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  • Early Encounters in North America More Info
    Documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. It focuses on personal accounts and provides wide range of perspectives. Includes both published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.
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    Narratives, diaries, letters and other primary sources from people in North America from 1534 to 1850
  • Humanities International Complete More Info
    Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
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    Full text journals in history, archaeology and more.
  • Ethnic Newswatch More Info
    Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, with publications in each language and more than 125,000 articles in Spanish.
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    Full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
  • JSTOR More Info
    JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s. The database now contains over 2 million pages and new titles and fields are being added constantly (approximately 100,000 pages are added to the database each month).
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    On the search screen, click on Anthropology to search numerous full text anthropology journals.
  • Science Direct More Info
    ScienceDirect? is a large electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Subjects covered include physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences & humanities
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    Coverage in many areas of science. Polk subscribes to approx. 1700 full text journals from 2006 - present.
  • SocIndex with Full Text More Info
    SocINDEX contains over 2 million records from more than 1,200 core journals (some dating as far back as 1895), plus another selected group of over 3,200 journals, as well as monographs and conference papers. The database includes full text from 766 journals, some back to 1908, more than 820 monographs, and 13,900 conference papers. Also included are over 25,000 biographical and bibliographic Author Profiles.
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    Includes numerous journal articles, books, and conference papers on sociology and anthropology related topics.
  • Project Muse More Info
    Project Muse provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of the Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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    Search the text of numerous anthropology journals.
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  • Genderwatch More Info
    GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's daily lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.
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    Full text journal collection - coverage of subjects concerning women's daily lives.
  • LGBT Life with Full Text More Info
    LGBT Life with Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for over 190 journals and 330 books and reference works. The database also offers full text for more than 120 journals and 140 mongraphs, and a specialized LGBT thesaurus.
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    Offers full text for more than 120 journals and 140 monographs, and a specialized LGBT thesaurus.
  • Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies More Info
    Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies is an index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. The database contains more than 588,000 records of published material, grey literature, and theses and dissertations, with about 15,000 records added annually. Subjects covered include politics and law, international relations, business and industry, arts and humanities, social services, anthropology, archaeology, significant religious movements, and history from 1900 to the present.
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    Index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index More Info
    Search for references and cited references in Social Science Citation Index.
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    Indexes anthropology and other journals, and provides the ability to do cited-reference searching.
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  • Academic Search Complete More Info
    Gain access to information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. The upgrade from Academic Search Elite to Academic Search Complete has been partially funded in 2007-08 by the UW Oshkosh Student Technology Fund.
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    Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals.
  • Masterfile Premier More Info
    Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multicultural and more. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles.
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    Multi-topic tool includes full text of popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and more.
  • Lexis Nexis Academic Universe More Info
    Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publications on a wide range of topics: news, business, legal, and reference information. In Business, it includes company financials, SEC Filings and reports, directories, accounting journals & more.
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    Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
  • Credo Reference More Info
    Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
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    Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
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