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Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Provides unlimited access to over 70,000 streaming videos with public performance rights, including documentaries, performances, foreign films, award-winning films, historical footage, training materials, and more.

An online, fully searchable collection of over 5,400 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences. Frequently cited in the literature, these titles are recommended by scholars and learned societies and include many prize-winning works. Users may also access online book reviews from leading journals. Allowing unlimited simultaneous users, faculty may link to the books for courses – contact the library for proper formatting of links. Individual chapter downloads cannot be linked and fair use standards apply. More information available on our eBooks guide.

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Covers a broad range of subjects in: fine, decorative and commercial art, design, as well as architecture. Access over 600 full-text journals and 220 full-text books; includes over 63,000 images.
The ARTFL Project: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language is a digital collection of French language resources spanning a wide a variety of genres and topics, including several French dictionaries. The most significant database is ARTFL-FRANTEXT, which consists of more than 3,500 French language texts from the 12th through the 20th centuries. The platform includes other smaller databases as well as making some free publicly accessible databases on its platform.
This database combines both Communication Abstracts and Communication and Mass Media Complete and supports research in a wide variety of communication disciplines such as mass media, communications theory, linguistics, organizational communication and more. This is a searchable database that provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text content.
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) focuses on the variations of how words are used and pronounced around the United States. Search for words or browse by region to learn more about terms and phrases used across the country. It also contains audio, interactive maps and the survey questions with answers used to create the dictionary. 
Complete, digitized images of all the works listed in these key
bibliographic records of English literature: The Short-Title Catalogue
(Pollard & Redgrave, 1475–1640); The Short-Title Catalogue II
(Wing, 1641–1700); The Thomson Tracts; and the Early English
Books Tract Supplements, as well as original almanacs, pamphlets,
musical scores, prayer books and other intriguing primary
sources.
HathiTrust is a collaborative repository of digital materials created and maintained by a partnership of major research universities and libraries.
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Indexes articles, book essays, and book reviews focusing on women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

The New Play Exchange®, a National New Play Network project, is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers.

Create an account here for access to the New York Times phone app, all web content from 1851 to present (excluding games and cooking), and the inEducation site. Subscription excludes SMHS and Law Library patrons.

NoveList is an online resource to help readers discover books in every fiction genre, juvenile through adult. In addition to book jackets and descriptions, find award winners, ?best of? lists, read-alike suggestions, and book discussion guides.
A historical dictionary documenting the evolution of the English Language.
Offers book-length reference works on literature, history, and science.
Full text access to 600 U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

Web of Science provides indexing, full text linking, and citation tracking for books and articles from vetted, high quality sources in all disciplines (arts and humanities, social sciences, business and sciences), as well as author, journal, and book metrics. Cited Reference Search includes books, artwork, and other cited works. Analyze results identifies frequent authors, funders, universities, and journals for a search or topic. Now includes Book Citation Index.

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