Databases

• Alternative press index
  Indexes the alternative press in North America, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. These publications cover cultural, economic, political & social change.
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• America, history and life
  Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Includes journals of state and local historical societies, the social sciences and humanities generally, and leading journals in related fields of knowledge.
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• American West
  American West provides electronic access to the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. This digital collection contains over 300 manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and rare printed works. Material in the collection ranges from 1722 to 1939, with the majority covering 1830 to 1839.
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• Anthropology plus
  Combines Anthropological literature from Harvard University with the Anthropological Index, from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the United Kingdom. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The …
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• AnthroSource
  AnthroSource offers access to over 29 journals and articles from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, newsletters, bulletins, and monographs. AnthroSource has centralized access to a wealth of other key anthropological resources, including text, sound, and video; and interactive services to foster communities of interest and practice throughout the discipline.
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• ATLA religion database with ATLA serials
  Indexes religious studies periodicals, essays in multi-author works, reviews in religion, research in ministry, and includes the Methodist Reviews Index.
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• Early encounters in North America : peoples, cultures, and the environment
  The Early Encounters database documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. It makes available a collection of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters that document the first impressions of North America by Europeans and of Europeans by native people. The collection includes primary materials, images, environmental studies and maps that researchers and students …
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• eHRAF world cultures
  The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, seeks to encourage and facilitate comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
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• Encyclopedia of American studies
  The Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to the history and culture of the United States by focusing on problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplines. It features broad synthetic articles and bibliographies covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. As a comprehensive reference, …
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• Environment index
  Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature in the area of environmental policy and studies. The database covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, geography, marine & freshwater resources, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Formerly called: Environmental issues & policy index.
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• ERIC
  Provides indexing and abstracts to the education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering the published journal literature. Many of the documents, identified by the ED number, are available full text.
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• Ethnic newswatch
  Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. Searchable in English and Spanish.
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• Ethnic newswatch, a history
  Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America from 1959 to 1989.
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• GenderWatch
  Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970's. Incorporates the publication Women "R".
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• GEOBASE
  Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature, books, conference proceedings and reports on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.
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• Historical statistics of the United States
  Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition contains over 37,000 different time-series statistics providing a quantitative view into American history, Colonial Times to the present. Data series address many different topics of the United States, including Colonial, Revolutionary, and Confederate States aspects of American History. The Millennial Edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and …
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• History cooperative
  The History Cooperative web site provides access to approximately twenty scholarly history ejournals, as well as other historical resources. History Cooperative is sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and National Academies Press. Please note that the KU Libraries may not necessarily have access to all History Cooperative journals.
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• HLAS online : handbook of Latin American studies
  A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
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• JSTOR (To access PDF articles, your browser must allow pop-ups for this site)
  Provides image and full-text online access of core academic journals in a variety of disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The following collections are accessible: Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII; Life Sciences Collection; and Public Health Reports.
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• Left index
  Indexes the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship both inside and outside of academia. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)
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• ProQuest dissertations and theses
  PQDT provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year.
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• Social work abstracts
  Indexes and abstracts journal articles in the fields of social work including homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. (Restricted to 12 simultaneous users.)
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• Sociological abstracts
  Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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