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American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically significant periodicals.
Current Biography Illustrated This link opens in a new window
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Current Biography Illustrated offers monthly biographies on current news-makers and includes content from the Current Biography International Yearbook and biographies not found in print from Current Biography Electronic.

Obituaries for individuals from previous editions of Current Biography, originally compiled in print for Current Biography Yearbook and Current Biography International Yearbook, are also available, and articles are targeted for updates on a monthly basis to provide users with up-to-date information on featured subjects.
Ergonomics Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Ergonomic Abstracts is an international bibliographic database covering ergonomics and human factors topics. It indexes resources valuable to many fields, including physiology, psychology, biomechanics and occupational health.
Gartner This link opens in a new window
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Gartner provides research and analysis for information technology (IT) industries, and analysis of the use of IT in a range of areas, including data analytics, software engineering, supply chain management, and apparel merchandising. Gartner also includes reports about topics that cut across industries including generative AI, data management, and technology trends. All ISU students, faculty and staff have access to Gartner's content through a subscription funded by ISU’s Information Technology Services.

Please note: access to this resource requires an ISU Net-ID. This resource is not available to members of the public visiting Parks Library.
History Commons This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) Accessible Archives
Collections of primary sources, including magazines, newspapers, videos, letters, diaries, images, and ephemera. Includes African American Newspapers, American County Histories: Iowa, and Godey's Lady's Book. This content was formerly hosted on Accessible Archives.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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This database provides an immense and widely varied collection of literary criticism and biographies (over 130,000 biographical entries), primary sources, and many multimedia selections.

Features like "Topic Finder" and "Term Frequency", respectively, allow researchers to see how literary topics are related to each other by means of a visual map layout, and to see how often a specific term has been used in literary scholarship throughout the years.
Redalyc This link opens in a new window
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The Redalyc project (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) is a bibliographic database and a digital library of academic Open Access journals, primarily produced in Latin America. Articles and content materials are primarily in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. The database is supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México with the help of numerous other higher education institutions and information systems.

Short Story Index This link opens in a new window
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This resource contains information on thousands of short stories that were published in book collections as well as in magazines. Short Story Index is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique and source, or by any combination of terms, making it easy for users to find what they are looking for. Additionally, subject access helps narrow searches even further by theme, locale, narrative technique or device.
The Atlantic This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) TheAtlantic.com
Founded in 1857, The Atlantic is a long-running magazine, providing long-form journalism about current events, across a range of perspectives.
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