Databases A-Z

Academic Commons

Academic Commons provides reliable, long-term access to digital works produced by Willamette University community members. The Commons is sponsored by the Mark O. Hatfield Library and Willamette Integrated Technology Services.

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Academic Search Complete

Provides full text for more than 8,500 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. It offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 12,500 journals. Over 7,300 of the full text journals are peer reviewed.

full text dates: 1965 - present

Academic Video Online

Provides videos with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Includes more than 70,000 video titles spanning a range of subject areas such as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

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Access World News

Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.

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ACM Digital Library

Provides indexing and full-text access to ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.

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Agricola

Provides access to over 3.5 million citations from scholarly journals, government publications, books, and other documents covering every major agricultural subject. Also useful for forestry, wildlife management, and other applications of the biological sciences.

dates: 1979 - present

Agriculture (Gale OneFile)

This collection provides a comprehensive view of agriculture and its related fields. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers have access to current and authoritative content that covers everything from practical aspects of farming to scientific research in horticulture.

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Alt HealthWatch

Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. Full text is available for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Full text goes back as far as 1990, indexing and abstracting goes back to 1984.

partial full text dates: 1990 - present

America History and Life

The core database for U.S. and Canadian history and culture, America, History and Life provides access to scholarly literature from prehistoric times to the present. Indexes and abstracts over 1700 journals as well as book and media reviews and dissertations.

dates: 1910 - present

America's Historical Newspapers

Provides full text to over 700 historical newspapers. Hatfield Library has series 1, which covers newspapers that began publishing in the colonial period, with some titles providing coverage into the later 1800s.

full text dates: 1690-1876

American Chemical Society Journals

Provide searchable full-text access to over 140 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 1,3 million articles dating back to the inaugural volume of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.

full text dates: 1997 - present

American Periodical Series Online

Provides indexing and full text to over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900. Included are special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historically-significant periodicals.

full text dates: 1740-1900

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020

In the past 200 years, over 450 prison newspapers have been published from U.S. prisons. American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that represents penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

full text dates: 1800-2020

American State Papers, 1789-1838

Contains the full text of legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.

full text dates: 1789-1838

Année Philologique

The online version of Annee Philologique, which provides an analytical and critical bibliography of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. The database contains over 810,000 bibliographic records covering Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, including early Christian texts and patristics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy.

full text dates: 1959 - present

Annual Reviews

Offers articles or chapters that give critical analyses of recent developments and research in a particular area. The library offers access to the following six titles: Anthropology, Environment and Resources, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology.

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Anthrosource

Provides 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. Includes a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals, access to archival content housed at JSTOR, and current issues for 15 of the most critical AAA peer-reviewed publications.

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ArchiveGrid

Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies. Subject strengths include: History, Humanities, Art & Architecture, Social Sciences, and Genealogy.

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Art Full Text (1984 - present)

Provides coverage of all styles and periods of art. Indexes and abstracts over 600 international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Full text is provided to more than 300 periodicals. Includes coverage of film, photography and architecture. Also indexes almost 200,000 art reproductions.

full text dates: 1984 - present

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)

Provides coverage of fine, decorative and commercial art. Indexes over 600 international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, including peer reviewed journals. Includes over 25,000 book reviews.

dates: 1929-1984

ARTstor

Now fully integrated with JSTOR - ARTstor provides a broad and deep general collection of images of world art and architecture, as well as special collections including Native American, Asian, American and European art.

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BBC Shakespeare Plays

Provides streaming access to the 37 Shakespeare plays that the BBC produced. Also included on this site are five other programs dealing with theatre and film: The Great Directors: the making of 21st century Hollywood; A History of great playwrights; Hollywood's greatest directors; Shakespeare in Italy; and, Shakespeare: the animated tales.

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BePress Legal Repository

BePress Legal Repository publishes over 50 electronic-only journals in many disciplines, including economics, politics, law, health and medicine, and science and technology. Their content is indexed in a number of databases, including EconLit, Web of Science, and Medline.

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Bibliography of Asian Studies

Provides indexing to western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971. Searchable by keyword (any field), author, title, journal, and subject, it may also be browsed by subject, journal or country.

dates: 1971 - present

Bibliography of the History of Art

Covers European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers catalogs.

dates: 1975-2007

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)

BASE searches over 2.7 million documents from 189 sources. Among them are numerous academic full text archives that are accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI). Most of the documents are freely accessible and can be searched on the basis of metadata or full text.

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BioOne

Search more than 200 leading titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

full text dates: 2000 - present

BIOSIS Previews

Covers life sciences and biomedical research from thousands of journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, and more. It covers pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies. Major subjects include: Molecular Biology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology and the Environment, Microbiology, Agriculture and Nutrition, Biochemistry, Experimental, Clinical and Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Genetics, Pharmacology, and Public Health.

partial full text dates: 1990 - present

Books & Authors

Offers a reader's advisory tool that includes plot summaries, reading recommendations for similar titles, and searchable information on genre, characters, subjects, and time period. It also provides information about authors: writings, awards, career personal information, and more.

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Britannica

The electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. An excellent starting point for almost any topic of research, the Britannica offers both concise descriptions, and longer, more comprehensive articles on a wide variety of topics.

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Business Insights

Combines business & industry directories to display company specific information that is searchable by: Company name; Stock ticker symbol; SIC/NAICS code; Brand name, or Product description. Also a great starting point when looking for Market shares or Rankings within an industry. Provides some coverage of academic journal articles. If you need academic research journal articles, then you should be using the Business Source Premier database.

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Business Source Complete

Provides full text from nearly 3,300 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 4,100 journals.

full text dates: 1922 - present

C-SPAN Video Library

The Video Library includes over 160,000 hours of coverage of C-SPAN programs since 1987. Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text.

video dates: 1987 - present

Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style Online also includes the popular Chicago Style Q&A. The Q&A content is fully searchable along with the content of The Chicago Manual of Style. The Chicago Manual of Style Online also provides convenient Tools, such as sample forms, letters, and style sheets.

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Chinese Text Project

An open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicles Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

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Chronicling America

Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC). Eventually, it is hoped that it will contain newspapers from all U.S. states and territories.

full text dates: 1836-1922

Civil Rights in America

Reports, documents and other materials derived from the US Congressional Serial Set concerning civil rights, covering the years 1817-1994.

full text dates: 1817-1994

Classical Music Library

Includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

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Collegian

Explore history as it happened by searching the pages of Willamette's longest running paper. For over 130 years, Willamette students have experienced and reported on campus, regional, and national events and trends in the pages of the Collegian.

full text dates: 1875 -

Communication and Mass Media Complete

Provides robust coverage of quality research in areas related to communication and mass media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.

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Computer Source

Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

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Consumer Health Database

Provides consumer health journal articles and magazines.

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Contemporary World Music

Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Starting with over 2,000 albums, and over 29,500 tracks, regular additions are made to this collection.

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Coronavirus Research Database

Covers a collection of literature related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.

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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is packed with chemical and physical data including: basic constants, units conversion factors and mathematical tables, scientific terminology and symbols, physical constants of organic and inorganic compounds, molecular structure and spectroscopy, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, properties of atoms, particles, solids, fluids, polymers, atomic, molecular, optical, nuclear and particle physics, and sections on geophysics, astronomy, acoustics, and practical laboratory data and safety. Updated annually.

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Culinary Arts

Trade magazines about food preparation for amateur cooks & professional chefs, ranging from small businesses, to catering, fast food, sit down restaurants, and large food processing operations. Coverage includes searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

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Departmental Collections

Community Collections are maintained by academic and administrative departments. They may include published articles, preprints, undergraduate theses, conference proceedings, white papers, data sets, images, and other products of Willamette University faculty, staff, and students. Access to some collections is restricted to members of the Willamette University community.

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Derwent Innovations Index

Covers over 23 million basic inventions and 51 million patents drawn from over 48 patent-issuing authorities worldwide. The invention-based records contain information of global protection for a single invention, and patent data is translated from 30 languages into English.

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Digital Theatre Plus

Provides streamed videos in: recent British theatrical productions (Shakespeare, classics, new writing, musicals, dance, and opera); making theater (creative, productive, and technical teams; the acting company; theater management; and filmed interviews with practitioners); study guides; teaching support; and collections (performances from the Gran Teatre de Liceu; Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe, Broadway Digital Archive, and National Jewish Theater).

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Directory of Open Access Books

Provides access to over 34,000 open access, academic electronic books. Many of the titles are peer-reviewed, and the collection continues to grow. Content is searchable, and browsable by title, publisher and subject.

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Directory of Open Access Journals

Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Designed to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3875 journals in the directory. Currently 1376 journals are searchable at article level.

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Diversity Studies

Explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

full text dates: 1980-

Early English Books Online

Provides indexing, citations and full text of Early English publications from 1475 to 1800. Included are titles listed in the Short Title Catalogue of Early English Books, 1475-1640 (Pollard and Redgrave), Short Title Catalogue of Early English Books, 1641-1700 (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1660. Included are texts covering English literature, languages, music, religion, science, travel and exploration and politics.

full text dates: 1475 - 1700

Earth Science Encyclopedias

This set of encyclopedia explore the dynamics of the Earth. It covers earth materials and resources, earth surface history, physics and chemistry of the Earth, climate change and underlying factors, geothermometry, geobarometry, glacial events, and mass extinction theories, earthquakes, hazards engineering, hazards predictability, and more.

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Ebook Central

Ebook Central is a platform for e-books offering titles in a wide variety of subjects featuring content from hundreds of publishers. The library now has over 15,000 e-books as part of the Orbis Cascade Alliance's Demand Driven Acquisitions Project. Access to Ebook Central is limited to current students, staff, and faculty of Willamette.

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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

A collection of over 4700 online books (eBooks) with subject strengths in reference, computer science and the Northwest. Also, includes books from regional university presses and Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.

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EBSCO Databases

A complete list of all the EBSCO Databases available to the WU community.

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EconLit

Covers scholarly research in the areas of economics, business economics, social economics, income distributions, and monetary controls from around the world. Includes both theoretical and applied aspects of economics and allied disciplines from the social sciences. Also includes book reviews, essays from multi-author books, unpublished working papers, and dissertations.

full text dates: 1969 - present

Educators' Reference Complete

Contains more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education. Useful for teachers and administrators and those studying the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC.

full text dates: 1980 - present

Encyclopedia of Associations

Directory of over 158,000 trade associations, professional societies, hobby enthusiast groups, and fraternal organizations. Explains each group

Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Written by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around the world and edited by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. This online resource includes more than 700 new topics, not covered in the previous print edition, and is updated quarterly.

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Entrepreneurship (Gale Business)

Covers how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, trade magazines and some academic journals. If you clearly need academic research journal articles about entrepreneurship & small businesses, then you should be using the Business Source Premier database.

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Environmental Studies

Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more.

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Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 300 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

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ERIC

Covers journal and research literature in the field of education. Includes two files: Research in Education (RIE), which indexes and abstracts the miscellaneous education literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), which indexes and abstracts over 775 periodicals.

full text dates: 1966 - present

Ethnic NewsWatch

Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

full text dates: 1984 - present

Evans Digital Edition

The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Upon completion, the Evans Digital Edition will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

full text dates: 1639 - 1800

Exploring Race in Society

This free research database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.

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Foreign Law Guide

Find relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources.

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Foundation Directory Online

A database of over 88,000 funder profiles and approximately 550,000 grants. Updated continually it provides the most accurate details available on U.S. funders and their grants.

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Fuente Académica

Provides full text coverage to more than 150 scholarly, academic Spanish language journals from Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. All content is in Spanish and covers wide variety of subjects including politics, history, literature and education.

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Gale Academic Onefile

Provides peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.

full text dates: 1980 - present

Gale Databases

A complete list of all the Gale Databases available to Willamette users.

full text dates: 1980 - present

Gale OneFile News

A full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Includes over 1000 papers, both domestic and international, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

This is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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Gardening and Horticulture

Consists of 50 journals that focus on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. This collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. Useful for farmers, landscape architects, and bio-technologists.

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Gender Studies Database

Combines the Womens Studies International and the Mens Studies databases to provide coverage of gender related scholarship. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.

dates: 1972 - present

General OneFile

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

full text dates: 1980 - present

GeoRef

Provides access to over 2,000,000 records for the worlds geoscience literature, including journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, and theses.

partial full text dates: 1785 - present

Geoscienceworld

This database sponsored by various professional organizations and institutions indexes 37 of the top earth science journals, and includes the journal's tables of contents. The literature it indexes includes non-GeoRef information.

Global Plants (JSTOR)

Includes content from our Global Plants Initiative partners, bringing the amount of materials to two million type specimens, paintings, drawings, correspondence, and supporting materials. These materials represent over 160 partners in 47 countries on 5 continents.

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Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search 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.

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GPO Monthly Catalog

Indexes all the federal government publications distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program. Also provides holdings information for the Hatfield Library and other depository libraries.

dates: 1976 - present

GreenFILE

A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.

full text dates: 1913 - present

Grove Art Online

A comprehensive online resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present.

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Grove Music Online

The online version of the classic music encyclopedia.

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Gun Regulations and Legislation in America

Gun Regulation and Legislation brings together more than 500 titles dealing with this topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Willamette University Digital Collections include selected images from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art's permanent collection of over 9,000 culturally and historically diverse artworks.

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HathiTrust

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 18+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

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Health and Medicine

Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.

full text dates: 1980 - present

Health and Wellness

Covers roughly 400 health and medical journals, pamphlets, health-related videos, and over 2,200 general interest publications.

full text dates: 1980 - present

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Covers roughly 700 periodicals that research nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more. 1984 - present

partial full text dates: 1984 - present

HeinOnline

Provides the entry way to a database of over 1,200 law review journals. While William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has been an American legal publisher for over 80 years, HeinOnline began in 2000 with just 25 journals. It has since expanded to its current size, containing more than 600,000 articles from 21,000 volumes of material.

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HeinOnline LGBTQ+ Rights

Charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today.

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HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law

A collection of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English speaking world. Includes federal, state, and colonial statutes and cases dealing with slavery.

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HeinOnline Taxation and Economic Reform in America

Contains more than 900 volumes and nearly one-million pages of legislative history materials and other documents.

full text dates: 1781 - present

HeinOnline U.S. Congressional Documents Collection

The U.S. Congressional Documents Collection features the bound and daily versions of Congressional Record, its three predecessor titles, and other important congressional material.

full text dates: 1789 - present

HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library

Organized by the four affected presidents, this collection brings together a variety of documents both contemporaneous and asynchronous to each president's impeachment, presenting both a snapshot of the political climate as each impeachment played out and the long view history has taken of each proceeding.

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HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library

The HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Weekly Compilation of the Presidential Documents, and other documents relating to U.S. presidents.

full text dates: 1897 - present

High School Edition (Gale in Context)

Provides access to authoritative, reliable digital content from magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books appropriate for middle- and high-school students and covers a wide range of subjects, including science, history, and literature.

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Historic Oregon Newspapers

This full-text searchable database contains over 900,000 pages of Oregon newspapers dated 1846 - 2017, and the ODNP is continually adding new titles.

full text dates: 1846-2017

Historical Abstracts

Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Indexes and abstracts over 2,300 journals, as well as books and dissertations.

dates: 1955 - present

Historical New York Times

Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

full text dates: 1851-2009

Historical Statistics of the United States

The fourth edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. The Millennial Edition is published by Cambridge University Press, with the permission of the Census Bureau.

full text dates: Colonial Times to 2000

HLAS Online

Provides access to books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings on all aspects of Latin American studies, including Anthropology, Art, Economics, Government and Politics, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology.

full text dates: 1935 - present

Home Improvement

Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

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Hospitality and Tourism

Primarily trade magazines and some academic journals, focusing on businesses of all sizes in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industries. Coverage includes historical and current state of affairs of these industries, as well as cultural and economic aspects.

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Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective

A retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.

dates: 1908-1981

Ingenta

Provides access to current article information from more than 13,000 interdisciplinary journals. Searchable by title keyword, it contains brief citations for more than 8,800,000 articles.

dates: 1988 - present

Institute of Physics Journals

Over 50 journals published by Great Britains Institute of Physics. Coverage for some titles goes back to 1874.

full text dates: 1874 - present

International Foundation for Art Research

This database explores the legal and ethical issues concerning the acquisition and ownership of art; WWII /Holocaust-era art looting and restitution; and cultural property/antiquities issues. Two sets of resources International Cultural Property Ownership and Export Legislation (ICPOEL) and Case Law and Statutes (CLS) will help users navigate the increasingly complex and abundant body of legislation and case law regarding the acquisition and ownership of artworks.

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IPA Source

The web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of aria and art song texts.

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Jazz Music Library

The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. Beginning with over 5,000 albums and over 60,000 tracks, this collection continues to grow with regular updates.

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Johns Hopkins Literary Theory & Criticism

Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

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JSTOR

Provides access to the complete backfiles of more than 1,600 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s. Over 46 million pages are now available. JSTOR now also includes ARTstor - a broad and deep general collection of images of world art and architecture, as well as special collections including Native American, Asian, American and European art.

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Kanopy BASE

Kanopy BASE (Bundled Academic Subscription for Education) provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, tv series, and more. The collection of films support a wide variety of subject areas including the arts, media studies, politics, diversity, equity and inclusion, LGBTQAI+, psychology, business, sciences, health, education, history.

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LatAmPlus

LatAmPlus is a digital collection of full-text peer reviewed journals collection. It includes more than 50 journals specializing in Latin American and Caribbean humanities and social sciences.

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Legal Collection

Contains full text for hundreds of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

partial full text dates: 1960s - present

Literary Index

Provides author, title and custom search access to the Gale literary criticism series.

LitFinder

Provides access to a broad span of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Including more than 150,000 full-text poems and over 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.

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LLMC Digital

This digital collection provides access to historical state and federal government documents and legal materials from the U.S., Canada and many foreign countries.

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Magill's Medical Guide

An up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as general readers. Includes information on diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, and more.

full text dates: 8th edition

MAS Ultra School Edition

Designed specifically for high school students, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra School also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,000 biographies, 100,000 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

full text dates: 1975 - present

MasterFile Premier

Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,800 periodicals.

full text dates: 1984 - present

MathSciNet

Provides access to the literature of mathematics, including journal articles, recently published articles, and item currently in press.

dates: 1940 - present

Medline

Provides access to over 12 million citations and additional life science journals. This resource is also known as MEDLINE.

partial full text dates: 1950 - present

Mergent Intellect

Comprehensive company information for active & inactive corporations in US and other countries. Standard & customized reports with up to 30 years of stock market trading & financial data. Also has PDFs of annual reports to shareholders, SEC filings, and identifying major competitors.

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Middle School (Gale in Context)

Offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. It provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are popular topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

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Middle Search Plus

Designed specifically for middle school students, this database provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains over 84,000 biographies, 100,000 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

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Military & Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

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MLA International Bibliography

Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3,000 journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, and working papers.

full text dates: 1926 - present

Music Index Online

Indexes over 725 international music periodicals offering a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data. Subjects covered include past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, plus computer produced music. Includes book reviews, and reviews of music recordings, tapes, and performances. First performances and obituaries are noted.

full text dates: 1976 - present

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 200,000 publications including: Federal, State, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research.

dates: 1960 - present

Nature

A weekly international journal that publishes high quality peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. It provides rapid, authoritative, insightful news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

full text dates: 2008 - present

New York Times (1985 - present)

Provides searchable full text.

full text dates: 1985 - present

New York Times Historical (1851-2010)

Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

full text dates: 1851-2009

News (Gale OneFile)

A full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Includes over 1000 papers, both domestic and international, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Newspaper Source

Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers.

full text dates: 1984 - present

Nursing and Allied Health

All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection.

full text dates: 1980 - present

Open Access Digital Theological Library

The mission of Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to curate high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections.

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OpenDissertations

An open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Some citations include a link to access the full text when available.

partial full text dates: 1902-

Opposing Viewpoints

A one-stop source for information on current social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

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Oregon Encyclopedia

A comprehensive and authoritative compendium of information about Oregon's history and culture, created through a partnership between Portland State University, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society.

full text dates: Varies

Oregon Index

Selectively indexes articles on local and regional topics from the following Oregon newspapers: The Oregonian, Salem Statesman Journal, Eugene Register Guard, Coos Bay World, Corvallis Gazette Times, Klamath Falls Herald & News, The LaGrande Observer, and Willamette Week.

dates: 1985-2004

Oregon Index Online

It contains over 700,000 cards with citations to articles published in Portland and Salem newspapers, magazines, book chapters, and more. Topics cover events and issues important to Oregon's history and state government.

dates: 1900-1980

Oregon Newspaper Sources

A collection of Oregon-based newspapers and journals, including the Oregonian and Eugene Register-Guard that can be searched simultaneously or individually.

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Oregonian (Newsbank)

Full text access to the Oregonian, the newspaper of record for the state of Oregon. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest by circulation.

full text dates: 1987- present

Oxford Art Online

Contains the online version of the classic Dictionary of Art, produced by Grove, as well as online versions of the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The online version of the classic dictionary. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cook books.

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Oxford Music Online

Contains the online version of the classic New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as online versions of the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.

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Oxford Reference Online

Provides access to 240 well-known and trusted dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books, in a single cross-searchable web database. Over 25 subject areas are covered, including language, quotations, science, medicine, humanities, the social sciences and business.

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Past Masters

The PAST MASTERS includes the world's largest collection of full text electronic editions in philosophy. Of these collections, Willamette has access to works by Augustine, Wittgenstein, Suarez, Montesquieu and Plotinus.

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Persée

Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales. The French journals in the field of humanities constitute a rich scientific heritage. Their digitization and online publication aim to fulfill a triple objective: promote scientific publications in French; facilitate free access to the results of scientific research; furnish the scientific community with tools for research and documentation.

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Philosopher's Index

Provides indexing and author-written abstracts to the international literature of philosophy. Over 570 journals from 43 countries are covered, comprising 80% of the database, with the remaining 20% covering books and anthologies.

dates: 1940 - present

Political Extremism and Radicalism

A compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and radical left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera.

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Popular Magazines

Includes full text coverage of 1000 of the most searched magazines across the Gale databases. Topics covered include sports, science, health and current events.

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Primary Search

Designed specifcally for primary grade students, this database provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in Primary Search are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

full text dates: 1990 - present

Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

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Project Muse

Provides online access to the full text of over 400 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.

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PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Provides coverage of nearly 550 full text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles. It covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

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PsycINFO

Abstracts and indexes the professional and academic literature in the field of psychology and related disciplines. Covers more than 1,300 journals in more than 30 languages. Also includes references to book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports.

partial full text dates: 1887 - present

PubChem

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem is organized as three interlinked databases within NCBI: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.

Public Health Journals (JSTOR)

Public health cuts across disciplines, including science, economics, law, education, sociology, psychology, and public policy--JSTOR offers a wide variety of content through their Public Health Journals collection.

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PubMed

Provides access to over 12 million citations and additional life science journals. Pubmed provides links to some full-text articles and related resources.

dates: 1966 - present

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

full text dates: 1890 - 1982

Regional Business News

Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Religion and Philosophy Collection

With hundreds of full-text, scholarly journals, Religion & Philosophy Collection provides an in-depth collection of resources covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

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Sage Journals Online

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

full text dates: 1999 - present

Science

The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, reviews, short features, and commentary in all fields of science.

full text dates: 1997 - present

Science Direct

The worlds largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

partial full text dates: 1998 - present

SciFinder Scholar

SciFinder indexes chemical literature in various fields of study such as biology, chemistry, geoscience, physics, engineering, agriculture, medicine, life sciences, etc. It consists of citations, abstracts, and the citation analyses of the Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS) and the medical literature of PubMed (Medline). It also links to the full text of articles when they are available.

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Scitation

Scitation indexes physics, engineering, & general science research. It covers articles published in the American Institute of Physics journals, and includes reference linking. The interfaces search both Scitation and SPIN databases simultaneously for over 12 million articles.

full text dates: 1975 - present

Scopus

Scopus is a major citation database for over 20,000 peer-reviewed journals. It also covers conference proceedings, select book series and trade journals, plus U.S./international patents. It features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize the world's research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. To access full-text articles when they are available, log into your library account before using Scopus.

partial full text dates: 1995 - present

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law

A collection of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English speaking world. Includes federal, state, and colonial statutes and cases dealing with slavery.

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SPORTDiscus

Provides comprehensive international coverage on research about sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education, and more.

full text dates: 1949 - present

SpringerLink

Includes more than 600 peer-reviewed journals, comprising more than 600,000 individual documents. Most titles include complete back issues to 1996. 1996 - present.

full text dates: 1996 - present

Statesman Journal

Provides access to Salem's newspaper, covering local news and events, Oregon state government.

full text dates: 1999 - present

Statistical Abstract of the United States

The online version of the statistical classic. A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

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Statistical Abstracts of the World

The statistical abstract is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States and internationally.

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TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae)

A full text database containing virtually all Greek texts surviving from the 8th century B.C. up to A.D. 600, as well as many of the surviving works up to the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. Note: as a Willamette user or a visitor you must first create a TLG user account to use this database. Also, WU only has access to the abridged version of the Online TLG which is open to the public.

full text dates: 8th century B.C. - 1453

TOPICsearch

This current events database allows students to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from over 350 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers.

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U.S. Congressional Documents Collection

The U.S. Congressional Documents Collection features the bound and daily versions of Congressional Record, its three predecessor titles, and other important congressional material.

full text dates: 1789 - present

U.S. Congressional Serial Set

Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

full text dates: 1817-1994

U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps

The maps published as part of U.S. Congressional Serial Set publications.

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U.S. Presidential Library

The HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Weekly Compilation of the Presidential Documents, and other documents relating to U.S. presidents.

full text dates: 1897 - present

U.S. West Newsstream

Enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

full text dates: 1984 - present

Vocational and Career Collection

This database helps students as well as career counselors to learn about possible vocations and careers. Vocational & Career Collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.

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Wall Street Journal

Provides full text coverage of the worlds leading financial newspaper. Useful for current and historical information on international finance and economics, the stock market, and world events.

full text dates: 2011 - present

Washington Post

Provides searchable full text from 2014 to present.

full text dates: 2014 - present

Westlaw Campus

A subset of the Westlaw database used by law libraries and lawyers, Westlaw Campus provides access to a wealth of U.S. and international law sources. Includes access to legal encyclopedias, journals and law reviews, cases, statutes and legislative materials, and European Union resources. Searchable by keyword, legal citation and document title. We get access to this database from the law library, once on their databases page click on Westlaw Campus to connect.

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Willamette Collegian

Explore history as it happened by searching the pages of Willamette's longest running paper. For over 130 years, Willamette students have experienced and reported on campus, regional, and national events and trends in the pages of the Collegian.

full text dates: 1875 -

Women & the Law (Peggy)

A collection of books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law.

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WorldCat

Contains bibliographic information on books, videos, music recordings, journals, archival materials and digital materials contributed by over 10,000 member libraries worldwide. Includes over 2,000,000,000 records, including manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Worldcat (Firstsearch)

Worldcat contains Books, journals, media, government publications, maps, and more. It also provides electronic resources to which the WU Libraries provides access. There are over 60 million article citations from NLM Medline (medicine and health), ERIC (education), GPO (U.S. government publications), ArticleFirst and British Library serials (articles from a wide range of international journals in all subjects).

WU Academic Commons

WU Academic Commons provides reliable, long-term access to digital works produced by Willamette University community members. The Commons is sponsored by the Mark O. Hatfield Library and Willamette Integrated Technology Services.

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WU Art Images Collection

The Art Images Collection includes images of archeological sites, buildings, sculpture, paintings, and other art works from prehistory through the 21st century. A constantly growing resource, the collection currently contains over 4700 images chosen to support the daily teaching and research needs of Willamette University faculty and students, in particular those in the fields of Art History and Studio Art.

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Databases A to Z

Academic Commons

Academic Search Complete

Academic Video Online

Access World News

ACM Digital Library

Agricola

Agriculture (Gale OneFile)

Alt HealthWatch

America History and Life

America's Historical Newspapers

American Chemical Society Journals

American Periodical Series Online

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020

American State Papers, 1789-1838

Année Philologique

Annual Reviews

Anthrosource

ArchiveGrid

Art Full Text (1984 - present)

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)

ARTstor

BBC Shakespeare Plays

BePress Legal Repository

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of the History of Art

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)

BioOne

BIOSIS Previews

Books & Authors

Britannica

Business Insights

Business Source Complete

C-SPAN Video Library

Chicago Manual of Style

Chinese Text Project

Chronicle of Higher Education

Chronicling America

Civil Rights in America

Classical Music Library

Collegian

Communication and Mass Media Complete

Computer Source

Consumer Health Database

Contemporary World Music

Coronavirus Research Database

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Culinary Arts

Departmental Collections

Derwent Innovations Index

Digital Theatre Plus

Directory of Open Access Books

Directory of Open Access Journals

Diversity Studies

Early English Books Online

Earth Science Encyclopedias

Ebook Central

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

EBSCO Databases

EconLit

Educators' Reference Complete

Encyclopedia of Associations

Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Entrepreneurship (Gale Business)

Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

ERIC

Ethnic NewsWatch

Evans Digital Edition

Exploring Race in Society

Foreign Law Guide

Foundation Directory Online

Fuente Académica

Gale Academic Onefile

Gale Databases

Gale OneFile News

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gardening and Horticulture

Gender Studies Database

General OneFile