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The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
This bibliographic resource provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, with a vast collection of indexed sources, published in the United States and Canada. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1989 to the present.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
The ACM Digital Library (DL) provides full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.
more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Part of the America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the world.
Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
AllAfrica publishes around 2,000 reports a day from more than 130 news organizations and over 200 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic.
Selective indexing includes over a thousand journals dating back to 1964. Focus is on the history and life of the United States and Canada.
A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
Provides access to critical reviews written by leading scholars in a broad range of disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences. Annual Review articles transfer expert knowledge synthesized from the expanding corpus of scientific literature.
A compilation of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature databases, this resource covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Coverage dates from the Early 19th Century to the Present.
Journals, newsletters, bulletins, and books published by the American Anthropological Association.
AP Newsroom contains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide. Includes 170 years of news stories, 12 million historical and contemporary images and an extensive collection of audio clips.
ArchiveGrid includes over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
The Archivision Digital Research Library is currently comprised of nearly 100,000 images of architecture, archaeological sites, gardens, parks and works of art with broad appeal in humanities teaching.
Provides images on architecture, gardens, parks, landscapes, public art and design for educational & commercial use.Where possible, drawings & models are photographed from original and copyright-free sources.
Religious data archive managed by Penn State University Department of Sociology. Data is submitted by religion scholars and research institutions. Worldwide scope.
Detailed indexing and abstracts for many leading academic journals, magazines and trade publications. More than 480 peer-reviewed full-text journals with 770 full-text journals in total as well as over 200 full-text books and a collection of over 63,000 images.
Strong international coverage, including periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch
Art reproduction records
Coverage dating back to 1914
LITS now subscribes to the expanded database, Art & Architecture Source, with more international coverage, more direct access to full-text articles and coverage back to 1914.
Vanderbilt University freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes.There are currently 4207 images in the collection.
1929-1984 includes content for more than 55 years of art journalism, from more than 600 publications.
ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources. ARTFL-FRANTEXT is the main ARTFL Database, comprising more than 3,600 French-language texts, 215 million words and 675,000 unique word forms. The corpus contains texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Bibliographic and citation information for journal articles in the arts and humanities from 1975-present. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. You need to register (free for MHC community members) if you wish to download ArtStor images.
The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. Provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Journal articles, essays, papers, and some books on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Index with links to full text in many cases. Covers publications from 1949-present.
Full text of the back issues of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper from June 17,1868-Dec. 31, 1984.
Journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s) to the present. Updated weekly.
Includes over 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more; curated for the educational experience.
Full text of the back issues of the African American newspaper from 1893 to 1988.
Explore the fascinating origins of the Bible and its eventful history. On Bible Odyssey, the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible.
This is the online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
The Bibliography (BBIH) is an essential tool for the study, research, and teaching of British and Irish history. It is the largest and most comprehensive guide available to published writing on British and Irish history, covering the Roman period to the present day.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007. Periodicals, books, exhibition catalogues.
BioCyc is a collection of 18,030 biochemical pathways and genome Databases, plus software tools for exploring them.
Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography.
An expansive index to the world’s life sciences journal literature, covering topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology. Part of Web of Science. (Coverage 1972-present )
An expansive index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Coverage 1926-present
A general knowledge encyclopedia on all topics. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research.
Business Collection provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications
Historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Covers (only) histories published between 2012-2019.
Full text of the back issues of the African American newspaper, Chicago Defender, from 1910 to 1975.
Full text of the back issues of the Chicago Tribune from 1849 to 2015.
Full-text Chinese e-books and reprint journals covering a variety of subject areas published since 1900 with the majority after 1949.
Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students
HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
Classical music for streaming from the Middle Ages to the present. Audio recording, often with album liner notes for additional information.
Huge collection of classical music online scores from big name historic composers to contemporary artists. Time range spans the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and formats include full scores, part scores, manuscripts and piano scores. All 4 volumes available.
Contains narrative biographies of scientists from around the world and across history.
Trade statistics from the UN. (note: access is free, but downloading data is limited)
CoRR allows researchers to search, browse and download papers through its online arXiv repository at no charge.
Comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.
Dance in Video contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Discover research data sets and data studies from a wide range of international data repositories in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Biographical dictionary with essays on the lives, works, and careers of literary figures from all eras and genres.
Database providing browsing and searching open-access digital projects of use to musicians and musicologist, including digitized music manuscripts, historical audio files, and early music periodicals.
UC Berkeley image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. As a visual catalog, DS allows scholars to verify with their own eyes; special emphasis is placed on the touchstone materials: manuscripts signed and dated by their scribes.
Database of videos of live performances, productions, masterclasses, interviews, workshops, and documentaries. Written materials such as study guides, practical workshop guides, and encyclopedia entries also included. New content is added regularly.
A combined database made up of many individual resources including the library catalog and the majority of our subject-specific databases.
Search the library catalog only (enter search terms and then limit) or dozens of databases together. A great place to start your research on almost any topic.
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue, and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution. All 2000+ films are immediately available, and come with performance rights for campus viewings.
Resource for researching every aspect of 17th and 18th-century America. Digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.
Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
Digital facsimiles of works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, as well as pre-1701 works in European languages printed outside of Europe. Early European Books builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO). All subject areas.
The EBL and eBrary ebook collections have merged to become Ebook Central
Database with about 85.500 titles developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris.
Works published in the UK during the 18th century. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more on all subjects.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
A collection of periodical indexes created in the nineteenth century. Includes: Index to the New York Times (1863-1905); Index to Harper's Magazine (1880-1905); Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906); Stead's Index to Periodical Literature (the "British Poole's") (1890-1902); Index to the New York Daily Tribune 1875-1906; Descriptive catalog of the government publications of the U. S. (1774-1881).
Expert-reviewed information about the earth. Original geographic, geological and environment articles curated and supported by Boston University and the National Council for Science and the Environment
The scope of the Encyclopedia of Islam is philology, history, theology and law until early 20th century.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences features over 5,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles in the life sciences.
Consolidates the contents of OSTI's Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database. Covers science, technology,
and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.
ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective: 1900-1984 is an archive of indexed essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada between 1900 and 1984. It indexes essays from anthologies and collections covering a wide range of humanities and social sciences disciplines.
Spanning the Early Republic’s Open Door Era to the Era of Liberalization in the mid-1960s, Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection covers two centuries of immigrant life in the United States
Current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
The definitive online tool for film and television literature including film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, and production.
WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
A collection of locally owned and created digital scholarship, cultural, and historical materials contributed by Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges. Mount Holyoke’s initial featured collections include the Archives and Special Collections digital collections, the full run of the Mount Holyoke News (back to volume 1, 1891), and the Art Department Teaching Collection.
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
eReference titles cover a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content in many subject areas.
Comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
Research, reports and analysis from Gartner, an American research and consulting firm that focuses on technology from a business perspective.
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world.
GSW provides a single point of access to 46 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.
Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the women's rights movement. Coverage ranges from 1543-1945. Publications are from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.
The Getty Research Portal provides free access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Includes fundamental texts, rare books, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, and related literature.
Google books allows for searching anywhere from basic bibliographic information to the partial text, to the full text of a book. Sometimes a Google Books search allows for a more detailed search of the contents of a book, even if you then locate an actual physical copy via the library catalog.
Google's database of scholarly works. Much of the content is articles and books, but you will also see theses, dissertations, patents and other items here.
If you are on campus you can often access full text articles available through the library directly from Google Scholar. If you are off campus, go into the settings and set the library link to Mount Holyoke College.
Greenfile is a resource that includes scholarly, government, popular titles that describes the human impact on the environment in agriculture, education, law, health, and technology.
The first stop major reference work for Western classical music. Often a great place to start for traditional Music History papers!
This HeinOnline collection brings together more than 680 titles dealing with this difficult and important topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles,* an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
HathiTrust Digital Library is a searchable collection of over 10 million digitized books and publications from more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries. Over 3 million of the items included are public domain and fully viewable. For full access, click Log In, choose Mount Holyoke College from the list of institutions, and click Continue.
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
HeinOnline academic research package, with FastCase, provides subscribers access to a wide array of case law at the federal and state levels and enables users to access the full text of cases. It also includes more than 100 million pages of content and covers more than 100 subject areas and provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world.
The single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century
HAPI contains nearly 300,000 citations concerning the economic, political, and social issues facing Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), focusing on the 15th century forward.
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history with statistical data coverage from colonial times to 2000.
Social science data sets are available for downloading; coverage includes but is not limited to the U.S. Census, crime and criminal justice, foreign and national opinion polls, health, consumer surveys, and historical data sets. You will need to create an ICPSR account from a computer connected to the college computer network to download datasets.
Includes a full run of the illustrated newspaper, 1842-2003, including specials and presentation pieces.
Economic, financial and trade statistics from the International Monetary Fund, with some subjects dating back to 1948. Special datasets of interest include International Financial Statistics and Direction of Trade Statistics.
A massive collection of public domain scores (and now recordings) freely available on the web. The biggest, most accurate source like this available.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
International bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world including history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures.
Scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, computing, IT, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering.
International Bibliography of Art is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Includes abstracts and indexes (1945-) for books, articles, proceedings, and catalogues.
Index of journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. Also contains the full text of 170 journals, and more than 360 full-text books.
A database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation.
A database of over 1.5 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes citations for books and journal material, as well as citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books.
Formerly part of ITER/Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance.
A database of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Useful for scholars working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.
Formerly part of ITER/Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Stream is an ever-growing collection of full-length dance videos from the Jacob’s Pillow Archives. Watch historic films of Denishawn Dance Company and Ted Shawn’s Men Dancers; recent performances by top national and international dance companies working in a range of movement styles including contemporary, ballet, tap, and traditional forms; in-depth interviews with artists and experts in the dance field; and more.
An indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually.
Video examples of important lab techniques for researchers.
Mount Holyoke subscribes to ONLY these parts of the Basic Biology and the Advanced Biology collections:
General Laboratory Techniques (in Basic Biology)
Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology (in Basic Biology)
Essentials of Biology 1: yeast, Drosophila, and C. Elegans (in Basic Biology)
Essentials of Neuroscience (in Advanced Biology)
Essentials of Genetics (in Advanced Biology)
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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and books in all subject areas, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor.
Kanopy Streaming provides full access to online video from PBS, HBO, the Criterion Collection, and much more. NOTE: MHC provides limited access to films on Kanopy; many public libraries offer broader access
A comprehensive, bibliographic index to scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world concerning the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy, and concerning the time period from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D.
Open access collection of newspapers from more than twenty cities spanning the Chinese mainland during the first half of the twentieth century (1911 - 1949). Content in Chinese.
Database of information about authors and literature, as well as the full text of over 350,000 works of poetry, drama, and prose.
This world-class bibliographic database covers librarianship, classification, information management, and more and indexes more than 700 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.
Full text of the back issues of the Los Angeles TImes from 1881 to 2015.
LUNA Commons provides access to over 380,000 images that are housed in college, museum, and other cultural heritage image collections.
LUNA Commons includes the Archivision collection of images.
Books, journals, pamphlets, essays and more that track the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth.
Mango Languages is an online language learning system teaching practical conversation skills for real communication. Mango Languages focuses primarily on oral skills and offers a basic introduction to a range of languages.
Use your Mount Holyoke email to create an account.
Full text of recent issues of Western Massachusetts newspapers including the Springfield Republican and the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature, most classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.
Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies combines three databases: International Medieval Bibliographies; Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale; and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance. Together they provide access to
14 centuries of European history from 300 to 1700.
The National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it provides information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in simple terms.
The Digital Collections @MHC provide online discovery for locally developed resources such as historically important materials from Archives & Special Collections, images from the MHC Art Museum and Art Department, faculty research and teaching materials, and a collection of student theses and honors work.
Database of journals, articles, and more about Middle East and Central Asian studies. (1900 - Present)
Open access collection of newspapers from the Middle East and North Africa (1870 - present). Content is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French.
The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. Published by University of Michigan.
Indexes over 3,000 journals and series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, folklore and drama. Also covers relevant books, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. From the Modern Language Association of America.
Online library of Safety Data Sheets (formerly known as Material Safety Data Sheets or MSDSs). This resource contains chemical information and safety procedures for numerous materials used on-campus.
Aerospace documents from NASA, including historical documents from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-present.
Recent issues of leading US newspapers, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.
National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.
The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of classical music, historical recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music for streaming. All members of the MHC community have access and are invited to listen the great albums there, whether for academic work or just for fun. 10 users at a time can browse and listen online without logging in, or you can create an individual account on the website to make playlists, tag favorites, and access music on your phone via the Android or iPhone app.
5 users at a time can access streaming video of music and dance performances, master classes, films, documentaries and lectures.
Full text of the back issues of African American newspaper the New York Amsterdam News from 1922 to 1993.
Access to the New York Times for all available years via the nytimes.com website.
Mount Holyoke has a group subscription that will allow you to create a free account using your MHC email address. For instructions see How to register your MHC email for free nytimes.com access.
Full text of the back issues of the New York Times from 1851 to 2020.
19th century primary source collections. Collections included materials on Asia and the West; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture; European Literature; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography; Religion, Reform, and Society; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; Women: Transnational Networks.
A collection of periodical indexes covering nineteenth century publications. Now included in the Eight Centuries database.
Primary source collection of letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of immigrants to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from U.S. and Canadian individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Also includes journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It also includes some 300 biographies on contributors.
O’Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy.
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OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary is recognized throughout the world as one of the largest and most reputable sources of internationally comparable statistical, environmental and socio-economic reports and data.
Oxford Art Online offers access to online art reference sources including Grove Art Online, Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Oxford Bibliographies Online give an overview of a topic, then an annotated bibliography of works on that topic. A great guide to use when starting your research or doing topic exploration.
Oxford Bibliographies Online give an overview of a topic, then an annotated bibliography of works on that topic. A great guide to use when starting your research or doing topic exploration.
Oxford Bibliographies Online give an overview of a topic, then an annotated bibliography of works on that topic. A great guide to use when starting your research or doing topic exploration.
Oxford Bibliographies Online give an overview of a topic, then an annotated bibliography of works on that topic. A great guide to use when starting your research or doing topic exploration. The music collection includes entries on composers, genres, and forms.
Oxford Bibliographies Online give an overview of a topic, then an annotated bibliography of works on that topic. A great guide to use when starting your research or doing topic exploration.
Biographies of people who shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
The finest and most comprehensive dictionary of the English Language. Includes extensive quotations documenting usage, searchable by author.
Music reference works including Grove Music Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion to Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
Dictionaries, language reference, and subject encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.
Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents relating to public affairs and international relations. Available online for literature published since 1915.
Full text of the complete set of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Parliamentary Papers collection including Hansard Parliamentary Debates. A major source of primary source materials on all aspects of British society and the British Empire.
PhilArchive is the largest open access e-print archive in philosophy. Formerly known as the PhilPapers Archive, it is built on and integrated with the PhilPapers database. Access to items on PhilArchive is free without a user account. It consists entirely of articles submitted by users
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Includes all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.
Full text of the back issues of the African American newspaper, Pittsburgh Courier, from 1911 to 2002.
News, business and entertainment newspapers and magazines. Current and recent 3 months of publications from over 100 countries, in many different languages. Has a mobile app, too!
Note that PR does not work well with standard assistive technologies. LexisNexis and ProQuest News and Newspapers, to which we also subscribe, do work with those tools.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
The official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509).
Database featuring articles, transcripts, journals and more. Searches across several of the library's ProQuest databases covering all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
ProQuest Computer Science Database is the premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes around 450 titles, with over 350 available in full text.
ProQuest Computing includes information from scholarly journals and trade publications as well as consumer titles.
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to around 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.
Combined search of The Baltimore Afro-American (1893 - 2010), the Chicago Defender (1909 - 2010), the New York Amsterdam News (1922 - 2010), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911 - 2010).
Includes the module American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971, which contains a variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration. The two major collections on the 20th Century are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. In addition to these 20th Century records, American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 features a number of collections on American Indians in the 19th Century, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.
Includes the module FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972, which contains records of the FBI and the Subversive Activities Control Board from 1945-1972, and the module Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930, which covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930.
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th-century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Includes the module Confidential U.S. State Department central files, Africa and Middle East, 1960-1969, which contains a wide range of sensitive materials from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries: reports on political, military, and socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; and reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers. Among issues in the Africa and Middle East module is the pivotal 1964 Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and leaders of the African National Congress.
Contains the module Slavery and the Law, which features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10states and the District of Columbia. The petitions document the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level and with amazing candor. Slavery and the Law also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
Modules include the Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents (focus on reproductive rights); Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990 (records of the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the women's Action Alliance); Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights; and Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps (records of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps).
Features collections on American workers and labor from the late 19th through 20th Century, and records of the Socialist Party of America. The module Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century consists of federal government records and has strong coverage of strikes and radical labor unions in the first half of the 20th Century. The Socialist Party of America Papers module documents the party's revolutionary efforts, as well as their involvement in several major reform movements of the 20th century. The Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO module consists of records sourced from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Catholic University of America, and the AFL-CIO.
Searches across all of the library's ProQuest news databases, including U.S. and international, current and historical news sources.
ProQuest Psychology Journals encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications.
Covers formal theological studies and general interest commentary from worldwide religions. Provides religious news and information and scholarly reports.
Database of journal articles, news, and more related to the applied and general sciences. Features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.
Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.
PsycArticles offers access to the complete electronic catalog of American Psychological Association (APA) peer-reviewed journals.
The American Psychological Association’s resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - A selective bibliography of academic articles covering all of the fields of Jewish studies as well as the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel. Note: This is a citation only database. If you identify an article in RAMBI that you'd like to read, copy the article title and search for it in Discover to see if we have access to it locally or make an interlibrary loan request.
Provides indexing to older popular magazines published in the United States and Canada.
(1800s - present) A comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects.
Sign in with your Mount Holyoke email to create an account and access 30 different languages to practice on or off campus.
Online resource for researching, teaching and studying philosophy and related disciplines. Discover over 2,700 articles, on everything from Medieval philosophy to Postmodernism, and from Aesthetics to Zoroastrianism.
Full Text of the back issues of the San Francisco Chronicle (and variant titles) from 1865 through 1922
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides an online gateway to Astronomy and Physics literature. The databases cover all the major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, Observatory and NASA reports, and PhD theses.
CAS SciFinder is the world’s most current and relied on source for chemical substance information. Requires setting up an account. See instructions
(login with your Mount Holyoke account to access page).
This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.
Short Story Index Retrospective includes bibliographic entries for more than 150,000 short stories going back to 1915, and some citations from periodicals and short story collections going back to the 1830s. Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique and source, or combinations of terms.
Database of objects beyond the Solar System, maintained by Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg
This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
Part of Web of Science. Indexes over 3,000 social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.
Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Pulled from nearly 2,000 serial publications are abstracts from a variety of sources including journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers.
Springer’s eBook collection delivers complete access to a large collection of scientific, technical and medical publications published by Springer.
Springer published scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works in science, technology and mathematics.
The Social Science Research Network is a repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health sciences, among others.
Full text of the back issues of the Sunday Times (London) from 1822 to 2006.
Full text of the back issues of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2019.
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a special research program at Univ. of Calif., Irvine which represents the first effort in the humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Includes digitized texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 as well as a number of lexica.
NOTE: You must also create a personal account on TLG in order to search their full corpus of texts via our institutional subscription..
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is the largest Latin dictionary in the world and covers all the Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D.
Contains complete full text PDFs of all published and unpublished U.S. Congressional hearings.
Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1980.
Full text of official UN documents from 1993 to the present. Also contains General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions since 1946.
Full text of US Congress publications including the complete set of the Congressional Record from 1789.
Access to a combined database of all available years of the Washington Post. Coverage: Approximately 1877-present.
Full text of the back issues of The Washington Post from 1877 to 2008.
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. In addition to the core Web of Science collection our expanded access subscription also includes multiple other databases. Use the drop down menu on the home page to see a title list.
Women and Social Movements provides access to primary resources around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Women and Social Movements, International 1840-Present is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate vast areas of modern history. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, Women and Social Movements, International 1840-Present lets you see how women’s social movements shaped many of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.
This database includes nearly 800 essential sources in women's and gender studies including journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, websites and web documents and grey literature.
Provides access to international economic, demographic and social data from the World Bank.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 to the present.
The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology. Coverage 1864-present