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America: History and Life with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,800 journals, full-text for 200 journals, and 80 ebooks this database is the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,500 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1863, 380 full-text journals, and 140 full-text ebooks. For Canadian and United States history, use the America: History and Life database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archival collection of journal articles that includes titles in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. In most cases the archives end 2 to 5 years before the current issue of the journal. OSU Libraries subscribes to all JSTOR Archive Collections, JSTOR Primary Sources Collections, and JSTOR Global Plants.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A full text database for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.

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Cambridge Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Full text collection of OSU owned and Open Access ebooks covering a wide range of subjects.

Google Books
Search Google Books and when the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Index to over 30 million records cataloged by most North American and European libraries. Materials indexed include books, journals, conferences, films, videos, recordings, musical scores, computer software, maps and manuscripts. Materials date back to the 11th century.

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