Library Databases, Datasets and Subscriptions

Alt-PressWatch showcases unique, independent voices from many respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. The database features around a million articles from over 270 publications, offering a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news. Providing an alternative to corporate controlled media, the Alt-PressWatch database presents big stories from small sources. Alt-Press Watch gives readers and researchers access to many distinctive, thought-provoking titles. Alternative news weeklies like Eugene Weekly, Missoula Independent, and The Village Voice offer different perspectives on US government, policy, and culture; report on local, national, and international issues; and cover hot-button topics like hunger, abuse, the environment, religion, and pop culture. Magazines and journals of the independent press like City Limits, Dissent, Against the Current, and Ability Magazine provide in-depth coverage of a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, including ecology and the environment, labor, public policy, and more. The Alt-Press Watch database includes these titles and many others, providing an unmatched, multi-disciplinary resource for researchers seeking an alternative to mainstream media perspectives.

An extensive collection of leading consumer / trade magazine archives and videos covering the fields of art, design, architecture and their many sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts through to historic preservation and industrial design. Major titles include Artforum, Architectural Review, Country Life, and House Beautiful. Researchers can trace the evolution of trends and styles as well as the history of these industries, from the mid-19th century to the present.

A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.

This database is the only specialist bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art. Covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the late 1960s onwards. Also incorporates book records, including those drawn from the collections of the Tate Library and the Bibliothèque Dominique Bozo, Musée LAM.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Transcripts of historical BBC radio news bulletins that provide an overview of unfolding domestic and global news events. These news stories, from six daily broadcasts, show revisions and annotations throughout the day to reflect breaking news developments and changes in reporting tone and emphasis. The transcripts offer researchers valuable context for understanding 20th-century history, culture, and society; they cover major national and global events in politics, international relations, culture, technology, sports, health, and more.

Find biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.

This database is the premier source of information for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

An array of major fashion magazine archives and exclusive video content documenting more than 150 years of fashion history. The collection contains iconic consumer fashion and lifestyle publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and GQ, as well as influential trade titles such as Women’s Wear Daily and Daily News Record. With material documenting fashion trends and industry dynamics from the mid-19th century to the present, researchers can explore and interpret the history, art, and business of fashion across interdisciplinary fields.

The archive of the major film industry magazine Le Film Français, from its inception in 1944 to 2025. Published weekly, this title has been a prominent forum for a wide range of stakeholders and commentators to convey news, analysis, and reporting relating to many aspects of the industry. The archive provides researchers with access to a large body of historical data and insights that illuminate 80+ years of cultural, technological, and economic trends in the film industry in France and beyond.

Connect learners to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 19,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including full text of leading US and international newspapers as well as multimedia resources. Subject coverage is extensive, allowing researchers to explore relevant articles on key areas of study, including biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.

Empower users with the tools necessary to easily access and interpret complex global business concepts. Designed by and for business researchers, this valuable resource compiles comprehensive business intelligence and places it into logical, useable context with enhanced navigation and interactive tools. Daily updates to more than 500,000 detailed company profiles and in-depth country and industry overviews help researchers stay current with the everchanging business landscape.

As the global leader in reference publishing for more than 50 years, Gale is the trusted source for authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more. These directories are now available online in the Gale Directory Library. This online resource takes these references off the shelf and makes them available at the click of a mouse 24/7. Directories become much more accessible and powerful. With expanded data and state-of-the-art search and export features, Gale Directory Library allows you to select the directories you want and make them available to your users any time, from anywhere

Our largest general-interest periodical resource, Gale General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly. With intuitive searching that mirrors Internet searches, users can easily tap into sources that are guaranteed for quality.Most content in Gale General OneFile is full-text with no embargo and recommended by Bowker's Magazines for Libraries. We've included reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals. With millions of articles available, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

Gale Health and Wellness offers access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

Discover the world’s most influential people with Gale In Context: Biography. Narrativebiographies, new stories, and multimedia content bring to life the historical figures, world leaders, sports stars, entertainers, scientists, and authors who have impacted our world throughout history as well as those who are shaping our future.

Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

Today’s environmental issues determine the destiny oftomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies is designed to support students, researchers, and educators in exploring and understanding the critical issues surrounding the environment, many focused in human-environment interactions. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides students and researchers with comprehensive information to critically analyze and understand topics across environmental studies and the humanities from a global perspective.

Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Users can examine issues as reported through the news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.

Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides in-depth contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with experiments, projects, interactive simulations, videos, and images, students see how real-world issues relate to scientific disciplines across the curriculum.

Draw students into the historical events that shaped our country. Gale In Context: U.S. History is an engaging online resource designed to support U.S. history studies by providing a thorough overview of our nation’s complex past—from wars and political movements to the individuals and cultural shifts that initiated them.

Bring history to the fore front of your curriculum with Gale In Context: World History.This engaging online resource reaches back to the beginning of recorded history through today’s top headlines, putting topical issues in context.Students will gain a more complete understanding of the people and cultures that formed our collective history.

Support research across all disciplines with Gale Research Complete—a comprehensive academic resource offering access to thousands of scholarly journals, primary sources, eBooks, and trusted reference content. With intuitive search tools, cross-search functionality, and mobile-friendly access, it empowers students and faculty to explore, discover, and advance academic success.

Immigrants have a long tradition of making significant and enduring contributions to the history of the United States and to the American identity. Their story is rich and varied — a mosaic of achievements, discrimination, criminalization, resistance, oppression, and triumph. Immigrant Life in America offers an expansive window into Immigrant history, allowing patrons to uncover the full depth of America’s past and present through a wider and more diverse lens.

Legislative Insight Collection delivers expertly researched legislative histories of U.S. Public Laws from 1789 to present. Each history provides a compilation of congressional publications that trace a law's development, revealing the context and intent behind significant legislation. This authoritative resource supports research and teaching across law, political science, history, public policy and beyond.

LGBTQ+ people have a long tradition of making significant and enduring contributions to the history of the United States and to the American identity. Their story is rich and varied–a mosaic of achievements, discrimination, criminalization, resistance, oppression, and triumphs. LGBTQ+ Life in America offers an expansive window into centuries of LGBTQ+ history, a one-of-a-kind compilation documenting LGBTQ+ lives, contributions, and the ways LGBTQ+ individuals have been portrayed and perceived in the news media.

LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

An archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events, trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth century. The collection will provide valuable primary source content for researchers in fields ranging from history and political science, through to law and economics.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global connects today’s headlines back to each title’s first issue including six regional and specialty collections spanning multiple continents. This academic resource offers over 200 premier newspapers from the U.S., Canada, and international regions, presented as originally printed. It provides researchers and students with exceptional access to primary sources, with events reported as they happened and continue to unfold. From leading historical events including the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World Wars I and II, to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global reveals day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights across a wide range of subjects.

ProQuest One Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials. Content is presented on a multimedia platform that reflects the integrated methods of field research, through linking and cross-searchability of text, audiovisual and archival primary sources. The resources work in tandem to bring the fieldwork process to life by juxtaposing original fieldwork with subsequent published ethnographies, as well as follow up studies and visual ethnographies that span a century.

Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars, and librarians, ProQuest Black Studies brings together ProQuest's award-winning Black Studies content into one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies. Alongside the outstanding content in the database, ProQuest Black Studies includes easy to use functionality such as timelines, topic pages, and collection pages that allow students and researchers at all levels to easily navigate the database to find the sources they need.

Comprises wide-ranging primary sources that document the many aspects of the entertainment industry and popular culture, including music, film, television, gaming, comics, and youth culture. Diverse material from key content partners spans magazines, trade publications, comics, video archives, and more. With these essential materials for examining the industry and its cultural impact, researchers may explore historical trends, genre developments, and the dynamic landscape of popular culture from multiple perspectives.

ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations provides extensive resources for studying critical global and social issues in historical and contemporary contexts. Interrelated collections contain government documents, magazines, scholarly journals, news scripts, and multimedia resources. Supporting interdisciplinary research on key topics from diplomacy and policy, global trade, conflict and migration to social movements, human rights, and environmental change.

ProQuest One History consists of ProQuest’s flagship historical primary source collections, featuring early modern books, archival and manuscript collections, historical periodicals, letters and diaries, and multimedia content. Spanning from 1450 to the 21st Century, ProQuest One History comprises includes the world’s preeminent digitized collection of Early English and Early European books, pamphlets and ephemera as well as archival collections and historical periodicals from the 17th century through the 21st century.

ProQuest One Literature is for scholars who must engage with an exhaustive and diverse set of scholarly resources around a given literary topic for research and course planning. It contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Enhanced by interpretive sources such as book reviews and criticism sourced from wider, interdisciplinary publications in the fields such as humanities, it provides diverse, global perspectives with sources from all over the world – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America - the majority of which are in full-text.

ProQuest One Performing Arts breaks the silos between performing arts disciplines by bringing them together all in one place: music, theatre, and dance. The collection includes audio recordings, reference materials, music scores, video recordings of live performances, playscripts, monographs, periodicals, archival materials, and more. Material covers the early modern period through to the present, from all over the world, and across disciplines and genres, from opera to bluegrass, ballet to street dance, and Shakespeare to Broadway.

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design provides extensive archival and contemporary resources covering all aspects of art, architecture, design and fashion. It consists of the archives of leading magazines in these fields (including Vogue, Artforum, and House Beautiful), major video collections, hundreds of journals, and specialist indexes. With its unique archives, range of diverse content types, and international coverage, this is a rich source for academic enquiry and comprehensive arts literature reviews.

Developed with faculty, scholars and librarians, ProQuest Women’s and Gender Studies brings together award-winning content into one destination that can be used for research, teaching, and learning. Combining primary and secondary sources, leading historical magazines and periodicals, primary source collections, document projects and exhibits, government materials, video, and essays by top scholars in the field, this easy-to-use interface will enable students to find the resources they need, by topic pages, timelines, source types and more.

Queen Victoria was the longest serving British monarch, reigning as Queen from 1837 to 1901 and as Empress of India from 1876. 141 volumes of her journals survive, numbering approximately 33,000 pages. This resource reproduces every page of the surviving volumes (including draft volumes and copies made by Lord Esher and Princess Beatrice), along with separate photographs of the many illustrations and inserts within the pages. The project is a partnership between ProQuest, the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, and the Royal Archives, London.

Regulatory Insight Collection provides unprecedented access to federal regulatory documentation including historic and current rules and guidance. This collection reveals how federal agencies translate legislation into implemented policy through expertly curated regulatory histories, comprehensive agency documentation, and powerful research tools.

Social Theory is an innovative and highly practical resource for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Originally conceived in 2005, the database brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.

The Statistical Abstracts of the World is a collection of the statistical abstracts from many countries. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations are included.

Statistical Insight Collection is an essential resource designed to empower researchers by providing them with easy access to key data and statistics. This valuable collection facilitates in- depth understanding, analysis, and contextualization of topics spanning a wide spectrum including business, economics, environmental studies, international relations, political science, public policy, sociology, and beyond. Statistical Insight Collection provides over 960,000 downloadable tables and 275,000 reports from authoritative government and private sector sources worldwide. The sources of data include U.S. and State government agencies, foreign governmental organizations, international organizations, research organizations, commercial publishers, and universities.

Supreme Court Insight Collection is an invaluable academic resource combining Supreme Court heard cases (1897-present) with certiorari denied cases (1954-present). This dynamic collection supports research and teaching across law, political science, history, civil rights, and gender studies through case histories and indexing tools.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family allows students and researchers to immerse themselves in the values and behaviors of Americans of the past. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

Twentieth-Century Drama contains the essential collection of published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. This is an extensive collection of play texts by over 300 principal authors from North America and Canada, Britain and Ireland, India, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. The collection's breadth of content and powerful search options allow users to open up connections between classic plays such as George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1923), Thornton Wilder's Our Town (1938), August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (1987), Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965) or Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) and less well-known texts drawn from the full range of modern theatrical traditions. Areas such as postcolonial writing, women's theatre, and community theatre are given full representation, and Naturalist, Expressionist and absurdist works appear alongside popular comedies, melodramas, farces and thrillers.