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Full text of thousands of academic journals, magazines, and other publications across a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and more.
Full-text access to a wide range of global publications in environmental science, agriculture, pollution management, and related disciplines from 1960-present. It includes editorially-curated abstracting and indexing resources and incorporates content from: AGRICOLA (agriculture and life science), TOXLINE (toxicology and environmental health), Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), and Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM).
Full text of thousands of scholarly journals, trade publications, market research reports, company profiles, and industry analyses. It covers key disciplines such as marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics.
Explore over 2,800 academic journals across more than 60 disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access millions of primary sources from four unique collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Discover over 3 million high-quality images from ARTstor, along with a growing library of 10,000+ open access books. Click more… for links to specific collections.
ARTstor on JSTOR
Existing ARTstor logins automatically work on JSTOR. The separate artstor.org platform will be available until Aug 1, 2024, when it is scheduled to be retired.
Open Access books on JSTOR
More than 10,000 open access (OA) books from 125+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, University College of London, and University of California Press.
19th Century British Pamphlets
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities spanning more than one million pages. Brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.
New Collections Added Aug 2023
Thematic Collections
Three collections focusing on emerging areas of research and containing multiple types of content, including journals and open research reports. Collections include:
•Lives of Literature - Academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements.
•Security Studies - Academic and open policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues.
•Sustainability - Academic and open policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Looks at sustainability and resilience through a broad lens spanning more than 30 disciplines.
Primary Sources
Global Plants
A growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type plant specimens and related materials from over 300 community contributors around the world.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images related to the liberation struggles and end of Apartheid in Southern Africa during the 20th Century, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
World Heritage Sites: Africa
More than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites.
Index covering over 1,300 serial publications, including abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Focus areas include social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage spans from 1979 to the present.
Index of international journal articles and book review citations from over 750 core serial publications. Includes abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers in political science and related disciplines such as international relations, law, public administration, and policy. Coverage spans from 1975 to the present.
Directory of 166,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grant-making public charities in the U.S. It includes: a database of three million recently awarded grants; a database of one million recently filed IRS forms 990 and 990-PF; and over 10,000 sources to help users find scholarships, fellowships, and individual grants. This help article explains how to effectively search the database for grants available to individuals.
Content now available through Foundation Directory Online.
Full text law journals and full runs of the Federal Register, Statutes at Large, presidential documents, the Congressional Record, and Supreme Court opinions.
Full text American Indian Law related treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
Index of U.S. legislative and executive branch documents from 1789 onward. It includes congressional hearings, bills, reports, the Congressional Record, CRS reports, and presidential materials
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