Databases by Broad Subject Areas

Full text articles from over 270 of the most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals from 1970 to present.

Digitized pages of over 1,500 American special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children’s and women’s magazines published between 1740 and 1940.

Full text articles and chapters from over 600 journals and 220 books. Also includes over 63,000 images.

Part of JSTOR Images featuring over 3 million items from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. Tools include the ability to download, print, share, and organize images in your own account. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.

Citations for articles on the history and practice of architecture, archaeology, architecture design, landscape architecture, city planning, furniture and decoration, historic preservation, and interior design.

Citations for 20 million biographical sketches on over 6 million people from all time periods, places, and areas of study. Includes names, birth and death dates, and references to books containing biographical material on that person.

Full text biographical entries on over 640,000 people from all time periods and areas of study including videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. Search by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.

Over 460,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.

Over 5.6 million book reviews on over 2.5 million titles. Search by title, author, date, illustrator, audiobook reader, review length, reading level, review source, review type, reviewer, and title of review.

Full text articles from 62 scholarly journals and magazines plus books, newspapers, and reports. Some content in Spanish and French.

Full text articles from over 3,100 scholarly journals including content in 40 languages from across Central and Eastern Europe.

Full text articles from over 275 journals and citations for over 960 journals. Coverage extends back to the early or mid-twentieth century for several core titles.

Full text articles from over 2000 international sources representing over 190 nations on issues, topics, and events critical to women's lives.

Full text reports from 1991 to present on health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Seasoned journalists research and write each 12,000 word report, which includes three pro-con debates, a background and chronology on the topic, an assessment of the current situation, tables and maps, a pro/con debate by representatives of opposing positions, and bibliographies of key sources.

Manuscript, printed, and visual primary source documents on the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences from 1500 to 2000. Includes manuscripts, rare printed materials, letterbooks, periodicals, diaries, and photographs accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, interactive maps, and an interactive chronology.

Full text articles from 340 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press from 1990 to present. Also includes 300,000 full text articles from Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Of the total of 2.5 million articles over 625,000 articles (25%) are in Spanish.

Digitized pages of over 4,500 publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand from 1543-1945 on suffrage, feminism, and daily life in the English-speaking world.

Manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organizations around the world depicting the history of fifteen major commodities and examining the ways that they have changed the world. Commodities include chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.

News, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, and statistics from over 250 country profiles and over 680 issue pages.

Digitized pages of every issue of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper, from 1857 to 1912.

Full text articles from over 970 journals and citations for thousands more, including art and book reviews.

Over 750,000 digitized pages from over 1,000 alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals produced from 1960-1980 by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, Latinos, and LGBT activists.

Full text of over 400 titles on the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present.

Full text of over 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources including complete runs of over 2,600 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over 60,000 DRM-free ebooks and over 2 million primary sources. Supports text mining/analysis and digital humanities research by providing datasets for journals, books, research reports, and pamphlets in the digital library.

To use the AI Research Tool, you must create a personal JSTOR account with your ferris.edu email address. They do not sell your data nor do they use it to train the LLM. Conversation transcripts can be downloaded, but you must do so within three hours. (They recommend downloading before leaving the item page.) The tool can also be cited as can its individual responses. 

Full text of over 116,000 poems, 28,000 short stories, 8,150 novels, and 68,500 critical essays as well as 210,000 biographies and 1.1 million book reviews. Content spans all genres and time periods.

Over 1.1 million full text articles from over 450 journals covering 130,000 authors, including those of children's and young adult literature.

Over 16 million full text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and reports on military history, defense strategy, and intelligence.

Over 20 billion historical documents from over 70 countries, including census data, military records, gravestone photos, and family trees. Access restricted to current Michigan residents.

Over 20,000 viewpoints and 19,000 reference articles from all perspectives on the most controversial issues using a variety of sources including journals, primary sources, reference sources, biographies, images, videos, audio recordings, news, magazines, statistics, and websites. Browse by topic in categories such as business and economics, energy and environmentalism, health and medicine, law and politics, society and culture, science, technology, and ethics, and war and diplomacy.

Full text of over 400,000 poems, 57,000 short stories, 4,100 plays, and 1,150 ebooks. Also includes over 2,300 audio recordings.

Overviews of controversial topics including background or description of the issue, an argument, and a counter or opposing argument.

Full text articles from over 500 journals, 340 reference books, and 36,000 conference papers on topics such as political theory, international relations, comparative politics, and law. Also includes citations for over 1,700 journals on political science and related subjects.

Over 2 million full text articles from scholarly journals and magazines that analyze and contribute to popular culture. Topics include fashion, media, music, and social trends.

Full text articles from over 100 popular, elementary school magazines, ebooks, and encyclopedia entries. Every article has a Lexile reading level. Updated weekly.

Full text articles and chapters from over 800 journals and over 100,000 books in the humanities and social sciences.

Videos of over 56,000 testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides including the Nanjing Massacre, the Tutsi in Rwanda, and others. All recordings have digitized transcripts and are searchable to the minute.

Millions of full text articles, biographies, primary source documents, and videos on American history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Millions of full text articles and thousands of full text ebooks across disciplines including health, physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. 

Over 2,200 full text primary source documents, reference works, academic journals, and multimedia on topics such as major civilizations, events, ideologies, and cultural movements.