Quinn Library: Databases by Subject

Free e-books from the public domain.

The complete Britannica Academic edition, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & links to Britannica-reviewed websites.

The perfect resource to expand your vocabulary and understanding of the English language.

Current & historical statistics on countries of the world. Comparisons can be illustrated with tables & charts.

Points of View Reference Center provides students with a series of essays that presents multiple sides of over 200 current issues. Includes guides to debating, developing arguments & writing position papers.

Bloom's Literature examines great writers, their works & influential movements in world literature.

Ebsco Literary Reference Plus offers information on thousands of authors & their works from books, major literary reference works & literary journals.

JSTOR provides a digital library of more than 1,900 academic journals and 2 million primary resources.

Text, audio & video clips of important events, people & movements in world history occurring before the 1500s are covered.

World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society presents overviews of 50 wars, rebellions, and revolutions, both those commonly taught and those less so, and provides additional analysis of causes and consequences and portraits of opponents.

Text, audio & video clips of important events, people & movements in world history occurring after 1500s are covered.

The Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history that includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. This is more than a fantastic collection of primary source material; it is a unique online resource offering new insight into a fascinating period of our past.

Ancient & Medieval History Online presents the full scope of world history from prehistory through the 1500s, with special topic centers on key civilizations and regions.

Modern World History Online covers the broad expanse of world history from the mid-15th century to the present, featuring thousands of documents, articles, timelines, images, videos, and maps.

World Geography & Culture facilitates the study of countries, U.S. states, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills through a global approach.

American History Online spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience.

African-American History Online features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history over the past 500 years.

American History Online offers fast access to more than 600 Native American groups and over 15,000 years of American Indian culture and history.

Text, audio & video clips of important events, people & movements in American history are covered.

Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full-text database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

Ebscohost Research Database covers all of Ebsco's databases that we subscribe to in one search. Use if you do not know where you would like to search.

This database provides full text for magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.

JSTOR provides a digital library of more than 1,900 academic journals and 2 million primary resources.

Google Scholar is a free web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

This database includes full-text content from leading history journals, with more than 630,900 full-text records from peer-reviewed journals, reference books, periodicals and other sources. There are also more than 74,600 primary source documents and 80+ hours of historical video.

This comprehensive research database provides easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources.

Science Online presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, biographies, and experiments.

Health Reference Center gives clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.

Curriculum Resource Center provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.

NoveList Plus has reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for all ages. NoveList's expertise in books and reading means that you'll always get the best help for finding just the right books.

This database provides access to all of YALSA's annual selected book and media lists, awards, and honorees which are developed by library staff and educators. These books and media have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, and span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. "