Databases with Pre-1970 Content

Core Databases

19th Century Masterfile, Series I and V 1786 - 1907 Series I of 19th Century Masterfile provides access to the periodical literature of the nineteenth century. Included is an online version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906; the f... View 19th Century Masterfile, Series I and V Online
American Periodicals 1740 - 1940 American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century. Titles ran... View American Periodicals Online
Black Thought and Culture 1700 - present This collection contains approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings from the past 250 years by over 1,000 American black leaders, including artists, politicians, religious leaders, athlete... View Black Thought and Culture Online
Border and Migration Studies Online 19th - 21st centuries This collection of primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera relate to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries. It offers researchers historical context an... View Border and Migration Studies Online Online
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 1824-1961 The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970 consists of the most important internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO). These ra... View Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 Online
Early European Books (EEB) Pre-1701 Early European Books provides online full-text access to a deep digital archive of rare books on all aspects of life and culture in the early modern period. The content is from the leading national... View Early European Books (EEB) Online
Human Rights Studies Online 20th - 21st centuries This collection of primary and secondary source materials offers access to comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide, fr... View Human Rights Studies Online Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
Periodicals Archive Online 1802 - 2000 An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online provides access to hundreds of scholarly journals. Coverage is international and includes a wide range of sch... View Periodicals Archive Online Online
PIO: Periodicals Index Online Late 18th Century - 1996 The PIO database contains citations for more than 3,500 social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany. There are occasional abs... View PIO: Periodicals Index Online Online
Readers’ Guide Retrospective 1890 - 1982 Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century... View Readers’ Guide Retrospective Online
Scopus Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. View Scopus Online

Arts / Humanities Databases

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature 1955 - present AATA Online indexes articles from over 400 journals; with 120 journals covered comprehensively. It includes over 100,000 abstracts of worldwide literature related to the preservation and conservati... View AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature Online
ALIM: Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo Eleventh through thirteenth centuries CE ALIM is an ongoing project, sponsored by the Italian Unione Accademica Nazionale and by six Italian universities, to present scholarly electronic texts of all Latin-language works written in Italy ... View ALIM: Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo Online
America and Great Britain: Diplomatic Relations, 1775-1815 1775-1815 Diplomatic and official governmental correspondence between North America and Great Britain during the entire of the American Revolution, including over 8,000 pages of primary source material docum... View America and Great Britain: Diplomatic Relations, 1775-1815 Online
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) 1920 - present ABELL has long been regarded as an essential bibliography of English language and literature in English. Issued in printed volumes since 1921, it is the British equivalent of the MLA Bibliography, ... View Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) Online
Année Philologique, L' 1928 - L’Année philologique is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works in classical studies, covering all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The online database includes all... View Année Philologique, L' Online
Aquinas Translation Project ca. 1245 - 1274 The Aquinas Translation Project is an ongoing web-based resource providing fresh, scholarly translations of individual works (and of parts of works) by St. Thomas Aquinas not readily available in E... View Aquinas Translation Project Online
Art Index Retrospective 1929 - 1984 This index is the predecessor to Art Full Text, citing articles and reproductions from more than 600 key English and foreign-language periodicals from 1929 through 1984. Subject matter includes bro... View Art Index Retrospective Online
Arts:Search / Art History Research net 1893 - 1986 Arts:Search (also known as Art History Research net) consists of four related and linked databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective, Review, Arts + Architecture Profiles, and Research Sources: The P... View Arts:Search / Art History Research net Online
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 1837 - 1901 This searchable database lists information about Victorian (nineteenth century British) fiction, including serialization. You can also browse a list of authors, titles, publishers, years, genres (n... View At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 Online
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials 1908 - present The ATLA Religion Database (formerly ATLA Religion Index) indexes more than 600 of the leading journals in the field of religion and theology. The index also includes essays from multi-author works... View ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Online
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1930 - The Avery Index is the primary architectural periodical index published in North America. It indexes a broad range of articles on architecture from such diverse fields as archaeology, decorative ar... View Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Online
British Humanities Index 1950s - present BHI indexes and abstracts approximately 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspaper... View British Humanities Index Online
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 1973 - Present The Online Edition presents a fully searchable version of the Print Edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, but it complements, develops, and vastly extends t... View Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online
Canadian Music Periodical Index 1890 - present The Canadian Music Periodical Index is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. Texts of articles are not available from this site; use Find It to locate the complete article. The CMPI... View Canadian Music Periodical Index Online
Colonial America 1650-1770 Colonial America is a five-module resource (released over five years) featuring all 1,450 files of the CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK. The collection consists of the original correspondenc... View Colonial America Online
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts 16th and 17th centuries A resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, The Digital Library of Classic Protestant ... View Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts Online
Dyabola (Ancient/Classical Art and Archaeology) 1956 - present Project Dyabola includes the "Archaeological Bibliography" (expanded from the Realkatalog, subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome). This is an international index to scholar... View Dyabola (Ancient/Classical Art and Archaeology) Online
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare This database includes the complete text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66. It also includes 24 separate contemporary printings o... View Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare Online
Emily Dickinson Archive Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscr... View Emily Dickinson Archive Online
Emily Dickinson's Correspondences 1850s - 1886 Unpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted mostthrough her letters. This XML-based archive brings together seventy-fou... View Emily Dickinson's Correspondences Online
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive late 1800s - 2000 An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through 2000. ... View Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Online
Film Index International 1900 - present Film Index International includes information on more than 128,000 films and 900,000 individuals from 170+ countries. It is searchable by person, film title, and keyword, plus many other fields. Re... View Film Index International Online
Getty Research Portal Dates Vary The Getty Research Portal is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars ... View Getty Research Portal Online
HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857 - 1865 HarpWeek is the searchable electronic version of the Civil War years of Harper's Weekly, one of the most important American periodicals of the nineteenth century. Includes images of all the pages, ... View HarpWeek: the Civil War Era Online
Hebrew Manuscripts 1399 - 1940 Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. This site includes an invitation to other libraries to submit manuscripts for digitization for Jewish c... View Hebrew Manuscripts Online
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 1808 - 1980 This collection of Spanish and English language newspapers stems from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. When complete, it will consist of 350 ... View Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 Online
Historical Abstracts 1955 - present Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Ca... View Historical Abstracts Online
Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin is a searchable database of scholarly editions of Latin verse written in Italy in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth-centuries. It... View Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin Online
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals 1844 - 1907 The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals indexes 42 art journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century. Entire journal contents are indexed, including article... View Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals Online
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBPFT) 1998 - present IIBP Full Text includes current and selective retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United State... View International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBPFT) Online
International Medieval Bibliography - Online (IMB) 1967 - to date The International Medieval Bibliography is the major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). It includes citations to articles in approximately 4500 journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference p... View International Medieval Bibliography - Online (IMB) Online
Internet Library of Early Journals 18th -19th Centuries (not updated) The ILEJ is a searchable file of digital images of runs of six important British journals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The three 18th-century journals are: Gentleman's Magazine, Th... View Internet Library of Early Journals Online
Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance 400 - 1700 AD A bibliography of approximately 225,000 records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and Middle Ages (400-1299). Also under con... View Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance Online
Klapp-Online Bibliography of French Literature 1991-2014 Size of the database: 94,776 book articles, 14,8961 journal articles, 92,774 monographs and reviews, 1,420 processed periodicals Annual update of the database with approx. 16,000 titles The bibliog... View Klapp-Online Bibliography of French Literature Online
Lin|gu|is|tik: Portal für Sprachwissenschaft Resource directory covering all aspects of linguistics, from general topics to synchronous and diachronic linguistics to historical-comparative research, involving all main European languages as we... View Lin|gu|is|tik: Portal für Sprachwissenschaft Online
MLA International Bibliography (Literature) 1926 - present The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes 4,000 periodicals in English and other languages as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject matter includes c... View MLA International Bibliography (Literature) Online
Modernist Journals Project, 1890 to 1922 1890 to 1922 The Modernist Journals Project provides fully-searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping those modes of literature and art that came to... View Modernist Journals Project, 1890 to 1922 Online
Music Periodicals Database 1874 - 1990 limited, 1990 - present full text This research database includes detailed abstracts and full text of articles from more than 425 scholarly and popular music journals, from around the globe. It also indexes feature music articles a... View Music Periodicals Database Online
New Yorker Archive 1925 - present The New Yorker Archive provides access to every page of The New Yorker going back to its first issue in 1925. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting on national and internation... View New Yorker Archive Online
OVI: Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (ARTFL Project) 10th - 14th Centuries The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) is a searchable database of 22.3 million words (456,000 unique forms) in nearly 2000 texts in early Italian by medieval writers (mostly prior to 1375). Laid... View OVI: Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (ARTFL Project) Online
Oxford Art Online 1999 Oxford Art Online provides searchable full text for five resources. (1) Grove Art Online contains the searchable full text of the original 34-volume Dictionary of Art (1996), with ongoing revisio... View Oxford Art Online Online
Performing Arts Periodicals Database 1864 - present This article database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performa... View Performing Arts Periodicals Database Online
Philosopher's Index 1940 - present The Philosopher's Index contains citations and abstracts from books and more than 350 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and other western countries. ... View Philosopher's Index Online
PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online Antiquity - present An online directory of academic philosophy, indexing books, articles, dissertations, and papers from newly published journals, web archives, personal pages, and user submissions. Provides tools for... View PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online Online
Playbill Vault 1930 - Present PlaybillVault.com is a comprehensive database of Broadway history from Playbill Inc. The collection appears to feature all Broadway shows associated with Playbill, starting with the 1930-31 season,... View Playbill Vault Online
Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975 Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion and youth culture from 1950 to 1975. Photos, video, music, fanzines, magazines, press kits, ads and other archival material from the ti... View Popular Culture in Britain and America Online
RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) The only international, cross-genre index of visual sources of music, dance, and theatre, designed to assist performers, historians, librarians, instrument makers, record manufacturers, and book pu... View RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) Online
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Late 18th century - to date RILM contains an extensive collection of abstracts and bibliographic records focused on music and music related subjects. International coverage of relevant articles from 10,000+ journals, many of ... View RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Online
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals approx. 1800 - 1950 RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries betw... View RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals Online
Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926) 1500 - 1926 Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography (Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time), this collection contains works about the Ame... View Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926) Online
Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library 1600-1970 Prompt books for performances of Shakespeare’s plays between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, and supporting material for 17 selected plays. Documents are indexed by genre, country, theatre... View Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library Online
Shakespeare Survey Online 1948 - present Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best source of international Shakespearean scholarship and criticism in English. Each vol... View Shakespeare Survey Online Online
Short Story Index and Retrospective Regular 1984 - to date; Retrospective: 1915 - 1983 Regular SSI: An index of more than 117,000 stories published in more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, including stories that appear in periodicals. The full text of almost 5,000 stories is a... View Short Story Index and Retrospective Online
Soviet Cinema: Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-35 1923 - 1935 The archive contains materials providing information on the activities of the Soviet film company Sovkino and its relations with various other companies in the film industry, both in the Soviet Uni... View Soviet Cinema: Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-35 Online
TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) 1963 - present TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of classics, Near Eastern studies, and religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are give... View TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) Online
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels 1950s - Present Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. Here are the works of artists alo... View Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels Online
Victorian Database Online 1945 - present The Victorian Database Online lists books, dissertations, and articles from more than 500 journals on the "long" Victorian age, 1830-1914. It is the online equivalent of the Annual Bibliography of ... View Victorian Database Online Online
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 1824 - 1900 The Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within major Victorian periodicals and provides a bibliography for each contributor. (The vast majority of articles written for Victorian peri... View Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 Online
Words in Progress 8th century BCE - 7th century CE The WiP – Words in Progress website is an online freely consultable database that represents an on-going supplement to the major currently used dictionaries of Ancient and Byzantine Greek and seeks... View Words in Progress Online

General / Multidisciplinary Databases

18thConnect: Eighteenth Century Scholarship Online 1660 - 1800 18thConnect is an aggregator of digital resources that provide a comprehensive research environment for scholars working on the literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy of the long eighte... View 18thConnect: Eighteenth Century Scholarship Online Online
19th Century UK Periodicals Parts I and II 19th Century 19th Century UK Periodicals provides full-text, fully searchable access to hundreds of magazines and journals with full color, high quality digital facsimiles of all articles. This is an invaluable... View 19th Century UK Periodicals Parts I and II Online
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 1825 - 1995 African-American Periodicals, 1825-1995, contains fully searchable content from 174 titles published by African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. These include academic titles, as well as c... View African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 Online
America : History and Life 1910 - present America : History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North Am... View America : History and Life Online
American Ancestors (Historical Library Only) 18th century - present Offers full-text access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1994, genealogies, vital records of many New England towns, military records, and church records. (Updat... View American Ancestors (Historical Library Only) Online
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 1820 - 1922 This is a fully searchable resource of over 25,000 pamphlets and other short works from the collections of the New York Historical Society spanning the varied history of the United States from the ... View American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 Online
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries 1824-1961 American Periodicals provides access to two separate collections, American Periodicals Series Online and American Periodicals from the Center for Research. Both collections include digitized images... View American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries Online
Archives of Sexuality & Gender : LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 1940 - 2014 The Archives of Sexuality & Gender facilitates scholarly research in the area of LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, huma... View Archives of Sexuality & Gender : LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Online
British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections holdings of 19th-century Indian publications 1800's This resource is a catalog of the nineteenth-century publications found in the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC) of the British Library. The collections of the India Office Library and R... View British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections holdings of 19th-century Indian publications Online
British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s) 1680s - 1930s This database is searchable full text resource and contains approximately 500 journals from the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Topics covered include ... View British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s) Online
Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals) 1906 - 1993 The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th Century Chinese Journals More than 3,500 full-text Chinese Journals Content beginning as early as 1906 Ma... View Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals) Online
Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) / 民国时期期刊全文数据库 1911-1949 The Journal Database for the Republican Period (1911-1949) covers over 20,000 journal titles. The journal database contains a mass of information on all aspects of life, including political, econom... View Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) / 民国时期期刊全文数据库 Online
Church Missionary Society Periodicals 1804 to 2009 This online portal makes available periodicals from the Church Missionary Society Archive, a collection relevant to missiology, world Christianity, and global history. Against the backdrop of colon... View Church Missionary Society Periodicals Online
Civil War Collection This database collection of publications, documents, and archival materials about the Civil War experience is designed to be wide-ranging and eclectic. It is divided into thematic and geographic su... View Civil War Collection Online
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 1839 - 1969 The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970 consists of the most important internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO). These ra... View Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 Online
Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons, 1936-1945 1936-1945 This collection consists of items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps, during and just prior to World War II.... View Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons, 1936-1945 Online
Digital Public Library of America Ancient times to the present The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S... View Digital Public Library of America Online
Dissertation Database Options 1892 - present Information on locating UW-Madison theses and dissertations. View Dissertation Database Options Online
Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France (1894-1908) 1894-1908 In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a French officer of Jewish descent, was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. This collection concerning the Dreyfus affair represents the largest outsid... View Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France (1894-1908) Online
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) 1639-1800 This collection contains digital editions of all titles in the Evans microform editions; more than 36,000 items and over 2,400,000 images, all with searchable OCR-created ASCII text. Both the digit... View Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1475 - 1700 Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles). You can search... View Early English Books Online (EEBO) Online
Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to cre... View Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) 18th Century -- 1701-1800 Eighteenth Century Collections Online consists of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of import... View Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Online
Empire Online 1492 to 1969 Empire Online spans five centuries, charting the rise and fall of empires around the world. It provides exploration of colonial history, politics, culture, and society. Key features include: tens o... View Empire Online Online
European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939 1930-1939 Italian colonial aspirations and policies mimicked those of other European countries during the modern period. Italian colonial policy during the period 1930-1939 was shaped more by Fascism. Fascis... View European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939 Online
Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939 (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) 1789 - 1939 Collection of publications from the Executive Branch of the federal government listed in the 1909 Checklist created by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents as a summary of all publications issues b... View Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939 (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) Online
First World War 1910-1925 The First World War Portal consists of three modules each representing different presentations of the First World War, using a vast array of primary source materials drawn from several archives and... View First World War Online
Fold3 (Historical Library Only) 18th century to present Historical primary documents featuring U.S. city directories, naturalization records, and Revolutionary War Pensions. Collections include: History and Genealogy Archives, African American Archives,... View Fold3 (Historical Library Only) Online
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996 Electronic version of the FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports. In February 1941, the Roosevelt administration authorized the creation of the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Serv... View Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports Online
Foreign Office Files for China 1919-1980 This database inlcudes sources from the National Archives of the UK from the Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980. The six parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office fi... View Foreign Office Files for China Online
Harper's Bazaar Archive 1940 - present When completed this database will cover the entire run of Harper's Bazaar magazine, a fashion, arts, and culture authority from 1867 to the present. Scanned in full color and including monthly upda... View Harper's Bazaar Archive Online
Index Islamicus 1906 - present The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost a hundred years of publications on the world of Islam. ... View Index Islamicus Online
International Historical Statistics 1750-2010 IHS is a collection of historical statistics from over 260 years and more than 200 countries & territories across a multitude of interdisciplinary socio-economic topics. Subjects include population... View International Historical Statistics Online
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBPFT) 1998 - present IIBP Full Text includes current and selective retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United State... View International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBPFT) Online
Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) 1957 - 1995 The Joint Publications Research Service was a U.S. government organization established in 1957 to supply government agencies with translations of unclassified foreign documents consisting of the fo... View Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) Online
Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection (EB-KAMAR) 1820 - 1914 Kotobarabia's "Modern Arab Renaissance Collection" is an archive of Arabic language books published from 1820-1914 from across the Islamic world, with a special focus on Egypt and Syria. This colle... View Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection (EB-KAMAR) Online
London Low Life Taking as its subject Victorian London, the content ranges from salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thor... View London Low Life Online
Making of the Modern World I & II (1450-1914), The 1450 - 1914 This wide-ranging collection looks at history through the lens of wealth and trade with a focus on economics in the widest sense, including political science, history, philosophy, sociology, and sp... View Making of the Modern World I & II (1450-1914), The Online
Medieval Family Life 1400 to 1490 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 An... View Medieval Family Life Online
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 19th Century Nineteenth Century Collections Online unites multiple, distinct archives into a single resource, including a wide variety of previously unavailable primary sources ranging from books and monographs... View Nineteenth Century Collections Online Online
North China Herald (1850-1926) 1850-1926 The English North China Herald is the prime English-language source for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to the 1940s. It was published in Shanghai. As the official jou... View North China Herald (1850-1926) Online
ProQuest Congressional 1789 - present Comprehensive ongoing collection of U.S. federal government publications from the late 18th century to the present. Includes acts (laws), bills and resolutions, committee reports and documents, hea... View ProQuest Congressional Online
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global 1637 - present ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global includes millions of doctoral dissertations in all subject areas completed at over 700 academic institutions worldwide. Some masters theses are also included.... View ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Online
Socialism on Film early 20th century to the 1980s Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American... View Socialism on Film Online
State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) 1509 - 1782 State Papers Online, 1509-1714 is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Mon... View State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) Online
Victorian Web The Victorian Web concentrates on Great Britain in the age of Victoria (1837-1901) and is a multidisciplinary resource for Victorian studies and culture. Included are primary and secondary texts (i... View Victorian Web Online
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... View Web of Science Online
Women's Magazine Archive 1846 - 2005 This database provides searchable access to the complete archives of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st. Comprised of 2 collections (Archive 1 and ... View Women's Magazine Archive Online
Women's Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities The Women's Studies Archive documents the social, political, and professional aspects of women’s lives, offering resources pertaining to the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society... View Women's Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities Online
Zhongguo fang zhi ku = 中國方志庫 960 to 1949 中國方志庫 (also known as Database of Chinese Local Records) is produced by the Erudition Corporation, in Beijing. It contains more than 10,000 local gazetteers from the Song Dynasty to the Republican e... View Zhongguo fang zhi ku = 中國方志庫 Online

News and Newspapers Databases

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers 17th - 18th century "The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital co... View 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Online
19th Century British Library Newspapers 1800 - 1899 This searchable archive is comprised of 50 newspapers originating in England, Scotland and Ireland. This 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection provides the serious researcher with the ... View 19th Century British Library Newspapers Online
19th Century U.S. Newspapers 1800 - 1899 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from more than 200 ... View 19th Century U.S. Newspapers Online
African American Newspapers (1827 - 1902) 1827 - 1902 This original source material—written by African-Americans for African-Americans - contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand repo... View African American Newspapers (1827 - 1902) Online
African American Newspapers (1827-1998) 1827 - 1998 Full text searchable newspaper covergage of approximately 270 U.S newspapers documenting the African American experience in Americafrom the early 19th century to the end of the 20th century. View African American Newspapers (1827-1998) Online
African Newspapers (1800's - 1900s) 1800s - 1900s A database of 40 searchable African newspapers covering the period from 1800 to 1922. Coverage is largely of English-language papers but a few in African languages are also included. View African Newspapers (1800's - 1900s) Online
America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) 1690 - 1922 Series 1-7 offers more than 300 significant 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 1, 1690-1876: contains more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 s... View America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) Online
ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online 1716 - 1940 ANNO, which is short for "AustriaN Newspapers Online," is a digitization initiative of the Austrian National Library and functions as its "virtual newspaper reading room." This web resource makes h... View ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online Online
Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009) 1848-2009 The Associated Press Online Archive is a collection of news stories, in various stage of production, covering major local, regional, and national stories from 1848 to 2009. This fully-searchable da... View Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009) Online
Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876) 1718 - 1876 The largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region. It will provide a comprehensive primary resource for studying the development of Western society and int... View Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876) Online
Daily Mail Historical Archive (1896-2004) 1896 - 2004 The Daily Mail is part of Gale NewsVault’s growing ‘middle class/middle market’ collection of newspapers and periodicals which reflect 20th century popular culture and tastes. It serves as the perf... View Daily Mail Historical Archive (1896-2004) Online
DigiZeitschriften Das Deutsche Digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv DigiZeitschriften offers access to 148 well-known German academic journals from 19 subject areas including the humanities, social sciences, history, librarianship, mathematics, and biological and p... View DigiZeitschriften Das Deutsche Digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv Online
Ethnic Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 1799 - 1971 This is the third collection in Readex's American Ethnic Newspaper series following the African-American and Hispanic modules. Based on titles from the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, it include... View Ethnic Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 Online
Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2010) 1888 - 2010 The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through 2010. Every article, advertisement and... View Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2010) Online
Gale NewsVault 17th - 21st century Online newspaper portal: cross-searches Gale newspapers archives using a single interface, covering over 400 years of content, with over 10 million pages of full text images. Includes all online Ga... View Gale NewsVault Online
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 1808 - 1980 This collection of Spanish and English language newspapers stems from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. When complete, it will consist of 350 ... View Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 Online
Historical Jewish Press 1863 - 1914 The Jewish National and University Library, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, is pleased to offer access to its Historic Hebrew Newspapers project. The aim of this site is to prov... View Historical Jewish Press Online
Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (IZA) 1965 - to date The IZA is a searchable, full-text German-language archive of more than 800,000 newspaper and journal articles bearing on German literature (including film and theater) or on the German language. I... View Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (IZA) Online
Lily, The (1849-1856) 1849 - 1856 The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). It was published in Seneca Falls, New York and priced at 50 cents a year... View Lily, The (1849-1856) Online
NewspaperARCHIVE.com 1700s - NOTE: This resource is no longer available and is scheduled to be removed from the Database Library (07/16/18). NewspaperARCHIVE includes fully searchable newspaper pages from more than 400 cities ... View NewspaperARCHIVE.com Online
Palmer's Full Text Online 1790 - 1905 Palmer's Full Text Online provides an index to the London Times, with individual index entries linked to a scanned image of the article from the original Times. The search technology attempts to de... View Palmer's Full Text Online Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) 1932 - 2003 The Atlanta Daily World is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975) 1910 - 1975 The Chicago Defender is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American hi... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) 1934 - 2005 The Los Angeles Sentinel is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of America... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) 1922 - 1993 The New York Amsterdam News is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of Amer... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) 1911 - 2002 The Pittsburgh Courier is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American ... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1994) 1849 - 1994 This version of The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily Tribune includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every i... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1994) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) 1881 - 1994 This version of The Los Angeles Times includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue are available in do... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2014) 1851 - 2014, rolling 4 year embargo This version of The New York Times includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue are available in downl... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2014) Online
Shen Bao (China, 1872-1949) 1872 - 1949 (full run) Shanghai-based Shen Bao (formerly transliterated as Shun Pao) was the longest-lasting and probably most influential newspaper in modern China. Its history is enmeshed in the major Chinese political... View Shen Bao (China, 1872-1949) Online
Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo (1898-1944) 台灣日日新報 1898 - 1944 Taiwan nichinichi shinpo was an official newspaper of the Taiwanese government under Japanese colonial rule. In the wake of the changing status of affairs, this daily newspaper included news about ... View Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo (1898-1944) 台灣日日新報 Online
Times (London) Digital Archive, The 1785 - 2006 The Times (London) Digital Archive includes page facsimiles of all the issues of the London Times published from 1785 - 6 years back from the present with the years rolling annually. You can search... View Times (London) Digital Archive, The Online
Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800 - 1900 Database listing 50,000 newspaper and periodical titles covering all subject areas. Scope includes titles in any language, published during any part of their life-span in England between January 1,... View Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals Online
Yomidas Rekishikan (Japan) Dates vary, 1874 - present The Yomiuri Shimbun is Japanese newspaper database that contains 3 databases: Rekiahikan--more than 10 million articles since its inaugural issue in 1874. The Yomiuri Shimbun -- about 4.8 million n... View Yomidas Rekishikan (Japan) Online

Sciences Databases

AAPG Datapages (American Assoc of Petroleum Geologists) 1917 to date AAPG Datapages are the preeminent leader in online access to literature on the geology and exploration for petroleum. Included are publications from all the important North American societies that ... View AAPG Datapages (American Assoc of Petroleum Geologists) Online
Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace 1962 - present The Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace provides bibliographic coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics, astronautics, computer ... View Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace Online
ASTM Compass 1921 - current ASTM Compass covers most engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear,... View ASTM Compass Online
Biological Abstracts 1969 - present The Biological Abstracts database indexes over 4,000 journals annually and contains over 5 million records. Subject matter covered includes anatomy, bacteriology, behavioral sciences, bioengineerin... View Biological Abstracts Online
CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary) 1910 - present CAB Abstracts a comprehensive database of the applied life sciences. The subject matter covers agriculture, agricultural economics, animal breeding and disease, biotechnology, dairy science, entomo... View CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary) Online
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature) 1937 - present CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health) Plus with Full Text provides indexing for approximately 4,500 journals, covering the subjects of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/... View CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Online
Civil Engineering Abstracts 1966 - present Civil Engineering Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage on all civil aspects from architecture, structural design and construction engineering to environmental, seismic engineering and forensic... View Civil Engineering Abstracts Online
Compendex (via Engineering Village) 1884 - present Compendex (also called Engineering Index) includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. It is combined with the Engin... View Compendex (via Engineering Village) Online
Copper Technical Reference Library 1965 - present The Copper Technical Reference Library provides bibliographic coverage of all aspects of copper, its alloys and its compounds from mining and extractive metallurgy, to antimicrobial properties, to ... View Copper Technical Reference Library Online
Engineering Research Database 1966 - present The Engineering Research Database provides bibliographic coverage of research in civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, engineering services... View Engineering Research Database Online
Engineering Village 1884 - present Engineering Village provides access to multiple engineering databases, including Compendex and GEOBASE, through one interface. They can be searched simultaneously and have any duplicate records rem... View Engineering Village Online
FSTA: Food Science & Technology 1969 - current The FSTA database indexes 1,800 journals, books, theses, conference proceedings, reviews, standards, legislation, and patents each year. The subject matter covers beverages, cocoa and chocolate, co... View FSTA: Food Science & Technology Online
GeoRef (Geology) 1669 - present (North America coverage), 1933 - present (Worldwide coverage) GEOREF, produced by the American Geosciences Institute, indexes the earth sciences literature of the world. It contains more than 3.5 million references to literature covering North America since 1... View GeoRef (Geology) Online
IndexCat (National Library of Medicine) IndexCat is a digitized version of the printed Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. The content and coverage is the same as the printed catalog. See: About Index-Catalogu... View IndexCat (National Library of Medicine) Online
INSPEC (via Web of Science) 1898 - present Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineerin... View INSPEC (via Web of Science) Online
Materials Research Database 1965 - present The Materials Research Database provides bibliographic coverage of research on metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering applications. In-depth coverage from raw materials ... View Materials Research Database Online
MathSciNet 1940 - present MathSciNet indexes and abstracts more than 3100 periodicals and more than 7500 books, conference proceedings, theses, disserations, and technical reports from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathe... View MathSciNet Online
Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts 1966 - present Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage on mechanical engineering and transportation engineering aspects from aerospace to automotive. Subject coverage inc... View Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts Online
METADEX 1966 - present The METADEX database provides bibliographic coverage on material science research including steels, metals, alloys, compounds and metal matrix composites. Subject coverage includes: steel, microstr... View METADEX Online
NASA Astrophysics Data System 19th century - present The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA- funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 4.5 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and ArXiv e... View NASA Astrophysics Data System Online
National Library of Energy (NLE) Began in 2013 The National Library of Energy (NLE) Beta virtually integrates information from Energy.gov (the DOE website) and all DOE program offices, national laboratories and other facilities. The NLEBeta sea... View National Library of Energy (NLE) Online
New York Academy of Sciences Digital Archive 1817 - present This collection of digitized primary sources provides access to two hundred years of scientific research and progress in the fields of natural history, natural sciences, medical research, climate s... View New York Academy of Sciences Digital Archive Online
NTIS National Technical Information Service 1964 to present; brief records for pre-1964 period The National Technical Information Service is a large central resource for U.S. government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. The database of more than 3 m... View NTIS National Technical Information Service Online
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) provides access to technical literature on projects funded or created by NASA, including conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, resea... View NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server Online
Nuclear Science Abstracts (1948 -1976) 1948 - 1976 The Nuclear Science Abstracts, produced by the U.S. Department of Energy, covers the worldwide nuclear science and technology literature from 1948 -1976. The database contains nearly one million re... View Nuclear Science Abstracts (1948 -1976) Online
PrimateLit: A bibliographic database for primatology 1940 - November 2010 The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present ... View PrimateLit: A bibliographic database for primatology Online
PubMed 1950 - present PubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts from nearly 4,500 journals in ... View PubMed Online
Reaxys 1771 - present Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. Reaxys incorporates Beilstein and Gmelin data plus organic and organometallic pa... View Reaxys Online
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Digital Archives 1794 - present This collection of digitized primary sources provides access to more than 150 years of the longest-established association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology in its broadest sense. Access... View Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Digital Archives Online
SAE Mobilus (Society of Automotive Engineers) 1906 - present SAE Mobilus (formerly the SAE Digital Library) provides mobility engineering content for the automotive, aerospace, and commercial-vehicle industries. Full text access is available to SAE Technica... View SAE Mobilus (Society of Automotive Engineers) Online
SciFinder Web (Chemical Abstracts) Registration (Required). SciFinder Web requires an individual SciFinder username and password using an @wisc.edu email address. SciFinder is used to access information in selected Chemical Abstract... View SciFinder Web (Chemical Abstracts) Online
Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences (S-PAC) Dates vary S-PAC is a comprehensive animal production and management conference proceeding database. Topics range from nutrition and management, to herd health, animal care and bioethics. View Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences (S-PAC) Online
SPIE Digital Library SPIE proceedings include more than 450,000 optics and photonics conference papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imagin... View SPIE Digital Library Online
Technology Collection 1962 - present The Technology Collection includes the Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts, as well as the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database, the Materials Science & Engineering Database, and the Mi... View Technology Collection Online
Water Resources Abstracts 1967 - present Water Resources Abstracts is now part of the Agricultural and Environmental Science Database. This database provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related t... View Water Resources Abstracts Online
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide 1935 - present Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide (formerly: Wildlife Worldwide) indexes and abstracts English language literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians from journals, monographs, p... View Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide Online
Zoological Record 1864 - present The Zoological Record database indexes approximately 5,000 journals, providing world-wide coverage of zoological literature. Emphasis is on systematic/taxonomic information on various animal groups... View Zoological Record Online

Social Sciences Databases

American Indian Law Collection (HeinOnline) 1700s - current Full-text legal materials by and about Native Americans. Includes federal law relating to tribes, such as relevant sections of the US Code and CFR, some legislative history, and administrative deci... View American Indian Law Collection (HeinOnline) Online
Anthropological Index Online 1957 - present Anthropological Index Online contains citations for more than 770 international journals and special interest publications in all areas of anthropology and archaeology. Journals indexed are publish... View Anthropological Index Online Online
Anthropological Literature 19th Century - present Anthropological Literature is a comprehensive, international resource for the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. It offers more than 500,000 citations from... View Anthropological Literature Online
AnthroSource Late 19th century - present AnthroSource is an online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 ye... View AnthroSource Online
AP Images 1826 - present AP Images includes Associated Press primary source material comprised of captioned photographs, maps, charts, logos, illustrations, news stories, audio clips, etc. from the 1800 s to 48 hours ago. ... View AP Images Online
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1863 1830 - 1865 This database contains approximately 15,000 articles and documents written by Black abolitionists during the antebellum period in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The contents include corresp... View Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1863 Online
British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography 1695 -1991 BIAB is a database focusing on the archaeology, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture--with a geographical focus o... View British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography Online
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... View Business Source Complete Online
Canada Supreme Court Reports (HeinOnline) HeinOnline's Canada Supreme Court Reports contains the official bilingual series published under authority of the Supreme Court Act. This collection includes more than 9,400 cases which include bac... View Canada Supreme Court Reports (HeinOnline) Online
Chicano Database 1967 - This is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It identifies, in one place, all types o... View Chicano Database Online
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 1793 - 1980 China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 is based on substantial collections of unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the Brit... View China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 Online
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 1836-1922 This database provides access to selected digitized historic newspaper pages from the years 1836-1922. The database is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership betwe... View Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Online
Churchill Archive 1874 - 1965 Published in October 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing in collaboration with the Churchill Archives Centre, the Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history. It includes more ... View Churchill Archive Online
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 1834-1966 The Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 is Official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office. It was issued by the British Government. I... View Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 Online
Criminal Justice in America: U.S. Attorney General Opinions, Reports, and Publications (HeinOnline) 1870 - present Official opinions of the U.S. Attorney General. Includes both the "Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States" as well as, the "Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U... View Criminal Justice in America: U.S. Attorney General Opinions, Reports, and Publications (HeinOnline) Online
Early American Case Law (HeinOnline) Contains the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) which contains more than 20,000 cases. Also included is the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and Ame... View Early American Case Law (HeinOnline) Online
East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963 1950-1963 Originally microfilmed as Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of East Germany, this digital collection provides an in-depth look into the creation of the East G... View East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963 Online
EconLit 1969 - EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language journals, dissertations, working papers, and books in the field of economics. Also included are the full-text of book reviews ... View EconLit Online
Economist Historical Archive (1843-present minus 5 years) 1843 - present minus 5 years The Economist Historical Archive provides searchable, full-text access to every issue of the The Economist from 1843 to the present minus 5 years, covering political, business, scientific, technolo... View Economist Historical Archive (1843-present minus 5 years) Online
Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944 1933-1944 This official statistical source provides rare, detailed data on the German economic situation during the Third Reich up to and throughout World War II. Consisting of Monatliche Nachweise ber den A... View Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944 Online
Education Index Retrospective 1929 - 1983 (Not updated) Education Index Retrospective complements Education Full Text database with comprehensive citation indexing from an international range of over 600 periodicals and yearbooks about education publish... View Education Index Retrospective Online
Educational Administration Abstracts 1966 - present Educational Administration Abstracts includes journal citations and summaries covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educati... View Educational Administration Abstracts Online
English Reports (HeinOnline) 1220-1867 Contains exact page-images of the original bound reprint edition of the English Reports (containing more than 100,000 cases), together with the Indexes and Book of Charts. View English Reports (HeinOnline) Online
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center 1966 - ERIC (the Educational Resource Information Center) indexes more than 1.3 million bibliographic records in education research and resources. Materials include journal articles (the majority peer-rev... View ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center Online
Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 - present Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating fr... View Ethnic NewsWatch Online
European Centre for Minority Issues (HeinOnline) HeinOnline’s collection of European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) conducts practice-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-m... View European Centre for Minority Issues (HeinOnline) Online
German-Americana Collection of the Max Kade Institute: A Searchable Database This database contains bibliographic records detailing 18th–early 20th century imprints in the German language printed in North America, as well as monographs, articles, papers, genealogical histor... View German-Americana Collection of the Max Kade Institute: A Searchable Database Online
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543 - 1945 The Gerritsen Collection contains the full text of over 4,700 publications from around the world documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights. The... View Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online Online
History of Supreme Court Nominations (HeinOnline) 1789 - Present This library features the complete print series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee... View History of Supreme Court Nominations (HeinOnline) Online
Independent Voices Drawn from the special collections of libraries here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, SUNY-Buffalo, Duke University, Northwestern University, and others, the Independent Voices project pro... View Independent Voices Online
Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) 1862 - 1939 for Europe; -1948 for Soviet Russia IYP, the Index to Yiddish Periodicals, is a bibliographical data base using Yiddish, which aims to record the materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) ... View Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) Online
Intellectual Property Law Collection (HeinOnline) 1909 - present With more than 4 million pages of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks, this collection allows researchers to search acros... View Intellectual Property Law Collection (HeinOnline) Online
Jahrbuch Database 1868 - 1942 Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics. The project provides a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the "Jahrbuch übe... View Jahrbuch Database Online
Kikuzo II 1879 - present Kikuzo II contains five separate sections: 1. Asahi Shinbun, Shukan Asahi, and AERA: full-text database (1984 to the present) 2. Asahi Shinbun Shukusatsuban: newspaper-page database (1879-1989) 3. ... View Kikuzo II Online
Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA) The Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA) is a project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is directed by Dr. Alberto Palloni of the Department of Sociology. Originally created to supp... View Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA) Online
Law Journal Library (HeinOnline) 1788 - present HeinOnline contains full-text legal periodicals in PDF beginning with the earliest volumes. Covers all areas of United States law. (Updated daily) View Law Journal Library (HeinOnline) Online
LGBT Life with Full Text Dates vary; earliest is from 1950s Includes the fulltext of more than one hundred current or historically significant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 11... View LGBT Life with Full Text Online
Liberation Journals Index 1931 - 1970 The Liberation Journals Index is an analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques... View Liberation Journals Index Online
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective (1905-1983) 1905-1983 Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective is a bibliographic database that indexes information science articles, books, book chapters, book reviews and library school theses for the ye... View Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective (1905-1983) Online
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) 1961 - present LISTA indexes and abstracts more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, ... View Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Online
Magazine Stacks: Tables of Contents of Historical Journals, Monographic Series & Occasional Volumes 1827 - to date This growing resource consists of tables of contents of European (including British) historical journals. It is intended to help researchers locate articles by browsing through the tables of conten... View Magazine Stacks: Tables of Contents of Historical Journals, Monographic Series & Occasional Volumes Online
Making of America at Cornell 1850 - 1900 The Making of America (MOA) is a distributed digital library of important materials (journals and books) that document nineteenth century America and the history of the United States. MOA is a coll... View Making of America at Cornell Online
Making of America at Michigan 1850- 1900 The Making of America (MOA) is a distributed digital library of important materials (journals and books) that document nineteenth century America and the history of the United States. MOA is a coll... View Making of America at Michigan Online
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 1800 - 1926 Over 22,000 legal treatises from the 19th- and early 20th- century. Covers all aspects of American and British law and encompasses a range of analytical, theoretical and practical literature for re... View Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 Online
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources 1620 - 1979 Four centuries of American legal primary sources. Published records of the American colonies; federal, state, territorial, and municipal codes; constitutional conventions and compilations; and othe... View Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources Online
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 1832 - 1978 Records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in over 150,000 cases between 1832 and 1978. The collection does not include the Court’s rulings, opinions or decisions, but focuses on the ... View Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 Online
Mass Observation Online 1937 to 1967 Source Library: Special Collections, University of Sussex. Mass Observation Online makes available original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the British Mass Observation or... View Mass Observation Online Online
Military & Government Collection 1961 - present The Military & Government Collection provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military. The database contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and cover... View Military & Government Collection Online
New Communication Technologies, Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography 19th Century - present This annotated bibliography covers scholarship on the history and social influence of new communication technologies. It begins with innovations in timekeeping, the reproduction of visual images, a... View New Communication Technologies, Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography Online
Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law (HeinOnline) 1793-late 20th Century A digitized and searchable collection of papers and articles by noted scholars on foreign and comparative law, with an emphasis on historical materials. Covers over 200 years worth of scholarship, ... View Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law (HeinOnline) Online
Philip C. Jessup Library (HeinOnline) Through special arrangement with the International Law Students Association (ILSA) this collection provides access to all of the top moot court competitions since 1960. It draws together the Proble... View Philip C. Jessup Library (HeinOnline) Online
ProQuest Regulatory Insight 1935 - 2018 As a companion to ProQuest Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and executive order, as well as Federal Register and... View ProQuest Regulatory Insight Online
Provincial Statutes of Canada (HeinOnline) 1758 - Present The Provincial Statutes of Canada contain public and private acts passed by Canadian provincial governments. Current, revised, and historical content is available for Alberta, British Colombia, New... View Provincial Statutes of Canada (HeinOnline) Online
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) 1800s - present This database from the American Psychological Association (APA) contains more than three million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical repor... View PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) Online
RAMBI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies 1966 - RAMBI is selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Israel. Material listed is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of art... View RAMBI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies Online
Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction (Oxford) 1902 - Present Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction (ICGJ) covers all contentious and advisory cases from the from the most important international courts of general jurisdiction. Each c... View Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction (Oxford) Online
Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (Oxford) 1800 - Present Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) covers international law as applied in the domestic courts of around 70 jurisdictions. Case reports contain the full text of each decis... View Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (Oxford) Online
Revised Statutes of Canada (HeinOnline) Complete coverage of all six revisions from the official printed volumes of the Revised Statutes of Canada in nearly 48,000 pages. The Statutes of Canada compile all the federal laws of Canada pass... View Revised Statutes of Canada (HeinOnline) Online
Slavery in America and the World (HeinOnline) 1700s - Present Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. Includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute d... View Slavery in America and the World (HeinOnline) Online
Social Explorer 1790 - Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users... View Social Explorer Online
Social Services Abstracts Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community devel... View Social Services Abstracts Online
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) 1895 - SocINDEX with Full Text includes full text for 397 "core coverage" sociology journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority coverage" journals. It also includes full text for more than 720 books an... View SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) Online
Sociological Abstracts 1952 - present The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and abstracts 2,000 worldwide journals in sociology. Relevant dissertations have been added since 1986. Also included is the Social Planning Policy and D... View Sociological Abstracts Online
SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (Updated regularly) The SORA project is an open access electronic journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of ... View SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive Online
SPORTDiscus Database 1800 - present The SPORTDiscus with Full Text database covers both serial and monographic literature in the following areas of sport: recreation; exercise physiology; sports medicine; coaching; physical fitness; ... View SPORTDiscus Database Online
State Attorney General Reports and Opinions (HeinOnline) 1791 - present State Attorney General Reports and Opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Also includes the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States and... View State Attorney General Reports and Opinions (HeinOnline) Online
State Statutes: A Historical Archive (HeinOnline) 1717 - The collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical superseded state statutes (but not current state statutes) and offers a valuable source of information for l... View State Statutes: A Historical Archive (HeinOnline) Online
Taxation & Economic Reform in America (HeinOnline) 1781 - 2011 United States regulations, laws and legislative histories relating to tax and to economic reform and stimulus plans. Includes the Carlton Fox legislative history collection and the History of Unite... View Taxation & Economic Reform in America (HeinOnline) Online
The Irish Revolution 1914 - 1923 The Irish Revolution is a collaborative online project between University College Cork and the Irish Examiner newspaper. It represents an ever growing resource collection that includes Cork's War o... View The Irish Revolution Online
TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library Pre- 1976 The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports issued primarily prior to... View TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library Online
U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline) 1789 - Present This collection features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. It also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), R... View U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline) Online
Women in Politics Bibliographic Database 1948 - present Women in Politics is an international database on women in politics, created and maintained by the Inter-Parliamentary Union with contribution from the United Nations Development Programme. It cont... View Women in Politics Bibliographic Database Online
World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline) 1812 - present Current constitutions for every country in the original language along with at least one English translation. Includes expert commentary, the complete set of the British and Foreign State Papers, a... View World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline) Online

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