JSTOR (Scholarly Journal Archive) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR includes core journals in ecomonics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Available off campus with a username and password.
Bloom’s Literature contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors—from William Shakespeare to J. K. Rowling—and their works.Bloom’s Literature features streaming video of more than 400 famous productions, hundreds of full-text, classic works and essential writing help. Bloom’s Literature includes critical essays from Facts On File’s extensive collection, Harold Bloom’s acclaimed essays, and criticism from the Bloom’s imprint.
History Research Center includes the following resources, all fully cross-searchable and seamlessly integrated for complete history coverage:American History: More than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, with expanded coverage of American women’s history and U.S. government for comprehensive curricular coverage.African-American History: A comprehensive examination of more than five centuries of the African-American experience.American Indian History: 15,000 years of American Indian history and culture.Ancient & Medieval History: An extensive exploration of world history from prehistory through the mid-1500s.Modern World History: Covers the broad expanse of world history from the mid-15th century to the present.
Science Online: With a wealth of content and a dynamic design that facilitates STEM research and learning, the award-winning Science Online offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines. Topic Centers feature specially selected content on core science disciplines to help students find a starting point for their research.
Today's Science presents
the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Today's Science covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, science and society.
Global Plants holds more than 1.8 million plant type specimens - the authoritative records for plants species that are cataloged in herbaria around the world- along with their scientific names and classifications. Available off campus with a username and password.
World News Digest: Authoritative World News Coverage from 1940 through Today: Provides Information, Context, and Perspective.“News Media Roundups” spotlights timely, hot-button events of the week, linking to a wide range of editorially curated content about each event. “Recent News” features concise, clearly written news summaries that provide indispensable context and perspective on critical current events. “Special Feature” puts an important contemporary subject into historical context and organizes links to relevant material from the database so users can easily find the information they need. “Hot Topics” identifies major issues shaping the world today, and “Landmark Events in History” highlights key events of the past 75 years, from the presidential election of 1940 to the unrest in the Middle East today.
Issues & Controversies explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture. Updated weekly, with a wire-service newsfeed providing the latest headline stories, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles designed to inspire thought-provoking debates and research papers.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan research institute based in Washington, D.C. that conducts demographic research, public opinion polling and other forms of social science research.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites.
ProCon (from Britannica) is a leading nonpartisan site for learning the top arguments behind debatable issues of the day.https://www.britannica.com/procon
Churchhill Archives: Modern History Primary Sources, 800,000 pages of documents.https://www.churchillarchiveforschools.com/about
OER Commons: is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.https://oercommons.org/search?f.search=French+Revolution
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.https://www.merlot.org/merlot/
Project MUSE (Museums Uniting with Schools in Education), a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer reviewed academic journals and electronic books.
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines