Online Databases
BVU provides access to over 60 extensive databases, conveniently
arranged by academic area.
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America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries for journal articles, books, and reviews providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. This extensive database indexes over 1,700 journals published worldwide.
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CQ Press Congress Collection is a dynamic research and reference tool allowing historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy. The Collection's database integrates encyclopedic entries, legislative policy histories, chronologies, statistics, biographies, maps, demographic and electoral data, and roll call votes.
**This database allows up to five simultaneous users.**
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CQ Press Supreme Court Collection offers a unique contextual framework and analysis of the Supreme Court and its decisions. CQ Press Supreme Court Collection blends historical perspective with timely updates and expert commentary, providing patrons with bold scope and depth of content and supports courses in political science, American history, and law. • CQPSCC also offers an analysis of thousands of Supreme Court decisions. Case summaries include related links to direct additional research about specific constitutional or public policy topics. More than 300 of the most significant cases in Supreme Court history have been designated as "CQ Key Cases." • "Case Boxscores" include date of decision, votes, opinion authors, and justice alignments and a link to the full-text of the case. • Biographies of every justice include a detailed analysis of their judicial philosophies and "case participation boxscores" with links to their opinions. • Commentary and analysis of the political and institutional history of the Supreme Court as a co-equal branch of government.
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CQ Weekly provides continuous comprehensive coverage of the week in Congress including bill status, vote reports and updates on all Congressional committees. CQ Weekly is written in plain-English prose that makes it easy for experts and novices alike to understand complex legislation and its ramifications. Full text coverage from 1983 to the present is available.
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This database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library.
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Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.
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Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection covers 124 history, economics and political science journals with special emphasis on publications with an Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Slavic studies focus.
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LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. LNA covers 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep back-files and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
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Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.
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Westlaw Campus Research provides law-related information. Content includes legal encyclopedias, law reviews and journals, federal and state statutes, regulations and court decisions. Westlaw Campus Research is available on campus only.
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