Biography In Context

Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the worlds most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Live Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

eBook Collection

Offering more than 160,000 ebooks, this collection includes titles in nearly every subject, including: art, business, education, medical, language and preforming arts, philosophy, poetry, politcal science, religion, social sciences, technology, engineering, etc. All titles are available with unlimited user access. This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that students and scholars will have access to information relevant to their research needs. Offering more than 160,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier, Ashgate Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications and John Wiley & Sons.

Films on Demand

Streaming academic video collection, with more than 300,000 clips, 20,000 full-length videos, and over 10,000 hours of content! Subjects covered include: anthropology, art, biology, business, communication, criminal justice, English, environmental science, geography, health, history, math, philosophy, religion, physical science, political science, psychology, sociology, and technology.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Updated annually. Funk Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

History Reference Center

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

MasterFILE Premier

Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

MyHeritage Library Edition

MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. It provides their patrons with access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries. Features include: more than 6 billion historical ?records from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and other regions; 2 billion exclusive family tree profiles from MyHeritage and Geni; the full USA federal census (1790-1940) with images; military records, immigration records and passenger lists; and so much more!

Newspaper Source

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television radio news transcripts are also provided.

Newspaper Source Plus

Digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Social Sciences Full Text

Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies, and more.

U.S. History in Context

U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. U.S. History In Context's acclaimed titles from Gale, Macmillan Reference USA, Scribner, and U·X·L include: Dictionary of American Biography Dictionary of American History Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History Millions of full-text articles drawn from top periodicals and newspapers include The New York Times, America, American History, The Journal of Southern History, and National Geographic. Engage users with thousands of images, videos, and audio selections from NPR, The History Channel, Associated Press, and other trusted sources. Primary Sources U.S. History In Context brings a personal perspective to history with more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents from the American Decades: Primary Sources and American Journey series, and other top titles. Examples include: Excerpts from former slave William Wells Brown's Narrative of the Life of William Brown (1847) Excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854) Personal account of General Charles Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown in 1781 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Japanese Relocation Order (1942) The papers of President John F. Kennedy.

World History in Context

World History In Context reaches back to the ancient world and forward to today's headlines to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students. World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. More than 1,700 primary source documents from Primary Source Media and other reliable providers join hundreds of acclaimed, award-winning titles from Gale, Macmillan Reference USA, and Scribner.