Library Databases
As a graduate of Seton Hall University, you have access to the following Library databases:
American Periodical Series Collection (1740-1940)
Includes full text of special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Covers the significant developments in the field of psychology, including: biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, cognitive processes, animal learning and behavior, human development, psychopathology, clinical and counseling psychology, social psychology, personality, environmental psychology, community psychology, and more.
This collection searches a unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Comprising hundreds of titles written during the 16th and 17th centuries, The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to hundreds of hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors’ manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, sacred drama, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, accounts of saints’ lives, and devotional works.
Digital Library of the Classic Protestant Texts
Extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Collection of English and foreign language books, pamphlets, broadsides and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800.
Collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
First World War: Personal Experiences
Showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features.
Gerritsen Collection- Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Women’s history online: A cross-cultural resource for information on women's history, spanning more than four centuries and 15 languages.
Historical Newspapers: Guardian (1821-2003) and the Observer (1791 - 2003)
A social liberal British national daily newspaper founded in 1821, known until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Its sister newspaper, The Observer, is the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, first published in 1791.
Historical Newspapers: Irish Times and the Weekly Irish Times (1859 - 2015)
The Irish Times, Ireland's "only independent newspaper" was founded in 1859. Formed as a Protestant nationalist paper it became a unionist paper twenty years later. It is now considered liberal and progressive. The Weekly Irish Times’ coverage includes The Times Pictorial.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851 - 2012)
Top American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851, by The New York Times Company.
Historical Newspapers: NY Amsterdam News (1922 - 1993)
Weekly newspaper geared to the African-American community of New York City, New York. It is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in the United States. It has published columns by W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and was the first to recognize and publish Malcolm X.
Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911 - 2002)
African-American newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1907-1966. By the 1930s, the Courier was one of the top black newspapers in the United States. It was acquired in 1965 by John H. Sengstacke, a major black publisher and owner of the Chicago Defender.
Historical Newspapers: Wall St. Journal (1889 - 1999)
IN 1889, DOW JONES & Company first published the WSJ (formerly known as the Customers’ Afternoon Letter) as a markets-focused newspaper for the country’s then-fewer than 200,000 shareholders. The Journal has been printed continuously 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.
Historical Newspapers: Washington Post (1877 - 1999)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Jewish Life in America c 1654-1954
Excellent resource for all those interested in understanding and exploring the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today.
Oxford Handbook Online: Business & Management
Oxford Handbooks Online offer thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. The articles review the key issues and major debates, and provide an original argument for how those debates might evolve.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion
The religion area of OHO provides new essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, complementing hundreds of essays on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and cross-cultural thematic studies that are part of the rich trove of Oxford Handbooks in religion.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Periodicals Archive Online Liberal Arts 1-4
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
Project Muse Standard Collection
Project Muse provides the full-text of over 300 major university press journals including Johns Hopkins, Ohio State University, Michigan State University, and many others.
SAGE Business Cases is a digital collection of more than 1700 cases, covering such issues as accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, human resource management, economics, organizational studies, etc. To provide up-to-date business content, Sage Publications has collaborated with many well-known institutions and associations, including Yale School of Management, Cambridge Judge Business School, and the Society for Human Resource Management.
Sage Journals Online is a searchable platform that includes the full text of over 400 journals in the Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering and Social Sciences & Humanities.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Vol. 1, Christianity
Twentieth Century Religious Thought is a multi-volume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to key worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the turn of the 21st century.