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America: History and Life     1964-current A bibliographic database indexing scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, as well as book and media reviews. 6 Simultaneous Users.

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1     1760-1900 American Broadsides is a searchable full text database of 30,000 posters, proclamations, menus, advertisements, invitations, fliers, stock certificates, clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, and theater and music programs that document political and cultural events, both private and civic from 1760-1900. Some of the documents are available in color. This database was created from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.

ARTstor ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index)     1988-current Contains full-text or abstracts from more than 400 Canadian and international publications, and the full-text of selected sections of The Globe and Mail newspaper. Also available in print, Reference AI3.C243. 2 Simultaneous Users.

Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.

Essay and General Literature Index     1900-current Indexes essays and articles that have been published in collections as books. Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AI 3 .E752 Check Catalog

HeinOnline HeinOnline is a legal research collection that features full-text searching of the complete historical run of scholarly legal and criminal justice periodicals. Other sources covered in full-text include published and unpublished treaties; The Federal Register (1936-present), U.S. Supreme Court Reports, and U.S. Attorney General Opinions. The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations CFR)is available full-text from inception in 1938 through the 1983 edition. Site License.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)     1970-current Indexes US-Hispanic and Latin American topics from more than 100 scholarly journals worldwide.

Historical Abstracts     1954-current Historical Abstracts Includes abstracts and citations of books, journal articles, books, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Political, diplomatic, economic, religious, social, cultural, and intellectual history, as well as the history of science, technology, and medicine are represented. 6 Simultaneous Users. Check Catalog

History Cooperative     1999- The History Cooperative provides full text multimedia coverage of selected scholarly American history journals and the Booker T. Washington Papers. The History Cooperative is a joint creation of the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press.

International Index to Black Periodicals     1900- IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Most IIBP Full Text records in the current coverage contain an abstract, and additionally many IIBP Full Text records contain the corresponding full text of the original article. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

JSTOR JSTOR provides searchable full-text access to backfiles of core scholarly journals in many fields including African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. There is a gap, usually from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. Site License.

New York Times Index     1851-current A subject and author index to the New York Times Newspaper. Location: Wilson 2 West; Microform Index AI21 .N48

New York Times Index Online     1851- From the New York Times Homepage the archives of the newspaper is searchable from a box in the upper left hand corner of the screen. The pull down menu divides the search from 1980 to the current and 1851-1980. One you begin a search, an advanced search menu is offered which allows you to search by author, in headlines, and by specific date or date range.

Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature     1890-1899 Location: Haggard 2 -Reference A 13 .N714 1944 Check Catalog

Readers' Guide Retrospective     1890-1982 Readers' Guide Retrospective, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Coverage is currently 1890-1982. 2 Simultaneous Users.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature     1900-current Indexes articles from the most popular general-interest magazines. Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AI 3 .R4 Check Catalog

Science Accelerator (U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific & Technical Information) The Science Accelerator empowers you to search, via a single query, important information resources of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) scientific and technical information. These resources contain the results of DOE research and development (R&D) projects and programs, descriptions of R&D projects under way or recently completed, major R&D accomplishments, and recent research of interest to DOE.

Times London Index     1785-1835; 1906-current An index to the Times (London) newspaper. Location: Wilson 2 West; Microform Index AI21 .T35

Westlaw Campus Research     1789- West Law Campus Research provides the fulltext to West's legal reporters that include all federal and state case law (Courts of Appeals and higher), statutes and regulations for all 50 states, Code of Federal Regulations, The Federal Register, administrative rulings, and legal coverage of the European Union. Included are over 700 law revews and journals, American Jurisprudence 2nd, and American Law Reports. The business collection includes Hoover's Company Records, SEC reports, and trade journals. Includes news and information databases, newspapers, newsletters, trade journals, newswires, and broadcast transcripts.

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Medieval Sourcesonline Medieval Sourcesonline contains hundreds of original medieval history documents.

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Homeland Security Digital Library        NOTE: This resource is available only on the Western Campus. A collection of more than 50,000 full-text publications related to homeland security; it is available because WWU is a federal depository library. Most of these publications are government documents and topics include terrorism, border issues, climate change, immigration, pandemics, school violence, food security, etc. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) NTIS has the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available in the United States. A subset of about 200,000 of these publications (pre-2000) are available full-text because WWU is a federal depository. Contact the Government Documents librarian for access to the full-text material.