All Guides: International Studies: Research

Research

Primary Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Indexes academic journals, magazines, reports and books across disciplines, and includes the full text of over 5,700 active peer reviewed journals. Includes more than 77,000 videos from the Associated Press, with footage from 1930 to the present.
ARTStor This link opens in a new window
Offering 2 million searchable and downloadable images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with detailed descriptions of each piece, for academic use. It is divided into a Public Collection, with images free for downloading without a subscription or login, and a subscription Core Collection, featuring downloadable images from museums, artists, libraries, scholars, and photo archives.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
Search thousands of peer-reviewed articles published in open access journals.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide This link opens in a new window
Provides the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment This link opens in a new window
Painstakingly assembled from hundreds of sources, EENA documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The project brings coherence to a wide range of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.
Hospitality and Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window
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This database ontains more than 1.1 million records, with coverage dating back to 1931, with full text for over 525 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete includes full text for more than 1,230 journals. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
nytimes.com This link opens in a new window
The New York Times Academic Pass provides each Ferrum College student, faculty and staff member an online subscription to the nytimes.com site.
Access includes full access to NYTimes.com and NYTimes mobile apps for any device, as well as their international editions. Each registered user has unlimited archival access to all years before 1923 and after 1980, and five articles per day for the years 1923-1980.
Vente et Gestion This link opens in a new window
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Offers full-text articles from a variety of French language business and industry journals.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
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Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to the present and contains the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

Additional Databases

Biodiversity Heritage Library
BHL is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”

The BHL portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes, comprising over 55 million pages, from the 15th-21st centuries. In addition to public domain content, BHL works with rights holders to obtain permission to make in-copyright materials openly available under Creative Commons licenses.
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Search thousands of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from around the world. This is a great way to find new and unique research, but keep in mind that these results will be LONG.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
Index created from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Find streaming videos in every subject area.
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Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 radio and news transcripts
PBS Frontline This link opens in a new window
Complete documentaries available to watch for free from the renowned PBS news program.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide This link opens in a new window
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The world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.