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History Databases & Descriptions
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times through the present. The database comprises 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2000 sources. Publications indexed are post-1964. Updated annually.
VAST is a package of video collections, accessible through the new Academic Video Online cross-search.Includes nearly a million detailed archival descriptions of collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. An important source for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories.
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.Contains references for publications since 1954 to over 2000 sources. Includes article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history of the world except the US and Canada from 1450 to present. Updated annually.A searchable database of article and full page images of every issue of the New York Times from September 18, 1851 to December 31, 2001.Indexes, abstracts and full text of the premier journals in archaeology, art, film, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Indexing dates back to 1984. Full text of articles begins in 1995.In the First Person is a free, high quality, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.Provides full text access for scholarly journals in the areas of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and sociology. The Life Science Collection is also available. This database covers a complete journal run from the first issue up to the most recent three to five years.OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).The Pennsylvania Digital Library (PADL) is a state-wide repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations. PADL provides researchers with an aggregated search interface for these digital materials.Access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The coverage is from 1990 to the present.
