina Newspapers; Twelve Years A Slave; The Virginia Gazette; Women’s Suffrage Collection. (Accessible Archives)
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project -
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is an online, fully searchable collection of nearly 2,000 high-quality books in history and the humanities, recommended and reviewed by historians.
ACM Digital Library -
Database of the Association of Computing Machinery consists of full text, citation, and abstract journals, magazine, and conference reports from 1966 to present.
ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals -
Full-text access to all ACS journals online.
ACSESS DL - Alliance of Crop, Soil, & Environmental Science Societies - The ACSESS Digital Library is a complete collection of all content published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. The Digital Library makes it possible to search, browse, research, comment on, and share all of our published literature in one convenient place.
Adam Matthew Explorer - Searches all Adam Matthew databases to which the McKay Library has access, including: American Consumer Culture; American History, 1493-1945; American Indian Histories and Cultures; China, America and the Pacific; Colonial America; Defining Gender, 1450-1910; Eighteenth Century Drama; Eighteenth Century Journals; Empire Online; The First World War; Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980; Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954; Literary Manuscripts Berg; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; London Low Life; Medieval Family Life; Medieval Travel Writing; Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700; Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975; Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape; Shakespeare in Performance; The First World War; The Nixon Years, 1969-1974; Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History; Victorian Popular Culture; Virginia Company Archives.
African American Music Reference -
African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
African American Newspapers (Accessible Archives) - This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, all of which embody the African-American experience. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
Agricola (EBSCO) -
Agricola contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes >4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials & technical reports related to agriculture.
Agriculture Collection (Gale) - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of a growing body of knowledge. Researchers will have access to current and authoritative periodical content that spans the industry—from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture. With strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 600 journal titles is focused on agriculture-related fields. In addition, more than 30 Delmar titles provide in-depth coverage on a variety of agriculture-related topics. (Gale)
AHFS Consumer Medication Information (EBSCO) -
A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Includes “How To” monographs for administering different types of medications.
Alexander Street Press Video Collection - Contains all video and audio offerings from Alexander Street Press.
ALT HealthWatch (EBSCO) -
This alternative health database provides full text for >140 publications, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals, dating back to 1990.
America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers (Accessible Archives) - American Military Camp Newspapers provides users with unparalleled access to unique sources covering the experiences of American soldiers during the mobilization period in 1916, in the trenches in 1918 and through the occupation of Germany in 1919. This collection addresses a topic and period that continues to be of the widest interest and importance to scholars, students, and the general public - America in the World War I Era. Camp newspapers make important original source Material--much of it written by soldiers for soldiers--readily available for research and fresh interpretation of events about "The War to End All Wars." This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
American Ancestors -
NOTE: ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE MCKAY LIBRARY. Genealogy information from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded 1845.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection - EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. (EBSCO)
Details on the collection can be found here.
American Civil War Research Database (Alexander Street Press) - The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with over 17,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually. (Alexander Street Press)
American Consumer Culture (Adam Matthew) - Cross-searchable access to essential primary sources for the study of market research, consumerism, business and advertising in America. Explore highly visual and captivating trade cards, photographs, catalogues and marketing material, plus insightful market research reports, pilot studies and letters through three major collections for the study of American consumer culture. This multi-title platform provides cross-searchable access to hundreds of thousands of pages of essential American history across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Presented within a single interface, students and scholars can now maximise their research and teaching and take advantage of the truly interdisciplinary nature of material from three Adam Matthew Digital products for the study for American consumer culture. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
American County Histories (Accessible Archives) -
Includes selected county histories for states in the Central, Mid Atlantic, New England, Southeast, Southwest, and West regions. These books include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, and many additional subject areas. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press) -
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online. (Alexander Street Press)
American Geophysical Union journals -
American Geophysical Union publishes 20 highly respected, peer-reviewed scientific journals covering research in the Earth and space sciences (AGU).
American History in Video (Alexander Street Press) -
The largest & richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. Allows students & researchers to analyze historical events & the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial & governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage & important documentaries. This release includes over 3146 titles, equaling approximately 765 hours.
American History, 1493-1945 (Adam Matthew) - This collection traces the progress of American History and extensively covers the major themes of the period from colonization and settlement through the revolution, expansion, politics, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, to World War II. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History holds one of the outstanding collections on American History. It is full of individual items, but it also has rich veins of manuscript research material. This makes it ideal for teaching survey courses on American History, but equally valuable as a platform for undergraduate essay work and postgraduate research. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
American Indian Histories and Cultures (Adam Matthew) - Spanning four centuries and covering North and Central America, this digital resource provides access to material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. Discover a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the ongoing repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
American Indians and the West, 1809-1971 (ProQuest History Vault) - American Indians and the American West consists of one module on American Indians and the American West from 1809-1971. This module contains several collections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Notable collections in this module from the 19th Century focus on Indian Removal from 1832-1840, the U.S. Army and American Indians in the years from the 1850s-1890s, including detailed coverage of Indian Wars. The featured collections on the 20th Century are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes.
American Periodicals (ProQuest) -
Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
American Politics and Society: Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930 (ProQuest History Vault) - Consists of immigration records to the United States during the massive immigration wave from 1880-1930.
American Song (Alexander Street Press) - A music history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. (Alexander Street Press)
Ancestry.com -
NOT AVAILABLE OFF CAMPUS. Works best with Internet Explorer. The leading resource for pursuing family history research online. Access to hundreds of millions of fully searchable individual records, including all available US Census records (1790–1930).
Annual Reviews -
Scholarly review articles in the fields of biological and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
AnswerConnect - AnswerConnect provides quick answers and in-depth analysis on federal and state tax issues, and coverage of the federal tax code and regulations. The database also includes the U.S. Master Tax Guide, tools, practice aids, compliance information and tips, and federal and state tax forms.
AP Stylebook - At more than 600 pages, the AP Stylebook is widely used as a writing and editing reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide. Updated regularly since its initial publication in 1953, the AP Stylebook is a must-have reference for writers, editors, students and professionals. It provides fundamental guidelines for spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style. It is the definitive resource for journalists. (Associated Press)
APA Style Guide to Electronic References - Available in an easy-to-use PDF format, the APA Style Guide to Electronic References provides an authoritative reference guide to help navigate the ambiguous world of reference sources found online.
ArchiveGrid (OCLC) - ArchiveGrid includes over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies. (OCLC)
Archives Unbound (Gale) - Archives Unbound addresses students and scholars' pressing need to see primary, unpublished archival documents. There is no better way to study the past than through consultation of primary source documents. Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Includes the following components: Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945; Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents; German Folklore and Popular Culture: Das Kloster. Scheible; International Women’s Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues; Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers’ Project; Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970; Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974; Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia; Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880; Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement; Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950; Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals; Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project; SUR, 1931-1992; Testaments to the Holocaust. Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London; The Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South; Women, War and Society, 1914-1918. (Gale)
ArkivDigital - ArkivDigital is a Swedish genealogy database with access to 69 million color digital images of historical documents including church records, court records, and inventory of estates.
Art and Architecture Archive (ProQuest) - A full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. The magazines are scanned from cover-to-cover and presented as full-color page images; detailed indexing permits quick, efficient searching and navigation of this material.(ProQuest)
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) -
Abstracts and full text from English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as journals published in several foreign languages.
Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) - This archival database features high-quality indexing of historical literature on a variety of art topics from the years 1929 to 1984. Chronicling over half a century of art literature, it covers fine, decorative, and commercial art. Art Index Retrospective contains hundreds of titles from feature articles, interviews, film reviews, book reviews, bibliographies, exhibition listings, conference reports, anthologies, and editorials. Search nearly 600 journals over 55 years in this in-depth record of contemporary art history. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
ARTstor Digital Library -
The collection currently contains 1.4 million images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design and other forms of visual culture.
ASABE Online Technical Library - The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) is an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. ASABE publishes over 1,500 information resources each year, including technical papers from meetings and conferences, peer-reviewed journal articles, a membership magazine, textbooks, reference books, and standards. (ASBE)
ATLA Religion Database (EBSCO) -
Covers topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history & religion in social issues. The definitive index for religious and theological literature. Contains >1.5 million bibliographic records from 1940 to present.
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection (Alexander Street) -
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening. Specialized indexing at the track level for over half of these recordings links individual segments of plays to specific academic disciplines and subject keywords. This allows researchers to find relevant scenes that touch on subjects in the humanities, social sciences, theatre, hard sciences, law, medicine, and virtually every other field of study.
AutoMate - AutoMate provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.
Content Includes: service and repair procedures, wiring diagrams, technical service bulletins and recalls, maintenance schedules, specifications, diagnostic trouble codes, labor estimates, parts pricing, component locations. (EBSCO)
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Banking Information Source - Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
Bible in English (990-1970) -
Full text of 20 versions of the Bible, including the Geneva, Great, Wesley, Wycliffe, King James, Webster, West Saxon and Tyndale Bibles, including all prefatory matter, notes, running heads and glossaries.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive -
Access the full text journals "Biblical Archaeology Review" (1975-current), "Bible Review" (1985-2005) and "Archaeology Odyssey" (1998-2006); the New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land; plus the complete collaborative book series by the Biblical Archaeology Society and the Smithsonian Institution. The website features over 7,000 full-text articles with integrated Bible passages, footnotes, and abbreviation definitions for each article; over 22,000 images; and video lectures.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) - Quickly determine where to find biographical material on people from
all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
indexes current, easily accessible references sources,
as well as important retrospective works that cover individuals, both
living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of
the world.
The total number of biographical sketches indexed now
exceeds 17 million citations and points to more than 2000 publications,
covering over 5 million people. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
contains names, birth/ death years, and bibliographic references to
books containing material on that person and an indication of which
books or articles include a portrait.
Biography in Context (Gale) - Biography In Context has more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study and includes over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. It offers authoritative reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. Users can search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
Biography Reference Center (EBSCO) -
More than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
BioOne -
Full-text peer-reviewed online journals in the biosciences.
BizMiner -
Industry financial analysis and market research.
Black Drama (Alexander Street) -
Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area.
Black Drama: Second Edition (Alexander Street) - Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some 600 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area.
Black Women Writers -
Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa & the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.
Bloom's Literature - Bloom’s Literature contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors—from William Shakespeare to J. K. Rowling—and their works; streaming video of more than 400 famous productions, from comedies to dramas to musicals plus video clips featuring major scholars discussing important literary topics; hundreds of full-text classic works; essential writing guides; and literary criticism. Also included is the Shakespeare Center covering the plays, sonnets, and longer poems with full-text, critical analysis, character studies, synopses, and full-length performance videos.
Book Review Digest Retrospective -
Coverage: 1905-1982. Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction in the English language.
Book Review Index Online (Gale) - A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.(Gale)
Books in Print (Bowker) - Authoritative directory of books, audios and videos in print. With reviews.
Brill's Online Reference Works - Several reference works, including New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. New Pauly's is the best encyclopedia in English for classical studies. It covers both the ancient world and the reception of classics in the modern world.
Britannica Online - School Edition - Britannica, Comptons, and Britannica Elementary encyclopedias with learning materials, teaching resources and other educational resources.
British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries -
Largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers.
British Library Newspapers (Gale) -
Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
BroadwayHD Collection (Alexander Street) - Alexander Street is proud to have an exclusive partnership with BroadwayHD, whose mission is to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway-caliber shows to anyone, anywhere. Founded by Broadway producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, BroadwayHD captures and transports the magic of performance from the stage to your screen. Performances include Romeo and Juliet, featuring Orlando Bloom and two-time Tony-nominated Condola Rashad, Cyrano de Bergerac, featuring Kevin Kline, and more.
Business Collection (Gale) - Business Collection provides full-text
coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics,
finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory
and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and
industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade
publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection
of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on
the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform. (Gale)
Business Economics and Theory Collection (Gale) - The Business Economics & Theory Collection offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Powered by InfoTrac, it includes more than 1,800 titles. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more. (Gale)
Business Expert Press e-books - Business Expert Press's Digital Libraries are filled with practical, concise books covering specific areas of business, including supply and operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy. They're written by international authorities.
Business Insights: Global (Gale) - Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports. Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection. Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies. (Gale)
Business Premium Collection (ProQuest) - A comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from ABI/INFORM Complete, Accounting & Tax, Asian Business & Reference, Banking Information Source, Entrepreneurship, and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Featuring thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, and working papers as well as trade publications, industry reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO) -
The industry’s most used business research database, with full text for >2,300 journals. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Byron Hoyt Sheet Music Collection - More than 7,000 classical sheet music and educational titles.
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Canadian Newsstream (ProQuest) - This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s. This resource is part of the Global Newsstream (ProQuest) Collection.
CES Digital Collections - Visit the CES Digital Collections page to search for pioneer diaries, BYU theses & dissertations, images of LDS historical and doctrinal significance and images from the BYU Museum of Art.
Chemical Educator Journal - The Chemical Educator is a peer-reviewed journal serving the needs of all chemical education professionals at an affordable cost. The Chemical Educator is a working journal, a reference to current topics, experiments, and teaching methodology. Its publication on the World-Wide Web allows for quick dissemination of material, timely information on current topics, and immediate access to supporting material. Full search capabilities for all issues are provided online. Video clips of demonstrations and laboratories, animation, and full-color graphics are available to enhance the clarity and usefulness of articles. The classroom and laboratory materials needed for implementation, including detailed instructions, actual student handouts, student data, computer files, and safety and disposal instructions, are available on-line at the time of publication. Featured tutorial articles on modern instrumentation, techniques, and theory provide educators access to the most current information in a format immediately usable in their classrooms and laboratories. These articles provide an instant resource for the inclusion of topics and techniques that are too current to appear in standard textbooks. (The Chemical Educator)
Chicago Manual of Style Online - The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. (University of Chicago Press)
The 17th edition.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database -
More than 900,000 catalog records for child-focused media and 130,000+ critical reviews of thousands of children's books.
ChiltonLibrary (Gale) - Comprehensive auto repair guides including Chilton car manuals, step-by-step instructions, how-to videos, maintenance and specification tables, troubleshooting and diagnostic information, and ASE test prep quizzes.
China, America and the Pacific (Adam Matthew) - Explore the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the early 18th and 20th centuries. Sourced from world-class collections at American and Canadian libraries including the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, China, America and the Pacific offers unique insights into the history of North American trade and cultural interactions with China. Coverage also includes Pacific trading centres, such as Hawai‘i. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Choice Reviews (1988-current) - Book and electronic resource reviews for higher education (restricted).
Chronicle of Higher Education - Current issue.
CINAHL (Ebsco) -
Abstracts from 1200+ journals in nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes Pre-CINAHL
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records (ProQuest History Vault) - ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more complete description, please follow this link.
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (ProQuest History Vault) - ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more complete description, please follow this link.
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Legal Department Files (ProQuest History Vault) - ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The NAACP Papers collection consists of 6 modules. The NAACP Papers collections contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP's work and delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues. With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, the NAACP Papers document the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the triumphs of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more specific description, please follow this link.
Civil War Research Database (Accessible Archives) -
Primary source. Contains major articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Includes descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. For additional information on the Civil War Collection, click here. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
Classical Music Library - Multi-label database of 50,000+ classical music recordings for listening and learning. Find, listen to, and even buy your favorite classical music recordings.
Classical Music Reference Library - Brings together >40,000 pages of materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Includes the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Classical Scores Library - Will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from in-copyright & public domain editions. The major composers' output is represented, plus many lesser known composers & works. Includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano & vocal scores, & piano reductions.
Classical Singer - Access to Classical Singer Magazine, audition and competition listings, articles, directories, and event calendars.
Cochrane Library - The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. The library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs).
Colonial America (Adam Matthew) - Colonial America enables access to a vast archive of circa 70,000 manuscript documents – now fully searchable using Handwritten Text Recognition technology. Sourced from The National Archives UK, Colonial America offers access to thousands of documents on North America from 1606-1822. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
ComDisDome (Communication Science & Disorders) -
Material in books, journals, dissertations, and websites covering all aspects of speech-language pathology and audiology.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) - Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research in areas related to communication and mass media with full text for >200 titles and citations for additional sources.
Computer Database (Gale) - Computer Database
provides access to leading business and technical publications in the
computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database
includes more than 600 journals and periodicals, providing information
on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas
such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications,
and the application of technology.
(Gale)
Computer Source (EBSCO) -
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 (Archives Unbound – Gale) -
Original British Foreign Office documents from the National Archives of the UK, representing the majority of Britain's information flow from occupied territories in Europe, and from Germany itself after the cessation of normal peacetime diplomatic channels. Resistance, economic and social conditions and intelligence operations are all reported through telegrams, letters, coded messages and reports. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
Congressional (ProQuest) -
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress. Includes testimony, debate and background reports.
Consumer Health (EBSCO) - Combined search of Health Source - Consumer Edition and AHFS Consumer Medication Information.
Contemporary Authors Online (Gale) - Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more. (Gale)
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale) - Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contemporary Women's Issues compiles into a single collection, often overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports to which most libraries do not subscribe, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations that is rarely indexed or cataloged. (Gale)
Contemporary World Music - Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts - Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
Counseling and Therapy in Video -
The largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and >330 videos on completion. Transcripts synchronized to video can be searched and video clips can be created.
CQ Almanac Archive - The definitive annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress and its legislation. Covers 1945-2007.
CQ Researcher Plus Archives -
CQ Researcher reports on a current social issue each week. Reports provide: background information, important points to consider, charts & graphs, a source list for further reading. Frequently covered topics include public policy, public opinion, economics, education, environment, government & law.
CQ Weekly -
1983-present. CQ Weekly reports on the activities of the United States Congress. Each issue provides announcements of upcoming Congressional events as well as a summary of the previous week's news, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics -
Online access to the most accurate, reliable, and current resource available for chemical data.
Criminal Justice Collection (Gale) - The Criminal Justice Collection informs the research process for researchers who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more. (Gale)
Culinary Arts Collection (Gale) - The Culinary Arts Collection offers a smorgasbord of information—more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit. (Gale)
CultureGrams (ProQuest) -
Extensive cultural reports for 190+ countries, states and provinces. Each report includes information about the country & its climate, people, customs & courtesies, lifestyle & society. There are World, Kids, State and Provincial editions.
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Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 (Gale) - The Daily Mail has been at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate. As well as providing access to the regular edition of this path-breaking newspaper, the archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931. (Gale)
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 (Adam Matthew) - Discover five centuries of primary sources providing a gendered perspective on conduct, domesticity, the family, consumption, education and the body. Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original British source material to enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective. Students and scholars are provided the opportunity to research the ideals of social conduct, power distribution within the family, consumption and leisure, education of men and women and gendered perceptions of the body to analyse and challenge the changing views and ideas surrounding traditional gender roles. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete (Gale) -
More than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series.
Digital Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) -
With more than 1.6 million entries, this database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts - The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
Digital Theatre Plus - Unlimited access to the highest quality English and drama resources that offer a unique perspective on current theatre practitioners and their work. FOR BEST RESULTS, use Mozilla Firefox.
Diversity Studies Collection (Gale) - The Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily. (Gale)
DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -
The most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical
practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers
of all orientations. DSM-5® is used by health professionals, social
workers,and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify
mental disorders, and is the product of more than 10 years of effort by
hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. The
criteria are concise and explicit, intended to facilitate an objective
assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings-
inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical,
private practice, and primary care. (American Psychiatric Association)
DSM Library includes the DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-5 Clinical Cases, and the Guía de consulta del DSM-5.
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Early Encounters in North America - Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between different groups of people in North America. Indians, Africans, Europeans, and Americans were working out their futures in a complex web of tribal and imperial rivalry, interacting with each other at the most intimate and personal levels.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest) -
Page images of 125,000 titles published between 1475-1700, representing nearly every work published in English during that time. EEBO includes publications in all subjects: literature, religion, government, medicine, science, and music. EEBO provides the facsimile of each work, so researchers can study these publications as they appeared.
Eastern Idaho Obituary Index - This index contains over 134,000 obituary records which are primarily from southeastern Idaho and adjoining areas.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) -
Over 75,000 e-books in every field, selected for BYU-Idaho courses. E-books can be read online or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions software available from the Ebook Central website.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) -
Over 20,000 titles useful for undergraduate research needs, as well as thousands of literature and history classics. Formerly called NetLibrary.
EconLit with Full Text -
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the content available in EconLit, plus full text for >400 publications including titles from the American Economic Association (all with no embargo), such as: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance.
Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2013 (Gale) - A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. The Economist has presented timely reporting, concise commentary and comprehensive analysis of global news every week.
Education - Secondary (EBSCO) -
EBSCO Education database search designed for Secondary Education research. This search includes the following databases: Middle Search Plus (EBSCO), MAS Utlra - School Editions (EBSCO), and MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO).
Education - Teachers (EBSCO) -
EBSCO Education databases search designed for teachers. This search includes the following databases: ERIC, Professional Development Collection, Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson), and Education Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson).
Education in Video (Alexander Street Press) -
An online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. More than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms give education faculty, education students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video content available.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale) - Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. (Gale)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) -
ECCO contains English-language and foreign-language titles published in the UK between 1701 and 1800, plus thousands of important works from the Americas. 150,000 printed works (33 million pages) covering the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution.
Eighteenth Century Drama (Adam Matthew) - Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth-century society, and explore how the plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history. Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. Also included are the diaries of Larpent’s wife and professional collaborator Anna, recording her criticisms of plays, as well as insights into theatrical culture and English society. Hundreds of further documents including playbills, theatre records and correspondence provide social context. This truly interdisciplinary resource is rich in the breadth and scope of eighteenth-century material available, and will appeal to researchers working on not only theatre and drama, but literature, history, politics, music, censorship, gender and Romanticism. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Eighteenth Century Journals (Adam Matthew) -
Bringing together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835, this resource illuminates all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Eighteenth Century Journals draws together material from some of the finest archives across the UK and the US, with the aim of representing the rich variety of the eighteenth century press. It is the first resource of its kind to make available unique and extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals online, each chosen to convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835. From political journals circulated in London coffee houses to colonial newspapers, and from poetic reviews to magazines for ladies of fashion, Eighteenth Century Journals illuminates all aspects of social, political and literary life, providing an opportunity to examine a variety of topical issues, and to compare a range of perspectives on the debates of the day. The vast material will be of interest to those studying a range of topics, including literature, theatre, the origins and rise of Romanticism, politics, revolution and rebellion, social issues, gender, society, religion and the influence of the Press. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Elsevier Journals (Science Direct) -
Over 620 full-text research journals from Elsevier. The years for which full-text is available will vary for each journal.
eMarketer Pro - Includes market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies; aggregates and analyzes information from over 3,000 sources, and brings it together in analyst reports, daily research articles and a database of e-business and online marketing statistics.
Emerald Insight - 130 management journals, covering areas as diverse as accounting, food, libraries and supply chains. Foremerly known as Emerald Management Xtra Journals
Empire Online (Adam Matthew) - Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables students and researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. With primary source material from American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. Documents from Africa, India and North America are also featured. Students and researchers of colonial history, society, trade and travel, politics and culture are encouraged to explore a diverse range of topics and subjects from ship’s logs to missionaries in Africa. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale) - The Environmental Studies & Policy Collection is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more. (Gale)
Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) - Covers 1984 - present. Offers access to 300,000+ essays in collections from the US, the UK and Canada. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) - Covers 1900- 1984. Offers access to 300,000+ essays in collections from the US, the UK and Canada. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Ethnic Newswatch (ProQuest) -
A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 (EBSCO) - A bibliographic index of European works prior to 1750 that relate to the Americas. This resource comes from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Explora Primary Schools (EBSCO) -
Designed
with students and educators in mind, Explora
provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles
and facts for research papers, class projects or homework. A far better
alternative to websites and search engines, Explora
provides students with easy-to-use features and age-appropriate content from
the world’s leading magazines and reference books.
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FamilySearch - Search for your ancestors in this LDS Church Genealogy database.
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents (Archives Unbound – Gale) - This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
Filmakers Library Online (Alexander Street) - Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
Films on Demand -
A state-of-the-art streaming video platform that makes it easy to incorporate educational programs from Films Media Group into your content management systems, online lesson plans, distance learning courseware, or electronic card catalog system.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010 (Gale) - Reporting on topics such as industry, energy and international politics. In the final decades of the twentieth century, coverage of management, personal finance and the arts was added, to make the paper a complete general newspaper for the businessman.
FindMyPast - Full access to England, Wales & Scotland census records, easy-to-search birth, marriage and death records, the UK's largest collection of parish records, historical British newspapers and much more. Available only on campus to one user at a time.
Fine Arts & Music Collection (Gale) - Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text. (Gale)
Fold3 (Ancestry) -
United States Military records; non-military resources include: city directories, naturalizations, vital records, Native American records.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew) -
Formerly restricted British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Featuring diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, political pamphlets, reports of court cases and other materials, this collection represents a constant exchange of information between London and the British embassies and consulates. Due to the unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China, these formerly restricted first-hand accounts provide unprecedented levels of detail into a turbulent period in Chinese history. The documents allow students and researchers intimate access to eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and analyses, economic assessments, synopses on Chinese personalities, and more. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) -
Provides the full-text of over 25,000 encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords. Updated annually.
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Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,043 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 62,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. (Alexander Street Press)
Search state, national & international articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, videos and other sources. Full-text articles from 4,700+ domestic and international newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, Financial Times (London) and USA Today. Also includes Access Business News, Access International News, Access Military, Government, and Defense, Access Newswires & Transcripts, and Acceda Noticias.
Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, these databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in a user-friendly online environment. This resources includes the following components: African American Newspapers; America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers; American County Histories; The Civil War; Frank Leslie’s Weekly; Godey’s Lady’s Book; The Liberator; History of Woman Suffrage; National Anti-Slavery Standard; The Pennsylvania Gazette; The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County; Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets; Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman; South Carolina Newspapers; Twelve Years A Slave; The Virginia Gazette; Women’s Suffrage Collection. (Accessible Archives)
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, all of which embody the African-American experience. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
American Military Camp Newspapers provides users with unparalleled access to unique sources covering the experiences of American soldiers during the mobilization period in 1916, in the trenches in 1918 and through the occupation of Germany in 1919. This collection addresses a topic and period that continues to be of the widest interest and importance to scholars, students, and the general public - America in the World War I Era. Camp newspapers make important original source Material--much of it written by soldiers for soldiers--readily available for research and fresh interpretation of events about "The War to End All Wars." This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. (EBSCO)
Details on the collection can be found here.
Includes selected county histories for states in the Central, Mid Atlantic, New England, Southeast, Southwest, and West regions. These books include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, and many additional subject areas. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
This collection traces the progress of American History and extensively covers the major themes of the period from colonization and settlement through the revolution, expansion, politics, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, to World War II. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History holds one of the outstanding collections on American History. It is full of individual items, but it also has rich veins of manuscript research material. This makes it ideal for teaching survey courses on American History, but equally valuable as a platform for undergraduate essay work and postgraduate research. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Archives Unbound addresses students and scholars' pressing need to see primary, unpublished archival documents. There is no better way to study the past than through consultation of primary source documents. Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Includes the following components: Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945; Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents; German Folklore and Popular Culture: Das Kloster. Scheible; International Women’s Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues; Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers’ Project; Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970; Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974; Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia; Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880; Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement; Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950; Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals; Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project; SUR, 1931-1992; Testaments to the Holocaust. Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London; The Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South; Women, War and Society, 1914-1918. (Gale)
AutoMate provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.
Content Includes: service and repair procedures, wiring diagrams, technical service bulletins and recalls, maintenance schedules, specifications, diagnostic trouble codes, labor estimates, parts pricing, component locations. (EBSCO)
Access the full text journals "Biblical Archaeology Review" (1975-current), "Bible Review" (1985-2005) and "Archaeology Odyssey" (1998-2006); the New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land; plus the complete collaborative book series by the Biblical Archaeology Society and the Smithsonian Institution. The website features over 7,000 full-text articles with integrated Bible passages, footnotes, and abbreviation definitions for each article; over 22,000 images; and video lectures.
Quickly determine where to find biographical material on people from
all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
indexes current, easily accessible references sources,
as well as important retrospective works that cover individuals, both
living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of
the world.
The total number of biographical sketches indexed now exceeds 17 million citations and points to more than 2000 publications, covering over 5 million people. Biography and Genealogy Master Index contains names, birth/ death years, and bibliographic references to books containing material on that person and an indication of which books or articles include a portrait.
Business Collection provides full-text
coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics,
finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory
and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and
industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade
publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection
of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on
the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform. (Gale)
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. (University of Chicago Press)
The 17th edition.
ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more complete description, please follow this link.
ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more complete description, please follow this link.
ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The NAACP Papers collection consists of 6 modules. The NAACP Papers collections contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP's work and delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues. With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, the NAACP Papers document the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the triumphs of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more specific description, please follow this link.
Primary source. Contains major articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Includes descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. For additional information on the Civil War Collection, click here. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
Colonial America enables access to a vast archive of circa 70,000 manuscript documents – now fully searchable using Handwritten Text Recognition technology. Sourced from The National Archives UK, Colonial America offers access to thousands of documents on North America from 1606-1822. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research in areas related to communication and mass media with full text for >200 titles and citations for additional sources.
Computer Database
provides access to leading business and technical publications in the
computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database
includes more than 600 journals and periodicals, providing information
on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas
such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications,
and the application of technology.
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The most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers of all orientations. DSM-5® is used by health professionals, social workers,and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders, and is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. The criteria are concise and explicit, intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings- inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care. (American Psychiatric Association)
DSM Library includes the DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-5 Clinical Cases, and the Guía de consulta del DSM-5.
EBSCO Education databases search designed for teachers. This search includes the following databases: ERIC, Professional Development Collection, Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson), and Education Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson).
NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring your library's collection of Gale historical newspapers. With the power to search over 10 million digitized facsimile pages, Gale NewsVault provides an unparalleled window to the past. (Gale)
Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Gale Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets. Includes the following components: Archives Unbound; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; The Making of the Modern World; Sabin Americana, 1500-1926; American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990; The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources; U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978; American Fiction; Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture 1790-1920; Nineteenth Century Collections Online; 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection; 19th Century UK Periodicals; British Library Newspapers; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004; The Economist Historical Archive; Financial Times Historical Archive; The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003; Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers; Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992; The Sunday Times Digital Archive; The Telegraph Historical Archive; The Times Digital Archive; The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.(Gale)
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IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. IPA Source offers texts to works for the solo voice in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. (IPA Source)
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Online access to both JoVE Video Journal and JoVE Science Education modules.
JoVE Video Journal is the first, peer reviewed scientific journal combining high-quality video demonstrations with detailed text protocols. (JoVE)
JoVE Science Education is a revolutionary video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations. (JoVE)
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Find breaking U.S. and international news and reports covering politics, business, opinion, technology, science, health, sports, arts, books, style, food, travel, real estate, and more.
Note: The McKay Library has provided you with a NYTimes.com Pass, which gives you complimentary access to NYTimes.com and NYT apps. To claim your pass, start by creating a free NYTimes.com account. You must log in to your account to have full access to the New York Times.
Register for your free New York Times pass account here.
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.
Coverage: 1851 - 2013
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Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 329,400 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to over 4,200 audio and video files and almost 19,000 bibliographic records.
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Cover to cover access for the most recent issues (30 days); for students and employees of BYU-Idaho.
To access past issues, use NewsBank.
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Note: Enter your BYU-Idaho email address on the Welcome! screen to access the database. You will receive an email to set up an individual account - this is optional. You will be able to access content without an account.
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A substantial collection of the best technical books today—including titles from Pearson, O'Reilly Media, and more—organized by the most popular subjects, from web development and mobile apps to entrepreneurship and UX/IA. The library includes over 30,000 books and videos covering topics such as AutoCad, business, CAD, career development, data, design, hardware, math, science, engineering, programming languages, cloud computing, security, software development, system administration, artificial intelligence, travel, hobbies, and more.
This database provides specialized, editorially curated A&I resources critical to researchers with an academic, professional or personal interest in the field of physical education. Through scholarly and trade literature, the database covers a wide range of topics, ranging from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology. Coverage: 1970 - current. Formerly known as Physical Education Index.
Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® allows students the flexibility to legally view course-assigned films outside the classroom. Download the mobile apps from to view films on the go.
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Electronic access to Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) covering the Civil War Era, Reconstruction, Gilded Age I, II, III & IV collections.
Theatre (formerly known as North American Theatre Online) features performances of works by American, European, Asian, and other worldwide dramatists from the past several centuries. In addition to performances, Theatre also features dozens of documentaries and interviews about theatre, discussing the history of theatre, acting methods, pioneering dramatists and actors, and much more.
Turnitin.com helps students improve their writing by preventing plagiarism with Similarity Reports and providing increased opportunities for feedback with the Feedback Studio.
Faculty and Instructors can use Turnitin through the I-Learn integration or by obtaining the Account ID and Password and creating an individual account. (If an account already exists for you, you can simply do a password reset to set a new password.) For help using Turnitin check out the Quick Start Guide or contact Jon Fackrell.
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The early women’s rights movement built upon the principles and experiences of other efforts to promote social justice and to improve the human condition. Collectively these efforts are known as reform. After the Civil War, many abolitionist activists joined the Temperance and Women’s Suffrage movements. This collection includes newspapers that had some overlap between the temperance and women’s rights movements, as well as an anti-suffrage paper. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.