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Academic Search Complete* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Multi-disciplinary article database including full-text for more than 7,800 peer-reviewed titles.

America: History and Life (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Over 230 journals and 100 books covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

ARTstor (Provider: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
Description: image database covering art, architecture, design, archaeology, and more

CQ Historic Documents (Provider: CQ Press)
Description: primary source material dating back to 1972. Includes the texts of significant speeches, Supreme Court decisions, international agreements, and scientific findings

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

Article Databases (multiple subjects)

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Reference Databases (multiple subjects)

Biography Reference Bank (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias

Oxford English Dictionary (Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language

Oxford Reference Online (Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press

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