Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
CLCD’s Enterprise PreK-12 is a comprehensive resource to locate and research children’s literature books and media spanning from beginning to young adult readers. The service combines over a 1.3M title dB including valuable supporting content of over 600K professional reviews, 1.25K award sources representing 110K book awards, reading measurement programs, author links plus lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters for locating materials to determine interest and reading levels including a 18 STEM terms search feature. Excellent teaching tool to assist in selecting trade books based on standards; creating thematic reading lists, annotated biographies; interpreting reviews; developing classroom collections and more.
Topics covered include art history & criticism, architecture & architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles and much more.
First Folios Compared represents a major milestone in Shakespearean scholarship and cultural heritage and is an unprecedented resource for researchers, students, and Shakespeare enthusiasts around the world to explore and compare these unique and treasured publications.
This groundbreaking collection features digitized First Folios from 30 institutions. Most contributing copies have not been publicly available before, and several have been digitized specifically for this project.
Brings together both sides of 800 hot topics important to today's society. To help students, researchers, and readers understand the critical issues we face today, Issues & Controversies explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture. Updated weekly, with a wire-service newsfeed providing the latest headline stories, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles designed to inspire thought-provoking debates and research papers.
In addition to its original articles, Issues & Controversies features breaking news from Reuters®; editorials and opinion pieces from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic, and other major newspapers and magazines; and helpful background information, including the central pro/con arguments, essential primary documents, vital statistics, and chronologies of key events. Many articles include full-length videos from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates—featuring leading authorities and experts debating the major issues of our time—which can be viewed in their entirety, by predefined segments, or with the help of a complete, searchable transcript. Selected key issues also feature original overview videos, enhanced lessons, and additional educator resources to introduce students to the topic and help instructors present the material. Curriculum Tools and other special features and listings offer guidance and ideas for integrating the content into instructional frameworks and research assignments.
JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Overall, it provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Archive Journal Collections:
Arts & Sciences I-XV
Business IV
Hebrew Journals
Ireland
Life Sciences
Lives of Literature
Public Health Journals
Security Studies
Sustainability
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Primary Source Collections:
19th Century British Pamphlets
World Heritage Sites: Africa
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
Global Plants
This robust full-text database provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
Provides differing views on social issues along with supporting reference, periodicals, multimedia, statistics, and more. Formerly Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.
