Military Science (SUBJECT GUIDE): Databases

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides full text for nearly 300 journals and other periodicals and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles, including The World Factbook (CIA).

Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs. Updated annually, this resource contains hand-selected content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.

This definitive collection contains more than 200 full-text periodicals covering conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together pro and con viewpoint articles from the Greenhaven Press book series, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, hundreds of primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more. In addition, it has thousands of links to reviewed and subject-indexed websites and podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs. Access to this resource is made possible by UWL Student Differential Tuition.

Comprehensive access to literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers 1,600 academic journals, 270 magazines, dissertations and more, published from 1863 to the present. Many article abstracts are exclusive to this database rather than provided by the author or publisher.

Covers about 130 magazines and scholarly journals with articles about events in U.S. history.

American genealogical sources including primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes six core data sets: U.S. Federal Census records (1790-1940), Genealogy and local history books, Revolutionary War records, Periodical Source Index (PERSI) Archive (1800-2009), Freedman’s Bank Records, and U.S. Serial Set records.
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Comprehensive access to literature covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present. Covers about 2,500 academic journals and 180 magazines. Many article abstracts are exclusive to this database rather than provided by the author or publisher.
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Covers about 185 magazines and scholarly journals with articles about events in world history.

A multidisciplinary scholarly journal collection that includes about 340 journals in history, and another 25 on the history of science & technology. Thanks to both the Murphy Library Endowment Fund and UWL Student Differential Tuition for providing access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV collection.

Includes the full text of over 300 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Provides contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Content includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: World History.

Provides contextual information on the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Content includes rare primary sources, reliable reference, and multi-media. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: U.S. History.