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Constellate NOTE: Due to the vendor's decision to sunset this platform, access to this database will cease on July 1, 2025. A platform for learning and performing text analysis and building, visualizing, and analyzing datasets created from content in JSTOR and other open sources. Users may create 10 datasets of 50,000 items each per day through Jupyter (Python) notebooks or the RStudio IDE. Terms of Use. | Reference guides | Tutorials

Data Sets A listing of open access and Leatherby Libraries subscription databases for finding data sets and sources.

JoVE Science videos illustrating key concepts, research techniques, and experiments in the fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, psychology, medicine, and more. Terms of Use | Syllabus Mapping | Faculty Resource Center
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Includes millions of citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to present around the world with over one million full-text dissertations available to download in PDF format. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1861-present.
Research Methods Primary Sources Introduces the key approaches to working with primary source materials and historical evidence with nearly 200 hundred essays, videos, "How to" guides, and case studies by subject specialists. Includes a module on Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives. Terms of Use.
SAGE Campus Self-paced courses on critical skills and research methods for all stages of academic study. Learner Pathways map series of courses focused on specific learning outcomes. FACULTY: See our Online Teaching and Learning guide to learn how to assign Sage Campus content to your students. Terms of Use.
Sage Data Over 600 customizable datasets with 14 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Includes the EASI Market Planner, which provides data on consumer demographics and usage/spending patterns for products and services in the US. Terms of Use.
SAGE Research Methods Online A tool to learn about research methodologies through books, reference content, videos, case studies, and more. Helps users design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. | Terms of Use.
SciFinder Research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical, materials, agricultural sciences, chemistry, and engineering. Users must register for an account at SciFinder Registration. | Terms of Use.
Simmons Insights U.S. adult consumer data on product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits, and more. Create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psychographic characteristics of product users and their media behavior. Terms of Use. Coverage: To Spring 2022. Restricted to 25 users at a time.
SimplyAnalytics An application that lets users develop interactive maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Includes the EASI Standard Package, Experian SimmonsLOCAL, and Nielsen PRIZM Data Packages. Terms of Use. Coverage: 2000-present. Restricted to 10 users at a time.
TDM Studio Text and data mining tool for ProQuest content. Visualizations create Geographic Analysis, Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis visualizations (5 projects, 10,000 documents each). The Workbench allows deeper analysis with Jupyter notebooks (10 datasets, 2 million documents). Terms of Use. | Proquest guide.

TDM Studio guide from ProQuest.

Web of Science Provide access to the world’s leading scholarly literature and indexes in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, proceedings, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1898-present.

Library databases in alphabetical orders: A-Z Databases.

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Research and study guides that provide research assistance and links to useful resources compiled by Leatherby Libraries librarians.

Primary Sources

Chapman University Digital Commons
Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives

•   University Archives
•   California’s Gold Archives
•   Center for American War Letters Archives

Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library

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Databases

Library databases in alphabetical orders: A-Z Databases.

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A complete list of our Research & Study Guides.

Primary Sources

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