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Oxford Bibliographies

Topical bibliographies in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford Bibliography

Oxford Bibliographies offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and are keyword searchable.
Oxford Reference Online
Dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference works, including the Oxford Companions series.

Academic Search Complete

Full text journals and magazines across disciplines. ebsco scholarly articles asc
JSTOR

Humanities, social sciences, and science full text journals. Recent years not included.
America: History and Life

U.S. and Canadian history journal articles. Citations with links to full text. Publication dates: 1964 to present america history and life ahl
SocINDEX with Full Text

Sociology journal articles. Publication dates: 1895-present soc index
ERIC
Education journal articles and reports. Publication dates: 1966 to present.

LibrarySearch
The default search for our collections searches all Bates library databases and the shared library catalog of Colby Bates and Bowdoin simultaneously.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

ProQuest News and Newspapers
Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and wire service reports including NYT, Boston Globe, LA Times and Washington Post. 1850 to Current; varies with each title
Global Newsstream
Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, wire service reports and international news sources. Includes New York Times. Publication dates: 1977 to current

Historical Newspaper Databases

Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
African American newspaper.
Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
African American newspaper.
Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
Leading Black newspaper of the 20th century.
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
African American newspaper.
New York Times (1851-2018)
This version offers scanned copies of every available page and every article in the newspaper. Includes all images and advertisements.
Boston Globe (1872-1990)
Includes PDFs of pages and articles.
San Francisco Chronicle (1856-1922)
Includes scanned PDFs of pages, article, images and advertisements.
Los Angeles Times (1881-1997)
Scanned version of print edition, including all images and advertisements.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Newspapers from 1836-1963 (most pre-1925).

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