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Electronic Journals
Ebooks
Electronic Books
 

Accessible from the Gilman Campus

Most frequently accessed

Online version of the print publication, including Merriam Webster’s Dictionary and video files.

Oxford English Dictionary
The online edition of the print publication, offering definitions and etymology for all of the words included in the second edition to the new edition of the print version. Includes quarterly updates.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
Student Resource Center Reference essays, magazine & journal articles, newspaper articles, and primary source documents, as well as images and audio and video files.
Proquest
Platinum provides uncompromising coverage from more than 2,000 newspapers, magazines, journals, and reference works. You may be able to access your additional ProQuest databases through this link.

World Book
Art & Music

Art Resource


Nationail Gallery
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.


Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. This includes the Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, and Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Music Library

Online Listeneing Lab
Button links to a page that has the actual link to Online Listening Lab which requires a login.

AP Photo
Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s.


Web Gallery of Art
Biography
American National Biography
Biographical information on Americans throughout history.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

 
History
CQ Weekly
Online version of the print publication, including full-text of articles published since 1983.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
The traditional version of Historical Newspapers offers a unique collection of historical documents available through our standard ProQuest interface. Every newspaper is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images.


Oxford African American Studies Center
Proquest Historical Newspaper
The graphical version of HNP offers a user-friendly design and new student-friendly features, including our Student Edition timeline and topic browse. You may be able to access multiple historical newspaper titles here.

Proquest History Study Center
Offers invaluable historical reference material that covers 14 centuries of history, from ancient to modern, old world to new world.

SIRS Researcher
A comprehensive portal offering centralized access to all SIRS products which target the needs of students with best-of content selected to support research, study, and homework in key curricula subjects.
History Resource Center: US Salem History  
Humanities/Events/Literature
Gilman Humanties website
A site designed to accompany the entire interdisciplinary 10th grade course
Project MUSE
An online database containing full-text articles from over 200 scholarly journals, focusing on the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Literature Resource Center
Reference
Grolier Online
Multimedia online reference sources including Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, and Nueva enciclopedia Cumbra en linea.

Thomson Gale Educators Reference Complete
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary & Thesaurus
A dictionary and thesaurus plus a source for word games and historical information about words.
United Streaming
Proquest NY Times
Full-text articles from The New York Times dating back to 1851 (complete coverage).
Culture Grams
Maps101
Username: gilman
Password: maps101
provided by the
Class of 1938 Geography Fund
   
Science
Accuweather
Weatherbug WMAR Thomson Gale Science Resource
GreenFILE
EBSCO proudly offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Electronic Journals
New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
Chronicle of Higher Education
Chronicle of Higher Education
Current History
Journal of Exercise Physiology
Journal of Exercise Physiology
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