Databases

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily!

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Biography in Context offers terrific contextual information on the world's most influential people. Reference, periodicals and multimedia content is organized into a user-friendly portal. You can search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text. ​

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The CIA World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and much more. Use the drop down menu on the right-hand side under the words “The World Factbook” to select your country.

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The Consumer Product Information Database is used for sharing the health effects of consumer products, searchable by Brand, Product Type, Manufacturer, Ingredients, Health Effects, and more.

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Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.

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Gale in Context: High School is an excellent general database provides contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. It offers authoritative reference content plus full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal.

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Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

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The Internet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that brings together engaging, accessible content with integrated assessments and insights to supercharge reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Newseum showcases newspaper headlines from around the country and around the world. Hovering your mouse gives you a quick glance of the topic.

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With access to the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, students enter a world of intelligent, thoughtfully worded discussion centering on the key issues of our time, such as genetic engineering, environmental policy, prejudice, abortion, health care reform, and media violence.

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The Avalon Project, compiled by Yale Law School, click on one of the centuries to find links to primary resources. Subjects cover Law, History and Diplomacy.

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DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Eurodocs has links to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.

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Compiled by Hanover College, use Hanover Historical Texts Project to select a particular region to find primary documents related to World History OR select a particular century to find primary documents related to American History. Also scroll down to find these topics broken down into more specific topics.

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Use the Internet History Sourcebook to click on one of the various sourcebooks (Ancient History, Medieval, Modern History, etc.) to find primary links related to your specific topic.

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JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665.

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The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Their digital collections provide culturally rich resources on America's history.

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The National Archives (Life Photo Archive) is the U.S. Government's collection of primary source documents that records important events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials and makes them available for research.

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The National Archives is the U.S. Government's collection of primary source documents that records important events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials and makes them available for research.

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The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.​

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Perseus Project is a digital collection of primary and secondary sources for a number of specific time periods, including: Ancient Greek & Roman History; 19th Century America; the Renaissance; Richmond Times; and Humanist & renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin.

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U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Reference content is paired with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal.

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History Resource Center reaches back nearly 5,000 years to chronicle the rise and fall of cultures and societies across all continents and eras. Rare primary sources combine with reliable secondary source references.

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

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Gale In Context: Literature helps students succeed by providing the context they need to connect with the literature they’re studying—from canonical classics to diverse new voices—enabling educators to facilitate the kind of meaningful interactions and powerful moments with literature that lead to improved learning outcomes.

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Gale Literature Resource Centeris Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. The resource provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented.

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The Oxford English Dictionary is a free online dictionary definitions and pronunciations for learners of English from the bestselling Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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Access to JoVE's Science Education video library and Video Journal (more advanced research applications). Check out lab technique tutorial videos and Science Education videos for topics and techniques in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science, and Psychology. Also of note: an online Biology Textbook (called "Core") and Lab Manual.

To access the resource, create an account:

1. Go to the JoVE site

2. Click the green Login button in the upper right corner.

3. Click on the Sign Up button.

4. Enter your info (using your @archer email) and click "Create an Account"

5. Check you email for your account verification.

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

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Click one of the PLoS Journals in the upper right-hand corner to find articles on a particular discipline.

PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

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Science in Context provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal.

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