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| American History in Video |
Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling approximately 420 hours.
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| Communication
& Mass Media Complete |
Communication
& Mass Media Complete helps you find articles from magazines
and scholarly (peer reviewed) journals. Start or continue your
research here if you are interested in advertising, communication,
languages, motion pictures, public speaking, and rhetoric.
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| CQ
Researcher |
Social
issues and analysis since 1983.
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| Daily Life America (ABC-CLIO) |
A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps. A key resource supporting courses in American history and literature at the high school and college level—but with a fresh approach. A dazzling web experience for anyone with a hankering to explore the back roads and byways of the American experience
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| Daily Life through History Premium (ABC-CLIO) |
Combining three rich databases to provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, Daily Life Online moves seamlessly from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture. There's more to history and contemporary events than just the names of rulers and the rise of economic systems; Daily Life Online shows how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours.
Allows searching Daily Life through History, Daily Life in America, and World Folklore and Folklife from a single access point.
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| Diversity
Studies Collection (Gale) |
This
collection explores cultural differences, contributions and
influences in our global community. This set includes 150 full-text
journals. Coverage begins in 1980.
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| Environment Complete (EBSCOhost) |
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs.
The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.
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| Gale
Virtual Reference Library |
Chapters
from encyclopedias on marriage, population, sociology, etc.
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| Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Collection (Gale) |
This
collection of over 30 largely full-text journals aims to provide
balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture,
covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues,
health aspects, and many more. Coverage begins in 1980.
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| Issues & Controversies |
Outlines,
chronologies, tables, and pros and cons on numerous topics.
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| JSTOR |
Archived
scholarly journals in philosophy, religion & sociology
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| Project
Muse® |
The
Project MUSE® complete collection offers a comprehensive
selection of prestigious humanities, arts, and social sciences
journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum at any academic
institution. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed,
with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars
in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text
versions of titles from many of the world's leading university
presses and scholarly societies.
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Pop
Culture Collection (Gale) |
This
collection provides useful information for any researcher in
a social science, history, art, or liberal arts course. The
collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate periodicals,
which are predominantly full-text.
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| Psychology
Collection (Gale) |
This
set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death.
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the
study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops
-- and diminishes -- over time. You have instant access to 200
subject-appropriate full-text periodicals
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| Religion
and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost) |
Coverage
of world religions, biblical studies, moral philosophy, political
philosophy, and the history of these topics.
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| Religion
& Philosophy Collection (Gale) |
Users
of this collection can research different religions and philosophies
and how they impact our daily lives. The collection is comprised
of 250 periodicals, many of which are full-text. Coverage begins
in 1980
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| Research
Starters- Sociology (EBSCOhost) |
Answering the question,
"Where do I start?" - a series of new databases designed to
provide researchers and students with a starting point for
their research and assignments. Research Starters
are topic overviews, relevant to key areas of academic study,
including links to key articles in associated EBSCOhost
databases.
Research Starters follow an easy to use format.
The topics correlate directly to courses taught at colleges
and universities and provide students with authoritative,
discipline-specific articles offering comprehensive overviews
of important academic subject areas and topics. The databases
aim to provide a gateway to resources needed for assignments,
including quick access to key, related articles from EBSCOhost
which have been handpicked by subject matter experts and scholars.
Each Research Starters database initially consists
of 500 topics with approximately 25–50 new topics added
each year. Each database includes a collection of summary
articles written by subject-matter experts exclusively for
EBSCOhost—approximately 3,000 words each. Articles
are available in both HTML and PDF versions.
Summary articles include Abstracts, an Overview section,
and charts, graphs, and tables for visual reference. In addition,
articles contain Application of Concepts, Definitions of Terms
and Concepts, Extensive Bibliographies, Links to Articles
on EBSCOhost from the Bibliographies, a Suggested
Reading section, and Author Biographies.
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Resources
for College Libraries (RCL) |
The
online edition of the new Resources for College Libraries brought
to you by ACRL's Choice and Bowker. This 2006 edition is the
long-awaited successor to Books for College Libraries (BCL3).
The core list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific
subjects. Titles have been selected for your academic library
by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.
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| Smithsonian
Global Sound® for Libraries |
A
virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions
-providing educators, students, and interested listeners with
an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the
creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
The database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000
individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made
sounds.
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| World Folklore and Folklife (ABC-CLIO) |
What's the story behind your name? What games did you play as a child? What's your grandmother's secret recipe, the neighborhood's ghost story, or the joke that gets told at every family gathering?
Folklore permeates the everyday lives of people around the world. We inherit a rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society and our place within it. World Folklore and Folklife provides an exciting and accessible way to explore this vast and growing treasury of knowledge.
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| WilsonWeb:
Social Science Full Text (OmniFile) |
Social
science magazines and journals since 1994
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