| (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. |
| 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.. |
|  Academic Search Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1975 to present) Indexes over 8,000 popular and scholarly periodicals and provides the full text of articles from 4,500 of these periodicals. Also indexes several newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. |
| | 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.
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| (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. |
| 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. |
| (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:This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| (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. |
| (Sept. 1989 to present) Contains the full text of current and back issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education as well as daily updates, the annual Almanac, Web extras and updates, and much more. |
| | 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. |
| (1851 - 2005) Provides the full text of the New York Times; page images can be viewed and downloaded as pdf files.
Printing 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 Academic | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as newswires, business information, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | Library PressDisplay | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-page, full-color images of over 400 national and international newspapers, including many foreign-language newspapers; includes the current day's papers as well as a 60-day archive.
Note: Up to three people 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. |
| 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. |
| | MasterFILE Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) Provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text for some 3,100 magazines and journals on a wide variety of subjects. Full text begins in 1990. |
| Provides access to online versions of the National Journal Group's political magazines as well as a collection of resources on U.S. political and public policy issues. Includes the full text of The National Journal (1977 to present) and The Almanac of American Politics (1998 to present) as well as up-to-date coverage of U.S. government activities and policies through Congress Daily (updated twice daily), The Hotline (updated daily), which highlights media coverage of political affairs, Technology Daily (updated twice daily), Markup Reports for every Congressional committee and subcommittee, Ad Spotlight, which tracks political campaign television advertisements, and Daybook, which provides a daily calendar of Capital Hill events and activities. Also includes Poll Track, a collection of local and national public opinion surveys. |
| | Newspaper Source Plus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of articles in over 149 national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and the Washington Post; also contains selected full text from 410 additional U.S. newspapers and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. |
| | 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. |
| (1992 to present) An index providing bibliographical information and abstracts for articles appearing in over forty periodicals published in North Carolina. |
| | OmniFile Full Text Mega | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. |
| (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. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| (1993 to the present) Contains the full text of articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind. Includes color pdfs. |
| | Wall Street Journal Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1981 to present) Provides indexing for the newspaper. Some full text is available beginning in 1984. |
| | 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. |
| | Westlaw Campus Research | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full text news and legal materials. The "News & Information" section contains articles from magazines, national and international newspapers, and business, professional, and trade journals as well as newswires, newsletters, and transcripts of television broadcasts. The "Law" section contains important primary law sources as well as analytical sources, including state statutes, federal statutes published in the U.S. Code Annotated, federal and state cases, including Supreme Court cases, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, European Union law, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, 2nd, an important encyclopedia covering state and federal law, and over 800 law reviews and journals.
Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research. |
| Provides links to online newspapers; organized by Please note: Some sites require registration or subscriptions for full access to content. Be sure to check our other newspaper databases and periodical collections for other means of access or Ask a Librarian for help. |
