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Article & eBook Databases

Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary research database with access to content from over 14,000 active journals, magazines, and trade publications, with 90% of these peer-reviewed and more than 3000 including full text articles. Many of these are covered back to the 1960s and some as far back as 1911!
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
Over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences, presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and Michigan Publishing. Books in the ACLS HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies. [publisher's description]
Gale Academic OneFile
Search millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.Provided by NOVELny—the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library.
Humanities Source
Search the full text of more than 1,400 journals and citations to over 3.5 million articles. Covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, JSTOR is providing expanded access to content from participating publishers. Read more about the expanded access here.

JSTOR has greatly expanded access due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about the expanded offerings here: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/expanded-access-to-collections/
Loeb Classical Library
Ancient Greek and Roman texts, with English translations
Project MUSE
Provides full-text access to over peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
SpringerLink
Mostly ebooks, some ejournals from the publisher Springer, primarily in science and engineering, business and economics. No DRM. Download entire books in PDF format.
Wiley Online Library
An extensive collection of multidisciplinary ebooks and ejournals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Citation Tools

Chicago Manual of Style

Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.

zotero

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials. Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. It is produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

zbib

ZoteroBib or zbib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. It’s brought to you by the team behind Zotero.

Reference & Primary Sources

Census Data

The US Census Bureau provides a variety of tools you can use to explore, analyze and visualize Census data.

Evans Early American Imprint Collection

A searchable subset of the entire body of pre-1800 American imprints. The University of Michigan Libraries makes these historic texts freely in partnership with Readex and the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Over 4,400 testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The definitive record of the English language.

The New York Times Historical

1851-2016. Searchable full text with PDFs.

Research Tools

Clio

Clio is a geomapping tool that guides the user to thousands of historical and cultural sites throughout the United States.
Tableau Public

Tableau Public lets you create interactive graphs, stunning maps, and live dashboards in minutes. You can save your visualization to your Tableau Public profile to share it anywhere on the web.
Voyant

Voyant is a simple tool for mining a text, which can offer insights into word choice, metaphors, and imagery.

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