Databases by Format

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

The Buena Vista University newspaper archives include official campus newspapers printed between 1892 and 2012, as well as selected unofficial publications.

Visit the Iowa Heritage Digital Collections website to view digitized versions of BVU's yearbook, The Beaver Log. Years available are 1907-1999. Any gaps in coverage mean that no yearbook was published in that year or range of years.

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.

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.

Gale NewsVault delivers a cross-searching experience for exploring your library's collection of Gale historical newspapers.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Gale Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets.

Our Academic Site License provides full access to the New York Times, 1851-present. Access to the International New York Times and the New York Times in Chinese is also available. Users must register individually using a bvu.edu email address, which provides access for 364 days. To Register, visit www.NYTimes.com/Pass To view a short video on how to activate a Pass, please visit http://bit.ly/1sRcPw1

Select NYT tablet apps are now available to all who claim a new pass or renew a pass to the NYTimes.com Academic Site License affiliated with Buena Vista University.

After creating or renewing your NYT pass, visit NYTimes.com/mobile on your tablet or mobile device to download your free NYT apps. Full access to the NYT tablet news app has more than 25 sections of content including blogs, video and slide shows. Use same credentials to log in.

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunities and endless teaching possibilities.

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Through a variety of documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals, it presents a record of the issues that have affected women, societal contributions, social status, and women's movements.

Digital Theatre+ provides access to over 600 theatre productions. Useful for both literature and drama studies, DT+ captures high quality live performances from leading theatre companies and provides behind-the-scenes insights from leading practitioners and academics to enrich understanding of the plays.

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.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia provides coverage on a variety of subjects including arts, business, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, pop culture, science, sports, and more. Articles are accompanied by colorful photographs, diagrams, maps, flags and pronunciation help. This accessible encyclopedia provides the answers you need to everyday questions. BCE may be searched or browsed through the Credo Reference Platform, where it is just one of nearly four hundred reference books available.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Encyclopedia of Social Work provides an authoritative starting place for research in the field of social work as well as related fields like public health and sociology. ESW provides social work overview articles and biographies of key figures in social work history. Entries in ESW are updated as needed. Links to additional resources and related entries are provided within the text of each entry.

Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major print literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 146,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 193,000 titles into one source. Use this index to locate biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. For full text, consult print volumes in the library's Reference collection. Gale publications owned by the BVU Library can be located by searching for the source publication title in the library's catalog.

IPA Source helps singers with the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA Source offers works in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English.

Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. **This database allows up to four simultaneous users.**

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a respected statistical reference publication that is now available in electronic format. This comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States provides a snapshot of America and its people. Most statistics are gathered from federal governmental agencies. Printed volumes of Statistical Abstract from previous years are available in the BVU Library.
Statistical Abstract of the US

Value Line provides independent, objective and unbiased analysis and performance reports on approximately 8,000 stocks, 15,000 mutual funds, and 80,000 options and other securities. **Value Line allows up to three simultaneous users.**

WorldCat is a catalog of books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations and archival materials housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 95 million items in over 400 languages.

WorldCat Discovery is an updated interface to search the WorldCat database. WorldCat allows you to search for articles, books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations, and archival materials in electronic formats and in physical formats which are housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 1.8 billion items in over 400 languages.

Book Review Index includes more than 5 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index a useful reference tool. Thousands of publications are indexed.

Search the BVU Library's collection of 147,000 books, videos, compact discs and other material by keyword, title, author, or subject. The catalog also provides access to over 92,000 eBooks. You can access the Library Catalog here.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Directory of Open Access Books is a large collection of academic peer-reviewed books that are open access. All subject areas represented, but holdings are strongest in sciences and social sciences.

Search and view the BVU Library’s collection of electronic books (more often referred to as eBooks.)

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, with more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on educational research and practice. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

GPO (Government Printing Office) Monthly Catalog covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.) Over half a million government documents published from 1976 to the present are included in the database. Some records contain “Access” links that provide the electronic full-text of the government document.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. BVU is not a partner institution, so logging in will not reveal additional resources beyond those that are already available with open access.

Use PQDT Open to search for dissertations and theses in a variety of subject areas and read them for free.

Use Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 classic works of literature, freely available and in the public domain, that can be downloaded in text or (in some cases) audio formats.

PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all from psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage spans the 19th century to the present and includes international material selected from more than 2000 periodicals published in more than 25 languages. More than 60,000 new records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, physiology, pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

WorldCat is a catalog of books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations and archival materials housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 95 million items in over 400 languages.

WorldCat Discovery is an updated interface to search the WorldCat database. WorldCat allows you to search for articles, books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations, and archival materials in electronic formats and in physical formats which are housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 1.8 billion items in over 400 languages.

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection: 1691-1820 presents over 500 titles from 1691 through 1820. Representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic, Series 1 is first of the five series created from periodical holdings from one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The entire AAS collection features over 7500 titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century. The subject matter covered in Series 1 is broad in scope and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The series two is second of the five series created from serials holdings belonging to one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society and featuring about 6500 titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century. The subject matter covered in Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodical Collection: Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 is the third of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 3 reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities. Subjects covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection - Series 4 presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. Series 4 is the fourth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, we also find a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans--both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront can be found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in previous collections that include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Series 5 is the fifth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set up circumstances: a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives; the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

Our Academic Site License provides full access to the New York Times, 1851-present. Access to the International New York Times and the New York Times in Chinese is also available. Users must register individually using a bvu.edu email address, which provides access for 364 days. To Register, visit www.NYTimes.com/Pass To view a short video on how to activate a Pass, please visit http://bit.ly/1sRcPw1

Select NYT tablet apps are now available to all who claim a new pass or renew a pass to the NYTimes.com Academic Site License affiliated with Buena Vista University.

After creating or renewing your NYT pass, visit NYTimes.com/mobile on your tablet or mobile device to download your free NYT apps. Full access to the NYT tablet news app has more than 25 sections of content including blogs, video and slide shows. Use same credentials to log in.

Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

US North Central Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. North Central Newsstream covers news sources from Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Notable newspaper titles include USA Today, the Denver Post, the Star Tribune, and the Des Moines Register.

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

The Wall Street Journal is known for its business journalism and its coverage of global markets, politics, world news, technology, arts and life.

Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, theses, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

The free version of Dimensions provides openly-available search and metrics for more than 100 million publications. Searches can be limited to OA titles only in the left column filter options.

The Directory of Open Access Books is a large collection of academic peer-reviewed books that are open access. All subject areas represented, but holdings are strongest in sciences and social sciences.

The Directory of Open Access Journals is the world’s only free, independent, community-curated, online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals

DPLA makes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience. Text and audio-visual materials available.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. BVU is not a partner institution, so logging in will not reveal additional resources beyond those that are already available with open access.

JURN is a unique search tool, helping you to find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focuses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. Established in 2009 to comprehensively cover the arts and humanities, in 2014 JURN expanded in scope. JURN now also covers selected university full-text repositories and many additional ejournals in science, biomedical, business and law.

OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors. For best results, narrow the search to one of the “downloadable” formats in the left column after your initial search. That adjustment will provide a higher percentage of immediately accessible materials.

Use PQDT Open to search for dissertations and theses in a variety of subject areas and read them for free.

Use Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 classic works of literature, freely available and in the public domain, that can be downloaded in text or (in some cases) audio formats.

Science.gov is a gateway to U.S. government science information. The portal offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.

SpringerOpen covers over 200 journals published by Springer of academic, peer-reviewed open access articles that are primary in the sciences, but some social science areas are also represented.

SSOAR : Social Science Open Access Repository provides growing holdings of freely available, full-text social science documents.

SSRN is a searchable online library that enables authors to post their papers and abstracts easily and free of charge. The vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge as well. From its initial focus on the social sciences in 1994, SSRN has grown to become the most interdisciplinary service of its kind, representing disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.