Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more about public policy and work affairs. The archive provides a historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.
The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge contains 538 Old English and medieval manuscripts. This database provides full digital copies of each manuscript along with thousands of citations to the relevant secondary literature on the manuscripts.
The site Free Access to Pascal and Francis is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in science, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS since 1972.
Databases of U.S. patents, including patent grants (full text since 1976, full-page images since 1790) and patent applications (published since 15 March 2001). To view the patent images, a plug-in is required. For links to free TIFF plug-ins, please click here.
Streaming documentaries and programs from the Public Broadcasting Service. Coverage runs from the 1970s to present day, and spans a wide range of topics including history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, current events, and biographies.”
Full text of the Pennsylvania Gazette, as well as the Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Record.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full-text from many sources, covering film, theater, dance, stagecraft, television, and more. Full-text ranges from 1864 to the present.
This collection contains resources related to Congressional hearings regarding relocation and internment during World War II. The database includes not only transcripts but publications, photographs, reports, and other documents from both Japanese Americans and Aleuts who lived in the camps as well as various types of professionals who worked in or have studied these camps.
Provides information on undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities. Includes scholarship information and test prep materials.
Features content from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX review, case studies, and news sources.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the School of Pharmacy.
A bibliographic database with author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all fields of philosophy, published in journals and books.
PhilPapers is an index of philosophy research literature that currently includes entries for over 2 million books and articles. The index and accompanying open access archive are also integrated with a structured bibliography that organizes its entries into over 5,000 topics.
Platino Educa's online platform offers unlimited access to hundreds of Spanish and Ibero-American movies, classified by subjects and covering themes across the Environment, Social Sciences, Language and Literature, Arts, and Social Justice.
Find citations to some 30,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)
Cancelled due to budget constraints. Access expired November 30, 2024.
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This database includes over two million publications from more than 8,600 organizations related to research and resources in public health and social—including technical reports, case studies, and policy papers, on topics such as women’s health, health education, and pandemics.
This database offers a collection of policy documents from cities and local governments around the world. Drawing from over four million publications from more than 4,000 organizations, it focuses on grey literature—such as reports, working papers, and policy briefs—produced by these institutions. The collection focuses on major global challenges, including climate change, urbanization, and inequality.
Provides online access to abstracts and if available, links to full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
This archive of primary sources contains over 600,000 scanned pages and 42 oral histories. The types of sources range from propaganda to government records. The extremist groups included are involved in movements such as those related to religion, race, gender, the environment, equal rights, and peace.
Cancelled due to budget constraints. Access expired October 31, 2025.
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A compilation of questions and responses from national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by polling organizations in the United States and other countries.
The Bibliography of Polish Literature includes information about Polish authors, world literature, literary theory, themes, criticism, theater, film, literary life, and Polish actors and directors. The bibliography indexes books, articles, reviews, interviews, plays, as well as TV and radio broadcasts, providing annotations and covering the years 1988-2003.
Documents the music, pastimes, public figures, and technology that played a role in defining different eras of the last century.
Includes printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera, and video clips. Covers music, TV, movies, fashion, youth culture, student protests, civil rights movement, and women's liberation.
This collection of primary source materials from the Wiener Library and The National Archives of the UK and covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War Two. Among the topics included are refugee camps, Jewish orphans, and the British military in Germany.
Translated articles from the official Communist Party newspaper of the Soviet Union.
This online portal provides access to recordings and annotated transcripts of telephone conversations of Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, and Nixon. There are also photos, videos, an interactive timeline, and the ability to search all included content.
Provides 165 full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Articles are in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies. Works together and complements HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index). Also offers full-text key titles indexed by HAPI.
Includes full text journal articles from some of the most important journals in the field of education and library science and contains U.S. Department of Education reports.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.
Provides online access to current issues of selected scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archives. The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929.
Articles from the official news agency of the People’s Republic of China, translated into English.
Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including congressional publications and documents, statistics, current members of Congress and congressional committees, and regulatory and statutory information. This database also includes the component 'Executive branch publications from 1789 to 1952’ covering topics that span business and industry, foreign trade, navigation, immigration and population, health, causes of death, religious affiliations, military operations, and weather conditions.
Provides online access to over 3.8 million dissertations and master's theses with 1.7 million 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.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspaper Collection presents 14 influential African American newspapers that documented the Black experience in America from 1893 to 2010. This collection includes The Kansas City Call.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Canada Collection includes 15 papers from Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The dates range from 1785 to the present.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global is a premier archival resource offering access to over 200 digitized newspapers from the U.S., Canada, and around the world, presented in their original print format. Key databases and collections include the U.S. Metro Collection, U.S. Collection, Black Newspaper Collection, Canada Collection, International Collection, and U.S. Jewish Newspaper Collection.
This collection provides access to 17 premier international newspapers and publications. Among those included are Le Monde, The Korea Times, The Observer, The Irish Times, South China Morning Post, and The Times of India.
This database provides access to over 130 smaller newspapers from 36 states. There are no Kansas papers in this collection.
This collection contains access to The American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger, The American Israelite, The Jewish Advocate, and The Jewish Exponent. Coverage ranges from 1854 to 2000.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. Metro Collection provides access to 17 of America’s most influential news titles, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune.
History Vault provides access to millions of primary sources, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The themes of the collections include; American Indians and the American West, Southern Life & Slavery, Latinx History, Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle, and Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals.
The Legislative Insight Collection delivers expertly researched legislative histories of U.S. Public Laws from 1789 to present. Each history provides a compilation of congressional publications that trace a law’s development, revealing the context and intent behind significant legislation.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the School of Law.
A comprehensive research database that provides access to a vast collection of scholarly journals, ebooks, dissertations, news articles, and videos across multiple disciplines that are international in scope.
ProQuest One Anthropology is a comprehensive digital resource that offers access to a vast collection of ethnographic primary sources—including field notes, manuscripts, films, and audio recordings—documenting over 1,000 cultural groups. It includes the following components: Anthropological Fieldwork Online, Anthropology Online, Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods, Ethnographic Video Online: Volumes I–IV, Ethnographic Video Online: Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition, Ethnographic Sound Archives Online, American Philosophical Institute (ACLS Collection), Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, and Victor Witter Turner Papers.
ProQuest One Black Studies’ core databases are Black Studies Center, The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Black Literature Index, and 13 Historical Black Newspapers including the Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, and Baltimore Afro-American. The platform also features archival collections, videos, and scholarly journals covering the Black experience from the 18th century to the present.
A comprehensive database designed specifically for education research, offering scholarly journals, books, videos, reports, dissertations, and news articles. This database includes titles once indexed by ERIC but dropped in 2025 due to lack of funding.
ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture is an archive of magazines, film scripts, comics, videos, and advice literature that covers over 150 years of content spanning music, film, television, gaming, fashion, and youth culture. Key databases and collections include Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Film Scripts Online, The Rolling Stone Archive, The Hollywood Reporter Archive, Underground and Independent Comics, The World of Archie Comics Archive, and Twentieth Century Advice Literature.
ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations provides access to primary and secondary sources on global issues from the 18th century to today. Among the materials included are the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), and 95 thematic collections such as Border and Migration Studies Online, Environmental Issues Online, Human Rights Studies Online, and Revolution and Protest Online.
ProQuest One History provides access to primary sources spanning from 1450 to the present. It includes major databases such as Early English Books Online (EEBO), Early European Books (EEB), ProQuest History Vault, British Periodicals, and American Periodicals Series.
ProQuest One Literature is a comprehensive platform designed to support literary research, teaching, and learning by offering diverse, multi-format content that spans from canonical texts to underrepresented voices. It includes full-text journals, primary works, criticism, multimedia, and curated topic pages. Key databases and collections include Black Women Writers, Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker, English Poetry, Latino Literature, Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
ProQuest One Performing Arts is a multidisciplinary platform that integrates drama texts, classical scores, performances, instructional videos, and archival materials. It offers a rich blend of theoretical and practical resources, including streaming audio, scholarly journals, choreography notes, and behind-the-scenes content from top providers like the Royal National Theatre and Universal Music Group. Key databases and collections include Dance Online, Drama Texts Collection, Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Music Online: Listening Collection, Theatre Performance and Design, and the Music & Performing Arts Collection.
ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design is a comprehensive resource that supports the fields of art, design, architecture, and fashion by integrating rare primary sources, scholarly journals, multimedia, and specialist indexes. Key databases and collections include ARTbibliographies Modern, Design & Applied Arts Index, Art & Architecture Archive, Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library, Vogue Archive, and Women’s Wear Daily.
ProQuest One Women’s Studies is really a gender studies database. It includes primary sources, scholarly journals, and multimedia content found in databases such as The Gerritsen Women’s History Collection, Margaret Sanger Papers, National Woman’s Party Papers, and Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from Schlesinger Library, along with over 450 historical periodicals like Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, & Seventeen.
Includes statistical data produced by the U.S. government; international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. The KU Libraries subscribe to the Tables collection, the American Statistics Index (ASI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS) modules. ASI abstracts and indexes federal statistical publications dating back to 1973. IIS abstracts and indexes key statistical titles from international organizations dating back to 1983. Among these organizations are the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank.
Features DSM-V and the American Journal of Psychiatry from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Full text access is available to resources such as DSM-V, DSM-V Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-V Clinical Cases and other psychiatric textbooks and journals. Does not include DSM I-IV.
Provides full-text journal articles, many of which are indexed in PsychInfo. The content in this database is especially strong in child psychology and counseling services.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations in psychology and psychiatry. The journal literature spans 1887 to the present. Indexes journal content published by the American Psychological Association that is available through PsycARTICLES. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present.
Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.
Covers the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of traumatic events.
Indexes essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, administration and economy, administration and politics, administration and society, administrative structures and organization, public and social services, and public service personnel. Coverage dates back to 1964.
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more.
Journal citations and abstracts collected from the life sciences literature from 1947 to the present. Over 4,800 journals are indexed in the areas of clinical medicine, biomedicine, and health care.
"The U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles."