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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles, historical reviews, abstracts, and indexing from content as far back as 1867.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Includes a variety of streaming videos including: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations.

Subject: Chemistry
Content/Description: Formerly the ACS Style Guide, this resource provides guidance for scholarly writing and publishing in fields related to chemistry.

Subject: Agriculture
Content/Description: Includes citations, in-depth articles, theses, patents, audiovisual content, and technical reports on agriculture, forestry, and animal science from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Library.
Subject: The Sciences
Content/Description: For science-related majors, this resource includes peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, booklets, pamphlets, original research, and book excerpts on complementary and alternative medicine.
Subject: History 
Content/Description: Covers the world's scholarly literature by providing journal articles and book excerpts on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada as far back as 1910.
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Alternate Name(s):Newsbank
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Full text access to newspapers from across the country. Includes Holland Sentinel, Grand Rapids Press, and Detroit News.
Subject: History
Content/Description: A collection of primary sources from American magazines and journals on history and culture from 1693 to 1912. Its magazine and journal articles and digitized images cover advertising, health, social and religious issues, science, and slavery.
Subject: Chemistry
Content/Description: The complete set of American Chemical Society Journals.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides electronic access to dissertations accepted by American Universities from 1933 to 1955.
Please note: the link above is tied to a profile with other Hope College EBSCOhost databases. For true open access, please access the database at: http://www.opendissertations.com
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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Ancestry.com is an online genealogy resource that includes census data, military service info, marriage records, death records, and more.
Please Note: This resource is limited to 5 simultaneous users. If access is unavailable, please try again later.

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Content/Description: Provides articles from Hope's student newpaper, the Anchor.

Alternate Name(s):lannee L'Année Philologique
Subject: English, History, Linguistics
Content/Description: Provides journal articles and special reports related to the history, language, literature, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.
Subject: Psychology
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
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Alternate Name(s):Psyc INFO PsycINFO
Subject: Psychology
Content/Description: Provides access to journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports.
Please Note: Dissertations and books comprise 20% of the citations in this database. To limit your search results to journal articles from your search results, select this limit for scholarly journal articles.
Subject: The Sciences
Content/Description: Offers full-text journal articles and citations from trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conferences. Covers research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines.
Subject: Art & Art History
Content/Description: Created from a merger of databases, this resource contains full-text journal articles and books. It also provides digitized images of fine, decorative and commercial art as well as coverage of architecture and architectural design.
Subject: Art & Art History
Content/Description: Searches across multiple art databases for peer-reviewed journals, full-text articles, and periodicals relating to art and art history.

Subject: Art & Art History 
Content/Description: Contains citations for journal articles, magazine articles, and book reviews from historic art periodicals (pre-1984) chronicling over a half a century of art literature.

Subject: Interdisciplinary & nbsp;
Content/Description: Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Subject: The Humanities 
Content/Description: Provides access to journal articles in the Arts, Humanities, Language (including Linguistics), Poetry, Music, Dance, History, Philosophy, Archaeology, Architecture, Religion, Film, Theater, and Radio.

Alternate Name(s):artstore
Subject: Art & Art History 
Content/Description: Contains downloadable images for educational use from museums, archives, scholars, and artists. Also provides tools for viewing, exporting, and creating citations for images. 
Subject: Mathematics & Statistics, Physics
Content/Description: Contains electronic research papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, and economics.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text articles for the subject areas most relevant to two-year college programs, including biotechnology, graphic arts, criminal justice and veterinary assisting.
Subject: Religion and Theology
Content/Description: Provides journal articles and book excerpts on religious and theological studies.
Subject: Vocational Resources
Content/Description: Provides data on businesses, executives, jobs, residents, and managers within the state of Michigan.
Please note: Available only from a Michigan IP address.
Subject: Engineering/Mechanics
Content/Description: Provides service and repair information for domestic and imported vehicles including step-by-step repair information, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, and recalls. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM).

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Subject: History, Religion, Theology
Content/Description: Contains full-text journal articles from a collected series of biblical journals.
Subject: Art & Art History
Content/Description: Provides books, articles, and periodicals relating to international art.
Please Note: These resources are not linked to "Find Full Text."
Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Contains full-text biographies from Biography magazines as well as narrative biographies.
Alternate Name(s):Bio Med Central
Subject: Biology
Content/Description: Contains scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles on biomedicine, mathematics, engineering, and other physical sciences.
Alternate Name(s):Bio One Complete
Subject: Biology
Content/Description: Full text articles from biology and bioscience research journals.
Please note: This resource has been cancelled and no new content will be added after 6/30/2020
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from media sources about Black Americans.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Nonfiction content geared for K-12 students. Includes encyclopedia articles, images, and eBooks,.

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Browse tables of contents and create alerts for all Hope College subscribed e-journals

Subject: Business
Content/Description: Offers summaries of business books so that users can keep up with popular business books.
Subject: Business
Content/Description: Provides multiple scholarly articles, book chapters, and digitized images from multiple Business databases.
Subject: Business
Content/Description: Contains full text, scholarly business journal articles, including peer-reviewed business publications. Also provides company profiles and industry reports.

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Subject: The Sciences
Content/Description: Provides patient care information relating to standard treatments for a variety of diseases and conditions, including general information on the disease/condition, possible causes, signs and symptoms, and standard means of care and support.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text content journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books pertaining to the countries and people of the Caribbean.
Subject: Chemistry
Content/Description: Provides bibliographic information for full journal titles by using their abbreviation, intended for researchers and librarians.
Alternate Name(s):American FactFinder

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides economic and population-related data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Includes data regarding people and housing.
 

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides traditional and digital resources for research and teaching available through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text journal articles, periodicals, and book chapters related to central and eastern European countries. Includes articles on business, economics, medical sciences, political science, law, literature, linguistics, history, and sociology.
Alternate Name(s):RIA Checkpoint
Subject: Accounting
Content/Description: Includes resources to help calculate taxes, loans, and other financial numbers, and news related to taxes and accounting.
Alternate Name(s):The Chicago Manual of Style Online

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Explains all aspects of Chicago Style writing and publishing, including citation guides for notes and bibliographies of the 17th and 18th editions.

Alternate Name(s):Historical Chicago Tribune
Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides full-text newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1998.

Subject: History 
Content/Description: Intended for Protestant missionaries in China, the Chinese Recorder contains newspaper articles covering the rise of communism, the battle against opium, multiple rebellions, and the rise of Christianity.

Subject: Vocational Resources 
Content/Description:Contains current news, advice columns, discussion forums, job abs, and career-building tools for those working in higher education.

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Subject: Nursing
Content/Description: Provides journal articles, book chapters, and periodicals for nursing and health-related sciences

Content/Description: Publications covering civil rights in the United States.
Subject: Nursing, Kinesiology
Content/Description: Provides systematic reviews for clinical decision-making in healthcare from a collection of databases. Open Access Note: Cochrane Reviews published from February 2013 - 12 months after publication are free to view in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). Protocols for Cochrane Reviews published after February 2013 are free to view immediately upon publication. Please note: This resource has been cancelled and access to content not available as green or gold open access will end on 12/31/2024.
Subject: Communication
Content/Description: Contains scholarly journals, magazines, and discussions in the fields of mass media and communication
Subject: Health
Content/Description: Provides content covering mainstream medicine as well as complementary, holistic, and integrated treatments.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text reference books on history, psychology, health, and medicine.

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Alternate Name(s):Dance in Video
Subject: Dance
Content/Description: Contains a collection of videos of dance productions and workshops covering a range of styles and eras for the study of 20th century concert dance.

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides a list of award-winning children's literature compiled by an academic librarian.

Alternate Name(s):Demographics Now Gale Business: DemographicsNow
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides demographic (population) data including income, housing, race, age, education, consumer expenditures, and businesses.
Please Note: Access to this resource will end on March 28, 2025

Subject: The Sciences 
Content/Description: Contains patent information such as articles, data, and citations from a series of databases.

Subject: English, Linguistics 
Content/Description: Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries of the English language. This resource is currently in process and includes completed entries from A-Le.
Alternate Name(s):Digital Theater Plus
Subject: Theatre
Content/Description: Contains full theatrical productions along with documentaries, ballets, operas, and interviews with theatre-makers.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides open access to peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles covering a wide range of subjects.
Content/Description: Fifty Duke humanities and social science journals.
Please note: This resource has been cancelled and no new content will be added after 6/30/2020

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains digitized images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides a collection of academic ebooks with unlimited access on a broad range of academic subjects.
Subject: Business, Economics
Content/Description: Provides ebooks on business research, special projects, and general concepts while encompassing topics such as marketing, finance, supply chain management, career and personal growth, communication, networking, and entrepreneurship.
Alternate Name(s):Ebrary Academic Complete
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Includes full-text access to ebooks on a wide variety of subjects. Ebooks can be downloaded with full text and printed in limited quantities.
Find out more about annotating/taking notes in ebooks.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides high school level ebooks with unlimited access which covers academic subjects such as history, language, literature, science & technology.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides K-8 fiction and nonfiction ebooks - for school and for fun. Includes Picture books, homework topics, and language learning.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Features fiction and nonfiction ebooks for adults and juveniles containing a wide range of subjects and topics to meet both research and recreational needs. All ebooks in this collection include unlimited access.

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides access to all ebooks on the EBSCOhost platform.

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides journal articles, book chapters, videos, newspaper articles, reviews, and some full-text materials through a collection of databases.
Subject: Economics
Content/Description: Provides journal articles, books, and working papers relating to economics.
Alternate Name(s):The Economist

Subject: Economics, News
Content/Description: Provides unlimited access to The Economist and its mobile app. For more information or to get help registering, view our guide. Once registered, from the "My Economist" link on the upper right of your screen, select "My Account" to update your preferences, settings, and select newsletters.
Please note: We gratefully acknowledge that this resource is brought to you in part by the Department of Economics and Business.

Subject: Education
Content/Description: Includes full-text scholarly journal articles, periodicals, and reviews. Covers all levels of education - from early childhood to higher education - as well as educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Subject: Nursing
Content/Description: Provides international journal articles relating to nursing and health research.

Subject: Vocational Resources 
Content/Description: Provides a list of available Michigan jobs.

Subject: Modern Languages
Content/Description: Provides bilingual resources for children from preschool to fifth grade, including a visual dictionary, encyclopedia articles, and Spanish language newspapers.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, and multimedia for multiple subjects.
Subject: Business
Content/Description: Provides full text access to periodicals, reference books, case studies, videos, and various company profiles in the areas of entrepreneurship and small businesses.
  • Access Funded by the Michigan eLibrary (MeL)
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text journal articles, videos, citations, and documents from environmental educators on agriculture, ecosystems, energy, natural resources, social impacts, marine science, pollution & waste management, environmental laws and tech.
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Subject: Education
Content/Description: Contains journal articles and unpublished research reports in education. ERIC can also be accessed via the U.S. Department of Education interface or via ProQuest.
Also available: ERIC Documents on Microfiche: ED284956 (Jan. 1988) - ED476550 (Dec. 2003)
  • Open Access Content
Subject: History
Content/Description: An archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. Includes primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Essays, articles, and reports covering the history of race.
Please note: the link above is tied to a profile with other Hope College EBSCOhost databases. For true open access, please access the database at: https://research.ebsco.com/c/zx53p3/topics/

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Subject: Film 
Content/Description: Provides full text journal articles, periodicals, books, and selected coverage of multiple publications. Includes a variety of movie reviews and an image collection from the MPTV Image Archive.

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: A collection of streaming film relating to the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

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  • Access Funded by the Michigan eLibrary (MeL)

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides information relating to National U.S. Organizations including the date the organization was founded, email addresses, and citations.

Alternate Name(s):Gale Virtual Reference Library; GVRL
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides various ebooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Subject:Literature 
Content/Description: Search by author, title, or work to find articles which discuss the subject in detail, many of which are held in print at Hope.

Subject: Humanities
Content/Description: Provides a series of primary sources including diary entries, books, and newspaper articles from a series of databases.
Subject: Music
Content/Description:online reference resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.

Subject: Women’s & Gender Studies
Content/Description: Contains scholarly journal articles, books, periodicals, and reviews from multiple gender databases covering issues of sex and gender diversity.

Subject: Religion
Content/Description: Provides periodicals of sermons from various groups that address broad religious themes and at the time appealed to a general readership.
  • Open Access Content

Content/Description: Includes digitized content from newspaper publications collected by the Hoover Institution and now housed at Stanford Libraries. Collections Included: El Mundo Digital Archive, Imperial Russian Newspapers, Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers, Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, South Asian Newspapers, Southeast Asian Newspapers

Alternate Name(s):GoinGlobal
Subject: Vocational Resources
Content/Description: Provides access to location-specific employment and career information for the US and abroad as well as career guides, corporate profiles, international internships, and job openings.

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Search the open web for scholarly articles, books and book previews, theses, and abstracts. Access to some full-text articles may not be available from off-campus. Please contact a librarian for access issues.

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to books and ebooks, all of which are U.S. government publications, available through libraries worldwide.
The traditional FirstSearch interface is also available.
Alternate Name(s):Green File
Subject: Environmental Science
Content/Description: Provides scholarly articles, periodicals, reviews, pamphlets, and newsletters relating to environmental science.
Alternate Name(s):Oxford Music Online
Subject: Music
Content/Description: Includes full text access to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Subject: Humanities
Content/Description: Includes periodicals, key federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and some external resources on guns in America.

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Subject: History
Content/Description: Provides illustrations, photographs, maps, and issues of Harper's Weekly publications, a prominent American 19th century newspaper.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains access to primary sources (public domain) for multiple subjects.
Subject: Health Sciences
Content/Description: Provides full text journals, scholarly books, abstracts, essays, and periodicals from general health, nutrition and professional health publications. Also includes information on the medical sciences, food science and nutrition, childcare, and sports medicine.
Subject: Nursing
Content/Description: Provides peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles focusing on multiple medical disciplines and includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to relevant drug information for all U.S. prescription drugs, supplements, and over-the-counter products.
Subject: History
Content/Description: Provides scholarly journal articles covering world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

Subject: History 
Content/Description: Provides historical American population and housing information from The Census Bureau.

Subject: History
Content/Description: Provides full text content from books, journal articles, reviews, periodicals, historical documents, biographies, and photos from any historical period.
Subject: Vocational Resources
Content/Description: Contains "how-to" instructions and creative ideas for a wide variety of hobbies, including arts & crafts, collections, games, model building, needlework, outdoor activities, and scrapbooking.

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides newspaper articles published in Holland, Michigan for the English-speaking people in the area.

Subject: Vocational Resources
Content/Description: Provides home improvement and repair information from magazine articles and reference books covering instructions, tips, and suggestions for a variety of projects. Includes projects such as the outdoors, remodeling, plumbing, and maintenance.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Collects scholarly and creative work produced by members of the Hope College community. Also contains digitized versions of college publications like the Anchor.
Subject: Humanities
Content/Description: Provides a wide collection of ebooks relating to the humanities and related social sciences.
Subject: Humanities
Content/Description: Provides featured articles, books, reviews, bibliographies, musicals and operas, dance programs, obituaries, interviews, and abstracts for scholarly sources in the humanities.

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Alternate Name(s):IBIS World
Subject: Marketing
Content/Description: Provides a collection of industry market research reports including their major products and services and the type of industry.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains alternative press newspaper, magazine, and journal articles drawn from the special collections of participating libraries and produced by marginalized groups such as feminists, Native Americans, LGBT activists, Hispanics, and more during the last half of the 20th century.
Subject: Theater
Content/Description: Provides an easy way to search plays published in anthologies or collections; ignore the call number listed and check Hope Primo instead for availability.
Subject: Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology, Economics
Content/Description: Contains annotated bibliographies to journal articles, books, and reviews in over 100 languages and countries, focusing on the social sciences.

Subject: Theatre, Dance
Content/Description: Contains annotated bibliographies linking to full-text documents for articles, reviews, books, and dissertation abstracts on global theatre and performance, created by the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College.

Subject: English, History, Theatre, Humanities 
Content/Description: Includes articles, images, video, and fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's work, records of plays in performance, production artifacts, and historical information about Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance.
Alternate Name(s):International Phonetic Alphabet Source
Subject: Music
Content/Description: The library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Subject: History
Content/Description: Contains bibliographic entries and full-text links to journal articles and books about the period A.D. 400-1700.
Please note: Iter is now available to search through the EBSCOhost interface.

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Subject: History, Religion
Content/Description: Contains articles and full-text documents from journals, periodicals and newspapers, monographs, and biographies of historical and contemporary Jewish people. Includes the Jewish Telegraphic Agency database from 1922 to present.
Subject: Career Services
Content/Description: Features articles, tutorials, ebooks and other tools to aid in career/job searching and scholarship finding.
Please note: You must create an account to use this resource.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Includes articles, books, reviews and other sources. "Data for Research" provides interactive content. "Workspace" saves and shares sources. "Text Analyzer" searches for sources with user documents. "Understanding Series" provides sources quoting selected text.
Subject: History, Interdisciplinary, Humanities
Content/Description: Digitized images and documents from collections in the Hope College Archives & Special Collections.

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: An on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines.

Subject: Art & Art History
Content/Description: Provides online access to images of items in the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum's diverse collection.

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Content/Description: Poetry, short fiction, novels, and plays useful in the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.

Alternate Name(s):Learning Express Library
Subject: College/Career Prep
Content/Description: Includes a resume builder, courses, practice tests, tutorials, eBooks, and flashcards for a wide range of career goals.
Please note: Available only from a Michigan IP address. Must create a user account to access the resources.
Subject: Law
Content/Description: Provides articles, tools and interview transcriptions and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide range of legal issues, and full-text legal reference books. Contains the "Legal Forms by U.S. State" tool for users to search documents by subject.
Subject: Law
Content/Description: Provides full-text articles, books and video from scholarly law journals, reviews, yearbooks, institutes, and university publications. This database includes the Index to Legal Periodicals and Books for 1908 forward.

Subject: Women’s & Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Includes full-text articles, interview transcriptions and primary source documents from many of the top LGBT publications.

Subject: Librarianship, Information Science
Content/Description: Includes books, reviews, theses, dissertations, pamphlets and full-text library and information science periodicals published internationally, with an emphasis on the U.S.
Subject: Librarianship, Information Science
Content/Description: Contains bibliography and full-text links to articles, reviews, books, conference papers and video in information science studies.
Subject: English, Literature, Humanities 
Content/Description: Contains articles, books, essays, and videos concerning author biographies, plot summaries, and analyst reviews of literature.
Subject: English, Literature, Humanities
Content/Description: Contains full-text literery criticism articles, books, essays, interviews, reviews and excerpts covering periods from classical to contemporary and includes American, British, and world literature.
Alternate Name(s):Times Digital Archive
Subject: History, Journalism, Communication
Content/Description: Contains the London Times' comprehensive published content (i.e. articles, editorials, letters to the editor, reports, advertisements, obituaries, reviews) spanning the length of its operation.

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Subject: Journalism, Communication, Business
Content/Description: Contains article and video publication archives from the magazines: Fortune (1930-2000), Life (1936-2000), Time (1923-2000), U.S. News & World Report (1926-1984), The Atlantic (1857-2014), and Bloomberg Businessweek (1929-2000).
Subject: History, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains articles, primary sources, monographs, and documents from historic American journals and magazines from the antebellum period to reconstruction with links to HathiTrust full-text versions.
Subject: History, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains articles, primary sources, and books from historic American journals and magazines from the antebellum period to reconstruction.
Subject: Education, Journalism, Communication
Content/Description: Contains articles, full-text documents, primary sources, images, maps, pdfs and video for high school magazines and biographies, with an image collection and full-text files (back to 1975) for magazines.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text articles, primary sources, reference books, videos, images, maps and flags for a variety of subjects (i.e. business, sciences, health and fitness, multicultural issues).
Alternate Name(s):Math Sci Net
Subject: Mathematics & Statistics Science
Content/Description: Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, and reviews for mathematical science literature, with links to full-text documents.
New to MathSciNet? Check out these tutorials.
New! MathSciNet is now available via the EBSCOhost interface

Subject: Nursing, Health, Medicine
Content/Description: Features peer-reviewed articles on the health-care system, medicine, nursing, dentistry, and pre-clinical studies, with biomedical journals.

Subject: Nursing, Health, Medicine
Content/Description: Features peer-reviewed articles on the health-care system, medicine, nursing, dentistry, and pre-clinical studies, with biomedical journals.
  • Access Funded by the Michigan eLibrary (MeL)
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles, books, images, etc. and features an Inter-Library book loaning system with participating Michigan libraries.
Subject: Nursing, Health, Medicine
Content/Description: Information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care & alternative medicine.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles with reading level indicators for middle school magazines, biographies, historical essays, student pamphlets, primary source documents from American History, and image collections with photos, maps, and flags
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: A collection of over 2,600 ebooks covering STEAM, humanities, and social sciences, with new titles being added regularly.
Subject: Literature, Humanities
Content/Description: Citations from journals, series, and book publishers. Covers literature and cricitism, language and linguistics, folklore, dramatic arts, historical printing and publishing, rhetoric, composition, and language/literature instruction.
Content/Description: A multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content from 500 producers and distributors around the world.
Subject: History, Genealogy
Content/Description: Contains genealogy resources, census, government and historical records, and photographs from 48 countries. The search interface is available in 40 languages. New collections are added monthly.

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Subject: Astrophysics, Sciences
Content/Description: Citations and full-text in astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, physics, & geophysics.
Subject: Economics
Content/Description: Contains citations and full-text documents for papers in development.
Subject: History, Genealogy
Content/Description: Provides access to historical global Census information. Please note: Requires registration, which is free and immediate.
Subject: Theatre
Content/Description: Search, read and download scripts, view writer profiles, contact writers, read script recommendations from professionals throughout the field.
Subject: History, Journalism 
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from the New York Times newspaper.

Subject: Journalism
Content/Description: Provides unlimited access to NYTimes.com and its mobile apps.
For more information or to get help registering, view our guide. Once you've created a NY Times account, log in for additional features

Subject: Journalism
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from regional, national, and international newspapers. Also includes full-text video and radio transcripts from CBS News, Fox News, NPR, etc.
Subject: History
Content/Description: Includes full-text documents and maps in collections I-IV: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; European Literature, 1790-1840.
Subject: English, Education, Literature
Content/Description: Contains citations and synopses of K-8 books, with search filters for subject, age, awards, reading levels, and Common Core standards.
Subject: Literature, Education,
Content/Description: Contains citations and synopses of fiction and nonfiction titles.

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Includes records of digitized books, articles and multimedia from open-archive collections worldwide.
Subject: Political Science, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to primary sources, media, journal articles, and biographies that investigate viewpoints on various topics.

Content/Description: Weekly Democratic newspaper published in Holland, Michigan.
Coverage: 1892-1905

Alternate Name(s):Ovid
Subject: Nursing
Content/Description: Contains peer-reviewed journals on medicine and the healthcare profession.
Subject: English
Content/Description: Contains definitions, history, and pronunciations of English-language words, updated every 3 months.
A print version is available at the research help desk.
Subject: History, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion
Content/Description: Contains current scholarly review essays that argue on the future direction of debate on a given topic.
Content/Description: Reference books.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to full-text journals in all academic disciplines.

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains access to papers presented at conferences worldwide.
The traditional FirstSearch interface is also available.
Subject: Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences
Content/Description:Includes access to full-image, full-text journals.
Subject: Philosophy
Content/Description: Contains full-text scholarly articles and video.
Subject: Philosophy
Content/Description: Podcasts on a wide variety of issues ranging from popular culture to our beliefs about science, morality, and the human condition. Philosophy Talk is produced by KALW on behalf of Stanford University, as part of its Public Humanities Initiative.
Subject: Philosophy
Content/Description: Grants access to online academic articles, archives and books.
Subject: Physics, Sciences
Content/Description: Provides access to archived journal collections, updated yearly.
Subject: English, Arts, Humanities
Content/Description: Contains full-text poetry and short stories from antiquity to the present, with supplements covering subject, forms, themes, techniques, and literary periods, schools, and movements.
Subject: Political Science, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains articles of diverse viewpoints and essays with supplemental questions and material that aid in debating, developing arguments, writing position papers, and developing critical thinking skills.
Subject: Political Science
Content/Description: Provides full text journals, abstracts, reference books, monographs, and conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
Subject: Education
Content/Description: Provides full text magazines with reading level indicators (Lexiles) for elementary school research.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains access to worldwide conference proceedings. The traditional FirstSearch interface is also available.
Subject: Education
Content/Description: Contains journals, including peer-reviewed titles, and educational reports.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Content/Description: Contains full-text journals
Alternate Name(s):ABI/INFORM
Subject: Business, Economics, History
Content/Description: Provides full-text newspaper and journal articles, dissertations, working papers, market research reports, and downloadable data.

Subject: Social Sciences 
Content/Description: Grants access to articles and media across 11 databases.

Subject: Psychology
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles on topics including emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Subject: Psychology
Content/Description: Contains abstracts and some full-text articles.
Subject: Psychology
Content/Description: Provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma. Produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD.

Subject: Nursing, Healthcare, Medicine 
Content/Description: Provides abstracts, articles, books, reviews, and data from the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health.

 new interface: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=mihopelib (1/1/2020)  old interface: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=mihopelib

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Subject: Education, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains resources, articles and quizzes that promote grammar and reading comprehension for elementary and middle schoolers. Also offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills.
Subject: History, Journalism, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Articles with full-text links and video from publications spanning a wide range of topics and dates.
Subject: World Language & Cultures, Ethnic/Multicultural Studies, Humanities, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains reference resources for Spanish speakers on topics relevant to Latin America, Spain, and the United States.
Subject: Business
Content/Description: Includes regional business publications within the United States. Features PDF full text of the Grand Rapids Business Journal, 1995 - present.
Subject: Music, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides abstracts to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other coverage of Western and Eastern classical, pop, folk, and jazz music scholarship.

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to full-text journals in a variety of subjects.

Subject: Nursing, The Sciences
Content/Description: Provides access to citations from scientific journals.

Subject: History, Nursing, The Sciences
Content/Description: Provides access to full text encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
Alternate Name(s):Science Direct
Subject: The Sciences
Content/Description: Provides access to the following journals: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN), Nursing for Women's Health.
Subject: Kinesiology, Nursing, Psychology, Sociology
Content/Description: Provides access to full-text journal articles, encyclopedias, book chapters and more.
Subject: Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Social Work, Sociology
Content/Description: Provides access to full-text journal articles, encyclopedias, book chapters and more.
Alternate Name(s):Sci Finder, SciFinder-n
Subject: Chemistry, Engineering
Content/Description: Provides access to chemical literature and references by topic, reaction, or substance in CAS Registry and CASREACT.
Available only to Hope College students, faculty, and staff.
Please Note: Before initial use, users must create a personal account.
Subject: Art & Art History, English, History
Content/Description: Provides access to Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs. The traditional FirstSearch interface is also available.
Subject: History
Content/Description: Access to historical journals that chronicle the African-American experience during the 19th century. Subjects include religion, literature, slavery, and abolition.
Subject: History
Content/Description: Includes pamphlets, periodicals, books, and legal materials (i.e. laws, court cases) on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It also includes an extensive bibliography and external resources.
Subject: Business, Economics
Content/Description: Contains full text reference books and tools (such as videos and advice) to address many small business topics.
Subject: Engineering, General Education
Content/Description: Provides detailed repair guides, full-text reference books with original photos and illustrations, information on engine models, coverage of repairs, and repair manuals, with new and updated content added regularly.
Subject: Social Sciences
Content/Description: Contains abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and holds an Electronic Paper Collection.
Subject: Social Sciences
Content/Description: Contains abstracts of serial publications, articles, and dissertations, and also holds book review citations. All are part of current research covering social welfare, social policy, community development, etc.
Subject: Sociology
Content/Description: Contains abstracts and citations covering the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Subject: Sociology
Content/Description: Provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
Subject: Biology, Geological & Environmental Science, History Content/
Content/Description: Provides access to archived publications and journal articles on the study of birds.
Subject: Vocational Resources, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to funding opportunities for careers and research.
Please note: To register for an account (required for advanced search and save features), please submit the registration form
Subject: Dance, Kinesiology
Content/Description: Provides scholarly, trade, and popular articles on all topics related to athletics, physical education, and recreation.
Alternate Name(s):Springer Link
Subject: Interdisciplinary, Sciences 
Content/Description: Provides access to full-text electronic books.
Alternate Name(s):Springer Link
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to serial publications across a variety of topics.
Subject: Philosophy
Content/Description: Grants open access to work that is authoritative, peer-reviewed, continually updated and maintained by experts from the international philosophy community.
Subject: Mathematics & Statistics, Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides access to statistics and studies on a variety of industries.

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Subject:World Languages and Cultures
Content/Description:A research program at the University of California, Irvine working to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
Each user will be asked to create a user profile and login in addition to connecting via an authorized IP. Help files and video tutorials are available
Subject: Education
Content/Description: Contains articles, video, and other resources on the subject of education.
Subject: Biology Environmental Science
Content/Description: Cooperative project of the United States Golf Association and the Michigan State University Libraries' Turfgrass Information Center. Provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of work related to turfgrass culture.
Michigan residents or Michigan library and school access only.

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Alternate Name(s):Firsthand
Subject: Vocational Resources 
Content/Description: Contains career and employer guides and advice articles, career and occupational profiles, an internship database, and company snapshots. Access provided jointly by the Career Development Center and Van Wylen Library.
Please note: July 2024: Users must register a user account to access content.
Subject: Vocational Resources
Content/Description: Provides access to reports, articles, video, and other resources on a wide variety of occupational topics.

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Subject: Journalism, Communication, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Grants access to WSJ.com and mobile apps. 
Please note:For more information or to get help registering, view our guide. You must register as a user with your Hope email before accessing content.

Subject: Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides citations for social science journals with accessible cited references.

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Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Includes a collection of databases with citations on the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and other topics.

Subject: Interdisciplinary 
Content/Description: Provides full-text journals on a variety of topics.
Subject: History, Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies
Content/Description: Contains full-text primary documents, archive notes, books, film and website reviews, and teaching tools with archives.
Alternate Name(s):Early World of Learning
Subject: Education, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains grade Prek - 5 learning materials (stories, activities, videos) with characters Trek and Taffy. Features a Know It encyclopedia for early readers.
Subject: Education, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Contains grade Prek-5 level topics (Arts, History and Government, People, Places, Plants and Animals, Science and Mathematics, Sports and Hobbies, World Religions) in three activity sets (Make It, Think It, Be It). Features video, pictures, sounds.
Subject: English, Theatre 
Content/Description: Provides citations to scholarly and non-scholarly articles, books, book and production reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, and other materials related to Shakespeare.
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides citations on books, serials, videos and other resources from libraries worldwide, including Hope College.
The traditional FirstSearch interface is also available.
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