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.

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.

Perhaps the greatest source of anxiety for students in the mental health field is the prospect of working with clients in face-to-face counseling encounters. The four-volume Counseling and Therapy in Video Series provides an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. This series contains more than 2,500 hours of footage from actual therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals.

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 Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy provides access to the latest research and best practice methods in the fields of counseling, mental health, and psychology through contemporary presentations, lectures, and workshops from renowned counselors, psychologists, and practitioners.

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.

If you need to pass an important test, get extra help with your courses, or ensure a top score on a graduate school entrance exam, the resources available in Learning Express Library can help you reach your goal. Create your own personal account within Learning Express Library and then work on the tutorials and practice tests at your own pace. LEL includes PRAXIS practice tests, GRE reviews, help for job seekers with resumes and interviews, and skill-builders in all academic areas. Provided by the State Library of Iowa.

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.**

Oxford Music Online is a comprehensive music resource that provides access to the highly regarded Grove Music Online as well as the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Together, these resources provide an excellent overview of the people, the history and the theories that make up the study of music. OMO is licensed for one user at a time.

Resources for College Libraries is a comprehensive bibliographic resource that allows libraries to discover and collect over 80,000 essential titles in 61 core subject areas. RCL offers a broad range of subjects, including the traditional liberal arts and sciences curriculum, business, computer science, education, engineering and health science.

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 Plus 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 Plus 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.

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.

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.

If you need to pass an important test, get extra help with your courses, or ensure a top score on a graduate school entrance exam, the resources available in Learning Express Library can help you reach your goal. Create your own personal account within Learning Express Library and then work on the tutorials and practice tests at your own pace. LEL includes PRAXIS practice tests, GRE reviews, help for job seekers with resumes and interviews, and skill-builders in all academic areas. Provided by the State Library of Iowa.

The MLA International Bibliography provides searchable access to more than 2 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly websites. It indexes materials from 1921 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Coverage includes literature from all over the world — Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Gale's MLA International Bibliography incorporates both the MLA Thesaurus (Subject Guide) and the Modern Language Association's Directory of Periodicals, which offers detailed information on more than 6,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the Bibliography. Entries include editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

Oxford Music Online is a comprehensive music resource that provides access to the highly regarded Grove Music Online as well as the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Together, these resources provide an excellent overview of the people, the history and the theories that make up the study of music. OMO is licensed for one user at a time.

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.

InfoTrac Newsstand 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.

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.

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.