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General Databases

Academic Search Complete
Indexes and abstracts over 18,000 journals in science and technology, psychology, religion and philosophy, etc. Over 4,800 journals are peer-reviewed and full text.
Academic OneFile
Includes more than 14,000 titles, with over 9,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 6,000 in full text. Contains the full text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present. View Tutorial:

Library Catalog - Find books, journal articles, videos, and more

Library Catalog

Find books, journal articles, videos, and more.

Subject Databases

ATLA Religion Database
The ATLA RDB (American Theological Library Association Religion Database) covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues from 1949 to present.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
This bibliographic database is a valuable index for individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Government Politics and Law
HeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 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. This Government, Politics & Law HeinOnline’s database package includes, among other things, special collections on Criminal Justice, History, Foreign Relations, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law.
History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 3,800 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, more than 57,000 historical documents, 80,000 biographies of historical figures, nearly 46,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,800 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,230 journals.
JSTOR
A digital library providing access to books, primary sources, and archival and current issues of over 2,000 scholarly journals across from over 50 academic disciplines. View this tutorial:
Military & Government Collection
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, providing full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracting for more than 400 titles.
Newspaper Source Plus
Includes 1,400 full-text newspapers, providing more than 55 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 1,111,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Project MUSE
A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Contains full-text resources of journals from over 120 publishers.

History Best Bet Databases
There's a large number of databases that would be useful for Historical research available. This is the place where we list them all.

Online Reference

A Guide to the Ancient World, H.W. Wilson
This useful companion to classical history reveals the ancient world - from Scotland to India and from Spain to the Black Sea - through the numerous sites of its history and legends. Covering nations, provinces, cities, towns, rivers, seas, straits, mountains, plains, and battle sites, Michael Grant describes about 900 historically significant places in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Carthage Archives Catalog
The Archives catalog provides access to collection listings and digital content from the Staubitz Archives. This catalog can only be accessed on campus.
Chambers Dictionary of World History
Chambers Dictionary of World History contains many entries, providing clear and authoritative coverage of the most significant people, ideas and events of world history.
The Encyclopedia of World History
the Encyclopedia embraces social and cultural developments, non-European history, women's history, religion, health, economics, technology, and other vital but less often reported aspects of the human drama.
The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
The most complete, detailed, and up-to-date chronology of world history available up to 2008.

Arranged in strict chronological sequence by decade or by year, this work details both major and minor events that shaped every area of human achievement and concern.
Federal Depository Libraries
Federal Depository Libraries are repositories for all government documents. You can visit in person and look at any of the documents. The nearest complete repository is at the Milwaukee Public Library.

Research Tools

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Electronic Resources

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder is not an article database, it is a portal to journal availability within the library database and serials collections.