The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to now offer access to the Asian Life in America database from Newsbank and Readex. This database documents the experience and impact of Asian Americans as recorded by the news media from 1704 to 2017. The primary sources in this collection offer an expansive window into centuries of Asian American
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to now offer access to Digital Theatre+, a database that contains hundreds of video recordings of theatre, audio, and poetry productions. It also includes interviews, lectures, documentaries, teaching materials, and written resources on all aspects of theatre. Please contact the Chair of Resources & Scholarly Communications, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, at laughtin@chapman.edu
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to the Lived Places Publishing collection of short ebooks. Each title is around 150 pages long and explores the intersection of identity and place, focusing on topics such as gender, disability, LGBT+, queer, and ethnic studies, in addition to education and more. For more information, please contact Chair of
The Leatherby Libraries has added two new primary source collections from Gale to our collection of digital databases. Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories includes primary source perspectives from over 70 previously colonized countries, including those colonized by the British, French, and Portuguese in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Australasia, and the Americas.
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Exploring Race in Society Database from EBSCO. This database contains full-text articles about race-related issues from academic journals, primary source documents, government agency reports, speeches, and essays written and reviewed by writers in academia, journalism, medicine, and other disciplines. Topics include: Affirmative Action Black Lives Matter Movement
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Current Protocols, the most extensive interdisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed, authoritative, and regularly updated step-by-step research techniques and procedures available. Current Protocols provides over 25,000 step-by-step instructions, techniques, procedures, and practical overviews of reliable, efficient methods that ensure reproducible results for scientific discovery. Topics covered include cell
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Rock’s Backpages. This resource is an online database of popular music writing and journalism that contains primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of exclusive audio interviews. For more information, please contact Chair
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Voting Rights & Election Law from Hein Online. This database includes thousands of titles on the electoral process dating back to the late seventeenth century: how elections are conducted, how votes are counted, how political campaigns are run and funded, and who is allowed to vote.
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to the CQ Voting and Elections Collection. This database contains data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material relating to major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships dating back to 1789. With the Compare Data
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Statista. Statista provides access to statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries, including commerce, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and more. This online data platform gathers and provides visualization of data from 190+ countries, allowing students and faculty to begin designing research