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In search of comprehensive reports on current and trending issues? Look no further than the CQ Researcher database, providing in-depth analyses across a wide spectrum of topics, from impartial coverage of health and social trends to criminal justice, international affairs, education, technology, the economy, and more. Explore these fundamental aspects of academic research with the AM Research Methods database. Within this repository, you’ll find two key sections: Learning Tools and Case Studies. The Learning Tools is comprised of scholarly interviews and practical “how to” guides and essays on the big topics for your research. More than 100 Case Studies focus on different source types, themes, and data sets, allowing you to discover how scholars around the world approach primary source evaluation.
Explore your research area with ComAbstract’s 100,000+ articles, books, and records in human communication studies. Topics include mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, journalism, and more. What defines a primary source, and how does one craft effective research questions?
History
Looking for U.S. women’s history resources from 1600-2000? The Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 database contains over 4,800 publications including 130 document projects and teaching strategies ranging from agriculture and anthropology to transportation and war. Discover the inspiring voices of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the LGBT community, and other historically underrepresented groups in American history through the extensive collection of over 440 rare and previously unpublished videos in the March of Time database.
The Digital National Security Archives offer access to declassified U.S. government documents spanning from 1945 to the present. These documents cover various critical world events, including topics such as ‘Argentina 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy,’ ‘Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden,’ and ‘Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002.
Discover how the expansion of radio and television technology, and the rise of mass media empires, transformed America into a consumer-based society, through the lens of pioneer David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and other industry papers in the Broadcasting America database.
Health and Sciences
The Health Business FullTEXT database offers a wide array of resources from more than 120 renowned administrative journals, encompassing the intricacies of health care administration and beyond. With over 700 scholarly journals, 350 training videos, case studies, and multicultural reports, Nursing and Allied Health Premium helps healthcare providers work with patients form diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Exploring resources in the fields of biological, ecological, and environmental sciences? The BioOne database provides researchers with access to over 200 science journals that cover crucial environmental topics such as renewable energy, entomology, citizen science, zoology, and more. Celebrate the value of chemistry in everyday life by utilizing the ChemSpider database. It provides open access to more than 100 million structures, properties, and associated information including physicochemical properties, interactive spectra, and literature references.
Literature
Where can you find plays written by Amiri Baraka, Zora Neale Hurston, Randolph Edmonds, and more? The Black Drama database consists of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Over 40% of the collections consist of previously unpublished plays.
Want to read 19th-century literature ranging from history and travel to politics and poetry? The Nineteenth Century Literary Society: the John Murray Publishing Archive database contains works written by Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Eastlake, Caroline Lamb, and more, all published by John Murray.
Featuring an extensive collection of over 25 million records sourced from books, periodicals, archives, newspapers, and reference materials, the C19: Nineteenth Century Index database offers a thorough bibliographic index for 19th-century research. Explore detailed entries for prominent resources like the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers index, Palmer’s Index to the Times, and more.
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