Provides access to journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Good general-purpose database for researching most topics.

Search corpora of French texts by keyword and see results in context. The complete text cannot be displayed. Other databases available through ARTFL include sources like Textes de Français Ancien and Provençal Poetry.

Indexes journals in the arts and humanities. Provides links to full-text when available. Useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.

Provides images for use in academic papers and presentations, covering a broad range of subjects beyond art history. Images have been contributed by major museums, institutional archives, personal collections. Artstor is now integrated into the JSTOR platform.

The premier database for research in religious studies, the Atla database provides full-text coverage for major international journals, magazines, and professional publications. Multiple religious traditions and related disciplines, such as anthropology, political science, counseling, and history are represented.

Covers all aspects of architecture and architectural history, including design, historic preservation, urban planning, and landscape design.

Comprehensive fashion database, includes the Berg Enyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, scholarly ebooks, and images from museums such as the Victoria & Albert, The Museum at FIT, and the Bata Shoe Museum.

Covers international literature on the history of art in Europe and North America from late antiquity to the present. Indexed content covers 1975-2007. Coverage after 2007 is found in the International Bibliography of Art.

Contains 20 different versions of the English Bible from the 10th to the 20th century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale’s translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament.

Contains full-text biographies of historical and contemporary figures from around the world. Sources include Biography Today, Britannica, US presidential and congressional sources, Cambridge, and more. Formerly named Biography Reference Center.

Includes articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage. Includes Britannica’s Book of the Year and Nations of the World.

A database of research published in China. Contains journals, theses/dissertations, proceedings, newspapers and more. ZSR subscribes to Series F: Literature / History / Philosophy. Access availabe through VPN only.

Search across hundreds of subject encyclopedias and other reference works. A great place to find background information on almost any research topic. Includes subject trees, pro/con resources, links to scholarly articles and more.

Cross searches current national and international news sources, wire services, and regional news sources.

Archive of almost every play submitted for licence in England between 1737 and 1824. Also includes The London Stage 1660-1800 which is a searchable database of every performance in London during those years and the Biographical Dictionary of Actors etc. 1660-1800.

Contains videos in business, economics, health, medicine, humanities, social sciences, science and mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

Search across hundreds of subject encyclopedias and other reference works. A great place to find background information on almost any research topic. Includes a topic finder for help with narrowing or broadening your research topic.

Contains more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Also links to news, multimedia and scholarly content about the figures.

Combines overviews, viewpoints, reference, news, and scholarly material into one search platform for researching a wide variety of global issues.

This comprehensive multidisciplinary database delivers credible facts and current insight into today’s most debated political and social issues. Contains periodical content that covers current events, news and commentary, pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more.

Includes millions of book reviews in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Brings journal, reference, book, news, and web content about popular culture from Gale together in one search interface.

Hosted by the Getty Research Institute. Search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. This link initially limits your search to images available for free download under the Getty’s Open Content Program.

Includes newswire services from around the world, including the AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, dpa, AFP, Canadian Press, and others. The wires are available in various languages including Arabic, French, Italian, and German.

Contains historical data from American History. Demographics, social characteristics, crime, education, health and more are all cross-searchable.

Formerly RBdigital. Download ebooks and audio books provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Users will need to register for an account before accessing NC LIVE content on hoopla. Enter an email address, select library as “NC LIVE”, enter any number you like in the library card space. Browse and borrow from hoopla’s Flex collection!

Contains scholarly journals and other periodicals and magazines covering the humanities including art, classics, history, literature, philosophy and more.

A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Artstor images are now integrated into JSTOR. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund.

Streaming video platform for libraries that offers films, TV shows, and documentaries across mutliple subject areas.

The go-to resource for writers of research papers and anyone citing sources. MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook as well as the first editions of both the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature.

Full text for many major U.S. and international newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, the London Times, and others. Also includes some television and radio news transcripts.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering the discipline of Art History. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in the history of art.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Buddhism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Buddhist Studies.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Hinduism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Hindu Studies.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Jewish Studies. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Jewish Studies.

Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects. Books can be searched together or individually.

This streaming video collection provides a range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS. Covers subjects from science, history, art, Shakespeare, diversity, business & economics, and more.

Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more. It includes 100,000 pages of primary and secondary resources, including sketches, photographs, technical drawings, monographs, articles, and dissertations.

Performing Arts Periodicals Database indexes around 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. It draws from both current files and selected backfiles to 1864 and 134 publications are included in full text.

Contains archives and backfiles of leading international journals covering the humanities and social sciences and spanning more than two centuries of content.

Provides access to the full text of scholarly journals and books in the arts and humanities and social sciences.

Indexes and provides full-text access to scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports across all major subject areas.

Current US and international news. This simultaneously searches ProQuest databases US Newsstream, International Newsstream, Global Breaking Newswires, Canadian Newsstream, Ethnic Newswatch, and Recent Newspapers.

Full-text and abstracts of dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present from the US, UK, and Ireland. Full-text coverage is mainly 1997-present but many older ones are also full-text.

Provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. The collection features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format.

Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000s through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron’s, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and more.

Contains articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals. Areas included: business, health, education, psychology, science, sports, and literature.

Indexes general interest magazines published between 1890 and 1982.

Overviews of research and trends and background information in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.

Academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more. ZSR subscribes to the 1000 most popular titles and has licensed a few others for campus.

Current U.S. news content and archives that stretch back into the 1980s. Provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes full text from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

Includes holdings information from the world’s libraries. Use to find out what resources are available in libraries other than ZSR, and use the ‘request from ILL’ button in any record to connect to our ILL system.