Communications & Media Studies

Provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.

It is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research including resources in: Arts, Biography, History, Information and Publishing, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science.

As a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

This database offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. It includes the content of two standard reference indexes Humanities Index (April 1974 - March 1984) and Social Sciences Index (April 1974 - March 1983) as well as their predecessors: the Social Sciences & Humanities Index (April 1965 - March 1974) and International Index (1907 - March 1965).

Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

This is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history.

Full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. Washington College has access to the Basic College Collection titles.

WSJ issues from 1889-1999; includes all news articles, illustrations, editorials, and advertising; provides PDF reproductions and ASCII text versions of the original pages; text is fully searchable; full-text.

Full text articles from the Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition).

Includes all news articles, illustrations, editorials, and advertising from time period; provides PDF reproductions and ASCII text versions of the original pages; text is fully searchable; full-text.

WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

This database provides access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.