Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, even in museums and libraries outside of the United States. 

NOTE:  Please keep in mind that while you may be able to order copies of materials for research, these materials are in special collections that are not available through Interlibrary Loan requests. You must contact the repository directly to negotiate receiving copies of materials.

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Indexing and some abstracts for over 16,000 journals in all subject areas from 1990 - Present.

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Index of over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats in all genres. Contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from sources including Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and CHOICE.

NOTE:  COS Funding Opportunities has been replaced by COS PIVOT.  This database provides access to funding opportunities as well as scholar profiles, with the ability to add your own scholar profile and to view the profiles of various research organizations.  PIVOT allows you to also prioritize and save your searches to receive weekly alerts.

You must register your own account and log in thereafter in order to use PIVOT.   Registration and log in is in the upper righthand corner of screen.

Previous CWU users of COS Funding Opportunities may log in with their existing username and password, as the accounts have been transferred over into PIVOT. 

NOTE:  For some opportunities, sponsors accept only a limited number of proposals or applications from an institution, or require an institution to rank or prioritize applications before submission. Please contact the Office of Graduate Studies and Research before applying if an opportunity is marked "Internal Coordination Required".

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Comprehensive, non-partisan news and information on Congress, politics and public policy from 1983 to the present.

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Full text of journal articles back to 2000 from 31 Duke University Press humanities and social science journals. CWU subscribes to the E-Duke Standard Collection.  See the list of titles within the Standard Collection and the full text access date ranges for more information on available content. 

NOTE:  Our subscription was canceled as of January 2013, but we will still have content from previous years available from this link.  Search our catalog by Journal Title for other access options or also try the Project Muse database for similar content.

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Cross-cultural database containing more than 350,000 pages of descriptive information on cultures, diversity and ethnic groups of the world.

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Descriptions of materials in U.S. federal depository libraries (such as CWU).

HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published since 1970. Citations are in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and other languages. 

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Contains the complete back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, the social sciences, as well as the natural and applied sciences.  List of JSTOR Collections to which CWU subscribes

NOTE:  The JSTOR platform does include ebooks.  CWU currently has access to only those which JSTOR has made freely available.

NOTE:  "Register & Read" permits users to read online for free some content not available through the library subscription.  You will need to create a myJSTOR account to read free articles online.  Should you need to download or print a copy of an unsubscribed article, please keep in mind that current CWU students, staff and faculty can request unsubscribed content usually free of charge through Brooks Library's Interlibrary Loan department.

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Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more.

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Citations to U.S. Government documents from 1976 - present. When available, includes links to the Web version of documents.

Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags.

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Coverage of over 1200 newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.

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Oxford Islamic Studies Online provides A-Z reference content from Oxford publications, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, as well as  biographies, chaptered works, primary source documents, images, maps, timelines, a date converter tool, Qur'anic Studies resources and other learning resources. Of particular interest to someone just starting to learn about Islam might be What Everyone Needs To Know About Islam, located in the Learning Resources section of the homepage.

CWU Libraries have access to this database through February, 2014 as part of the NEH and ALA Muslim Journeys Grant.

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Descriptions of professional papers presented at conferences.

COS Funding Opportunities has been replaced by COS PIVOT. 

This database provides access to funding opportunities as well as scholar profiles, with the ability to add your own scholar profile and to view the profiles of various research organizations.  PIVOT allows you to also prioritize and save your searches to receive weekly alerts.

You must register your own account and log in thereafter in order to use PIVOT.   Registration and log in is in the upper righthand corner of screen.

Previous CWU users of COS Funding Opportunities may log in with their existing username and password, as the accounts have been transferred over into PIVOT. 

NOTE:  For some opportunities, sponsors accept only a limited number of proposals or applications from an institution, or require an institution to rank or prioritize applications before submission. Please contact the Office of Graduate Studies and Research before applying if an opportunity is marked "Internal Coordination Required".

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Provides searchable full text of over 200 scholarly journals from scholarly publishers and covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other subject areas.

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Full text of journal articles back to 1999 from over 400 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, theoretical and applied sciences, technology and medicine.  Not all content in this database is available full text.  For a list of the journals that are available full text to CWU please click here.

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Something About the Author Online [SATAO] contains heavily illustrated sketches on juvenile and young adult authors and illustrators of all eras and nationalities. Online access is available for content published within SATAO from July 2009 through 2012.  Additional content (published prior to July 2009) is available in print in the Brooks Library Reference Department. 

See Also:  Literature Criticism Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online.

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Topics covered include arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, and taxes.