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Business
Interested in the daily British newspaper Financial Times, which covers topics such as global finance, economics, industry, energy, and international politics? For access, email liblearn@iu.edu.
Access information on whole industries such as aerospace, telecom, IT, finance, and consumer goods industries with Marketline Advantage. Explore 4 million+ reports from 100,000+ companies.
Diversity
Discover the inspiring voices of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the LGBTQ community, and other historically underrepresented groups in American history through the extensive collection of more than 440 rare and previously unpublished videos in the March of Time database. 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. Lawyer, feminist, judge, and political activist – what connects these titles? They were all held by the remarkable Dorothy Kenyon.
In the Women and Social Movements, International database you’ll discover the Dorothy Kenyon Papers, 1850-1998 collection. This collection includes her writings, speeches, organizational records, photographs, memorabilia, and audio tapes of interviews and speeches that illuminates Kenyon’s social activism around such issues as race, class, poverty, and gender from the 1930s-60s.
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. Education in Videos has more than 1,650 hours of video about behaviors that define effective teaching styles. Included are demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Health
Nursing & Allied Health Source offers comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more in topic areas such as Nursing, Allied health, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Cytology, Histology, Physiology, Anatomy, Gerontology, Geriatrics, and more.
With over 700 scholarly journals, 350 training videos, case studies, and multicultural reports, Nursing and Allied Health Premium helps healthcare providers work with patients from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. 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.
History
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.
The Africa and the New Imperialism database explores the late 19th and early 20th-century history of European colonization across the African continent, utilizing over 1,000 diaries, journals, correspondences, maps, photographs, film footage, and other archival materials. In 1972, Angela Davis, an American political activist, philosopher, and author, conducted a jailhouse interview addressing the Black Panther Party and violence amidst the struggle for civil rights. See this conversation and over 450 hours of compelling films encompassing African American history, politics, art, culture, family dynamics, gender relationships, and socio-economic issues in Black Studies in Video database.
Explore Anglo-European perspectives on continental travel from 1550 to 1850 in The Grand Tour database. It encompasses written primary and secondary sources, artworks, photographs, maps, and firsthand accounts, providing insights into women’s daily experiences and travel practicalities across the centuries.
Literature & Language
Explore a rich collection of 1,700 previously unpublished plays by eminent writers like Amiri Baraka, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Randolph Edmonds, and many others. This extensive compilation spans from the mid-1800s to the present and is accessible through The Black Drama database.
Did you know your IU East Campus Library has graphic novels? Indeed, we do! They were featured in a library display case celebrating Will Eisner Week and all are available for you to check-out.
The Royal Shakespeare Company Archives database offers a record of the performance history of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessor, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Explore production records, costume designs, music files, photographs, and over 1,400 books to learn how productions were crafted and the creative process behind the company’s most significant shows.
Science and Mathematics
Exploring resources in 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. Embrace advanced math with confidence! It’s as simple as Pi. With over 2,800 videos spanning arithmetic, finance, physics, and chemistry, as well as 300+ practice exercises, Khan Academy.
Are you in search of open-source data that delves into global living conditions and the Earth’s environment? Our World in Data database offers access to an extensive collection of over 3,300 charts spanning 297 topics. including subjects such as Food, Agriculture, Human Rights, Economic Development, Technology Change, and Community and Wellbeing.
Social Sciences
Need help finding sociology resources? Check out the databases SocINDEX, Proquest Social Science, and Social Sciences. 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.
Social Sciences is a peer reviewed open access journal covering a wide range of fields including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, social policy, social work, sociology and so on. Seeking research assistance for a comprehensive range of criminal justice topics? From law enforcement to industrial security, the Criminal Justice database provides access to over 600 journals worldwide.
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