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Digital library with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

PDF images of every page of every issue of the daily New York Times from 1851 to 2001, and html versions of the paper from 2000 to the present. Contemporary accounts of historical events provide primary source material.

Full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context supports virtually any curricular need. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop critical thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Exclusive Viewpoint pages bring balance and perspective to every controversy using targeted arguments from recognized subject-matter experts and top journalistic sources.

Issues & Controversies aims to provide the most accurate, accessible, and authoritative content available and present arguments on both sides of every issue in a clear, balanced, and unbiased manner.

This database includes some primary source material, images, and even a few videos for more recent topics. Tends to provide brief overviews of topics, with links to more specific aspects of history or biographical essays about historical figures.

Search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, or other keywords.

Focusing on social history, this database includes some primary source material, images, and even a few videos for more recent topics. Tends to provide brief overviews of topics.

Digital version of reference sets about important figures or events that changed history in significant ways.

Access to the archive available remotely during the Covid-19 emergency.

Britannica Academic is a combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research. Provides overview and background as well as bibliographies of trusted sources on many topics.

Full text of the print set plus a basic Spanish-language encyclopedia, an atlas, etc. Provides overview and background on many topics.