The most frequently-used databases
Offers 12,000+ scholarly journals and 6,000+ peer-reviewed titles. Covers a broad range of subjects including computer science, engineering, arts & literature, and medical sciences. Includes popular magazines.
A reference database with 100,000 fact-checked articles contributed by experts in various fields, including Nobel laureates, historians, and professors. It offers a balanced, global perspective for students.
Publishes 44 reports each year, covering current domestic and international issues such as health, education, and the environment. Its in-depth and fact-checked reports include opposing viewpoints on controversial issues, and four expanded reports are available.
Offers over 40,000 educational videos from various producers like A&E, PBS, and National Geographic, among others. The collection spans across humanities, social sciences, business, economics, science, mathematics, health and medicine, and more.
Includes core material in the humanities and social sciences, covering topics such as history, literature, art history, economics, psychology, sociology, and political science. Includes foundational content in fields like education, law, geography, and archaeology.
Provides literary analysis and biographical information on over 130,000 writers, including full-text literary criticism and reviews. Covers writers from all disciplines, time periods, and countries, useful for researchers in literature, history, arts, gender studies, and cultural studies.
Includes journals covering child and adolescent psychology and counseling; anthropology; psychiatry; mental processes; emotional and behavioral characteristics; and observational and experimental methods.
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to five respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal, covering the 1980s to the present.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Discover biographies of more than 19,000 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped American history and culture.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America contains citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia.
Biography Reference Source provides thousands of unique and reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today. In addition to keyword search, users can locate biographies by subject occupation, activity, nationality, gender, birthplace and more.
A dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.
Provides full-text searching for millions of research publications in the Internet Archive's various collections, including content identified by the Wayback Machine, digitized print material, uploads from users, and collections from partnerships.
Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, Points of View Reference Source provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
AI research assistant for OneSearch, in beta. It cannot retrieve books or e-books, but it can answer your prompts, supported by links to database articles.
WPR covers issues and regions that are often overlooked, making connections between discrete events and the larger global trends that are driving them.
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