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All Flagler College students, faculty, and staff may access Proctor Library databases from any computer with an Internet connection. When accessing from off campus, you will be prompted to log in to a database with your College username and password. These are the same as those used to access College e-mail.

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The library has a limited number of Manual's available for your use in the library. Please use this "database" if one of our copies is unavailable, or you are working from home. Both the Table of Contents and the Index is hyperlinked allowing you to move from one section to another.
The best scholarly database subscribed to by the Proctor Library providing access to articles in the fields of history, politicial science, archaeology, art history, anthropology, literature and languages, music, and more; however, JSTOR usually is unable to provide access to the most recently published articles.

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Contrary to what you may think, this database does not provide access to articles or papers. It does however tell you which universities, archives, museums own what manuscript collections.
Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
Rather than consult the physical Books Review Digest books for post-1983 publications, you can look up the title of a book here and get citations to reviews of the book. For titles published pre-1983 you can find BRD shelved in the reference collection under REF Z1219 .C96.
Contains the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & the Britannica Book of the Year.
Full-text, November 25, 1908 to December 31, 1991.
Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. No full text.
This should be the first place you look when trying to find a biography on a person (U.S. or international).
Multi-disicplinary database: art, archaeology, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology.
See the Humanities Full-Text note, but this database is for articles published from 1907 to 1984.
Full-text, 1881 to 1987.
Full-text, 1851 to 2007.
Contains The New York Times from 1999 to the present and 500 national and international newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present and 13 Florida newspapers.
Articles from social sciences journals and periodicals. Many full text. Full text coverage starts in January 1995.
Full-text, 1889 to 1993.
Full-text, 1877 to 1994.