Database Subject
History Databases
| Database Names and Descriptions | Full Text |
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals  This vast primary source collection contains digitized issues from over 7,500 historical United States newspapers and other periodicals, from 1684 to 1912. Each issue is fully digitized and full-text searchable. This database combines all five series of the AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, each of which can also be searched individually. |  |
| ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, allowing you to search for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives. | |
| ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Produced by the American Theological Library Association, this database is the premier tool for locating scholarly journal articles in the fields of theology, religion, Christian studies, Biblical studies, pastoral ministry, church history, philosophy and ethics. | |
| Bibliography of the History of Art This index of journal articles, which also includes Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), includes citations of art history journal articles from 1975 to 2007. | |
| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers From the Library of Congress, Chronicling America is a database of over 500 historic American newspapers from 1836-1922. | |
| HeinOnline HeinOnline is a very large database for government documents and legal research. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,400 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. | |
| Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library includes all that is important in ancient Greek and Latin literature: the entire classical heritage, in the form of over 520 e-book volumes of Latin and Greek texts, with modern English translations on facing pages. Includes epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel philosophy and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; and writings of some of the early church fathers. | |
| Military and Government Collection Offers current research and news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, including nearly 300 journals and other periodicals. | |
| National Archives The website of the National Archives of the United States is a good resource for finding primary sources and historical records related to U.S. history. If you don't know where to start, try "Research by Topic." | |
| Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary is the major authority on the development of the English language over the last millennium. It provides definitions, traces etymologies, offers pronunciation guides, and provides numerous quotations for over half a million words in the English language, past and present. | |
| Political Handbook of the World The classic guide to country-by-country political information, including more than 200 entries providing the complete facts and analysis of each country's governmental and political environment, including coverage of political parties and intergovernmental organizations. | |
| World Religion Database The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country in the world. It is the major source to render a definitive picture of international religious demography. The WRD provides both current and historical data, as well as sophisticated forecasts of future developments. | |
Or try these general resources:
| Academic Search Premier A great first stop when looking for scholarly journal articles, Academic Search Premier contains full text content across all academic disciplines from over 4,600 periodicals. Also contains some popular magazines. Most content is from the last twenty years. | |
| Academic Writer (formerly APA Style Central) Academic Writer helps you develop your writing and research skills, combining sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced authoring technology, and full integration of the APA manual. | |
| Christian Periodical Index Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI is an interdisciplinary index of Christian periodicals. Search here if you're looking for articles or reviews written from an evangelical perspective. | |
| Credo Reference Credo Reference is a powerful source of introductory and reference information across all academic disciplines. Combining cross-searchable content from over 500 encyclopedias and other reference sources, Credo will also connect you to related materials in other library databases and collections. | |
| Dissertations and Theses The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 3 million citations, over 1.5 million of which are available in full-text. | |
| Ebook Central Ebook Central is a database of over 130,000 e-books in all academic areas. This collection is also searchable via OneSearch and the OneSearch Catalog. | |
| Films on Demand This database includes over 20,000 online streaming educational videos from providers like PBS and Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Includes coverage of nearly all academic disciplines. Instructors can embed films in Blackboard for easy course integration. These videos are also discoverable through OneSearch and the library catalog (Webcat). |  |
| Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) A cross-searchable collection of more than 2,500 reference volumes, including encyclopedias across all academic disciplines. | |
| Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (formerly Opposing Viewpoints in Context) Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is a great starting point for all of today's most common research topics. Featured "viewpoints" provide accessible overviews, which are supplemented by many articles from popular magazines and academic journals, as well as books, newspapers, statistics, videos and even audio recordings. A good way to get started is to click "Browse Issues". | |
| Google Scholar Google Scholar is a broad index of scholarly content across many different fields and content types. | |
| JSTOR JSTOR is an interdisciplinary database of back issues from the most important scholarly journals in many fields. Coverage of most journals begins with volume one and ends four or more years ago. The library currently provides access to twelve JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-X, XII, and the Life Sciences collection. | |
| OneSearch OneSearch is a discovery service that lets you search across just about all of the library's collections at once. It includes everything in the library catalog, most databases, and much more. For finding books in our collections, use OneSearch Catalog or the "CBU Catalog Only" limiter. Databases that are not included in OneSearch include Dissertations and Theses and U.S. Major Dailies. | |
| Scopus A comprehensive general index of scholarly publications. Includes bibliographic records for academic journal articles primarily, but also for peer-reviewed books and conference proceedings. Scopus also provides advanced tools for analyzing the significance of individual journals, articles, scholars and institutions. Some journals are indexed as far back as 1823, but comprehensive coverage begins in 1996. |