LibGuides: Bentley Upper School Library: Databases

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DATABASES BY SUBJECT

Encyclopedias, General Reference, Dictionaries
Periodicals
U.S. History
World History
Ancient History
Literature
Science
Social Science
Religion
Music
Art
Spanish language magazines
Country Information
Videos
Statistics

Britannica
Oxford Reference
Oxford Very Short Introductions
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Oxford Language Dictionaries (Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian)

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale) (academic journals, magazines, and newspapers)
JSTOR (academic journals)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Accessible Archives - Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture
Digital Commons Network (free full-text scholarly articles)
Historical Newspapers
Google Scholar
Directory of Open Access Journals
University of California eScholarship (ext scholarly articProvides a suite of open access, scholarly publications from different departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars within the University of California.)

New York Times access -- login with your BENTLEY EMAIL!

U.S. History inContext (Gale)
Issues& Controversies in American History
Oxford African American Studies
American History (Infobase)
Salem History
Accessible Archives -- Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. These databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current. See Ms. Bogas for username/password.

World History in Context (Gale)
Modern World History (Infobase)
World Geography & Culture
Oxford Reference Online
Salem History

Ancient and Medieval History (Infobase )
World History in Context (Gale)
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Handbooks Online

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Scribners Writers
Twayne's Authors
Litfinder
Teachingbooks.net

Science in Context (Gale)
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Salem Science
National Science Digital Library
Science.gov
Science 360
Public Library of Science
World Wide Science
National Library of Medicine
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
Oxford Very Short Introductions
Oxford Handbooks Online

Salem History

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Art Online

Informe (Gale)

Country Studies
CIA World Factbook
World Atlas (Infobase)

Video on demand

Statista

DISCOVERY

Bentley Upper School Discovery

All Resources
Library Catalog
Articles

Institutional Repository Only

Full Text (Online) Available in Library Collection Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Catalog Only Institutional Repository Only

Primary Sourcess

What are Primary Sources? - Yale University has an excellent website which describes primary sources and provides examples.

Guide to History Primary Sources

Accessible Archives -- Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. These databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current. See Ms. Bogas for username/password.

World Digital Library
Large, well-organized collection of print and visual primary sources from ancient to current times. Material may be browsed by place, time, topic, type of resource, or contributing institution.
Project Gutenberg
Provides access to free ebooks from all periods of history and all over the world!
Digital Public Library of America
Portal to resources from U.S. libraries, archives, and museums. Browse by place, time, subject, or contributing partner.
Library of Congress American Memory
Library of Congress Chronicling America
National Archives
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Hathi Trust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Wikisource
The free library that anyone can improve. Wikisource is a Free Library of source texts which are in the public domain or legally available for free redistribution.
NYPL Digital Collections
British Library Digitised Manuscripts
Avalon Project
Digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government from ancient times to the 21st century.
Internet History Sourcebooks
The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Topics include Ancient, Medieval and Modern histories. Also presents material grouped by subject: Africa, East Asia, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian/Gay, Science and Women's history.

Databases A-Z

American Decades This link opens in a new window
Gale
Ancient and Medieval History This link opens in a new window
Infobase / Facts on File
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Gale
Britannica School
Classroom Video on Demand This link opens in a new window
Streaming Videos
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Defining Documents in American History This link opens in a new window
Salem History
Encyclopedia of Anthropology This link opens in a new window
Gale ebook
Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues This link opens in a new window
Gale ebook
Encyclopedia of Energy This link opens in a new window
Ebook contents of Salem's Encyclopedia of Energy published 2012
Encyclopedia of Mathematics & Society
Salem Science
Encyclopedia of Sociology
Gale ebook
Environmental Issues Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Gale ebook
Expanded Academic ASAP This link opens in a new window
Periodical database
Family in Society : Essential Primary Sources
Gender Issues and Sexuality
General Reference Gold
Great Events from History
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2003 This link opens in a new window
Health & Wellness
A Gale Database
Human and Civil Rights
Immigration and Multiculturalism
Informe
Spanish language periodicals
Issues and Controversies in American History
JSTOR
Scholarly Journal articles.
Literature Resources
Litfinder for Schools This link opens in a new window
Modern World History This link opens in a new window
Oxford African American Studies Center
Oxford Art Online
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Reference
Salem History
Science in Context
U.S. Government Online This link opens in a new window
U.S. History in Context
Virtual Reference Library
full text reference books
World Geography & Culture This link opens in a new window
World History in Context