The following is a list of online databases available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with research in History.

ABI Inform
ABI Inform is used to track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry specific topics worldwide. This database provides indexing and abstracting for 1000 periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Biography Resource Center
This database combines biographies and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

CQ Researcher
Full-text database which provides history and background information, relevant pro & con arguments, bibliographies, contact information, and outlooks on "hot topics" in current events.

International Index to Black Periodicals  
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean - and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).

JSTOR   
JSTOR contains full-text journals in arts and humanities.

Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in History
Contains the full text of primary source material on African-American history.

National Newspapers
Indexes and provides access to online full text for four newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

netLibrary  
This database contains a collection of electronic books covering a wide variety of subjects.

Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

WorldCat   
WorldCat is a catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

Last modified - 01/16/2008