Personal accounts and unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes narratives, diaries, journals, and letters and documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. Includes maps and images.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700. An exhuastive source for those interested in the first books in English through the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare, and the English Civil War.

Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit provides comprehensive indexed bibliographic (not full text) coverage, including abstracts, of a wide range of economics-related literature. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, agricultural economics and more.

Contains 33,000 references to publications covering human usage of plants including topics like ethnobotany, plant domestication, and the medical & industrial uses of plants. To access: see Kew Bibliographic Databases.

Contains articles with page images, plus abstracts, and indexing. Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks includes 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC. View the list of journals covered.

Use this vast resource to look up credible and accurate information about popular music of all periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. Coverage includes popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.

Describes material printed in Britain and its colonies in any language from the beginning of printed works through 1800. It also includes materials printed in English, anywhere in the world during that time period. The ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of printed materials and as a census of the surviving copies of each title. It was compiled from the holdings of over 1000 libraries from around the world.

Comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences from scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications. Coverage includes agricultural biotechnology, air quality, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements, hazardous waste, pollution (land, air, water, noise), toxicology & toxic emissions, and waste management.

Contains more than 104,000 records covering ergonomics and human factors as well as related material from psychology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport, and transport.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books. Includes full-text ERIC digests and links to some full-text articles. ERIC also uses an excellent thesaurus. When a citation lacks full-text and has an ED number, request it at the Microforms Unit (Hale 2nd floor) by the ED number. Hale Library owns most ERIC documents (ED) on microfiche.

This is a good starting place for finding journal articles on almost any topic. Full-text and/or scanned pdfs are included for many of the articles it indexes. Searches can be easily limited to articles from peer-reviewed (aka scholarly, academic, refereed, or professional) publications. The Subject Guide Search is especially useful for browsing subdivisions of a topic. Note: Expanded Academic ASAP is a subset of InfoTrac OneFile.