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

African American Studies Center NEW
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 full-text articles focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It includes over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

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.

EJS E-journals
E-Journals allows search and retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text. Users have access to titles from publishers who have given EBSCO permission to re-use Table of Contents and abstract information in an aggregated database. Please note that this does not represent all of the titles available in EJS. Limiters can be utilized to further narrow search results. Most of these titles are scientific, technological or medical in nature.

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

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
OCLC catalog of books, serial publications, media, visual materials, musical scores, and archival materials in libraries worldwide.

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