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

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

Primary Sources

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.

Ad Age
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Alternate Name(s):Advertising Age

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.

Ad*Access
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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.

Primary Sources

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.

Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness from peer-reviewed reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters.

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.

Primary Sources

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

Primary Sources

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

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

Provides access to peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences. Includes access to The ACS Style Guide.
Primary Sources

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

American Decades
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Primary Sources

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.

Multilingual

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 access to the APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology, and APA Addiction Syndrome Handbook.

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.

Primary Sources

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.

Primary Sources

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

Primary Sources

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.

A comprehensive, international resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, and architecture.

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

More than 1.8 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
Archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance.
Statistical Data

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

Includes theology and religious journals reflecting all major faiths, denominations and language groups, plus book reviews, essays, ministry reports and multimedia citations. Collection dates to 1949.

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IFC and the World Bank provide objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
Twenty different versions of the English Bible, including 12 full Bibles, five New Testament texts, two versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament.
Contains the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) dating back to 1985.
Free and open access to legacy literature in taxonomy and biodiversity.

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

Collection of peer reviewed journals in the fields of biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
A free online archive for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
Selection of 1,600 primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
Covering North America’s diverse religious traditions, provides peer-reviewed information on religious studies, anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, and history.
Includes titles in the area of Humanities & Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology & Sciences from 2000 to 2016, plus e-book collections:
Asian Studies, 2007-2014; Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East, and Early Christianity, 2007-2014 Classical Studies, 2007-2014 Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2007-2014 Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy, 2007-2014
Primary Sources

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.

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

Bruce Herschensohn Collection
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Primary Sources Special Collections

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.

Statistical Data

Access to extensive data in the areas of labor, economics and statistics. Includes links to state and regional resources.

Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses.
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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.

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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.

Primary Sources

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.

The Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library project shares inaccessible hazardous reaction information.
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Non-commercial subject specific open access repository for chemistry papers published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Open access to unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
Provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. CMOS includes the full contents of the 17th edition.

Indexing and full-text access to the Chicago Tribune, including extensive coverage of national, international and local news. Covers 1985 to current date.

A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, covers topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, and adoption.
Presents news and information for college and university faculty and students.

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.

Free online access to historical materials, primary sources and educational resources from museums, libraries and archives documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

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

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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.

Materials related to international affairs, starting from 1991, including working papers from universities and NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Content from CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with other peer-reviewed journals in communication, mass media, and related fields of study.
Published annually by U.S. embassies with several U.S. government agencies, present economic, political and market analyses of countries' commercial environments.

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

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An independent academic initiative, based at University of British Columbia, concerning the history of religions, and cultural history, around the world.
Source for breaking news in the entertainment industry.
New Statistical Data

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

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

Statistical Data

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

Musical text and the critical commentary of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
Primary Sources

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

Alumni Access

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

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

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Alternate Name(s):Indigenous Digital Archive’s Treaties Explorer
The full text of almost four hundred treaties ratified between Indian tribal nations and American governments from 1722 to 1869. Includes interactive features, including maps of cessions (lands ceded in each treaty).
Alumni Access

Discovery tool for Open Access books.

Alumni Access

Full text scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages from 134 countries.

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Doctoral dissertations and master's theses, from 1743 to the present. Full text for most dissertations since 1997.
Primary Sources

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

Duolingo
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Multilingual

Provides free lessons to learn 23 different languages.

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Includes books that were formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.
A collection of e-books from EBSCOhost.
Primary Sources

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

Primary Sources

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

Primary Sources

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 items published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700.

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

Research about the application and use of information technology in higher education. To access the ECAR publications you will need to create an EDUCAUSE profile (username and password).
Research articles in all areas related to economics.

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

Access to RePEc collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles, e-books, book chapters, and software. Does not contain full-text journal articles.
Subject coverage includes adult education, special education, multicultural/ethnic education, and teaching methods.
Collection of English or foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom from 1701-1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Primary Sources

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.

Peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences.
Abstracts and full text articles from academic journals covering marketing, management, human resources, economics, information management, operations, engineering, production and property, education, health and social care.
Overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel.
Essays by subject experts on foreign policy concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control.

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

Essays tracing the major religious families and traditions, plus directory of individual churches, religious bodies, and spiritual groups.
Articles and bibliographies related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present.
Presents the major theories, key concepts, disorders, and evidence-based practices of the field.

A comprehensive overview of contemporary communication theory.

Information relating to the fields of cross-cultural, cultural, and indigenous psychology.
Coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms.
Survey of more than 400 years of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States.

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

Entries on wide-ranging philosophical topics plus biographical entries on notable thinkers in field of philosophy.
Entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day.

Clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging psychological topics

Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era.
Access to cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.
Examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation.
Includes articles covering core issues such as race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy and abortion, the Internet, privacy and epidemiology.
Entries on the Bible and its origins, development, and influence.
Comprehensive, scholarly, authoritative, and critical overview of literature and theory comprising individual titles covering key literary genres, periods, and sub-disciplines.
Alumni Access

Access to literature and resources covering education topic from pre-K through graduate school, sponsored by the US Department of Education.

Multilingual Primary Sources

Multilingual, primary source European works relating to the Americas.

Multilingual

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.

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FactSet delivers access to data and analytics on global financial and economic markets, including financial information on over 70,000 public and private companies worldwide, around 2,000 historical financial metrics across 70+ countries, and historical data on 5,000 global indices
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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.

Covers journal articles, book reviews, and books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

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

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Multidisciplinary collection of curriculum-focused, streaming video titles.

Access leading digital magazines on your mobile device with Flipster, the digital magazine newsstand from EBSCO.
Electronic journal provided by The Council on Foreign Relations on international politics and other issues.
Provides an analysis of the legal systems of approximately 200 countries, plus links to a wide range of conventions and treaties.
Freedom Narratives
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Primary Sources

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.

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

Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Primary Sources

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.

Titles published by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute, including collection catalogues that highlight the Getty collections.
A virtual library of art history texts, digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
[Formerly GPO Access] A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office providing free electronic access to the information products produced by the Federal Government.

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

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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.

Entries on all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art.
Entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures including the qualities and historical uses of materials and definitions on art forms and styles.
Covers all aspects of Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Africa to Central, South, and East Asia, includes entries on artists, rulers, writers, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, calligraphy, textiles, and more.
Historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.
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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.

Revised and updated edition incorporates recent developments in the animal world.

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Bibliography on social sciences and humanities in Latin America, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

Provides toxicity data for over 5,700 potentially hazardous chemicals, plus information on emergency handling procedures, industrial hygiene, human exposure, detection methods, and regulatory requirements.
Access to consumer health magazines, pamphlets and reference books, including those by People's Medical Society, Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Scholarly full-text journals, dating back to 1975, focusing on medical disciplines.
Access to online research on legal history. Visit HeinOnline LibGuides for tips on searching this database.
Multilingual
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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 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.
Primary Sources

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

A comprehensive index of over 1 million hymn texts, hymn tunes, and hymnals.

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IBISWorld
Statistical Data
Statistical Data

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.

ICPSR Direct
Statistical Data
Statistical Data

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.

World's first illustrated weekly newspaper, news coverage of British and world events, including war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science.
Multilingual Primary Sources

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

Contains all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music without charge.
Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists and the extreme right-wing during the latter half of the 20th century.
Complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more.
Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes and reviews of the work in a given field or topic.

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.

Statistical Data

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

From Rutgers University, comprehensive library and archive of jazz and jazz-related materials.
Statistical Data

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

Rules, treaties and analysis regarding international humanitarian law.

Coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.
Entries include risk and crisis communication, legal and ethical considerations, biological approaches to healthcare communication, assessment tools, and communication strategies for specific diseases and illnesses.
Articles on all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition.
Statistical Data

Economic statistics for 269 countries from the International Monetary Fund.

Library of IPA transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Index and abstracts from political science periodicals published throughout the world since 2007.
Download free fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
Access to peer-reviewed reference source.
Open-access, peer-reviewed resources, including full text plays & poems, information on the life and times of Shakespeare, production information, and recent reviews of Shakespeare performances.

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.

Ivan Goff Collection of Television Scripts
Primary Sources Special Collections
Primary Sources Special Collections

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

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

JSTOR
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Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
JSTOR Alumni
Alumni Access
Alumni Access

Extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals. JSTOR Alumni provides access to the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, and VII.

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

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Multilingual

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.

Multilingual

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

Multilingual Primary Sources

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 access to historical legal publications from non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to preserving legal titles and government documents and making digital copies accessible.
Legal reference collections in the world, with links to almost every legal topic, constitutions and codes, court opinions, law by source or jurisdiction.

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.

Professional development resource available to all current faculty, staff, and students, offering over 1,000 online courses.
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and around the world.
Full-text poems and poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Loeb Classical Library
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Primary Sources

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/

Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2010.

Every issue from 1881-1990 with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.

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

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.

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Multidisciplinary reference on families, marriages, and intimate relationships.

Primary Sources

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

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

Malibu Times Collection
Special Collections
Special Collections

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.

MathSciNet
Statistical Data
Statistical Data

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

Features historical trade publications from film, broadcast TV and radio, among them The Film Daily (1918–1936), International Photographer (1929–1941), and Moving Picture World.
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Education videos on classical music, opera, and dance, plus live event broadcasts.

Primary Sources

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.

Consumer website with medical information and updates from the National Library of Medicine.

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

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

Multilingual

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.

Journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

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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.

Articles on management practices, organizational operations and technology.
Information on over 7,000 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
Coverage is international and includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present.

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

Books, public policy reports and conference proceedings on computers, information technology, and public policy.
National Center for Education Statistics
Required to Register Statistical Data
Required to Register Statistical Data

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.

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

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

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Additional 20 high-quality video productions of classic theatre productions

Weekly journal of peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology
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Over 1.45 million tracks of music from the Naxos and other independent music labels; includes background information.

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

Pre-print (not yet peer-reviewed) research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit engaged in quantitative analysis of the American economy.
Entries on persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities, includes biographies of contemporary religious figures, photos, maps, and illustrations.
Provides concepts and terms related to economics.
Article, book and biblical software abstracts pertaining to the New Testament, dating back to 1985.
Primary Sources

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

Featured

**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.

Full-text British 19th century periodicals: Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature (1806-1837), Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman's Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publisher's Circular (1880-1890).
Primary Sources

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.

Primary Sources

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

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

Old Bailey
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Primary Sources

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

Abstracts for journal articles and books related to Old Testament studies, covering antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and more, coverage back to 1978.
Special Collections

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 about modern editions - in print and online - of medieval primary sources.

Open access content in religious studies and related disciplines.

Alumni Access

Open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

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

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Featured Primary Sources Statistical Data
Featured Primary Sources Statistical Data

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

Borrow and read free e-books using your phone, tablet, or computer. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Access to a collection of nursing books plus these journals: Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders; British Journal of Sports Medicine; Exercise & Sport Sciences Reviews; Family & Community Health; Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease; Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise; Nutrition Today; Strength & Conditioning Journal; Topics in Clinical Nutrition
Oxford University Press's academic research platform, providing access to books and journals. To limit to items available to Pepperdine patrons, select "All content I have access to" under "Availability"
Access to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

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

Reference work on evolution of Western classical music by Richard Taruskin.
A legal encyclopedia that includes historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems.
Comprehensive survey of the full range of historical, political, theoretical and philosophical issues relating to peace and conflict.

Collection of academic and research journals covering humanities, social sciences, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine and law.

Includes the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Access to reference works such as Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology.

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Search ancient Greek inscriptions and papyri held at Duke University, the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Unicode 4 is used to display the Greek characters and the keyboard emulates an Ibycus keyboard.
Encyclopedia of international law including diplomatic law, criminal law, and human rights.
Market research reports on countries, consumers and industries from Euromonitor International. Historic data from 1997 plus up-to-date forecast models including industry reports and market share data. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Access to randomized trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource

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.

Pepperdine University Archives Photograph Collection
Primary Sources Special Collections
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource
Primary Sources Special Collections
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource

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.

Pepperdine Yearbook Collection
Primary Sources Special Collections
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource
Primary Sources Special Collections
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource

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

Multilingual

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.

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The Syriac translation of the Old Testament made on the basis of the Hebrew text during the second century CE
Abstracts from books and journals in areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic, plus philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Scholarly journal covering entire discipline of philosophy.
Index, bibliography and open access archive of philosophy journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages.
Index of worldwide literature on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events.
Open-access, peer-reviewed journals across all areas of science and medicine.
Policy research working papers and pre-prints (not yet peer-reviewed).
CQ Roll Call's information on members of the U.S. Congress and their districts, including profiles, constituency data, apportionment, and redistricting.
Contains full text for elementary school magazines including Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack and Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider and SuperScience.
Source for business and financial research on private companies, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies.
Non-biased pros and cons of debatable issues, plus reference information relevant to those issues.

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.

Statistical Data

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

Congressional materials from 1789 to now.

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.

Select compiled U.S. Congressional legislative histories.
Preprint repository for psychological sciences.
From the American Psychological Association (APA), full text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in psychology from 1894 to the present.
Portal featuring DSM-V-TR, plus a collection of psychiatric references and journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, self-assessment tools, and clinical & research news.
  • This database features streaming video.

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.

PubMed
Alumni Access
Alumni Access

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

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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.

Indexing includes full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™.

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.

RefWorks (New Version)

Note: Access to RefWorks ended in January 2022.  It is possible to migrate your references from RefWorks to your new citation manager system.

Collection of national and international case law, treaties, country-specific news and reports, maintained by the United Nations Refugee Agency and updated daily.

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

Index to serials and lectureships published by the Christian College Librarians since 1975.
All issues of this American Civil War-era newspaper from November 1860 through December 1865.
Royal Society Journal
Primary Sources
Primary Sources

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.

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Access to research products including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives.
Featured

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.

Introduction to film and film studies, covering production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.
Peer-reviewed articles, original research reports, news sections, editorials, and special issues devoted to science-related topics.
Access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journals.
Online access to databases, including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCAT, and MEDLINE.
Users must register to use SciFinder Scholar.
This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Electronic, full-text reports processed by the U.S. Department of Energy, topics include physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environment, energy, engineering, computer and information science, and renewable energy.
Scopus
Featured
Featured

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 Sources

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

Yearbook of Shakespeare studies, productions, reviews and criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays.
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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.

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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.

Primary Sources

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

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

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.

Specialized research networks in the social sciences, covering accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, marketing and management.
Access to peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.

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

Access to accurate, up-to-date media information including detailed ad rates, dates and contact data plus demographic information, plus Claritas 360 platform.
Reference work written, reviewed, and maintained by professional philosophers.
Statista
Featured Statistical Data
Featured Statistical Data

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

Student Activism
Primary Sources
Primary Sources

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

  • This database features streaming video.

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.

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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.

Access to peer reviewed journals covering Behavioral Science; Education; Business, Management & Economics; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Politics, International Relations; Sociology; Sport, Leisure & Tourism.

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

Provides indexing and abstracts for teacher and administrator trade journals.
Provides access to twenty historic Catholic newspapers and news agencies from across the country from as early as the 1830s.
The Graphic
Special Collections
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource
Special Collections
  • Pepperdine-focused e-resource

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.

Primary Sources

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

Digital library of public domain books, periodicals, audio recordings and special collections on theology and religion.

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

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
Multilingual Primary Sources
Multilingual Primary Sources

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.

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Multilingual Primary Sources
Multilingual Primary Sources

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

ThomsonOne Research

Refinitiv Workspace replaced ThompsonOne in 2021. For more details and registration instructions, please visit this guide.

Primary Sources

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

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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).

Unbiased forecasts for the economies of California and the United States.
Full-text as well as status of treaties filed with the U.N. Secretary-General.
Statistical Data

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.

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

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**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.

Full text access from 1987 to current date.
Index, with citations, to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century.
Statistical Data

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.

World DataBank
Statistical Data
Statistical Data

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

Access to a country-by-country survey of educational systems of 233 countries.
OCLC's Online Union Catalog contains bibliographic records of all types of materials owned by libraries around the world.
Information on 197 countries and dependencies on topics from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics.

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.

Digital access to American fiction from 1837-1888, including work by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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