Databases by Subject
LGBTQ Resources Research Guide
LGBTQ Resources
Database | Description | Available In SuperSearch | Alumni Access | More Info | Tutorial | |
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Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History & Culture Since 1940 (Gale)
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Archive of primary sources covering social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Gender Studies Database (EBSCO)
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Journal articles in gender, sexuality, and women's studies. | Partial | No | more information | ||
GenderWatch (ProQuest)
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Journal articles in gender, sexuality, and women's studies. | Yes | No | more information | ||
LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)
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Formerly known as LGBT life with Full Text, this database provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications, including articles, primary sources, monographs, magazines, and newspapers, | Partial | No | more information |
Other Resources
Database | Description | Available In SuperSearch | Alumni Access | More Info | Tutorial | |
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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
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Journals, magazines, and newspapers in almost every subject area. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Academic Video Online (AVON) (ProQuest)
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Documentaries, educational films, and news clips in many subject areas. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Britannica Online | The complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and the Britannica Book of the Year. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Chicago Manual of Style Online (University of Chicago)
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16th and 17th editions of the Chicago Manual of Style. | No | No | more information | ||
CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
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Discussions of current, controversial public policy issues. It offers pros & cons, background information, and in-depth analysis on a variety of topics, issues, and controversies currently in the news. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Credo Reference | Reference articles covering all major academic subjects. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Current Contents Connect (Web of Science)
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Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from scholarly journals and books; also includes relevant, evaluated websites and documents. | No | No | more information | ||
Data Citation Index (Web of Science)
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Indexes data studies and datasets across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and links the datasets/studies with published literature. | No | No | more information | ||
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
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Citation and full-text access to theses and dissertations from around the world. | Yes | No | more information | ||
eScholarShare (Drake University) | Scholarly repository of Drake University. Includes 1000+ electronic theses & dissertations. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Gale eBooks | Reference works and eBooks in all subject areas. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Gale Primary Sources | Search interface for all Gale Primary Source databases. | No | No | more information | ||
Global Issues (Gale in Context)
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A resource for international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. | No | Yes | more information | ||
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
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Includes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. | Partial | No | more information | ||
JSTOR | More than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources | Yes | No | more information | ||
Marquis Who's Who in America | Biographical information from various "Who's Who" series. | Yes | No | more information | ||
New York Times | New York Times access 1851-present. Direct access to virtually all NY Times content from that time period. Requires a separate, one-time registration. For details, visit http://researchguides.drake.edu/nyt | No | No | more information | ||
Oxford Reference Online | Access to dictionaries & reference works in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Limit of 5 simultaneous users. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
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Archive of backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Project Muse | Full-text of scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University and other university presses. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)
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SciELO content includes regional journals from Latin American and the Caribbean as well as titles from Spain, Portugal and South Africa. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sociological Abstracts (Proquest)
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sociology (Proquest) | Provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more, including full-text from hundreds of leading sociology journals. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Very Short Introductions (Oxford)
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Concise introductions to a wide range of subjects. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Web of Science | Journal article citations in science and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Web of Science Core Collection | This subset of Web of Science indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines. | Partial | No | more information | ||
WorldCat (OCLC)
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Locate books, journals and magazines, music scores, and media in libraries worldwide. | No | No | more information | ||
WorldCat Dissertations (OCLC)
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Bibliographic database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat | No | No | more information |