Databases

• 19th century U.S. newspapers
  19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and …
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• ACLS humanities e-book
  A collection of major scholarly books from all areas of history, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications. Formerly issued as: History e-book project.
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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 national biography online
  American National Biography contains over 17,000 biographies of deceased Americans whose lives have shaped the nation. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
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• American periodicals series online
  American Periodicals Series Online includes digitized and images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1940.
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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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• AP images
  Contains the archives of the Associated Press. New content is added constantly to news photographs, audio sound bites, and graphics spanning 180 years of history. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.) Formerly called AccuNet/AP multimedia archive.
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• Archive of Celtic-Latin literature : ACLL.
  This full text database contains more 450 texts from Celtic Europe from the 4th through the 13th centuries. Based on Lapidge and Sharpe, Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature, 400-1200. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)
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• ArticleFirst
  Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Offers the full text of some articles.
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• Atlanta daily world (1930-2003)
  Atlanta Daily World provides access to the South's largest African American newspaper.
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• Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
  The Baltimore Afro-American was one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. Dates of coverage: 1893 to 1988.
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• Biography and genealogy master index
  Indexes more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
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• Biography resource center
  This resource contains biographical entries on more than 380,000 individuals. Much of the information is from Gale resources such as Contemporary Authors and Encyclopedia of World Biography. Entries in Biographical Resource center are updated often so it is not only authoritative, but current.
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• C19, the nineteenth century index
  C19 Index includes entries from Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, Periodicals Index Online and American Periodicals Series Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 18.9 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.
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• Cambridge histories online
  Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of scholarship on 15 different academic subjects.
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• Center for Research Libraries [CRL] catalog
  Consists of the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, Illinois, which collects research materials not targeted by other North American research institutions. Materials from CRL are available via Interlibrary Loan.
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• Cleveland Call and post (1934-1991)
  This important Midwest African American newspaper is particularly important for its coverage of the Scottsboro Trial. Dates of coverage: 1934 to 1991.
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• CQ electronic library
  The CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Electronic Library is an integrated search environment providing access to 8 separate CQ resources for research on American Government, history, politics, public policy, and current events. Provides access to research and reference articles, opinion and news coverage, data, and contact directories. Congressional Quarterly is renowned for non-partisan coverage of U.S. Government issues and activity. CQ EL …
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• Eighteenth Century collections online
  Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) comprises over 150,000 printed volumes. It includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas produced in the 18th century. It has full-text search capabilities across all 26 million pages.
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• Gutenberg-e
  Full-text scholarly monographs covering all areas of history, available originally and exclusively as digital books, presented by Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.
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• HeinOnline
  HeinOnline has law-related subject and title collections that are image-based and fully searchable, meaning that they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared in hardcopy--including all charts, graphs, and photographs. The constantly growing collections include the Congressional Documents, Law Journal Library, Intellectual Property Library, Foreign & International Law Resources …
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• Historical abstracts
  A bibliographic database to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in the database, America: History and Life). Indexes the journal and book literature.
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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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• History e-book project
  See the later title: ACLS humanities e-book.
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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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• KU ScholarWorks
  KU ScholarWorks is a digital repository for scholarly work created by the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas. KU ScholarWorks makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation.
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• LexisNexis academic
  Provides access to: full-text of current news and up to the last 20 years; full-text company news & financial information; full-text federal, state & international legal materials; full-text and abstracted medical & health information; general reference sources.
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• LGBT life with full text
  LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life, the definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues, as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation …
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• Library catalog
  Contains records for the majority of items in the KU Libraries, including the Regents Center Library and the Law Library.
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• Los Angeles sentinel (1934-2005)
  Search the pages of the most important Western African American newspaper. Dates of coverage: 1934 to 2005.
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• Making of modern law. Trials, 1600-1926
  "The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926" provides full-text searching and digital images of thousands of books and pamphlets covering major and minor trials of English-speaking jurisdictions and English-language trials in other jurisdictions. Materials include unofficially published accounts of trials, as well as briefs, arguments and other trial documents where these were printed as separate publications. These legal history resources …
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• Marquis who's who on the web
  Marquis Who's Who on the Web allows users to locate biographical information about more than one million individuals in more than 800 occupations using a single search and is updated daily. The database includes biographical data from the following Marquis Who's Who titles:. Who's who in America; Who's who in American politics; Who's Who in the East; Who's who in the world; Who's who in the Midwest; Who's who of American women; Who's who in …
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• Networked digital library of theses and dissertations
  The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This union catalog serves as a repository of graduate educational material contributed by a number of member institutions worldwide. The University of Kansas will be contributing …
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• New York Amsterdam news (1922-1993)
  New York Amsterdam News documents the past of New York's African American community, including the Harlem Renaissance, the desegregation of the U.S. Military and the Civil Rights Movement.
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• New York Times
  Provides access to full page and article images with searchable full-text from 1851 to 4 years ago.
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• Oral history online
  Oral History Online contains an index and links to editorially vetted, Web-based oral histories in English in archives and libraries around the world, with links to full text, audio, and video when available. It also contains tens of thousands of in-copyright, full-text interviews from proprietary collections.
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• Oxford African American studies center
  The AASC provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African American experience. The Center also includes content from print …
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• Oxford English dictionary
  The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery …
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• Oxford journals
  Provides full-text online access to most of the electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
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• Oxford reference online. Premium
  Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works in the Premium Collection. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
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• PapersFirst
  Indexes papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
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• ProceedingsFirst
  Indexes papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
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• Project Muse
  A searchable database that provides online access to current issues of selected scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. A list of the journals contained in this database can be found at the Project Muse homepage.
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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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• ProQuest historical newspapers
  ProQuest Historical Newspapers provides searchable access to full-text and full-images from some of America's most important newspapers.
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• Public documents masterfile
  A comprehensive electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication, in a single searchable database.
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• Readers' guide retrospective
  Provides indexing to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
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• Washington post
  Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1877 up to 16 years ago. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
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• Web of science
  Indexes and abstracts citations in research journals across the disciplinary spectrum. Online version of: Arts and humanities citation index (1975-present); Science citation index (1900-present); and Social sciences citation index (1956-present).
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• World newspaper archive
  World Newspaper Archive is the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe--and includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and East Europe, South Asia and other regions. Providing exact digital replicas of newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages, the World Newspaper Archive chronicles the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during …
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• WorldCat
  Includes millions of records describing items owned by OCLC member libraries, including the KU Libraries. (Restricted to 25 simultaneous users.)
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