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Databases
Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Designed for teaching and learning about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books and much more.
An award-winning collection that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the Black experience. The database contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Black Thought and Culture contains the full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture.
A comprehensive guide to sociological concepts, topics and authors.
The history, theory and practice of crafts and design worldwide, from antiquity to the present.
A resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods using a global approach.
Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.
The collection contains e-books, images and peer reviewed articles covering North America’s diverse religious traditions.
A point of care tool from BMJ Evidence Centre designed to support clinicians in their decision making from diagnosis to treatment. Mobile access is available.
Database Search
Database Search provides multiple ways to search for research databases, with options to browse and filter your results.
Databases are online collections of journals, magazines and newspapers, articles, e-Books, video, music, images, or other digital content. The Library provides access to hundreds of research databases in many subject and discipline areas.
Research by Subject
You can also refer to our Research by Subject page to find specialized databases and guides for your discipline and subject librarians who can help you with search strategies.
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New / Trial E-resources
- Informit Indigenous Collection offers broad scope for critical international engagement with topical and historical issues paramount to understanding Indigenous studies across the world.
Trial runs through December 16, 2023. Please submit your feedback using the Trial E-resource Feedback Form. - Canada Commons is an updated version of the Canadian Electronic Library. It features Canadian ebooks, public policy papers, and a directory of Canadian research and government organizations.
This trial runs through Nov. 22, 2023. Please submit feedback using the Trial E-resource Feedback Form. - Scite.ai is a discovery and evaluation platform which analyzes how and where a citation was used within a publication.
Trial runs through November 30, 2023. Please submit feedback using the Trial E-resource Feedback Form.