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Contains narratives from biographical sources published between 1790 and 1950. Covers African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. (Chadwyck-Healey)

Bibliographic references to the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social and economic contexts. (AARP)

Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. It complements and challenges the coverage of the mainstream media and serves a broad spectrum of subject areas. (ProQuest)

Full-text of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs written from 1855 to 1875 concerning the American Civil War. (Alexander Street Press)

The online catalog of the UofL University Archives and Records Center is included in Minerva, the catalog for all UofL Libraries.

Provides information about primary source materials from over 5,400 US manuscript repositories of American history and politics literature. ArchivesUSA includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about over 118,000 manuscript and other special collections.

Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)

Indexes a vast amount of information published by and about Congress: hearing transcripts and submitted testimony; committee reports; bills and public laws; selected committee prints; congressional documents; Congressional Record; Federal Register; current Code of Federal Regulations; and current U.S. code. Some full-text. (Lexis-Nexis)

Full-text coverage of over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world from 1992 to the present. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Maximum number of simultaneous users: 4. (Responsive Database Services)

See University of Louisville Electronic Theses and Dissertations or ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)

"The Human Relations Area Files in Ethnography includes 250,000 pages of primary source material in ethnography, and the collection in Archeology covers more than 28 major archeological traditions with more than 40,000 pages of primary source material (including the full-text of journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts)." (Human Area Relations File)

Full-text database providing access to articles that appeared in 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. 400,000+ complete articles dating back to 1990.

Includes 125 international publications plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings devoted to women and gender issues. Archival material dating back to the mid 1970's.

The Gerritsen Collection covers women's rights and feminist resources by providing two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed books and articles.

Full-text of the early American women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book.

Index to U.S. government publications.

• FirstSearch
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Indexes articles and other materials covering information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. (HAPI)

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. (EBSCOhost)

Includes: Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790-1905; The Official Index to the Times (London) 1906-1980; and, The Historical Index to the New York Times 1851-1923. (Chadwyck-Healey)

"The Human Relations Area Files in Ethnography includes 250,000 pages of primary source material in ethnography, and the collection in Archeology covers more than 28 major archeological traditions with more than 40,000 pages of primary source material (including the full-text of journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts)." (Human Area Relations File)

Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. (Chadwyck-Healey)

Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)

"The Left Index is a[n] ... index to the contents of periodicals of the left. Journals selected for inclusion in the index have a Marxist, radical or left perspective..."

Index to over 750 Law journals and newspapers. (Available at the Law Library)

Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports); Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)

Catalog of items owned by the seven University of Louisville Libraries.

The MLA International Bibliography indexes books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. (Chadwyck-Healey)

Comprehensive database, with bibliography, text and image files of correspondence and diaries drawn from published and manuscript sources, searchable by author, source, year, personal event, and historical event.

Index to journal articles, books, and government publications on public affairs from 1972 to the present. (CSA)

Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey)

Indexes articles from over 300 essential political science journals. (CSA)

Full-text of articles from 1990 forward in over 275 journals covering Arts, Sciences (including medicine and mathematics), Humanities and Social Sciences.

Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Some full-text. Includes the database formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. (ProQuest)

Index to articles in the social sciences. (H.W. Wilson)

Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

Coverage of more than 450 journals in Social Work and related areas. (SilverPlatter)

Abstracts to articles from 2,300 journals on all aspects of sociology. (CSA)

The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database with nearly 570 full text titles. This database provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. (EBSCOhost)

Contains statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. (Lexis-Nexis)

Indexes over 8000 primary journals by accessing Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. (ISI)

Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch)