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• Harper's Weekly
  Fulltext Articles | 1857-1889
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
  General Health Topics | Consumer Information | Nutrition | Childcare | Sports Medicine | Wellness | Exercise
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Medical Topics | Treatments | Research | Nursing | Allied Health
• Historical Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: World History | Excluding the United States and Canada
• Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest Times to the Present : Millennial Edition
  Published in 2006, this resource provides access to statistical data on American social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences - including economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration and trade.
• Homeland Security Digital Library
  U.S. Policy and Strategy documents relevant to current issues in homeland security.
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Hospitality | Tourism | Culinary Arts | Leisure | Business Travel Hotel Management | International Foods | Tourist Destinations
• Household Products Database Open Access
  Lists health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers for over 4,000 consumer brands. Research products by name, category or chemical ingredient.
• How Products are Made Open Access
  Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and manufacturing process. There is related information for each product including how the item works, who invented the product and possible future developments.
• Humanities International Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Authors | Artists | Musicians | Literature & Theater Criticism | Fiction, Short Story, Poetry, Drama Criticism | Photography | Painting | Music | Theater | Graphic Arts | Film | Contemporary Arts | Society & Culture

Subject Specific

• American Literature (Oxford Bibliographies)
  Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature provides authoritative guidance to recommended titles for the scholarly examination of topics American literature.
• British and Irish Literature (Oxford Bibliographies)
  Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature provides authoritative guidance to recommended titles for the scholarly examination of topics in British & Irish literature.
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
  Topics: Fulltext poems | Biographies of Poets | Commentaries | History & Criticism | Subject Search | Glossary
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  Fulltext | Digitized facsimile reproductions of Virtually Every Work Printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America | 1473-1700
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) Text Creation Partnership Open Access
  Public domain downloadable text files of 25,000+ titles from EEBO. This is the public release of phase I of the EEBO TCP
• Modernist Journals Project Open Access
  Topics: Fulltext Modernist Journals | New Age (1907-1922) | Dana (1904-1905) | Rhythm (1911-13) | Blast (1914-15) | The Owl (1915-1923)| The Blue Review (1913) | The Tyro (1921-1922) | And More!
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  Full-Text Articles | Biographies | British History | Irish History | Earliest Times to Year 2000
• Oxford English Dictionary
  English Words | Meaning | History | Pronunciation | Quotations
• Salem Literature Online
  Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 4th edition | Critical Survey of Graphic Novels | Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets | Magill`s Literary Annual | Selected Titles from the Critical Insights Series

Interdisciplinary and Related

• 18thConnect Open Access
  Online finding aid | Scholarly community | Eighteenth-century literary & historical studies
• 19th Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive: New Readerships Collection
  Topics: British Magazines | 1800s | Victorian Life and Culture
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | African-American Newspapers | 1800`s
• Alexander Street Video
  Streaming Video | American History in Video | Counseling and Therapy in Video I & II | Dance in Video | Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I | Filmmakers Library Online | LGBT Studies Online | New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to Present | World History in Video | Browse Collections Available at EIU
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Open Access
  United States history
• American Periodicals Series Online
  Topics: American Magazines | 1740`s - Early 1900`s
• American Popular Entertainment Collection Open Access
  Historic newspapers and trade journals published for the entertainment industry in the US between 1853 and 1929. These works include trade perspectives, features, and travel information on vaudeville, music performance, burlesque, and other popular forms of entertainment of the period.
• British Periodicals
  Topics: British History and Culture | 1680s to the 1930s
• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
  Topics: Fulltext Reviews of Children's Books | Reading Levels | Readers Advisory
• Chronicling America Open Access
  Selected Fulltext Newspaper Pages | California | District of Columbia | Florida | Kentucky | Minnesota | Nebraska | New York | Texas | Utah | Virginia | 1836 to 1922
• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | New York Herald | Charleston Mercury | Richmond Enquirer | November 1, 1860 to April 15, 1865
• Documenting the American South Open Access
  Fulltext Digital Collections | Colonial Period Through the First Decades of the 20th Century | Primary Sources | Diaries | Letters
• Early Americas Digital Archive Open Access
  Early American Fiction & Nonfiction | 1492 to about 1820
• English Short-Title Catalog Open Access
  The English Short-Title Catalog (ESTC) is designed to include a bibliographic record, with holdings, of every surviving copy of books, pamphlets and other ephemeral materials produced in Great Britain or any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473-1800.
• Godey's Ladys Book
  American Magazine Published for Women 1830-1885 | Color Plates | Fashion | Literature | Health and Hygiene | Recipes | Handicrafts
• Google Scholar with EIU Electronic Journals
  Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Use the Get Full Text @ EIU link to access Booth Library`s electronic journals.
• Harper's Weekly
  Fulltext Articles | 1857-1889
• London Lives 1690-1800 Open Access
  London Lives has been designed to facilitate historical research on poverty, crime and illness, and on social conditions, as reflected in institutional records.
• Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE) Open Access
  Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833) | Northern Star (1838-1852) | Leader (1850-1860) | English Woman's Journal (1858-1864) | Tomahawk (1867-1870) | Publishers' Circular (1880-1890)
• NoveList K-8 Plus
  Subset of Novelist Plus | Readers Advisory Tool | Book Reviews | Learning Center offers Teaching Tools for Classroom Use
• NoveList Plus
  Readers Advisory Tool | Book Reviews
• Old Bailey Online Open Access
  The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts, 1690 to 1772. It allows access to over 210,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 3,000 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.
• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
  Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through the early 1800`s | Benjamin Franklin`s Newspaper | Firsthand View of Colonial America
• Philosopher's Index Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Aesthetics | Axiology | Epistemology | Ethics | Logic | Metaphilosophy | Metaphysics | Philosophical Anthropology | Philosophy of Education, History, Language, Religion & Science | Political Philosophy | Social Philosophy
• Spectator Online Open Access
  Scanned and digitised copies of the British weekly magazine The Spectator from July 1828 to December 2008.
• SpringerLink Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Full-text E-books and Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2017
  Peer Reviewed Journals (Some Fulltext)
  
• Times (London) Digital Archive
  Fulltext Articles | 1785-1985
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
  American Civil War | Letters | Diaries | Memoirs | Census Records | Church Records | Government Records | Battle Reports | Speeches | Photographs
• Victorian Database Online
  Comprehensive Bibliography | Books | Articles | Dissertations | 19th Century British Studies
• Victorian Women Writers Project Open Access
  Highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
• Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition
  History (1600-2000) of U. S. women in social movements | Primary Documents | Online Journal | Notable American Women (1971-2004) |Publications of Federal, State, and Local Commissions on the Status of Women between 1961 and 2005.