Contains full text content from publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and some regional geological surveys. This online subscription is provided through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Kansas alumni William L. Fisher, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961, and Marilee B. Fisher, B.S. 1958.
Digital access to the periodical collections of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), considered to be the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Contains specifications, test methods, and provisional standards commonly used in the construction of highway facilities.
Contains editorially-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management.
Provides abstracts of articles on business and management from U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines, and regional business publications. This also includes access to ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry, and Archive.
Contains full-text peer reviewed journal articles as well as newspapers, blogs, wire services, and general interest periodicals from across all academic disciplines.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.
Contains a very large collection of the Alexander Street Press streaming video, including topics in history, art, international studies, dance, theater, and more.
Contains over 13,000 news sources from over 200 countries and territories.
Engineering handbooks and reference materials from McGraw-Hill.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the School of Engineering.
This curricular resource for pharmacy education includes curriculum topics, organ systems, textbooks, drug monographs, lab tests, calculators, videos, case studies, and more. Mobile access requires a personal profile username and password.
Includes more than 5500 high quality books in the humanities and social sciences, covering a broad spectrum of subjects.
Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) periodicals and proceedings.
Provides online full-text access to journals published by the American Chemical Society contained in two databases: ACS Web Editions and ACS Journal Archives.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the KU Medical Center.
Search the full text of publications of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) from 1997 to the present.
One of the most important current bibliographies for the study of Africa. Its geographical scope is continent-wide, listing monographs, articles, and chapters within edited works. Its subject scope is principally in the social and environmental studies, development studies, the humanities and the arts. The medical, biological and natural sciences are only selectively covered. It lists resources published in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Kiswahili, Spanish, and Afrikaans.
Includes a collection of 50 separate databases that provide extensive coverage documenting research and publication by and about Africa and Africans. Contains news sources, scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, theses, and grey literature. For a listing of the databases included in each of these modules, as well as searching tips, see the LibGuide Africa-Wide Information (formerly, Africa-Wide NIPAD).
A free online source that includes two databases: African Women Bibliographic Database and Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database. The former has citations for English language articles, monographs, conference papers, theses, etc. published since 1986. The latter provides access to nearly 50,000 English language citations to articles published in 450 journals since the mid-19th century.
A diverse range of primary source material focusing on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas.
Search the full text of thirteen African American newspapers with coverage from 1827 to 1909.
Search the full text of over 270 African American newspapers with coverage from 1827 to 1998. Provides access to primary sources for researchers across African and African American studies; political science; ethnic studies; diaspora studies; women's studies; and cultural, literary and social history
Features more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, bulletins, newsletters, annual reports, and other genres.
African Development Indicators (ADI) is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
Includes online access to the content of over 430 journals published in 35 African countries. These journals cover the full range of academic disciplines, with strong sections on medicine and health, agriculture, pure and applied sciences, environmental studies, and over two dozen interdisciplinary journals pertaining to African studies generally. Includes journals published primarily in English and French. User authentication with user name and password are required to enter the site.
Includes citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions and is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic information covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.
This aggregated database provides access to all of KU’s Alexander Street Press collections. Video, audio, and text covering a wide variety of subject matters are included. In addition to contemporary sources, this database contains significant amounts of primary sources.
Reproduces in electronic format the 14 volumes of the All-Russia Population Census--the first census in the Russian Federation--which took place on October 9-16, 2002. Census data and text are available in both Russian and in English translations.
Provides easy access to the latest news from and about Africa, with over 700 news stories posted daily for all areas of the African continent. Also available is a 400,000-item searchable archive dating 1997 to the present. Coverage includes the contents of 127 currently published African newspapers, as well as news feeds from 330 additional African and international news organizations. AllAfrica.com is generally considered to be the best source for current news on Africa.
Indexes the last twenty years of North America's alternative press, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications.
Indexes the alternative press in North America, with citations from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. Coverage is from 1969 to 1990.
Search for and watch over 700 educational streaming videos, including all 37 of the BBC Shakespeare plays.
This collection includes surveillance from the FBI on several antiwar groups, including student and communist organizations. The bulk of these papers are related to the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
Over two hundred Kansas newspapers from 1854 to 1981. Among those included are titles from the Sunflower State that are part of African American Newspapers, 1827-1998. This collection provides access to some years of the Emporia Gazette.
“This collection consists of minutes of annual meetings, executive committee, committee of management, and purchasing committee; register of works of art in the American Art-Union; letters addressed to the American Art-Union, including many from agents around the country, and pertaining to the sale of subscriptions; letters from artists to the American Art-Union with index; and letterpress books containing copies of letters sent by the American Art-Union.”
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books and book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.
Presents a collection of American Civil War letters, diaries, memoirs and biographies written between 1855 and 1875, including material that was previously unpublished. Covers the military, social, economic, and political aspects of the war.
American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 - Contains thousands of reports commissioned by companies such as Philip Morris, Chrysler, Exxon and CBS on consumer goods ranging from tobacco and broadcasting to cars and hotels. Features the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer.
Trade Catalogues and the American Home, 1850-1950 - Advertisements reflecting one hundred years of changing commercial tastes and consumer trends, attitudes towards race, the family and domestic sphere, and advancements in technology. Includes trade catalogues, cards and marketing ephemera.
This freely accessible database indexes thousands of theses and dissertations by American universities from 1902 to the present and provides links to full text where available.
Covers three centuries of rare and modern dramatic works that together have formed the internationally recognized voice that is American theater. More than 1,500 plays are available, from over 500 playwrights.
This collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries covering all aspects of American history.
Access scholarly biographies of deceased Americans of significant historical importance.
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1940.
Contains the full text of over 450 US prison newspapers, including the Angolite and San Quentin News.
Archive of television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, newspapers, and government documents related to every aspect of the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Covers foreign reactions to America’s racial struggles in the mid-20th century, including segregation, race riots, arts and literature, Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King, Jr. and more.
Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.
This digital collection of primary sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library contains over 300 manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and rare printed works. Material in the collection ranges from 1722 to 1939, with the majority covering 1830 to 1839.
Corresponds to the printed L'Annee Philologique, the international critical and analytical bibliography of ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures and classical studies. This electronic version covers from 1928-2015.
Due to budget constraints and an increase in cost of more than 300% from the publisher, the KU Libraries can no longer afford to provide access to the complete Annual Reviews Collection, therefore the Libraries will only provide access to these titles effective January 1, 2018. These titles can be accessed by searching the library catalog by journal title.
A combination of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature, this resource indexes bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related disciplines.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries, Kansas State University Libraries, and Wichita State University.
Search the publications of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), including articles, books, and newsletters.
Access ceased Dec 31, 2023.
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Traces the rise of apartheid from a global perspective, its effects on South Africa and the world, the defiance and revolutions that weakened it and its eventual collapse.
Indexing and abstracts from 1983 to the present for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications.
Chronicles the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1917-1970. This resource contains primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
A directory that describes collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Detailed archival collection descriptions concerning historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials.
Contains materials from 33 different archival collections that offers content a variety of topics including indigenous peoples, Conquest/Conquista, colonial rule, religion, and social progress.
Cancelled due to budget constraints. Access retained to Historical Collections only.
This collection focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century and is international in scope. Part I, LGBT History and Culture Since 1940 includes materials related to the gay rights movement, activism, HIV/AIDS and other issues affecting LGBT communities. Part IV, International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, focuses on Africa and Australia with inclusion of materials from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) and Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives-periodical collection.
This archive offers an amazing array of titles previously unavailable in digital form, scanned cover to cover as full-page color images, with searchable text and article level indexing. The archive comprises two subject specific collections, Architecture & Design and Art & Photography, spanning 1854-2015. Titles include Architectural Review, ID (Industrial Design), Graphis, House Beautiful, including British Journal of Photography, American Craft, Apollo, Popular Photography, and more.
Contains indexing and abstracting dating from 1984 for more than 600 periodicals and 13,000 dissertations on the subjects of art, architecture, urban planning, and design. Journals are primarily but not exclusively English-language. The full-text articles are from over 300 journals dating from 1995. It also indexes nearly 200,000 art reproductions that appear as illustrations for articles or advertisements. When combined with Art Index Retrospective coverage extends to 1929.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.
Art History Research net (AHRnet) consists of five databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), Arts + Architecture ProFILES, Review, Research Sources No.1: British & Irish Architecture and Decorative and Applied Arts 1850s to the 1930s, and Research Sources No.2: THE POSTER. Design Abstracts Retrospective is an ongoing abstracting and indexing service that aims to cover many of the most important design and applied arts journals published during the twentieth century. Arts + Architecture ProFILES is a dictionary of modern designers, artists and architects whose work is discussed in the journals covered by DAR. ReVIEW is an ongoing project to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research Sources No.1 provides access to digitized publications covering Contemporary British and Irish decorative, applied arts, and architecture from 1860-1930. Research Sources No.2: THE POSTER contains extensive information on poster design, including a number of digitized books on the subject from the 1890s-1920s.
Art Index Retrospective provides citation indexing of fine art, decorative art, and commercial art journals, yearbooks and museum publications from 1929-1984. Uses English-language searching to cover periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Swedish.
Citations and abstracts for 20th and 21st century art and artists plus photography since its invention in 1839; covers journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews; coverage from 1974.
Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
The backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. The archive spans six decades of reporting on art in all media, from painting, sculpture, and installation, through to body art, video/audio art, and performance art.
The online version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index has been incorporated into the Web of Science database.
Provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Available features include: searching, browsing, and organizing images, adding images, presenting images, and integrating with courseware.
You will need to register and create a personal account on the JSTOR site to download images unless you have a pre-existing Artstor account.
Collection of electronic pre-prints, and e-print service, in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science.
Asahi Shinbun Cross-Search (Asahi News Database), provided by Asahi Newspaper, is a succeeding version of Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries. This is the largest newspaper article database in Japan, allowing uses to simultaneously search 16 million newspaper articles and advertisements from 1879 to present. Those articles published since 1985 are available for full-text searching. Also this database contains weekly magazines published by the newspaper company, Aera and Shūkan Asahi, Asahi Graph (1923-1956) and the historical photo archive, which contains approximately 10,000 photographic records mostly taken in Asia during WWII.
Indexes the large body of technical literature and journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Provides access to full text journal articles. Abstracts and limited content available for ebooks, standards, and proceedings.
This database includes over 250 plays by Asian Americans, starting in the 19th century. It also includes biographical, production, and theatrical information for each play.
Asian Life in America is the most comprehensive digital collection of primary source documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage—including Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Vietnamese, and many others. It provides diverse perspectives from more than 35 million primary source documents in 41 languages and has coverage from 1704 to the present.
Information on over 270,000 artists; information varies in depth, but may include biographical, book, and periodical references, auction records, museums that own artwork, and images.
The ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Collection indexes the Society's technical literature and the full text of the ASME Transaction Journals from 2000 to the present and ASME Conference Proceedings from 2008 to the present.
Access over 180 years of the photographs, sound bites, and graphics from the archives of the Associated Press.
News Features & Internal Communication: The news features, dating from 1940, include news analysis, human interest stories, and entertainment and sports reporting.
Bureau Collection: This collection offers access to records from the AP's Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh bureaus, dating from 1931 to 2004.
European Bureaus Collection provides records from 1952 to 2000 (date spans vary by country)
Washington, D.C. Bureaus Collection: Washington D.C Bureau provides access to records covering the years 1915-1930, 1952-2009.
Provides access to active ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Standards, and the ASTM Digital Library, which includes full-text access to symposia and special technical publications.
Indexes religious studies periodicals, essays in multi-author works, reviews in religion, research in ministry, and includes the Methodist Reviews Index.
Search the full text of the South's largest African American newspaper.
Started during reconstruction, this paper provides insights on the growth of the “New South” and the emergence of Atlanta as a commercial and cultural hub, as well as an important city in the Civil Rights Movement.
Indexing and abstracts for journal articles on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Indexing for 284 current journals and 3,075 retrospective journals. Coverage from the 1930s to the present with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s.