Covers most every subject with a mix of sources including news, magazines, reviews, and research articles. Provides full text and peer-reviewed journals.
Produced by National Agriculture Library. Covers all agricultural subjects. Citations include journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and other materials.
More than 153,000 theses and dissertations, citations for theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present. Includes a link to access the full text, when available, via the Institutional Repository.
15,000 years of American Indian culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American groups. Videos, slideshows, images, biographies, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps, graphs, and timelines.
A repository of America's most historically significant speeches. Includes 5,000+ landmark speeches by political, religious, and cultural figures captured in print, audio, and audiovisual formats. New feature is a Movie Speeches page.
Full text of more than 330 periodicals and 230 books covering art, archaeology, architecture, photography, interior and landscape design, costume design and more.
Collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
Birds of the World provides detailed information on over 10,000 species of birds worldwide. Includes life histories, photos, sound recordings and video.
Technical information on sustainable building and green design: case studies, building strategies, assessments of sustainable materials, and a complete directory of green building products listed in GreenSpec. Teaching resources and access to all content from Environmental Building News published since 1992.
BJS is the primary statistical agency of the Department of Justice. It is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies throughout the Executive Branch, agencies whose activities are predominantly focused on the collection, compilation, processing, or analysis of information for statistical purposes.
The industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 2000 peer-reviewed business publications. Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Updated daily.
The nation’s largest independent news organization covering colleges and universities including daily news, data, and article archives dating back to 1989, with special issues such as The Almanac of Higher Education and The Trends Report.
Access via this link and/or register a personal account using your KSC email for access for use with app. Detailed instructions for access can be found HERE
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the United States federal government.
Provides access to research in areas related to communication and mass media; includes coverage of the film industry. Locate subjects by searching the thesaurus for "Motion Pictures."
Reports published 44 times a year cover current events/hot topics, social trends, criminal justice, and education to international affairs, the environment, economy, health, technology and much more. Access an archive of the reports from 1991 to the present.
Online encyclopedias, specialized dictionaries, etc, covering every major subject. Mind maps show related topics and links to relevant articles and information. A great place to start research and get definitions.
Teaching materials, archives, videos, interviews, and other materials relating to the Association for Cultural Equity’s mission to preserve the world’s traditions.
Data USA is a comprehensive website and visualization engine of public US Government data in a number of fields, including education, economics, and public health and safety.
The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Digital Theatre brings the live theatre experience to your screen by instantly streaming theatre productions from around the world anytime, anywhere. Encompassing theatre, dance, musical theatre, opera, and music, from Shakespeare to Sondheim, this is a unique resource for anyone who is studying or simply enjoys live performance.
Books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science, including access to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5).
Request that the library purchase an ebook. Allows for unlimited access rights. Recommended that professors make selections from this resource so the Mason Library can make purchases and thereby reduce the cost of course material for students.
This EBSCO eBook database contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter- from business and science, to engineering and humanities. Nearly 135,000 titles are included.
Full text for more than 2,400 journals and indexing and abstracts for an additional 1,400 journals. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Full text for more than 930 journals and 190 monographs, with indexing and abstracts for an additional 1,000 journals. Covers ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and much more.
The ERIC database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and provides extensive coverage of education-related literature. Major areas of coverage include: elementary and early childhood education; special education; teacher education; reading and communication skills; and tests, measurements, and evaluation. Limited full text.
Television and film writing including film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Links to full text in other databases.
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of over 4,400 interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, comprising over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. These testimonies were produced in cooperation with 37 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel.
The GaBi LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) software assessing the environmental impacts of diverse products and systems to aid in environmental sustainability. Note: Users must apply for access by completing the application form and receiving approval.
Gale OneFile: News is a full-text newspaper resource providing access to major U.S. regional, local, and national newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Gale Literature brings together Gale’s premier literary databases to allow users to search across a library’s resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways. Includes literary databases: Gale Literature Criticism online, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author and Gale Literature Resource Center.
Gale Literature Resource Center provides students access to up-to-date biographical information, overviews, fulltext literary criticism, and reviews on more than 175,000 writers in all disciplines, time periods, and regions of the world
Search all Gale resources including eBooks, and databases covering a wide variety of academic disciplines. Includes primary sources, journal, newspaper and magazine articles.
Combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Produced by NISC, the National Information Services Corporation, now a part of EBSCO.
Full text articles on environmental issues: scholarly, governmental, and general interest titles connecting the planet to issues of agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, which maintains this online database of exhibitions.
“Journal Storage”: Full text access to scholarly journal articles and books across a variety of subjects including history, literature, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities, and performing arts. Includes Arts & Sciences Collections and the Life Sciences Collection.
JSTOR’s Open Community Collections feature Open Access primary source materials in a wide variety of subjects contributed by libraries, museums, and archives.
Justia is an open access database that provides legal resources to all. Users will find U.S. case law, codes, and regulations as well as legal resources for all 50 states.
Kanopy Streaming offers over 7,000 videos in a number of subject areas from some of the top production companies, including PBS, the BBC, LearningSeed, Media Education Foundation, and more.
Note: Purchase of new film licenses available by faculty request only
PrepSTEP Courses on English, math, computer, and college success skills, along with grad school admissions preparation (GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT) with practice tests, tutorials, eBooks, flashcards, and videos.
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Commons is an online space designed to support faculty and staff in discovering materials, collaborating with colleagues, and contributing OER to improve curricula
Full text of popular high school magazines, along with reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection with expanded backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals, 500 reference books, and over 164,400 primary source documents, covering virtually every subject area of general interest.
American Mathematical Society's mathematics reviews on the web... a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 75 years.
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences from more than 1,470 journals.
Contains evaluations of tests in psychology, education, business, and leadership: includes test purpose, publisher, in-print status, price, acronym, intended population, administration times, publication dates, and test authors. Includes over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments.
Collection of corporate and industry related documents from over 100 countries and industries including Mergent’s Historical Annual Reports (dating back to the early 1900’s), Mergent’s Historical Annual Reports, and Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory Archives.
Information, on over 250 million public and private U.S. and international companies. Includes a nationwide residential telephone directory. For help searching see: https://youtu.be/UfUmz5j3dcw OR https://youtu.be/BY59fBwMDnQ
The Met recently made available over 300,000 digital images of public domain artworks in their collection. Users can search for specific works or browse by category on their website.
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, this database consists of bibliographic records indexing literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1920s to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series.
Encyclopedias and reference works on blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
American Song from Alexander Street provides a suite of online audio recordings to support the teaching of American musical traditions including country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, R&B and shape note singing. Listening to the music of the American experience also brings an entirely new dimension to studies in history, music, literature, diversity, sociology, and related disciplines.
Classical Music Library is an ever-growing database of classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The collection includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from medieval times to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Produced by Alexander Street Press. Brings together reference materials spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Included are the reference titles Baker's dictionary of music, Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, Baker's student encyclopedia of music, and Women composers: music through the ages, and more. Provides coverage of all classical genres, from the Medieval period to the 21st century.
Part of Music Online, a service of Alexander Street Press. Over 45,000 scores in PDF format. Many scores include links to streaming audio at the Classical Music Library.
Part of Music Online, a service of Alexander Street Press. Streaming audio. Genres include contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku is also featured.
Jazz from Alexander Street Press offers an extensive collection of online audio recordings to support the teaching and research of Jazz and related musical genres, including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band music, modern jazz, and more.
Popular Music from Alexander Street contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Music Online: Reference brings together a variety of essential music reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Bibliographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Part of Music Online, a service of Alexander Street Press. Streaming audio. Includes the recordings of the Folkways Records label, as well as other titles in the Smithsonian Folkways series, and much more.
Alexander Street Press' online version of this world music encyclopedia, also available in Mason Library as a 10-volume set. Includes audio examples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies.
Follow the provided link to either sign up for your own Mason Library sponsored account, and/or log-in as though you have your own paid subscription. Detailed instruction for access can be found HERE
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text from more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Extensive library of free educational resources and curricula, including easy ways to create and add your own OER (Open Educational Resources) content to its collection.
Publications and statistics relating to the juvenile justice system including fact sheets, newsletters, reports, and literature reviews on topics such as youth gangs, child delinquency, and missing children.
OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory, providing open access to books and journals.
Open States gives an overview of recently introduced and pending legislation in all 50 states. For each bill, you can view the bill text, any actions taken, who sponsored the bill, and more. The site also provides the contact information of current legislators, the committees they belong to, and what bills they have sponsored.
Covers current social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. Informed, differing views on over 480 issues with links to academic journals, news, magazines, opinion pieces, and more to help learners support their argument and refute a counter argument.
Provides research publications on a large range of global problems in health, education, violence, political power, human rights, war, poverty, inequality, energy, hunger, and the environment.
Encyclopedia providing historical and contemporary perspectives of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Aticles on topics such as identity, art, music, politics, religion, education, health, and history.
Scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present. Ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day.
A multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States, including case summaries, illustrated decision information, opinions, details on the justices, and recordings of the Court since 1955.
Full text access to scholarly journal articles, reference works, and conference papers: law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues and non-governmental organizations.
PrepSTEP Courses on English, math, computer, and college success skills, along with grad school admissions preparation (GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT) with practice tests, tutorials, eBooks, flashcards, and videos.
Focuses on humanities and social sciences: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural and gender studies, education, political science, and economics. Full text access to 400+ peer-reviewed journals.
See Medline Plus Full-Text database ( link) for more full-text access to this archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
Primary source collections include books, pamphlets, broadsides and other scarce printed materials that illuminate centuries of American history, literature, culture and daily life
Thousands of newspapers from all 50 states from 1690 to the recent past: reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries and more that chronicle the evolution of American culture and daily life.
19th-century primary source documents on dozens of Native tribes including the complete records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs offering detailed documents on Native American history, culture, and law from 1813-1880.
SciFinder® is a research discovery application that provides unlimited access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
New users must register for an account here to access this database.
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Downloadable and reusable access to over 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items (images and data) from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Social Explorer provides access to demographic information about the United States dating back to 1790. Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more.
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 published and unpublished sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
Produced by the Sport Information Resource Center, SPORTDiscus covers sport, fitness, and related disciplines including books dating back to 1949, and journals to 1975. Full text is available for more than 530 journals with coverage beginning in 1985.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain this online up-to-date reference work.
Statista is the world’s largest online statistics portal, containing over 1 million statistics from 18,000 sources. Industries represented include marketing, finance, energy & environmental services, international sources, and government agencies. With information arranged in graphs, dossier reports, and infographics that can be easily exported, Statista is a go-to source for reports and presentations that require statistical data.
Advertising platform and digital marketing service provider for manufacturing businesses looking to reach procurement professionals and engineers to grow their business.
(LII) Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. Also available: U.S. Code - U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Hardcopy (annotated) is available in Reference, KF62 1972 .L38: United States Code Service.
Legal collections including the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, Supreme Court decisions, and state laws, as well as legal encyclopedias and a lawyer directory. Sponsored by Cornell Law School.
Current medical research including various calculators, drug interactions, and an evidence-based clinical decision support system.
NOTE: As of 2/20/2023, you will need to log into EZProxy using your library credentials (last-name & KSC-ID barcode) for initial access to UpToDate whether on or off campus. Once logged in, if you register for your own unique account with UpToDate you'll be able to access the site directly via PC or phone app with those credentials.
ValueLine is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Limited to 30 concurrent users.
The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 53,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.
Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1996.
Note:All users must register in order to access this resource. Registration link is available on the login screen.
W3Schools is a popular web site for learning web technologies online. Content includes tutorials and references relating to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Bootstrap, and jQuery.
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's compilation of data about global development. It includes information about people, the environment, the economy, and markets.
Legal research tool with access to federal and state laws and regulations, publications of the Federal Register, court rulings, briefs, practice areas, and much more.
An index of billions of books, e-books, movies, music, art, digital materials, and real-life artifacts and other materials in libraries worldwide. A FirstSearch database
Zotero is a free online citation and research manager that allows you to collect, organize, cite, and share your resources. This is not a subscription through Mason Library; users need to create a free account at the site.
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