W&M Libraries subscribes to hundreds of databases which you can search here by database name, subject or type. Finding the right database can help you search for highly relevant journal articles, books, documents and much more.
Additionally, we host several datasets for research and also provide subscriptions to popular newspapers like the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
Alphabetical List of Databases
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Multidisciplinary database of journal articles (including peer reviewed), books, book chapters, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage: 1887-present.
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Provides access to historical U.S. and international documents and photos, local narratives, oral histories, indexes and other resources in over 30,000 databases that span from the 1500s to the 2000s. The Library Edition of Ancestry.com has fewer personalized functions and options than the versions available to private subscribers.
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The Atlantic is an American magazine that features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
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Find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from your college library, covering all disciplines. Access BrowZine from your browser by simply going to http://browzine.com. BrowZine will automatically detect if users are on campus and select your library; if off-campus, users will be prompted initially to select their library. From your mobile device download BrowZine from the App Store and install it. Supported devices: iPad (2 or later); Google Nexus; Samsung Galaxy; Kindle Fire HD. Select the subject areas and start browsing!
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Comprehensive tax and accounting research database covering tax and accounting laws and news on the international, federal, state and local levels. Provides access to a variety of primary sources, analysis, journals, news, cases, and rulings. 35 simultaneous users.
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News and information about higher education, job listings in academia, discussion forums, and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. To search issues, scroll and click This Weeks Issue, then View Issues by Year. Click these instructions for accessing the Chronicle via off-campus computers, mobile devices, and iPads. Note: although the Chronicle.com website includes coverage from 1989-present, only the most current year plus one year can be searched by issue. To browse earlier years, use the database Academic Search Complete. Coverage: 1989-present (see note above)
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Provides access to the online version of Consumer reports magazine, as well as additional features. Includes ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel. Includes product test videos, interactive guides, advice forums, consumer news, and more.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations.
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Collection of databases devoted to a variety of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and science. See titles of individual databases for further information. Coverage: Varies by title.
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The Economist is one of the major news magazines, focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
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All levels of education and all educational specialties. Also covers curriculum instruction, testing, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Journal articles, books, and conference papers. Coverage: Mid 1990s-present, some content back to 1930s.
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World news and business information, including information on US and foreign companies, stock prices, currency data, and financial profiles for companies worldwide. Newswires, newspaper, and magazine articles. Coverage: 1980-present.
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Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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Multidisciplinary full-text journal articles from 1,500 major journals. Please note: In many cases, JSTOR does not include the most recent 3 to 5 years of these journals. Please use other databases to retrieve recent articles, especially for current events topics. Coverage: Varies by title. Access is available to 2007+ alumni; requires W&M userid and password.
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Formerly Lynda.com. LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps you discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. With more than 5,000 courses and personalized recommendations, you can discover, complete, and track courses related to your field and interests. You can also choose to add these courses and related skills to your LinkedIn profile once you've completed them. W&M login required.
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OverDrive is a digital media platform offering a variety of e-books and e-audiobooks for use by library patrons. Users can access content through the Libby app, the OverDrive website, or through records in the library's catalog.
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
These are databases we purchased within the past three months.
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Essential Primary Sources is a foundational library collection supporting research and learning, featuring the most-important, most-studied, and most-representative historical documents across history, society, and culture, accompanied by original scholar commentaries and introductions found nowhere else. The collection has broad interdisciplinary use and is both curated and contextualized by leading scholars and historians. The core subjects covered in the collection include: U.S. History; World History; Ethnic, Gender, & Identity Studies; American Government; and Religious Studies.
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GSMA Intelligence provides the industry’s most comprehensive mobile network coverage data, sourced directly from operators. This global raster dataset visually represents mobile network coverage, offering an accurate and up-to-date view of network availability worldwide.
Irish Newspaper Archives
This database is a trial which expires November 30, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
Irish Newspaper Archives includes 260+ titles and approximately 19.5 million pages, 1733 to the present, covering 30 of Ireland's 32 counties. The database also includes the Radical Newspaper Archive - 115 scarce, short-run titles documenting Ireland's labour, suffrage, republican, and revolutionary movements. Many of these papers only ran for a few months and are rarely archived anywhere else.
Prensa Libre Digital Archive
This database is a trial which expires November 5, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
Founded in 1951, Prensa Libre is a leading newspaper published in Guatemala City and distributed nationwide. The newspaper was conceived with the purpose of maintaining an independent voice, to provide impartial reporting on local news and bringing to light transgressions of government and public figures. Prensa Libre has covered critical moments in Guatemalan and Latin American history, including political upheaval, assassinations, and coups; peace treaties and elections; natural disasters; economic and technological developments; Guatemalans on the international stage; and much more. Since its founding the newspaper’s popularity has grown and it has earned a reputation as an independent and credible publication, with print circulation topping 800,000 in recent years, and monthly online readership of nearly 5.5 million users.
Vanderbilt TV News Archive (Must Create Account Using W&M Email Address)
This database is a trial which expires November 3, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.
The Vanderbilt TV News Archive began operations on August 5, 1968 with the mission to record, preserve, and provide research access to news programs broadcast by national television networks in the United States.The core collection of the archive consists of regularly scheduled evening newscasts from ABC (since 1968), CBS (1968), NBC (1968), CNN (1994), Fox News (2004), MSNBC (2024), and NewsMax (2024). Additionally, the Special Reports Collection includes television news coverage of major national and world events, such as political conventions, election coverage, presidential speeches, and military conflicts. The database currently includes over 1.5 million records, including story level abstracts for evening newscasts and catalog records for special reports.Users must create an account using their @wm.edu email address. In order to view a clip, users must add the clip to their basket and checkout, after which the clip will be added to their account and should be viewable within a few minutes if not instantaneously. Users are limited to 2400 minutes of viewing per month.