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Online Resource Name
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Online Resource
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The African American Experience
(ABC-CLIO)
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The African American Experience (AAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.
Wide-ranging and easy-to-use, AAE is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. Its two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 400 volumes, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians of color, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.
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American History in Video
(Alexander Street)
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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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The American Indian Experience
(ABC-CLIO)
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The American Indian Experience (AIE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States.
Designed, developed, and indexed under the guidance of Loriene Roy, the first Native American President of the American Library Association, and a team of American Indian librarians and scholars to meet the needs of teachers and their students, librarians and their patrons, researchers and the general public, The American Indian Experience offers access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, AIE is meant for anyone wishing to learn more about America's Native Peoples.
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Communication
& Mass Media Complete
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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
(CQ Press) |
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
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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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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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Issues & Controversies
(Facts on File) |
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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The Latino American Experience
(ABC-CLIO) |
The Latino American Experience (LAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos.
Wide-ranging and easy to use, LAE is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.
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ProQuest Research Library:
Social Sciences
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Supplemental subject-specific module of ProQuest Research Library providing full-text access to core periodicals in the Social Sciences.
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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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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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| Sage Open |
SAGE Open is a new open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. |
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
(EBSCOhost) |
Social
science magazines and journals since 1994.
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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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