Create tables, charts and maps with wide range of variables using data from governments and private organizations.
Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations. Create maps and reports from data you select from over 640 datasets. Subjects include health, crime, population, finance, industry, and marketing. Data is available for the world as a whole or for selected countries. Data for the U.S. are shown by state, often by county, sometimes by census tract and zip code. Time series data may go back several decades.Data sources include the U.S. government, the World Bank, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Mergent, and Standard & Poors.
English-language plays and secondary sources on theater.
Includes these collections:
• American Drama 1714–1915
• English Drama
• Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database
One of the key African-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more.
Ebony's editorial philosophy is to "showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide." The Ebony Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including covers and advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.
Journal articles, reports, and other document covering all aspects of education.
This combined collection contains these education databases:
• Education Source
• Professional Development Collection
• Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
• ERIC
Primary texts as well as secondary sources, covering fiction and literature from 1500 on.
Includes these databases:
• Black Short Fiction and Folklore
• Early American Fiction 1789-1875
• Early English Prose Fiction
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
• Literature Online
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Find available federal funding opportunities from 26 different federal grant-making agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Department of Defense.
Tool for finding important topics and keywords within a text and matching them to JSTOR content. Upload text or a text file for analysis.
Many formats can be uploaded, including csv, doc, docx, gif, htm, html, jpg, jpeg, json, pdf, png, pptx, rtf, tif / tiff, txt, xlsx, text copied from a document, or the URL to a document.
You can adjust your results by adding or removing "prioritized terms," changing the publication dates for results, or including non-subscribed content.
Selection of digitized newspapers in Arabic, English, and French from countries across the Middle East and North Africa
With a preliminary release of over 100,000 pages from 15 titles, the MENA Newspapers collection will eventually encompass up to 500,000 pages of historical news content providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historical events from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century.
Content in MENA Newspapers is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French, including:
• Baghdad Times (Iraq)
• The Iraq Times (Iraq)
• Times of Mesopotamia (Iraq)
• Tangier Gazette (Morocco)
Contains six collections relating to political science, public administration, policy, and related areas.
Includes these collections:
• International Political Science Abstracts
• Peace Research Abstracts
• Political Science Complete
• Public Administration Abstracts
• Public Affairs Index
• World Politics Review
Full text collection of over 800 plays written by the sixteen most prolific dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age (XVI and XVII centuries), including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina.
Proxy string
If you are denied access to an online resource provided by the Thompson Library, it might be because there is no proxy string in the URL. You can attach the following (including the equals sign) to the front of the URL and try again:
http://libproxy.umflint.edu/login?url=
Example:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3162256 (not accessible off campus)
http://libproxy.umflint.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3162256 (accessible off campus)
If you still cannot gain access, please contact a librarian. It's helpful if you have the the error or denial-of-access page in front of you when you contact us.
DOI: If you have a DOI (digital object identifier) for an article, but not a complete URL, add this to the beginning of the DOI:
You can also visit the DOI link resolver at http://dx.doi.org/ and enter the DOI to get a working URL. You will still need to add the proxy string if you're off campus.
EZProxy Bookmarklet
The EZProxy bookmarklet lets you reload a web page through the Thompson Library’s EZProxy server. If the page you are visiting is one that the library has a subscription for, and you're presently off-campus, then you should get you immediate access to the resource once you've logged in with your uniqname and LAN password.
How Do You Add It?
There's a different method for different browsers:
Right-click on this link Reload with Thompson Library EZProxy Select the "Add to Favorites..." option. You may be warned that you are adding a link which may be unsafe. While some links like this may be unsafe, we believe this one is safe. You can click whichever option is required to continue.
Once you've added this bookmark to your web browser, selecting it will attempt to reload your current page through the Thompson Library's EZProxy. If it's a resource that your UM-Flint affiliation gets you access, you'll pass through a login screen and be granted access to it. Otherwise, you'll get the same page you started with.
Please let us know how well the EZProxy bookmarklet works.
