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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records with full text for more than 1,200 journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I - XV; Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Public Health Journals, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Sustainability, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants.
SocIndex with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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SocINDEX features sociology research with indexing for more than 2.1 million records. Full text is available for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908, full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.

America : History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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America: History and Life (AHL) indexes the historical literature on North America (US and Canada) from antiquity to the present. Includes articles, book reviews, links to full text sources.
Political Science Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Includes political science journals, reference books, monographs, and conference papers. Subject coverage includes comparative politics, international relations, political theory, law and legislation, and more.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Covers today’s hottest social issues. Features include: pro/con viewpoint essays; topic overviews; primary source documents; court case overviews; statistical tables, charts and graphs; full-text journal, newspaper and magazine articles.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
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Database of books, documents, images, scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies of all aspects of American Women's public lives and political activities.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
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WSI covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. The majority of coverage is from 1972 to the present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History by Howard Chiang
Publication Date: 2019-02-08
A three-volume set, The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (Charles Scribner's Sons) will provide a global view of the history of LGBTQ, covering significant figures and events worldwide. Wide-ranging in scope, this encyclopedia complements courses in a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, psychology, sociology and others. This title is being created under an international editorial board, led by Howard Chiang (University of California, Davis).

No single database focuses on immigration / emigration, use the Most Used to search for articles. Listed here are resources for background material, debates, books, and avenues for further research.

SAGE Knowledge (Sage) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to social science books, videos, handbooks, encyclopedias, and dictionaries.

American Immigration : An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change
This work covers American immigration from both historical and contemporary perspectives, tracing the scope and sweep of U.S. immigration from the earliest settlement to the present day
Debates on U.S. Immigration
Provides essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue.
Immigration & Immigrant Communities (1650-2016)
Explores the full history of immigration issues in America, from Adriaen van de Donck’s description of the New Netherlands in 1650; to the 2012 opinions of Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia on the case of Arizona v. United States concerning states’ rights and the enforcement of federal immigration laws; to the 2016 Supreme Court decision in United States v. Texas.
Immigration and Migration: In Context
Provides readers with key data to understand the roots of the issues that make contemporary migration and immigration so contentious around the globe. It explores the social, political, and cultural factors that impact, and are affected by, immigration and human migration
South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
SAADA is the largest publicly accessible archive of South Asian American history. Its growing collections include documents, photos/video, oral histories, original articles, and more.

Literature Criticism & Biography

Gale Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
The Gale Literature Resource Center includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), and full-text articles from 34 literary journals.
Literature Online 1500-current (Proqueset) This link opens in a new window
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Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association - EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. Indexed materials include journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's.

Arts Criticism

Performing Arts Periodicals Database‎ 1864-current (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals, the majority from the most recent ten years of each journal. It covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry.
Music Periodicals Database 1874-current (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication.

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