Databases & E-Reference Materials

Wiley's Environmental Science and History Digital Archive focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. The archive includes manuscripts, images, maps, and photographs covering topics such as deforestation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, ecology, botany, biodiversity, extinction, water sources, irrigation, wetlands, and hydrology.

An online library of education research, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Materials indexed include journal articles and research reports (ERIC Documents). Some full text is available.

Note: The Department of Education is working with the Department of Government Efficiency to "reduce overall spending" and "reallocate spending to promote efficiency" (EO14222). As a result, the number of records added to the ERIC collection will be significantly reduced from approximately 1,200 to 700 (roughly 45%) by April 25, 2025. All records currently in ERIC will remain. Indexed journals confirmed to be removed are being added to this list. 

The Libraries has subscriptions to other resources that provide scholarly sources about education, including Education Full Text and Professional Development Collection. 

Determines influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in science fields as well as emerging research areas.

Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Provides access to videos in Ethnographic Video Online Collection I and II, covering every region of the world and including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides related to the study of human culture and behavior.

This resource provides information profiles for every living language and country on earth. It includes maps of where each language is spoken as well as statistics for a given country or region and guides on language endangerment.

Provides access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries. Subjects cover all aspects of life, including economics and trade, government, health, historic events, labor, language, law and crime, literature, military, philosophy, politics, religion, science and technology, society, and customs.

This book contains illustrations and examples of chemical applications, useful How to boxes outlining how to accomplish complex tasks in Excel, and step-by-step instructions for programming Excel to automate repetitive data-processing tasks. In addition, tips are provided to speed, simplify, and improve your use of Excel.

This open access database provides content covering important issues related to race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness in today's society. Resources include essays, journal articles, government agency reports, photographs, speeches, and other primary sources. A wide range of topics are covered, including affirmative action, food insecurity, environmental racism and environmental justice, the black lives matter movement, voting rights and voter suppression, police use of force, sports team branding changes, neighborhood gentrification, and much more. 

Collection of over 80,000 open access journals covering a wide range of subject areas including STEM, the humanities, and the social sciences. It includes journals published in a variety of languages, including English, Spanish, French, Polish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Portuguese.