Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Biography

• Credo Reference — Credo’s Academic Core Collection provides full-text background information covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than 6 million research concepts from encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, companions, and readers. Credo also provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps.
• Digital Public Library of America DPLA — Open access primary sources, eBooks, exhibitions, images and photographs, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, videos and much more.
• Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
• Gale OneFile: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Gale OneFile: Science — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, experiments, and multimedia for science related research.
• Gale OneFile: U.S. History — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia covering pre-Colonial times to the present.
• Gale OneFile: World History — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, primary source documents, multimedia, and more on world history topics.
• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• Library of Congress — The most extensive multidisciplinary, primary and secondary source collections in the world that include over 171 million resources in various formats.
• LibriVox (Audio books) — Download open access audiobooks in a wide range of genres and subjects.
• Literary Reference Center — A comprehensive literary reference database with articles from books and monographs, literary encyclopedias, reference works, and journals.
• Literature Online (LION) — English and American literature resources, including journals, biographies, criticism, related websites, and complete text of poetry, prose, and drama works.
• Literature Resource Center — Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
• National Women’s History Museum — Open access online American women's history exhibits, primary sources, oral histories, biographies, autobiographies, archives (1996-2018), Study Collection (19th century to present), and more.
• ProQuest - Black Freedom Struggle in the United States — A collection of primary and secondary sources that focus on Black Freedom and African American History from American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture databases.