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Academic OneFile Plus (Gale Cengage) News and peer-reviewed periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology and many general interest topics. Includes images, graphs, tables and illustrations. Coverage: Updated daily. Note: Email yourself a copy of the article instead of a link. |
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Academic Search Premier Plus (Ebsco) Searches Academic Search Premier, eBook Collection, MasterFile Premier and Audiobook Collection simultaneously. Contains full text of thousands of publications, many peer reviewed. Multidisciplinary, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes images, graphs, tables and illustrations. Coverage: varies, generally from 1998-, some from 1945, 1975 Note: Mobile interface for Academic Search Premier. |
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Access Newspaper Archive (NewspaperARCHIVE.com) Find full-text historic archived articles in U.S. national, regional and some international newspapers. Coverage: Varies by title, 1700 - up to 1 year ago |
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America's Historical Imprints (Readex, a division of NewsBank) America's Historical Imprints makes available, in digital format, every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the American colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800. Among the vast range of publications included are: advertisements, almanacs, bibles, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, and treaties. Based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American Bibliography, it includes the more than 37,000 works. Includes Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800. |
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America: History and Life with Full Text (Ebsco) America history and life is an index to journal articles, books and media reviews, and dissertations covering the US and Canada from prehistory to the present. For articles on the history of the rest of the world see Historical Abstracts. Coverage: index 1954- Updates monthly. |
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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection Series 1, 2, and 4 (Ebsco) American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection Series 1, 2, and 4. This collection is culled from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society’s extensive library of print materials. Series 1 covers 1691-1820 and contains 550 titles ranging from early works imported by the colonists to later titles published on American soil on the eve of the Revolution and during the early republic. Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The content represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history. Series 4 contains more than 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. The Civil War is a focal point of the collection. Series 1, 2, and 4 each also contains news of daily life and broad subject matter, including writings on science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, entertainment, politics, and religion. |
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American Decades Primary Sources (Gale Virtual Reference Library, Gale Cengage) This cross-disciplinary collection spans the 20th century with each volume in the set presenting full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, ads, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more. Note: Email yourself a copy of the article instead of a link. |
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American Folklife Center (U.S. Library of Congress, American Folklife Center) These online oral history collections of the American Folklife Center include Native American song and dance; ancient English ballads; the tales of "Bruh Rabbit," told in the Gullah dialect; the stories of ex-slaves; an Appalachian fiddle tune heard around the world; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts; a Saint Joseph's Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado; Balinese Gamelan music from shortly before the Second World War; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives; first-hand accounts of community events from every state; and international collections from every region of the world. Note: Unrestricted access |
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American Founding Era Collection (Rotunda - University of Virginia Press) Cross-search primary source materials related to colonial America and the early Republic. This collection includes the papers of John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Dolley Madison, and George Washington as well as a Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. |
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American Memory Collection (U.S. Library of Congress) Online primary source materials from The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Includes digital items such as George Washington's and Thomas Jefferson's letters, Civil War photographs, women sufferage materials, early maps, and much more. Note: Unrestricted access |
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American Notes (U.S. Library of Congress) Published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Note: unrestricted access |
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American Periodical Series Online (ProQuest) American Periodicals presents digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to 1900. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine, which reported on inventions; publications that reflect on the growing debate over slavery, including the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era that preceded the novel; literary publications like Massachusetts Magazine, which published America's first short stories and the Southern Literary Messenger, which includes contributions from Edgar Allan Poe; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Coverage: 1741-1900 Note: Email yourself a copy of the article instead of a link. |
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American West (Adam Matthew Digital) Contains the digitized contents of The Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Contents include original manuscripts, ephemeral material (including trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets, etc.), maps, and rare printed works. |
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Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library (Auraria Library) Founded in 2009 and situated in downtown Denver, the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library (CC&W) advances understanding of Rocky Mountain history. Active partnerships with Denver Public Library and History Colorado ensure coordinated efforts to further public history scholarship on Colorado and the West. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Chronicling America (U.S. Library of Congress) View newspaper pages from 1880 to 1922 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Also supplies information about newspapers published in the U.S. between 1690-present. Coverage: 1690- Note: Unrestricted access |
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Civil War : A Newspaper Perspective (Accessible Archives) Contains the full text of major articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer during the Civil War from the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, through the surrender at Appomattox, and to the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. Chosen articles focus on military concerns, travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, social events, etc. Allows comparison of opposing perspectives of both Union and Confederate papers. notinrec, Coverage: November 1, 1860 through April 15, 1865 |
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Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (Collaborative Digitization Program) Search 18 Colorado newspapers including Colorado Daily Republican & Rocky Mountain Herald, Colorado Miner, Rocky Mountain News Weekly, Denver Daily Times, and the Daily Register Call. Coverage: 1859-1923 Note: Unrestricted access |
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Community Facts (The Piton Foundation) Community Facts (The Piton Foundation) provides detailed and current information about Denver's 77 neighborhoods. It includes data, maps and graphs about each neighborhood's population, housing, economic and education characteristics, and the health and safety of its residents. Note: Unrestricted access |
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CQ Researcher plus Archive (CQ Press) Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and political issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Full text. Coverage: 1923- |
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Digital National Security Archive Collection (DNSA) (Proquest) DNSA contains more than a 100,000 U.S.government documents containing information on critical world events, foreign relations, and U.S. policy writings from post-World War II through the 21st century. DNSA's diverse contents include presidential directives, memos, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and more. There are also glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs in the database. Most of these documents were previously classified and unavailable. |
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Dissertations & Theses A&I (ProQuest) Previously known as Digital Dissertations. Bibliographic citations to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from graduate schools and universities. Titles published since 1997 have 24 page previews available. Now includes full text of the University of Colorado Systems dissertations on Dissertations & Theses @ University of Colorado System. Coverage: index 1861- , abstracts 1980- , previews 1997- |
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DPL Western History/Genealogy Department (Denver Public Library) The Western History Collection and the Genealogy Collection holdings started being collected in the first decades of the twentieth century, 1935 and 1910 respectively (history of the collection). Note: Unrestricted access |
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (Alexander Street Press) Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of encounters between American Indians, Europeans, Africans, and Americans on the North American continent. Many materials supply descriptions of North America's natural features and interactions among various cultural groups. Searchable by place, year, peoples, cultural/ personal events, flora, fauna, and other factors. Supplies unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples and officials, both men and women. Coverage: 1534-1860 |
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eHRAF World Cultures (Human Relations Area Files) The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. |
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Eighteenth Century Journals (Adam Matthew Digital) This collection is a critical resource for the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including the American and French revolutions, British and European literature, theatre and popular entertainment, politics and religion, popular morality and social life, and exoticism and imperialism. It offers a wide variety of fully searchable newspapers and periodicals not available elsewhere. Coverage: 1685 - 1815 |
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English Short Title Catalog (British Library) The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists descriptions of almost half a million items published between 1473 and 1800, most in English, from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries. Note that clicking on the title of an item retrieved in a search generates a ‘Google’ search option for the title. This sometimes results in locating the full-text of the item in such repositories as Google Books. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Filmakers Library Online (streaming video) (Alexander Street Press) More than a thousand award-winning streaming video documentaries with relevance across the curriculum including coverage of race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Synchronized, searchable transcripts run alongside each video. Playlist functionality lets users create, annotate, and organize clips and include links to other content. Permanent URLs let users cite and share whole videos, playlists, and custom clips. Note: Use this link to cross-search all Auraria Library Alexander Street streaming video databases. Note: Mobile enabled. Look for the mobile phone icon with a green plus sign. Note: Auraria campus students and faculty members may bring a current campus I.D. to the Reserves & Video counter to borrow headphones for use on Auraria Library computers or in-house laptops. |
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Films on Demand (streaming video) (Films Media Group) Online 24/7 access to more than 8,000 educational films and 95,000 video clips covering a wide spectrum of subject disciplines. Many of these streaming videos are close-captioned and titles may be embedded or linked in syllabi, course management shells, or other online environments. Note: Copy the link in the Segment URL of the video instead of emailing yourself a link. The Segment URL may be found below the video inset itself. |
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Founders Early Access (University of Virginia Press, Rotunda) Previously unpublished documents of the founders of the United States in a free online resource which includes letters and other papers penned by James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and others of the early American Republic. Coverage: Founders Early Access is the free "pre-publication" edition of the Rotunda American Founding Era collection and will change content regularly. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Google Scholar (login required) (Google, CrossRef) Leading journal publishers are participating in a CrossRef Search Pilot program to open up scholarly materials to full-text searchability. Initially content was taken from 29 of the more than 1500 CrossRef collaborative publishers and societies, but has now extended to any publisher not specifically preventing access. Includes images, graphs, tables and illustrations. The editions freely available to Auraria Library patrons will have a link labeled "Auraria Library Resources". When you locate an inaccessible article here first check to see if other editions of the same item are available here. Then note the citation and use our journal finder in Skyline as another way to see what is available through Auraria Library. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text (Ebsco) Index to journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 - present. Updates monthly. For US and Canadian history, see America: History and Life Coverage: 1955- |
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Historical Map and Chart Collection (NOAA Office of Coast Survey) The Coast Survey's Historical Collection contains a wide variety of maps 1747-2001 including a Civil War collection, historical topographic maps and early exploration maps of the Pacific Northwest. Note: Unrestricted access |
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History Reference Center (Ebsco AIRS) Covering both U.S. and world history, the History Reference Center contains full-text historical documents and articles from reference books, history magazines, journals, and newspapers. Additionally, it provides timelines, biographies, maps, photos and video clips. |
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Internet Archive (Internet Archive) An Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Iter) This collection databases includes a bibliography of articles from some 500 journals literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700 AD). Search by author, title, keyword, etc. Citations only. There are also searchable databases of scholars, extant manuscripts, early theatre, and architectural details. Some of the databases are difficult to access from off campus. |
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JSTOR (JSTOR) An archival suite of full-text scholarly journals. Auraria Library has access to JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collections and Life Sciences Collection. Searches in JSTOR also allow the user to link directly to ARTSTOR images. Coverage: Usually from the beginning of publication until 3-5 years before the present though current content is available in many cases. Note: PDF Help |
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Marquis Biographies Online (Marquis) Biographical database searchable by birth date, education and degree, career history, creative works and more. Profiles from: Who Was Who in America, and the many Who's Who (aka Online Biographies) from Marquis ... in the Library in print. Note: Limited to 3 simultaneous users, please log out when finished |
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MideastWire.com (Mideast Wire) This resource is a daily newswire service of concise articles/briefs (translated into English) covering key political, economic, cultural, and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora. Special features include access to the archive of articles/briefs dating from 2005 to present. Users can take advantage of an RSS feed to receive daily updates. |
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Nation Master (Rapid Intelligence) An excellent resource for finding current details about just about any country in the world. Currently, Nation Master has 335 statistical data sets, ranging from library books to airports. It shows the most frequently requested stats, allows easy comparison between countries using graphs, is searchable and has links to national profiles. Particularly useful for students looking for basic statistics on different countries and for teachers as a teaching aide. Coverage: current Note: Unrestricted access |
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NBC Learn Higher Ed (NBC Universal Media) NBC Learn Higher Ed is an extensive and growing collection of news programming of two to six minute streaming videos from the NBC News archives reaching back nearly a century. NBC Learn includes stories (full transcripts and closed captioning) from NBC Nightly News, the TODAY show, and Meet the Press, and programming from MSNBC, CNBC, and Telemundo networks. Video may be embedded or linked in syllabi, course management shells, or other online environments. Coverage: Updated weekly Note: Download a special player to view videos offline. |
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Cengage) A searchable full-text facsimile-image database of 19th-century newspapers from across the nation chronicling American culture, daily life and events. |
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Online Public Access (OPA) (U.S. National Archives) Simultaneously search multiple online resources from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, NARA. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Original Sources (Western Standard Publishing Company) Thousands of full text classic works and firsthand accounts in books, documents, pictures, images, and sounds from world history, U.S. history, science and mathematics, social sciences, literature, political science and law, language, and philosophy and religion. Formerly known as American Reference Library. |
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Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Coverage: Varies Note: Email yourself a copy of the article instead of a link. |
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Periodical Archive Online (PAO) (ProQuest for Chadwyck-Healey) Find hundreds of full-text digitized journals in PAO with content ranging from the early 19th century to the year 2000. Titles cover subject matter primarily in the social sciences and humanities, including psychology, literature, history, linguistics, religion, sociology, geography, performing arts, political science, economics, philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, and education. The Auraria Library subscribes to the Foundation Collection and Collections 5, 6, 7 and 9. Some journals are in non-English languages, including German, Spanish, French, and Italian. |
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Points of View Reference Center (Ebsco) This collection presents full-text essays that present an overview, and both affirmative and opposing arguments for hundreds of controversial issues. Also included are Critical Thinking Guides created to enhance user skills in determining fact versus opinion. Additionally, information is culled from magazines, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, video clips, primary source documents, and reference books. |
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Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (U.S. Library of Congress) The catalog (PPOC) of the Library of Congress contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library. The catalog provides access through group or item records to about 50% of the Division's holdings. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations. The Library provides rights information wherever possible as a service to aid patrons in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the patron. An online exhibit area of selected historical materials is at the Prints and Photographs: an illustrated guide. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Project Muse (Project Muse) Provides full text of over 100 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Current issues and backfiles. Try the Australian mirror site if this one does not work. |
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (Ebsco) Readers' Guide Retrospective contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Coverage: 1890-1982 |
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Social Explorer Professional (Oxford University Press) Users can create demographic maps and reports down to the U.S. neighborhood and street level using U.S. census data, the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1790 to the present. Users can visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout U.S. history. And users can customize, save, print, and email maps and reports and export them to a variety of programs and statistical packages for further analysis and use in reports and presentations. Auraria Library provides premium access to this database. Coverage: 1790- Note: Also useful in developing an understanding of the census data is an e-book on the history of the census, Measuring America : the decennial censuses from 1790 to 2000. |
| Dictionary of American History (Gale Cengage) | |
| Dictionary of Old English (University of Toronto) | |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution) | |
| Facts on File World News Digest (Facts on File News Services) | |
| LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English (on campus only) (University of Toronto) | |
| OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) | |
| Virtual Reference Library (Gale Cengage) |
| Colorado History Research Guide (Auraria Library, E. Metter) | |
| eBooks Research Guide (Auraria Library, E. Metter) | |
| History Research Guide (Auraria Library) | |
| Images: How to Find Them Research Guide (Auraria Library, E. Metter) | |
| USGS Historical Topographic Maps (Google Earth Gallery) |
| Accessible Archives: Civil War era (Accessible Archives, Inc.) | |
| American Journeys (Wisconsin Historical Society) | |
| American Rhetoric (streaming audio and video) (Michael E. Eidenmuller, University of Texas, Tyler) | |
| Arago: People, Postage & the Past (Smithsonian National Postal Museum) | |
| Architectural Index (Architectural Index) | |
| Cambridge Collections Online (Cambridge University Press) | |
| Colorado Climate Trends (Colorado Climate Center, Colorado State University) | |
| Colorado's Main Streets (Collaborative Digitization Program) | |
| Confidential print: Middle East (Adam Matthew Digital) | |
| Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
| Defining Gender (Adam Matthew Digital) | |
| Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) | |
| EuroDocs (Richard Hacken, BYU) | |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 - 1750 (Ebsco) | |
| FAMSI Research Materials: Explore Mesoamerica (Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.) | |
| FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Center for Economic Documents Digitization) | |
| Gallica (National Library of France) | |
| Georgia Historic Newspapers (Digital Library of Georgia) | |
| HarpWeek (HarpWeek) | |
| Heritage West (Collaborative Digitization Program) | |
| Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia Library, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) | |
| History Matters (City University of New York and George Mason University) | |
| Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) | |
| Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) | |
| Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog (U.S. Library of Congress) | |
| Library of Economics and Liberty (Liberty Fund, Inc.) | |
| Macmillan Cabinet Papers (Adam Matthew Digital) | |
| Making of America (Multiple sources) | |
| NARA (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) | |
| National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (U.S. Library of Congress) | |
| North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project (North Carolina State Archives) | |
| NYPL Digital Gallery (New York Public Library) | |
| Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford University Press) | |
| Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford University Press) | |
| Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Digital edition (University of Virginia Press) | |
| Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho) | |
| Reti Medievali (Firenze University Press) | |
| Rocky Mountain Online Archive (hosted by the University of New Mexico Libraries) | |
| Sanborn Maps of Colorado (University of Colorado Boulder) | |
| Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (University of Virginia) | |
| SORA - The Searchable Ornithological Research Archives (University of New Mexico) | |
| The History Cooperative (University of Illinois Press) | |
| Theological Commons (Princeton Theological Seminary & The Internet Archive) | |
| This I Believe (This I Believe, Inc., National Public Radio and Atlantic Public Media) | |
| Turing Digital Archive (University of Southampton and King's College Cambridge) | |
| Valley Archive (Edward L. Ayers) | |
| Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) | |
| Who's Who in American History (Marquis) | |
| World Heritage (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) | |
| WorldCat (OCLC) |
