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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Black Drama (Third Edition) This link opens in a new window
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Black Drama Third Edition contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Over 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

Colonial America This link opens in a new window
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A digitized collection of all 1,450 volumes of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Documents in this collection offer a British colonial perspective of North America. Contains original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies from the period covering 1606 to 1822. Modules include:

Module I: Early Settlement, Expansion, and Rivalries
Module II: Towards Revolution
Module III: The American Revolution
Module IV: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies
Module V: Growth, Trade, and Development

Ethnologue: Lanugages of the World This link opens in a new window
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all known living languages. Ethnologue has been an active research project for over 70 years involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers worldwide.
Jet Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Jet Magazine Archive provides access to the entire print edition of the publication (1951-2014), offering a broad view of news, arts, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and this database is cross-searchable with other EBSCOhost databases.
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This collection includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, covering more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Also included are millions of primary sources from the 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and the Global Plants collections.

The JSTOR platform does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of a journal’s content. Current issues of journals hosted on the JSTOR platform are available through separate subscriptions on other platforms. Please check LibrarySearch for access to embargoed content.
LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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LGBT Magazine Archive traces the history and evolution of myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, including legal contexts, health, lifestyle, politics, social attitudes, activism, gay rights, and the arts. This collection includes twenty-seven titles, including The Advocate, Out, Gay Times, Transgender Tapestry, and others.

Queer Pasts This link opens in a new window
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A collection of primary source exhibits for students and scholars of queer history and culture. The database uses "queer" in its most inclusive sense, to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and includes work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Each document collection in the database includes a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources in historical terms and in relation to previous scholarship.

UpToDate This link opens in a new window
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UptoDate is an evidence-based clinical point-of-care full-text resource containing the latest medical information. Updated daily and peer-reviewed by physicians, it includes assessment tools, scores, scales, medical equations, Lexicomp® Drug Interactions, and more.

After logging into the database using the link above, you will be asked to create an account with your WMU email and must verify your account with a code. Please check your SPAM folder before requesting a second code. You may be prompted to verify your account every 90 days.

Once your account has been verified, you can download the mobile app and log in with the username and password created upon registration.

Women's Magazine Archives This link opens in a new window
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An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from 1846 to 2005. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

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