Dutch Ambassadors Greeting the King of Kongo, late 17th cent.
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- All EBSCO databases that we have
- All JSTOR journals that we have
- Several newspaper databases
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- ...and much more
The Library Search Catalog does not include everything. We subscribe to many other databases--including about two dozen from ProQuest--that are not included in the catalog. To find and use these, go to A to Z Databases -- or let us help you.
Subject Specific Databases
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America: History and LifeIndexes scholarly literature about American and Canadian history, prehistory to the present day. Covers articles, book reviews, dissertations, and media reviews in English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
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Historical AbstractsCitations with abstracts to scholarly literature about world history (exclusive of United States and Canadian history, which is covered in America: History and Life). Covers historical periods from about 1450 A.D. to the present. Indexes articles, books, and dissertations in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
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Electronic Journal Center: HistoryLink to a listing in ALICE for electronic journals in the field of History. Please note that access to most of these is limited to Ohio University only; some to the Athens campus only and others to all campuses.
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American Periodical Series Online, 1740 -1900Searchable full-text database with digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Based on the American Periodicals Series microform collection.
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Humanities International CompleteIndexing journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
Area Specific Databases
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African biographical archive onlinePart of the World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online), the most comprehensive biographical database available. Based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives, it compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21st century.
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Caribbean searchCaribbean Search is a multidisciplinary database that provides access to English language articles relating to the countries and people of the Caribbean. Content sources include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books
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Economia y negociosLatin American economics database that indexes over 300 Spanish and Portuguese language economics journals. Covers 1980 to present.
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Fuente academicaMultidisciplinary database of full-text articles in Spanish and Portuguese from over 500 Latin American journals. Dates of coverage vary, but for most journals covers 2000 to present.