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Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) R
Accessible Archives R
Description: Contains rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically.
Ad*Access Project
Description: images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
African American Biographical Database R
Description: A rich resource of biographical sketches of African Americans, historic photographs and illustrations, and profiles of significant political movements and organizations from 1790 to 1950. Includes narratives of former slaves, artists, homemakers, political activists, religious workers and scientists.
African American Historical Serials Collection (EBSCO Support Site) R
Description: Centralized resource contains "[m]ore than 170 unique titles related to African American life and culture; Approximately 60,000 pages of searchable primary source content; Reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals; Extensive coverage of African American religious organizations, churches and institutions."
African American Studies Websites
Description: A directory of Internet sites addressing major issues that impact African American life and culture.
America: History & Life R
Description: English language abstracts of journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book and media reviews on the history and culture of the US and Canada. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948 - 1986 (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library) R
Description: Bibliographic data drawn from the handwritten notes of librarians and other staff of the Schomburg Center from 1948 until 1986. --> Number of simultaneous logons: 1.
Communications E-Journals, Controlled Access (via Proxy) and Open Source
Description: NOTE: Online access to many indexes/abstracts & fulltext e-journals, whether through Sterling online catalog or the Library Website, is restricted by vendor license agreements to connections within the HU Network (HU-Net).
Details at: http://www.howard.edu/library/Search/Proxy.htm
Congressional Universe (now called Congressional Publications) R
Description: The Bethesda-based Congressional Information Service provides a searchable index of congressional publications from 1970 to the present, including testimony from congressional hearings, legislative histories of public laws, and information about members and committees as found in the Congressional Record, the Federal Register and the National Journal. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Contemporary Authors -> Use Literature Resource Center R
Description: Accessible online from several local public libraries: DC PL, Arlington County PL, PG County PL, Montgomery County PL, and Fairfax County PL --- All you need is a FREE library card at the public library of your choice --- To obtain a public library card, HU students who have not established permanent residency in DC or the neighboring jurisdictions must have a local area address, e.g., a Howard U residence hall.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select -> Use Literature Resource Center R
Description: Accessible online from several local public libraries: DC PL, Arlington County PL, PG County PL, Montgomery County PL, and Fairfax County PL --- All you need is a FREE library card at the public library of your choice --- To obtain a public library card, HU students who have not established permanent residency in DC or the neighboring jurisdictions must have a local area address, e.g., a Howard U residence hall.
Credo Reference R
Description: Access full text authoritative reference resources: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies and more.
Ebrary R
Description: Access hundreds of full-text ebooks hosted on the ebrary platform. Ebooks via Ebrary does not require an external reader, create a personal Ebrary account for note taking/highlighting and to manage resources for research and/or share bookshelf content.
EbscoHost R
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Electronic Journal Service R
Description: Search Ebscohost's gateway to thousands of e-journals by title, subject or keyword to link directly to full text articles. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Ethnic NewsWatch (PROQUEST) R
Description: A full-text collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Film & Television Literature Index R
Gale Databases R
Description: Portal access to the following databases: BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT,
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER, OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS IN CONTEXT, US HISTORY IN CONTEXT, WORLD HISTORY IN CONTEXT
Gale Virtual Reference Library R
Description: Access full text authoritative reference resources: encyclopedias, handbooks, biographies and more.
Google Scholar
Description: Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Description: H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource.
Index Translationum
Ingenta
Description: INGENTA supplies access to a comprehensive collections of 8,000 academic and professional publications. While many of the articles in its database are full-text, INGENTA also indicates other sources for full-text.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text R
Description: Current and retrospective bibliographic citations, abstracts and full text material from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 31 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
Internet Public Library
Description: A vast virtual library offering a variety of exhibits and educational materials, answers to reference questions, a browsable catalog of nearly 20,000 electronic texts, and an annotated guide to web sites. Try "Ask A Question," and an IPL dedicated volunteer will attempt to answer your question and guide you where to find the information.
JOLIS - Joint World Bank & IMF Libraries Online Catalog
Description: Electronic access to a comprehensive archive of articles from journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, ecology and botany.
JSTOR R
Description: Description: Electronic access to a comprehensive archive of articles from journals in the arts, botany, business, education, ecology, economics, history, humanities, language & literature, mathematics, political science and social sciences.
Lexis-Nexis Academic R
Description: Search the full text of today's news, or search back more than 20 years. Retrieve full text company news & financial information. Search full text federal, state & international legal materials. Find full text & abstracted medical & health information. Search general reference sources. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Literati by Credo Reference R
Description: Literati is a discovery portal to authoritative content(encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, etc) as well as to other online library resources and print collections. These information resources are complied in context of various "Topic Pages" - brief summaries about a particular subject followed by a variety of pertinent resources embedded in the "Page". Tutorials about the research process and in how to identify and evaluate resources are also available.
MLA Directory of Periodicals ( Ebscohost) R
Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
MLA International Bibliography (Ebscohost) R
Description: Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1963 to the present from nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Muse, Project - See: Project Muse R
Naxos Music Library R
Description: Complete catalogs and/or selected recordings of over 250 independent labels; genre's included: Classical, Jazz, World, Classic Rock, Nostalgia music; wide range of standard and specialist repertoire; Music notes, cover artwork, track list, instrumentation and publisher information; Libretti and synopses of more than 700 operas; 10,000+ composer and artist biographies; pronunciation guide for composer and artist names; glossary, guide to musical terms and work analysis.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) R
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. [Oxford University Press 2009]
Patent Web Databases
Description: Offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date
Project Muse R
Description: Provides full text access to over 160 journals. Full text is accessible only for Johns Hopkins University Press journals; bibliographic information and abstracts are given for non JHUP publications.
Proquest Databases R
Proquest Dissertations and Theses R
Description: With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats.
PsycArticles (EBSCO Support Site) R
Description: This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1985 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 39,000 full-text articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
PsycARTICLES (OVID Support Site) R
Description: This database searches selected book chapters and over 28,000 full-text journal articles published by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. To access from the OVID homepage, click on "continue," then click on Journals@Ovid Full text. NOTE: Check the small box by PsycARTICLES if you want to limit your search to this source. Number of simultaneous logons: 999.
PsychInfo (via EBSCO) R
Description: PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 65,000 records are added each year.
Roper Center R
Description: Description:Founded in 1947, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is the leading educational facility in the field of public opinion. [I]t preserves the data from polls conducted by many leading survey organizations for the use of researchers, students, and journalists.
Science's Next Wave : Career Resources for Scientists R
Description: This weekly online publication from the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides job leads for graduates seeking their first position as well as scientists planning career transitions. It also includes articles on issues facing postdocs and faculty, as well as science policy under discussion in this country and abroad.
SCIENCEDIRECT R
Description: Unlimited access to abstracts from the most frequently cited journals in the fields of science, technology and medicine, including browsable tables of contents as well as full text of journals to which the library subscribes. Includes the journals database formerly available from IDEAL. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Scirus - For Scientific Information Only
Description: "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly: (1) Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web; (2) Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss; (3) Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers."
Scopus R
Description: An abstracts and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources that offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Since its inception in 2004, it covers scientific, technical, medical and social science fields. Recently it has included arts and humanities literature as well.
Social Sciences FullText R
Description: Social Sciences Full Text, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
SpringerLink R
Description: Description: comprehensive online collection of STM books, journals and reference works. Access thousands of journals, eBooks, book series, eReferences and protocols
Wikipedia
Wiley Online Library R
Description: A portal to the full-text content of Wiley's journal database. Covers over 300 journal titles in science, engineering, computer science, business, education, law and psychology. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
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