The most frequently-used databases
Academic Search Premier is a scholarly and multi-disciplinary database from EBSCO.
Contains full texts and PDF contents with searchable references.
JSTOR offers entire collections of back issues of academic journals, together with books, images, and primary sources. Journal coverage begins with the first published issue and ends with a variable date, generally three to six years from present.
Kanopy is a video streaming solution offering access to more than 30,000 documentaries, movies, and educational videos from thousands of producers such as Criterion Collection, PBS, Great Courses, Kino Lorber, and more.
Nexis Uni provides a comprehensive spectrum of over 11,000 full text sources, between law, business, and news.
Political Science Database gives access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations peer-reviewed journals, providing full text of many core titles. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news, and other sources.
Project Muse is a prestigious collection of humanities and social sciences journals available in full text. Current issues are available as well as over a decade of backfile for selected journals.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research.
Developed and maintained by Yale University Press (YUP), the A&AePortal is a unique digital platform offering a curated selection of important art and architectural history titles, along with books in related disciplines (i.e., visual and material culture, classics, and religion). Its library comprises out-of-print, backlist, new, and born-digital books from YUP and various publishing partners, with some 50 books being added each year.
The trial will remain active until November 16, 2025.
EAI is a nonprofit resource that fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution and preservation of media art. EAI's core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 5,000 new and historical video works by artists, supported by public programming, preservation, education, and publication initiatives.
The EAI collection spans the mid-1960s to the present and is recognized as one of the most comprehensive video art collections in the world. The works in the collection range from seminal analog videos by pathbreaking artists such as Joan Jonas, Nam June Paik, Ulysses Jenkins, Martha Rosler and Dan Graham, to new digital videos from younger generation artists including Shana Moulton, Cory Arcangel, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Maggie Lee.
The trial will remain active until December 1, 2025.
PressReader provides unlimited access to digital newspapers and magazines. It offers publications from more than 120 countries in over 60 languages, including major international newspapers, regional papers, and lifestyle magazines.
The trial will remain active until November 15, 2025.
The Wire is an independent print and online music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music.
UPL (University Press Library) is an innovative acquisition model designed for academic libraries, bringing together eBook collections from over 25 of the world’s leading university presses and publishing houses, including renowned names such as California, Chicago, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and more.
The trial will remain active until December 31, 2025.
Video Data Bank (VDB) is a leading resource in the United States for video by and about contemporary artists. The VDB’s collection includes the work of more than 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles.
In 2024, VDB launched the Video Data Bank Educational Streaming Platform, making available VDB’s vast collections of video art, experimental film, documentaries, and artist interviews on a streaming subscription basis to higher educational institutions.
The trial will remain active until October 28, 2025.