Databases/Articles

Coverage: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, database of more than 8,000 journals covering everything from science to the humanities.

Large academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for more than 4,500 publications. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals.

Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Shain Library has access to two collections: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, and African Cultural Heritage Sites & Landscapes.

A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals. Source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations,book reviews, and working papers. Years of coverage are 1969-present.

Encyclopedia of Human Rights 

An archival record of domestic and international news. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.

Offers country-by-country information on 175 nations and territories. Topics include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture,communications and more.

Includes current indexing and abstracts of the world´s leading journals in political science. This database covers over 900 journals published from 1975 to the present.

A bibliography of close to 500,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Full texts of journals from many different disciplines including Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology. JSTOR journals are back issues, no title will be more than 3-5 years back. 

Provides full-text documents from over 5900 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications.

Collection of state, regional, and national and international full-text newspapers.

Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, and other materials covering political, economic, and social issues. Coverage: 1972 to the present.

Online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

An index to articles in scholarly journals in the social sciences, covering publications from 1984 to the present. Provides broad coverage in the social sciences including anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, family studies, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women´s studies, and related subjects

Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the following collection of state, regional, and national and international full-text newspapers and other news sources including the Chicago Tribune (1985-Current), Hartford Courant (7/1/91-Current), New York Times (1985-Current), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).