Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Streaming video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, 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.
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.
U.S. & Canadian advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Concentrates on Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
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.
Archive of periodicals documenting the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922. Includes newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies. Trial ends June 4, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
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.
Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876
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.
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.
Includes a book-by-book translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha.
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.
Offers professionally crafted scores of art songs and arias as well as vocal repertoire from operas, choral works, and musical theatre in any key.
Free access to the most authoritative religion statistics, data, and church membership reports from around the world.
Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
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).
The personal papers of this important politician, scholar, and filmmaker, including his notes, correspondence, media clippings, and other ephemera, particularly while with the U.S. Information Agency in the 1960s, plus his documentary films.
Access to extensive data in the areas of labor, economics and statistics. Includes links to state and regional resources.
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.
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.
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.
Indexing and full-text access to the Chicago Tribune, including extensive coverage of national, international and local news. Covers 1985 to current date.
Access to selected newspaper pages from 1836 to 1922. Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information on newspapers published between 1690-present.
Includes publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Trial ends May 31, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
Provides data to measure consumer demand, target segmentation, evaluate locations and assess markets.
Streaming access to over classical music recordings. Includes the Music Library Association listing of essential sound recordings.
Electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and Computer Science.
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.
Articles on notable people who shaped British history worldwide, from the 4th century BC to the year 2012.
Compilation of statistical information on American education from prekindergarten through graduate school, including results of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) surveys.
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.
Full text scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages from 134 countries.
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.
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.
Full-text databases and popular databases ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases.
Full-text access to The Economist magazine, covering 1997 to present and related web content.
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.
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.
Access to literature and resources covering education topic from pre-K through graduate school, sponsored by the US Department of Education.
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.
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.
Coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bibliography on social sciences and humanities in Latin America, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
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).
Primary source documents on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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.
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.
Primary source documents on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. Trial ends May 31, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
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.
This resource is intended to provide practical guidance for students and instructors using primary sources to study and teach colonial and imperial history. Trial ends May 31, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
The finding aid for the Ivan Goff collection of television scripts is now available on the Online Archive of California (OAC).
JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year.
Extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals. JSTOR Alumni provides access to the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, and VII.
An online streaming video service for universities with films, documentaries, and training videos.
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.
Please note Pepperdine subscribes to NexisUni, the academic version of LexisNexis.
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.
Indexes scholarly resources covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
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/
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.
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.
Designed for high school libraries, contains high school magazines, full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and a School Image Collection.
Providing access to mathematical literature, reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
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.
Comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in areas of psychology, education, business, and leadership.
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.
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.
PDFs of books in the physical and social sciences published by National Academies Press since 1980. Includes full-text searching capabilities.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Access to Datalab, an online table and regression maker tools featuring 30+ federal education datasets, requires creating a free account.
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.
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.
Free access to digitized images from NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photos.
**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. **
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.
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 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
Working papers & international research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and the University of California (UC) campuses.
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.
Authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium: the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over more than 600,000 words.
Collection of academic and research journals covering humanities, social sciences, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine and law.
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."
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.
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.
Projections to 2028 of key education statistics for elementary and secondary schools.
Multidisciplinary collection of scholarly and trade journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports.
Includes e-books formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
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.
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.
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.
Note: Access to RefWorks ended in January 2022. It is possible to migrate your references from RefWorks to your new citation manager system.
Regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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.
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Practical tool for access to books, journals, videos and reference material for help understanding and choosing methods, designing research projects and writing up findings.
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 over sixty volumes of lyric poetry by Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832.
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.
Endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.
Visually display demographic data in the U.S. from 1790-present at a variety of geographic levels. For full functionality, create an account in order to create reports, maps and animations that can be downloaded. Trial ends July 31, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
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 .
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.
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.
The Graphic has been Pepperdine's primary student newspaper since the school's founding in 1937. In addition to campus news, the Graphic covers the City of Malibu, and offers student perspectives on national and cultural issues.
Complete digital edition of The Times (London), including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
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.
Refinitiv Workspace replaced ThompsonOne in 2021. For more details and registration instructions, please visit this guide.
Digital archive of travel guides, museum catalogs, travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus.
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).
Leading source of up-to-date demographic data about the United States people and economy.
Scholarly publications covering the humanities, social sciences and life and physical sciences.
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 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.**
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.
Analysis and visualization tool for data regarding economic policy and debt, education, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor, poverty, and trade.
Search tool from the U.S. Office of Scientific and Technical Information and the International Council of Scientific and Technical Information; search across multiple science sources at one time.
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