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African American Studies

African American Biographical Database
Profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans.

Black Studies Center
Brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans. Includes the Black Abolitionist Papers (1830-1865) a collection of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States. Also included is History Makers, video recordings of interviews with influential, contemporary African Americans, the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, and material from newspapers, dissertations and journals.

 

Arts

American Film Institute Catalog
Detailed plot summaries and notes for every American film from 1893 to 1973

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Full Text
Indexing and abstracting from the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward.

Film Index International
In-depth indexing of over 121,000 films from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters and biographical information for over 730,000 personalities.

Music and Performing Arts Online
This resource brings the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) together in one site, enabling users to search both resources simultaneously. Together, these core resources offer comprehensive coverage to support the study of music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts.

 

General / Multidisiplinary

CSA Illumina
Multiple databases across a broad range of disciplines including arts & humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and technology

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
The most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 including more than 63,000 declassified documents

KnowUK
search the most authoritative sources of U.K.reference information.

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Collections 1-7
An archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
Millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years

 

History

Acta Sanctorum & Patrologia Latina Database
The works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 A.D. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Hagiography and culture.

Annual Register
Historical contexts, perspectives, and biographical information spanning the centuries from 1758 to 2008.

Archive Finder
A directory of 5,750 repositories and 206,000 collections of primary source material housed across the United States and United Kingdom.

British Periodicals Collections I & II - Early British Periodicals
Together, British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection II provide the full text of all of the titles covered by the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

C19: The 19th Century Index
A comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.

Cecil Papers
State papers, legal documents and more digitized primary source documents from 1540-1640 from The Hatfield House archive of materials gathered by William Cecil (1521-1598), Lord Burghley and his son Robert Cecil (1563-1612), First Earl of Salisbury.

Colonial State Papers
Acess to thousands of official papers relating to the Colonial governance of early America.

Documents on British Policy Overseas
From the run-up to the first World War to post-World War II reconstruction, this database allows searching across a vast collection of key documents relating to Britain's global foreign policy in the 20th century.

John Johnson Collection
A digital archive of 1.5 million items ranging in date from the 18th century to the early 20th century. Subject coverage in areas of advertising, booktrade, popular prints, and nineteenth century entertainment in Britain.

Palmer's Full Text Online
Palmer's Full Text Online contains the Index to The Times from October 1790 to December 1905. The Full Text component spans the years from 1800 to 1870.

Parliamentary Papers
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Collection. Coverage of the 18th century to the present.

 

Literature

Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola
A resource for scholars of Spanish literature.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digital access to more than 125,000 literary and historical classics

Early European Books
Traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro
Contains hundreds of important works from The Golden Age (1500-1700), the crowning glory of Spain's intellectual and artistic achievements.

 

Literature - German

Brechts Werke
Bertolt Brecht's poetry, drama, and major critical writings

Die Deutsche Lyrik
500 years of German poetry online.

Goethes Werkes
The complete text of the 143 volumes of the Weimar Edition

Kafkas Werke
Search Kafka's body of work for central themes and follow their development

Luthers Werke
The complete Weimar Edition of Luther's work

Schillers Werke
Includes poetry and plays, translations, and historical and philosophical writings.

 

Social Sciences

Gerritsen Collection
A standard source for the study of women's history in the world, including the rise of feminism and the movement for women's rights.

PolicyFile
Current research on virtually every public policy issue (U.S. and international). Access full text reports from over 280 think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups.

PRISMA Hispanic Studies
Full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America