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A vast collection of full-text academic journals, magazines, and other resources across multiple disciplines, supporting comprehensive research needs. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This multidisciplinary resource includes full-text, peer-reviewed journals, periodicals and magazines. Also included are more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press, including footage from 1930-present. This database offers indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings dating as far back as 1865, with the majority of titles in searchable PDF format.
A digital library with over 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in diverse fields, ideal for research and scholarly exploration.
This archive is a collection of over 12 million full-text scholarly journal articles, e-books, periodicals, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Browse subject areas including Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine & Allied Health, Science & Mathematics, and Social Sciences. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Artstor, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.
A search tool with a Google-like relevancy ranking to help you retrieve all types of scholarly research sources with one search. New look and functionality coming June 23.
This search tool lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search, simultaneously searching the UD catalog, OhioLINK catalog, and many of the online resources available through the University Libraries, in addition to institutional repositories and open-access resources. With UDiscover, you can access millions of journal articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, videos, and primary sources. 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.
Access literature on race relations, including journal articles, reports, and conference papers, supporting research on racial issues and social justice. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This article database includes citations and summaries of academic journal articles, books, periodicals, and newspapers covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, ideology, community relations, ethnic relations, radicalism, economics, cultural identity, and pressure groups.
A resource offering scholarly articles, essays, and research on race, ethnicity, and social dynamics, focusing on their impact across cultures and societies. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
Designed for high school and undergraduate students, Exploring Race in Society provides context and solutions-oriented points of view within a scholarly collection of proprietary and licensed content on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. Proprietary essays are written by a diverse group of writers representing the fields of academia, journalism, medicine, and other disciplines working to address issues related to race, and provide students a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past. Topics include: affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter Movement, COVID-19 and communities of color, the digital divide, environmental racism and environmental justice, food insecurity, neighborhood gentrification, police use of force, school-to-prison pipeline, sports team branding changes, voting rights and voter suppression, and the wealth gap. Full-text translation in more than 30 languages is available for hundreds of articles from BlackPast - a leading source on the African American experience.
Access bibliographic references related to Asian studies, covering books, journal articles, and reports across disciplines, facilitating research in Asian history and culture. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
Published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), this comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast, and South Asia covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. Content includes 900,000 citations since 1971. In addition, special projects, one of which focused on journals on Southeast Asia dating back to 1779, have contributed further records to the BAS database. Search full-text journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings, and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften; search by author, title, year of publication, place of publication, language of publication, journal title, country, subject, or keyword.
A collection of primary sources reflecting Black intellectual history, featuring writings, speeches, and articles from prominent Black authors, activists, and leaders.
This is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American Black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be Black in America. Browse primary sources from the Vietnam War, the US Civil Rights Movement, the US Civil War, the Watergate Scandal, Reconstruction, World Wars I & II, and many landmark and historical events. This collection contains the work of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, as well as the complete run of the Black Panther newspaper (1966-1980), and a wide selection of abolitionists' writings from the nineteenth century.
A comprehensive online resource offering access to articles, primary sources, and multimedia materials focused on the history, culture, and contributions of African Americans.
This collection of reference works focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The core content includes African American National Biography; Dictionary of African Biography; Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought; and The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.
Provides access to a diverse collection of materials related to Chicano and Latino culture, including articles, essays, and bibliographies on history, art, and social issues. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
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. Content gives researchers targeted access to materials that explore the broad dimensions of class, race, and gender within the Chicano and Latino American experience. The database pulls content from journals, newspapers, books, book chapters, and other resources. Subject covered include art, bilingual education, education, health, labor, language, literature, mental health, and politics.
A collection of primary sources exploring Native American history, philosophy, and cultural practices, featuring writings by Indigenous thinkers and leaders.
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. The database is a resource for those interested in the history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples. Browse topics such as politics, the armed forces, law, health, economics, sociology, relationships, religion, domestic life, battles and war, communities, agriculture, treaties, land holdings, and much more.
A collection of poems by African American authors from 1760 to 1900, showcasing diverse voices and themes that reflect historical and cultural contexts.
This collection of full-text poems includes elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and sonnets of more than 50 African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Offers a comprehensive collection of materials on African American music, including biographies, scores, discographies, and essays, spanning various genres and historical eras.
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 1814 up to the present day. Browse genres such as blues, folk, jazz, gospel, orchestral, and opera.
A digital archive providing access to historical African American newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, offering insights into the Black experience and cultural history.
This fully-searchable collection of 280+ historical newspapers from across the United States published by and for African Americans is a one-of-a-kind record of African American history and culture. Each newspaper issue in this collection has been fully digitized and is fully searchable, including all articles, obituaries, advertisements, editorials, and illustrations. Some of the major titles in the collection include The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L’Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman’s Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, and The Appeal (MN). The oldest newspaper dates to 1842. Try the new Text Explorer to visualize data using methods such as term clustering, frequencies, trends, and more.
The archival papers of the ACLU, documenting its efforts in civil rights and liberties from 1912 to 1990, providing primary sources for research on social justice.
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. Subjects include: the first “Red Scare” following the Russian Revolution of 1917, debates in the 1920s on immigration, the American Birth Control League, lynchings in the 1930s, debates on aliens and immigrants in the years immediately preceding the U.S. entry into the Second World War, and the ACLU’s involvement in two of the mid-century’s most important issues: the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. The files hold the letters of union organizers, labor activists, and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Documents include bills, briefs, correspondence, court documents, legal case files, memorandums, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, and telegrams.
Federal government records related to the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century, providing primary sources for research on civil rights and social justice movements.
The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records is a comprehensive online database that provides access to primary source materials documenting the African American civil rights movement. This collection, part of ProQuest's History Vault, offers digitized archival documents including correspondence, government records, organization papers, and speeches. It covers a wide range of topics such as the military service of African Americans, civil rights during various presidential administrations, FBI files on civil rights leaders and organizations, and records from federal agencies like the Department of Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The database spans from 1901 to 1991, offering researchers, students, and scholars valuable insights into the struggle for racial equality in America. With its extensive coverage of federal records, this resource provides a unique perspective on how the U.S. government addressed and responded to civil rights issues throughout 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.
Access works by Caribbean authors, including poetry, novels, and short stories, offering insight into regional culture, history, and themes.
This collection provides access to the 19th and 20th century poetry and fiction from the Caribbean region, including Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Suriname, and Guyane. This literary connection, combined with the tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration to other parts of the Americas, makes for a body of work that is essential for the study of the Caribbean and the Black Diaspora. It includes rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
Offers full-text access to Caribbean-focused academic journals, reports, and reference materials, covering diverse topics in history, culture, politics, and economics. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
Caribbean Search is a comprehensive multidisciplinary database focused on the Caribbean region. It provides access to a wide range of English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean. The database contains over 730 Caribbean-focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and reference books, making it the largest collection of full-text content available for the region. Caribbean Search covers various subject areas, including history, culture, politics, economics, and social issues. It serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and scholars interested in Caribbean studies, offering a wealth of information from both academic and popular sources. The database is regularly updated, ensuring users have access to current research and information about the Caribbean. With its extensive coverage and focus on full-text content, Caribbean Search is an essential tool for conducting comprehensive literature searches and gaining insights into the diverse aspects of Caribbean life and scholarship.
A digital archive of *El Caribe*, providing access to articles, images, and reports that document Dominican Republic history, culture, and news coverage over decades.
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.
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Includes citation in the original Spanish or Portuguese and an English abstract.
The Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) is a selective bibliography that has been providing scholarly research on Latin America since 1936. It identifies and describes a wide range of resources, including books, journal articles, conference proceedings, maps, and electronic resources relevant to various disciplines such as anthropology, history, literature, and political science. HLAS is curated by a team of 130 contributing editors who review thousands of published works annually, ensuring that the bibliography remains comprehensive and up-to-date. Each entry includes annotations and bibliographic essays that offer insights into the works' significance and context. This resource serves as an essential tool for researchers, educators, and students interested in Latin American studies, facilitating access to critical academic literature and fostering a deeper understanding of the region's complexities.
A digital library offering a wide range of full-text e-books in the humanities, covering literature, history, philosophy, and cultural studies for academic research and study.
The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-book Collection (ACLS HEB) is a collection of 5,700+ scholarly books from 125+ publishers. Michigan Publishing licenses included books, including investing in unique and otherwise hard to access backlist content.
A collection of digitized newspapers from Mexico's independence period, showcasing diverse perspectives and historical events from the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
This collection comprises 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). 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.
A digital collection providing access to historical newspapers from Latin America, covering the 19th and early 20th centuries, supporting research on Latin American history and culture.
This resource contains 56 historical Latin American newspapers from North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean, spanning 1805 to 1922. Publications are provided in either Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Content includes all articles, illustrations, and advertisements, and may be searched at once or browsed by country, time period, language, or publication title. This collection was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) using materials from newspaper repositories from around the world.
A collection of digitized newspapers from Southeast Asia, offering historical and contemporary coverage of political, social, and cultural events across the region.
This extensive online database provides access to a rich collection of newspapers from Southeast Asia, covering a wide range of historical and contemporary issues. It includes digitized newspapers from various countries in the region, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, with content available in multiple languages including English, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese. The collection features over 120 newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing users to explore significant political, social, and cultural developments in Southeast Asia during this period. Users can access full-text articles, advertisements, editorials, and other materials that reflect the region's diverse perspectives. The database is particularly valuable for researchers and students studying Southeast Asian history, culture, and media. Regular updates ensure that users have access to both historical archives and current publications, making it an essential resource for comprehensive research in Southeast Asian studies.
This collection documents the experiences of the Freedom Riders in 1961, featuring personal narratives, reports, and other primary sources.
This archive includes 4,285 pages in 22 manuscripts, sourced from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Holdings range from May 1961 to November 1976. 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.