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?
Disability in the Modern World is an interdisciplinary database and 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 policy makers may be inspired by stories and strategies for changemaking.
Why use a database?
When you use a specific database, rather than a search engine or discovery tool, you often can find more relevant sources. For example, subject databases include sources about that subject only, rather than a general search engine or discovery tool that includes information about everything. This way you don’t have to wade through thousands of irrelevant results!
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