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- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windowUnique database which facilitates research and study of human culture, society and behavior. It enables cross-cultural comparative research on a growing number of cultures.
- Human Relations Area Files TutorialsBrief training videos are available for Browse, Searching and Collecting Data in eHRAF.
Article Databases
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowIndex and full text access to the publications of the American Anthropological Association. Covers 1888 - present.
- Sociology Collection This link opens in a new windowSociology and social services database with access to Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index Abstracts, and the Sociology Database with full-text coverage.
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text of scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title. Primarily humanities and social sciences titles.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts and provides selective full-text for a broad spectrum of magazines, journals and newspapers.
- Atla Religion Database This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database indexing religious and theological subjects from U.S. and international journals. Coverage from 1949 to the present.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness and Management article source, featuring peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, and trade publications.
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowCovers journals, books, and working papers on economics providing citations for dissertations and articles in more than 620 collective volumes per year.
- Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowCovers gender-related scholarship, including gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism, and gender identity. Mostly indexing and abstracts with some full text.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers publications including periodicals, book reviews, dissertations about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). Some full text available.
- Politics Collection This link opens in a new windowPolitical science, public policy, and international relations database of scholarly articles with full text of many documents.
- Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new windowSociology research database that covers aspects of social behavior and interaction. Topics range from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology.
Television and Radio Archives
Need to find a historical televsion or radio program? Try searching in these sources.
- British Pathe ArchivesContains audio clips of news, sports, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970s. Still frames or "storyboards of clips" are free, but registration is required for the free previews.
- CBC Digital ArchivesContains a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
- National Public Broadcasting and Library of American BroadcastingThe University of Maryland's Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture holds a wide-ranging collection of resources documenting the history of radio and television broadcasting. Important collections include the National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) and the Library of American Broadcasting (LAB).
- Moving Image Research CollectionMoving Image Research Collections (MIRC) strives to preserve our global moving image heritage, diversify understandings of moving image culture, and envision a better future by encouraging new interpretations of the recent past. MIRC began in 1980 with the gift of the Fox Movietone News Collection.
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveContains individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.