Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 to 2000 brings together primary
documents, books, images, essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, teaching tools, and more. The database chronicles the multiplicity of women’s activism in American public life from Colonial times to the present. The database contains tens of thousands pages of books, pamphlets, and related materials—for example, The History of Woman Suffrage (six volumes, 1881-1922); the proceedings of the national conventions of women’s anti-slavery societies in the 1830s; the proceedings of woman’s rights conventions, 1848-1869; the proceedings of the annual conventions of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898; and publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000.

You can find this database in the database by title box on the library tab in myRedDragon. Also check out the History Research Guide and the Women’s Studies Research Guide for additional resources on this topic!

SBRnet Sport Business Resource Network gives access to multiple resources, including:

• Industry-developed Market Research
• Government Statistics
• Facility Reports and News
• International Market Publications
• Customized Research
• Directories on professional sports teams and their venues, as well as collegiate athletic programs

Covering Multiple Subjects: Broadcasting; Careers; College Sports; Disabled; Endorsements; Facilities; Fan Market Profiles; Financial Reports; Licensing; Market Demographics; Marketing; Olympics; Professional sports; Social Media; Sponsorship; Sporting Goods demographics and brand preferences; Sports Participation; Women’s Sports; Youth/Amateur.

You can find this database in the database by title box on the library tab in myRedDragon. Also check out the Sports Management libguide for additional resources on your topic!

Oxford Art Online gives access to 4 art resources:

Grove Art Online, a scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. First published as the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, the content of Grove Art encompasses all aspects of visual culture. It features articles about topics as varied as Fauvism and Frida Kahlo, bibliographies for further research, and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms provides 1,800 entries on art terms, critical periods, and styles in the visual arts.

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics is an English-language reference work                           devoted solely to the exploration of this subject, featuring more than 600 articles by more than 500 globally recognized art historians, philosophers, and theorists.

The Oxford Companion to Western Art contains more than 2,600 entries and provides coverage of over 1,700 artists and their work.

You can find Oxford Art Online in the Library Databases by Title link in myRedDragon. For more resources on Art check out the Art History Libguide!

Memorial Library now offers access to GeoScienceWorld, an online resource for research in geological and earth sciences. GeoScienceWorld provides access to citation information and, in many cases, full-text articles from the publications of leading geosciences societies and university presses. GeoScienceWorld includes journals and archives of more than 45 digital journals from 28 global publishers as well as specialized tools developed in partnership with Google Maps and GeoRef, another major research tool for the geosciences.

Contributors include:

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG),
• American Geological Institute (AGI),
• Geological Society of America (GSA),
• The Geological Society of London (GSL),
• Mineralogical Society of America (MSA),
• Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

You can access GeoScienceWorld through the Databases by Title link on the Library Tab in myRedDragon. You can also find this database in our Geology Libguide a great guide to additional resources for the geological and earth sciences.    

PsycARTICLES  provides access to full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Topics include behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.

You can find this database in the Library Databases link on the Library Tab in myRedDragon. Search for PsycARTICLES in the alphabetical list of databases by title or Ask a librarian!

 Searching for information about INDEPENDENCE DAY?

Go to the Database by title box on the Library Tab in myRedDragon and look for America: History and Life the Definitive Database for the Past and Present of the United States and Canada! You will find articles from as far back as 1868!

This resource provides concrete literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With full-text coverage of hundreds of journals and books, and selective indexing for journals dating back nearly 60 years, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

Like to read current articles about your favorite sport?  Go to the Database by title box on the Library Tab in myRedDragon and look for SPORTDiscus!

SPORTDiscus is the most comprehensive, full-text database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.

Would you like to read reviews for your summer readings? Try Book Review Digest Plus!   “An Invaluable Resource for Literary and Biographical Research”.

This database brings together book reviews on a wide range of topics from a variety of sources. Many of the reviews are serious, academic works.

Content Includes:

• A citation to every book review that appears in any of over 5,000+ indexed journals
• Over 2 million review citations, many with generous excerpts, from review sources such as newspapers, popular magazines, and academic journals with more than 118,000 new reviews added each year
• “Master” records for each book, with links to reviews from various sources
• Retrospective coverage as far back as 1983
• Over 270,000 full-text reviews from more than 1,400 American, British, and Canadian periodicals
• Coverage of books for children with a suggested grade range.

You can access Book Review Digest Plus through the Databases by Title link on the Library Tab in myRedDragon!

Need to do research in technology, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, mathematics, medicine, environmental science, social sciences and humanities?  Try ScienceDirect!  ScienceDirect is a full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.  The articles are grouped in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

Make sure you navigate to ScienceDirect through the Databases by Title link on Library Tab in myRedDragon!  Once in ScienceDirect, you can register for an account and personalize your ScienceDirect experience: click on the link in the upper right hand corner to “Register.” You can also create alerts for particular searches, topics, volumes/issues, and citations.

ScienceDirect offers tutorials and user guides designed to help you get the most out of the extensive functionality and content available to you on ScienceDirect.

AP Images is a primary source database from the Associated Press, one of the oldest and largest news organizations in the world. Spanning over 185 years, AP Images gives you access to the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary photographs from the AP, NBC Universal Photo Bank, ImagineChina, the UK Press Association, and the files of Ebony and Jet.

This database has more than 3,500 photos added daily. Accessible through a variety of searches – from keyword and category to color and concept searching – imagery in this collection and can be used to improve your papers and PowerPoint presentations.

Content Includes:

• Over 12 million photographs dating back to 1826
• More than 36,000 audio sound bites
• Professionally produced collection of more than 340,000 graphics
• Graphics include maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags, illustrations and more

Ready to start? Go to the Library Databases link on the Library Tab in myRedDragon and search for AP Images in the alphabetical list of databases by title or Ask a librarian!

To make optimal use of AP Images have a look at: AP Images Quick Reference Guide!