Databases, E-Resources & E-Journals By Subject

Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

Full-text databases and popular databases ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Multidisciplinary collection of scholarly and trade journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports.

Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Access to The New York Times (1980 - present), Washington Post (1987 - present), Los Angeles Times (1985 - present), Chicago Tribune, (1985 - present), and Wall Street Journal (1984 - present).

Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.

Open access repository for research and scholarly output by Pepperdine University departments and centers, includesFaculty Open Access Publications, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Undergraduate Student Research, and Pepperdine Journals.

Practical tool for access to books, journals, videos and reference material for help understanding and choosing methods, designing research projects and writing up findings.

Scholarly publications covering the humanities, social sciences and life and physical sciences.

Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.

Foundational books in the humanities and social sciences, selected by scholars.

Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876

Access to scholarly journals, dissertations and book and media reviews about U.S. and Canadian history and culture. Coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Digital access to Series 1-5 of the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

Includes detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters, glimpses of daily life in the army and at home, anecdotes about key events and personages.

Access to 20th century primary source materials including selected speeches, letters, legal decisions, government documents, lyrics, advertisements, literary scripts, recipes, scrapbooks, and cartoons. Continued in American Decades: 2000-2009.

Leading source of up-to-date demographic data about the United States people and economy.

Digitized archival materials from the Library of Congress, including legal and historical materials.

Covers over 140,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses.

Access to portraits of more than 18,700 men and women, updated quarterly, features hyperlinked articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

The Library of Congress American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture; traditional culture from around the world.

Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Includes every issue published in volumes 1-9, from March 12, 1871 through February 22, 1880. The Capital is a primary record of the American Reconstruction Period.

Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.

Historical books, pamphlets and broadsides from 17th and 18th century America.

Access to more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.

Personal accounts, such as diaries and letters, of people in North America from 1534-1850, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials.

Multilingual, primary source European works relating to the Americas.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Autobiographical testimonies and biographical data from the forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic during the slave trade era from the 16th to the 19th century.

Covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important legal documents.

Entries on specific cultural and ethnoreligious groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on religions, holidays, customs, language, historical background and settlement patterns.

Academic journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports focused on women and gender issues. Some archival material as far back as 1974.

Indexing and full-text access to the Los Angeles Times. Covers 1985 to now.

Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Free access to digitized images from NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photos.

Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.

Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings

Open-access database of dissertations and theses from the early 20th century to now.

Primary sources documenting the history of student organizing in the U.S.

Access to foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art, including the full text of The Dictionary of Art.

Free access to digitized images from NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photos.

Covers over 140,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses.

Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year.

Medicine, nursing, dentistry and the pre-clinical sciences research, includes bibliographic citations and author abstracts US and international journals.

PDFs of books in the physical and social sciences published by National Academies Press since 1980. Includes full-text searching capabilities.

Access to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the National Library of Medicine.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Access to journals and e-books published by Springer Nature in life and behavioral sciences.

Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Leading source of up-to-date demographic data about the United States people and economy.

Digital subscription includes complete access to recent issues, print and video creative and DataCenter, featuring downloadable, exclusive rankings, profiles and analysis of agencies, marketers, marketing and industry jobs.  First time users will need to create an account and verify pepperdine.edu email address.

Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.

Helps authors locate journals that might publish their article by providing information about journal submission guidelines, acceptance rates, review process and other pertinent information.

Demographic data mapping tool for custom reports, plus directory data of U.S. businesses and consumers.

Full-text access to The Economist magazine, covering 1997 to present and related web content.

Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis links to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

A database with over hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from national, international, public, and private sources.

Market and industry research reports with key statistics, industry conditions, market share, industry performance, market drivers, key success factors, and revenue forecasts for each US industry. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Includes daily market and media research articles, analyst reports, and a database of e-business and online marketing statistics.

Census and survey data from around the world for integrated and comparative research. Must create a free account profile to create data sets.

Economic statistics for 269 countries from the International Monetary Fund.

Refinitiv is now named LSEG Data & Analytics.

Financial news, financials, global pricing data and analytics, analyst research reports, bank investment reports and forecasts for publicly-traded companies.
This database is only available to Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial, academic research, and requires registration.

Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Market research and industry reports with market share, consumer profiles, forecasting, driving forces, and distribution methods. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Provides data to measure consumer demand, target segmentation, evaluate locations and assess markets.

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.

Descriptive summaries, articles and citations on the development and assessment of psychological tests, scales, instruments and measures used in psychology research and teaching.

Financial news, financials, global pricing data and analytics, analyst research reports, bank investment reports and forecasts for publicly-traded companies.
This database is only available to Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial, academic research, and requires registration.

Regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

For access, click Brand Catalyst at the top of the Simmons interface. Identifies the unique characteristics of over 8,000 brands to help define brand identity, differentiate against competitors, create unique personas, and drive effective media, creative, and partnership strategies.

Consumer survey data includes over 700 psychographic measures to understand target consumers' general attitudes, media usage, and shopping habits. Access restricted to five simultaneous users.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

**Access requires logging in with a WSJ.com account. Register using your Pepperdine email address.** Get unlimited access to WSJ.com, WSJ mobile apps, curated newsletters and podcasts.

Access to databases in finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. **Access limited to Pepperdine faculty, staff, and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the Pepperdine WRDS representative.**

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Analysis and visualization tool for data regarding economic policy and debt, education, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor, poverty, and trade.

Covers over 140,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses.

Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

PDFs of books in the physical and social sciences published by National Academies Press since 1980. Includes full-text searching capabilities.

Access to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the National Library of Medicine.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.

Coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.

Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.

Demographic data mapping tool for custom reports, plus directory data of U.S. businesses and consumers.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Digital subscription includes complete access to recent issues, print and video creative and DataCenter, featuring downloadable, exclusive rankings, profiles and analysis of agencies, marketers, marketing and industry jobs.  First time users will need to create an account and verify pepperdine.edu email address.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research collection of social science data. First time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account.

Practical tool for access to books, journals, videos and reference material for help understanding and choosing methods, designing research projects and writing up findings.

Includes daily market and media research articles, analyst reports, and a database of e-business and online marketing statistics.

Provides data to measure consumer demand, target segmentation, evaluate locations and assess markets.

Market research and industry reports with market share, consumer profiles, forecasting, driving forces, and distribution methods. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

For access, click Brand Catalyst at the top of the Simmons interface. Identifies the unique characteristics of over 8,000 brands to help define brand identity, differentiate against competitors, create unique personas, and drive effective media, creative, and partnership strategies.

Consumer survey data includes over 700 psychographic measures to understand target consumers' general attitudes, media usage, and shopping habits. Access restricted to five simultaneous users.

A comprehensive overview of contemporary communication theory.

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.

Research reports on Children and Families, Education and the Arts, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Infrastructure and Transportation, International Affairs, Law and Business, National Security, Public Safety, Science and Technology.

Health-related advertisements from 1850 to 1920, illustrating relationship between modern medicine & modern advertising.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.

Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

The Cambridge University Press currently publishes 370 peer-reviewed academic journals containing the latest research from a wide range of subject areas. Access is provided to volumes from 2000-2016.

Access to more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Autobiographical testimonies and biographical data from the forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic during the slave trade era from the 16th to the 19th century.

Entries on specific cultural and ethnoreligious groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on religions, holidays, customs, language, historical background and settlement patterns.

Primary source documents on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Primary source documents on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005.

Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.

Endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.

Primary sources documenting the history of student organizing in the U.S.

Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

Helps authors locate journals that might publish their article by providing information about journal submission guidelines, acceptance rates, review process and other pertinent information.

Compilation of statistical information on American education from prekindergarten through graduate school, including results of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) surveys.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Designed for high school libraries, contains high school magazines, full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and a School Image Collection.

Comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in areas of psychology, education, business, and leadership.

Open-access database of dissertations and theses from the early 20th century to now.

Projections to 2028 of key education statistics for elementary and secondary schools.

Descriptive summaries, articles and citations on the development and assessment of psychological tests, scales, instruments and measures used in psychology research and teaching.

Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Digital access to Series 1-5 of the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

Articles from major American authors including Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, Theodore Roosevelt, Ray Stannard Baker, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Henry Stanley, Ida Tarbell and Nellie Bly.

Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Historical books, pamphlets and broadsides from 17th and 18th century America.

Greek and Latin texts with English translations. Requires profile sign-in.

First time users, to create profile and set password, visit  https://www.loebclassics.com/

Free access to digitized images from NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photos.

Authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium: the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over more than 600,000 words.

Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.

Access to over sixty volumes of lyric poetry by Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832.

Access to poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century.

American feature and short films from 1893-1970, compiled by the American Film Institute. Includes information on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres and historical notes.

Coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

The finding aid for the Ivan Goff collection of television scripts is now available on the Online Archive of California (OAC).

Library of Congress' vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible.

Digital access to course-related films. Swank does not currently support Safari on Macs. Please see Swank System Requirements or the Swank help page for more details.

JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year.

Health-related advertisements from 1850 to 1920, illustrating relationship between modern medicine & modern advertising.

Medicine, nursing, dentistry and the pre-clinical sciences research, includes bibliographic citations and author abstracts US and international journals.

Free online archive for preprints in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.

Access to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the National Library of Medicine.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Mental health & psychology encyclopedia and companion to the DSM-5.

Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Digital access to Series 1-5 of the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876

Access to scholarly journals, dissertations and book and media reviews about U.S. and Canadian history and culture. Coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Access to 20th century primary source materials including selected speeches, letters, legal decisions, government documents, lyrics, advertisements, literary scripts, recipes, scrapbooks, and cartoons. Continued in American Decades: 2000-2009.

Open-access database of dissertations and theses from the early 20th century to now.

Leading source of up-to-date demographic data about the United States people and economy.

Digitized archival materials from the Library of Congress, including legal and historical materials.

Covers over 140,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses.

Access to portraits of more than 18,700 men and women, updated quarterly, features hyperlinked articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Provides page images and searchable full text for approximately 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries (1681-1920).

Includes every issue published in volumes 1-9, from March 12, 1871 through February 22, 1880. The Capital is a primary record of the American Reconstruction Period.

Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.

Photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.

Collection of all known official and unofficial documents pertaining to the First Federal Congress.

Historical books, pamphlets and broadsides from 17th and 18th century America.

Personal accounts, such as diaries and letters, of people in North America from 1534-1850, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials.

Multilingual, primary source European works relating to the Americas.

Multilingual online collection of cultural items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Autobiographical testimonies and biographical data from the forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic during the slave trade era from the 16th to the 19th century.

Search the Illustrated London News together with The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985.

Annotated bibliographic citations to articles and book reviews plus index of journals on history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding U.S. and Canada). 

The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection covers 1912 to 1949. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century.

Provides more than 35 newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere in Latin America.

Access to scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries, documenting the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states.

Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005.

Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Provides unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present.

Free access to digitized images from NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photos.

Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.

Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings

Endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.

Digital archive of travel guides, museum catalogs, travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus.

Provides free lessons to learn 23 different languages.

Provides more than 35 newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere in Latin America.

Access to scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries, documenting the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states.

Provides unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present.

National & international papers include: The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star
Regional papers include: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News.
Television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, FOX News, NPR, and others.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Digital archive of travel guides, museum catalogs, travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus.

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Analysis and visualization tool for data regarding economic policy and debt, education, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor, poverty, and trade.

Collection of all known official and unofficial documents pertaining to the First Federal Congress.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important legal documents.

Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Access to treatises on early American and British law published from 1800 to 1926.

Proceedings of London's Central Criminal Court from 1674 to 1913.

Providing access to mathematical literature, reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.

Offers professionally crafted scores of art songs and arias as well as vocal repertoire from operas, choral works, and musical theatre in any key.

Streaming access to over classical music recordings. Includes the Music Library Association listing of essential sound recordings.

Access to articles and biographies from field of music, includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Video library of over productions, documentaries, workshops, interviews and analysis.

Education videos on classical music, opera, and dance, plus live event broadcasts.

Over 1.45 million tracks of music from the Naxos and other independent music labels; includes background information.

Comprehensive collection of recorded Jazz music. Click "log out" icon in top left of screen to end your session.

Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876

Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

Includes every issue published in volumes 1-9, from March 12, 1871 through February 22, 1880. The Capital is a primary record of the American Reconstruction Period.

Access to selected newspaper pages from 1836 to 1922. Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information on newspapers published between 1690-present.

Access to more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.

Full-text access to The Economist magazine, covering 1997 to present and related web content.

Search the Illustrated London News together with The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985.

Provides more than 35 newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere in Latin America.

Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005.

Indexing and full-text access to the Los Angeles Times. Covers 1985 to now.

The longest running newspaper in Malibu, California. Digital collection currently covers 1946-2010s.

Provides unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present.

National & international papers include: The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star
Regional papers include: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News.
Television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, FOX News, NPR, and others.

**Access requires logging in with a Pepperdine email on the NY Times homepage. Find step-by-step log-in instructions on the access guide to log in. **

Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Primary sources documenting the history of student organizing in the U.S.

Complete digital edition of The Times (London), including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Access to The New York Times (1980 - present), Washington Post (1987 - present), Los Angeles Times (1985 - present), Chicago Tribune, (1985 - present), and Wall Street Journal (1984 - present).

Access to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the National Library of Medicine.

Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.

Access to journals and e-books published by Springer Nature in life and behavioral sciences.

Medicine, nursing, dentistry and the pre-clinical sciences research, includes bibliographic citations and author abstracts US and international journals.

JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Greek and Latin texts with English translations. Requires profile sign-in.

First time users, to create profile and set password, visit  https://www.loebclassics.com/

Greek literary texts from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Users and visitors must create an account with a user name and password to access the TLG site.

Open Access PDF version of the previously published volumes A - M and O - P.

Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.

Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Entries on specific cultural and ethnoreligious groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on religions, holidays, customs, language, historical background and settlement patterns.

Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research collection of social science data. First time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account.

Access to scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries, documenting the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states.

Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Helps authors locate journals that might publish their article by providing information about journal submission guidelines, acceptance rates, review process and other pertinent information.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Medicine, nursing, dentistry and the pre-clinical sciences research, includes bibliographic citations and author abstracts US and international journals.

Comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in areas of psychology, education, business, and leadership.

Open-access database of dissertations and theses from the early 20th century to now.

Counseling and therapy streaming videos.

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.

Descriptive summaries, articles and citations on the development and assessment of psychological tests, scales, instruments and measures used in psychology research and teaching.

Access to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the National Library of Medicine.

Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Access to journals and e-books published by Springer Nature in life and behavioral sciences.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Mental health & psychology encyclopedia and companion to the DSM-5.

Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

Access to scholarly journals, dissertations and book and media reviews about U.S. and Canadian history and culture. Coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.

Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis links to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

A database with over hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from national, international, public, and private sources.

Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research collection of social science data. First time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account.

Census and survey data from around the world for integrated and comparative research. Must create a free account profile to create data sets.

Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Working papers & international research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.

Research reports on Children and Families, Education and the Arts, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Infrastructure and Transportation, International Affairs, Law and Business, National Security, Public Safety, Science and Technology.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Includes a book-by-book translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha.

Up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects, concepts and topics.

Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Open Access PDF version of the previously published volumes A - M and O - P.

Greek literary texts from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Users and visitors must create an account with a user name and password to access the TLG site.

Open access content in religious studies and related disciplines.

Resources focused on Greco-Roman world and classical Greek and Latin archaeology, atlas, texts and translations, text tools and lexica. Also includes Arabic, Germanic, 19th-century American, Renaissance, and Italian texts.

Digital access to Series 1-5 of the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

Greek and Latin texts with English translations. Requires profile sign-in.

First time users, to create profile and set password, visit  https://www.loebclassics.com/

Free access to the most authoritative religion statistics, data, and church membership reports from around the world.

Covers over 140,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses.

PDFs of books in the physical and social sciences published by National Academies Press since 1980. Includes full-text searching capabilities.

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Access to journals and e-books published by Springer Nature in life and behavioral sciences.

Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.

Open archive of working papers, preprints, and published papers in the social sciences.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering insight into theatre and performance studies.

Video library of over productions, documentaries, workshops, interviews and analysis.

Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Access to scholarly journals, dissertations and book and media reviews about U.S. and Canadian history and culture. Coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Annotated bibliographic citations to articles and book reviews plus index of journals on history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding U.S. and Canada). 

Academic journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports focused on women and gender issues. Some archival material as far back as 1974.

Collection of Open Access Gender Studies E-Books, including gender development, environment and gender, women's suffrage, gender and the law, sexual & gender identity disorders, gender in culture and society, gender politics, and sport and gender.

Open Access E-Books in the humanities, education, social and behavioral sciences, covering women's and gender history from the 12th century to today.

Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings

Access to poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century.

Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.

Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

Annotated bibliographic citations to articles and book reviews plus index of journals on history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding U.S. and Canada). 

Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.

Access to portraits of more than 18,700 men and women, updated quarterly, features hyperlinked articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects, concepts and topics.

Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Articles on notable people who shaped British history worldwide, from the 4th century BC to the year 2012.

A comprehensive overview of contemporary communication theory.

Covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important legal documents.

Entries on specific cultural and ethnoreligious groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on religions, holidays, customs, language, historical background and settlement patterns.

Clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging psychological topics

Multidisciplinary reference on families, marriages, and intimate relationships.

Authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium: the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over more than 600,000 words.

Foundational books in the humanities and social sciences, selected by scholars.

Includes a book-by-book translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha.

Up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects, concepts and topics.

Discovery tool for Open Access books.

Historical books, pamphlets and broadsides from 17th and 18th century America.

Includes e-books formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Streaming video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.

Video library of over productions, documentaries, workshops, interviews and analysis.

Multidisciplinary collection of curriculum-focused, streaming video titles.

An online streaming video service for universities with films, documentaries, and training videos.

Education videos on classical music, opera, and dance, plus live event broadcasts.

Library of Congress' vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible.

Streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering insight into theatre and performance studies.

Additional 20 high-quality video productions of classic theatre productions

Counseling and therapy streaming videos.

Digital access to course-related films. Swank does not currently support Safari on Macs. Please see Swank System Requirements or the Swank help page for more details.

Includes detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters, glimpses of daily life in the army and at home, anecdotes about key events and personages.

Access to 20th century primary source materials including selected speeches, letters, legal decisions, government documents, lyrics, advertisements, literary scripts, recipes, scrapbooks, and cartoons. Continued in American Decades: 2000-2009.

Digitized archival materials from the Library of Congress, including legal and historical materials.

Articles from major American authors including Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, Theodore Roosevelt, Ray Stannard Baker, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Henry Stanley, Ida Tarbell and Nellie Bly.

The Library of Congress American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture; traditional culture from around the world.

The Archives at Indiana University cover a wide range of cultural and geographical areas, and include commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music, folktales, interviews, and oral history, as well as videotapes, photographs, and manuscripts.

Recordings of music in the western concert tradition, opera and liturgical music, and the pre-Baroque repertories of Western Europe. The collection includes commercial discs, tapes of BBC and other radio broadcasts, test pressings, and rare or unpublished recordings.

Provides page images and searchable full text for approximately 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries (1681-1920).

Includes every issue published in volumes 1-9, from March 12, 1871 through February 22, 1880. The Capital is a primary record of the American Reconstruction Period.

Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.

Collection of all known official and unofficial documents pertaining to the First Federal Congress.

Access to more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.

Personal accounts, such as diaries and letters, of people in North America from 1534-1850, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials.

Information and links to the best primary and secondary texts in 18th century studies available in digital form, either freely on the Web or by subscription.

Multilingual, primary source European works relating to the Americas.

Autobiographical testimonies and biographical data from the forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic during the slave trade era from the 16th to the 19th century.

Focus on social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries including speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art.

Primary source documents on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Primary source documents on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Access to scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries, documenting the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states.

Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005.

Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

The longest running newspaper in Malibu, California. Digital collection currently covers 1946-2010s.

Health-related advertisements from 1850 to 1920, illustrating relationship between modern medicine & modern advertising.

Library of Congress' vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible.

Free access to digitized images from NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photos.

Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.

Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings

Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.

A complete and searchable digital collection of the Pepperdine University yearbook from 1939-2006, includes "Crest of a Golden Wave."

Historical science papers from the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific publisher, includes the first edition of the 1665 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.

Greek literary texts from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Users and visitors must create an account with a user name and password to access the TLG site.

Open Access PDF version of the previously published volumes A - M and O - P.

Complete digital edition of The Times (London), including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

The longest running newspaper in Malibu, California. Digital collection currently covers 1946-2010s.

Descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and the University of California (UC) campuses.

Open access repository for research and scholarly output by Pepperdine University departments and centers, includesFaculty Open Access Publications, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Undergraduate Student Research, and Pepperdine Journals.

High-resolution digital renditions of thousands of photographic prints, slides, and negatives, capturing the history of Pepperdine University from its 1937 founding to the present.

A complete and searchable digital collection of the Pepperdine University yearbook from 1939-2006, includes "Crest of a Golden Wave."

Primary sources documenting the history of student organizing in the U.S.

Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.

Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

The Cambridge University Press currently publishes 370 peer-reviewed academic journals containing the latest research from a wide range of subject areas. Access is provided to volumes from 2000-2016.

Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.

Focus on social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries including speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art.

Academic journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports focused on women and gender issues. Some archival material as far back as 1974.

Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Primary source documents on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.