Databases

Reference Tools

Alt-Press Watch — newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press
Culture Grams -- reports on more than 182 cultures of the world and U.S. states, including history, customs, and lifestyles.
e-Library — Full-text magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, pictures, Web links, and audio/video files
Encyclopedia Britannica -- a good place to start for general information on a variety of topics; includes a dictionary; also points to best Web sites on a topic.
Ethnic Newswatch — newspapers, magazines, and journals from the ethnic, minority and native press
Global Issues in Context -- Global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance.
Global Reference Center -- online encyclopedic resources in French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean
JSTOR -- Archive of full text academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
Proquest — scholarly and popular journals for recent information
Science Online -- Science-oriented diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions, and biographies.
Today's Science -- Science news, written for students, with weekly updates.
World Book Online -- Online encyclopedia in English, Spanish and French.
World Conflicts Today --This database explores protracted, unresolved world conflicts that have global implications.
World History Resource Center - Thompson Gale — collection of periodicals, reference works and primary sources

Annals of American History — online access to original source documents in US history
Internet Medieval Sourcebook — links to full texts of Medieval sources, plus Saints' Lives, devoted to Ancient, Medieval and Byzantine hagiographical sources.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook — links to translations of primary documents from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Rome and more.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook — links to primary sources on modern European history and American history, as well as to modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.