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AATA Online is a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by the Getty Center since 1983. AATA Online contains over 156,000 records, and regular updates add approximately 4,000 new records each year.
Academic Search Complete is a large, easy-to-use, multidisciplinary collection with many full-text articles dating from before 1900s. Search thousands of newspapers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals from a variety of subjects. Your search can also be limited to full-text and peer-reviewed (scholarly) articles.
Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Search for award-winning films including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners and access content from PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY® and more.
Please Note: This database includes some SAMPLE videos that UTD does not have access to.
Access World News Research Collection covers news and current events on the local, regional, national, and international levels. Access thousands of newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos. The library subscription includes Dallas Morning News, Dallas Metropolitan Collection, Arlington Morning News, and multiple news sources from across Texas.
Search and browse thousands of full-text books offered by the American Council of Learned Societies. These online books in the humanities are recommended and reviewed by scholars.
ACM Digital Library contains the full text of all articles published by the Association for Computing Machinery back to 1947, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and publications of special interest groups. This is one of the premier databases for computer science and technology research.
The ACS Symposium Series contains peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions' symposia. The series covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and others.
AAC presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
This collection includes several hundred periodicals dating from the early 19th century through the early 20th century. It contains newspapers and magazines as well as reports and annuals from various African American organizations such as churches and educational and service institutions.
A collection of primary documents containing cultural life and history in the 19th century. This database is a repository of first hand reports of various events and important racial issues, written by African-Americans for African-Americans.
This database provides materials from the African American press in the South during the Reconstruction through the Jim Crow period (1870-1926).
African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. Content covers life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment, and more.
Alternative Press Index Archive contains bibliographic information on articles from hundreds of alternative, radical, and left-wing periodicals and newspapers published between 1969 and 1990. International and interdisciplinary, this database is especially useful in the fields of the social sciences and humanities and links to full text when available. For information from 1991 onward, use Alternative Press Index.
Ambrose Video primarily contains documentaries and theatre productions from the British Broadcasting Corporation and Ambrose Video. Collection highlights include multiple documentary series The Long Search, The Making of Mankind, A History of the U.S Constitution, Ancient History. The collection also contains several BBC Shakespeare theatre productions.
This database contains articles on the United States, Canadian, and Mexican cultural, social, economic, diplomatic, and military histories. It covers periods from prehistory to the present and includes many full-text articles.
America's Historical Imprints contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and ephemera printed in early America.
Please note the database name has changed to Indigenous Newspapers in North America. Explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. The database represents a huge variety in publisher, audience, and era, permitting users to discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
This database provides access to a growing list of prison newspapers covering more than 200 years. Most of the titles were written by inmates. JSTOR worked with many research institutions to assemble and fund this collection.
Anatomy.tv covers more than 50 titles in medical and health science subjects and offers interactive 3D anatomy of each region of the body. The interactive 3D components were built from imaging data, allowing users to rotate the models, and they link to supporting content including images, video, and other animations.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: America: History and Life, Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Historical Abstracts, Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984, Humanities Full Text, SocINDEX, and Social Sciences Full Text.
This powerful resource from the American Psychological Association guides users who have questions about how to conduct research, structure their papers, and format what they write. Academic Writer’s self-paced learning modules, reference building tools, and guided writing center support libraries and writing centers to facilitate academic success by training students to build a strong writing foundation.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, and Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson).
ASME Digital Collection provides abstracts and full-text access to journals sponsored or published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. ASME is ideal for research in mechanical engineering, biomechanical engineering, robotics, medical devices, vibration and acoustics, and related engineering fields.
Founded by William Alexander Scott II, this African-American newspaper includes first-hand coverage of the Scottsboro Case, which would result in two landmark supreme court cases (Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama).
The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought. It has featured articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more.
The Austin American-Statesman offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper from 1871 to 1980.
The Austin American-Statesman offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper from 1989-current.
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