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
• History Resource Center: US -- Online collection of primary and secondary sources covering United States history from precolonial times to the present
• History Resource Center: World -- Online collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity to the present.
• JSTOR -- Archive of full text academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center -- Online viewpoint and reference articles, statistics, and primary source documents for researching current event and social issues topics.
•  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.

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.