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Recommended Multi-Disciplinary Databases & Online Resources

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts for articles on historical topics of the United States and Canada.

American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record from the collections of the Library of Congress.

ArtStor Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary image library containing over 1.6 million images from the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences.
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window
Browse a database of over 600,000 open access articles covering all subject areas, maintained at institutional repositories around the world.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
Use this portal to discover resources held by major libraries, museums and archives across America.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles from a wide variety of sources in all fields of research. Follow the Connect with Google Scholar directions to configure Google Scholar to get the full text of articles to which Armacost Library subscribes.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
IMDb started in 1990 as a hobby project by an international group of movie and TV fans. IMDb is now the world’s most popular source for movie, TV and celebrity content.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly journals.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to 100+ scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
All purpose database providing full text articles on a broad range of subjects. Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, etc.

Umbra Search
Brings together more than 500,000 digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country, of African American history and culture, and we pay homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Interdisciplinary Scholarly Journals

American Quarterly Official publication of the American Studies Association. The term “American” is an ever-changing, ever-expanding word, one that defies boundaries and disciplines, and American Quarterly reflects the evolving landscape of American studies. Within the journal’s pages, you’ll find interdisciplinary scholarship aimed at motivating discussion and embracing fresh ideas in the field.
Feminist Studies publishes research and criticism that takes into account the intersections of gender with racial identity, sexual orientation, economic means, geographical location, and physical ability. No other scholarly journal also features artistic, creative, and activist output on the same scale: each issue contains multi-page full color art spreads alongside art essays, poetry and fiction, photo essays, and commentaries on newsworthy topics.
Film & History
Radical Teacher RADICAL TEACHER, founded in 1975, is a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal dedicated to the theory and practice of teaching. It serves the community of educators who are working for democratic process, peace, and justice. The magazine examines the root causes of inequality and promotes progressive social change.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Recognized as the leading international journal in women’s and gender studies, Signs is at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. Challenging the boundaries of knowledge concerning women’s and men’s lives in diverse regions of the globe, Signs publishes scholarship that raises new questions and develops innovative approaches to our understanding of the past and present.
Smithsonian Magazine Focuses on the topics and subject matters researched, studied and exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution -- science, history, art, popular culture and innovation -- and chronicles them every day for our diverse readership.
Social Text Social Text covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena, applying the latest interpretive methods to the world at large. A daring and controversial leader in the field of cultural studies, the journal consistently focuses attention on questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment, publishing key works by the most influential social and cultural theorists.