Databases & E-Reference Materials

The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

Provides access to streaming videos of BBC Shakespeare plays on the Ambrose Digital website.

Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 (2008-2015) and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018) include 30 landmark productions from the theater's 2008-2018 seasons. Opened in 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the theatre for which he wrote. Recorded live on the Globe stage in high definition and surround sound, the videos in this collection feature performances from leading actors including Stephen Fry, Gemma Arterton, and Mark Rylance. Highlights include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Henry IV, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure. 

This site integrates the full text of Shakespeare's plays and poems with the entire glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

This resource is a Japanese edition of the Oxford Learner's Thesaurus: A dictionary of synonyms. The thesaurus contains roughly 10,000 synonyms, 26,000 examples of usage, approximately 2,600 notes and columns that explain the differences and usages between synonyms, and an index that makes it possible to look up words in Japanese as well as English.

Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

Simmons Insights provides access to U.S. adult consumer data on product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits, and more. It can be used to create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psychographic characteristics of product users and their media behavior.

A mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 100,000+ data variables, including demographic data from the US Census and American Community Survey, consumer spending data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and Dun & Bradstreet's point of interest business file providing detailed information on over 5 million businesses. Also includes the AGS Health Care dataset and the MRI-SimmonsLOCAL consumer behavior dataset with data on over 8,000 brands, psychographics, and MOSAIC market segments.

NOTE: Faculty, staff, and students are not required to log-in with a user name and password, however, your work will not be saved unless an individual account is created.

Brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including more than 1,000 books and pamphlets.

SlaveVoyages is the world's largest archive of data related to the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades. This database includes data on over 30,000 British, French, and Dutch ships that forced roughly 12 million Africans across the Atlantic between the 16th -19th centuries as well as data on hundreds of thousands of enslaved peoples that were trafficked within the Americas. This resource also includes images, maps, ship routes, information on morality rates aboard the ships, the number of children transported, the names of ship captains, and information related to resistance and rebellions.