Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Diversity

• Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
• Black History Month at the State Archives of Florida — African-American history in Florida containing primary and secondary source collections and images dating from the 17th century to the 1980s.
• Bloomington-Normal Black History Project at McLean County Museum of History — Collections span the 19th and 20th centuries and contain photographs, portraits, booklets, articles, and photocopies related to club organizations and churches of the local Black community. The McLean County Historical Society serves as a repository for the project's collections.
• Digital Public Library of America Civil Rights Movement — A digital primary source and secondary source collection focusing on the Civil Rights Movement including women’s leadership, racial equality, nonviolent protest, black power, and civil rights activism.
• 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.
• Digital Public Library of America Women's Suffrage — Primary source collection focusing on the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ensuring every woman’s right to vote.
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) — Free academic peer-reviewed ebooks.
• Films on Demand - Black History Month — Videos focusing on Black History, African American History, Civil Rights, and notable speakers.
• Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies — A multi-media collection containing over 2.7 million articles from 150 journals on cultural differences, contributions, and influences in Gender & Women Studies, Black History, African American History, Sociology, Western Civilization, Politics, and Anthropology.
• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• JSTOR (also OER from JSTOR's Open Content) — Archives of core journals in the Arts & Sciences I collection (economics, history, political science, sociology) and the Arts & Sciences III collection (languages and literature, music, folklore, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture); does not contain content from the past 3-5 years. Includes multidisciplinary book and journal open access content from JSTOR's Open Content.
• Legacy of Slavery in Maryland (The MD State Archives) — Contains primary and secondary source collections from case studies, interactive maps, traveling exhibit, resources such as MD census data, rare books and reprinted archival material, Maryland law including history of Runaway Laws, and a database of 400,00 white and black individuals, slave owners, enslaved and free individuals from primarily the years of 1830 through 1880.
• Library of Congress — The most extensive multidisciplinary, primary and secondary source collections in the world that include over 171 million resources in various formats.
• Maryland State Archives — Maryland’s central depository for government records and special collections from 1634 to the present. Select Visit the Archives to view Research Guides containing historical records and special collections.
• National Archives — Contains the nation’s important and preserved documents and federal records such as military, naturalization, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, African American history, women’s rights and suffrage and much more, and owned by the citizens of the United States of America.
• Project MUSE — Open access academic books and journals in health, history, art history, humanities, literature, culture and diversity, education, music, math, philosophy, sciences, and technology.
• 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.
• ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Research Library — Articles from periodicals in a wide range of academic subjects. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian — NMAI is a division of the Smithsonian Institute which houses one of the largest primary and secondary source collections of Native artifacts worldwide.
• The Long 19th Amendment Project — Primary source collections from over 40 contributing repositories including materials from the Schlesinger Library highlighting women’s suffrage in the United States and managed by Harvard University.
• Western Maryland's Historical Library (WHILBR) — Primary and secondary source digital collections containing historical images, photographs, prints, newspaper articles, rare books, genealogy resources, lynchings, women’s suffrage and more from Allegheny, Garrett, and Washington counties and from the Civil War in Maryland, managed by The Western Maryland Regional Library.