Databases

Gale in Context: Biography
Full text. Biographical information on thousands of people from all historical periods and around the world. Also includes articles from several hundred magazines plus thousands of images.

Oxford American National Biography Online
Full text. Biographical information on thousands of deceased Americans including illustrations, cross-references, and links to selected web sites.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
“Biographies of 59,221 men and women who shaped British history and culture and died in or before the year 2010—plus 513 ‘Theme’ articles for …research.”

NOTE: Biographical information may also be found in general databases and appropriate subject databases (e.g. art databases may include biographical information about artists).

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.

CountryWatch
Full text. Provides information on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural, environmental, news, energy, and more.

Gale in Context: Business
“Search nearly 4,000 leading business & trade publications including content from Predicasts Overview of Markets & Technology (PROMT), as well as international company profiles and all business and management topics.”

Historical Statistics of the United States
Standard source for quantitative facts on American history. Includes information on population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations.

Statista
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal includes not only stock market information, but commentary on all aspects of global business, economics, consumer affairs, current trends and issues.

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets.

Gale Literature Resource Center
“Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements….Content cover[s] all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.”

JSTOR
The JSTOR digital archive includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. An archive of core scholarly journals back to the 1800s. Due to agreements with journal publishers, JSTOR does not include current issues from the last 3-5 years.

New York Review of Books
Provides book reviews and long form essays on literature, politics, and the arts.

Oxford English Dictionary
The “accepted authority on the evolution of the English language.”

Project MUSE
Provides access to scholarly journals and open access books in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Fields covered include cultural studies, economics, education, gender studies, history, political science, literature and literary criticism, visual and performing arts, and many others.

Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart (on campus use only)
The Interactive Media Bias Chart is a data visualization displaying both bias and reliability ratings for news and “news-like” content. It’s a unique way of laying out the complex media landscape in two dimensions: news value and reliability, on the vertical axis, and bias, on the horizontal axis.

Britannica Academic
This thorough encyclopedic database also includes 300,000 links to websites selected by the editors.

Classroom Video on Demand
“A comprehensive streaming video subscription service, featuring unlimited access to more than 5,000 educational programs that can be viewed in class, at the library, or from home. Each full-length video has been segmented into predefined clips, making it easy to find specific pieces of content quickly.”

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.

EBSCO Academic Search Complete
Full text for many publications. A general academic database that indexes over 8,000 leading publications in all subject areas with full text for over 4,000 of those titles. Over 3,500 titles are peer-reviewed or scholarly publications.

Gale Academic OneFile
Full text for many publications. A general academic database that indexes leading journals and reference sources. Includes peer-reviewed articles in all disciplines in addition to full text of the New York Times, 1995-present.

Gale General OneFile
Full text for many publications. 1980-present. Includes newswires, general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business and technology publications, plus specialty titles in law, health care, and computers. Full indexing of 5 major newspapers.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Offers a range of perspectives on important issues to help critical-thinking skills using reference, periodical, news, primary and multimedia sources

JSTOR
Full text. An archive of core scholarly journals back to the 1800’s.
Due to agreements with journal publishers, the latest 3-5 years of current issues generally aren’t included.

Kanopy (on demand streaming videos)
“On-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides access to more than 26,000 films….”

New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books has served as a forum for writers and thinkers to discuss not only current books but also the provocative and complex issues of American culture, society, economics, politics, and the arts.

Oxford English Dictionary
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. Includes meaning, usage, and pronunciation information.

Project MUSE
Online database with more than 550 peer-reviewed academic journals and 20,000 electronic books, serving 200 university presses and scholarly societies worldwide. Project MUSE provides access to digital humanities and social science content.

Sage CQ Researcher
Online version of a weekly periodical that provides in-depth coverage of political and social issues. Each issue includes a chronology, a pro and con section, and a bibliography.

Statista
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Provides access to the journal Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1996 to the present. Also includes Science Express, an electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print and ScienceNOW, daily science news from Science journalists.

ABC-CLIO Health and Wellness
Enables students to better understand the health and wellness issues affecting them, their peers, and our greater society through a multitude of authoritative reference entries and perspective essays.

Gale Health and Wellness
Full text. “Delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.”

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Full text for many sources. 1980-present. Includes journals in medicine, health, and nursing and allied health plus consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books.

Science Direct
Authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications.

ABC-CLIO Daily Life Through History
Detailed explorations of 64 distinct cultures, such as the Inca Civilization, the Han Dynasty, Medieval Europe, and Contemporary America. Reference content; primary sources; images.

ABC-CLIO Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society
Resource for current issues in modern society with authoritative historical context; balanced, expert perspectives; and carefully selected primary and secondary sources.

Britannica Original Sources

Provides original sources and personal accounts of humankind’s social, political, legal and religious development, as well as some of the greatest discoveries, insights and literary achievements in the words of the actual authors, discoverers and knowledge-seekers.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Offers a range of perspectives on important issues to help critical-thinking skills using reference, periodical, news, primary and multimedia sources.

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference spans 25 different subject areas bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

Statista
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

ABC-CLIO American Government
Topics: Politics, Law, and Government/General. Primary and secondary sources. Thesis-driven, peer-reviewed essays. Biographies.

ABC-CLIO American History
Primary and secondary sources, including overview essays; biographies; government, court, and cultural documents; photos; maps; audio/video clips; statistics.

Britannica: Annals of American History
Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, images, and more. Covers American history from 1493 to the present.

Churchill Archive
800,000 documents amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life.

EBSCO Life Magazine Archive
Extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning from its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

EBSCO Time Magazine Archive
Extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

Gale Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History brings hand-curated material from the experts at the Smithsonian directly to classrooms and students, allowing teachers to incorporate required primary source content into U.S. History classes. Choose from 15 eras and over 1,800 seminal primary sources including documents, maps, historical objects, and other materials from the museums, archives, and collections of the Smithsonian and Gale’s leading digital collections.

Gale Sources in US History Online: American Revolution
This digital archive documents the revolution and war that created the United States of America, from the earliest protests in 1765 through the peace treaty of 1783.

Gale Sources in US History Online: Civil War
Consists of approximately 450 primary source documents selected for their relevancy to the study of the Civil War. The collection is an introductory overview of the entire topic: military history, diplomatic history, cultural history, legal history, and area specialties.

Gale Sources in US History Online: Slavery in America
This study of the institution of slavery runs from the 17th century through the end of the 19th century. Personal narratives, pamphlets, addresses, monographs, sermons, political speeches and periodicals document key aspects of the institution of slavery.

Gale in Context: U.S. History
Primary and secondary historical sources. Find comprehensive coverage of the most-studied topics, from the arrival of Vikings in North America 1,000 years ago to Vietnam, Watergate and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Source for quantitative facts on American history. Includes data about population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, education, and international relations.

Newsbank America’s Historical Newspapers
Historic newspapers from more than 20 states. Use the “Browse” tab to review timeline issues and events. Use the “Search” tab to access Advanced Search features.

Oxford African American Studies Center
Articles from top scholars in the field, plus images, primary sources, maps, charts, and tables.

ProQuest eLibrary
Contains primary sources from the 20th century and reference source content organized into topics pertaining to American history, culture, and daily life.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers
Provides access to nine historic Black newspapers, published between 1893-2003, including The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, and Pittsburgh Courier.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Searchable full-text and page images of all ProQuest Historical Newspaper databases, which include titles related to New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., the American Jewish Newspaper Series, and the United Kingdom.

The New York Times Digital with “TimesMachine” Archive
Access to today’s digital edition, as well as 150 years of archival editions as they originally appeared.

ABC-CLIO Modern Genocide
Organized by distinct historical genocides and spanning the Herero Genocide at the start of the 20th century to ongoing conflicts such as that of Darfur, this database includes reference articles, firsthand accounts, and original photographs.

ABC-CLIO World History: The Ancient and Medieval Eras
Survey of early human history around the world, from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. Reference content is organized by both place and time.

ABC-CLIO World History: The Modern Era
Chronicles influential world events and developments since the 16th century to support research and analysis of global trends, causal relationships, and current conflicts.

ABC-CLIO World Religions: Beliefs, Culture, and Controversy
Primary and secondary sources elucidate matters of belief, practice, celebrations, and holidays; important individuals and events; significant and sacred places, with treatment given to such ancient faiths as Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam and new religious movements as well. Reference sources and journal articles.

ABC-CLIO World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society
Overviews of roughly 50 wars. Database includes timelines, causes and consequences, portraits of opponents, and links to supporting facts, figures, primary sources, and audiovisual content

Gale in Context: World History
Covers nearly 5,000 years to chronicle the rise and fall of cultures and societies across all continents and eras. Rare primary sources combine with reliable references to put content into context

Gale Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Debates over Slavery and Abolition. Includes collections from the United States and Europe on the worldwide movement for the abolition of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century

Loeb Classic Library
The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

JSTOR
The JSTOR digital archive includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. An archive of core scholarly journals back to the 1800s. Due to agreements with journal publishers, JSTOR does not include current issues from the last 3-5 years.

Loeb Classic Library
The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

Oxford Foreign Language Dictionaries
Oxford Foreign Language Dictionaries offers nine major world languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and Portuguese. Our reliable language reference resources provide expert recommendations on grammar, spelling, usage and style; essential guides to the written word; and specialist dictionaries for writers, editors, proofreaders, and other professionals.

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference spans 25 different subject areas bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the world’s largest online resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies. Content includes journal articles, policy briefs, working papers, data, and special reports.

CountryWatch
Full text. Provides information on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural, environmental, news, energy, and more.

JSTOR
The JSTOR digital archive includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. An archive of core scholarly journals back to the 1800s. Due to agreements with journal publishers, JSTOR does not include current issues from the last 3-5 years.

Project MUSE
Provides access to scholarly journals and open access books in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Fields covered include cultural studies, economics, education, gender studies, history, political science, literature and literary criticism, visual and performing arts, and many others.

Oxford Music Online
Full text of the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart – Interactive (on campus use only)The Interactive Media Bias Chart is a data visualization displaying both bias and reliability ratings for news and “news-like” content. It’s a unique way of laying out the complex media landscape in two dimensions: news value and reliability, on the vertical axis, and bias, on the horizontal axis.

Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart – Static  (on campus use only)

Boston Globe
Full text. 1980-current.

EBSCO Life Magazine Archive (1936 – 2000)
“Extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning from its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.”

GaleOneFile: News
This full-text newspaper resource provides access to more than 2,300 major United States regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.

Gale Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.

The Greenfield Recorder
Greenfield Recorder Online Newspaper
Full-text. “Serving the people of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region.”

Newsbank America’s Historical Newspapers (1690-2000)
Historic newspapers from more than 20 states. Use the “Browse” tab to review timeline issues and events. Use the “Search” tab to access Advanced Search features.

Newsbank America’s News – Historical and Current
America’s News provides access to information on people, issues and events in the local area and around the country. This comprehensive resource offers hundreds of millions of current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database.

Newsbank Massachusetts Newspapers
Full-text access to the following newspapers:

• The Advocate (2/10/2010 – 1/13/2014)
• Amherst Bulletin (1/7/1994 -)
• The Berkshire Eagle (12/31/2003 – )
• Daily Hampshire Gazette (1/3/1994 – )
• North Adams Transcript (11/25/2003 – 1/18/2014)
• The Recorder (3/5/1997 – )
• The Republican (6/13/1988 – )
• Springfield Advocate (9/26/1996 – 4/12/1998)
• Springfield Examiner (1/14/2011 – )
• Valley Advocate (9/26/1996 – )

The New York Times (access to today’s digital edition and individual articles 1851-1922 and 1981-today)
Full text.

ProQuest Historical Newspaper Databases (1740 – present)
Full text. Search all of the newspapers plus the American Periodicals Series simultaneously through the database link above or search each newspaper individually.

• The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984)
• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
• The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
• Boston Globe (1980-current)
• The Boston Globe (1872-1984)
• Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
• The Christian Science Monitor (1908-2002)
• Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
• Hartford Courant (1764-1990)
• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
• Los Angeles Times (1881-1992)
• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
• The New York Times (1851-2012)
• Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)
• Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
• Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
• The Wall Street Journal (1889-1998)
• The Washington Post (1877-1999)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers (1893-2003)
Full text. Includes access to the Chicago Defender, Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.

Sage CountryWatch
Provides thorough data on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world. CountryWire section provides news.

Time Magazine Archive
1923 – 2000. “Extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.”

ABC-CLIO World Religions: Beliefs, Culture, and Controversy
Primary and secondary sources elucidate matters of belief, practice, celebrations, and holidays; important individuals and events; significant and sacred places, with treatment given to such ancient faiths as Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and new religious movements as well. Reference sources and journal articles.

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference spans 25 different subject areas bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s dictionaries, companions and encyclopedias.

AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science/AAAS provides access to Science journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1996 to the present including full-text digital archives from 1880-1996.

Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
Targeted collection of over 700 journals and reference books covering environmental issues and policies from scientific, government and industry perspectives

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. News, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents, and statistics.

Gale in Context: Science
Comprehensive range of science journals, news, and reference materials.

Science Direct
Authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications.

Statista
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

ARTstor
Searchable database of more than 300,000 images from different times, cultures, and disciplines. Provides the ability zoom and pan. ARTstor terms of use.

Britannica ImageQuest
Provides access to nearly three million images from 59 leading collections.

Digital Theatre Plus
Unlimited access to over 900 full-length productions and educational resources.

Drama Online
Drama Online is an award-winning digital library for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. This database combines exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.

Oxford Art Online
Full text. Includes Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Also includes “image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and numerous international art galleries and artists.”