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Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. Combines the following two databases, which can also be searched separately: America:History & Life U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present Historical Abstracts World history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1842 to present for some titles) An interdisciplinary database containing citations to journal articles, essays, and books related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance; covers the time period 400 - 1700 CE.
Web of Knowledge Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Includes: Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers ... and more Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.

Reference Resources
American National Biography Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains biographical information about more than 17,400 prominent American men and women from all periods of history. Excludes individuals who are still living. Also provides useful bibliographies as well as cross references and links to relevant Web sites.
Chicago Manual of Style Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style as well as the Chicago-Style Quick Guide and regularly-updated questions and answers about the style. Note: Up to ten people can search this resource at any one time. If you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
Credo Reference: History Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of over two dozen quick-reference titles, including the Chambers Dictionary of World History, The Companion to British History, The Concise Atlas of World History, A Dictionary of Contemporary History: 1945 to the Present, The Great American History Fact-Finder, The Reader's Companion to American History, and more. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Dictionary of National Biography. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	(1985 version). Includes biographical information about nearly 40,000 British men and women who died before 31 December 1985; covers all periods of history. Also includes biographies of people who lived in British colonies as well as other individuals who had a significant impact on British history. Contains the complete text of the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900) as well as the full text of all supplementary volumes and Missing Persons volumes up to 1985. The Little Library also has the second edition, known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: History Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Dictionary of American History, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, the Encyclopedia of India, the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Europe, 1450-1789, and many other electronic, History-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection. You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
HeritageQuest Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of family and local histories drawn from over 25,000 books, the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930), and other collections as well as images of selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Also indexes over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800.
Historical Statistics of the United States. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Contains statistics from Colonial times to 1970, including over 12,500 time series.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.

Other Resources
17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1603-1800) Contains digital facsimiles of approximately 1,270 seventeenth and eighteenth-century English newspapers from the British Library's Burney Collection; includes many London papers as well as some English provincial, Scottish, Irish, and colonial North American papers. The full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
19th Century Masterfile - Poole's Plus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains two sets of indexes. The periodical indexes include Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), and Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899). The government documents indexes include the Subject Index to U.S. Patents (1790-1873), Descriptive Catalogue of Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Hansard's Index to the Debates of the House of Commons and House of Lords (1803-1830). The E. H. Little Library has print equivalents for Poole's Index and the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U. S..
Accessible Archives Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1827-1902) A collection of full-text, nineteenth-century periodicals. The library subscribes to the following: African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Includes Freedom's Journal, Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Papers, National Era, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder. The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective Includes selected articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer. Godey's Lady's Book Includes articles and over 18,000 illustrations and color plates from this important nineteenth-century magazine for women.
American Broadsides & Ephemera, Series I Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
American Memory Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains transcripts of approximately 4,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states; the interviews were conducted in the 1930s under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Searchable by surname, state, county, and subject. Also includes sound files.
American State Papers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1789-1838) Contains the fully-searchable text of early American Congressional and Executive Department documents. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: The Davidson College Library also has a complete set of the American State Papers in print form.
America's Historical Newspapers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1690-1998) Contains digital facsimiles of over 1,000 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. Includes: African American Newspapers (1827-1998) Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) The library has series 1-7. Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980) Contains Spanish-language and bilingual newspapers. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Discourse. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	(1952-1996) Contains transcripts of speeches, television advertisements, and debates from twelve United States general Presidential campaigns from 1952 through 1996. Includes all of the major party nominees' spoken records, with the exception of Barry Goldwater, from September 1 of each election year through the election. Also includes some third-party candidates' materials.
AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1826 to present [photographs]; 1920 to present [audio clips]; 1990 to present [charts and maps]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of over 2 million photographs, 1 million audio clips, 48,000 diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines, and 2.8 million news briefs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily. Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again. Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
Archive of Americana Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1639-1980) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents. Includes American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819, America's Historical Newspapers: Early American Newspapers (1690-1922), America's Historical Newspapers: Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980), American State Papers (1789-1838), House and Senate Journals (1789-1817), Senate Executive Journals (1789-1866), and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980), each of which can also be searched separately.
ARTstor Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A collection of over 900,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and the social sciences; covers a wide range of cultures and time periods. Also includes tools to manipulate and analyze the images. Technical Requirements (updated): Windows XP with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.11; Windows Vista with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.13; Mac OSC 10.5.2. with Safari 3.1, Firefox 2.0.0.13, or Firefox 1.5.0.6; Mac OSX 10.4.11 and Safari 3.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.6; Flash 6 or higher; pop-up blocking disabled; cookies enabled. Note: If you do are using an older version of IE or Firefox, you can still connect to the old version of ARTstor, ARTstor Legacy; the link to ARTstor Legacy appears on the lower left-hand side of the main page.
Bibliographic Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1971 to present) Indexes articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages.
Davidsonian Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1914-2006) A digital collection of volumes 1-97 of the Davidsonian, The Davidson College newspaper. Also includes a history of the paper, a list of its editors, and other related information. The Davidson College Library has print and microfilm versions of the newspaper as well.
Digital National Security Archive Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 63,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents dating from the mid to the late twentieth century. These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Documenting the American South Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of primary sources on Southern history, culture, and literature from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. Includes diaries, first-person narratives, literary works, photographs, and other materials. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
Early Modern Italy Off-Campus access available; password required. Please Ask a Librarian for more information.	A bibliography of English-language and French-language articles and books related to early modern Italy (1550-1800); covers history, art history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and the history of science. Also includes citations to doctoral dissertations. Available in pdf format and Microsoft Word format.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New interface and more content! (1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works.
Essay and General Literature Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1974-1996) Contains the full text of the U.S. Government's FBIS Daily Reports, the English-language translations of foreign news broadcasts, including clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, used by U.S. intelligence services, policy makers, and analysts. A valuable primary source collection for historical and political science research. FBIS regions currently included: Africa (Sub-Sahara), Asia & Pacific, China, East Asia, East Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Near East & South Asia, People's Republic of China, South Asia, Soviet Union and Central Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West (and Western) Europe. This collection is still being digitized. More regions will be added. For FBIS reports from 1996 to the present, search World News Connection.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women's studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1851 - 2005) Provides the full text of the New York Times; page images can be viewed and downloaded as pdf files. Printing tips
House & Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817 Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of U.S. House of Representative and Senate journals from the first fourteen Congresses. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text & Humanities Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
Index Islamicus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
L'Année Philologique Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1959 to present) Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays on all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Covers the period from 500 BCE to 800 CE. International in scope. Also includes book reviews. To locate articles and books from earlier years, consult the print volumes of L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference collection. Search Tips
Latin American Newspapers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1805-1920) Contains digital facsimiles of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. When complete, this database will contain over 35 newspapers. The library was able to acquire the content in this database thanks to a generous gift from Mrs. Laura Landoe, a Davidson parent; we thank her for her support.
LexisNexis Congressional Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1789 to present) Indexes congressional documents. Includes the full text of: The Congressional Record (1789 to present) Published and unpublished committee hearings (1824-2003), with selected transcripts from 2004 to present Committee reports (1990 to present) Selected committee prints (1993-2004) House & Senate documents (1995 to present) Bill texts and tracking (1989 to present) Public laws (1988 to present) U.S. Code Code of Federal Regulations (1981 to present) Federal Register (1980 to present) Biographical information & voting records (1988 to present) Roll Call (1989 to present) Only available to Davidson College faculty, staff, and students.
Making of America Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of primary source materials related to America history and culture from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes page images from books and journals published in the nineteenth century. The Cornell University Making of America site provides access to over 100,000 articles from journals such as The Atlantic Monthly (1857-1901) and Harper's (1850-1899) as well as access to over 250 books. The University of Michigan Making of America site provides access to over 50,000 journal articles and 8,500 books.
Niles Register Cumulative Index. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	(1811-1849) An index to The Weekly Register, Niles National Register, and Niles Weekly Register newspapers published between 1811 and 1849. The Register offered concise, comprehensive coverage of national and international events and was known for its lack of bias. The Library also has print (1811-1831) and microfiche (1811-1849) copies of the Niles Register.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1700s to 1950) Contains the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries written by American women from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. Includes texts that were written contemporaneously; excludes memoirs. Provides biographical information for many of the authors.
PAIS International Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1915 to present) Contains citations, with brief abstracts, to articles in over 800 English-language journals in public affairs. Also indexes government documents, pamphlets, directories, agency reports, and some books. Covers government, public administration, public policy, court decisions, political science, and international relations.
PBS Videos (NC LIVE Media Collection) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	An online collection of over 220 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more. Technical requirements: Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher and a high-speed Internet connection.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey London, 1674 to 1834 Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1674-1834) Provides the full text of the proceedings of over 100,000 trials along with original page images and background information on trial procedures, verdicts, and the types of crimes tried. The Old Bailey was the central criminal court for the City of London and the County of Middlesex.
Project Muse Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
Readers' Guide Abstracts & Readers' Guide Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1890 to present) Indexes articles in over 300 popular magazines published in the United States. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including art, business, education, food, foreign affairs, political science, religion, science, sports, and health and nutrition. Also indexes book and film reviews.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes: iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more. RoperExpress, a collection of data sets for bivariate and multivariate analyses Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
Sanborn Maps of North Carolina Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1880s to approx. 1970) Digital, black-and-white copies of over 11,000 Sanborn Maps for 158 cities and towns in North Carolina. The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provide valuable historical information about property sites and building materials and can also be used to chart urban growth. Consult the Key (available from the "Help" page) for information about symbols and conventions used in the maps.
Senate Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866 Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of Proceedings of the Senate's executive sessions. Includes material on treaties, the confirmation of presidential nominees, and other topics. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Centenary Archive Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1902-1990) Contains the Times Literary Supplement Index as well as page images from the TLS (1920-1990). Includes more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles. In addition, the Archive provides information about anonymous contributors to the TLS, information that does not appear in the print TLS Index.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	(1595-1866) Contains the records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages from the late sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Information can be tracked by time period and geographic region. The CD-ROM also includes interactive maps and information about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1817-1980) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. history, including cultural, economic, ethnic, military, political, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: this digital collection is not yet complete; if you need documents from twentieth-century volumes that have not yet been digitized, please ask a librarian for assistance. The Davidson College Library has print and microfiche versions of many Serial Set volumes.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Indexes the prose contents of 43 periodicals for the dates indicated (including the years 1802-1823 for The Edinburgh Review). Identifies the writers of anonymous and pseudonymous works from this time period.
Women Writers Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1400-1850) Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850.
World News Connection Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1995 to present) Contains full-text, English-language summaries and translations of foreign news reports, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports, and other local media sources from around the world. Covers political, scientific, socioeconomic, technical, and environmental issues and events. These materials are provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Earlier years of the FBIS Reports are available on microfiche and CD-ROM.