Databases for Appalachian Studies
Best Bets
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Anthropology Plus |
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. |
19th century-present |
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| Archive of Americana |
The Archive of Americana features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, essential collections of U.S. |
1639-1980 |
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| Archives Unbound |
The three major types of documents in this database are monographs of books and pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers and periodicals. |
1500-present |
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| In the First Person |
In the First Person indexes letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives of more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. |
1558-2005 |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| LexisNexis Academic |
News, business information, medical and health topics, and law-related resources |
1990s-present |
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| Newspaper Source Plus |
Newspaper Source Plus provides full text coverage for 730 national & international newspapers. |
2000-present |
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| North Carolina Periodicals Index |
The North Carolina Periodicals Index indexes over 60 journals and magazines published in North Carolina periodicals. |
1992-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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Even More
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| American Periodicals Series Online |
Covers over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1900. |
1740-1900 |
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| C19: The Nineteenth Century Index |
C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodica |
19th Century |
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| Library Catalog |
Holdings for Appalachian State, UNC-A, and Western Carolina University. |
1400's-present |
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| Music Online |
When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. |
pre-1960 |
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| New York Times |
Covers the New York Times late edition (East Coast) (1980-present), the New York Times Magazine (1997-present), and the New York Times Book Review (1997-present). |
1980-present |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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| Smithsonian Global Sound |
The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2013) includes 2,949 albums, equalling 42,405 tracks. |
20th century |
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| U.S. Congressional Serial Set |
The United States Congressional Serial Set contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports. |
1817-1980 |
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| Washington Post |
The Washington Post has been known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigating reporting. |
1977-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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