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Welcome! This guide connects you to a number of resources that will help you find biographical information about your chosen participants in the National Women's Conference.
Here are some places to get you started.
- Biography Reference Bank (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Biographies of approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. Includes the full text of articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference works, plus thousands of biographies from other publishers. Search by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth or death, keyword, and presence of images.
- Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 200 videos.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? HathiTrust is a digital library of more than 17.4 million volumes, digitized from member library collections. Authenticated users may download full-book PDF files of all Public Domain and Creative Commons-licensed volumes. All volumes, including copyrighted works, are searchable. Details at: this link..
- What else should I know? URI faculty, staff, and students can log in to HathiTrust to access enhanced features. To log in, select "University of Rhode Island" from the list of institutions and enter your URI SSO (Single Sign-On) Credentials. Include @uri.edu in your username.
Local & Regional Newspapers
- Providence Journal (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Articles from the Providence Journal. Searchable page images available for 1829-1982 and 2017 to present. Full text available from 1981 to present.
- What dates are covered? 1829 - Present.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The Boston Globe. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1872 - 1990.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The New York Times. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1851 - 2018.
- New York Times (site license) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Unlimited access for URI students, faculty, and staff to New York Times content back to 1851 via the New York Times website and phone and tablet apps. Registration required. Details at this link.
- What else should I know? Note that the above link is intended to be used for one-time registration only. To access NY Times content after you register, go directly to the New York Times website and log in.
Additional Primary Sources
- Women's Studies Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Covers primarily the 19th and 20th centuries and incorporates a range of primary sources, providing a close look at some of the pioneers of women’s history, a deep dive into the issues that have affected women, and the many contributions they have made to society. Access to:
Part 1: Women's Issues and Identities;
Part 2: Voice and Vision;
Part 3: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922;
Part 4: Female Forerunners Worldwide.
- What dates are covered? 19th and 20th centuries.
- Women and Social Movements Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Focuses on women’s public activism globally, from 1600 to the present. Created through a collaboration with leading historians, the collection contains primary source documents and related scholarly essays interpreting these sources.
- What dates are covered? 1600 - Present.
- What else should I know? URI has these modules:
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements, International, 1840-2010
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820
Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919–2019