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ProQuest Historical Newspapers

ProQuest Historical Newspapers includes the full run of several major U.S., international, and African American, and Jewish American newspapers. The content includes the full image of the article, as it appeared on microfilm, with ads and listings.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

NCCO is a curated compilation of primary source documents, from archives around the world, focusing on eight major themes of the 19th century: Asia and the West; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature; Corvey Collection of European Literature (1790-1840); Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest; Photography: the World through the Lens; Science, Technology, and Medicine (1780-1925); and Women: Transnational Networks.

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a full text searchable digital library platform of over five million monographs, serials, and pamphlet collections from Hathi partner libraries. HathiTrust estimates that 34% of these are in the public domain. The majority of volumes in HathiTrust were digitized for the Google Book Project.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

ECCO contains a digitized copy of nearly every book printed in the UK during the 18th century and thousands of books from the British colonies.

EBSCO Humanities Source

Humanities Source combines EBSCO’s Humanities International Complete with H.W. Wilson’s Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Index Retrospective, and Humanities Full Text into one full text platform. Includes academic journals, magazines, and some monographs.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

EEBO contains over 100,000 digitized early English book titles, including incunables, reflected in bibliographies such as Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue.

ARTstor

ARTstor is a non-profit online library of images related to fine arts, humanities, and sciences pulled from partner research libraries and museums.

Artemis: Primary Sources

Artemis is an interface that searches across multiple humanities-related collections and allows the user to privately annotate and tag documents with personal folders. In addition to basic and advanced searching, one can locate content using term frequency and term clustering visualizations.

Artemis: Literary Sources

Artemis: Literary Sources searches across multiple literary databases from the publisher Gale such as the Literature Resource Center and Literature Criticism Online. In addition to basic and advanced searching, one can locate content in Artemis using term frequency and term clustering visualizations.

Google Books

Google Books searches across the full text of books and magazines, both those that are in copyright and those in the public domain. The Google Books Library Project includes titles scanned by Google from major research libraries such as the University of Michigan, New York Public Library, and Oxford University.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a humanities and social sciences scholarly journal and e-book platform. Project Muse includes journals and books from major academic publishers in the United States and many from around the world.

19th Century Newspapers

19th Century U.S. Newspapers is a full text, facsimile image database of approximately 500 national and regional newspapers, dating from 1800-1900. Some titles include only one or two issues, while others may include the full run. Check the title list for coverage information.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary journal archive, and scholarly ebook and primary source platform. Archived journals date from the earliest issue published. Journals in the JSTOR Current Scholarship Collection include the most recent issues, without an embargo.

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