Recommended Databases
- 20th Century Global Perspectives: Middle East & North Africa This link opens in a new windowThe documents in this collection were sourced from international journals, newspapers, scientific reports, and radio and television broadcasts from 19 countries in North Africa and the Middle East, as well as from other nations with security interests in the region.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowAnthropology Plus is a compilation of the Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature databases. It is a comprehensive index of bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new windowThis database provides a collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials represents all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowEthnic NewsWatch is a full-text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Included is coverage of issues both in the U.S. and abroad, including Israel and the Middle East.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new windowFBIS is comprised of the collections from the Archives of the Central Intelligence Agency including government publications, magazines, newspapers and transcribed television and radio broadcasts. Now available in a fully searchable digital collection, these primary source documents provide crucial news and information from all countries outside of the U.S. during the second half of the 20th century.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new windowICPSR’s data archive contains files of research in the social sciences. It hosts specialized collections of data in foreign policy, sociology, demography, public health, education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowImages of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE provides full-text access scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The database is a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and other university presses and not-for-profit publishers.
- Public Affairs Index This link opens in a new windowPublic Affairs Index (PAI) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters.
Dissertations and Thesis
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, 1743 to present. Offers full text for works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written before 1997. Contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations from 1980 forward and master's theses from 1988 forward include abstracts. - Dissertations and Theses at University of Alabama This link opens in a new windowA companion database to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, this database consists of current research at the University of Alabama and includes citations (and many abstracts) for dissertations and theses from the university. For the majority of titles published after 1996 (and in some cases prior to 1996), a preview of the first 24 pages is provided as well as the full text, which can be downloaded for free by authorized University of Alabama users.