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Searching TIGER by keyword or subject is often the fastest way to find books about your topic.

For books that we don’t own here at Colorado College, or books that are checked out or otherwise unavailable, use Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog . You’ll find books (and CDs, DVDs, etc.) in libraries across Colorado that you can request and have sent to the Tutt Library circulation desk where you can check them out.

For books not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can request through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat .

Please ask a librarian if you need help with TIGER, Prospector, or WorldCat.

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America, History & Life: Coverage: 1967 - current; Covers American history.
Historical Abstracts: Coverage: 1967 - current; Covers world history.

Complete list of databases for History

Academic Search Premier: Coverage: 1988 - current; Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.
Accessible Archives: Coverage: 1728 - 1900; Access to archival fulltext newspapers including the Pennsylvania Gazette, African American and Civil War Newspapers, and Godey's Lady's Book.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive: Coverage: 1826 - current; Over one million photographs provided by the Associated Press.
America, History & Life: Coverage: 1967 - current; Covers American history.
The American Civil War: Coverage: 1861 - 1865; The full text letters and diaries of 1,920 famous and unknown men and women are searchable by author, individual, month, day, battle, personal event, source, place, and more. Includes more than 1,000 biographies.
American Memory: Coverage: historical; Digitized collections from the Library of Congress. Oral histories, letters, photographs, documents. Search by keyword.
Bibliography Of Asian Studies: Coverage: 1971 - current; Western-language mongraphs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia.
Black Thought And Culture: Coverage: 1700 - 1975; 438 sources by 192 leading African Americans include monographs, essays, articles, speeches, interviews, letters and correspondence, and other fugitive material. Materials are searchable by author, source, year, historical event, subject, influences, geographic location and more.
British And Irish Women's Letters And Diaries: Coverage: 1500 - 1900; The full text letters and diaries of 201 famous and unknown British and Irish women are searchable by author, historical event, personal event, family relationships, ethnicity, age, geographic region, subject and more. Includes 500 biographies.
Colorado Newsstand: Coverage: 1986 - current; Searchable full-text database of articles from Colorado newspapers including the Gazette (Colorado Springs), the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, and six others.
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection: Coverage: 1859 -; Search over 90 historic Colorado newspapers from 49 cities and 36 counties throughout the state, published in English, German, Spanish, or Swedish. The database includes digital versions of newspapers found on microfilm at the Colorado Historical Society's Stephen H. Hart Library that were published between 1859 and 1928. New material is usually added once a month. Some issues of the Colorado Springs Gazette are included.
Early American Imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800): Coverage: 1639 - 1800; Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1639 to 1800. Not yet complete.
Early American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819): Coverage: 1801 - 1819; Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1801 to 1819. Not yet complete.
Early Encounters In North America: Coverage: 1474 - 1600; Full text works by 1,076 authors in the form of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between American Indians, Europeans, Americans, and Africans in the area of present-day Canada and the United States, with limited coverage of Mexico. Searchable by author, source, year, encounter, people, image, place, fauna, flora, environment, cultural event, personal event, and more.
Early English Books Online: Coverage: 1475 - 1700; Contains the full text of over 100,000 English books, pamphlets, and more, from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Coverage: 1701-1800; Digitized copies of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
The Encyclopaedia Of Islam: Coverage: historical; Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.
Handbook Of Latin American Studies: Coverage: 1935 - current; Annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin American studies. Online version of the print title, volume 1 - present. Multidisciplinary topics. Covers humanities and social sciences.
Historical Abstracts: Coverage: 1967 - current; Covers world history.
Historical Chicago Tribune: Coverage: 1849 - 1985; The Chicago Tribune is one of the nation's oldest continuously published newspapers. Source for prohibition debates, mercantile development of the midwest, westward expansion, Settlement House Movement - Jane Addams, Al Capone. Full image and full text newspaper articles. (Lexis-Nexis provides current text coverage from March 1, 2002-present.)
Historical Statistics Of The United States: Coverage: 1600s - current; Annual time series of the U.S. population, economic indicators, social conditions, and government. From colonial times to the present.
Humanities International Complete: Coverage: 1929 - current; A comprehensive humanities database, with almost 500 full text titles and indexing and abstracting for more than 1,700 titles. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture-oriented and multi-disciplinary humanities titles with some coverage going back as far as 1929. This database replaces Humanities Abstracts.
In The First Person: Coverage: mostly 19th and 20th century; Find primary-source, first person accounts such as oral histories, diaries, etc. Indexes Alexander Street databases (via CC subscription) and material freely available on the Web.
Index Islamicus: Coverage: 1906 - current; Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings about Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
Iter: Coverage: 1943 - current; Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays.
JSTOR: Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years; Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Los Angeles Times (Historical): Coverage: 1881 - 1986; Provides complete, full-image access to historical articles from the Los Angeles Times from 1881. For current online articles, use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
National Archives And Records Administration: Coverage: historical; Description and many links to digital copies of the documents, photographs and maps housed in the National Archives and regional branches.
The New York Times: Coverage: 1851 - 3 years from current; Provides complete, full-image access to historical articles from the New York Times from 1851 to 3 years from present. For current online articles use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
North American Women's Letters And Diaries: Coverage: 1675 - 1950; The full text letters and diaries of 1,017 famous and unknown women, are searchable by author, sources, years, places, historical events, personal events, and more.
Periodicals Index Online: Coverage: 1665- 1995; Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues. Every article is indexed. Mostly citations. Full image access to a select number of journal runs.
Poole's Plus: Coverage: 1802 - 1906; Web version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. Index to Nineteenth century historical periodicals. Government Documents Indices include indexes to: U.S. patents, 1790-1873; U.S. government publications, 1774-1881; British House of Commons and House of Lords, 1803-1830.
Project Muse: Coverage: 1993 - current; Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Atlanta Constitution: Coverage: 1868 - 1942; The Atlanta Constitution, historically known as 'the voice of the new south.' Contains first hand accounts of the Reconstruction period and post-war South to early twentieth century. Full image and full text newspaper articles. (Lexis-Nexis provides text coverage from 1991-present.)
Readers' Guide Retrospective: Coverage: 1890 - 1982; The premier index to popular periodicals. No full text links, but Tutt owns a large percentage of the magazines/journals indexed by this resource. Continued by Readers Guide Abstracts.
Web Of Knowledge: Coverage: 1900 - current; Citation-based searching in all disciplines. Includes Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
Web Of Science: Coverage: 1900 - current; Citation-based searching in all disciplines. Includes Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
Women And Social Movements In The United States, 1775-2000: Coverage: 1775 - 2000; Free database of over 1,000 primary documents relating to American women's history. Full text and some images included.
Women Writers Online: Coverage: 1400 - 1850; Contains fulltext of nearly 400 works of early modern women writers.

Online journal archives

Unlike the subject-specific article databases, these online journal archives don’t concentrate on any one academic subject. Instead, they take leading journals from many fields, or all the journals from one publisher, and provide extensive archives of the full text of those journals online, usually in the form of PDF files.

Blackwell Journals: Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's to current; Searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
JSTOR: Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years; Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Oxford University Press Journals: Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's - current; A searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
Periodicals Archive Online: Coverage: 1770-1995; Fulltext journal collection covering the humanities and social sciences. Includes 500 journal titles covering the first issue of the journal until 1995.
Project Muse: Coverage: 1993 - current; Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.

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