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Ad Age This link opens in a new window
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Ad Age is a resource for advertising and marketing industry news, with data on marketers, ad campaigns, and advertising spending by company and industry-wide. To access: 1) create an Ad Age account; 2) enter your @fsu.edu email; 3) select Check Eligibility; 4) register for an account. FSU has access to the Ad Age Digital Edition and Data Center.
Black Life in America (Trial) This link opens in a new window
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Trial ends: December 31, 2023.
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1976 to today. Please send feedback on the trial to LIB-ERESOURCES@fsu.edu.
Black Studies (Trial) This link opens in a new window
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Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars and librarians, ProQuest's Black Studies combines multi-format primary and secondary sources, leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, videos, scholarly journals, essays, and writings by major American Black intellectuals and essays by top scholars in Black Studies. Please send feedback on the trial to LIB-ERESOURCES@fsu.edu.
CQ Supreme Court Collection (Trial) This link opens in a new window
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The CQ Press Supreme Court Collection is a research and reference tool for analyzing the history and development, cases, powers, and personalities of the U.S. Supreme Court. Case summaries, justice biographies, a glossary of legal terms, research tools, and more are included. Please send feedback on the trial to LIB-ERESOURCES@fsu.edu.
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This historical newspaper provides researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical Guardian and Observer (1791-2003) and The Observer Magazine (1964-2003) provide search capability using subject terms, searchable full text, and images from The Historical Guardian and Observer, and The Observer Magazine.
Hispanic Life in America (Trial) This link opens in a new window
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Trial ends: December 31, 2023.
The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 2010 to today. Please send feedback on the trial to LIB-ERESOURCES@fsu.edu.
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The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 combines information and the power of pictures to provide unique perspective on virtually every aspect of modern life and those who helped shape it over more than 160 years. With its debut in 1842, the Illustrated London News (ILN) became the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events—including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science—with coverage in the first issue ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria's fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace.
Latin American Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
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The Latin American Studies e-book collection is built around classic titles in Latin American history and culture and has consistently prioritized local and indigenous voices. More recently, the collection features interdisciplinary books at the forefront of Latinx and Chicanx issues, decoloniality, environmental studies, and postcolonial theory, while also addressing music, art, film, television, and other aspects of popular culture. In addition to US-based scholars, the collection includes voices from throughout Latin America, including translations of significant works from Spanish and Portuguese.
MedOne ComSci This link opens in a new window
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Thieme’s platform for audiology and speech-language pathology includes e-books written by top practitioners, cases with clinical presentation, communication science e-journals, articles from Seminars in Hearing and Seminars in Speech and Language, and multimedia content.
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This collection includes a wide variety of works such as historical plays, melodramas, political satires, minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments, adaptations of novels, and many others. Also included are hundreds of prompt books and manuscripts—annotated copies that help reveal the changing intentions of authors and the artistic views of directors. Together, these unique materials written by both the famous and the obscure provide students and scholars with rich new opportunities to study the dramatic arts and the American past from diverse perspectives.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humor, and Leisure provides insight into the evolving life of British culture, where reading for leisure, women's rights, children's entertainment, and sports grew as publishing expanded. Part II: Empire explores Britain's empire-building throughout the nineteenth century through the periodicals from its colonies, covering the public response to the abolition of the slave trade, the First Opium War, Queen Victoria's assumption of the title of Empress of India, and the "Scramble for Africa."
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The Orlando textbase comprises more than 8 million words of original scholarship about women writers’ lives, bodies of work, and cultures in a collection of author profiles, event entries, and bibliographic entries brought together for searching and remixing by the project’s bespoke tagging system. Orlando is neither a traditional monograph of literary history nor an online reference source. As an expansive collection of digitally-encoded, collaboratively-authored original scholarship about the history of women's writing, it aims to 'scale up' humanist methods of interpretation, thereby increasing research possibilities for discovering new connections and new narratives in the history of women's writing.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford’s Scholarly Editions provide trustworthy, annotated primary texts for scholars and students. OSEO currently includes writers active between the 8th and 20th century, plus Roman and Greek authors—from Aristotle, Austen, Bentham, Catullus, Dickens, and Donne through to Plato, Virgil, Homer and Wordsworth. FSU does not have access to all OSEO titles.
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Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 provides scholars with materials that explore the fight for a national health care plan from the end of the Depression well into the 1960s. Content covers medical economics and sociology, medical care, legislation, and the role of key organizations and individuals. The collection’s documentation of the evolution of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at local and federal levels supports the examination of our past while considering outcomes for our future.
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Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 offers a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. This collection, drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time, highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions, and momentous events of the time through sermons, political tracts, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature, and more.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, along with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS) This link opens in a new window
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This database includes information about advertising and rates in all types of media sources. FSU has access to Claritas360, demographic and behavioral insights for all 210 Designated Market Areas (DMAs), including county level data; Multicultural & Inclusive Media, search media properties by the audiences they serve; Digital Networks & Ad Tech, digital insights and content overviews for websites and networks; and Newspapers, circulation and page rates for local and national papers.
Telegraph Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Telegraph Historical Archive is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Launched in 1855, the Telegraph is generally seen by press historians as the start of a new era of journalism that emerged following the repeal of stamp duty and signaling the first step towards the mass-market journalism of the Daily Mail.
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