Exhibit Sources: Images
- Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window Associated Press Images Collection is a searchable collection of recent and historical photos from the Associated Press, plus AP graphics, articles, and brief sound clips.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
- Smithsonian Institution Collections Includes millions of records, including images, of resources in the Smithsonian collections.
- NYPL Digital Collections Provides thousands of digital images from the NYPL collections including historical maps, illuminated manuscripts, and prints and photographs. It contains texts and images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Library of Congress -- Digital Collections This digital archive from the Library of Congress has over 100 thematic collections of historical documents, maps, moving images, sound recordings, and photographic images.
- Finding ImagesLibrary guide to specialized image collections.
- Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.
Exhibit Sources: Newspapers
- Access World News This link opens in a new window Find full-text current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 10,000 sources.
- Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window Identifies articles in over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. The index links to full text articles available through BU subscriptions, but does not provide full text content. Date coverage: 1991 - present.
- International Newsstream This link opens in a new window International, searchable, full text coverage of selected newspapers. (Text only; does not include images, charts.) Date coverage: 1977 - present.
- News & NewspapersLibrary guide to newspapers and news media currently available through BU Libraries.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni is a source for newspapers and magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts, as well as legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790, and information on U.S. and international companies and executives.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window Full-page images and article images (PDF) with searchable full text from the following newspapers: Boston Globe; New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Defender. See listing for each individual newspaper for date coverage and to search that publication separately.
Exhibit: Multimedia
- Audio and Video: Streaming and Physical MediaLibrary guide to finding music, spoken word and video in BU's collections and beyond.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) This link opens in a new window CMMC indexes journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study. Date coverage: 1915 - present.
- Creative Commons Search CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
- Television News OnlineLibrary guide to streaming TV archives with a focus on news and factual television.
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window Streaming video of news and commercials from NBC and CNN plus searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, Fox News, and other channels . Date coverage: NBC video 1968 - present; CNN video 1995 - present.
Exhibit: Data and Statistics
- Business & Economics Data SourcesLibrary guide to business and economic data.
- Data.gov The central clearinghouse of the U.S. Government’s open data.
- Election News & Data (U.S.)Library guide to election-related news and data.
- Google Dataset Search Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
- Polls and Public OpinionLibrary guide to open access and by-subscription-only polls.
- Statistical ResourcesLibrary guide to statistical information sources for the U.S. and other countries.
Exhibit: Documents
- Access to Archives Database Online access to records in a small selection of historic databases preserved permanently in National Archives and Records Administration.
- Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. Topics include U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, global affairs and colonial studies, and modern history. Select more... for specific collections.
- DocsTeach Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history.
