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Library Databases, Datasets and Subscriptions

Library Databases, Datasets and Subscriptions

W&M Libraries subscribes to hundreds of databases which you can search here by database name, subject or type. Finding the right database can help you search for highly relevant journal articles, books, documents and much more.

Additionally, we host several datasets for research and also provide subscriptions to popular newspapers like the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

 

Alphabetical List of Databases

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These are databases we purchased within the past three months.

African American Women’s Histories is a digital resource that brings together the personal collections, professional papers and organizational records of trailblazing African American women from the Amistad Research Center, Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Spanning 1897–2013, these collections illuminate the women’s intellectual work, social activism, cultural expression, professional achievements and everyday lives. Designed to support research in history, gender studies, cultural studies and related fields, the resource enables the exploration of individual narratives alongside broader themes of community building, creative expression and resistance.

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Essential Primary Sources is a foundational library collection supporting research and learning, featuring the most-important, most-studied, and most-representative historical documents across history, society, and culture, accompanied by original scholar commentaries and introductions found nowhere else. The collection has broad interdisciplinary use and is both curated and contextualized by leading scholars and historians. The core subjects covered in the collection include: U.S. History; World History; Ethnic, Gender, & Identity Studies; American Government; and Religious Studies.

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GSMA Intelligence provides the industry’s most comprehensive mobile network coverage data, sourced directly from operators. This global raster dataset visually represents mobile network coverage, offering an accurate and up-to-date view of network availability worldwide.

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  • Irish Newspaper Archives

    This database is a trial which expires November 30, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    Irish Newspaper Archives includes 260+ titles and approximately 19.5 million pages, 1733 to the present, covering 30 of Ireland's 32 counties. The database also includes the Radical Newspaper Archive - 115 scarce, short-run titles documenting Ireland's labour, suffrage, republican, and revolutionary movements. Many of these papers only ran for a few months and are rarely archived anywhere else.

  • Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History

    This database is a trial which expires December 4, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History is a cutting-edge and authoritative resource that guides researchers, teachers, and students to the most important scholarship in the field. Since its founding in 1979 the field of Environmental History has become one of the fastest-growing subfields of historical inquiry. Environmental History explores the relationships between human communities and the natural world across time and space. It presumes the centrality of nature to human affairs, whether in the context of daily life, the development of social and political structures, or the creation of artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions. It sheds light on how societies have navigated changing environmental conditions due to climate change; air, soil, and water pollution; species extinction; or altered resource availability because of economic exploitation or violent conflict. Environmental History traces the ways communities—urban and rural, nations and neighborhoods, political, social, and intellectual—perceive, engage with, and shape nature and how, in turn, nature shapes them.

  • Prensa Libre Digital Archive

    This database is a trial which expires November 5, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    Founded in 1951, Prensa Libre is a leading newspaper published in Guatemala City and distributed nationwide. The newspaper was conceived with the purpose of maintaining an independent voice, to provide impartial reporting on local news and bringing to light transgressions of government and public figures. Prensa Libre has covered critical moments in Guatemalan and Latin American history, including political upheaval, assassinations, and coups; peace treaties and elections; natural disasters; economic and technological developments; Guatemalans on the international stage; and much more. Since its founding the newspaper’s popularity has grown and it has earned a reputation as an independent and credible publication, with print circulation topping 800,000 in recent years, and monthly online readership of nearly 5.5 million users.

  • The British Union of Fascists: 1933-1953

    This database is a trial which expires November 25, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    Often associated with the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Germany and Italy, fascism was a conspicuous feature of the British political landscape during the 1930s and 1940s. Founded in 1932 by former Conservative and Labour MP Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists (BUF) initially garnered considerable support, including from popular periodicals such as the Daily Mail. The party and its supporters—known as “blackshirts”—drew on racist British imperial discourse and mirrored the antisemitic attitudes of its German and Italian counterparts. The party frequently engaged in violent confrontations with anti-fascist groups, culminating in the Battle of Cable Street in London’s East End, in October 1936.

    Featuring nearly 8,000 images, this collection contains a wealth of material charting the political trajectory of Mosley and the BUF between 1933 and 1953. It holds a cross section of personal papers from key members of the British fascist movement, such as Nazi propagandist William Joyce (commonly known as “Lord Haw Haw”). The collection also includes documents from various UK government departments which, throughout the 1930s and 1940s, sought to temper the influence of the BUF leader and his supporters. These include documents detailing MI5’s surveillance of Mosley and his wife Diana Mosley (née Mitford), which led to their eventual internment in 1940 after the Battle of France.

  • Vanderbilt TV News Archive (Must Create Account Using W&M Email Address)

    This database is a trial which expires November 30, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    The Vanderbilt TV News Archive began operations on August 5, 1968 with the mission to record, preserve, and provide research access to news programs broadcast by national television networks in the United States.The core collection of the archive consists of regularly scheduled evening newscasts from ABC (since 1968), CBS (1968), NBC (1968), CNN (1994), Fox News (2004), MSNBC (2024), and NewsMax (2024). Additionally, the Special Reports Collection includes television news coverage of major national and world events, such as political conventions, election coverage, presidential speeches, and military conflicts. The database currently includes over 1.5 million records, including story level abstracts for evening newscasts and catalog records for special reports.Users must create an account using their @wm.edu email address. In order to view a clip, users must add the clip to their basket and checkout, after which the clip will be added to their account and should be viewable within a few minutes if not instantaneously. Users are limited to 2400 minutes of viewing per month.