Library Databases

Digital collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877 created from serials holdings belonging to one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society.

Series 1 presents over 500 titles from 1684 through 1820, representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic. The subject matter covered in Series 1 is broad in scope and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.

Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The subject matter covered in Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.

Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. The themes presented in Series 3 reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities. Subjects covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.

Series 4 presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, there is also a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront can be found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in previous collections that include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.

Series 5 presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1912. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances: a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives; the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary database, featuring more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Information coverage spans a broad range of important areas of academic study such as anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, zoology, and many other fields.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Delivers more than 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage.

Users can find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.

Service Provider: Alexander Street Press / ProQuest

Contains current editions of references on a variety of engineering subjects as well as Schaum’s Outlines on those subjects. It also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty-made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work.

Service Provider: McGraw Hill Education

Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery, and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.

Service Provider: Association for Computing Machinery

Access the full-text of all titles published by the American Chemical Society:

• Over 75 peer-reviewed journals, including 12 “gold” completely open access journals, stretching across a broad spectrum of disciplines in all fields of chemistry and sciences that involve chemistry.
• Chemical and Engineering News weekly online magazine, with articles covering science and technology, business and industry, government and policy, education, and employment aspects of the chemistry field
• ACS eBooks, consisting of the ACS Symposium Series (a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia), and the Advances in Chemistry Series (predecessor to the ACS Symposium Series, in publication from 1949 to 1998)
• ACS Reagent Chemicals: specifications and procedures for reagents and standard-grade reference materials

Service Provider: American Chemical Society

Digital resource exclusively devoted to African American family history research. Created in partnership with leading African American genealogists and recognized leaders in genealogical information, this collection contains a mix of resources, records, and tools specifically pertaining to African Americans.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Collection of approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.

Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment and more.

Service Provider: Readex (NewsBank)

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.

The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types of works, such as books chapters and government documents are included.

AgEcon Search is co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Economics and the University Libraries at University of Minnesota and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Service Provider: University of Minnesota

Provides access to millions of citations from the U.S. Department o Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. Citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports to support agricultural research.

Disciplines covered include animal and veterinary sciences, food and human nutrition, agricultural economics, engineering and technology, forestry and plant sciences, earth and environmental sciences, farming and farming systems, and more.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

This database covers environmental science topics from disciplines such as atmospheric science, biology, biotechnology, ecology, engineering, and microbiology. It also covers agricultural research including agricultural economics, animal and veterinary sciences, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, food and human nutrition, forestry, and plant sciences.

It includes the AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

Service Provider: ProQuest

A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Key Features of AHFS

• Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers
• Available in a Spanish version translated by experienced human health and medical translators
• Updated monthly
• Conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keystone Guidelines for the provision of “useful” prescription medicine information to consumers and the FDA’s Guidance for Useful Written Consumer Medication Information
• Includes “How To” monographs for administering different types of medications such as eye drops and inhalers
• Identifies medications that have the potential for adverse events when used by elderly patients as recommended by a panel of nationally recognized experts (Beers Criteria). These criteria identify medications that should generally be avoided or that should be used with caution in older adults (65 years of age or older)

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from 63 English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

Index contains citations from 1987 to present, and is updated continuously.

Service Provider: Air University Fairchild Research Information Center

Full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Access literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with full-text coverage for nearly 290 journals and more than 80 books, and selective indexing for journals dating back nearly 60 years.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

This digital record of American history and creativity provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Current Collections:

• African American Odyssey
• The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
• Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division’s First 100 Years

Service Provider: U.S. Library of Congress

This tool provides patrons with instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 2 billion names in over 7,000 databases, Ancestry® Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world. These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.

The following categories reflect how the collections within Ancestry® Library Edition are organized.

• Historical Records
  • Birth, Marriage, and Death records
  • Census and Voter Lists
  • Immigration and Emigration records
  • Military records
  • Schools, Directories and Church Histories
  • Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills
  • Reference, Dictionaries & Almanacs
• Stories & Publications
  • Stories, Memories, and Histories
  • Newspapers
  • Periodicals & Magazines
• Photos & Maps
  • Pictures
  • Maps, Atlases, & Gazetteers

Service Provider: ProQuest

Archives selected scholarly, cultural, and administrative output from the University, and is the home for ASU theses and research projects. We invite faculty, students, and staff to use this service for their articles, datasets, presentations, department newsletters and magazines, multimedia scholarship, and more. Contact the digital repository librarian for more information

Service Provider: Texas Digital Library

Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains 200,000 full-text articles from more than 100 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Provides full-text access to 68,000 chapters from over 4,600 scholarly and professional books, including APA-published titles, such as the entire APA Handbooks in Psychology series and the APA-Oxford University Press co-published Encyclopedia of Psychology, as well as exclusive access to out-of-print classic and historical works. Coverage: 1806 - current; updated regularly.

Covers the full spectrum of behavioral and social sciences, including:

• Behavior Disorders
• Cognitive Processes
• Developmental Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Experimental and Comparative Psychology
• History and Systems
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
• Neuroscience
• Personality Psychology
• Philosophy
• Psychotherapy and Counseling
• Religion
• Social Processes and Social Issues

Service Provider: ProQuest

The American Psychological Association’s resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Contains nearly 4 million citations and summaries, with coverage dating back to the 17^th and 18^th centuries, and extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present.

Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

A rare view of what rush hour in London looked like in 1897. The dramatic and suspenseful newsreel announcing the crash of the Hindenburg zeppelin. President Ronald Reagan’s challenging speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Throughout modern history, cameras have recorded public events, wars, cultural phenomena, and government programs. This collection is a treasure trove of archival and historical films from various sources such as:

• The Prelinger Archives – a collection of films relating to U.S. cultural and social history and the evolution of everyday life in America.
• The WPA Film Library – more than 2,800 clips and newsreels from the late 1800s onward.
• The United Newsreel collection – the series of newsreels produced by the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II.
• The Universal Newsreel collection – a series of seven- to 10-minute newsreels produced by Universal Studios that were released twice per week between 1929 and 1967.
• Recordings from the National Archives and Records Administration of historic speeches and events.

Service Provider: Infobase

Provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories and other archival materials held in archives throughout the world. It includes over a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide and enables researchers to learn about the contents of these collections, and contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials or order copies.

Service Provider: OCLC

Index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals.

Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. For most items, a list of libraries that have the journal title is provided.

Subjects covered include business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture.

Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)

Most extensive resource for civil engineering research and application-oriented content. Topics covered include Coastal & Ocean Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Geo-technical, Energy, Computing in Civil Engineering, Materials, Management, Transportation, and Water Resources.

Service Provider: American Society of Civil Engineers

This collection provides in-depth coverage of emerging break-through technologies and practices presented at key conference around the world of technologies across all disciplines of civil engineering.

Service Provider: American Society of Civil Engineers

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Vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information, including the ASTM journals and symposia papers (also known as Standard Technical Publications). Offers full text access to American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) standards, technical papers, and books. Search by keyword or standard number.

Service Provider: American Society for Testing Materials

Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 10.1 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.

Full-text articles and abstracts of papers available from the ADS databases are copyrighted by the respective publishers and are subject to all applicable copyright protection under the laws of the United States and other countries.

Service Provider: Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics