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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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) 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)
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)
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)
Engineering videos, graphs, curriculum maps, Excel spreadsheet tools, and an engineering news feed.
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)
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.
Database of the Association of Computing Machinery consists of full text, citation, and abstract journals, magazine, and conference reports from 1966 to present.
Full-text access to all ACS journals online. 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. 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 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.
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 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.
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. Contains all video and audio offerings from Alexander Street Press.
This alternative health database provides full text for >140 publications, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals, dating back to 1990.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.
NOTE: ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE MCKAY LIBRARY. Genealogy information from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded 1845.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.
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) 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.
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 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 publishes 20 highly respected, peer-reviewed scientific journals covering research in the Earth and space sciences (AGU).
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. 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.
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.
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.
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)
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).
Scholarly review articles in the fields of biological and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. 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 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 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)
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)
Abstracts and full text from English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as journals published in several foreign languages. 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.
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.
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 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 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)
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.
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.
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.
Full-text peer-reviewed online journals in the biosciences.
Industry financial analysis and market research.
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.
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.
Coverage: 1905-1982. Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction in the English language. Authoritative directory of books, audios and videos in print. With reviews. 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, Comptons, and Britannica Elementary encyclopedias with learning materials, teaching resources and other educational resources.
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.
Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.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 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. 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.
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. More than 7,000 classical sheet music and educational titles.
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. 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.
More than 900,000 catalog records for child-focused media and 130,000+ critical reviews of thousands of children's books. 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.
Book and electronic resource reviews for higher education (restricted). Current issue.
Abstracts from 1200+ journals in nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes Pre-CINAHL 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.
Multi-label database of 50,000+ classical music recordings for listening and learning. Find, listen to, and even buy your favorite classical music recordings.
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.
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. 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 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.
Material in books, journals, dissertations, and websites covering all aspects of speech-language pathology and audiology. 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.
(Gale)
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.
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.
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress. Includes testimony, debate and background reports. Combined search of Health Source - Consumer Edition and AHFS Consumer Medication Information. 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, 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.
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. The definitive annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress and its legislation. Covers 1945-2007.
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.
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.
Online access to the most accurate, reliable, and current resource available for chemical data.
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. 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.
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.
With more than 1.6 million entries, this database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
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.
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.
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.
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. This index contains over 134,000 obituary records which are primarily from southeastern Idaho and adjoining areas.
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.
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 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. 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.
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).
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).
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.
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.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.
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.
Over 620 full-text research journals from Elsevier. The years for which full-text is available will vary for each journal. 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. 130 management journals, covering areas as diverse as accounting, food, libraries and supply chains. Foremerly known as Emerald Management Xtra JournalsSpanning 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.
Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year. 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. 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.
A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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. 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.
United States Military records; non-military resources include: city directories, naturalizations, vital records, Native American records.
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.
Provides the full-text of over 25,000 encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords. Updated annually. A listing to search all of Gale databases to which BYU-Idaho has access. Contains electronic directories including: Directories in Print, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Associations.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
(Gale)
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.
A full text database of unique publications that focus on gender issues, dating back to 1970. More than 1,500 authoritative resources from Genealogical.com and Clearfield. Collections include: Getting Started, Essentials, Colonial, Immigration, Native American, New England, and Royal & Noble sources.
(1785-present) A comprehensive geosciences database containing over 3 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world.
Subjects include: environmental & engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology & oceanography, and mineralogy. GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a resource for research and communications in the earth sciences, which is built on a core database of peer-reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef index. The organization gives global researchers a single point of access to 46 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web. (GeoScienceWorld) The greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning 4 centuries (1543-1945) and 15 languages. getAbstract or Get Abstract is the world's largest collection of business book summaries, getAbstract summarizes books in 5 pages. If using on a computer, still use the Mobile PDF download option.
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 Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform allowing researchers easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on the topic they are researching. Coverage: 1980 - current. Component resources include: Canadian Newsstream; Global Breaking Newswires;
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. 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. GoinGlobal is the leading provider of both country-specific and USA city-specific career and employment information. Includes more than 10,000 pages of constantly-updated content on topics such as: job search sources, work permit/visa regulations, resume writing guidelines and examples, employment trends, salary ranges, networking groups, cultural/interviewing advice… and much more!
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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. GPI provides indexing for a curated list of periodicals issued by the U.S. government going back to 1988. Most of the journals fall into these topical areas: military and veteran issues, health and medicine, natural resources and management, science and technology, and law enforcement; other areas of coverage are represented by the following: transportation, public/foreign policy, agricultural and rural studies, law and the courts, and economic.
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. It indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. It offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Offers authoritative content on green technologies. Primary areas of focus include Agriculture, Law & Politics, Economics & Trade, Pollution, Energy, Resource Management, Environment & Ecology, Science & Technology, and Social Factors. Grove Art Online is an encyclopedia of art that includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources GuideStar provides data on every IRS registered non-profit organization. Discover the mission, legitimacy, impact, reputation, finances, programs, transparency, and governance of over 1.8 million non-profit organizations.H
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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)
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Includes selected issues from: Charleston Mercury; Frank Leslie's Weekly; The Lily; National Citizen and Ballot Box; News of the Day; New York Herald; Old Post Union; Pennsylvania Gazette; Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog; Pennsylvania Newspaper Record; Pennsylvania Packet; Revolution; Richmond Enquirer; South Carolina Gazette; Gazette of the State of South Carolina; South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; South Carolina and American General Gazette; Stars and Stripes and Old Post Union; Vincennes Courant; Vincennes Weekly Courant and Patriot; Vincennes Gazette; Vincennes Weekly Gazette; Vincennes Times; Virginia Gazette. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection.
Search several historical newspapers at one time, including: The Atlanta Constitution? (1868-1984); The Austin American Statesman? (1871-1978); The Baltimore Sun (1837-1992); The Boston Globe? (1872 - 1986); Chicago Tribune (1849-1994); The Christian Science Monitor (1908-2004); The New York Times (1851-2014); San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922); Toronto Star (1894-2015); The Wall Street Journal? (1889 - 2000).
Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated quarterly. Covers 1975-present.
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.I
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IBISWorld provides independent, consistent, comprehensive, accurate and up to date research on over 700 industries and a host of other business factors. Created by the state of Idaho, this index contains records for all deaths that occured in Idaho from 1911-1951 that were filed with the Bureau of Health Policy and Vital Statistics in Boise, Idaho.
1988+ Full-text access to all IEEE journals, conferences and standards, representing almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature.
Contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers Covers 3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865 & originally printed in 16 different cities.
More than two million images from Britannica Image Quest. All images are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use.
A unique resource cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning series of local history books. It will include over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life. All of the images and texts have been indexed, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more.
Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database holds >1400 images & will contain 75,000 when complete.
IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works. Covering the U.S. involvement in the region from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the escalation of the war during the Johnson administration, to the final resolution of the war at the Paris Peace Talks and the evacuation of U.S. troops. Search genealogy, family history, Americana and other text digitized at BYU Idaho. Full-text access to scientific, technical and medical content in over 80 journals published by the Institute of Physics. Covers 1874-present.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)
The Roper Center iPOLL is a compilation of over 500,000 questions from public opinion polls on a broad range of topics. Questions can be searched by keyword, topic, date or source. Only polls of the United States population at the national level are included.J
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Explore the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. Based on a rich variety of original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this indispensable resource offers captivating insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries. Charting the Jewish Diaspora from the earliest settlements through to the mass European influx of the early twentieth century, Jewish Life in America will appeal to researchers of all aspects of this diverse and extensive cultural heritage. The collection is based on a rich variety of original manuscript documents ranging from a peddler’s certificate signed by Benjamin Franklin, to records of organisations such as the Baron de Hirsch fund, which supported Jewish entrepreneurship all across America from 1819 to the 1980s. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
An online resource to help you explore different occupations and to find jobs in your field. It also includes tools to help you with resumes, cover letters and interviews. You will need to create a login if you do not already have one.
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)
JSTOR provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. JSTOR helps you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform.
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More than 1,400 e-books in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering. L
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A selection of full-text Latin American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin American regional topics.
Contains software tutorials (Microsoft & Adobe, plus Windows and Mac OS); occupation practice tests (such as Praxis I and II Early Children, El Ed and Middle School); admission and placement exams (ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT etc.); and skills improvement courses (math, reading, writing, resume writing). You will need to create an account to access full content. A Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.
News, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Search for academic journal articles in Nursing, Clinical Medicine & Social Sciences. More than 200 titles in full-text. The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. All our articles are solicited by invitation from specialist scholars in higher education institutions all over the world, refereed and approved by subject editors in our Editorial Board. The LE is thus uniquely selective, reliable and authoritative. Its online format allows for rapid publication and frequent updating of articles; its integrated digital resources (author life-chronologies, customisable timelines, thematic or course-oriented bookshelves, related article clusters, critical bibliographies) respond dynamically to teaching and learning demands. The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown. A broad range of authors from across the nineteenth century make this an essential research tool for all scholars and students researching Victorian literature. Students and scholars are offered an unrivalled opportunity to explore the manuscripts, notebooks, letters and diaries of the nineteenth century’s greatest authors. Literary Manuscripts Berg traces the genesis of some of the period’s greatest literary masterpieces through the unique manuscripts of their authors, many unavailable elsewhere. They are supplemented by rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented include: Matthew Arnold, The Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
This resource offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Alongside original compositions are copied verses, translations, songs and riddles. The whole collection is situated within an assortment of manuscripts, some entirely dedicated to poetry, while others contain medicinal recipes, household accounts, draft letters, musical scores and plays. There are also several printed works, with handwritten verse additions. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Literature Criticism Online takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand. (Gale) Literature Online is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 355,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources. Literature Online’s collection of accurate poetry, prose and drama is relied upon by researchers around the world on a daily basis and the essential criticism and reference resources, including an ever-growing library of full-text journals and author biographies, helps keep you up to date on the latest research into every aspect of literary and linguistic study. (ProQuest)
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of >120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes signed essays on >1,600 authors and literary genres from Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors contain the full text of 600 Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.
This collection presents the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) publications of all 47 states involved in the project, which ran from 1933 to 1943. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. An extraordinary digital collection bringing to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, and inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city. From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children’s chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature. London Low Life is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld. This collection, drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, will be of interest to 19th century scholars researching: working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, ‘slumming’, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social reform, Toynbee Hall, police and criminality. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
The complete digital edition of The Times (London). Researchers can retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. M
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MagillOnLiterature Plus combines MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images of 61,000 works of literature on economics & business published 1450-1850. Contains material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade & transport.
Learn a language online! Currently has 9 "complete" languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek), 15 ESL versions (including Spanish, Portuguese, Polish) and 37 "basic" languages, including Pirate!
This powerful online resource delivers an exceptional ebook collection for a number of subject areas including medical & USMLE test prep, Business, Computing & TAB, Language and Study Aids J. F. Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus is a highly practical lexicon, providing researchers, teaching staff and students in the field of Medieval History with concise, essential information. This new online edition, still the “compendious lexicon for rapid information” envisaged by Niermeyer, recreates the second print edition (2002) on Brill’s Dictionary Platform , providing French, English and German translations for every entry of a Medieval Latin concept and searches on lemma and full text: searches can be refined by century of use.
MRI+ is a library of business/trade magazine planning data resources providing an information link between the planner and publisher.
Medici.tv offers over 700 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish. Only five major letter collections exist from fifteenth century England and they are all available online for the first time in this digital resource. The Paston Family Papers have long been a subject of both literary and historical interest. They are Britain’s first surviving records of private correspondence, describing everyday life in East Anglia during the Wars of the Roses. In addition, we include four other valuable collections relating to medieval families in Essex, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Warwickshire, c1400-1490. This resource contains full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. Explore this magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with a focus on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. Topics covered include: pilgrimage, the origins of global trade, travels to the Holy Land, the Silk Road, and the representation of the 'East' and the 'Other' in the Middle Ages. The project combines multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville, with translations, route maps and introductory essays. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
An essential contemporary resource for the understanding of modern Iraq, this online archive of primary source documents delivers first-hand government records covering the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of the new state, up to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Major strategic issues and policy-making statements are set out in their full context, revealing the internal workings of the Mandate administration, international relations and treaties, the importance of oil, and all matters of local and regional importance. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military & government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals & periodicals; indexing & abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
US market reports (each user must create an individual account with Mintel). Subjects include literature, language & linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing & publishing. Listings on rhetoric & composition and the history, theory & practice of teaching language & literature are also included. Coverage: 1926-present. Includes MLA Directory of Periodicals. Offers a real-time turnkey solution for investment research. Provides access to research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and exchange-traded funds.
Cross search American Music, Classical Music, Classical Scores, African American Music Reference and Contemporary World Music simultaneously. Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Music Online: Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. (ProQuest)N
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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.
Sheet music that can be downloaded and printed from 40,000 editions of classical music and jazz. Requires the download of a separate Solero viewer. Provided by FreeHandMusic.com. Naxos Music Library includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 1,211,900 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
The world's leading Performing Arts DVD distributor brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand!
NBC News has made thousands of videos, historic newsreels, primary source documents, photographs and more available. These include Historic Film and Video Clips from the earliest days of film and television news to the latest current events, and Primary Source Documents which contain hundreds of historic documents, newspaper articles, letters and more.
Similar content as the Higher Ed edition, but focused on the K-12 level, many with lesson plans. 1993-present. 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
Digital images of historic newspapers from 1700 to 2006 from the U.S. and 9 other countries. Over 70 million searchable pages from 4000+ papers, including 16 newspapers in Idaho.
Full-text access to more than 240 US and international newspapers, including the (London) Times from 1985. NCCO includes British Politics and Society; European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection; Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; and British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture.
Digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Like the British Library newspapers project and 19th Century U.S. Newspapers this collection covers the period 1800 to 1900. When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles, some of which exist only in a single copy. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants. The collection will be particularly useful to researchers, because much of the original material is difficult to find, poorly indexed, and unpublished; most bibliographies of the immigrant focus on secondary research; and few oral histories have been published. North American Indian Drama contains 256 plays by 49 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure. 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. North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights and brings these writings the attention they deserve, by publishing the full text of plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the assistance of our editorial board North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Health Source: Nursing/Acad; Medline; CINAHL
Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. Nursing Times is the voice for the nursing community and the leading source of nursing news and best practice in the United Kingdom. We unite nurses and student nurses through our website nursingtimes.net, weekly print magazine, mobile, social media, face to face at events, conferences, awards ceremonies and more.O
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Full-text articles from ~3,100 publications across all core subjects, including: Applied Sciences, Art, Education, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences and Technology.
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. 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.
OverDrive is a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and other digital content. OverDrive currently hosts more than 500,000 premium digital titles from more than 1,000 publishers, including Random House, HarperCollins, BBC Audiobooks America, Harlequin, and Bloomsbury. Many titles are compatible with e-readers and Apple devices, including iPods.Please note: Only titles that are compatible with your device will be shown. iPhone Tutorial Comprised of selections from the microfilm collections Travels in the West and Southwest and the Plains and Rockies, this digital collection provides a unique window on Western History. Selections are based on the bibliographies, The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, and The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries, available in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. The authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field (Political Science). Oxford Music Online include all the former Grove publications along with The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Over 120 dictionaries (English and foreign languages) and reference titles in science, business, humanitites, social sciences and more.
Scholarly e-books from Oxford Press. NOTE: We currently have access to selected titles only in these areas: Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion.P
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Business intelligence (statistics, market reports, company profiles & information sources) on 205 countries, consumers & industries. The PBS Video Collection is now in its third edition and contains nearly 600 titles. This product brings one of television’s most trusted networks into classrooms, with familiar series and names like NOVA, Nature, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Ken Burns, American Experience, and Frontline. This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. We have now enhanced their ground-breaking work by linking the new detailed catalogue descriptions with complete digital facsimiles of the original manuscripts. The result is a resource which is indispensable for anyone interested in women and women's writing in Early Modern Britain. One of the key attractions of the resource is that it brings together little-known material from widely scattered locations. This resource includes over two hundred and thirty manuscripts from fifteen libraries and archives in the UK and North America. The manuscripts are remarkably varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this an invaluable resource. There are contextual essays from academics working in the field, as well as biographical and bibliographical resources. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. Contains over 300 full text journals, drawn from the 14.5 million article citation records in the Periodicals Index Online. Periodicals Index Online is a database of millions of citations for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. It enables researchers quickly and comprehensively to identify articles relevant to their field of study and reduces what could take years of research to a matter of minutes. Journals indexed span 37 key subject areas and multiple languages. Formerly known as Periodical Contents Index.
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.
A not-for-profit online resource whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. The site includes four peer-reviewed journals, field trials, image collections, databases, webcasts, and other resources for applied crop science. 1915-present. Full text and abstracts from every issue of this important science journal, including the Early Edition. From the austerity of the 1950s to the excess of the 1970s, discover the period through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture – the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women’s liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority. By focusing on substantial collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, this digital resource provides primary sources to enable students and scholars to examine these issues in detail. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Cover to cover access for the most recent issues (30 days); for students and employees of BYU-Idaho.
To access past issues, use NewsBank.
Essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. This online archive covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. From The National Archives of the UK, and The Wiener Library, London. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. Full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
PrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. Note: PLEASE CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO LOGIN. Real-time, life-like language instruction. Test your pronunciation in real time. Track your progress and measure your results.
ProQuest brings together many of the most used databases. It provides access to databases across all
major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social
sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and
religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly
journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and
market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform. (ProQuest) 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.
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. PubMed is a database of citations and abstracts for millions of articles from thousands of journals. It includes links to full-text articles at several thousand journal web sites as well as to most of the articles in PubMed Central. PubMed Central (PMC) is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles, offering free access to its contents. PMC contains over half a million articles, most of which have a corresponding entry in PubMed. From 1841 to 1992, Punch was the world's most celebrated magazine of wit and satire. From its early years as a campaigner for social justice to its transformation into national icon, Punch played a central role in the formation of British identity -- and how the rest of the world saw the British nation. With approximately 7,900 issues (200,000 pages) from all volumes of Punch between 1841-1992, including Almanacks and other special numbers (issues), as well as prefaces, epilogues, indexes, and other specially produced material from the bound volumes, and the images in the archive appear as originally published, the Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 enhances teaching, learning, and research. Though contributions to the magazine were unattributed until after 1902, information from the ledgers has been incorporated into the Punch Historical Archive, allowing users to identify contributors and better understand the nature of the magazine and the Victorian periodical press. Gale, a Cengage Company, was pleased to collaborate with Liverpool John Moores University on the transcription of the Punch contributor ledgers from 1843-1919.
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As well as detailing household and family matters, the journals reflect affairs of state, describe meetings with statesmen and other eminent figures, and comment on the literature of the day. They represent a valuable primary source for scholars of nineteenth century British political and social history and for those working on gender and autobiographical writing.R
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Indexing of general-interest periodical articles published in the U.S. from 1890 through 1982.
RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. Create account
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion and Philosophy Collection and ATLA Religion database 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. The abundance of data reported here about online behavior reflects the profound impact the Internet and World Wide Web are having on the most basic aspects of daily life.
ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of
full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general
reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a
highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional
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(1967-present) The world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 5,200 journals. RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. RISM is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 containing 585,559 records by over 20,500 composers from manuscripts found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries. Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse with the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust. This digital resource offers unparalleled access to the single largest collection of working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers anywhere in the world. With access to the annotated full manuscripts of such notable works as The Prelude and Michael, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode this project is unrivalled in its content and scope. Researchers and students can trace the interactions of key literary and political figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth century through the mass of personal correspondence and witness the close circles in which contemporary authors and artists moved and how they influenced each other’s work. Other materials include diaries, travel journals, scrapbooks, autograph books, financial records and receipts, each with detailed meta-data enabling in-depth analysis. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
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. 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.S
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Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Over 6 million pages from 29,000 works.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.
Full-text access to 480+ journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine from SAGE Publications.
Includes Literature, Health, History, Science databases of Salem Press titles. Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. In electronic form, Sanborn Maps take on much improved value over the microfilm versions of the same maps, allowing for greater flexibility of use and improved viewing possibilities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections. Merges Gale's reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Full-text access to the world-class research journal "Science" directly from the publisher. (1997-current)
You must be on-campus to register. Register now. The CAS databases provide access to: >23 million single- and multi-step reactions; >2 billion predicted property values; >4 million experimental properties; the CAS REGISTRY database with >53 million substances; all relevant patent records from 9 of the major patent offices; sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is a definitive collection organized by Nancy Kushigian of the University of California, Davis and Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska. In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press. This database contains over 9,027 pages.Go behind the scenes and explore how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted by theatre companies, actors and directors across the centuries. This resource features the world-famous prompt book collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. A prompt book is the main copy of a production script. They include personal notes, sketches and cues for lighting and music, from set design and costume to music and acting. Researchers can follow how each individual production unfolded; see what amendments were made to the text and stage management over the years; and explore the influences and connections between different productions of the same play. This remarkable resource will transform understanding of how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted and performed since they were written. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Shakespeare Association of America's journal of article, book, and theater reviews. (1984-1999) Index to English short stories that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Full-text articles on arts, humanities, government & general research.
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 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. 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. Thousands of illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators for researchers of children's and young adult literature. Displays personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights, adaptations, additional sources and more. The Southern Literary Messenger was one of the most successful and influential literary magazines in the South. Founded by Thomas Willis White (and edited for a time by Edgar Allan Poe). Coverage: 1834-1864. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. News articles, images, videos and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. This includes Natural Disasters, Science and Health in the News, World Environment, World Economics and more. Each Report features current and background content, and new articles are added daily.
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.
Provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.
The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. This resource includes years 2013 to the present. Statistical Insight provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources. 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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Database of colleges, scholarships, and test preparation materials, including GED, SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT, TOEFL, etc.
Electronic holdings of the Wiener Library in London, England. The collection includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; and a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism. The core of the collection is 1,200 eyewitness accounts dealing with the pogrom of 1938 through the scope of the Holocaust. Also included are photographic materials. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. Electronic access to Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) covering the Civil War Era, Reconstruction, Gilded Age I, II, III & IV collections.
Rich in primary source content from world-class libraries and archives, this collection is an invaluable source for anyone studying and researching the ‘Great War’. From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war. Covering an array of international perspectives, the resource showcases intimate personal narratives, wartime propaganda and recruitment material, the truly global reach of the conflict, and the role of women in war through various documentary and visual forms. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
These files allow scholars and researchers the opportunity to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation. FCO and British Embassy analyses of US policy decisions, White House staff appointments and UN discussions, views on Europe, the deployment of F111 aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over funding from Congress, visits to the US by both Wilson and Heath, files on the internal situation in the US and domestic reform are core subjects of this digital collection. There are also detailed assessments of all the changes brought about by the Presidential Elections of 1972. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
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. 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.
Theatre in Video: Volume I contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions. (1902-2005) Contains the full text of every issue of the Times Literary Supplement published between 1902 and 2005. Contains 250,000 reviews, poems, letters and articles from 5,000 issues. Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. This world history resource offers students and researchers a window to the past and transports them across continents. From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women. The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry. From the meticulous accounts of outings and sightseeing of the chaperoned young lady, to the impassioned descriptions of far continents by the determined explorer, these personal accounts are written by women of all ages, travelling for many different reasons, from all walks of life. They cover journeying for work, for pleasure, for charity, for enlightenment, by sea, air and land. The explorations range from vacations to intrepid adventures, and every type of trip in between. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
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.
Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 2,059 plays by 434 playwrights, and more than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. This collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century—including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more—through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades. Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume I, Christianity includes the complete 17-volume German edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke (DBW) and English edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series (DBWE); an international selection of English-language editions of key authors such as Pope Benedict XVI, Hans Urs von Baltasar, Leonardo Boff, Sergius Bulgakov, Rudolf Bultmann, Helder Camara, James Cone, Mary Daly, Ivone Gebara, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Adolf von Harnack, Bernard Lonergan, Henri de Lubac, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Jon Sobrino, Dorothee Sölle, Ernst Troeltsch, and John Howard Yoder; and a selection of the papers of Reinhold Niebuhr. Upon completion, it will include 150,000 pages of printed works and primary sources.
Archive contains more than 840,000 historical newspaper pages from Twin Falls Public Library. The full-page newspapers, dating back to 1904U
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This collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond.
Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. A primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history & the U.S. judicial system. Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Ulrichsweb covers more than 900 subject areas. Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians. (Ulrichsweb)
Short historical sketches of pioneers who settled in the Upper Snake River Valley between 1883 and 1893. In addition, the collection contains a brief history of the meetings, elections and programs of the Daughters of the Snake River Valley Pioneers from 1924-1950.
UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical information resource. It covers over 9,000 topics across 19 medical specialties and includes more than 23,000 graphics, 125 medical calculators, links to Medline abstracts, over 328,000 references and a drug database.
Full text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. The database includes backfile for most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, obituaries and features published in each paper. Major newspapers include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian and many others. V
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Full-page reports & analyst commentaries plus Timeliness(tm) & Safety(tm) ranks on the ~1,700 stocks covered by The Value Line Investment Survey Standard Edition, plus reports on ~1,800 additional small & mid-cap stocks.
This innovative portal invites readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances. The Victorian Popular Culture portal is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This resource contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. As well as fascinating primary source material in the form of objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills, the resource includes a number of tools to support teaching and research. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
An essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. This resource documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas and provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America. There is valuable evidence on the ethnic and gender composition of Virginia and new evidence of tensions among the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans. This is also a crucial source for London’s economic history and will be welcomed by religious and social historians of Early Modern England. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection.
Databases designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.
The full contents of Vogue magazine (US edition). Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.W
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(1889-2000) Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Issues from 1984 to today are in the Newsstand (ProQuest) database. The Web of Science (formerly Web of Knowledge) is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences (sociology & psychology), arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content with one seamless search.
Covers all aspects of modern animal research from 1978 to the present. BYU-I Foreign Language placement test. Requires a password.
Content from >2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, lab manuals & The Cochrane Library of Medicine. Topics include Business, Finance, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics, Psychology.
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. 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.
Contains more than 25,000 articles, more than 10,000 pictures & maps, more than10,000 video & sound clips, linked articles to periodicals, & 140,000 editor-approved web sites.
The World Bank WDI includes more than 800 indicators for 152 countries and regional income groups, with basic indicators for an additional 62 countries. Includes data from the current social indicators of development, world debt tables, and trends in developing economies.
Includes history from Africa, Asia, North & South America, Europe & the Middle East. Contains nearly 200 full-text titles, covering a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, sociology and more. World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage captures longer-term and multiple perspectives, so students can make connections across cultures and over time, incorporating people, places, events, and artifacts from around the world and across the centuries.
Covers all the basic information on the beliefs,
practices, and history of each major world religion, including important spiritual leaders, main holy days and festivals, key topics and
terms, and sacred texts. Includes Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shinto, African and Native American beliefs. World Vital Records provides access to a variety of family history resources including databases in the following categories: Census; Birth, Marriage, and Death; Military; Immigration; Family Trees; Family Histories; Newspaper Collections; and Location specific databases.
Access to 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide Z
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