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Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays.

1800s-present
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Part of Web of Science, the Social Sciences Citation Index provides indexing for more than 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines.

1900-present
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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, including more than 7,300 peer reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 12,500 journals.

1980-present
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Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.

1690-1922
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Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field.

2007-present
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Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more.

1905-present
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Sources include books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents.

1500s-present
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Comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages; currently contains over 7,000 profiles.

2000-present
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(formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.

2000-present
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Presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact.

1493-2010
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From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S. and Canada. 

1828-2016
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The IBSS includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

1951-present
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Core scholarly journals, ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.

1800s-present (2-5 yr embargo)
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

1975-present
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Holdings for Appalachian State, UNC-Asheville, and Western Carolina University.

1400s-present
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Music & Performing Arts combines music audio and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.

Medieval-present
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Limited to 10 simultaneous users

Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music available online.

1150-present
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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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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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Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 200 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks.

1994-present
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The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2022) includes 3,112 albums, equalling 45,176 tracks.

1900s-present
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Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.

1952-present
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Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series.

2005-present
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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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