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Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1955 to present. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes and abstracts over 2,000 history journals. Covers world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Note: This resource is limited to 6 simultaneous users. If access is unavailable, please try again later. |
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JSTOR
Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001.
Access to the full text of over 490 scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001. |
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Project Muse
Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated: monthly.
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. |
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
 Resource Guide
1976 - present
The CGP is the finding tool for publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Contains more than 500,000 descriptive records for publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. For Murphy Library government document holdings, consult the Library Catalog first. |
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CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online (Columbia University Press)
Coverage: 1991 to present. Updated: weekly.
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text of journal articles, working papers, and conference papers in topics such as: international affairs, economics, environment, and politics. Also includes case studies, course packs, and a schedule of events with calls for papers. |
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ClasePeriódica (FirstSearch)
Coverage: Clase - 1975 to present; Periódica - 1978 to present. Updated: every three months.
ClasePeriodica is two specialty resources in one: Clase indexes articles from Latin American journals focusing on humanities and social sciences, while Periódica indexes articles from science and technology journals. As one database, ClasePeriódica includes over 300,000 citations from 2,600 scholarly journals that are edited in 24 different Latin American and Caribbean countries. Resources are from periodicals that are published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English languages. |
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eHRAF Archaeology (HRAF)
Coverage: Over 41 major traditions. Updated: annually.
Over 50,000 pages in over 690 full-text documents, indexed by subject to facilitate comparative archaeological studies within and across regions. Each tradition file consists of a general summary and full-text sources including books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts. |
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eHRAF World Cultures (HRAF)
Updated: annually.
A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is the online portion, covering approximately 150 cultures. Together with the corresponding microfiche set (Murphy Library basement), over 400 cultures are covered. |
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History Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Varies by resource; view title list
The database includes full text for over 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Also included is full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals and more than 112,000 historical documents, over 119,000 biographies, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
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Web of Science (Thomson)
Coverage: 1987 to present. Updated: weekly.
Access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index,, Science Citation Index Expanded,, and Social Sciences Citation Index, which collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover. |
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: Daily.
Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600 titles covering subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
Over 5,600 full text sources.
News: 350 newspapers, 400 magazines/journals, 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts, campus news, wire services.
Business: news, accounting literature, company information, directories.
Legal Research: secondary literature, case law, codes & regulations, tax law, international legal materials, patent research, career information.
- Guides: Finding a Case, Tax Research |
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Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1991 to present. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on internationally significant subjects. |
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Alternative Press Index. Archive (FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1969 to 1990. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on internationally significant subjects. |
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NewspaperARCHIVE (Heritage Microfilm)
Coverage: 1759 to present, varies by title. Updated: Approximately 2 million pages will be added to each month.
A digital collection of historic newspapers from more than 2,500 titles primarily in the US, but some Canadian and European titles too. Includes select coverage from sources like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The London Times, The Atlanta Constitution, Indianapolis Star, Newport Daily News, and The Bridgeport Post. |
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The Historical New York Times (ProQuest)
Sept 18, 1851 to December 31, 2006
Online, full-image, and searchable content of The New York Times from September 18, 1851 to December 31, 2006. Includes articles, advertisements, and political cartoons. Search options include keyword, article type, by date, author, or browse by issue. |
Periodicals | |
History Periodicals
A title list of the library's individual periodical subscriptions in History. Many more History related periodicals are available through the library's article databases. |
Find Books E-Reference Books | |
Early English Books Online (ProQuest)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1475 A.D. to 1700. Updated: quarterly.
Early English Books online (EEBO) offers critical material needed for in-depth research. With more than 20 million pages and 125,000 rare volumes collected from over 150 of the world’s top libraries, EEBO provides online access to full-page images for 227 years of printed works ranging from 1473 to 1700. The texts cover subjects from art to religion, science to literature, and music to medicine. Search and retrieve the centuries-old books, pamphlets, and periodicals that helped shape and record cultural developments around the world. |
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Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change (Sage)
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The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change Presents articles from leading scholars and institutional experts on the science and history of climate change, the polarizing controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change. Last Updated: 2008. |
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Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict (Elsevier)
This e-encyclopedia includes 225 articles on antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts. Topics include arms control, conflict resolution, peace movements, child abuse, social justice, terrorism, political assassinations, and more. |
Featured Reference Books @ Murphy Library
Find Primary Sources Catalog | |
OAIster (University of Michigan)
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources which means you can search for primary sources such as images, advertisements, movies, audio files, and manuscripts from multiple sources (e.g. Library of Congress American Memory project). |
Letters & Diaries | |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Coverage: 1701 - 1800. Updated: materials are continuously uploaded.
This resource contains digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century covering all topics. Materials include: English-language titles such books, Bibles, tract books, sermons, and printed ephemera. |
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British & Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: 1500 - 1900 (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1500 to 1900.
Spanning more than 300 years, this collection will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and not so famous. More than 500 biographies enhance the use of the database. |
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, & the Environment (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1534 to 1850
Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. |
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In the First Person (Alexander Street Press)
This free database is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories for more than 300,000 people. The index covers both free and commercial subscription sites and contains information about 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letters, and 17,000 oral history entries. |
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1800s to 1950
This database includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information intended to provide a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. It is composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, and some audio voices of the immigrants. |
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1700s to 1950.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. |
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The Gilded Age (Alexander Street Press)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1865 to 1902
The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together covering American history from 1865 to 1902. In addition to an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, The Gilded Age offers a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. This primary content is enhanced by video interviews with scholars and numerous topical critical documentary essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press. Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 to 2000 (Alexander Street Press)
Coverage: 1600 to 2000.
This database includes books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. Resources added in 2008 include more than 72,000 pages from State Commissions on the Status of Women, as well as the first three volumes of Harvard University Press' Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. |
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Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family (Alexander Street Press)
The collection brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. The collection contains 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. |
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