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- Academic Search Premier
Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches.
1980s-present (dates may vary).
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Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.
- Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
- Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
- Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals
While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.
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- ACLS History E-Book Project
Full-text of over 1,200 scholarly books in history. Topics include American, African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history.
Coverage dates vary.
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Topics include American, African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history, and the history of technology.
Individual pages may be printed using the browser's print button. However, at the request of copyright holders, the ACLS History E-Book Project has made no provision for printing or downloading of these titles, which remain under the copyright of the listed publisher, individual author, or estate.
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- America: History and Life
Summarizes scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada.
1964-current.
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The history of the rest of the world is covered in
Historical Abstracts. Search America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts together in
world history, including the United States and Canada.
Summarizes scholarly articles in all aspects of US & Canadian history, on topics from the Sioux Indian Ghost Dance or labor movements in Canada.
Includes some scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Also indexes historical books and dissertations.
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- America: History and Life
Summarizes scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada.
1964-current.
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Summarizes scholarly articles in all aspects of US & Canadian history, on topics from the Sioux Indian Ghost Dance or labor movements in Canada.
Includes some scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Also indexes historical books and dissertations.
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- American Periodicals Series 1740-1900
Digitized images of over 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1741-1900. Titles range from the scientific journal Medical Repository to Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
1740-1900.
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Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900.
Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
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- ArchivesUSA Web
Directory of over 5,500 repositories and over 130,000 collections of primary source material in the United States. Determine whether a collection contains material useful to your work along with contact information.
1950-current.
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Detailed information including phone and fax numbers, hours of service, materials solicited, email and URLs for repositories. ArchivesUSA includes:
- The entire collection of The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present. NUCMC includes information gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, covering more than 80,000 collections.
- Names and detailed subject indexing of over 50,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in Chadwyck-Healey's microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). Collection descriptions submitted directly to us from repositories.
- More than 3,000 links to online finding aids.
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- Associated Press Photo Archive
Photos from the Associated Press 50 million image print and negative library. Includes photos from the past hour. Some audio and graphic files included.
1840s-current.
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- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
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- Colonial Connecticut Records (1636-1776)
Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776. Includes the records of the colonial governing body; the Code of Laws, May 1650; the Charter of Connecticut; Journal and Correspondence of the Council of War, 1675-1677; and more.
1636-1776.
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Also includes Record of Wills and Inventories, 1640-1649. Vital to any serious research into the history of Connecticut, the Colonial Connecticut Records is a wealth of information dealing with history, political science, law, agriculture, sociology, policies towards native Americans, military history, foreign relations, and more.
- Connecticut History Online (CHO)
Images from the Connecticut Historical Society, Mystic Seaport, and the University of Connecticut's Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Connecticut State Library, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
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CHO is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society. Both Phase One and Phase Two (currently in progress) have been made possible by a National Leadership Grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Full-text of over 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Covers history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
1701-1800.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital edition of
The Eighteenth Century, the world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Search every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.
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- Hartford Courant Historical
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- Heritage Books Archive Boston Newsletter & Massachusetts Gazette Advertisement Index
Advertisement index to the Boston Newsletter & Massachusetts Gazette, a weekly newspaper published from 1704 through 1776. Lists individuals, corporate entities, shop signs, taverns, ships, churches, etc.
1704-1776.
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Entries frequently include employment and address information, together with a summary of other interesting details that can be gleaned from the text of the ads. The dates at the bottom of each entry refer to the dates wherein the name appeared in ads.
- Historical Abstracts
Summarizes scholarly articles in history of "the world" (South America, Europe, Africa, etc.) excluding the United States & Canada.
Articles published from 1954-current. Historical events from 1450 to present..
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- Historical Abstracts
Summarizes scholarly articles in history of "the world" (South America, Europe, Africa, etc.) excluding the United States & Canada.
Articles published from 1954-current. Historical events from 1450 to present..
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- Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS)
Statistics of the United States, covering population, work and welfare, economics, governance, and international relations. Primary data. Census data starts c1790; some data available from the 1600s; available through 2000 census.
1700s-current.
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- Download tables in Excel or CSV; also download entire groups of tables as a zip file
- Create custom tables; merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
- Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays.
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- Iter
Summarizes 250,000 articles and reviews published in 375 medieval and renaissance journals.
articles about 400-1700 .
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Iter presents a bibliography of approximately 250,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 375 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, this powerful research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
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- JSTOR
Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology.
Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
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Subjects include:
- African American Studies
- African Studies
- American Indian Studies
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture & Architectural History
- Art & Art History
- Asian Studies
- Botany
- Business
- Classical Studies
- Ecology
- Economics
- Education
- Feminist & Women's Studies
- Film Studies
- Finance
- Folklore
- General Science
- Geography
- History
- History of Science & Technology
- Language & Literature
- Latin American Studies
- Law
- Mathematics
- Middle East Studies
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Population Studies
- Psychology
- Public Policy & Administration
- Religion
- Slavic Studies
- Sociology
- Statistics
UConn subscribes to all available JSTOR Collections.
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- Making of Modern Law
Covers domestic and international law, legal history, national defense, criminology, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice and more. Over 21,000 U.S. and U.K. legal treatises from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
1800-1926.
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Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Covers domestic and international law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government, national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice.
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- Medieval and Early Modern Sources online
Searchable versions of published historical source material, including both the domestic and foreign State Papers. Covers England, Ireland, Scotland and the former’s foreign and colonial involvements. Documents included run from the 11th to the 18th centuries.
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- Nation Digital Archive
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- New York Times Historical
Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper.
1851 to 2 years ago.
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Includes articles, editorials and commentary, display and classified ads, obituaries, birth & death annoucements, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc. Also shows the entire page display of the newspaper, so you can see where articles, advertisements, and photos appear on the page.
Articles are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat. You may download the reader
here.
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- Project MUSE
Full-text of over 200 journals in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
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Journals published by major university presses, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects include:
- Classics
- Culture
- Education
- Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
- History
- Judaic Studies
- Language
- Law
- Literature
- Math
- Music
- Philosophy & Religion
- Philosophy & Science
- Politics
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- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.
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- Reader's Guide Retrospective
The most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.
1890-1982.
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Journals covered include
Time,
Newsweek, and
Life.
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- Times Digital Archive
Full facsimile images of specific articles and complete pages of the Times of London. Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
1785 - 1985.
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- WorldCat
Catalog of books, journals, DVDs, CDs, scores, and sound recordings from over 9,000 libraries. 40 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries.
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WorldCat indicates if UConn owns the item, but it does not have UConn’s specific call numbers for books, music, and scripts, and it does not have any AV call numbers.
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