Databases by Subject

Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas as written in Europe before 1750. Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of indigenous American peoples. Subject areas include (but are not limited to): natural disasters, disease outbreaks, slavery, slave trade, pirates, commerce, discoveries, French in America, British colonies, British in America, Dutch in America, religious orders in America. Original bibliography co-developed by staff of the John Carter Brown Library. (EBSCOhost)

Dates covered: 1493-1750

tags: general, multidisciplinary

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Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, gender, and masculinity during the Middle Ages. Time period covered is 450-1500, with Russia extending to 1613 (beginning of the Romanov dynasty). Contains over 20,000 records culled from more than 500 journals plus published essay collections. Covers publications in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. (Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship)

Dates covered: 1996-present

tags: women, gender, sexuality, minorities, history

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Collection of foreign language video clips in which foreign speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each video clip is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes. Videos are available in Quick Time format. Produced by the ViewPoints Project. A component of the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons.  (OhioLINK)

tags: foreign languages, international studies, video

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A collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain. Currently includes full text for 500+ publications from 18 countries. Includes coverage of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. (EBSCOhost)

Dates covered: 1980s-present (plus some older content)

tags: general, multidisciplinary, Spanish, foreign languages

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Collection of full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for research in numerous subject areas. Encompasses the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes over 100 titles (some in multiple editions), with an overall total of half a million documents. (Gale)

tags: encyclopedia, reference

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Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Includes more than 921,000 records, thousands of links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web, and hundreds of links to carefully selected and important websites. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, gov't. reports, discussion and working papers, theses and dissertations, and other sources. (EBSCOhost)

Dates covered: 1930s-present (plus some older content)

tags: women, gender, minorities

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Google's collection of digitized books includes content from over 10,000 publishers. Many books are only available for viewing in snippets; however, many pre-copyright works (pre-1923) are available full text.

tags: books, e-books, ebooks

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Indexes over 100 journals and magazines in the social sciences and religion. (National Periodical Library)

Dates covered: 1993-present

tags: general, multidisciplinary, religion

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A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America, covering the social sciences and humanities. Includes over 5,000 new bibliographic entries each year as selected and annotated by leading scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Updated weekly. (Library of Congress)

Dates covered: 1936-present

tags: Latin America, international studies

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Provides full-text access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines as well as health-related pamphlets, nearly 130 health reference books, and 9,900 clinical reports (also in Spanish). Also contains Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, covering 1,300 generic drug patient information sheets with 4,700+ brand names. (EBSCOhost)

Dates covered: 1984-present

tags: nursing, medicine

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A catalog of European printing in the early modern era (ca. 1455-1830) compiled by the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose members represent national and university libraries in 25 countries. Includes 2.7+ million records, with citations for works in more than 80 languages, including many European languages (medieval and modern) and classical Latin and Greek. Supports research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought, as well as in the history of printing and history of the book. "An essential resource for anyone interested in Europe's multilingual print culture during the 'handpress' period." (OCLC)

Dates covered: 1400s-1830

tags: books, history

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The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Contains statistics from over 1000 sources, with 37,339 separate data series spanning the social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) history, governance, sociology, demography, natural resources, climate, international migration, and trade. Permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables/spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest. (Cambridge University Press)

Dates covered: 1600s-2000s

tags: history, sociology, United States, statistics

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