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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... View HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online

Core Databases

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... View Academic Search 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
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
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... View Dialnet (Spain) Online
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... View Digitalia (Spanish) Online
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... View HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) 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
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
Informe! Late 1990s - present Informe!'s contents emphasize the social science and humanities, with proportionally modest inclusion of titles in the sciences and medicine. For titles in the sciences and technology, most tend to... View Informe! Online
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... View International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 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
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... View Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Online
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... View Latindex Online
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... View LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) Online
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... View MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) Online
MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) 1926 - present NOTE: Access to MLA International Bibliography moved to the Ebsco platform in 2019, as a result of MLA entering into an exclusive agreement with Ebsco to host their content. The Modern Language Ass... View MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) Online
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... View Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB) Online
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... View REDALyC: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Online
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... View SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online 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

Bibliographies Databases

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... View Bibliografía Mesoamericana Online
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... View Eusko Bibliographia 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

Dictionaries / Encyclopedias Databases

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,... View Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1914) Online
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... View Collins Portuguese Dictionary Online
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... View Collins Spanish Dictionary Online
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... View Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Ed. Online
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... View Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition Online
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... View International Encyclopedia of Communication Online
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... View International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Online
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... View Oxford Language Dictionaries Online 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... View Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI) 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
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 ... View Filmakers Library Online 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... View Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library 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

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... View Biblioteca Digital Mexicana Online
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... View Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World Online
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... View Caribbean Views 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
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... View Confidential Print: Latin America 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
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... View Historical Research in Europe: a Guide to Archives and Libraries 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
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... View JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 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
Primeros Libros: Impresos Mexicanos del Siglo XVI 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... View Primeros Libros: Impresos Mexicanos del Siglo XVI Online
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... View U.K. Parliamentary Papers Online

News and Newspapers Databases

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... View BBC Country Profiles Online
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... View Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL) 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
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... View Hemeroteca Digital Online
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... View Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press Online
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-... View International Newsstream Online
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... View Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922) Online
LexisNexis Academic Dates Vary NOTE: This database will not be available after December 31, 2018; it was replaced with a new platform, renamed Nexis Uni. Access to both platforms will available until March 31, 2018. LexisNexis ... View LexisNexis Academic Online
Nexis Uni Dates vary NOTE: In early 2018, LexisNexis launched a new platform, Nexis Uni, to replace LexisNexis Academic. Access to both platforms will available until March 31, 2018. Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Aca... View Nexis Uni Online

Society and Culture Databases

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
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... View CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) 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... View European Sources Online (ESO) Online
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, ... View GenderWatch Online
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... View Left Index Online
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... View PAIS (Public Affairs) 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
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, ... View Women's Studies International Online
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 ... View World Biographical Index Online
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... View Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Online

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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... View ARTstor 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
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... View Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital Online
Brasiliana Eletrônica 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 ... View Brasiliana Eletrônica Online
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... View Cairn (French) Online
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... View Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas Online
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... View Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online
Compludoc 1940 - Compludoc indexes over 4,000 journals analyzed at the library of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Citations include author, article title, journal title, year of publication, volume and numbe... View Compludoc Online
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... View CountryWatch 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
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... View Ibero-American Electronic Text Series Online
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... View Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean Data Bank - PIAALC 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
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
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) View Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies 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
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... View Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity Online
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, a... View Literature Resource Center Online
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... View Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) Online
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, ... View PORDATA: Base de Dados Portugal Contemporâneo Online
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... View Project Muse Online
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... View RCAAP Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Online
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... View Repositorio CEACS (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales) 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
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... View World Factbook Online

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