Start out with:
| America: History and Life |
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Type of Resource: Index, with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: 1955 onwards; updated monthly
Covers writings about the history and culture of United States and Canada from prehistory through the recent past. Provides brief summaries of journal articles and book articles, as well as listings for book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations. Also provides links to full text for selected journal articles. |
Other Key Resources
for American History, Culture, or Current Events
| Alt-Press Watch |
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Type of Resource: Full-text database
Coverage: Varies by title
Covers "alternative, radical, and left" periodicals in North America. |
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| Black Studies Center |
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Type of Resource: Full-text components, plus an index providing access to full text for selected items
Combines three resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. This fully cross-searchable database includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. |
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| Book Review Digest Plus |
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Type of Resource: Index with excerpts; includes full text for many reviews
Coverage: 1983 onwards
Book Review Digest Plus brings together the data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. |
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| Chicano Database |
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Provides listings of all types of materials concerning the Mexican-American, Chicano and broader Latino experience. |
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| Ethnic NewsWatch |
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Type of Resource: Full-text database
Coverage: varies by title, with some titles covered back to 1960; updated monthly
Provides access to "newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press." At least 200 publications are covered here. Searchable in English and Spanish. |
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| Gender studies database |
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Combines NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Also includes relevant contributions from NISC's Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. |
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| HAPI online (Hispanic American periodicals index) |
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Type of Resource: Index, with links to full-text for selected journals
Coverage: 1970 onwards
Citations to articles and book reviews in scholarly journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean, or those dealing with topics relating to Latin America, the Caribbean and Hispanic Americans. Subject focus excludes pure and technical sciences.
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| LexisNexis Academic |
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Type of Resource: Full-text database
Coverage: Varies by title, generally mid-1980s onwards; updated daily
A wide-ranging full-text database including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works. |
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| LGBT Life with Full Text |
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Provides indexing and abstracts of worldwide literature on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, as well as full text for more than 50 journals, magazines and regional newspapers and dozens of monographs. |
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| PAIS International & PAIS Archive |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: 1915 onwards; updated monthly
The "PAIS International" database contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. It includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. The "PAIS Archive" database (which is searched simultaneously with "PAIS International") comprises a retrospective conversion of the "PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin," volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. The "PAIS Archive" database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Since its establishment in 1914, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled public and social policy issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources. |
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| Proquest |
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Type of Resource: Full-text database
Coverage: Varies by title
Covers a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Full-text access is provided for the majority of titles covered. |
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| Proquest Historical Newspapers |
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Type of Resource: Full text and full image
Coverage: varies by date
Full-text and full-image articles, dating back to their first issues, for the following newspapers: the New York Times (1851-2001), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1987), the Washington Post (1877-1988), the Atlanta Constitution (1868-1925), the Boston Globe (1872-1922), the Chicago Tribune (1890-1946), and the Los Angeles Times (1881-1984).
NOTE: If you do not wish to search all of these newspapers simultaneously: click on "Select Multiple Databases"; scroll down to the Historical Databases; and de-select newspapers as you wish. |
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| Readers Guide Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text for many titles beginning 1994
Coverage: 1983 to the present
Brief summaries of articles from popular and general-interest periodicals. |
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| Readers Guide Retrospective |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: 1890-1982
Provides citations to articles in popular and general-interest periodicals. |
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Branching out in Your Research
Depending on the nature of your American History or American Studies research, there is a wide range of additional resources that may be useful to you.
In order to assist you in branching out in your research, some of the core databases in various disciplinary areas are listed below. For help in identifying further resources, consult the appropriate LWEB Subject Guide.
| ABI Inform Global |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts or full-text for selected titles
Coverage: 1971 onwards
Indexes “1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.” |
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| Art Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full-text for selected titles beginning 1997
Coverage: 1984 onwards; updated monthly
Indexes art periodicals in English and other Western European languages. Subjects covered include: archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. |
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| ATLA Religion Database |
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Type of Resource: Index, featuring full text for selected items
Coverage: 1949 onwards
Indexes journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. Includes citations to 650 journals in 26 languages. |
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals |
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Type of Resource: Index, with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: Selective coverage: 1741 to date; updated weekly.
Provides citations to articles in approximately 400 current and over 1000 retrospective architectural and related periodicals with primary emphasis on architectural design and history but coverage as well of archaeology, landscape architecture, interior design, furniture and decorative arts, garden history, historic preservation, city planning, urban design, real estate development and environmental studies. |
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| ERIC |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; and with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: 1966 onwards; updated monthly
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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| FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus |
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Type of Resource: Index, with accessible full text for selected items
Covers hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. |
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| Historical Abstracts |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; and with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: 1954 onwards
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), as represented in more than 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Provides listings for journal articles, book articles, books, and dissertations. |
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| Humanities Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text for selected titles beginning 1995
Coverage: 1984 onwards; updated monthly
Broadly ranging coverage of articles in a variety of humanities fields, including: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Types of articles covered include: feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full-text access for selected articles
Coverage: 1926 onwards; updated 9 times a year
For the areas of literature, linguistics, language, and folklore, provides international listings of journal articles, book articles, books, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. |
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| The Music Index |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: 1976 onwards
Covers topics in "every aspect of classical and popular" music as reflected in more than 775 international music periodicals. |
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| Race Relations Abstracts |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full-text access for selected articles
"Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies."--About the database. |
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| Social Sciences Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; full text for selected titles 1994 onwards
Coverage: 1983 onwards
Provides listings of, or access to, articles from a wide range of social sciences journals. Subjects covered include: “Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies.” |
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