Find the best library databases for your research.
The most frequently-used databases
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Contains abstracts and bibliographic citations for the contents of thousands of journals. Also includes references to dissertations, media, and books. Coverage: 1887 to present. Updated quarterly.
Education Resource Information Center, Find information about education, including journal articles, teaching guides, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
U.S. and international news sources. More than 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Updated daily.
Provides access to high-quality research from the world's leading arts, humanities, science and social science journals. Includes a Cited Reference search. Online coverage is 1993-present. Earlier print versions are in the library.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
U.S. government datasets on economics, healthcare, environment, and public policy. Ideal for political science research and accessing open data resources.
Since 2017, EarthArXiv publishes preprint articles (not yet peer reviewed/published) from all subdomains of Earth Science and related domains of planetary science. The EarthArXiv platform assigns each submission a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), making it citable in other scholarly works.
This unique manuscript collection offers digital access to the papers of the Southern Regional Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, primarily in the period 1945 to 1990. The collection has never been scanned or filmed before, and covers topics including school segregation; local challenges to busing; the suppression of voting rights; student anti-war protest; and legal cases relating to women, sexism, and overtime pay. The archive consists of memos, court documents, amicus briefs, publications, testimony, administrative files, personnel records, meeting minutes, and files related to the history of the Southern Regional Office.
Trial as potential for replacement of Mergent Online, which will sunset in Summer 2025.
Primary source exhibits of queer history and culture. Uses “queer” in its broadest and most inclusive sense to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and also include work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Each of the document collections include a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources.
Religions of America traces the history and unique character of religious movements that originated in or were re-shaped by the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection pays especially close attention to America's unique role as a birthplace for new religious movements, especially after World War II. This collection includes materials from a variety of sources in an effort to capture the varieties of the American religious experience.
Primary materials on world conflicts, terrorism and counterterrorism, cybersecurity and ethnic conflicts and resolutions.
Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s music and aural traditions. It contains over 3000 albums of folk, blues, jazz, spoken word and world music.
Primary documents and scholarly commentary about America between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Rooseveltt. Includes rare materials, songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. Essays covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage illuminate the cultural landscape of the time .
Diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, videos, alternative press newsletters, cartoons, political buttons, etc.