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Adam Matthew Explorer Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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.
Annual Reviews  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Scholarly review articles in the fields of biological and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
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Archives Unbound addresses students and scholars' pressing need to see primary, unpublished archival documents.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 Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.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)

ATLA Religion Database (EBSCO) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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.
Business Premium Collection (ProQuest)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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.
Chronicle of Higher Education  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Current issue.
Congressional (ProQuest) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress. Includes testimony, debate and background reports.
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)
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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.
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)
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 (Adam Matthew)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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.
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  Full Text Available Remote Access Available

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.

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.
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.
Gale Primary Sources 

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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Gale Virtual Reference Library  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
More than 2,600 reference e-books in Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, Science, Social Science.
Gender Studies Collection (Gale) 
Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more. (Gale)
German Folklore and Popular Culture: Das Kloster. Scheible (Archives Unbound – Gale) 
Das Kloster is a collection of magical and occult texts, chapbooks, folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible, between 1845 and 1849. In addition to the Das Kloster volumes, this collection provides additional volumes of unique perspectives on Central European culture and tradition. Included are texts essential for the study of German folk traditions, the Reformation, wit and humor and 19th-century literature. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
Global Issues in Context (Gale) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. It features hundreds of issue and country portals that bring together sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each gateway page includes reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Contains rich multimedia, including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.
Global Road Warrior  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
A country by country guide specifically designed for those engaged in international trade & business travel. It includes points of interest, climate, electrical and Internet information, etc.
Godey's Lady's Book (Accessible Archives)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
First successful American journal for women. Resource for the study of 19th Century American history and important social issues of the day. Covers social history, women's studies, textiles studies, material culture and literature. Covers 1830-1885. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. 
GospeLink Registration Page  Remote Access Available
You MUST use this site to create a free account before using the GospeLink.com site.
GospeLink Website  Full Text Available
NO OFF-SITE ACCESS! You must register to create a free account. Register now. LDS reference library with full-text searching of scriptures, church books and periodicals. 
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
Indexing of nearly 1,200 periodicals, as far back as 1907. Citations to more than 1,300,000 articles, including over 240,000 book reviews.
Humanities Source (EBSCO) 
Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. It includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more. (EBSCO)
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 (Gale) 
With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, sparking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events - including news of war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science. Containing over 260,000 full colour pages, fully searchable and browseable, the ILN Historical Archive 1842-2003 provides users with unprecedented access to the entire run of this unique historical record. (Gale)
International Women’s Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues (Archives Unbound – Gale) 
Historical women’s periodicals provide an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for women’s rights—woman suffrage, fair pay, better working conditions, for example—grew in the United States and England. Some of the titles in this collection were conceived and published by men, for women; others, conceived and published by male editors with strong input from female assistant editors or managers; others were conceived and published by women, for women. The strongest suffrage and anti-suffrage writing was done by women for women’s periodicals. Thus a variety of viewpoints are here presented for study. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
IOPscience  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full-text access to scientific, technical and medical content in over 80 journals published by the Institute of Physics. Covers 1874-present.
LegalTrac (Gale) 
LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text. The American Association of Law Libraries not only endorses LegalTrac, its special advisory committee selects, reviews, and enhances the content of this resource. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law. (Gale)
Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia (Archives Unbound – Gale) 
This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers. In addition, there are accounts on the development of farming and mining communities, family histories, and folklore. These accounts provide a view of the of the vast region between Lexington, Kentucky and Winchester, Virginia, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Birmingham, Alabama, and provides information on the social, political, economic, scientific, religious and agricultural characteristics of the region. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
National Geographic Virtual Library (Gale)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Featuring the complete archive of the magazine from 1888 to Present, National Geographic Magazine Archive, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface. With standard library features and functionality common to all Gale Digital Archives, National Geographic Magazine Archive is a powerful tool for finding and reading through the 100+ years of impactful articles found in this archive.
New York Times in Education 
Register with your BYU-I email address for access. New York Times in Education is a resource for faculty and students to utilize instructional strategies, activities, and teaching resources from The New York Times, organized by areas of study including American Government, Arts & Visual Culture, Biology, Business, Environmental Sciences, Religious Studies, Sociology, and many more.
North American Indian Thought and Culture (Alexander Street)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
The largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. With 100,000 pages of content when complete, including biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs, the database presents the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale Resource Center) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
Oxford Handbooks Online - Political Science Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field (Political Science).
Philosopher's Index (ProQuest) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
This bibliographic database offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.  Coverage: 1940 - current.
Popular Culture Collection (Gale) 
Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses. (Gale)
Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals (Archives Unbound – Gale) 
This publication collection consists of over 1,000 air dropped and shelled leaflets and periodicals created and disseminated during the Second World War. The majority of items in this collection were printed by the Allies then air or container dropped, or fired by artillery shell over German occupied territory. Many leaflets and periodicals have original publication codes and were printed in over 10 languages. Only shelled leaflets, Germans to Allies (115 items), are in English. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 560 journals.
Psychology Collection (Gale) 
Provide access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection. (Gale)
PsycINFO (EBSCO) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
Coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (Gale) 
A comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily, this library resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues. (Gale)
Religious Education Archive Image Collection (BYU)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Religious Education Image Archive contains approximately 5,000 images pertaining to the doctrines and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Images include photographs, drawings, and paintings of LDS historic sites, Holy Land sites, and significant people in Church history and doctrine.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
This encyclopedia includes articles on major philosophers of all periods. This electronic version includes updated articles from modern scholars and updates on the most current philosophical thinking. Content is updated with changes in the field.
Routledge Handbooks Online Abstract Available Remote Access Available
The world’s leading scholars provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines, and the primary debates of today.
SAGE Journals  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full-text access to 480+ journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine from SAGE Publications.
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (Gale)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
A four-part collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery. It includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials. The first part documents the debates surrounding slavery and its abolition in the U.S. but also in the UK and other European countries, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.
Social Theory (Alexander Street)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. This final release features more than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons.
Student Resources in Context (Gale) 
Student Resources In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR. (Gale)
Subject Guides 
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The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 (Alexander Street)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.  NOTE: This database contains content that may be offensive.
War and Terrorism Collection (Gale) 
Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily. (Gale)
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 (Alexander Street)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Women, War, and Society, 1914-1918 (Archives Unbound – Gale) 
The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this definitive collection of primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents are published here for the first time in fully-searchable form, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form an indispensable resource for the study of 20th-Century social, political, military and gender history. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale.
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean (Gale) 
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more. (Gale)