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Currently only available on campus. Core journals in the fields humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. Includes some primary sources and book reviews. A great place to find older, digitized and preserved journal issues. Recent issues are not always available in JSTOR as it is an archival resource.
The largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities. Search across more than 30 databases at one time. Full-text available.
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A collection of primary source archives devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans, covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day. Includes topics such as U.S. nation-building in Liberia to Freedom Riders, the Rastafari movement, and FBI surveillance.
Primary source collections dedicated to African Studies. Covering 1910-1940 it provides particular insight into German, Italian, British, Portuguese, and American influences as the world advanced toward World War II.
A deep dive into American culture, primary source materials in these archives include music, art, literature, and cinema from all regions of the country in the 19th and 20th centuries.
With extensive coverage of Japan, China, and Korea from 1910 to 1950, this collection of primary source archives supports the study of colonialism, politics, nationalism, military actions, government systems, economics, and even geography of Asia during a critical period of engagement with the Western nations.
A reader’s advisory database that provides search paths for read-alike books, and multiple booklists from award winners to community and expert picks to make finding a great read much less challenging. Readers can define search parameters and create a search as wide or narrow as they wish, whether browsing by genre, or, with the author search feature, by nationality, ethnicity, and more.
This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events in the United Kingdom and Europe. Included are U.S. classified country reports, newspapers, pamphlets, propaganda, and many other primary sources that give insight on specific regional changes during and after the war.
Covers topics such as commerce and trade, Black economic empowerment, labor equality, finance, industrial history, and organized labor. These primary source archive collections feature business history around the world.
Presents full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, monographs, reviews, and scholarly papers.
Full-text literary criticism on the works of classical and medieval philosophers, poets, playwrights, political leaders, scientists, mathematicians, and writers from other genres. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
Provides up-to-date entries of biographical and bibliographical data on more than 164,500 modern authors. Find authors based on occupation, role, historical period, name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
Multidisciplinary primary source collection on perspectives on culture from Shakespeare to German folklore; moving pictures and the silent cinema to investigations of Communists in Hollywood; society, culture, and politics in Canada to literature, culture, and society in Depression Era America; plus a library of historical books on etiquette and advice.
Dictionary of Literary Biography includes biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Online access to directories of associations, broadcast media, brands, business information, consultants, and publications.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of dramatists of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, radio transcripts, diaries, newspapers, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
Articles from scholarly journals, business magazines, and trade publications focused on starting and managing a business. Covers topics such as business planning, financing, marketing, innovation, and management. Use it to research small business development, entrepreneurship trends, and real-world case studies.
A collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related to gender and sexuality. The social, political, and cultural contributions of women throughout history are on display in international women's periodicals dating from 1786 to the Women’s and Civil Rights movements.
A primary source collection where researchers can find documentation about health and environment. Topics include international reaction to global warming and climate change, the development of environmental health policy, the war on drugs, and a clinical view of narcotic addiction and mental health issues.
An interdisciplinary collection of primary sources of historical events related the Holocaust. This collection incorporates anti-Semitic propaganda, correspondence from prisoners, documents from resistance groups, bank records from Nazi financiers, eyewitness accounts from concentration camps, and more.
Articles and home improvement-focused titles covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.
Articles from leading journals, including Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
Diplomatic history, global foreign affairs, activists and activism, war and conflict, and colonialism are just some of the topics featured in these primary source archive collections. Researchers can study the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, global trade and commerce, European Colonialism in the early twentieth century, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the origins of the Cold War, among other topics.
Large collection of streaming video content including documentaries, independent cinema, TV series and feature films. Browse educational videos in the fields of visual and performing arts, business, health, social sciences, and communication.
From Mafia activities in Cuba to the Mexican Revolution, and from political instability in Latin America to foreign relations in Caribbean states, this collection of primary source archives provides a broad variety of resources for the study of the varied, rich culture and history of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The political and legal history of the United States is highlighted in the papers of politicians and the organizations that supported them, and documentation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department.
Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.
Contains centuries of literary analysis, from scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. It includes criticism on works in children’s literature, classic and medieval literature, literature from the 1400s to 1800s including the works of Shakespeare, drama, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, short stories, and poetry.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800.
This collection of primary source archives provides a multidisciplinary archive of materials to explore the Middle East's diplomatic initiatives, military actions, politics, economics, and natural resources.
This collection of primary source archives includes political, religious, legal, medical, commercial, and military perspectives of Native American history. Coverage includes primary source materials dating from 1800 through the late 20th century.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of poets of all nations, cultures, and time periods.
Provides access to the most searched magazines across the Gale OneFile products.
A primary source archives of historical events related to religious studies. Topics include the effects of Christian evangelism around the world, the development of witchcraft, the growth of social activism in the US, and more.
A general academic database covering subjects and topics that are relevant across all disciplines. It's made up of multiple different Gale databases including Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Literature, Business, Archives and e-books.
Full-text journals in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. Key subjects covered include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods.
Provides comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures.
