Research & Subject Guides: Ethnicity and Ecology in China: Databases

Databases by Title and Subject

Browse our full selection of databases by title or subject.

Library Databases enhance your research by providing access to millions of eJournal articles, eBooks, webpages, multimedia, news & more.

Here are the select databases:

Cambridge Histories Online
Date range varies. Full-Text. Over 300 volumes of the renowned Cambridge Histories series covering History; Economic History; History of Science (including Modern Biological and Earth Sciences and Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences); Language and Linguistics; Law; Literary Studies; Music; Philosophy; Political and Social Theory; Religious Studies; Theatre Studies and Performing Arts; and Warfare. In addition to substantial sets on American, British and European History, the collection also contains major works on the Histories of Africa, Egypt, India, Iran, Japan, Latin America, Russia, Southeast Asia, Turkey and the 15-volume Cambridge History of China.
National Bureau of Statistics of China
Freely accessible statistical data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

Digital National Security Archive
1942-present. Fulltext. Over 63,000 of the most important declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Includes presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material.
JSTOR
- Coverage begins with the first issue of a journal, some as early as the 1600s, and continues up until 1-to-5 years ago. An online archive of core scholarly journals in most fields of study. Comprised of high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Not a source for recent articles.

Kanopy Streaming Service
A repository of streaming films supporting research and teaching in the arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, and technical fields. Content includes documentaries, training videos, and foreign language material.

LexisNexis Academic
- Date coverage varies, mostly current. Fulltext. Includes news, business, health and legal topics, primarily from print, broadcast, and online media.
Oral History Online
Fulltext and citations. Indexes more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. Contains almost 281,000 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life. Also has pointers to 4,100 audio and video files.
Project MUSE- Standard Collection
- Date coverage varies, mostly current. Fulltext access to complete scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Universal Library
- The Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project, is an effort to create a universal free to read, open-source digital library. When possible, full text searching is supported. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through scanning facilities and personnel and the Internet Archive has contributed scanned volumes and servers.