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Access to over 6,000 ebooks, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and more, covering a wide range of subjects.

Access to thousands of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of subjects.

Access to thousands of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of subjects.

African American Newspapers features high-quality digitzations of news, obituaries, advertisements, and illustrations, offering unique insight into over a century and a half of the African American experience.

The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American to the major poets of the nineteenth century.
A collection of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century.
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the colonial period to the early twentieth century.
Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets.
Contains anthologies, which are curated collections of books, images, documents, artifacts, sounds and video related to a specific theme. BiblioBoard's anthologies differ in size and scope, but generally you will find dozens of books and other pieces of media related to a topic.
Britannica Online is the electronic version of the well-known encyclopedia series and includes full text articles, images, web links and more.
19th Century British Pamphlets is a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th century Britain.

In-depth coverage of some of the most controversial topics of our day in health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Full text of the magazine CQ Weekly (Congressional Quarterly). Covers U.S. congressional activity, and executive and judicial decisions that affect Congress.

A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day.
English Poetry contains the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th.
Gale Primary Sources cross-searches three digital archives: The Times Digital Archives, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, and 19th U.S. Century Newspapers. Use this source as a powerful search engine for finding historical newspapers and documents.
Indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship. GSD offers over a million records from scholarly and popular publications, including journals, books, conference papers and theses. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism and gender identity.
A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies explores media as it is being practiced, produced, and analyzed in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe. Edited by an international team of scholars, the encyclopedia is global in scope and wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics.
Use HPU Libraries' Journal Finder to find full-text coverage of academic journals, newspapers, and other periodicals.

Current, full-text access to the NYT from 1980 to present. Includes the Late Edition Daily plus the Sunday newspaper.

Current, full-text access to the Online Edition of the NYT from 1996 to present.

In addition to prominent and respected titles like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Financial Times, and others, News & Newspapers also offers curated regional, specialty and international news titles and collections for a wide spectrum of viewpoints and counterviewpoints over time.

A collection of women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950, in 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also contains biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. Includes writings by Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Dorothea L. Dix, Julia Ward Howe, and more.

The OED provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words; traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period; offers the best in etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings; uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation. HPU Libraries' subscription provides access to the complete full text of the OED.

Use the catalog to search for books, ebooks, DVDs, articles, and more!
Entries cover biographies of great mystery writers, favorite fictional sleuths, and master criminals. Character types are discussed along with other components of mystery writing, including famous clues, authorial ingenuity, and how ‘The Butler Did It’. The Companion also features extended essays on the development of the genre and related schools of writing.
Provides full coverage of stories and characters, along with the writers who wrote and reworked them and the artists who illustrated them. The Companion also examines related topics such as Disney, opera, science fiction, music, even advertising. Special survey articles explore the development of the fairy-tale tradition in individual countries, focusing particularly on the European and North American traditions.
Contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. Authors covered include Simon Armitage, Rupert Brooke, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Lavinia Greenlaw, Thom Gunn, David Jones, Louis MacNeice, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Thomas, and more.
Provides background and current analysis of 360+ current and pervasive Leading Issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between.

Current U.S. news content, as well as archives stretching back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Includes access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. Users can also set up alerts for the latest articles on topics of interest.

Full text access to the Wall Street Journal, which covers breaking news and current headlines from the U.S. and around the world. Users can also set up alerts for the latest articles on topics of interest. Full text coverage from 1984 - present.

Access to the Washington Post for recent news in the U.S. and around the world. Users can set up alerts for the latest articles on topics of interest. Full text coverage 1996 - present.

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