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Education
Interested in interactive tutorials, practice tests, e-books, flashcards, and articles for academic skill-building, standardized test preparation, and career development? Create a FREE account with LearningExpress and gain access to practice tests and materials for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, and GMAT, plus the college entry tests like SAT and ACT.
Taking a class in Education? Check out the Education in Videos database. This reliable resource has more than 1,650 hours of videos that provide the opportunity to observe behaviors that define effective teaching styles. Included are demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Diverse Voices
Alice Dunnigan was the first black woman to receive press credentials to cover the White House. In January 1947, she became the head of the Associated Negro Press Washington Bureau and would go on to write hundreds of stories for that news outlet. Learn more about Alice Dunnigan, in the Literature and Language database. Through fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, explore the written works of Lorraine Hansberry, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and more in the Black Women Writers database.
Looking for previously unpublished plays by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Randolph Edmonds, and more? Peruse through over 1,700 plays from more than 200 playwrights written from the mid-1800s to present in the Black Drama database.
The Black Studies Periodicals database covers an array of disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology. Find information about artist Faith Ringgold, educator Rita Pierson, and sociologist Anna Julia Cooper as well as hundreds more in the Black Studies Periodical database.
General Studies
HeinOnline database has over 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content from more than 100 subject areas including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more.
Documentaries, news clips, and interviews are research resources readily available in the AVON (Academic Video Online) database. Avon includes video collections such as Meet the Press, American History in Video, Ethnographic Video Online, Counseling and Therapy in Video: volume 1 and volume 2, World Newsreel Online, and many more.
Health and Sciences
Health Business FullTEXT database provides resources from over 120 well-known administrative journals covering the business of health care administration and more.
Listen to over 1,300 online seminar-style talks from leading world experts such as Professors Fei Ye, Jemima Albayda, and Trisha Greenhalgh as they discuss the latest in research developments and fundamentals of biomedical & life science fields in the Biomedical & Life Science Collection database.
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Oxford Art Online contains over 19,000 images of works of art, the Grove Dictionary of Art, and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Content features emerging artists, varied media, and artists of diverse social and cultural backgrounds.
Looking for U.S. and International research support for topics across the full criminal justice spectrum including, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security? The Criminal Justices database provides access to over 600 journals.
Experience Anglo-European responses to continental travel for pleasure, business, and diplomacy from 1550 to 1850 in The Grand Tour database. The Grand Tour includes written primary and secondary sources, artworks, photographs, and maps as well as firsthand accounts of many women, whose daily experiences offer a vivid insight into the experience and practicalities of travel across the centuries.
Through more than 1,000 diaries and journals, correspondences, maps, photographs, film footage and more, Africa and the New Imperialism database uncovers the history of European colonization across the African continent in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Need help finding sociology resources? Check out the databases SocINDEX and ProQuest Social Science. SocINDEX contains more than 1 million records and subject headings from over 19,000 sociological thesaurus terms. ProQuest Social Science contains over 570 titles from subjects ranging from Communication science, Demography, Economics, to Human services, Political science, Policy studies, and Sociology.
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