The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) contains over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full-text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Full-text as well as images from the important American magazine Harper's Weekly. Coverage from 1857 to 1912.
HathiTrust is a collaborative repository of over 10 million volumes, 2.5 million in the public domain and fully accessible. Digitized content from research libraries, the Google Books project and the Internet Archive initiative are included. All public domain titles not digitzed by Google and in the HathiTrust Digital Library are available for full PDF download. Works in copyright may be searched with only the page number and number of hits given.
Although WMU is not in partnership with HathiTrust at this time, all users may create a guest "friend" account to use collection builder tools. Instructions are here.
HeinOnline consists of major full-text legal collections including: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Code, the U.S. Supreme Court Library, and the Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law. These collections are image-based and fully searchable, with comprehensive coverage of each title, some going back to the 18th century.
A full-text collection of U.S. newspapers, including six African American newspapers, covering much of the 19th century to the late 20th century. One can limit searches by type of document such as editorials, cartoons, classifieds, and obituaries.
These six African-American newspapers provide research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)