New Databases

We're constantly working to expand our collections to meet your research and teaching needs. Here are the databases and other online collections acquired over the past 18 months. Please also check out the databases we are considering for purchase.

March 2024

Grants Index (Web of Science)
Browse previously awarded grants from public and private funding agencies around the world.

February 2024

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (Web of Science)
Search ProQuest Dissertations & Theses on the Web of Science platform, complete with citation indexing. 

January 2024

HeritageQuest
Genealogical database with government records, census data, and auxiliary resources for family history research.

ProQuest Legislative Insight
Documents created by the U.S Congress in the course of Congressional lawmaking.

November 2023

Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Digital scholarship tool for analyzing documents from Gale primary source collections.

September 2023

Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements
Open Access collection of digitized primary sources focusing on civil rights activism.

August 2023

Big Ten Open Books
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA)'s Open Access ebooks platform.

Espacenet
The European Patent Office's public search tool for patent information.

The Lens
Index of patents, scholarship, and biological sequences. Allows users to view citation relationships among them.

WIPO
World intellectual property data, including patents, trademarks, and industrial design information.

July 2023

Exploring Race in Society
Database for undergraduates focused on race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness in U.S. society in the 20th and 21st centuries.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New Jersey Collection
Digitized collection of New Jersey newspapers dating from 1876 - 1 week ago.

June 2023

Criminology Collection (ProQuest)
Scholarship and research in all aspects of crime, justice, law enforcement, and security.

Library & Information Science Collection (ProQuest)
Scholarship and research in all aspects of library & information science.

Linguistics Collection (ProQuest)
Scholarship and research in all aspects of language.

May 2023

British Library Newspapers
Digitized historical newspapers originally published in the United Kingdom during the 19th century.

April 2023

African American Newspapers in the South
Digitized historical newspapers originally published by and for African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Southern U.S.

February 2023

PubChem
Collection of freely accessible chemical information managed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

December 2022

Africa Commons
Platform for discovering African historical and cultural materials held by organizations around the world.

Health Poll Database
Health-related U.S. survey questions from the 1930s to the present.

Adam Matthew Primary Source Databases

America in World War Two
Digitized primary sources illustrating United States military and civilian involvement in WWII.

Central Asia, Persia & Afghanistan, 1834-1922
Digitized files from the British Foreign Office regarding Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan.

Colonial Caribbean
Digitized files from the British Colonial Office regarding the Caribbean.

Early Modern England
Digitized primary sources illustrating everyday life in 16th and 17th-century England.

Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
Digitized field recordings and accompanying materials from around the world.

Food and Drink in History
Digitized primary sources documenting food and drink in global history.

Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980
Digitized files from the National Archives of the United Kingdom regarding Southeast Asia.

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Digitized primary sources documenting United States culture, industry, and politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Interwar Culture
Digitized periodicals published in the United States and Britain between the World Wars.

Life at Sea
Digitized primary sources documenting Anglo-American sea travel from 1600-1900.

Mass Observation Project
Digitized archive of the Mass Observation Project, a public opinion survey program conducted by the University of Sussex, dating from 1981-2009.

Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
Digitized primary source materials from the John Murray publishing company, a major British publishing house.

Poverty, Philanthropy & Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Digitized primary sources documenting poverty and efforts to alleviate it in 19th-century Britain.

Sex & Sexuality
Digitized primary sources, including materials from the Kinsey Institute, documenting attitudes toward sexuality, gender, and sexual behavior in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia from the 19th-21st centuries.

Shakespeare's Globe Archive
Digitized production and architectural archives of the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London.

Victorians on Film
Digitized films produced during the Victorian era primarily in Great Britain.

October 2022

AM Explorer
Searches across all of Rutgers' primary source collections from Adam Matthew.

Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD)
Electronic version of the ongoing Aristoteles Latinus series, plus additional Latin translations used in the Middle Ages for the study of Aristotle.

September 2022

Patent Public Search
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s public search tool for patent and patent application information.