IUS Databases A-Z: A

Provides full-text access to geological publications from numerous organizations, including American Association of Petroleum Geologists, many regional geological organizations, and the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists.

Provides access to thousands of scholarly journals in all disciplines, as well as magazines and newspapers. Coverage dates from 1975 to the present.

Provides access to a comprehensive online anesthesiology resource that covers the entire spectrum of anesthesiology from the basics to specialty-specific content.

Provides access to medical textbooks, interactive self-assessment tools, case files, and diagnostic tools, all available through a single search interface.

A comprehensive online surgery resource that includes textbooks, interactive self-assessment tools, case files, and more, all available through a single search interface.

Provides searchable access to the full-text of almost all journals published by the American Chemical Society, from volume 1 to the most current issue.

A collection of documents examining the lives of saints.

A digital collection of documents from the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to Afghanistan between 1945 and 1963. Materials include special reports on political and military affairs; studies on socioeconomic matters; minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; court proceedings; full texts of important letters and instructions sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; translated foreign journals and newspapers; translated foreign government documents.

Provides information on American films released between 1893 and 1974. Searchable by keyword, film title, cast, crew, and character names, subject, genre, and release year. Also includes plot summaries and production notes for most films.

Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

Contains poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a comprehensive survey of the early history of African American poetry, from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to achieve national success and recognition.

A collection of key texts of modern African literature including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction prose, in English, or with English translation.

Provides access to information about U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

See Smithsonian Collection: Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive.

Cross-searchable platform for all Alexander Street Press video collections, including Art and Architecture in Video, Dance in Video, Meet the Press Online, Opera in Video, Rehabilitation Therapy in Video, Theatre in Video, and World Newsreels Online.

Provides access to alternative health research that focuses holistic medicine and therapies.

Provides access to abstracts and citations from numerous journals covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

IU Southeast students, faculty, and staff can sign up for full access to Business First of Louisville.
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Includes the full text of diaries, letters, and memoirs from the American Civil War, as well as biographies and a bibliography of the sources in the database.

Reference resource that provides information about contemporary American social history, from 1900-1999.

Includes access to numerous American dramatic works including plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a multitude of other genres from the years between 1714 and 1915. Dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.

Now called OpenDissertations.

Now called Film Scripts Online.

This collection documents over 400 years of American history. Unique manuscript material covers important topics including colonial America, the American Revolution, federalism and American expansion, American Indians, and slavery. Manuscripts are supplemented by a wide range of original maps, engravings, posters, broadsides, pamphlets and rare printed material.

See Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Provides access to archival films of historical interest, ranging from rare government and public-affairs footage to more commercial, popular documentaries.

This collection includes a wide range of material covering early interactions between American Indians and Europeans, the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, and the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world.

See Scitation.

Now called Library of Congress Digital Collections.

Provides searchable full text of all issues of over 1,500 periodicals, ranging from children's magazines to professional journals. The majority of content was published between 1740 and 1900.

Provides access to bibliographic records and abstracts of journal articles published by the American Physical Society. Covers physics and associated disciplines.

Includes the works of more than 200 American poets from the colonial period to the early twentieth century.

This collection allows scholars to explore the American West from the 18th-20th century through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources. Topics covered include the Gold Rush, evolution of western towns, growth of railway and road networks, agricultural transformation, Native American history and first-hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws.

Provides access to citations of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

APA Style and Formatting guide from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.

Provides access to British governmental files on the apartheid governments of South Africa from 1948-1988. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation.

APA Style Citation Guide from the IUS Writing Help Center

Enables the ability to cross-search all of the collections available in the Archives Direct, including Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980; Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966; Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969; Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969; Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961; Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980; Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947-1980; Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980; Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981; Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963; The Nixon Years, 1969-1974; Women in The National Archives.

Contains primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world with content from journals, newsletters, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, posters, and more.
Note: The ability to cross-search multiple primary source collections from the provider Gale is now available on the Gale Primary Sources platform.

A platform for digital collections of historical documents provided by Gale. Collections available at IUS focus on African American studies, African studies, American studies, Asian studies, British and European history, business and economic history, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, & women's studies, health and environmental studies, international relations, Latin American and Caribbean studies, law, politics, & radical studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Native American studies.
Note: The ability to cross-search multiple primary source collections from the provider Gale is now available on the Gale Primary Sources platform.

This online streaming film collection provides access to documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis of visual media. Periods covered include the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary Art.

Now called Gale Literature.

Now called Gale Primary Sources.

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Note: ARTstor's previous interface is available through August 2024. More information about the migration is available on the Artstor on JSTOR FAQ.

Contains the full text of more than 250 plays, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Plays in this collection present views on historical events, such as the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the Vietnam conflic, as well as sociological issues, such as assimilation, integration, and cultural identity in a Western context.

An archive of primarily 20th century news materials that provide original perspectives on historical events around the world from a distinguished news reporting organization.
Note: The ability to cross-search multiple primary source collections from the provider Gale is now available on the Gale Primary Sources platform.

This collection features primary source materials covering themes such as popular entertainment, consumer culture and mass media, and includes a diverse mixture of topics from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.