Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Literature

• Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
• 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 Academic OneFile — Articles from periodicals and reference sources in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select “to peer-reviewed publications.”
• Gale OneFile: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
• 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.
• 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.
• Primary Source Sets (Digital Public Library of America) — Open access primary source collections are from 1492 to 1970s, covering topics in history, literature, and culture
• Project Gutenberg — Free ebooks with a focus on older works for which copyright has expired.
• 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 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.
• University of Oxford Text Archive — Open access full-text literary and linguistic classic works from BCE to the present.