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HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) 1970 - present HAPI Online contains worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. It covers materi... Access Database HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

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Academic Search 1975 - present Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are index... Access Database Academic Search
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... Access Database Border and Migration Studies Online
Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876) 1718 - 1876 Online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in the Caribbean. This primary resource supports research of colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New... Access Database Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876)
Dialnet (Spain) 1980 - This is a virtual library of Spanish academic journals, hosted by the Universidad de la Rioja in Spain. Primarily a bibliographic index with tables of contents, it covers more than 5,000 journals a... Access Database Dialnet (Spain)
Digitalia (Spanish) Varies The Digitalia platform provides searching thousands of ebooks and ejournals published in Spanish. The ebooks are from renowned Spanish and Latin American publishing houses and cover a wide range of... Access Database Digitalia (Spanish)
Ethnologue: Languages of the World The Ethnologue is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 7,111 known living languages. The Ethnologue is intended to be used as a catalog that provides summary data of identif... Access Database Ethnologue: Languages of the World
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) 1970 - present HAPI Online contains worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. It covers materi... Access Database HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
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... Access Database Historical Abstracts
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... Access Database Human Rights Studies Online
Informe académico Late 1990s - present Informe académico contains a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America, with an emphasis on the social science and... Access Database Informe académico
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 1981 - present The IBSS indexes the information contained in over 2,600 social sciences journals and 6,000 books each year. Coverage includes both core and specialized material from over 100 countries in more tha... Access Database International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
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... Access Database JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) One of the most complete directory of links to Internet information on Latin America. Categorized by country and by subject with direct clickable links to sites. Updated daily with a "What's Ne... Access Database Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latindex 1997 - present This resource is comprised of: 1. Directory: A comprehensive inventory of scholarly journals from Latin America. Available since 1997 it provides bibliographic data of more than 19,992 journals fro... Access Database Latindex
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) 1973 - present LLBA provides abstracts of articles on linguistics and its sub-disciplines from approximately 2,000 serials published around the world, complemented with coverage of recent books, occasional papers... Access Database LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) 1926 - present The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA) is updated ten times per year. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and indexes critical materials on liter... Access Database MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco)
Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB) REDIB uses a single portal to give users direct access to scientific and academic documents of confirmed quality, put out by publishers and other producers of scientific and academic content in Ibe... Access Database Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB)
REDALyC: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Contents cover health & life sciences, social sciences and humanities. Most of the articles are written in Spanish or Portuguese. This database includes over 620 academic journals. All articles are... Access Database REDALyC: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), originally from Brazil, is a bibliographic database and a model for cooperative electronic publishing in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian countri... Access Database SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library 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... Access Database SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)

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Bibliografía Mesoamericana 16th Century - Present The Bibliografía Mesoamericana, jointly supervised by the Museum Library of the University of Pennsylvania and the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), provides a c... Access Database Bibliografía Mesoamericana
Eusko Bibliographia 1981 - present Eusko Bibliographia is a reference bibliographic database of Basque authors and themes. The core of this database is made up of the bibliographic compilation work undertaken by the emeritus bibliog... Access Database Eusko Bibliographia
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. ... Access Database Index Islamicus

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Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1914) 1907 - 1914 This source is the electronic version of the classic Catholic Encyclopedia, published between 1907-1914. A very few articles have been updated or added, such as ones on the twentieth century Popes,... Access Database Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1914)
Collins Portuguese Dictionary Current The Collins Portuguese Dictionary has been expanded and updated to provide increased contemporary coverage of both Brazilian and Peninsular Portuguese. Over 80,000 references and 110,000 translatio... Access Database Collins Portuguese Dictionary
Collins Spanish Dictionary 2000 The 2000 edition of the Collins Spanish Dictionary provides coverage of contemporary vocabulary and usage, both written and spoken. Words can be looked up from Spanish to English or English to Span... Access Database Collins Spanish Dictionary
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Ed. From the beginning - 2006 CE Encyclopaedia Judaica is a major reference work with articles by the world's top scholars on all aspects of the Jewish experience. In addition to in-depth articles, it includes bibliographies listi... Access Database Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Ed.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition Current Britannica Online School Edition offers encyclopedias, dictionaries/thesauri and related materials for students from pre-K to 12th grade. Also includes selected magazines and journals, images and v... Access Database Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition
International Encyclopedia of Communication Current This Encyclopedia includes the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. Edi... Access Database International Encyclopedia of Communication
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Covers the full range of topics in linguistics, including applied, computational, historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, neurolinguistics and sociolinguistics. It... Access Database International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Languages available: French-English; English-French Currently featuring over 550,000 translations from the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as gramma... Access Database Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Film + Performance Arts Databases

Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI) 1988 - to date FTLI indexes 380 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and another 300 periodicals selectively. Abstracts are included since 2004, and more will be added in the future. A... Access Database Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI)
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... Access Database Film Index International
Filmakers Library Online 1970s to 2011 (approximately) Interdisciplinary resource of over 1,000 issue-based documentaries and independent films from the U.S. and other countries. Topics include: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and ... Access Database Filmakers Library Online
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library 1970 - present The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that provides a digital li... Access Database Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library
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... Access Database Performing Arts Periodicals Database

History Databases

Biblioteca Digital Mexicana 500 A.D. - 1949 The Biblioteca Digital Mexicana is a multi-institutional initiative to create a digital collection of historical documents from Mexico from 500 A.D. to 1949. The documents range from pre-hispanic c... Access Database Biblioteca Digital Mexicana
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World With its striking range and penetrating depth, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that orig... Access Database Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1535 - 1920 Created from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, this collection contains books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history of the Caribbean region from the ... Access Database Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Caribbean Views 18 - 19th centuries Caribbean Views draws from the British Library's collection of maps, manuscripts, printed books and newspapers relating to the British West Indies to conjure up a vivid picture of life in the Engli... Access Database Caribbean Views
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... Access Database Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Confidential Print: Latin America 1833-1969 The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. The series originated out of a... Access Database Confidential Print: Latin America
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... Access Database Historical Abstracts
Historical Research in Europe: a Guide to Archives and Libraries This project is intended to assist researchers who are planning to use European libraries and archives. The focus is on materials found in western European repositories from the Atlantic area eastw... Access Database Historical Research in Europe: a Guide to Archives and Libraries
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... Access Database JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 1923 - present JTA Jewish & Israel News is a searchable database chronicling modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists. It consists of articles published or disseminated by the JTA (Jewish Te... Access Database JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
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... Access Database Liberation Journals Index
Primeros Libros: Impresos Mexicanos del Siglo XVI 16th Century This is a digital collection of the first books printed in Mexico before 1601. These monographs represent the first printing in the New World and provide primary sources for scholarly studies focus... Access Database Primeros Libros: Impresos Mexicanos del Siglo XVI
U.K. Parliamentary Papers 1688 - 2003/04 session Papers issued by the United Kingdom House of Commons including Bills and Acts, Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, Hansard (the official report of debates in Parliament) and supplementary mate... Access Database U.K. Parliamentary Papers

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BBC Country Profiles Current This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, and current leaders. A media overview provides info... Access Database BBC Country Profiles
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL) Cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materi... Access Database Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL)
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... Access Database Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
Hemeroteca Digital 1683 - 1988 This database includes fully searchable newspapers and periodicals from Spain and Latin America, spanning the 17th to 20th centuries. The newspapers and periodicals come from a variety of presses i... Access Database Hemeroteca Digital
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press mid-1800s - 1970s The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and S... Access Database Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
International Newsstream 1980 - present International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-... Access Database International Newsstream
Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922) 1805 - 1922 A uniquely comprehensive collection spanning five continents. Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive will a... Access Database Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922)
Nexis Uni Dates vary Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) offers access to more than 17,000 news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blog... Access Database Nexis Uni

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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... Access Database Business Source Complete
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1535 - 1920 Created from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, this collection contains books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history of the Caribbean region from the ... Access Database Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) 1991 - present Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes work... Access Database CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
European Sources Online (ESO) 1990s - present European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international org... Access Database European Sources Online (ESO)
GenderWatch 1970 - present GenderWatch is a gender, women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues database with thousands of English-language full-text articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, ... Access Database GenderWatch
Left Index 1982 - present The Left Index provides indexing to "the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondar... Access Database Left Index
PAIS (Public Affairs) 1972 - present Public Affairs Information Service indexes more than 900 journals; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernment... Access Database PAIS (Public Affairs)
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... Access Database Sociological Abstracts
Women's Studies International 1972 - present Women's Studies International indexes women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles, dissertations, and reports from throughout the world, ... Access Database Women's Studies International
World Biographical Index Current The database World Biographical Index contains short biographical details on people who either lived in, or were influential in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Australasian-Pacific region, and North and ... Access Database World Biographical Index
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 1975 - present Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is a combination and continuation of two older databases, Political Science Abstracts (1975-2000) and ABC POL SCI (1984-2000). The new resource provides citati... Access Database Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

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ARTstor ARTstor provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, along with a suite of software tools for teaching and research. Collections include image contr... Access Database ARTstor
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials 1908 - present The Atla Religion Database indexes more than 600 of the leading journals in the field of religion and theology. The index also includes essays from multi-author works and book reviews. Atlas (= Atl... Access Database Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials
Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital Current The Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital provides free online access to around 250 Venezuelan and Latin American books, ranging from recent publications to classics by authors such as Simón Bolívar. The Bib... Access Database Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital
Brasiliana Eletrônica 19th century -20th century Brasiliana Eletrônica houses the Brasiliana Collection published by the Editora Nacional between 1913 and 1993 in full-text online. Materials in this collection primarily deal with the devleopment ... Access Database Brasiliana Eletrônica
Cairn (French) This journal database covers subjects in the humanities and social sciences, representing primarily French and Francophone scholarly publications. Since February 2006, the National Library of Franc... Access Database Cairn (French)
Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas This database offers all the 'cantigas' (songs) contained in the medieval Galician-Portuguese 'Cancioneiros' (songbooks), the manuscripts' images and also the music (either medieval or the contempo... Access Database Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1535 - 1920 Created from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, this collection contains books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history of the Caribbean region from the ... Access Database Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. It supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, scie... Access Database Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
CountryWatch 1993 - present CountryWatch is a combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Lengthy Country Reviews give a complete historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environ... Access Database CountryWatch
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... Access Database Ethnic NewsWatch
Ibero-American Electronic Text Series The Ibero-American Electronic Text Series is a project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted to Iberian and Latin American works in the humanities. The texts comply with the Guid... Access Database Ibero-American Electronic Text Series
Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean Data Bank - PIAALC Data Bank with indicators for indigenous and afro-descendant peoples within Latin American countries. This Data Bank contains different subsystems of information: Indicadores Sociodemograficos de P... Access Database Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean Data Bank - PIAALC
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... Access Database International Medieval Bibliography - Online (IMB)
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... Access Database Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Dates Vary The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to resources in Medieval Studies, covering the years ca. 500-ca. 1500 AD. All types of materials are included. (Updates vary) Access Database Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA) 1848-2014 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... Access Database Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA)
Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity Current Grammarians of antiquity taught and practiced philology, text criticism and rhetoric, essential skills in the education, career and public life of ancient Greeks and Romans. Brill’s Lexicon of Gree... Access Database Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity
Literature Resource Center Dates vary Literature Resource Center includes information on a large number of authors and literary works taken from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, T... Access Database Literature Resource Center
Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) With more than 1,500 pages of information, PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections... Access Database Political Database of the Americas (PDBA)
PORDATA: Base de Dados Portugal Contemporâneo 1960 - present PORDATA is the Contemporary Portugal Database equipped with official and certified statistics about Portugal and Europe. The information is divided in several topics such as population, education, ... Access Database PORDATA: Base de Dados Portugal Contemporâneo
Project Muse Project Muse provides full text access to more than 300 humanities and social science journals from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, his... Access Database Project Muse
RCAAP Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal The Repositório Científico de Acceso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) portal aims to collect, aggregate and index Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. RCAAP constit... Access Database RCAAP Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositorio CEACS (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales) The CEACS repository includes the publications of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences from the Institute Juan March. So far, the CEACS Repository includes doctoral theses, CEACS work... Access Database Repositorio CEACS (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales)
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 (... Access Database Web of Science
World Factbook Current The World Factbook contains overviews of each country in the world, including brief data on geography, people, government, economy, membership in international organizations, communications, and de... Access Database World Factbook

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