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This ProQuest platform incorporates scholarly journals, eBooks, dissertations, news and video content across all disciplines in a unified and seamless user interface.
It includes -ProQuest Central- (access to 47 of ProQuest's complete databases, with a variety of content types across over 175 subjects), -Academic Video Online- (unlimited remote access to more than 71,500 videos all cross-searchable from a single platform; includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles); - Academic Complete - (a critical mass of ~198,200 multidisciplinary ebooks with unlimited, multi-user access, powerful research tools and DRM-free chapter downloads); and - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global -
(includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, and European dissertations back from the 17th century, to those accepted as recently as last semester).
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Academic Video Online, or AVON, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
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American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet 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 of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
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A deeper understanding of your heritage and family history sheds light on who you are and can strengthen your identity and sense of belonging. That’s why Ancestry® combines billions of rich historical records, millions of family trees and samples from millions of people in the AncestryDNA® network to help you discover your unique place in history and gain meaningful insights that can impact your future.
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A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts, the Art, Design & Architecture Collection includes ProQuest's specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design & Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts), and International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals from ProQuest's Arts & Humanities Database.
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The Smithsonian/NASA ADS maintains collections of scientific publications containing more than 15 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary Sciences, and related research. In addition to maintaining its bibliographic corpus, the ADS tracks citations and usage of its records to provide advanced discovery and evaluation capabilities. Integrated in its collections, the ADS provides access to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles available from publishers’ websites, astronomical object information, data catalogs and data sets hosted by external archives.
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Free public domain audiobooks.
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Seattle's own "action figure librarian" and best-selling author Nancy Pearl sits down each month with top writers from around the country for conversations about books and the process and art of writing. There's no one better qualified than Nancy to discuss books and writing, bringing an informed reader's perspective to lively conversation and in-depth dialogs about all things literary. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl is filmed at the University Bookstore in Seattle.
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C-SPAN , an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. C-SPAN televises many proceedings of the federal government (Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, & White House), as well as other public affairs programming, including American History TV, Book TV, and Washington Journal. C-SPAN.org gives you access to C-SPAN's daily coverage of Washington and more than 200000 hours of extensively indexed and archived video.
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Gale eBooks is a collection of online reference works and specialized sources that can be used for multidisciplinary research. Includes encyclopedias, almanacs, biographical sources, directories, and other reference sources. Covers a wide range of topics, including history, biography, health, arts, business, travel, religion, and multicultural studies.

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Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory is a database that provides access to full-text articles from peer-reviewed publications on economics. It includes content from newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and journals. The database focuses on titles that are also covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.
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More than half a million sources of vetted, authoritative content are organized in an interface that propels discovery and helps users work more efficiently. Instinctive pathways are aligned with common use cases and enable users to navigate: full-text scholarly journals, thousands of videos, a massive ebook collection, and reports, dissertations, and news articles.
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Entrepreneurship is ideal for entrepreneurs and business schools because it covers all aspects of starting and operating a business. The database includes authoritative periodicals and reference content on accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, and tax.
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Fold3 is a database that provides access to over 500 million digitized and indexed military records from the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. These records include service records, photos, documents, and draft cards, and can help users learn about the lives of soldiers, their families, and forgotten heroes. Fold3 is a popular resource for family historians researching their military ancestors.
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An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new content management and communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. It sponsors 200 free interactive networks edited by scholars in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.
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The History of Education Quarterly is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing high-quality scholarship on the history of education. It is the official journal of the field's leading professional society in the United States, the History of Education Society, and has been published continuously since 1960.The journal encourages submissions from a range of intersecting sub-fields in social, political, economic, intellectual, and cultural history, including (but not limited to): Urban History, Policy History, Sociology of Knowledge, Colonialism and Colonial Education, History of Childhood and Youth, Gender Studies, Ethnic History, Indigenous Education, Cultural Studies, Comparative History, and the History of Ideas.
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The purpose of the Society is to promote and improve the teaching of the history of education in colleges and universities, encourage scholarly research in the history of education and to facilitate the publication and dissemination of the results of such research, interest the educational profession and the public at large in the value of historical perspective in the making of educational policy, promote library and museum facilities for the preservation of source materials in the history of education, cooperate with specialists in the other disciplines to interpret educational developments in a broad historical context, encourage cooperation among specialists in the history of education throughout the world in joint studies and the exchange of documents, and to cooperate wherever possible with organizations of professional historians and professional educators throughout the world.
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The Internet Archive provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. As of September 5, 2024, the Internet Archive held more than 42.1 million print materials, 13 million videos, 1.2 million software programs, 14 million audio files, 5 million images, 272,660 concerts, and over 866 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge."
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The Journal of Southern History, which is edited at and sponsored by Rice University, is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South and is unrestricted as to chronological period, methodology, or southern historical topic. The Journal publishes refereed articles and solicited book reviews and book notes on all aspects of southern history. As the organ of the Southern Historical Association, which is headquartered in the Department of History at the University of Georgia, the Journal also publishes items pertaining to the business of the Association as well as news and notices of interest to historians of and in the South. The purpose of the Southern Historical Association is to encourage the study of history in the South with an emphasis on the history of the South.
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The Journal of the Early Republic (JER) is a quarterly journal committed to publishing the best scholarship on the history and culture of the United States in the years of the early republic (1776–1861).
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Leadership and Management is a database that provides access to authoritative periodical content on leadership and management topics. It is a useful resource for researchers and professionals interested in career development.
Some topics covered in Leadership and Management include 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, and adult learning and continuing education.
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The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) is a database that provides access to NASA-related scientific and technical information (STI). This includes:
-Citations: Aerospace-related citations;
-Full-text documents: Online documents, including research reports, journal articles, conference papers, and meeting papers;
-Images and videos: Images, movies, and technical videos; and
-NASA Collection: Citations and documents from 1958 to the present.
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The Nashville Banner is a locally owned, community-supported civic news organization. It claims to exist to empower the people of Nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. It is digital-first, with no paywall for the stories because the Banner believes everyone should have access to news.
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The Nashville Post is a news service that covers business, politics, and sports in the Nashville, Tennessee area. It offers a variety of content, including: Breaking news, Email alerts, Quarterly magazines, and Events.
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From investigative cultural and political reporting to looks inside the city's massive arts and entertainment industry, the Scene has developed into a must-read for Nashvillians of all stripes over the past three decades. The newsweekly's provocative lifestyle coverage and criticism of emerging local musical talent have cemented its relationship with readers.

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its founding in 1836. The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology.
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Newspapers.com is a database of historical newspapers from around the world that includes over 300 million pages from more than 11,100 newspapers. The collection covers a wide range of dates, but focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries, and may go as far back as 1690. It includes full runs and parts of runs of regional, state, and local newspapers, as well as well-known titles. The database is a valuable resource for researchers, historians, genealogists, teachers, and students.
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ProQuest's Nursing & Allied Health Premium is a database that offers a variety of multimedia resources for nursing and allied health, including alternative and complementary medicine. The database is intended to support students, instructors, researchers, and nurses in their teaching, learning, and research needs. It includes information from a variety of sources, such as:
-Scholarly and trade journals
-Books
-Training videos
-Reports
-Pamphlets and ephemeral works, and
-Websites.
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OpenStax contains free college textbooks. It is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning technologies and education research. We are a nonprofit initiative of Rice University.
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PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational programs to public television stations in the United States, distributing shows such as Frontline, Nova, PBS News Hour, & Masterpiece. PBS is a membership organization that, in partnership with its member stations, serves the American public with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives.
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Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

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ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. It digs deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust.

With a team of more than 150 editorial staffers, ProPublica covers a range of topics including government and politics, business, criminal justice, the environment, education, health care, immigration, and technology. We focus on stories with the potential to spur real-world impact. Among other positive changes, the reporting has contributed to the passage of new laws; reversals of harmful policies and practices; and accountability for leaders at local, state, and national levels.
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APA PsycArticles® is a robust database offering full-text access to landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, and more. This database provides comprehensive coverage, high-quality research, and authoritative publications on a user-friendly platform.
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APA PsycInfo is a database from the American Psychological Association that indexes scholarly literature in the behavioral and social sciences, including psychology and related fields. It contains over 5 million peer-reviewed records, including abstracts, bibliographic citations, cited references, and descriptive information from the 1600s to the present. The database covers a wide range of publications, including journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports from over 2,000 journals in more than 49 countries.
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Sage Health & Nursing publishes a broad range of high-quality research covering public health, nursing practice, nutrition, oncology, dentistry, gerontology, palliative care, and many more health specialties. Download special issues, collections, and a selection of most-read articles.

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Science.org, the online platform of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), serves as a leading source for comprehensive scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research across various disciplines, providing access to peer-reviewed articles from the renowned "Science" journal alongside in-depth news coverage, career resources for scientists, and engaging features exploring the latest advancements in the scientific world; essentially acting as a central hub for staying updated on major scientific developments globally.
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Sky & Telescope is the premier showcase for lively, authoritative, and well-illustrated information about the science and hobby of astronomy. The magazine also serves as a major avenue of communication between amateur and professional astronomers worldwide.
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The oldest and largest fact-checking site online, widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and readers as an invaluable research companion. When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.
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The History Teacher is the most widely recognized journal in the United States devoted to more effective teaching of history in pre-collegiate schools, community colleges, and universities.
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The Week is a newsweekly website that covers the topics of News and Opinion as well as Science and Technology, with sections for Speed Reads, Business, and more. The Week is for readers who want to know what's going on in the world, without having to read several daily newspapers or get wrapped up in the endless news cycle. For every important story, the editors carefully select commentary from all sides of the debate and artfully stitch them together into one concise read. Receives high marks for factual reporting.
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Rick Steves, America's most respected authority on European travel, empowers Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Rick Steves offers a tremendous amount of free travel information through his bi-annual travel newsletter, European travel classes, and his 3,000+ page website.
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The highest priority of the Bureau of Consular Affairs is to protect the lives and serve the interests of U.S. citizens abroad. Across the globe, we serve our fellow citizens during some of their most important moments – births, adoptions, medical emergencies, deaths, arrests, and disasters. We also help U.S. citizens connect with the world by issuing millions of U.S. passports each year. We also help foreign nationals connect with the United States by issuing visas to qualified visitors, workers, and immigrants.
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USA TODAY is the nation's top-selling newspaper, offering the latest in news, business, sports, entertainment, and lifestyle stories. USA TODAY presents the most relevant and significant stories of the day, concisely edited and presented in a style that is engaging and inclusive. Readers rely on Personal Finance columnists John Waggoner and Sandra Block to deliver insight, advice and tools to manage in a challenging economy. USA TODAY's Entertainment coverage keeps readers on the inside with an expanding variety of movie, TV, and celebrity exclusives and daily reviews of the best in entertainment. From politics and world news to the daily Sports report, USA TODAY provides 3.6 million readers with the news and information they need to manage and enjoy their busy lives.
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