Databases for American Studies
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Key Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- LexisNexis Academic
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- Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
Additional Databases
- American FactFinder
- A subsection of the U.S. Census Bureau Web site that provides searchable statistical data from the Census 2000, 1990 Census, 1997 Economic Census and other data sets
- American Film Scripts Online
- Full-text database of film scripts, searchable by scene, character, theme,and many other search categories
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 1,000 scholarly journals from the arts and humanities. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1975 to present
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Indexes nearly 12 million biographies from current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- Indexes and provides full text to 600 journals, newsletters and reports relating to women's studies, 1992 to present
- ERIC
- Indexes and abstracts educational resources, including journal articles, books, theses, standards and guidelines, 1966 to present
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Indexes and provides full text of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the American ethnic press, 1960 to present, starting dates vary
- GLBT Life
- Indexes popular and scholarly journals, newspapers, books, dissertations, web sites, and multi-media publications concerning the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community, 1997 (and earlier) to present
- GPO Monthly Catalog
- Indexes U.S. government publications, 1976 to present
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
- Indexes articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hispanics in the United States, 1970 to present
- LexisNexis Congressional
- Accesses congressional publications, legislative histories, bills, current laws, regulations and information about congressional members and committees
- LexisNexis State Capital
- Accesses U.S. state government information, including state bills and laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, newspapers of record, articles about state legislatures, and legislative membership
- Literature Resource Center
- Full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline, includes text of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Nineteenth Century Masterfile
- Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, government documents, scientific papers, and portraits produced during the nineteenth century
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- Full-text database of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Documents date from around 1840 and extend to the present, with a heavy focus on 1920 to 1980
- Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
- Full-text of the most recent statistics on U.S. social and economic conditions and some international data
- U.S. Gazetteer
- Identifies U.S. places and counties and provides census data from the1990 Census
Multidisciplinary Databases
- ArticleFirst
- Indexes table of contents pages of more than 12,000 journals in all fields, 1990 to present
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Full text of the complete Encyclopædia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Indexes articles, with some full text links, to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, 1980 to present
- Merriam-Webster Online
- Full-text of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, 10th edition
- PapersFirst
- Indexes papers received at The British Library presented at conferences, congresses, expositions, workshops, symposia and meetings, 1993 to present
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Indexes and abstracts more than 200 popular magazines published in the U.S., 1890 through 1982
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
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