Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
A search engine for scholarly literature. Searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. For info on how to use Google Scholar to find articles available at Fitchburg State see https://fitchburgstate.libguides.com/c.php?g=556392&p=3825507
An advanced, multidisciplinary database featuring secondary resources in history, scholarly articles, over 57,000 eBooks and other resources spanning the humanities and sciences.
Current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Contains online Dictionary of Literary Biography.
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields.
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and is international in scope. The bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. Next to basic search and advanced search, you can also search via the thesaurus: a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography. The database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals which provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore. Entries cover:
publication details
contact information
submission requirements and editorial policies
subscription terms
electronic availability and advertising
useful statistics such as circulation, average number of articles submitted and published, time from submission to decision, and time from decision to publication.
All periodicals and book series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography are listed in the directory.
Provides multicultural and international content with access to full-text periodicals, reference works and primary sources related to world history from antiquity to the present.
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that students and scholars will have access to information relevant to their research needs. Containing more than 180,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier, Ashgate Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications and John Wiley & Sons.
An advanced, multidisciplinary database featuring secondary resources in history, scholarly articles, over 57,000 eBooks and other resources spanning the humanities and sciences.
A collection of E-Books. You can either search or browse by subject.
Note: Formerly known as eBrary E-Books. To download a full book you must create a free account.
This is a multi-disciplinary collection which allows you to search and view the full text of its eBooks. Read an eBook instantly with your web based reader or download eBooks to your portable device. Includes all EBSCOhost individually bought titles and titles from the eBook Academic Collection database.
University of Michigan Press is a leading publisher and distributor of books and digital projects in the humanities and social sciences that are aligned with the strengths of its parent institution. Areas of particular focus are performing arts; classical studies; political science; American studies (especially disability and class studies); Asian and African studies.
Features of Open Access books and journals on MUSE: Search and browse using the same tools for all MUSE content. Content already owned by libraries appears in search results. Requires no login or registration for access. DRM-free, with unlimited downloading and printing.
On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented, when available, without making prejudgements about what is "African".
This resource outlines a number of primary source materials that help researchers deduce the wealth of the Kingdom of Mali. Use this resource to help you think outside the box for gathering primary source information on West Africa during the time of Sundiata.
This collection features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid-16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. (Northwestern Univ.)
AH_digITalPortal project will curate electronic and digitized copies of historical documents and field research materials, archives, and other sources of information that scholars & researchers of Africa have collected over many years of their work. These resources will include copies of field notes, manuscripts, rare books, magazines, pamphlets, pictures and images, and transcripts of interviews, songs, and other audio and visual documents covering periods from before colonization of Africa up until the recent past.
A wide variety of preserved document collections, largely from Eastern and Western Africa, with some collections from Middle, Northern, and Southern Africa. (Endangered Archives: British Library)
Visual record of early European contacts with Asia and Africa. More than 700 images, mostly late-19th and early-20th century trade cards and illustrated European newspapers, illustrate popular perceptions of Africa and Asia and depict the difference in attitudes of French, British, German, and Dutch colonizers. (Harvard Univ.)
Variety of digitized manuscripts in African and Arabic languages, with topics ranging from legal and social history; scholarly elites; history of the book and book collecting; history of reading in West Africa and African Arabic calligraphy. (Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the University of Cape Town)
This interactive website provides information about the role that gold and other trade items played in the development of the medieval West African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai.
Provides multicultural and international content with access to full-text periodicals, reference works and primary sources related to world history from antiquity to the present.
The world’s largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
FalconSearch
You can use FalconSearch on the library's homepage to find articles, books, ebooks, and additional materials all at once. FalconSearch is an excellent starting place when you aren't sure which database to choose.
