Collection Development and Strategies Department
Featured Database: Disability in the Modern World
You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!
What’s in it?
This interdisciplinary database includes nearly 150,000 primary sources, magazines, and videos by and about people living with disabilities, ranging from archives from the 1940s to present-day periodicals.;
Why should you use it?
First-person accounts reveal intersectionality and previously untold narratives from the disability community. Materials such as a digitized collection of The Disability Rag/The Ragged Edge Periodical Archives reflect diverse perspectives.
Who should use it?
This is not solely for people with disabilities or scholars of this discipline. History students, for example, may be intrigued by past documentation of rehabilitation activities. Media students can find materials on technology’s various roles in supporting accessibility. Advocate groups and policymakers may be inspired by stories and strategies for changemaking.
