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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1980-present.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database providing access to scholarly journals articles, newspapers, popular magazines, and reviews. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary ebook and journal platform to support scholarship and teaching. Provides access to select current subscriptions as well as the archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Terms of Use.
OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Serves as a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content from six full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text Mega, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Abstracts with Full Text. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1982-present.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs with a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward including working papers, occasional papers series, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings, books, journals, and policy briefs. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1991-present.
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science & Humanities edition This link opens in a new window
Includes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. Useful for tracking emerging ideas and new research in specific fields. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1990-present.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Provides critical global and country-specific information and data in two sources: Country Reviews are full-text reports on each country around the globe and Country Wire is a country-by-country global news service that provides real-time news. Terms of Use.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers world history (excluding the United States and Canada), 1450 to present. Encompasses military history, women's history, and more. Indexes 2,300+ academic journals in 40+ languages.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1955-present. Restricted to 6 users at a time.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index This link opens in a new window
PIAS is an index of millions of records worldwide including books, journals, reports, and statistics for scholarship and research in public affairs, public and social policies. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1915-present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to current content from over 300 humanities and social sciences journal titles of nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Coverage includes literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, education, religious, cultural/politics/policy/gender studies, and others. Terms of Use.
ProQuest Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Over 1,000 titles covering core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas, and featuring journals from over 50 countries. Terms of Use.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Current coverage of over 525 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM). Full-text backfile coverage for over 400 titles. Terms of Use.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. Thorough coverage of over 2,100 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines, as well as 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1898-present.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Journals in the social sciences encompassing the literature of a range of interdisciplinary fields, including the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both the applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1983-present.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1952-present.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Offering broad subject coverage with full-text access to over 1300 journals and several hundred Blackwell Reference Online ebooks, including titles formerly hosted on the Blackwell Synergy platform.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1997-present.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1979-present.
Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) This link opens in a new window
Covers all areas of food science, food technology, and human nutrition, including basic food science, biotechnology, toxicology, packaging, and engineering. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1969-present.
AGRICOLA (Open Access) This link opens in a new window
Collections from the National Agricultural Library, including primary public sources for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century. Terms of Use.
MEDLINE (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Medline (Web of Science) produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine is the premier database of biomedicine and health sciences, covering life sciences including biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science, biophysics and chemistry. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1950-present.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
A research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline, with abstracts for more than 500 journals and full text for over 380.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1901-present.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) This link opens in a new window
Access the complete online edition of JAMA, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1883-present.

Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1988) This link opens in a new window
Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1849-1988.
Christian Science Monitor Historical (1908-1998) This link opens in a new window
Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1908-1998.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press. Over 1.8 million articles from over 315 publications. Offers national and regional coverage. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1990-present.
Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1985-present.
Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1988) This link opens in a new window
Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1881-1988.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 370 regional newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts from sources like CBS News, CNN, FOX News, and NPR, and more. List of Titles. | Terms of Use.
New York Times Historical (1851-2008) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to digitized pages of the New York Times back files, including news articles, editorials, obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, reviews, and advertisements. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1851-2008.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1984-present.
Wall Street Journal Historical (1889-1994) This link opens in a new window
Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1889-1994.
Washington Post Historical (1877-1995) This link opens in a new window
Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Terms of Use. Coverage: 1877-1995.

The Leathery Libraries is subscribed to more than 350 databases. Please get yourself familiar with each subject-specific research guides designed to help you find information, books, articles, reference sources that are specifically related to your degree and the research topics you are working on.

From the library's landing page choose the research/subject guides:

Then on the new screen, browse the Subject Guides to find the guide that best addresses your topic of research: