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Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text. Coverage dates vary.

JSTOR

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RIC currently participates in all 15 JSTOR Arts & Sciences archive collections and the Life Sciences archive collection. Journals in archive collections are always included from volume 1 number 1, and related prior titles, but stop short of current issues. RIC also subscribes to 34 current journals in JSTOR. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Providence Journal: Historical and Current (NewsBank)

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Full-text of locally-written articles from 1829-present can be searched, emailed, or downloaded from the Providence Journal on Newsbank. For today's news, use the print issue or ProJo.com. Selected pre-1984 articles have been indexed by the Providence Public Library for their Rhode Island Index file which may be consulted at the main library, 225 Washington St., Providence (455-8000).

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eBooks (from De Gruyter)

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Access to 75,000 DRM-free eBooks in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law. Complimentary, temporary access until the end of July 2020.

HeinOnline

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HeinOnline contains titles of historical and government documents. In addition to its collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text

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The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text covers scholarship in a broad range of Humanities disciplines related to global literatures and languages. Coverage includes materials published in more than 100 countries and in more than 50 languages, in the areas of literature and languages from around the world, covering: literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, television, video, theater, radio, opera), folklore, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, college-level teaching of literature, language and writing history of printing and publishing. Content includes: bibliographic citations documenting the scholarly record from the early 20th century forward; access to the MLA Thesaurus and the Directory of Periodicals; and 1,000 full text journals.

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online (RIAMCO)

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The Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online (RIAMCO) gateway provides access to archival and manuscript collections throughout Rhode Island. Researchers can locate collections relating to their research at ten Rhode Island repositories through one comprehensive website regardless of physical location. Individual or family papers that are split among repositories can be intellectually reunited as a result of online finding aids and the application of sophisticated search technologies developed in this project.

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