W170: Composition
General Resources
Academic Search (EBSCO) - about - Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - about - Provides access to citations from 512 of the leading United States periodicals from 1890-1982.
JSTOR - about - Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
Project Muse - about - Includes nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers, in full-text. Coverage: Varies, mostly from 1995 onward
LexisNexis Academic - about - Organized into 5 categories, LexisNexis includes articles from international newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legal research and medical journals.
Historical Newspapers and Periodicals
African American Newspapers (1827-1998) - about - Full text of African American newspapers
Coverage: 1827-1998
America's Historical Newspapers - about - More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 present states, 1690-1922.
Coverage: 1690-1922
ProQuest Historical Newspapers - about - A database of historical newspapers from the United States.
Nineteenth Century Historical United States Newspapers - about - A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.
Coverage: 19th century
Periodicals Archive Online - about - Previously known as PCI Full Text, Periodicals Archive Online offers backfiles of over 400 humanities and social sciences journals.
Coverage: 17th century to the present
American Periodicals Series Online - about - Digital archive of 1000 American magazine and journal titles, from 1740 to 1900
Topical/Geographical Resources
Africa-Wide NiPAD - about - Formerly called African Studies; contains over 1 million searchable records from the South African Studies and African Studies Databases.
Coverage: 19th Century to Present
America: History & Life - about - Covers the history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present, indexing more than 2000 journals published worldwide, dissertations and reviews.
Coverage: 1964-present
American Civil War: Letters & Diaries - about - Full text of letters, diaries, and memoirs from the American Civil War, with biographies and an extensive bibliography.
Coverage: 1861-1865
Bibliography of Native North Americans (EBSCO) - about - Includes citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents pertaining to native North American culture, history, and life.
Early Encounters in North America - about - Searchable text of letters, diaries, memoirs and other accounts of early contacts between Europeans and Native Americans in North America.
Coverage: 15th century-19th century
Alexander Street Literature - about - Searchable collection of creative writing of race, place, and gender.
Black Thought and Culture - about - Non-fiction published works of African American leaders, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters, etc.
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography - about - Searchable full-text ethnographies on hundreds of ethnic, cultural, religious, and national groups worldwide.
Empire Online - about - Contains over 70,000 images of original manuscripts (including biographies and chronologies) and printed materials covering Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceana, and South Asia.
Coverage: 1492-1962
Ethnographic Video Online - about - Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from anthropologists and ethnographers working in the field; and select feature films. Includes searchable transcripts.
Literature Criticism Online - about - Online compilation of Gale literary criticism series.
MLA International Bibliography - about - Indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - about - Full text of letters, diaries, autobiographies, and oral histories of immigrants to America and Canada. Covers 1840 to present, but heaviest focus is on 1920-1980.
Coverage: 1840 to present
Image Resources
AP Images - about - An electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope.
Image Database (ARTstor) - about - A digital image library of over 1,000,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
Image Collection - about - A searchable collection of images ranging from photographs and maps to illustrations and etchings
Encyclopedias, and how to find them
Encyclopaedia Britannica - about - The online equivalent of the complete printed Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Internet links.
Holocaust Encyclopedia - about - An encyclopedia with extra features concerning the Holocaust and the principal figures involved
Te Ara—Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.
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