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Jessie Ball duPont Library

A-Z Databases

Find the best library databases for your research. If you're not sure where to start, check out a Research Guide. If you'd like more guidance on Primary Historical Sources, take a look at our new Historical Sources Guide.

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New / Trial Databases

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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Bloomsbury Religion in North America This link opens in a new window
  • Sewanee users only
  • Full text
  • E-books
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Covering North America’s diverse religious traditions, this resource provides reliable and peer-reviewed information for students and instructors of religious studies, anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, and history. Peer-reviewed articles are organized around key themes. "The Basics" Sections cover broad global introductions to religious traditions. "Religious Traditions" and "Themes in Religion" Sections give more of an in-depth approach to the North American context and combine overview articles, main articles, case studies, and hot topics as well as eBook content.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
  • Sewanee users only
  • Tennessee Electronic Library
  • Full text
  • Articles
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Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. The database provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
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  • Streaming video
  • Full text
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Alternate Name(s): Digital Theatre Plus
Digital Theatre Plus offers full-length filmed stage performances of classic and modern plays, along with interviews and workshops with playwrights, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and others involved in the playmaking process. There are also teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts, with some including a a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for the play.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
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  • Tennessee Electronic Library
  • Full text
  • Articles
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides detailed information on current environmental issues and processes from both a scientific and a social standpoint. Content includes reference works, case studies, multimedia materials, academic journals, newspapers, and magazines. Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more.
Global Issues Library This link opens in a new window
  • Images
  • Streaming audio
  • Streaming video
  • Full text
  • Primary Sources
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The Global Issues Library will include at completion coverage of 180 issues, topics, and events from the late 1890s to the present that are key to understanding today’s world, including border and migration, atrocities and human rights violations, peacekeeping, climate change, terrorism, revolutions, and human trafficking. Specific events explored include the U.S. and Mexico Border, the Rwandan Genocide, the Arab Spring, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and climate migrants in Asia Pacific. Curated by an international board of scholars, issues and events are presented through a variety of perspectives—personal, governmental, legal, contemporary and retrospective—that demonstrate the interactions and interconnectedness of global issues.The collection includes deep primary sources, essays, case studies, commentary, documentaries and historical news footage.
Social Explorer (Trial) This link opens in a new window
  • Sewanee users only
  • Maps
  • Statistical data
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Social Explorer is an intuitive and easy-to-use way for users to gain deep insights into locations of interest in the United States through comprehensive data and informative visualizations. It offers reliable data and mapping technology and a rich depository of datasets, class lecture modules, data stories, as well as an intuitive and easy to use interface. Useful for Sociology, American History, Political Science, Business & Economics, Environmental Studies, and more. Trial ends June 30, 2023.
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