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The Logan Library's Advancing Racial Equality Collection contains about 80 books and DVDs / Blu-rays that address systemic racism, inequitable policing and/or protest through a humanities lens. To view the items in this collection, search "Advancing Racial Equality" as a keyword in the Title of Collection field in the Logan Library's library catalog. This collection was made possible with support from the Lilly Endowment Inc. and Indiana Humanities.

Databases

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States This link opens in a new window Black Freedom Struggle in the United States is free collection of over 2,000 primary source documents curated around six crucial phases of the U.S. Black freedom struggle: • Resistance to slavery by enslaved persons and the abolitionist movement of the 19th century • The end of slavery during the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era • The fight against Jim Crow segregation • The New Deal and World War II • The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement from 1946-1975 • …and the contemporary Black experience since 1976
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window ARTS & SCIENCES I covers 115 core, full text, journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. ARTS & SCIENCES VII covers 186 core, full text, journals in all arts, humanities, and social sciences. Arts & Sciences XV Collection (Music Collection) covers 100+ core, full text music journals. MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS covers 50 cover, full text journals in the mathematical and statistical sciences. Archival Journals collection features the full-text articles of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. Collections include multi-discipline, discipline-specific, and region-based packages. Thematic Collections focus on emerging areas of research and contain multiple types of content, including journals and open research reports in Sustainability, Security, and Lives of Literature. Primary Source contains 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Afrida, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants database, a growing collection of 3 millions high-resolution specimens.
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Welcome to your Lyrasis Group Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) ebooks program with MUSE. Your access to all eligible book content on the MUSE platform (http://muse.jhu.edu) will begin on August 1. Once your access begins, users who conduct searches on the platform will by default see all books to which they have full text access through the EBA program. All book content on MUSE is presented in DRM-free chapter-level PDFs, with unlimited simultaneous usage, unlimited downloading, and unlimited printing.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 860 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for regional (U.S.) newspapers and radio news transcripts. Contains full text for major newspapers, such as Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal (eastern and western editions), etc. Date coverage varies from the 1990s to the present.
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America's News (NewsBank) + Access World News Research Collection (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window Find diverse international perspectives on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, literature, business, economics, criminal justice and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including journals, newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos and web-only content. Includes 126 Indiana news sources, along with approximately 11,000 other sources from around the world.
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