Academic journal archives (could be primary or secondary, depending on use)
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PAO: Periodicals Archive OnlineComplementing the better-known JSTOR with a more international orientation, PAO is a archive of more than 700 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences since their first issues. More than 150 are in languages other than English. Coverage is from volume 1, issue 1 of each journal, and all issues are digitized from cover to cover.
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JSTORJSTOR (from Journal STORage) is an archive of academic journals in the humanities, social science, and sciences, from earliest issues up to 3-6 years before present. So for some purposes, it is a collection of secondary sources and for others, primary sources.
If you want to do a comprehensive, up-to-date search of the literature on a topic, don't begin in JSTOR; start in a discipline-specific database instead. JSTOR articles are exact facsimiles of originally as originally printed: they will include information may be obsolete and may use words that have shifted meaning and/or have become regarded as inappropriate, incomplete, or worse. But if you want to know what scholars in, say, the 1930s said about controversial topics like race, some religious traditions, gender and sexuality, or mental or physical impairments, you will need to use search terms that match words of that time, not ours, even though they may offend you deeply. -
HeinOnline Portal Large and wide-ranging collections of historical and contemporary legal materials, including codes, treaties, constitutions, topical collections of historical documents, law reviews (resembling JSTOR), legal treatises from the US, Canada, and the UK. Not limited to narrowly legal topics: includes, for example, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law.
Streaming video collections: documentaries and drama
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Alexander Street PressStreamed video with complete, searchable transcriptions along with text and still images. Alexander Street’s all-text primary source databases (Oral History Online and Women & Social Movements) are not part of this package.
- American History in Video. Historical newsreels, archived news broadcasts as well as recent documentaries.
- Meet the Press Archive (1947-2013). Decades of interviews from the archetypal of the Sunday morning TV news “talking heads” show.
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Films on DemandFilms on Demand provides streaming documentaries and educational films on many topics, archival films and newsreels, and "world cinema." Includes public performance rights for non-commercial, educational purposes. Searchable and browseable.
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Kanopy Streaming VideosKanopy provides hundreds of streaming videos in a wide variety of subjects and genres, including documentaries, instructional videos, and dramatic cinema from around the world. Interface includes rich browse options. For videos not already part of our collection, you'll be presented a form requesting us to purchase them.
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Swank Digital CampusSwank offers over 1,000 streaming videos: popular movies, documentaries, and foreign films. The list of available titles is revised by the vendor near the beginning of every academic year.
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PBS VideosThis curated collection of older streaming videos, originally broadcast on PBS, covers a broad range of disciplines in the sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences, but is particularly strong in American history and American studies. The collection Includes several of Ken Burns' series, American Experience, Scientific American Frontiers, and many others. User access is available through UVA's Avalon Media System after signing in with 2-factor authentication at Virginia Tech.
Indexes to popular and specialist literatures
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index: Periodicals (from ProQuest)Portal to citations in American and British periodical indexes from the "long" 19th century. Search individually or cross-search with several governmental and book indexes. Tech won't necessarily have online or physical access to every indexed item.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 from EBSCOhostReader's Guide Retrospective indexes citations to articles published in popular magazines and newspapers published in the United States.
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Book Review Digest Retrospective from EBSCOhostCollecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest, this archive database provides over a million book review citations from 1903 to 1982. It covers adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction and provides at least one review excerpt per book.
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 from EBSCOhost Humanities & Social Science Index Retrospective offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. Coverage also includes content from H.W. Wilson’s International Index.1907-1984.
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Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 from EBSCOhost The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective indexes citations to articles and summaries in annual surveys of laws and courts, legal journals, and legal yearbooks. 1908-1981.