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Databases

For a complete listing of all databases available from NSU Libraries, click on the links below. If accessing these databases from off-campus, when prompted, login with your NSU user name and password. Please note all links open in the same window.

Selected Databases

Since the American Studies program includes a wide range of fields and programs, there are links at the bottom of this section for databases and websites in a particular subject area.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
America: History & Life
This bibliographic resource provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada. Selective indexing includes over a thousand journals dating back over 55 years. This source has proved to be an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Covers all aspects of native North American culture, history and life including a wide range of topics.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
This database indexes more than 15 million individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700 biographical reference sources.
CQ Press Library
Place to search or browse resources on American government, politics, and data analysis for the social sciences.
JSTOR (Journal Storage)
Containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. More than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries have access to JSTOR; most access is by subscription, but some older public domain content is freely available to anyone.
Marquis Who's Who
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1.5 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
New York Times and Historical New York Times
New York Times newspaper (1851-Present)
Social Sciences Full Text
Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals.

NSU Libraries English, Humanities, Communications, Arts Databases
List includes links and databases used in Communication and English
NSU Libraries Political Science database listing
List includes links and databases for political science
NSU Libraries Social Sciences database listing
Includes links and databases for Geography, History, Law and Criminal Justice, and Sociology.

Selected Web Resources

Contacts

SophiaBeverley Threatt, Subject Librarian for American Studies
threatt@nsuok.edu
PH: 918.444.3267
Office: John Vaughan Library, 2nd floor, #213a