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University of Dayton students, faculty and staff can access most electronic resources on or off-campus. For off-campus access, use your UD Porches username and password to authenticate.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary resource that includes journals, magazines, books, reports and proceedings. Contains over 10,000 titles, some coverage from 1880s to the present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of over 12 million full-text articles, books, images (additional resources now included from Artstor), and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Limited recent content.
- UDiscover This link opens in a new window
A search tool that lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
- Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Race Relations Abstracts includes abstracting for academic journals, books, periodicals and newspapers related to ethnic and racial studies.
- Exploring Race in Society This link opens in a new window
This resource is designed for high school and undergraduate students. It provides solutions-oriented points of view within a scholarly collection related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. Content includes more than 100 essays, 900 articles, and 250 images.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
This resource includes over 900,000 records for Western-language research on East, Southeast, and South Asia published from 1971 to the present. - Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Contains the non-fiction works of more than 1000 American black leaders, including speeches, leaflets, essays, interviews and transcripts. The collection includes more 100,000 pages covering 250 years of history. - Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
A collection of reference works that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes additional images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Access provided to more than 20,000 articles, 700 primary sources, 2500 images, and 200 maps. - Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley, this bibliographic index covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants from 1992 onwards. - North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events (from the 17th century to the present) as told by the individuals who lived through them. - African-American Poetry 1760-1900 This link opens in a new window
This collection of poetry -- 3000 items focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries - is a product of OhioLINK's Electronic Book Center.
- African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
Brings together 50,000 pages of text, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Materials date before 1910 up to the present day. - African American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers that promotes itself as a one-of-a-kind record of African American history and culture. The oldest newspaper dates to 1842.
- American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 This link opens in a new window
This collection of papers spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Scholars and students in twentieth-century American social history and politics will find this archive of special interest because of its focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records This link opens in a new window
This collection is a module of ProQuest's History Vault. The focus is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century. Major collections in this module include the FBI Files on Martin Luther King Jr.; Centers of the Southern Struggle, an exceptional collection of FBI Files covering five of the most pivotal arenas of the civil rights struggle of the 1960s: Montgomery, Albany, St. Augustine, Selma, and Memphis; and records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, detailing the interaction between civil rights leaders and organizations and the highest levels of the federal government. This module also contains important documentation that shows the longer arc of the freedom struggle both before and after the highpoint of the post-World War II civil rights movement. Content coverage dates from 1901-1991. - Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to the 19th and 20th century poetry and fiction from the Caribbean. Includes rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. More than 575 titles are available. - Caribbean Search This link opens in a new window
This database was developed to cover all areas of Caribbean study. It includes access to not only journals, books, and magazines but biographies, conference proceedings, country reports, and trade publications. More than 80 full-text journals are available as well as French and Spanish publications. - El Caribe Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
El Caribe (“The Caribbean”) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Santo Domingo and is one of the Dominican Republic’s most influential and longest-running newspapers. Founded in 1948 under the repressive Trujillo regime (1930-1961), the newspaper has borne witness to decades of political uncertainty, economic development, and social change. Except for brief interruptions in publication for a month in 1962 and seven months in 1965, El Caribe has been a constant chronicle of national and international news, both for the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region. - Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Includes citation in the original Spanish or Portuguese and an English abstract. - Humanities Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of over 5,700 scholarly books, from over 125 publishers. Content includes foundational backlist titles in the humanities and social sciences, with 150-200 new titles added annually. - Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection provides access to over 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods (19th-early 20th centuries). The newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. - Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers featuring titles from Central and South America. Most publications are in Spanish but a significant number in Portuguese and English. - Southeast Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the challenges of early statehood. Covering several countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. - "We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:" Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 This link opens in a new window
This archive includes 4,285 pages sourced from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Holdings begin with 1961. Included are surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more. These materials provide unique (and in some cases recently declassified) insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.
