Asian Languages and Cultures

A full text database of 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Includes more than 100,000 articles in Spanish and over 400,000 in English.

1960 -

A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press focusing on issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.

1992 - (varies by title.)

Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines.

1980 - (but varies by title) Over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

A collection of prizewinning History books, published electronically. Topics include, but are not limited to, Africa, Colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military History and History of Foreign Relations.

1999- present

Combined search of 17 databases from Gale provided to all public libraries statewide by the Michigan e-Library (MeL), including Academic OneFile, Business & Company ASAP, Computer Database, Educators Reference Complete, General BusinessFile ASAP, General OneFile, Health Reference Center Academic, Informe, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, LegalTrac, etc. Provides ability to limit searching to sets of full text articles in 24 different interdisciplinary subject areas, including Diversity Studies, Environmental Studies and Policy, Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine, Pop Culture, War & Terrorism, etc. Also provides links to 8 additional Gale databases provided by MeL, including Business & Company Resource Center, Chilton Library, Health & Wellness Resource Center, etc.

Varies by database.

Access to 17 databases provided by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) using their FirstSearch interface, including:  WorldCat; ArticleFirst; Alternative Press Index; Anthropology Plus; Chicano Database; ERIC; GPO Monthly Catalog; Heritage of the Printed Book; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals; MedLine; OAIster; SCIPIO; and World Almanacs.  Permits simultaneous searching of up to three databases at once.

Varies by database.

Access to 11 databases from NewsBank, Inc., including: Access World News [full text newspapers, 1990s-present]; AccessUN [index of United Nations documents, 1944-present]; Archive of Americana, combining America's Historical Newspapers with Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) and Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) [digitized American books 1639-1819]; Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports and Electronic Index [translated from foreign language news sources, 1974-1996]; Hispanic American Newspapers; and World Newspaper Archive, combining America's Historical Newspapers with Latin American Newspapers.

Varies by database.

Combined access to 50+ ProQuest databases, including full text journals, historical newspapers and corporate reports, and specialized indexes for many different fields, including:  Arts, Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, History, Humanities, Literature & Language, News & Current Events, Science, Social Sciences, and Dissertations & Theses.  Among the included databases:   ABI/INFORM, American Periodicals Series (APS), Environmental Science & Pollution Management, Ethnic NewsWatch, OxResearch, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, ProQuest Historical Annual Reports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Technology Collection, and Zoological Record Plus.  Includes all databases from CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). 

Varies by database.

This database provides full-text access to more than 8,000 academic journals published in China.

1994-

The University of Michigan has one of the largest faculties for Japanese in the United States. As part of its charter to disseminate advanced research and foster new possibilities for pedagogy, the Publications Program has inaugurated a unique reprint series on Japanese cinema. The site includes monographs, essay collections, journals, billets, and even digitized films.