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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Art and Architecture Archive I & II This link opens in a new window
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A full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. Art and Architecture Archive I & II is a major research resource comprising the digitized backfiles of many of the foremost art and architecture magazines of the twentieth century. Offering unprecedented access to the archives of key consumer and trade publications, it is a unique collection of the essential primary sources for studying the history of these subjects. The magazines cover the spectrum of sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts, through to interior design, industrial design, and landscape gardening. Each issue is scanned from cover to cover in high resolution color and presented in page image format with fully searchable text.
Atlanta Constitution Historical This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Atlanta Journal Constitution
Digitized images of the major daily newspaper in the Atlanta area from 1886-1984.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab This link opens in a new window
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The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a platform for text analysis, data mining, and data visualization. Using Gale’s Primary Sources archive, you can build content, clean, and analyze it. The tools cover document clustering, Named Entity Recognition, Ngrams, parts of speech, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling. The researcher can upload their own documents as well.

To use this resource, you must login with your WCU credentials.
Global Plants This link opens in a new window
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A database of over 3 million digitized plant specimens; includes images and information of plant specimens from herbaria around the world. Global Plants also contains partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs.
Harper's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Harper's Magazine Archive provides searchable, full-text access to every issue of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the present. Harper's Magazine is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture and the arts; it is the second oldest continuously-published monthly magazine in the United States.
Libby by OverDrive This link opens in a new window
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Access to popular and educational ebooks and audiobooks. Download the Libby app from Apple or Google or access on the web at https://libbyapp.com. Books can also be read on Kindles.
MLA Handbook This link opens in a new window
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The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements. It features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. Includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries, illustrations, and an index.
Newsweek This link opens in a new window
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The Newsweek Archive offers digital access the full run of the US edition of Newsweek, from its launch in 1933 to 2012 (when the print edition originally ceased).* With an international circulation that peaked at more than 3 million, it has been one of the largest and most influential weekly consumer magazines. Renowned for its high-quality reporting and commentary, the archive charts the key US and global events and issues across eight decades.
RIA Checkpoint Edge This link opens in a new window
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RIA database includes accounting and tax materials at the federal level, internal revenue code, and related news reporting. To save search history, create an account.
The New Yorker Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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The New Yorker Archive provides access to every page of The New Yorker going back to its first issue in 1925. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting on national and international politics and culture, profiles of people, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of books, movies, theatre, classical and popular music, television, art, and fashion.
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