Alumni Research Guide: Databases

In partnership with Alumni Relations, we offer a collection of databases to meet your research needs. Liberty University alumni can access these resources from anywhere for personal, non-commercial use. Use for commercial gain is not permitted.

General Databases

• Academic Search (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text journal articles in social sciences, humanities, multicultural studies, education, and more.
   
• ATLA Serials, Religion Collection (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays across all fields of religion and theology including Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues from 1949 to the present
   
• Business Source (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more (Updated daily)
   
• Ebook Central (ProQuest Alumni Access)
  Extensive collection of multidisciplinary e-books
   
• Project Muse (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies Video Tutorial

Specialty Databases

• American Civil War Research Database (Alumni Edition)
  Indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, including photographs, regimental rosters, and officer profiles (Updated semiannually)
   
• American History in Video (Alumni Edition)
  Streaming video content, including a large volume of contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s, early newsreels, and full-length documentaries
   
• Audiobook Collection (EBSCO Alumni Edition)
  Audiobooks including fiction, biographies, health, history, literature, religion, and science
   
• BioDigital Human
  Scientifically accurate cloud-based virtual body in an interactive 3D format (Please note that all students will be required to create a BioDigital Human account in order to use the resource. They will be able to maintain free access with this individual account when they leave the university.)
   
• Black Short Fiction and Folklore: African, African American, and Diaspora (Alumni Edition)
  Works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African ancestry from the earliest times to the present, including materials from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors, many of which have never been previously published Video Tutorial
   
• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works (Alumni Edition)
  Transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives of mental illness and treatment as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material
   
• Counseling and Therapy (Alumni Edition)
  Video footage from actual therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals
   
• Dance Online: Dance in Video
  Dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century, including ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance
   
• Digital Karl Barth Library (Alumni Edition)
  Definitive collection of Barth’s works in German, including sermons, letters, lectures, conversations, and academic writings as well as a full-text English translation of Barth’s The Church Dogmatics and other works
   
• Education in Video (Alumni Edition)
  Video demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms as well as ready-to-use teaching such as course, study, and discussion guides; assessment checklists; and themed playlists
   
• Ethnographic Video Online (Alumni Edition)
  Streaming video of human culture, behavior and society around the world, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork
   
• Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women written between 1768 and 1842 as well as biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars Video Tutorial
   
• Music Online: African American Music Reference (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text of reference works, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies chronicling the history and culture of the African American experience through music, including blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression Video Tutorial
   
• Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library (Alumni Edition)
  Reference materials spanning the entire history of Western classical music, including full-text of Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music Video Tutorial
   
• Music Online: Classical Scores Library (Alumni Edition)
  Full, study, piano, and vocal scores of classical major and lesser known composers, including works from the Middle Ages to the 21st century Video Tutorial
   
• Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alumni Edition)
  Full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia along with associated audio tracks, musical illustrations, photographs, drawings, song texts, score examples, charts, and maps
   
• Music Online: Opera in Video (Alumni Edition)
  Video of the most important opera performances, including staged productions, interviews, and documentaries that represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon
   
• North American Theatre Online (Alumni Edition)
  Reference materials and records to plays, people, theatres, productions, and production companies covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre, including images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks, and other resources Video Tutorial
   
• Social Theory (Alumni Edition)
  Influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day, including many major theorists
   
• Theatre in Video (Alumni Edition)
  Videos covering a wide range of 20th century theatre history, including documentaries as well as interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances
   
• Twentieth Century North American Drama (Alumni Edition)
  Plays with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more, including selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays Video Tutorial
   
• Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Christianity (Alumni Edition)
  Printed works and primary sources from the Christian tradition from the early 1900s until the turn of the 21st century
   
• World History in Video(Alumni Edition)
  Critically-acclaimed documentaries exploring human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania