A-Z Databases

Good for:  Finding unique resources about scales, tools, measures and observational systems in communication and journalism literature.   

Contains:  Articles and data for designing research projects, conducting literature reviews, locating teaching research methods, and for finding out about the progress of theory and research in the field.

Good For: Sources concerning the American book trade, with evidence of the changing ways books were commissioned, sold, collected, and purchased by libraries, schools, prisons and hospitals.
Contains:  Archival records of bookstores, printers, sellers, the independent Black-owned press, Lotus Press, and several unique collections of Indigenous North American presses.
Dates covered: 1640-2014

Good for: Reading the surviving passages from Greek historians and other authors from antiquity whose works have been lost.
Contains: Surviving fragments and testimonia, which are the citations and paraphrases of lost texts that were preserved.
Dates covered: Greek texts dating from 4th century BCE - 6th century CE; scholarly editions and commentary dating from 20th century – present.

Good for:  Sources representing experiences of Mexican American, Dominican American and other Latinx communities, with a focus on grassroots activism and underrepresented identities including Latinas, LGBTQ+, and Afro-Latinx.

Contains:  Spanish and English archival material including personal papers, newspapers, periodicals and other publications from different Latinx communities across the United States. 

Good for: Records of the Allied Powers' diplomatic efforts to redraw European borders after the First World War
Contains: Treaties, British Foreign Office records, and personal papers of Robert Cecil and Arthur Balfour
Dates covered: 1919-1939