News & Current Events
Contents: Weekly report that gives a balanced view of today's most pressing social, political, and economic issues. Each report covers the given topic in a non-sensationalized manner, and many reports feature a pro/con debate, highlighting both sides of the argument.
Purpose: Provides unbiased views of current, controversial topics and insight into historical issues through it's archive.
Special Features: Pro/Con debates, Hot Topics, Footnotes/References
Content: Peer reviewed journals, full text articles, multimedia content, and other research materials.
Purpose: Provides access to multiple sources and authoritative information on current event and hot topics related to global issues.
Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature; Save content to Google Drive.
Content: Peer reviewed journals, full text articles, pro/con articles, multimedia content, and other research materials.
Purpose: Provides access to multiple sources and authoritative information on current event and hot topics.
Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature; Save content to Google Drive.
Content: U.S. and international newspapers, news websites, and blogs from leading publishers.
Purpose: Search for news from across the world in one search interface.
Special Features: Change which news streams you are searching to narrow your results.
Art
Content: An image database of architecture, visual art and fine arts.
Purpose: Good starting point for background or in-depth research in the arts.
Communication
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Asian American Theatre.
Purpose: Provide full text plays from 252 plays by 42 playwrights.
Special features: Includes playbills, production photographs etc. related to the plays
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Black Theatre.
Purpose: Provide full text from 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights.
Special features: Includes playbills, production photographs etc. related to the plays
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Latino literature (poems, novels, and plays).
Purpose: Provides full text information from 450 plays
Special features: Includes audio files of selected poems and plays
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Indigenous American (American Indian) Theatre.
Purpose: Provide full text from 244 plays by 48 playwrights.
Special features: Includes playbills, production photographs etc. related to the plays.
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Canadian and American Theatre.
Purpose: Provide full text plays from different play collections.
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Theatre and other research materials including primary sources.
Purpose: Provide the history theatre and play productions.
Content: Multimedia content of plays, productions, and other research materials
Special features: Teaching tools (playlists, video clips, and transcripts)
Content: A comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of Twentieth Century Theatre.
Purpose: Provide full text from 1,905 plays by 419 playwrights.
Special features: Includes playbills, production photographs etc. related to the plays.
Literature
Content: Literary commentary, biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, reviews on writers, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors.
Purpose: Faculty and students can search for resources related to authors or works and analyze content in entirely new ways.
Special Features: Browse by topic, search for an author, search for a specific work, see your search history, and much more!
Content: Includes access to Gale Literature Resource Center (literary commentary), Gale Literature Criticism (biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers), and Gale Literature: Something About the Author (lives/works of children and young adult authors and illustrators).
Purpose: This interface brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.
Special Features: Browse by topic, search for an author, search for a specific work, see your search history, and much more!
General Databases (Interdisciplinary)
Content: Peer reviewed journals, full-text articles, magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and video files from multiple subjects.
Purpose: Students can view a massive amount of peer reviewed research from multiple subjects.
Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature; Save content to Google Drive.
Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.
Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.
Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search
Content: Collection of more than 30 Proquest subject-specific databases covering Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
Purpose: Students can view a massive amount of peer-reviewed research across multiple disciplines.
Special Features: Includes a Thesaurus feature that assists in using the database’s controlled vocabulary, as well as read-aloud feature.