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19th Century British Library Newspapers  1800   1900 [Electronic Journals Collection]

Complete runs of 48 newspapers specially selected to best represent 19th Century Britain: London's national and regional newspapers; those from established country or university towns as well as the new industrial centers of the Midlands; and from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

19th Century British Pamphlets  1545   1900 [Primary Sources]

Digital primary source collection of more than 20,000 pamphlets digitized from research universities in the United Kingdom. A wide range of topics are covered, focusing on political and economic life in 19th century Britain. While the bulk of the collection is from the 19th century, there are some pamphlets included going back to 1545. Specific collections include: Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, and LSE Selected Pamphlets.

A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825     [Indexes and Abstracts]

A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Abbreviationes Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

A database of medieval abbreviations to assist in deciphering and transcribing medieval Latin manuscripts.

ABI/INFORM Global     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Includes the full text of articles in over 500 business and management journals, both trade and scholarly.

Academic OneFile     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Full text articles are available in both PDF and HTML. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

ACLS Humanities E-Book     [E-Book Collection]

A collection of scholarly e-books in the Humanities. Strongest in history, the collection also includes works in Art History, Folklore, Literature, Musicology, Philosophy, and Religion.

Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files     [Database]

This collection provides access to documents covering Afghanistan's history, internal political development, foreign relations, and existence as an independent state.

Afghanistan in 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War     [Database]

This collection presents the complete files of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) kept at the U.K. National Archives as FO 898 from its instigation to closure in 1946, along with the secret minutes of the special 1944 War Cabinet Committee "Breaking the German Will to Resist."

Africa Development Indicators     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Statistical information comprised of 1,000 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 African countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.

Africa-Wide Information     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Offers multidisciplinary information and provides the opportunity to search across 40 integrated databases sourced worldwide. Combining South African Studies and African Studies, NiPAD provides access to two million records with full-text links.

African Newspapers, 1800-1922  1800   1922 [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides access to more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers covering issues and events between 1800 and 1922

Almanac of American Politics     [e-book]

Profiles every senator, representative and governor, as well as the people and politics of every state and congressional district.

Aluka Struggles for Freedom, Southern Africa     [Database]

The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.

Aluka World Heritage Sites - Africa     [Database]

World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. The materials serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning.

America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Includes Early American Newspapers series 1 through 12, 1690-1922, and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980. Series 1 (1690 - 1876) provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Series 2 (1758 - 1900) focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers. Series 3 (1829 - 1922) focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century newspapers including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond. Series 4 (1756-1922); Series 5 (1777-1922); Series 6 (1741-1922); Series 7 (1773-1922); Series 8 (1844-1922); Series 9 (1832-1922); Series 10 (1730-1900); Series 11 (1803-1899); Series 12 (1821-1900)

America: History and Life  1964 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies  1939   present [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.

American Broadsides and Ephemera     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

American Factfinder     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Access to 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, the American Community Survey, and the 1997 Economic Census.

American National Biography Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The American National Biography Online has biographical information on over 17,000 notable Americans from colonial times to the present.

American State Papers 1789-1838     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Legislative and executive documents originating from the period between 1789 and the beginning of the "U.S. Congressional Serial Set" in 1817.

Annual Reviews     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Search full text of Annual Reviews covering the biomedical, physical and social sciences, and economics.

Anthropology Plus     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University, and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. It covers over 2,500 journals and begins coverage in the late 19th century.

AnthroSource (Wiley)     [Database]

A service developed by the American Anthropological Association containing a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003, as well as current issues of eleven critical peer-reviewed publications.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender     [Primary Sources]

Digital primary source collection on the social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Rare and unique content from newsletters, organisational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more.

Audiovisual Library of International Law     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Consists of three sections: Historic Archives containing documents and audiovisual materials relating to the negotiation and adoption of significant legal instruments under the auspices of the United Nations and related agencies since 1945; (2) Lecture Series featuring a permanent collection of lectures on every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different countries and legal systems; and (3) Research Library providing an on-line international law library with links to treaties, jurisprudence, publications and documents, scholarly writings and research guides. Video requires Real Player.

BBC Shakespeare Plays     [Primary Sources]

Streaming video plays of William Shakespeare.

Bibliography of Asian Studies     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An index of Western-language articles, monographs, and book chapters published since 1971.

Black Studies Center     [Database]

A portal to several resources in black studies (African American Studies, African Studies, and Diaspora Studies) including essays from Schomberg Studies on the Black Experience, indexes and full-text from black journals and periodicals covered by the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Marshall Index (formerly A Guide to Negro Periodical Literature), and the Black Literature Index. Also includes the full-text of the Chicago Defender newspaper, 1912-1975.

Black Studies in Video (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

Black Studies in Video includes streaming access to seminal documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience in the United States. Highlights include footage from the 50th anniversary reunion celebrating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, documentaries of major black figures (e.g. Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton), and the Hatch-Billops Collection on black American art, drama, and literature.

British Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918     [Database]

This collection provides access to telegrams, correspondence, minutes, memoranda and confidential prints gathered in the India Office Military Department on Mesopotamia.

CAB Abstracts  1910 -   present [Indexes and Abstracts]

CAB Abstracts covers the fields of applied life sciences, agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Subjects indexed include molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance.

CAB Abstracts Archive  1910 -   1972 [Indexes and Abstracts]

CAB Abstracts Archive covers the fields of applied life sciences, agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Subjects indexed include molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance.

Cambridge Core     [Database]

Cambridge Core, the platform for Cambridge University Press's academic content, contains over 1 million journal articles and 30,000+ books in Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Science.

CentralMass DataCommon     [Web Sites]

An interactive data portal and online mapping tool that provides a wealth of information about the Central Massachusett region's people, communities and neighborhoods through a wide variety of topics.

CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Discussion Papers     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Centre for Economic Policy Research publishes over 250 Discussion Papers each year. CEPR Discussion Papers are the primary method for the distribution of research carried out by the Centre, and represent timely and original thinking on important issues in economics. Every paper since 2000 is online.

CIAO [Columbia International Affairs Online]     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Columbia International Affairs Online Provides searchable access to the full-text of working papers and conference proceedings from 45 leading research centers in the field of international policy and scholarship. CIAO also provides abstracts from key foreign policy journals and the texts of 12 books on various aspects foreign affaires as well as links to internet resources and a calendar of meetings and conferences.

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reduction of Acid Rain, Urban Air Pollution, and Environmental Policy     [Database]

This collection consists of essential documents on the promulgation and implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 and other environmental issues including endangered species and protection of American wetlands.

Communication & Mass Media Complete     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Communication & Mass Media Complete is an index and abstracting resource with considerable full-text. It incorporates the content of CommSearch & Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Multidisciplinary coverage of the world's conference literature in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Congress Daily     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Information on the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill.

Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History brings together more than 120 primary source documents that allow the region's modern history to be told by the people who made it. Each chapter begins with an overview and features speeches, charters, diplomatic agreements, UN resolutions, and other texts that have influenced or were the product of major events and movements. An essay providing historical context precedes each document or set of related documents. A chronology covering the period 1917-2007 complements the narratives and documents.

CREDO Reference     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Online reference resources from numerous publishers. This reference resource can be searched by individual title, broad subject headings, cross-references, audio and images. Use its "research mapper" to search for terms and topics that are interconnected and displayed in (a) visual form. Examples of titles are: Bloomsbury Guide to Art, Bridgeman Art Library Archive, Columbia Encyclopedia, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Harvard Dictionary of Music, and the Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. The complete list of titles is available on the CREDO Reference site.

Current Contents Connect     [Indexes and Abstracts]

A current awareness database with a multidisciplinary focus, covering over 8,000 of the world's scholarly journals grouped into the following broad disciplinary areas: Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Art & Humanities; Clinical Medicine; Engineering, Computing & Technology; Life Sciences; Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences; Social & Behavioral Sciences. Also included is access to ISI Current Web Contents.

Cyprus Crisis, 1967: Standoff between Greece and Turkey     [Database]

These documents highlight the structure and activities of the Persian Gulf States' and Yemen's political system, government, judiciary, laws, military, customs, economy, finance, agriculture, natural resources, industry, communications, and media. Because of the broad scope of these records, they both supplement and complement the coverage offered by the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series.

Democracy in Turkey, 1950‐1959: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files     [Database]

This collection of State Department documents provides access to unique primary source materials on the political, economic and social development of Turkey during a period of democratization in the 1950s.

Digital National Security Archive     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Digital National Security Archive, with over 35,000 documents, provides access to what has been called "the largest collection of contemporary declassified national security information outside the United States Government".

Early American Imprints I, Evans: 1639-1800     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An online collection reproducing every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819 - the complete printed, non-serial source materials of American culture for the 17th and 18th centuries. Covers titles in the Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker bibliographies. Available also in microform: TISCH MICROFORMS F700.

Early American Imprints II: Shaw Shoemaker, 1801-1819     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker

Early Encounters in North America (Alexander Street)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An expanding source of letters, diaries and other accounts of early encounters between Europeans and Native Americans from the mid-1600s through the mid 1800s. This resource is fully indexed and can be searched in a wide variety of ways, and should be of interest to historians, anthropologists and environmental scientists.

Early English Books Online     [Primary Sources]

Over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), comprising all known English language books from the beginning of printing to 1700.

EBSCOhost World Politics Review     [Database]

This unique database provides uncompromising analysis of critical global trends to give academics, policymakers and businesspeople the context they need to have the confidence they want.

EcoAmericas  1988 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Monthly reports on development and environment issues in Latin America; archives back to 1998.

Economist     [Journals]

The online edition of The Economist provides analysis of world business and current affairs, covering international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular industry, business and country surveys. The site also provides briefings, statistics and profiles on 60 countries under Country Briefings.

Education Research Global Observatory     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Collection of freely-accessible, open access journals in Education and related fields

Educator's Reference Complete  1980   [Database]

Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily.

eHRAF Archaeology     [Indexes and Abstracts]

A cross-cultural database containing information on the world's prehistory. This annually-growing database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

eHRAF World Cultures     [Web Sites]

A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  1701   1800 [Indexes and Abstracts]

ECCO aims to deliver every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the Eighteenth Century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas: books, directories, Bibles, scientific treatises, almanacs, laws, court cases, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, speeches, handbills, parish registers, pool books, cookbooks, etc.

EIU.com Economist Intelligence Unit Reports     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Economist Intelligence Unit Reports provides access to full-text of Country Reports, Country Profiles, Country Finance and Country Commerce series, and Risk Briefing. All reports -except Risk Briefing- can be searched simultaneously.

EMIS     [Web Sites]

Online database covering financial, legal, industrial and macro-economic information, and daily news.

Encyclopedia of Energy     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

All forms of energy are covered from energy use and the environment, to the effect of energy on history and society. Also included are a glossary of energy terms and a chronology of energy-related events.

Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion     [e-book]

The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion traces the roots of the relationship between politics and religion from antiquity to the present, revealing how it has shaped public discourse, social attitudes, collective action, and national and international policy, particularly during the past two centuries.

Environment and Safety Library     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Includes Federal and State regulations, ChemCite Research Suite, Country Profiles, Guides, Cases and Military documents, and other resources.

Environment Complete     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Includes coverage from 1940s, as well as full text for over 650 journals.

ERIC     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Essay and General Literature Index  Indexing 1985 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Cites over 300,000 essays and indexes single and multi-author collections, plus selected annuals and serials. Also includes publications from the United States, Canada and Great Britain.

Europa World Plus     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Electronic, full-text version of the print series, Europa World Year Book. This title provides lengthy essays covering politics, government, history, economics and international agencies for every country in the world.

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930     [Database]

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the French colonial government and the activities of the native peoples. Highlights include the beginning of an anti-colonial movement and problems along the Moroccan-Algerian border.

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa 1910-1929     [Database]

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities at the end of the First World War. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the German colonial governments and later the mandate authorities and the activities of the native peoples.

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939     [Database]

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities during the period 1930-1939. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Italian colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1933     [Database]

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities from 1910-1933. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Portuguese colonial government and the activities of the native peoples. Highlights include the beginning of an anti-colonial movement and the industrialization and economic exploitation of Portugal's African colonies.

Factiva     [Database]

Factiva from Dow Jones has over 14,000 news and business sources from around the world, including newspapers, magazines, wire services, media transcripts, company and industry reports, historical market data, and advanced charting tools.

Financial Times Historical Archive     [Database]

Provides access to the Financial Times (Global News - London) from 1888-2010.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service  1941   1996 [Indexes and Abstracts]

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports presents translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the globe.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan     [Primary Sources]

Asian history | 1947-1980 CE | British Foreign Office files.

Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981     [Primary Sources]

Middle Eastern history | 1971-1981 CE | British Foreign Office files.

Gale U.S. History in Context     [Database]

Gallup Analytics     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Gallup Analytics provides access to trended data for the U.S. back to the 1930's and a decade of data from more than 160 countries. It includes data sources from Gallup World Poll, Gallup Daily Tracking, and Gallup Brain.

Global Issues in Context     [Database]

Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search — Global Issues In Context is updated daily and offers 250 different country topic pages and more than 400 Issue pages. Exclusive to Global Issues In Context, Global Issues Viewpoints contains more than 3,000 exclusive commentaries that provide background and guidance on significant topics.

Google Scholar     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. Contains full text links to a few of Tufts subscribed databases such as Pubmed and scholarly articles that are available anywhere across the web.

Guerra Civil Española     [Database]

This collection contains 3,000 rare pamphlets, including publications from Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the Philippines, as well as more than 100 German pamphlets published in Spanish. Distributed throughout Spain, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and North America, the pamphlets in this collection represent the opinions and philosophies of the insurgents, anarchists, socialists and communists. The pamphlets contain a wealth of information on Spanish and international history, ideology, political science, church and state conflicts, nationalism, socialism, fascism and communism.

Handbooks in Economics Series     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Handbooks cover a broad set of topics in a particular field of economics. Each chapter provides professional researchers, lecturers and students with accurate, self-contained surveys, written and edited by the leading authorities in their field.

HAPI Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States: citations to articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, and other material in more than 500 international social science and humanities journals, published from 1970 to the present. Many citations are linked to full-text.

Health Reference Center Academic     [Database]

Articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

Healthstar (Ovid )  1966-   [Database]

Comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE database, Ovid's HealthStar contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery.

HeinOnline     [Database]

Legal research collection of current and historical materials, including full-text law journals and texts; Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals; U.S. laws, regulations, cases and Congressional materials; international treaties and constitutions, foreign and comparative law materials, United Nations and League of Nations publications; and Jessup moot court information.

Highwire Press     [Electronic Journals Collection]

A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with over 1195 journals and more than 5 million full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers in Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.

Historical Abstracts  1450   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Scholarly literature in history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Database coverage starts in 1955.

Historical Statistics of the US Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Fully searchable and downloadable compendium of statistics that includes over 37,000 data series on various topics. Allows users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets.

History Universe     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Index to the guides of 127 microform collections on 19th and 20th century American history.

Homeland Security Digital Library     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Homeland Security Digital Library collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies in the field of homeland defense and security related research.

Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas, 1941-1976     [Database]

This collection documents the activist and professional activities of Donald S. Lucas, an important figure in the early homosexual civil rights movement; there also are a limited number of documents of a personal nature. The period covered ranges from 1941 to 1998. The vast majority of the collection, however, dates from 1953 to 1969. The strength of the collection lies in the administrative and work files of the Mattachine Society, the Mattachine Review, Pan-Graphic Press, and the Central City Target Area of the San Francisco EOC.

Hotline     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Coverage of daily political news.

Immigration to the United States 1789-1930     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Part of Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program, this free web resource contains several thousand digitized books, pamphlets, photographs, maps, and pages from manuscripts detailing the experience of voluntary immigrants to the United States from the country's beginnings to the Depression era.

India Base Map     [CD Rom]

This base map product of India includes international, state and district boundaries, locations of 5161 cities and towns, highways, rail-routes, airports, etc. Census demographics, socio-economic and communications data are included.

India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department     [Database]

Digitized collection of documents from the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to the internal affairs of India and U.S. relations with India during the critical period of transition to formal independence. Includes special reports on political and military affairs, socioeconomic studies, interviews and meeting minutes with foreign government officials, documents received by U.S. diplomats, translations of foreign government documents (including speeches, memos, transcripts of meetings) and foreign newspapers.

India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966     [Database]

Over 15,000 pages of State Department Central Files on India and Pakistan from 1963 through 1966 make this collection a standard documentary resource for the study of the political relations between India and Pakistan during a crucial period in the Cold War and the shifting alliances and alignments in South Asia.

Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920     [Database]

For generations of British and Indian Officers and men, the North-West Frontier was the scene of repeated skirmishes and major campaigns against the trans-border Pathan tribes who inhabited the mountainous no-man's land between India and Afghanistan. This collection contains Army Lists; Orders; Instructions; Regulations; Acts; Manuals; Strength Returns; Orders of Battle; Administration Summaries; organization, commissions, committees, reports, maneuvers; departments of the Indian Army; and regimental narratives.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research     [Indexes and Abstracts]

ICPSR provides access to an archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data files are raw data, not in report format, and are used with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. There is a tutorial on the site and a Tufts University contact is listed to help with downloading

International African Bibliography Online     [Database]

The International African Bibliography Online (IABO) is a specialist bibliography of African Studies and contains 140,000 entries of the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015 and about 4,000 new publications will be added per year. The IABO can be browsed by categories and offers detailed search options.

International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An annual bibliography of books and articles relating to European Humanism and the Renaissance. Sources may be historical, political, artistic, literary, philosophical, technical, economic, etc. The terms ‘humanism’ and ‘renaissance’ are intended in a broad sense, both in terms of content and chronology. Emphasis is on, but not strictly limited to, the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. Coverage begins in 1965.

International Financial Statistics  1945 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

International Monetary Fund Balance of payments, interest and exchange rates, trade and banking statistics; tables for every country.

International Medieval Bibliography Online  1967 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Brepols, 1967- An international index to medieval topics (400-1500) in literature, language, history, archaeology, art, music, theater, Arabic and Islamic studies, and religion and philosophy. IMB covers 4,500 journals and over 5,000 miscellany volumes in 30 languages.

iPOLL Databank     [Database]

The iPOLL Databank from the Roper Center Public Opinion Archives focuses on national scope surveys and contains not only the complete question text and responses to half a million questions from as far back as 1935, but also information such as study abstracts, links to questionnaires, datasets and citation information where available.

Issues and Controversies     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Full-text, in-depth essays giving multiple perspectives to issues facing society today. Search full text, subject index, title, date. Custom searching also available. It also provides access to selected primary source documents, interviews, newspaper editorials and bibliographies.

Iter: Bibliography     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An index of interdisciplinary journal literature on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes citations for articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, and discographies.

Janes     [Web Sites]

Jane's periodicals and databases, with information on defense, security, weapons, terrorism, intelligence, and public safety.

Journal Citation Reports - Science and Social Sciences  1999 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

A resource for citation data in the sciences (5,000 journals) and social sciences(1,500 journals) showing the relationship between citing and cited journals.

JSTOR     [Electronic Journals Collection]

JSTOR includes scholarship published in more than 1,400 of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Kids InfoBits     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Latin American Newspapers Series 1, 1805-1922  1805   1922 [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides access to more than 45 fully searchable Latin American newspapers covering people, issues and events of the region between 1805 and 1922.

Latin American Newspapers Series 2, 1822-1922  1822   1922 [Indexes and Abstracts]

This second series of digitized Latin American Newspapers expands the number of searchable titles available from this region by more than 250 additional titles. Includes newspapers published in English, Spanish and Portuguese from 20 countries.

Liberation Movement in Africa and African America     [Database]

Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People’s Revolutionary Party; this collection provides two unique views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles. Material from 1970-1985.

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text  1994   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s for some publications.

Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990     [Primary Sources]

Full-text searching of records from the ACLU from before its founding in 1920 through the 20th century. Covers topics such as race, identity, gender rights, worker’s rights, popular protest, the role of government, and more.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Comprehensive analytical resource covering all major topics in public international law, updated and expanded from the print edition. Articles are peer reviewed and have numerous linked references.

MetroBoston DataCommon     [Web Sites]

An interactive data portal and online mapping tool that provides a wealth of information about the Metro Boston region's people, communities and neighborhoods through a wide variety of topics.

Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli relations, 1917-1970     [Database]

Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970-offers the widest range of original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1971. National Archives records provide access to over 138,000 pages documenting the politics, administration, wars and diplomacy of the Palestine Mandate, the Independence of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some of the topics covered include the British capture of Jerusalem, the milestones in the Palestine-Zionist tension and their impact on British policy leading to the Partition of 1948, Jewish terror groups, the background to the establishment of the State of Israel as a Jewish national home,

Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974     [Database]

Iraq 1914-1974 offers the widest range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Topics covered include: The Siege of Kut-al-Amara, The War in Mesapotamia and the capture of Baghdad in 1917, Introduction of the British Mandate, and the installation of King Faisal in 1921, The British administration in Baghdad, Gertrude Bell, advisor to the British administration, in both reports and memos, The Arab Uprising of 1920, Independence, and Iraq's membership of the League of Nations in 1932, Coups d'etat in the 1930s and 1940s, The Baghdad Pact of 1955 and th

MideastWire.com     [Web Sites]

Daily news from newspapers, TV, and radio, originating in Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab Media Diaspora, and translated into English. Includes searchable archives and email newsletter. From 2005-

Migration to New Worlds     [Primary Sources]

History of migration and travel | 1800-1924 CE | Personal accounts, oral histories, correspondence, pamphlets, scrapbooks, photographs, and maps.

Nation Archive  1865 -   [Journals]

The Nation Digital Archive provides full access to the complete backfile of the oldest continuously published weekly journal in America; it includes every article, editorial, poem, puzzle, and review since publication began on July 6th, 1865.

National Academies Press     [Indexes and Abstracts]

More than 4000 books in pdf format from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. (PDFs cannot be shared.)

National Journal Online     [Journals]

Full text nonpartisan weekly on politics, policy and government.

NBER Working Papers     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers are now available online going back to November of 1994. Aimed at professional economists, these papers represent the original research of more than 600 leading scholars in their fields.

NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations     [Web Sites]

An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

Nexis Uni     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis - including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 - with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Oxford Academic Journals     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Full-text access to the Oxford University Press journals.

Oxford African American Studies Center     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Oxford African American Studies Center is a comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Oxford Bibliographies     [Indexes and Abstracts]

High-level overviews of scholarship written by top names in the field get researchers and faculty up to speed quickly on topics beyond an area of expertise.

Oxford Reference     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, science, technology and medicine, the performing arts, and religion. Works can be searched separately or across the entire databases. Includes over 1.5 million entries.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias American History     [Database]

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History combines the speed & flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias Latin American History     [Database]

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History combines the speed & flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.

PAIS Index     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This resource covers issues in public policy, combining both PAIS Archive and PAIS International, with coverage from 1915 to present. Sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material and more. The resource provides a broad perspective on social and public policies, from historical (Prohibition, civil rights, McCarthyism) to current (health policy, climate change, terrorism).

Parker Library on the Web     [Primary Sources]

High-resolution copies of 559 manuscripts in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. Manuscripts date from the sixth through the sixteenth centuries CE. Includes extensive bibliographic material relating to the collection.

Passport GMID     [Database]

Euromonitor's Passport GMID provides global market information on countries, consumers, and companies through in-depth reports and relevant statistical data. Includes consumer demographics and market trends

Penguin Dictionary of Psychology  1996   [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Arthur S. Reber, ed. Available via Xreferplus.

Pennsylvania Gazette  1728   1800 [Indexes and Abstracts]

Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century.

PEP Web Archive Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

PEP is a digital archive of many of the major works of psychoanalysis. It includes the complete works of Sigmund Freud, an archive of works from twenty psychoanalytic journals (1920-2003), and complete versions of other, classic psychoanalytic texts.

Persian Gulf and Yemen: American Ascendancy and the Cold War, 1950-1959     [Database]

These documents highlight the structure and activities of the Persian Gulf States' and Yemen's political system, government, judiciary, laws, military, customs, economy, finance, agriculture, natural resources, industry, communications, and media.

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis     [Database]

Digitized documents from the papers of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, founders of the first lesbian rights organization in the United States, the Daughters of Bilitis. This collection focuses on Lyon and Martin’s work with other organizations such as ACLE, the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, and the National Organization for Women, as well as covering the research and reception of Martin’s book Battered Wives. See also the related collection: Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis.

Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis     [Database]

Digitized documents on the founding and growth of the homophile movement, especially the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in U.S. history, founded by Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin. The collection also includes copies of The Ladder, the monthly magazine for the Daughters of Bilitis, as well as early meeting minutes, correspondence, chapter records, membership data, and manuscripts. See also the related collection: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis.

Policy File Index  1990 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides access to research from major think tanks, research organizations, and university research programs. Contains information on a complete range of policy issues, both domestic and international. Updated weekly.

Political History of America's Wars     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Political History of America's Wars chronicles more than 200 years of America's involvement in major wars, rebellions, and insurrections--from the American Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom, combining narrative history with extensive use of primary source documents and informative biographies.

Politico Pro     [Database]

A comprehensive database providing legislative and regulatory insights, data tools and resources for policy research. On-demand, graphic visualization library translates complex policy issues and data sets into infographics. The Document Drawer repository offers primary source documentation. Limited state coverage also included.

Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters     [Database]

This collection of periodicals focuses on newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country and on periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agendas. Carefully selected for rarity from the thousands of titles in the GLBT Historical Society archives, the collection features more than 200 newsletter and periodical titles totaling nearly 8,000 issues.

Project MUSE     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Provides electronic access to the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly publications in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

ProQuest (All databases)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Allows individual or combined searching of more than 50 abstracts, indexes and journal collections in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, or one may search by subject.

ProQuest Congressional     [Indexes and Abstracts]

A major online resource for information on all aspects of Congressional work. Includes hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, committee prints, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and public laws. (Formerly known as LexisNexis Congressional Universe)

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This database is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Boston Globe (1872 - 1991)     [Database]

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990)     [Database]

Full-text archive of the Los Angeles Times, from 1881. Primary source with particular strengths in news coverage of the film and entertainment industry, immigration, and the growth of Southern California and the American West.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-3 yrs ago) with Index (1851-1993)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times (1851-3 yrs ago)

ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Index and full text databases on the social sciences, including politics, sociology, education and criminal justice.

ProQuest Sociology Database     [Database]

This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.

ProQuest Statistical Insight and Statistical Datasets     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Statistical Insight allows users to search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications. It includes U.S. statistical abstracts from 1878 - 2012. Statistical DataSets is a web-based tool that allows you to create easy-to-export charts, tables, and graphs from several million different data points. Data sources include government information like census data, as well as licensed data sets.

PsycARTICLES     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This database offers full-text articles from over 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Many titles go back to volume 1, issue 1.

PsycINFO     [Indexes and Abstracts]

PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain non-evaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

Public Documents Masterfile     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication, in a single searchable database. Contains two types of records, full bibliographic records and brief records comprised of index terms or pointers to public documents cumulations or catalogs.

Race Relations Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Race Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.

Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project     [Database]

The Written Rastafari Archives Project (WRAP) involves an exclusive collection of the most well-known Rastafari ephemerals - newsletters, magazines, newspapers, booklets, statements, letters, articles and assorted literature - written and published by a number of Rastafari Mansions, organizations, groups and individuals over the past four decades.

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

Records of the Persian Gulf War     [Database]

This collection contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.

ReferenceUSA     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Access to 3 modules, "U.S. Businesses," "HealthCare" and "OneSource." "U.S. Businesses" is a database of 14 million U.S. businesses containing verified data, updated monthly. Search by business name and type, executive title, sales volume, year established and more. "HealthCare" provides detailed information about 855,000 physicians and dentists, searchable by name, gender, state of license, medical school attended, and other criteria. "OneSource" provides basic and in-depth information about companies, industries, and executives from the United States and internationally.

SAGE Knowledge (OLD)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Sage Publication eReference titles representing many disciplines within the social sciences. These electronic encyclopedias cover topics such as juvenile justice, terrorism, social theory, crime, African American society, social welfare, education and many more themes. The titles can be searched via a Reader's Guide (thematic categories), browsing entries, or searching the index. You can also search across all or just a few of the encyclopedias.

Sage Publications     [Electronic Journals Collection]

An extensive collection of journals, primarily in the social sciences, with coverage beginning in January of 1999. It includes titles such as Applied Psychological Measurement, Current Sociology, the European Journal of Women's Studies and Progress in Development Studies and 440 others.

ScienceDirect     [Database]

A database of over 2000 full text journal titles published by Elsevier covering the life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences.

Scopus  1966 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

An index to the scientific technical and medical literature covering 14,000 scholarly titles including 2,700 titles in Social Science, Psychology, and Economics. Updated daily. Full-text linking is available wherever the technology and the access arrangements permit and continues to expand as such arrangements allow.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection  1600   1800 [Electronic Journals Collection]

The most important and comprehensive collection of early English-language newspapers, dating from 1603. A full-text digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides collected by the Reverend Doctor Charles Burney (1757-1817), preserved and augmented by the British Library.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law     [Database]

This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.

Social Law Library     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Social Law Library includes several databases of decisions issuing from Massachusetts courts (e.g. Supreme, Land, Housing, Business, Fair Labor), as well as department and division decisions (e.g. Environmental, Discrimination, Labor Relations, Alcohol), copies of important state codes (e.g. Building, Regulation), and the Massachusetts Rules of Court and General Laws. It provides a uniform search experience across substantive and administrative databases.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)  1898   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the social sciences. Coverage from 1898. Part of Web of Science.

South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922  1864   1922 [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Springer Link     [Electronic Journals Collection]

An electronic information service provided by Springer Verlag, providing access to their e-journals (460+) and some book series. It is organized into Forms or Subject Libraries, 10 in all with a focus on Science and Technology, some Economics.

Statesman's Yearbook     [Database]

The Statesman's Yearbook includes reliable information on all 194 countries in the world plus states and dependencies, covering key historical events, and population.

Supreme Court Compendium     [e-book]

The Supreme Court Compendium covers the Court's history and development as an institution; its caseload and decision making; the justices' backgrounds, nominations, and confirmations; the Court's relationships with the public, the media, and other governmental and judicial bodies; and public views on the Court and its decisions.

The British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem, 1920-1944     [Database]

Culled from the U.S. National Archives, this collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Jerusalem. The topics covered by these records include the protection of interests of American citizens, foreign trade, shipping, and immigration. Includes significant material related to the British Mandate in Palestine.

The French Mandate in The Lebanon, Christian-Muslim Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Beirut, 1920-1941     [Database]

Culled from the U.S. National Archives, this collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Beirut. The topics covered by these records include the protection of interests of American citizens, foreign trade, shipping, and immigration. Includes material on the French Mandate in Syria-Lebanon – the Druse Rebellion of 1925, religious and political conflict, the failure of the Franco-Lebanese Treaty of 1936, the creation of a new mandate administration in Syria in 1939, and more.

The Gerritsen collection of Aletta H. Jacobs     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Begun in the late 19th century, the Gerritsen Collection represents books and periodicals tracing the development of feminist consciousness through 4 centuries and 15 languages. The Collection is one of the most important single sources in the study of women's history.

The Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933     [Database]

Digitized documents from the Justice Department Library and U.S. National Archives covering the “Hindu Conspiracy Case,” a series of arrests and later trials against Indian Nationalists active in the United States, bankrolled by Germans interested in supporting the overthrow of British colonial rule in India.

The King and the People in Morocco, 1950-1959: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Morocco     [Database]

Morocco’s strategic location has shaped its history. After gaining independence in 1956, Morocco made great strides toward economic and political liberalization. The sultan Muhammad V, ruling his newly independent nation, proclaimed his intention of turning it into a constitutional monarchy. His first act was to transform himself into a monarch and assume the title of king. The Moroccan government undertook a number of economic, social, and political reforms, including the drafting of a constitution.

The Making of the Modern World     [Primary Sources]

Full-text searching of mainly of monographs, reports, correspondence, speeches, and surveys, published from 1450 through 1914. This collection covers social, economic, and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization, and the birth of the modern corporation - tracking the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth.

Times Digital Archive  1785 -   2007 [Journals]

Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Data will be added monthly until the entire period of 1785-1985 is available.

U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid     [Database]

The program of technical cooperation in Iraq, prior to the Revolution of 1958, was frequently cited as an example of the ideal Point Four program. The overthrow of the established government led naturally to questions concerning the "failure" of American technical assistance in that country.

U.S. Middle East Peace Policy and America's Role in the Middle East Peace Process, 1991‐1992     [Database]

This collection contains Bush Presidential Records from a variety of White House offices. These files consist of letters of correspondence, memoranda, coversheets, notes, distribution lists, newspaper articles, informational papers, published articles, and reports from the public, the Congress, Bush administration officials, and other various federal agencies primarily regarding American Middle East peace policy and the United States' role in the many facets of the Middle East peace process.

U.S. Operations Mission to Saudi Arabia, 1950–1955: Correspondence and Subject Files of the Office of the Director     [Database]

This collection is a record of the U.S. Operations Mission's experiences in Saudi Arabia. In it are outlined the programs that were initiated, the problems encountered, and the results of the five year effort in the Point Four program. The aim of the Point Four program was to promote the combined growth of economic and social improvement and political freedom.

UNdata  2000-   [Web Sites]

The Statistics Division compiles and disseminates global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.

US Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Access to online video from Vanderbilt's archive collection of CNN and NBC material only, plus abstracts for the remainder of the collection which holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming.

Vital Statistics on American Politics     [e-book]

Covers a wide range of topics: elections, Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary, information on the media, campaign finances; foreign, social, and economic policy; and a variety of issues related to state and local government. Coverage is not limited to "hard" data, rankings of public officials' reputations, content analyses of media coverage, and public opinion data about policy issues are also included.

Walter B. Wriston Archives     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Walter B. Wriston Archives provides online access to the Walter B. Wriston Collection, including full text access to speeches, articles, and books written by and about Wriston over his lengthy career. Wriston,a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, was a world renowned expert on international finance, banking, and technology, and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Citigroup and Citibank.

Web of Science Core Collection  1900 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides access to the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

Wiley Online Library     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Provided is full-text access to 300+ journals published by John Wiley & Sons. Subjects covered are: Business, Finance & Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Psychology.

Women and Social Movements (Alexander Street)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Primary sources in the study of women's social movements from colonial times to the present. This database contains books, pamphlets and proceedings from national conventions on women's rights, abolition, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Women Working  1800 -   1930 [Indexes and Abstracts]

Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.

Women Writers Project     - 1850 [Indexes and Abstracts]

A full-text collection of works written by women, in English or in English translation, before 1850.

Women's Studies International  1972   present [Indexes and Abstracts]

Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Includes the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

World Development Indicators     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

World Geography and Culture Online     [Database]

World Geography and Culture Online enhances the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. This comprehensive reference site makes it easy to study all aspects of a country, with facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps, flags, images, videos, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more.

WorldCat Discovery     [Database]

WorldCat Discovery is a catalog of materials held by libraries worldwide, including books, periodicals, sound recordings, musical scores, videos, manuscripts, and maps. In addition, it provides location and availability information for items held at Tufts University.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This database provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.