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| Academic Search Premier Description: Multi-disciplinary academic database covering scholarly journals, newspapers and more. An excellent place to begin your research. (1975-present) | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book Description: Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| America's Historical Newspapers Description: Early American Newspapers, Series I 1690-1876 | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 (1691 – 1820) TRIAL through 12/2010 Description: The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 presents over 500 titles dating from 1691 through 1820 | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 (1821 – 1837)TRIAL through 12/2010 Description: Digital access to digital access to historical American periodicals published between 1821 and 1837. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American History in Video Description: Streaming video collection that allows "students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries." | streaming media streaming media |
| Avery Index Description: Index of Architecture journals with abstracts. (1934 - current, with selective coverage back to 1741.) | linked to full text indexes/databases |
| Boston Globe Historical Description: The Boston Globe (1872-1979) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Building Green Suite Description: Articles, reviews, and news from Environmental Building News (EBN) are integrated with product listings from the GreenSpec products directory and project case studies from the High-Performance Buildings Database. | reference tools reference tools |
| Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Description: Indexes articles in design and applied arts including ceramics, jewelry, wood, graphic design, landscape architecture, interior design, computer generated graphics and more. | linked to full text indexes/databases |
| Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State, and Local Organizations Description: Provides comprehensive information on more than 100, 000 associations and societies that are organized and function at the regional (both interstate and intrastate), state, county, city, neighborhood, and local levels. | reference tools reference tools |
| Engineering Research Databases Description: Databases include: ANTE (Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering), ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts. (1966-current) | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Films on Demand Description: Digital Education streaming video | streaming media streaming media |
| Foundation Center Description: Must use in the Main Library. See librarian to be logged on. | all full text reference tools |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library Description: Full-text online access to a growing collection of reference books. Search titles individually or search multiple titles simultaneously. | reference tools reference tools |
| Gilded Age Description: The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection for researching this period in American history. | all full text indexes/databases |
| HABS/HAER Drawings Collection Description: Access to more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 American historic structures and sites dating back from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century. The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are ongoing programs of the U.S. National Park Service, made available to the public by the Library of Congress. | all full text images |
| Heritage Quest Online Description: Find ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930) and search for information about people and places described in family and local histories. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Historic Map Works Description: Extensive digital map collections with over 200,000 high-resolution, full color historic maps. The core of the collection consists of property and land ownership maps illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States. | reference tools reference tools |
| JSTOR Description: An archive of scholarly journals. Browse or search the full text back files of publications in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. For a complete listing of currently available journals, refer to the JSTOR Contents page. | e-journals e-journals |
| Project Muse Description: A collection of 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. | e-journals e-journals |
| ProQuest Central Description: Multi-disciplinary academic database covering scholarly journals, newspapers and more. An excellent place to begin your research. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Providence Journal Description: The full text of the Providence Journal and the Providence Sunday Journal. (1983 - current) | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| RIBA Architectural Library Catalogue Description: An index of articles in over 300 world-wide architectural journals and a catalog of holdings in the Royal Institute of British Architects Architectural Library. It is a very useful supplement to the Avery Index. | no full text indexes/databases |
| Sanborn Maps Description: RWU Library subscription gives you access to maps of Rhode Island, including individual areas and cities. (1867-1970) | reference tools reference tools |
| Slavery and Anti-slavery Description: Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm. This first collection, Debates over Slavery and Abolition, contains: 7,247 books, 80 serials, more than fifteen manuscript collections, & court records. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| America's Historical Newspapers Description: Early American Newspapers, Series I 1690-1876 | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 (1691 – 1820) TRIAL through 12/2010 Description: The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 presents over 500 titles dating from 1691 through 1820 | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 (1821 – 1837)TRIAL through 12/2010 Description: Digital access to digital access to historical American periodicals published between 1821 and 1837. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American History in Video Description: Streaming video collection that allows "students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries." | streaming media streaming media |
| Building Green Suite Description: Articles, reviews, and news from Environmental Building News (EBN) are integrated with product listings from the GreenSpec products directory and project case studies from the High-Performance Buildings Database. | reference tools reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State, and Local Organizations Description: Provides comprehensive information on more than 100, 000 associations and societies that are organized and function at the regional (both interstate and intrastate), state, county, city, neighborhood, and local levels. | reference tools reference tools |
| Films on Demand Description: Digital Education streaming video | streaming media streaming media |
| Foundation Center Description: Must use in the Main Library. See librarian to be logged on. | all full text reference tools |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library Description: Full-text online access to a growing collection of reference books. Search titles individually or search multiple titles simultaneously. | reference tools reference tools |
| Gilded Age Description: The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection for researching this period in American history. | all full text indexes/databases |
| Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture Description: Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. | all full text reference tools |
| Heritage Quest Online Description: Find ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930) and search for information about people and places described in family and local histories. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Historic Map Works Description: Extensive digital map collections with over 200,000 high-resolution, full color historic maps. The core of the collection consists of property and land ownership maps illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States. | reference tools reference tools |
| Historical Statistics of the United States Description: A standard source for historical statistics in American history. Tables can be downloaded in Excel or CSV. You can create custom tables by merging columns from multiple tables. | reference tools reference tools |
| History E-Reference Books Description: Search across a selection of History e-reference titles. | all full text reference tools |
| Sanborn Maps Description: RWU Library subscription gives you access to maps of Rhode Island, including individual areas and cities. (1867-1970) | reference tools reference tools |
| Slavery and Anti-slavery Description: Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm. This first collection, Debates over Slavery and Abolition, contains: 7,247 books, 80 serials, more than fifteen manuscript collections, & court records. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
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