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| Full runs (where possible) of 48 newspapers selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. Includes national and regional newspapers from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Cross-searchable with other collections via NewsVault. |
| • Coverage Range: 1800-1900 |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Historical primary source newspapers, featuring full-text content including images. Covers newspapers that published in the 1800s from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. |
| • Coverage Range: 1800s |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Contains selected full-text records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the Federal government of the United States. Topics addressed include: politics, diplomacy, economics, labor, genealogy, social issues, and the military. These records date from 1800 to the present. Feel free to seek a librarian’s assistance for advanced searches. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| • Vendor: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), The |
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| Full-text access to a number of American 19th-century journals and newspapers. Special African-American, Civil War and Pennsylvania coverage. |
| • Coverage Range: 19th century |
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| • Vendor: Accessible Archives Inc. |
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| Original historical documents pertaining to the history of African Americans, mostly in the United States, but also from the Colonial era and the West Indies. |
| • Coverage Range: 1670s to 1900s |
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| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with articles from Africana; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; and the African American National Biography. Also contains resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and selected articles from other major reference titles.
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| • Vendor: Oxford University Press |
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| The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material. |
| • Coverage Range: 1855 -1875 |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| Primary materials from the Library of Congress, covering various periods of American history. Includes photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. Special online collections of Native American history, African-American history, United States presidents, immigration, literature, and cultural history. |
| • Coverage Range: American history - time periods vary. |
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| • Vendor: Library of Congress |
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| Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. |
| • Coverage Range: 1740 to 1900 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Important database for genealogy and advanced biographical research. Includes census data, military records, birth/death/marriage records, immigration records, slave narratives, historic maps, photographs, and biographical dictionaries and directories. |
| • Coverage Range: 1790-present |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| A current directory of 5,500 repositories and 141,178 collections of primary source material housed across the United States. |
| • Coverage Range: Current |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Primary resources, such as original letters, photographs, transcripts and audio materials are digitally available on people and institutions that helped found American Art. The Archives hold approximately two hundred years’ worth of materials and are located in New York and Washington DC. |
| • Coverage Range: Approximately 200 years |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: Smithsonian Institution |
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| This database details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. |
| • Coverage Range: 1830-1865 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations. |
| • Coverage Range: Scope – 20th century to present |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| The Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history available online for the first time.
It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. This is more than a fantastic collection of primary source material; it is a unique online resource offering new insight into a fascinating period of our past. |
| • Coverage Range: 1874-1965 |
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| • Vendor: Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Full-text runs of regional U.S. newspapers from the 1850s, as well as pamphlets covering a wide range of topics. Contains primary source documents that encompass the buildup to and evolution of the American Civil War that shaped the Nation's identity.
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| An index providing full-text access to international treaties, constitutions, and other political documents from around the world. |
| • Coverage Range: Historic and current |
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| • Vendor: Richard Kimber |
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| A documentary history of the Middle East, including key events that have shaped the region since World War I. |
| • Coverage Range: 1915-present |
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| • Vendor: SAGE Publications, Inc. (CQ Press) |
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| View selected photographs from Dickinson’s special collections. Includes images of 1920s Alaska, the Carlisle Indian School, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and late 19th-century Europe. Visit the Dickinson Archives to access the original photographs. |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| Resource dedicated to the history of Dickinson College. Includes general articles on people, places, and events; lists of frequently requested facts; full-text histories of the college; and extended essays on various special topics from Dickinson’s past. A good starting point for any research dealing with College history. Visit the Dickinson Archives for more information or to access original documents. |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| View selected images of Dickinson people, places, organizations, and events from the 19th and 20th centuries. Visit the Dickinson Archives to access original photographs. |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| An extensive collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature, culture, and religion, covering from 1624 to 1920. |
| • Coverage Range: 1624 to 1920 |
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| • Vendor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Weekly news magazine presenting the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them with a global editorial perspective. Also useful for research on company and industry trends and history. Includes supplements, special reports, surveys, full-color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers. Cross-searchable with other collections via NewsVault. |
| • Coverage Range: 1843 – 2008 |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Full-text scans of nearly all English-language imprints and other materials from the eighteenth century. The collection contains a wide variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. |
| • Coverage Range: Eighteenth century |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily’s correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript. These images have zoom functionality as well as a special light-box feature that allows users to view and compare constellations of related documents. Users may search by date, genre, manuscript features, and full text. Dating from the 1850s to the end of Dickinson’s life, the work collected here shows all the characteristics of the poet’s mature art. |
| • Coverage Range: 1850s to 1880s |
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| • Vendor: University of Virginia Press |
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| Western European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. |
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| • Vendor: Brigham Young University |
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| A searchable index of scholarly digital repositories of primary sources. Collections are also browsable by country, language, period, subject, and type of source. |
| • Coverage Range: Medieval to present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: EUI |
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| Thousands of streaming films in the humanities and social sciences. You can use Films On Demand to search for specific video segments, organize videos into folders, and create personal playlists. Closed captioning is available for many films. Subject areas include anthropology, art, communications, education, literature, geography, history, music, philosophy, religion, sociology and world languages. Titles include historical documentaries, biography, author interviews, performances, and world affairs. |
| • Coverage Range: 1950s - present |
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| • Vendor: Films Media Group |
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| The complete run of the London edition of the authoritative daily business newspaper, from its first issue to the end of 2008. with additional annual updates. A resource for studying history, business, management, finance and politics. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. Cross-searchable with other collections via NewsVault. |
| • Coverage Range: 1888 – 2008, updated annually |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| A set of 11 separate databases of archival and primary source material, covering topics related to American history, including collections focusing on Hispanic- and African-American history. The individual databases are: African American Historical Serials Collection; American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-4; American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection, Series 1-2; Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1; Gateway to North America--People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York; Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society; The Latino-Hispanic American Experience--Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers. |
| • Coverage Range: Varies; 1700s to 1960, many collection focus on 19th century. |
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| • Vendor: Ebsco |
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| Fully searchable, full-text copies of articles and images from the Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta Daily World; Baltimore Afro-American; Boston Globe; Chicago Defender; Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Sentinel; New York Amsterdam News; New York Times; Pittsburgh Courier; Washington Post. Coverage varies by paper but goes back as far as 1851. |
| • Coverage Range: 1851-2005 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| A set of 11 collections of primary source documents covering aspects of US history. Collections include: Black Freedom, Immigration, NAACP, Plantations, Politics and Society 1960-75, Slavery and the Law, Vietnam War, and Women's Rights. |
| • Coverage Range: varies; 1770s to 1975 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Stories of the U.S. Civil War era (1840-1880) through the window of Dickinson College. Includes images, documents, timelines, maps, blogs, and online exhibits. |
| • Coverage Range: 1840-1880 |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| Important and rare periodicals from Confederate, Union, abolitionist, and British presses. Includes illustrations from issues published from 1860 to 1865. |
| • Coverage Range: 1860-1865 |
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| • Vendor: Harper's Weekly |
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| Images of Medieval, Christianity-oriented art in color and black and white images with metadata. |
| • Coverage Range: Apostolic Period to A.D. 1400 |
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| • Vendor: Princeton University |
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| Database of books donated to the College by John and Mary Dickinson in 1784. Contains bibliographic information along with images of title pages. Visit the Dickinson Archives for access to the original books. |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| Contains full-text resources regarding the life and times of James Buchanan, Dickinson class of 1809, including Buchanan’s memoirs and unpublished correspondence, several biographies, cartoons, and engravings. Also includes an extensive bibliography of writings by and about Buchanan and a comprehensive timeline of this figure’s life. Contains information relevant to research on 19th-century politics, diplomacy, economics, and military activity, as well as slavery and the Civil War. Visit the Archives for access to original materials. |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| A resource provided by Cornell University School of Law offering public legal information. It includes: the U.S. Constitution; the full-text of U.S. code; congressional material; supreme court opinions; states constitutions, statues and related legislative material. Earliest coverage begins in 1990 going to the present. |
| • Coverage Range: 1992 to present |
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| • Vendor: Cornell University |
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| Palmer's includes citation coverage of the London Times from 1790 to 1905. Full text coverage is available from 1800 – 1870. |
| • Coverage Range: 1790-1905 |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
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| • Coverage Range: 1850 to present |
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| • Vendor: Cornell University |
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| Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. |
| • Coverage Range: see description |
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| • Vendor: University of Michigan |
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| Fully searchable, full-text copies of articles and images from 1851 to 2008. |
| • Coverage Range: 1851-2008 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Allow for cross-searching of 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Economist Historical Archive, Financial Times Historical Archive, Listener Historical Archive, Sunday Times (London) Digital Archive, Times (London) Digital Archive, and Times (London) Literary Supplement Historical Archive. |
| • Coverage Range: 19th and 20th centuries |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Primary source material in Western as well as non-Western languages, sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions around the globe. Includes (1) British Politics and Society: sources related to the political climate in Great Britain; (2) European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection: full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more – with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers. (3) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange: covering international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century, including government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more; (4) British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. |
| • Coverage Range: 19th Century |
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| • Vendor: Gale |
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| Contains full-text searchable books and pamphlets reflecting both sides of the American slavery debate. Includes first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions, anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and early secondary works.
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College / Millerville University |
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| Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1966, when both papers came under common ownership. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news. |
| • Coverage Range: 1822-2006 |
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| • Vendor: Gale |
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| Read and search the full text of select books, pamphlets, diaries, and letters from Dickinson’s Special Collections. Most of these items were authored by Dickinson alumni and faculty. Materials date from 1764 to 1918 and address colonial American politics; U.S. politics, government, and foreign relations; historical biography and autobiography; the American Civil War; the temperance movement; foreign travel; economics; medicine; philosophy; and theology. Visit the Dickinson Archives for access to original materials. |
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| This digital collection reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China’s human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990. |
| • Coverage Range: 1989-1993 |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| The oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication, providing in-depth, award-winning and objective coverage of world events. The archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest: in business, humanities, political science, philosophy and numerous other subjects with coverage of all major international historical events. Cross-searchable with other collections via NewsVault. |
| • Coverage Range: 1785 – 2006 |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. |
| • Coverage Range: Nineteenth century. |
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| • Vendor: Indiana University |
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| Searches both social science and science materials, and allows the user to see what other articles have cited a chosen paper. Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index Expanded, and Century of Science backfiles.
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| • Coverage Range: 1900-present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: THOMSON REUTERS |
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| Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection advances scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible. The collection currently includes 94 document projects and archives with more than 3,750 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and almost 2,100 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Includes access to the online version of Notable American Women and the database on Commissions on the Status of Women. |
| • Coverage Range: 1600-2000 |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| Primary documents including letters and diaries of activists, and proceedings of historic conferences. For coverage of the US, see Women and Social Movements in the United States. |
| • Coverage Range: 1840 to present |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| This blog contains stories about all aspects of female students’ experiences at Dickinson from the 19th century to the present. Includes digital images of original documents and select soundclips from oral history interviews with alumnae. Visit the Dickinson Archives for access to original materials.
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College |
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| A UNESCO project, this database contains multi-lingual primary source materials from countries and cultures around the world. |
| • Coverage Range: 8000 BCE to present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: World Digital Library |
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| Over 11 million articles from every issue of Japan’s major newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun. In four parts: 1) The Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras section (1874-1989), 2) The Heisei Era section (September 1986 onwards), 3) The Daily Yomiuri section (September 1989 onwards), and 4) The Contemporary Who’s Who, with searchable biographical data and articles on over 26,000 prominent individuals. Includes photos, images, advertisements. Search in Japanese or English. English versions of modern articles are available.
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| • Coverage Range: 1874 to present |
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| • Vendor: Yomiuri Shimbun |
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