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Databases for Appalachian Studies

April 8, 2026 • 11:43 am

Appalachian Studies – Best Bets

  • America: History and Life with Full Text
    Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • MLA International Bibliography
    Indexes journal articles, books, and other resources on folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. More info
  • Mountain People: Life and Culture In Appalachia
    This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers. More info
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications. More info

Appalachian Studies – Also Useful

  • African American Communities
    Presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. More info
  • American Periodicals Series Online
    Covers over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940. More info
  • Anthropology Plus
    Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. More info
  • Archive of Americana
    Now part of Readex AllSearch. Features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more. More info
  • Archives Unbound
    Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. More info
  • Indigenous Newspapers in North America
    From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S and Canada (1828-2016). More info
  • Library Search
    Search holdings for Appalachian State as well as other UNC system schools, and expand search to include items you can request from libraries worldwide. More info
  • Music & Performing Arts
    Combines music, audio, and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists. More info
  • New York Times (Nexis Uni)
    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). More info
  • Newspaper Source Plus
    Provides full text coverage for 730 national and international newspapers, 16 North Carolina newspapers, and TV and radio news transcripts (2000-present). More info
  • North Carolina Periodicals Index
    Index of over 60 journals and magazines published in North Carolina. More info
  • Project Muse
    Provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more, in the humanities and social sciences. More info
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005). More info
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    Contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports, usually from congressional committees dealing with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. More info
  • Washington Post
    Newspaper known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigative reporting (1996-present). More info
  • WorldCat (FirstSearch)
    Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings. More info

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Greta Browning
Greta Browning