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  1. Academic Search Premier INSPIRE DATABASES (EBSCOHOST)
    Offers a variety of scholarly journals and popular magazines in all subject areas, including some full-text articles.
  2. Academic Universe/LEXIS(R)-NEXIS(R)
    National newspapers and legal references, includes articles from a number of popular and scholarly publications.
  3. Access World News
    Provides access to local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. Includes coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
  4. American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
    Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.
  5. American Education Research
    Association Special Interest Group (AERA SIG) database of open access journals in the field of education.
  6. American Memory
    At the Library of Congress, Historical Collections for the National Digital Archive.
  7. American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900  
    Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
  8. Britannica Online
    Consists of the Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition), the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, etc.
  9. British Newspapers, 1600-1900
    Contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
  10. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
    Integrated bibliographic coverage of books and official publications, archives, and articles published in journals, magazines and newspapers.
  11. The CQ Researcher
    Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher and Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to the present.
  12. Center for Cultural Resources
    A collection of resource kits, each organized to teach a core of 12 universal themes on unity and diversity.
  13. Chronicle of Higher Education (Online)
    Electronic version of the Chronicle of Higher Education (back issues up to 10 years previous).  Access to some articles by username and password only.  Please ask a librarian at the reference desk for login information.
  14. Chronicling America
    Contains digitized newspapers from 1880 to 1922 as well as information about American newspapers published between 1690 and present.  Current states with newspaper content on the site include Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
  15. Civil War (American): Letters and Diaries
    Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs
  16. Classics of American Colonial History
    Includes important journal articles and electronic texts in American Colonial History.
  17. Communication & Mass Media Complete
    Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
  18. The Condition of Education
  19. Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945
    Contains primary source materials covering political life during World War II in Belgium, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Vatican, Portugal and Luxembourg, as well as general information regarding Europe during this time.
  20. Congressional Quarterly Index Page
    Online index to CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly.
  21. The CQ Researcher
    Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher and Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to the present.
  22. Criminal Justice Periodicals
    U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
  23. Curriki: Global Education & Learning Community
    Free and open source curricula.
  24. Declassified Documents Reference System
    Online access to previously classified government documents, covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.
  25. Digest of Education Statistics
  26. Digital Dissertations (Formerly Called Dissertation Abstracts-Online)
    Citations and abstracts, from ProQuest.
  27. Digital National Security Archive
    Declassified primary documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions since 1945. There are 31 complete collections, each with a particular focus, including Afghanistan, the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. espionage, the Iran-Contra Affair, and the Persian Gulf War.
  28. Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open access scientific and scholarly journals.
  29. Early Americas Digital Archive
    A collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
  30. Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
    Contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of the peoples, cultures, and environment of North America between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  31. Economist Historical Archive 
    Delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003.
  32. Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides
    2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
  33. Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, it captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain during this period.
  34. ERIC
    The ERIC database has many full text articles along with ERIC digests, and citations and abstracts from  educational and education-related journals.
  35. Factiva (formerly Dow Jones)
    Excellent news and business coverage, including full-text of the Wall Street Journal.
  36. Facts on File (World News Digest) 
    Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly.
  37. GenderWatch
    Provides historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles. Includes articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
  38. GreenFILE 
    A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
  39. Historical Census Browser
    Historical Census Records from 1790-1960.
  40. Historical New York Times
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
  41. Historical Newspapers 
    Contains the following: Palmer's Index to the Times which covers the period from 1790 to 1905 in The Times
    The Official Index to the Times which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980
    The Historical Index to the New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922 and Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870, providing access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to the Time.
  42. The History Cooperative History Journals Online
    Electronic versions of recent issues of American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William & Mary Quarterly, Law and History Review, The History Teacher, and Western Historical Review.
  43. The Horizon
    Indiana University Southeast's weekly student newspaper.
  44. Horn Book Guide
    Published each spring and fall by the Horn Book, Inc., the authoritative Horn Book Guide publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people. Gathered here are more than 57,900 reviews published between 1989 and 2004.
  45. Image Collection (EBSCOhost)
    Includes over 460,000 historical and contemporary photographs and images of people, places, nature, maps, and flags, with an emphasis on world news and events. 
  46. Indiana Magazine of History 
    A free searchable database including every issue of this magazine from 1905 through 2006.
  47. Indiana School Directory
  48. International Index to Black Periodicals 
    Draws its content from international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies and contains full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
  49. IU Press Online (IUPO)
    Provides access to online journals and books published by IU Press, focusing on the areas of music, philosophy, Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, African studies, and African American and diaspora studies.
  50. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
    By and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences.
  51. JSTOR
    Searchable full-text backfiles of 117 scholarly journals in the fields of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
  52. Lexi-PAL Drug Guide
    Patient advisory information about generic medicines as well as natural products and vaccines.
  53. Merriam-Webster
    Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
  54. Military & Government Collection
    Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
  55. National Criminal Justice Reference Service abstracts database
    Contains summaries of the more than 190,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
  56. (Digital) National Security Archive
    Declassified primary documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions since 1945. There are 31 complete collections, each with a particular focus, including Afghanistan, the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. espionage, the Iran-Contra Affair, and the Persian Gulf War.
  57. National Teaching & Learning Forum
  58. New York Times (Historical)
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
  59. 19th Century British Library Newspapers Digital Archive
    Archive of newspapers published mostly in London; however, there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
  60. Nineteenth-Century Newspapers
    Provides access to hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
  61. PBS Teachers: Resources for the Classroom
    Serves as a clearinghouse directing users to PBS programs, cooperative activities with other providers, a newsletter, and links to book and Web site recommendations.
  62. Periodicals Archive Online
    Backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
  63. Periodicals Index Online
    An index to tables of contents of periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
  64. Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950
    Contains primary source materials covering the difficulties faced by European peoples after World War II, with a particular focus on the administration, care, repatriation and emigration of refugees.
  65. Primary Search
    Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
  66. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Journal of the National Academy of the Sciences, covering research in the biological, physical, and social sciences.
  67. Professional Development Collection
    Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
  68. Projections of Education Statistics
  69. PsycARTICLES
    PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present.
  70. PsycINFO
    PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as 1840. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 24 languages. More than 65,000 records are added each year.
  71. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 
    Provides  research material relating to America from Its discovery to 1926.
  72. 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Digital Archive
    Archive of newspapers published mostly in London; however, there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
  73. Social Services Abstracts
    Contains citations and abstracts of research conducted in social work and related areas.
  74. Social Theory
    Brings together writings that represent trends of sociological thought by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
  75. SocINDEXwith Full Text
    Sociology research database, full text for 253 "core" journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" journals. Includes full text for 547 books and conference papers.
  76. Sociological Abstracts
    Includes indexing, summaries and selected full-text of the major publications in sociology.
  77. South African Periodicals on Freedom Struggles  
    Provides access to free online scholarly resources focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period  from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.
  78. Testing & Education Reference Center 
    Provides preparatory guides and practice tests for college and graduate exams (ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, SAT) as well as required career entry tests (ASVAB, NCLEX, PRAXIS, TESOL, etc.).  Users must create their own username and password for access to the guides and practice tests.
  79. Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
    Track the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th century More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available, and-for the first time-the identities of anonymous contributors are disclosed.
  80. Times (London) Digital Archive
    Digital edition of The Times (London), with keyword searching to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Covers 1785 - 1985  with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
  81. TOPICsearch
    This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
  82. Wiley Journals Full-Text
    Provides full-text coverage of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical and professional journals from the mid-90's to current.
  83. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
    Publications and documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements.
  84. World News Digest (Facts on File) 
    Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly.

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