Key Databases
JSTOR provides page images of ebooks, ebook chapters, and back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to current publication. It also offers millions of high-quality ArtStor images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world.
Key Journal Titles
Full-text of the Philadelphia Daily News via Proquest Newsstand from 1983 to present.
Note: Library of Congress also offers a publicly available collection of Sanborn Maps.
Digital Sanborn Maps provides access to large-scale maps of American towns and cities, including information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors.
Concurrent user limit: 10
Simply Analytics is a web-based mapping application that permits users to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing variables. Maps can be exported as high-resolution images; data can be selected, sorted, and compared to build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet.
Explore the Backgrounders: Connecting History with Headlines section for historical essays and sources related to current news topics in Philadelphia.
The following Philadelphia-area libraries and archives together constitute one of the richest repositories of primary source material in the United States.
