The databases in the Most Useful section are generally secondary source items and the Also Useful in this case are primary source collections.
Most Useful
| Database | Full Text | Coverage | Scholarly |
|---|---|---|---|
| JSTOR i
Contains (EXCEPT for the latest five years) core scholarly journals in sociology, history, economics, political science, mathematics, African-American & Asian studies, literature, humanities, music, and biological, health & general sciences. |
Full-text | 1838 to most recent five years | Most |
| Historical Abstracts i
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. |
Links to full-text via Get-It | 1973 to current | All |
| Project Muse i
Full-text coverage for hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics |
Full-text | 1993 to current | All |
| ProQuest - History i
Search among ProQuest’s History databases |
Some full-text; plus links to full-text via Get-It | 1985 to current | None |
| Wiley Online Library i
Access to abstracts and full text from journals, reference works, databases, and books. Disciplines covered include the life sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, psychology, earth sciences, education, social sciences, humanities, business, and mathematics |
Some full-text | 1996 to current | Most |
Also Useful
| Database | Full Text | Coverage | Scholarly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford English Dictionary
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A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It includes etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet |
Full-text | current to current | None |
| Making of the Modern World
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Digitized texts from the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1914 provides access to over 62,000 primary source works on economics and business. |
Full-text | 1450 to 1914 | |
| Times (London) digital archive 1785-1985
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Provides access to the complete digital edition of The Times (London). The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. |
Full-text | 1785 to 1985 | None |
| ArchiveGrid
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Access to thousands of digital texts, audio files, and images from open access archives. |
N/A | current | None |
| Victorian Women Writers Project
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Features the works of British women from the Victorian period (1830-1910), including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children’s books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. |
Full-text | 1830 to 1910 | None |
| Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
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Books, pamphlets, serials and other documents about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Primary source materials on exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. |
Full-text | 1500 to 1926 |
Allison Carr
