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Africa and the New Imperialism

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  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Uncover the history of European colonisation across the African continent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through the rare printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage presented within Africa and the New Imperialism.

African American Communities

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  • Access: University of Utah
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Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
American Society for Metals (ASM) Alloy Center Database
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American Society for Metals (ASM) Alloy Phase Diagram Database
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Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights

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  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Explore the growth of the human rights movement during the second half of the twentieth century through the International Secretariat records of Amnesty International. The material within this collection is vital for studying the history of key political events, global social change and the development of a global movement for human rights covering themes including state violence, political prisoners, minority rights and more.
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Anatomy.TV

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Anatomy.TV is a suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy. Controls allow users to zoom, rotate and peel away layers from the models. MRIs, X-rays, live-action movies and animations are also included to supplement the computer-generated models.

Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 (Part 1 & 2)

  • Coverage: 1940-2014
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 consists of 20 individual collections, with a total page count of nearly one and a half million pages. Documents span from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990. Although most materials are in English, the archive contains periodicals in German, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Hebrew, Indonesian, and other languages. Four collections are sourced from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the largest lesbian-focused archives in the world; two are sourced from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. Others are sourced from the New York Public Library; the London School of Economics; and from the National Institutes of Health.

Archives Unbound by subject

  • Coverage: varies by collection
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Gale Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Collections are chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

Archives Unbound by subject - Middle Eastern Studies

  • Coverage: varies by collection
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Part of Gale Archives Unbound, primary source documents relating to the Middle East

Art Images for College Teaching

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  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) includes over two thousand images available for free use in a variety of projects and applications. The collection is regularly updated.
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Artstor

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Current Artstor platform expected retirement of the site/URL at the end of July 2024. Artstor content will be migrated to the Jstor platform. To log into Artstor from off campus, you must first register a (free) account within Artstor while on campus IP address, either on campus or through EZProxy.

Artstor is a digital library of more than one million images and 360 panoramas of art, architecture, cultural objects, maps, ephemera, and more. It provides a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. Artstor collections comprise contributions from museums, libraries, photo archives, scholars, artists and artists' estates, and photographers. There are more than 150 separate collections in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences included in the database.
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ASM Alloy Center Database

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database provides access to a collection of more than 1,500 standards and commercial grades records, corrosion performance data in high temperature oxidizing environments, paint coatings information from Rowan Technology Group, and more than 100 Alloy Digest datasheets.
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ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
The ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database allows users to explore, search and view more than 36,500 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 systems.
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Birds of the World

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Birds of the World is a powerful research database that brings together deep, scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology: Birds of North America, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World, with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. Also available on this database is the Internet Bird Collection program, which was closed in 2019 and the donated media was imported into the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library in 2019. Total imported assets included: Total videos: 127,808 Total photos: 241,601 Total sounds: 16,201 A taxonomy explorer function brings regional filters and visual family index to Birds of the World.

Ebony

  • Coverage: 1959-2008
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Encyclopedia of Modernism

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The largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of modernism from students to academics. Interdisciplinary and global content about the Modernist period. The content is fully cross-referenced, allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields

Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This is a bibliographic and full-text database covering television and film. Subjects include film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals and 100 books. In addition, it includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Opposing Viewpoints is a resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues for users with access to both resources.

Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Explore America’s transformative age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality and social change. Personal collections, business records and rich visual content offer fresh perspectives on this influential period.

Home Improvement Reference Center

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  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: Pioneer
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
NOTE: This database has been canceled. Access expired on July 1, 2024.

Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from home improvement magazines including images and videos of home repair projects.

IBISWorld

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database contains a variety of industry reports including risk reports, industry summaries, market research, market conditions and forecasts, supply chain information, and competition data. Items can be viewed online or downloaded for offline use.
IBISWorld Industry Research
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Imaging Reference Center

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Eccles Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database contains over 4,000 classic imaging diagnoses and more than 72,000 selected images related to a range of medical professions and fields of study.
Institutional Repository (U of U)
- See: USpace

Internet Archive

  • Coverage: 1 to present
  • Access: Freely Available
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The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Internet Archive has webpages back to 1996 in the Wayback Machine. The Archive also contains nearly 38 million books and texts, 14 million audio recordings, 7 million videos, and 4 million images and other materials.

J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America

  • Coverage: 1887-2014
  • Access: University of Utah
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The J. Walter Thompson Company Archive documents the history, operation, policies and accomplishments of one of the world's largest and oldest advertising firms. The papers here reveal many aspects of twentieth-century cultural, social, business, marketing, consumer and economic history while investigating the human psyche. Documents in this resource date from 1887 to 2014, with the bulk of the material dating from 1900 to 2000.

JAMAevidence

  • Coverage: updated monthly
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Eccles Library
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JAMA Evidence, using evidence to improve care. An instructional resource from AMA, JAMAEvidence teaches users about concepts fundamental to the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM), including study design and the “validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care”. JAMAEvidence includes key texts: - Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice - The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-based Clinical Diagnosis - Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience Content is updated monthly. University of Utah only

Jet

  • Coverage: 1951-2008
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Jet magazine is a weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
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Mass Observation Online & Project

  • Coverage: 1937 - 1980s
  • Access: University of Utah
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Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to almost 400,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Archive (MOA), a collection of papers and documents related to the social and cultural history of Britain. In addition, it searches all material held on Adam Matthew Publications microfilm, and in the Mass Observation Archive. The Archive holds all the material generated by Mass Observation (MO) between 1937 and 1949, with a few later additions from the 1950s and 1960s.

Material ConneXion

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  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited

Please note that information from this database may only be used for personal and noncommercial purposes. Your use of the database constitutes acceptance of this restriction.

This database provides access to information about more than 7,000 materials and design processes in a variety of fields of design, with information on over 40 new materials added to the library every month.

Mountain West Digital Library

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
The Mountain West Digital Library is an aggregation of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. Hosting institutions each run servers supporting their own digital collections and support partner institutions by providing scanning and hosting services. The Mountain West defines the region of contributors, but the content extends beyond the Mountain West and into different fields.

Nursing Reference Center Plus

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  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Nursing Reference Center Plus is an evidence-based point-of-care resource to quickly answers nurse clinical questions. This expanded resource includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management continuing education modules, additional skills. This resource includes continuously updated information, based on the best available evidence in nursing, allied health, and biomedical literature, written specifically for nurses. It also contains cultural competencies, patient education, drug information, and reference books, guidelines, legal cases, and research instruments. Nursing Reference Center Plus is the premier evidence-based resource to support nurses in the provision of improved patient care and patient outcomes while decreasing healthcare costs.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
- See: Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Pathology Reference Center

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Eccles Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database provides access to over 2,100 classic pathology diagnoses serving a range of medical specialties and health professions.

Popular Culture in Britain & America

  • Coverage: 1950-1975
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The resource allows users to study this period using manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. The interactive chronology, extensive visual resources and video footage provide valuable contextual background to the materials included in this collection.

Royal Geographical Society Archive

  • Coverage: 1485-
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) was founded in 1830. The learned Society promotes the advancement of geographical science in all its aspects. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes (as gores or mounted on stands) and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.
Serial Set + Serial Set Maps
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Service Newspapers of World War Two

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This digital resource reveals the story of war as told by the newspapers that brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas. Explore over 300 titles from key nations across the globe that took part in the world-changing conflict.

Trade Catalogues and the American Home

  • Coverage: 1850-1950
  • Access: University of Utah
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Explore domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950 with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study. Trade catalogues have been a prominent feature in commerce and manufacturing from the eighteenth century to the present day. Highly illustrated, they are an essential visual record of a variety of products and facilitate research into popular culture, material culture, social norms and attitudes, as well as the history of marketing, business, and technology. These documents provide evidence of the evolution of distribution and communication systems linking manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers across the emerging United States and beyond. They document the changing commercial tastes and fashions of the consumer over a period of rapid growth, expansion and crisis (both at home and overseas), revealing contemporary prices and economic expenditure for households and individuals on a range of products. Interrogation of trade catalogues, trade cards and marketing ephemera provides opportunities for interdisciplinary research across the social sciences including:
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Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

  • Coverage: 1960's - Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is a primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels, beginning with underground comix from the 1960's to the works of modern sequential artists. The collection contains more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of related interviews, criticism, and journal articles.
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United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UN COMTRADE)

  • Coverage: 1962 - Current
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of nearly 200 countries and areas. The database covers annual trade data from 1962 to the present, and is updated regularly - as new trade datasets are received from national authorities, they are standardized by the UN Statistics Division and then added to UN Comtrade. The collection currently contains over 1 billion records.
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United States Serial Set + Serial Set Maps

  • Coverage: Serials Set 1789 - 2003 ; Maps 1789 - 1969
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: University of Utah
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database provides access to the United States Serial Set and the Serial Set Maps collection. The Serial Set is a collection of government publications (beginning with the American State Papers in 1789) which includes reports and documents produced or ordered by Congress, as well as presidential communications and treaty materials through 2003. It covers many aspects of American life, including agriculture, history, science, politics, international relations, business and manufacturing. The collection also includes Congressional legislative reports that provide insight into the legislative intent of laws enacted before 1979. The Serial Set Maps collection includes over 56,000 historical maps from the Serial Set, about half of which are high-resolution color scans. The collection features maps from the exploratory surveys of the 19th Century, battlefield maps, and maps depicting water resources, wilderness areas, and public works. Also included are Army Corps of Engineers and Geological Survey maps through the 1960s, as well as historic soil and population maps.

USpace

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
USpace (the University of Utah's Institutional Repository Initiative) is a collaborative project between the libraries at the University of Utah and the University community which collects and archives the intellectual capital of the institution and make these scholarly materials freely available on the Internet.
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Utah Newspapers (Digital Archive)

  • Coverage: Varies by Title
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
NOTE: This is an archival service. For access to current newspapers, see the 'Newsearch' entry below.

This is an archive of local Utah newspapers from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. They are fully searchable and are presented as they appeared at the time.

Victorian Popular Culture

  • Coverage: 1800-1929
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.

Virginia Company Archives

  • Coverage: 1606-1624
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Virginia Company Archives provides a comprehensive record of the history of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. Centred upon the archives of the Ferrar family who played a significant role in the Company's administration, this resource documents the founding and economic development of the Virginia colony, relations between colonists and indigenous peoples, and early trade between Britain and America. It is also a crucial source for London's economic history and the religious and social history of early modern England, with further content documenting the Ferrars' continued interest in the European colonisation of North America in the years after 1624.
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Vogue Archive

  • Coverage: 1892 - Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database provides access to a complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with indexing for images by garment type, designer and brand names. Subjects covered by the database include Fashion History, Gender Studies, Marketing and Advertising, Photography, Graphic Design, Popular Culture, and more.