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McFarland & Company is an academic publisher of works on a wide variety of topics, and specializes in covering areas often underrepresented in academic literature, such as video games, sports and popular culture. Please look through McFarland's online catalogue to find books in your area of interest.
Adam Matthew Digital publishes databases of primary sources and accompanying supporting material; we have access to a large number of databases relevant to major topics in American and World History.
Wikilala is a digital repository consisting of more than 109,000 documents in printed form, including 45,000 newspapers, 32,000 journals, 4,000 books and 26,000 articles concerning the history of the Ottoman Empire from its founding to the modern times.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com is an online database of digitized newspapers, with over 2 billion news articles; coverage extends from 1607 to the present from US, Canada, the UK, and 20 other countries.
Newspapers.com includes more than 800 million pages from 20,000+ newspapers. The collection includes some major newspapers for limited periods (e.g., 50 years of the New York Times), but mostly consists of US regional papers from the 1700s to the late 1980s. Free accounts through the Wikipedia Library include access to Newspapers.com Publisher Extra content.
British Online Archives offers access to a unique collection of primary source documents in humanities and social sciences.
De Standaard De Standaard is a Flemish daily newspaper published in Belgium by Mediahuis.
Loeb Classical Library is a virtual collection of classical writings includes epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, travel, philosophy, oratory, medicine, mathematics, and religion - a total of over 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.
Fold3 is a database of documents, images, and other material covering American, British, Australian, and New Zealand military history. Significant collections cover African-American and Native American history, the US Bureau of Investigation, Project Blue Book and other aspects of American's history and military organizations and conflicts.
The American National Biography (ANB) offers portraits of more than 18,700 men and women—from all eras and walks of life—whose lives have shaped the United States.
Electronic Enlightenment is a wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. EE gives you access to more than 70,000 historical documents in which more than 8,500 historical figures discuss everything from religious tolerance to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, economic modelling to celebrity culture.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. ODNB offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University.
E-Yearbook is one of the largest online collections of scanned historical US high school, military, college and university yearbooks.
Note: the site's terms of use do not allow images to be re-uploaded.
Ancestry.com comprises a collection of genealogical, historical, and genetic records. This partnership gives access to the World Explorer membership, which includes all US and international records.
OECD iLibrary is an online library of books, papers and statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
IEEE Xplore is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.
The Hindu Group is an Indian publishing company based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This collection provides access to The Hindu Digital & ePaper, The Hindu Business Line & Business Line ePaper, Frontline and Sportstar from The Hindu Group.
Cairn.info is an online web portal of scholarly materials. Primary research areas include communications, economics, education, geography, history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, political science, law, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies.
Cambridge University Press is a publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. They are offering access to Cambridge Core, which includes journal articles and ebooks, and the Orlando collection.
Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher of review articles in the life, biomedical, physical and social sciences. This partnership provides access to all 51 journals including eight open access titles in the Subscribe to Open program and all their topic collections.
The Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan. It is one of Italy's oldest and most read newspapers. The Corriere della Sera Archives provides access to a century of historical archives.
Al Manhal is a major Arabic provider of full-text electronic journals, theses and ebooks. Its eLibrary includes approximately 36,000 publications across a variety of subject areas.
Duke University Press is best known for publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics and publishes approximately 120 books annually and over 50 journals.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias comprises long-form peer-reviewed overview articles across a range of disciplines.
The University of Chicago Press is an academic publisher of books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. They are providing access to their journals.
The Central and Eastern European Online Library is a publisher of a wide range of Humanities and Social Sciences journals and ebooks. Access includes more than 1700 journals, but does not currently include ebooks.
The Duncker & Humblot eLibrary provides access to 12,500 eBooks as well as 25 Journals with more than 12,500 eArticles in the fields of Law, Economics, Society, Politics, History, Philosophy and Literature.
Taaghche is an e-book store that offers more than 60,000 books, magazines, newspapers, and audiobooks across three platforms: Android, IOS, and Web Reader.
Bristol University Press is a UK-based academic publisher in the social sciences and aligned disciplines, with a focus on global social challenges.
Oxford Bibliographies offers authoritative research guides combining features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. This resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Brill is a Dutch international academic publisher. This partnership gives you access to all e-books and journals, all major reference works, all primary source collections and text editions from Brill.
Edward Elgar is an independent academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on law, business and the social sciences.
Taylor & Francis is an academic publisher of journals and books, offering access to several of their collections.
Wiley offers collections of online journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences.
EBSCO Information Services is a major US-based provider of library resources and information services. EBSCO's partnership with The Wikipedia Library includes access to multiple databases.
OECD Multimedia Gallery is an audio-visual gallery containing podcasts and photos published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks.
OpenEdition is a publisher of books and journals in the social sciences and humanities. While most of OpenEdition's content is Open Access, they have donated access to Freemium for Journals, an additional collection of 140 usually paywalled journals.
SpringerLink includes over 26,000 ebooks and 2000 scholarly journals in the sciences, business and economics, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, and mathematics.
MIT Press Journals is a scholarly publisher of over 30 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Numérique Premium provides access to social science and humanities works in law, economics, geography, history, languages, philosophy, psychology, education, information sciences, political science, sociology, and sports.
ProQuest is a multidisciplinary research provider. This access includes ProQuest Central, which includes a large collection of journals and newspapers, Literature Online, the HNP Chinese Newspaper Collections, and the Historical New York Times.
Gale is a very large American educational publisher of multiple research databases. Gale access includes Gale Academic OneFile, Gale General OneFile, Gale eBooks, Gale OneFile: News, Gale In Context: Biography, Gale Primary Sources, NewsVault, and The Times Digital Archive.
Project MUSE is an online database of more than 600 academic journals and 36,000 ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
De Gruyter is a scholarly publisher specializing in academic literature. Accounts can access the electronic resources available through De Gruyter Online, which include ebooks and journals in arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, theology/religion, medicine, mathematics, law and general reference.
Haaretz English is an Israeli newspaper. Founded in 1918, it is the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. It is published in both Hebrew and English. This is the English version of Haaretz.
Haaretz Hebrew is an Israeli newspaper. Founded in 1918, it is the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. It is published in both Hebrew and English. This is the Hebrew version of Haaretz.
Oxford Reference brings together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
SAGE Journals SAGE is an American independent publisher with more than 1,000 journals, from a wide range of disciplines.
Magiran is a publisher of newspapers and scientific journals.
Edinburgh University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. EUP are providing access to their journals collection, on subjects including Film and Media Studies, History, Literary Studies, and Scottish Studies.
The Information Processing Society of Japan is a Japanese learned society for computing. Through this partnership you can access IPSJ Journal, IPSJ Transactions and SIG Technical Reports.
Oxford Academic includes a large number of Oxford University Press journals, covering a variety of subjects. It also includes two book collections: Oxford Scholarship Online and Oxford Handbooks Online.
JSTOR is one of the largest and most reputable journal archives in the world. The content set currently available to the Wikipedia editors includes many of JSTOR's archival journal collections and the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.
Baylor University Press is a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. Editors can select titles of interest from their catalogue.
OECD Data is a repository of charts, maps, tables, and related publications published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The Academic Video Online collection from Alexander Street Press includes videos in a range of subject areas, including news programs, music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. The Women and Social Movements Library comprises primary source documents and scholarly essays on women's activism.
Nature is an international weekly scientific journal.
Sabinet is an online database of full text South and Southern African journals. Access includes coverage of a wide variety of topic areas; much of Sabinet's content is in English, but there are also publications in various other European and African languages (particularly Afrikaans).
Érudit is a Canadian web portal of scholarly materials. Its primary focus is the humanities and social sciences, but it also includes some publications in the physical and natural sciences.
University of Michigan Press is a publisher of peer-reviewed books with a focus on political science, performing arts, American studies, classical and medieval studies, and Asian studies
Mohr Siebeck is a long-established German academic publisher focused on the humanities and social sciences. The eLibrary includes more than 2000 books and numerous journals across religious studies, history, philosophy, law, economics and sociology.
ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection provides access to thousands of books selected by scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies as foundational to studying the humanities and social sciences. The books come from over 125 publishers and are all peer-reviewed.