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DATABASES

Oral History Online  (Alexander Street Press)
 
This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.


America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876  (Newsbank)
 
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham´s " History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. Includes coverage of the Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury1758-1886; as well as newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.


Historical New York Times Access  (ProQuest)
 
Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.


Sanborn Maps - Digital 1867-1970  (ProQuest)
 
Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Rhode Island. In electronic form Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.


Readers' Guide Retrospective  (Wilson Web)
 
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982


Readers' Guide Full Text  (Wilson Web)
 
Reader's Guide provides current events coverage in over 400 magazines and popular periodicals going back to 1983. Full text of nearly 200 publications is available. Included are such popular publications as Atlantic Monthly, Commonweal, Discover, Education Digest, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Harper's, Life, Maclean's, Money, Nation, National Geographic, Newsweek, People, Psychology Today, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, Time, US News & World Report and Yankee.


JSTOR  (JSTOR)
 
Browse History
JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
 
Browse History
A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.


Access World News  (Newsbank)
 
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Coverage: Varies by news source and newspaper.


Humanities Full Text  (Wilson Web)
 
This database covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Subject areas include archaeology, classical studies, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, literary criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. The database cites feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, works of fiction, drama and poetry, and reviews of ballets, theatre, dance, movies, musicals, operas, plays and television programs. Coverage is from the present to 1984. The database includes the full text of over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of another 550 titles.


ARTstor  (ARTstor)
 
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.


Smithsonian Global Sound  (Alexander Street Press)
 
This database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.


Intelecom Online Resources Network

Access through username and password only. Username and password available at the Reference Desk (401-341-2289).
The INTELECOM Online Resources Network is a database of academic video clips - streamed on demand - for use in support of classroom instruction. The Sociology Collection consists of over 260 video clips ranging in length from 2 to 10 minutes. Clip topics include issues such as crime, gender stratification, education, aging, work and the economy, groups and organizations, deviance, social movements, and more.


De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors - Short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from the accession of the Emperor Augustus to the death of the Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each essay on this site, which is peer reviewed, is written by a scholar and is accompanied by a bibliography, illustrations, and footnotes.


ACE - Bibliography of Resources Pertaining to the Social History of Aquidneck Island

This database is intended as a guide to the resources available pertaining to the social history of Aquidneck Island for teachers from Kindergarten to 12th grade, and other interested parties. All materials have been located in repositories on Aquidneck Island. There are additional resources on the subject that are available off-island, but they were not accessed for use in this bibliography. This biography was created by ACE,


Book Review Digest Retrospective   (Wilson Web)
 
Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.


Book Review Digest Plus   (Wilson Web)
 
Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.


African American Newspapers, 1827-1998  (Newsbank)
 
Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage 1887-1998.


History Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
 
History Reference Center is a full text history reference database designed for undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. It also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals. The database contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

E-BOOKS

Humanities E-Book  (American Council of Learned Societies)
 
The ACLS HEB Project is a collaboration of nine learned societies, over 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan´ s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. The ACLS HEB Project includes nearly 1,400 titles selected by scholars in the humanities. Approximately 350 titles are added each year. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from 1885 through 2006.


Ebrary
 
Use the Browse tab to narrow search to History subject area.
Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.


Gale Virtual Reference Library            (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
 
Access to electronic reference titles subscribed to by the McKillop Library. Subjects covered include religion, history, the arts and social sciences.


Credo Reference
 
Browse History
Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.


Fed Sys  (Government)

GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes. Some collections currently available on FDsys are: Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 to Present); Congressional Bills (103rd Congress to Present); Congressional Documents (104th Congress to Present); Congressional Hearings (105th Congress to Present); Congressional Record (1994 to Present); Congressional Reports (104th Congress to Present); Federal Register (1994 to Present); Public and Private Laws (104th Congress to Present).

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