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History Resources: Databases
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts & Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language & Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876
Offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers 23 states and the District of Columbia.
New York Times Historical Backfile
The complete text of recent articles is provided cover to cover all the way back to the first issue in September 1851. That means researchers can find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, drawings, maps, charts, and advertisements.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.

International Medieval Bibliography   (Single user, on-campus access only)

Provides citations to articles in journals and books on all subjects relating to the Middle Ages within the date range 300-1500 AD.

Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
History Reference Center
Brief reference essays and articles on U.S. and World History. 

ECO
Access to a growing collection of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas, including History, Geography, Social Sciences & Military Sciences, some with full-image articles online.

Pennsylvania Digital Library
PADL is a state-wide repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations. Includes image collections, theses and dissertations, and specialized archival content.
ARTstor  (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
Biography Resource Center
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.
Old English Corpus
Dictionary of Old English (600-1150 A.D.)
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, and certain government documents. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
Dialog  (See librarian for assistance)
Use to access America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
Provides access to over 600 databases from a broad range of disciplines. For more information about a specific database, see the Dialog Bluesheets.
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.