America: History and Life  
Covers the world’s scholarly literature relating to the history of the United States and Canada. Includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present; there are some links to full text.

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Provides a selective and critical analysis of new historical books, journals, and journal articles. Reviews, all written by acknowledged experts and extensively cross-referenced, place new works in the context of ongoing and emerging debates.

Historical Abstracts  
Covers the world’s scholarly literature relating to history, excluding the United States and Canada. Includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays pertaining to the Middles Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
“A comprehensive online guide to writing about British and Irish history.” Includes London’s Past Online, a bibliography of London history.

Academic OneFile  
Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering all subject areas.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index  
A component of the Web of Science (ISI Databases), which provides access to scholarly literature and offers the functionality of cited author or cited works searching.

Black Studies Center
Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), the Chicago Defender newspaper, ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies, and the Black Literature Index.

Google Scholar Beta
Search engine specifically for scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and technical reports.

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

International Medieval Bibliography Online
Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.

ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)  
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics.

Social Sciences Citation Index  
A component of the Web of Science (ISI Databases), which provides access to scholarly literature and offers the functionality of cited author or cited works searching.

Web of Science  
The Web version of the three citation databases produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI): Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

English Short Title Catalogue
Contains descriptions of English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801. It includes records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English anywhere in the world from 1473 to 1800.

Historical Index to the New York Times
Provides complete indexing to The New York Times newspaper 1851-1922. It is one component of the Historical Newspapers Online database.

Historical Newspapers Online
Includes The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1922, and Palmer’s Index to the Times [London], 1790-1905.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective  
Citations to articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

Index to Early American Periodicals
Provides access to individual articles in the microfilm sets American Periodical Series, Eighteenth Century (APS I) (Microfilm S 10), American Periodical Series, 1800-1850 (APS II) (Microfilm S 10), and American Periodical Series, 1850-1935 (APS III) (Microfilm S 10.5). APS (American Periodical Series) Online provides access to page images to most of this collection.

London Times Index
Includes Palmer’s Index to the Times, which covers the period from 1790 to 1905. It is a component of the Historical Newspapers Online database.

New York Times Index
Provides complete indexing to The New York Times newspaper from 1851 to 1922. This index to The New York Times is a component of the Historical Newspapers Online database.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile
The primary component is an online version of W.F. Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. Also includes a number of indices to 19th and early 20th century periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC)
Aims to provide increasingly complete listings of British books printed between 1801 and 1919. British books are taken to include all books published in Britain, its colonies, and the United States of America; all books in English wherever published; and all translations from English.

Periodicals Index Online  
Indexes thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Areas of coverage include ancient civilizations, area studies (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Middle East), and history (general and of the Americas).

Readers’ Guide Retrospective  
Indexes popular periodicals, 1890-1982.

Accessible Archives
Consists of various databases: Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1865); The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800); The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (1860-1865); African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County (1819-1870); The Pennsylvania Genealogy Catalogue: Chester County (1809-1870); the South Carolina Gazette.

African American Newspapers: The Nineteenth Century
Will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States and Canada during the 19th century.

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. Also includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts, biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.

American County Histories to 1900
Full text and graphics from 19th county histories of the thirteen original states and Vermont. Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania are the first available states.

America’s Historical Newspapers
Digitized historic newspapers. The early series is based largely on Clarence Brigham’s History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.

APS (American Periodical Series) Online
Contains more than 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900
Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.

Digital Sanborn Maps: Delaware
A series of 140 map sets of urban areas in Delaware from 1884 to 1958.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Images of the original pages in more than 96,000 historical literary works listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 (STC I) and Donald Wing’s A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641 to 1700 (STC II). EEBO provides unique research opportunities in literature, history, linguistics, religion, art, music, the history of printing, and other disciplines.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published in Great Britain and the colonies during the 18th century. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.

The Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online
One of the most significant collections of books and periodicals relating to women’s history. Includes two million page images.

HarpWeek
A comprehensive index to, and digitized images of, Harper’s Weekly, the leading illustrated American periodical of the last half of the nineteenth century.

Historical Newspaper Archives

In the First Person
Keyword searching of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world.

JSTOR
Full-text backfiles of scholarly journals. There are more than 170 titles in history.

Keesing’s World News Archive
Comprehensive world news archive since 1931. The site offers access to the latest 20 years of the archive in electronic format. For complete text of earlier articles, consult the print edition.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Michigan collection contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints; the Cornell collection, 267 monograph volumes and more than 100,000 journal articles.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
“A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.”

New York Times
Full page digitization of every page of the New York Times from 1851-2006.

The Nineteenth Century in Print
Twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. The longest run is for The North American Review, 1815-1900.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial - 1950
Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. It also includes more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material.

Parliamentary Papers
Comprehensive collection of all the papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-1900 in all formats, including: Bills (e.g. abolition of slavery, electoral reform), Reports of Royal Commissions (e.g. the poor, health, and sanitation), Reports of Select Committees (e.g. mining and railway accidents), Accounts and Papers (e.g. correspondence relative to the affairs of the British in North America), and Command Papers.

Project MUSE
Full text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Includes history journals.

The Times Digital Archive
A complete digital edition of The Times (London) for 1785-1985. (This edition does not include The Sunday Times, a separate publication.)

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
The Times Literary Supplement in full facsimile, 1902-1990.

Wall Street Journal
Digital edition of the newspaper, 1889-1992.

ArchiveGrid
Nearly a million collection descriptions and online archival finding aids of archival material from more than 2,500 libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives around the world.

Archive Finder
Part of C19: The Nineteenth Century Index; click on “Search Indexes,” then “Archive Finder.” Covers 19th century collections only.

National Union Catalog of Manuscripts Collections (NUCMC)
Provides searching access, via the NUCMC/OCLC gateway, not only to the WorldCat records that were accessible prior to the merger of Research Libraries Group and OCLC in 2006, but also to the RLG Union Catalog records that were previously accessible only via the NUCMC/RLG gateway.

DELCAT
Online catalog of the University of Delaware Library. Includes records for material on order and in process, as well as course reserves. Does not include periodical articles.

Library of Congress Online Catalog
Contains approximately 14 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.

WorldCat Local
Search the University of Delaware Library and beyond.

American National Biography
The authoritative source for biographical information on American men and women, colonial times to the present.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to a large number of current and retrospective biographical compilations.

Biography Reference Bank
Full text of the biographies from more than 100 print volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, such as Current Biography, Nobel Prize Winners, American Reformers, as well as biographical resources from other publishers.

Biography Resource Center
Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Comprehensive and authoritative source of British biographical information.

AccessUN
Provides access to United Nations documents and publications.

LexisNexis Congressional
Provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information. In addition to indexing and abstracting the CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress from 1970 forward, LexisNexis Congressional also provides links to Congressional documents, bills, public laws, Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Congressional hearings and committee reports. One of the components, Congressional Indexes, 1789-1972, provides indexing and abstracting of congressional publications, including the Congressional Serial Set, from 1789 to 1969, and of transcripts of unpublished hearings, 1823 to 1972.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
Indexes articles appearing in more than 175 periodicals published by departments and agencies of the U. S. government.

LexisNexis State Capital
Comprehensive access to state government information. Contains information on bills, statutes, regulations, and legislators from the fifty states, as well as information from State Capitol Journal and other news sources, and links to other Web sites with useful information about the states.

MarciveWeb DOCS
Index to United States government publications cataloged by the Government Printing Office.

ABI/INFORM
Citations and abstracts for articles from over 800 business and management journals. Some coverage of business history.

AP Images
Current and historical images from the Associated Press digital image archive.

Ad*Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective
Citations and abstracts to articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins relating to archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and related fields.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975
Monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.

Book History Online
Contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries.

Delaware Postcard Collection
Over 2000 postcards of Delaware and nearby areas.

EconLit  
A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature. Some coverage of economic history.

Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

Gallup Brain
A 70-year archive of public opinion, from the Gallup Organization. Gallup Brain contains the answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.

GenderWatch
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women’s and gender issues.

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Multidisciplinary bibliography of published material on Latin America, 1935 to the present.

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Provides full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals, with citations and abstracts from many other periodicals. Full text is available from 1998 to the present.

iPOLL
Public opinion data from The Roper Center, the largest archives of public opinion information. iPOLL is a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
“Guides to Microforms” are online finding aids for selected microfilm collections published by University Publications of America. The University of Delaware Library has not acquired all of these microfilm collections. Check DELCAT for availability.

LexisNexis Statistical
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications issued by the federal government, state governments, and private publishers. Includes a searchable version of the tables in Statistical Abstract of the United States, from the 1996 edition and all more current editions.

National Register Information System
The official database of the National Register of Historic Places. The NRIS contains information on more than 80,000 properties and includes an searchable index of more than two million terms.

Oxford English Dictionary
A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It shows not only the current meanings of words, but also traces their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world.

PAIS International  
An index to the world’s public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences.

Philosopher’s Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 400 journals and related interdisciplinary fields.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author.

Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
An index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly by the Library of Congress from 29 African countries.

Willard Stewart Photographs for the WPA and HABS
246 photographs of landscapes and buildings in Delaware.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Documents, teaching tools, and document projects about Women and Social Movements.

Women's Studies International  
An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, drawn from a variety of essential women’s studies databases.