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(1887 to present, with most titles dating from 1970s to present) Multi-disciplinary; includes citations to articles in over 13,000 popular and scholarly periodicals, 9,000 of which are full-text.
(Sept. 1989 to present) Provides unlimited access to articles and essays from 1989 as well as special issues of The Almanac of Higher Education and The Trends Report.
Search across most EbscoHost article databases as well as the Ebsco e-book collection; interdisciplinary in scope. Note: this search excludes America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts, and L'Année philologique.
Includes:
--Academic Search Complete
--Anthropology Plus
--Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913-1983
--Art Full Text
--Art Index Retrospective
--ATLA Religion Database
--Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983
--Biography Reference Bank
--Book Review Digest Plus
--Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982
--Communication & Mass Media Complete
--EconLit
--Essay and General Literature Retrospective
--Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983
--Film & Television Literature Index
--GreenFILE
--Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
--Index Islamicus
--Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text
--Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
--Music Index Full Text
--Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
--International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
--MLA International Bibliography
--eBook Collection
--OmniFile Full Text Mega
--PsycARTICLES
--PsycINFO
--Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
--RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
--Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983
A list of journals, magazines, and newspapers available at Davidson; including print and online holdings. Search by periodical title or ISSN for best results.
JSTOR access includes over 50,000 eBooks; full-text archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals; 19th Century British Pamphlets, a collection of journals, monographs, and manuscripts related to Ireland, and some current journal issues. The eBooks work just like journals, offering unlimited use and DRM-free chapter downloads in PDF format.
Search OED Online for word definitions, etymologies, and quotations. Every three months updates revise existing entries and add new words. The Historical Thesaurus of the OED arranges the dictionary by meaning. Trace the changing language of the material world, the mind, and society, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern day
Now our largest collection of full-text article databases!
(c. 1800 to present) Multidisciplinary collection of full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Also contains citations to additional materials. Includes all of our ProQuest databases.
(1800 to present) APA PsycInfo offers a broad view of the behavioral and social sciences. The database delivers peer-reviewed literature from journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and doctoral dissertations. Updated weekly.
(c. 1900 to present) An interdisciplinary resource with over 20,000 scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, also navigate the full citation network.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
New / Trial Databases
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
This collection presents newspapers published in U.S. prisons with special attention to women's-only institutions. These publications depict and report on all manner of life within the walls of prisons, from the quotidian to the upsetting. Incarcerated journalists walk a tightrope between oversight by administration–even censorship–and seeking to report accurately on their experiences inside. Some publications were produced with the sanction of institutional authorities; others were produced underground.
Davidson College Library is a funding library for Reveal Digital, Diversity & Dissent project.
(1974-present) This database is a specialist bibliography for the study of modern and contemporary art. Featuring full abstracts and indexing from art journals,
with articles relating to all art forms including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Also incorporates book records, including those drawn from the collections of the Tate Library and the Bibliothèque Dominique Bozo, Musée LAM.
This database is included in ProQuest Central searches.
Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method collection includes a range of articles, essays, ebooks, and primary sources. Critical readings examine the significance of history writing from ancient worlds to the present day. This collection includes academic eBooks focused around historiography, historical methods and history theory; and an interactive timeline. New and updated content added twice a year.
Create a personal account using the Sign Up function to save content and searches in folders. Create an account by clicking ‘Log in’ in the top right-hand corner of the site. At the bottom of the pop-up window, click ‘Sign up now.’
To save a search, click the ‘Save this Search’ button from any search results page, which appears on the top right side of the page.
Trial access ends Nov. 6, 2022.
eHRAF Archaeology is an online cross-cultural database containing information on world’s prehistory. The annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF Archaeology is a unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies. Contains brief overviews of archaeological traditions covering general topics such as time period, settlement, subsistence, environment and more.
Trial access ends Nov. 6, 2022.
eHRAF World Cultures database contains information on present and past aspects of cultural and social life for a worldwide sample of societies. The contents are organized by cultures and indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists with unique subject identifier codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), making it ideal for both exploratory, in-depth cultural research, and cross-cultural comparisons.
1767-1918. The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The collection’s core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.
The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection was made possible thanks to the active support of the National Library of Russia. Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
1807-1929. Comprising nearly 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods, the newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news.
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
JoVE is a peer reviewed scientific video journal. Filmed at the world’s top scientific institutions, JoVE videos bring to life the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments enabling efficient learning and replication of new research methods and technologies. Filmed at the world’s top scientific institutions, JoVE videos bring to life the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments enabling efficient learning and replication of new research methods and technologies.
Faculty should create an account on the JoVE site to embed videos into Moodle. For more information on embedding see JoVE's tutorial on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqneOi49OE
1911-1949. Following the 1912 establishment of China’s first post-imperial government, the Republic of China, the country experienced both industrial and social revolution, and a civil war. This collection provides perspective on this critical period. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century.
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
1870-2021. Content in the Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French. The collection comprises mostly out-of-copyright, orphaned content.
CRL members and subscribing institutions also receive access to five in-copyright titles from the region: al-Akhbār (الاخبار, Lebanon, 2006-2019), al-Dustūr (الدستور, Jordan, 1967-2000), al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية, Egypt, 1962-1986), al-Riyāḍ (الرياض, Saudi Arabia, 1972-1996), and Filasṭīn (فلسطين, Israel/Palestine, 1956-1967).
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Online offers over 570 volumes from the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies including history, cultural studies, literature, biography, religious studies, philosophy, and gender studies. The ebook collection offers a complete archive of all content published in the series between 1955-2016.
Create a personal account from the "Institutional Tab" at login and users can:
Highlight Text
Add bookmarks
Add/ download Citations
Add/ download Notes
Mark it as Favorite (but this is available from the "My Library" section)
1850-1992. The collection covers several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and features multiple languages such as Bengali, Dari, English, Nepali, and more. With reportage dating as far back as the 1850s, the South Asian Newspapers collection provides a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Open access to the South Asian Newspapers collection is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
1839-1976. Covering several countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Open access to the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
Reveal Digital’s Student Activism collection draws from special collection libraries and archives around the United States. Materials are wide-ranging in nature: Circulars, leaflets, fliers, pamphlets, newsletters, campaign materials, protest literature, clippings, periodicals, bulletins, letters, press releases, ephemera; and meeting, demonstration, conference, and event documentation.
Davidson College Library is a funding library for Reveal Digital, Diversity & Dissent.
Trial access ends October 28, 2022. The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture.
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