Due to federal and university budget cuts, access to several statewide resources and databases ended in July 2025. Read the Library Director's e-mail about these changes.
Part of these changes include cancellation of the library's subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Access to content of the print publication is still available via multiple library databases, some with a 30-day embargo:
The list of cancelled resources include the following. Those marked (MBLC) were previously provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners via a cancelled Institute of Museum and Library Services federal grant:
Further cuts to Ely Library eJournal subscriptions will take place effective January 2026 and include the following:
Finally, the following print periodical subscriptions have also been cut:
Many, but not all, of these journals are available in our databases, some with an embargo on the most recent issues. Use the Journals A-Z search to locate journals in Ely Library Databases.
Ely Library has added several archive collections from Gale Archives Unbound. These are collections of digitized microfilm that have been made searchable and available on a digital platform. The collections include:
These regimental histories and personal narratives provide invaluable first-person insights into the experiences of soldiers during the Civil War, covering the full span of army life and combat from 1861 to 1865. Compiled in the postwar and early 20th-century periods, they serve as a rich and enduring resource for understanding the personal and collective realities of the U.S. Civil War.
This FBI file, spanning 1970 to 1993, originated from an investigation into the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam (COLIFAM). It includes interviews with Vietnamese refugees, details on North Vietnam’s handling of U.S. servicemen’s personal items, and information on various women's peace organizations. The collection, divided into Domestic Security and Foreign Counterintelligence sections, contains teletypes, interviews, letters, and reports, offering valuable insights into Vietnam-era policies and domestic activism.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Committee on Un-American Activities (later called the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC) developed a working relationship in the period 1938 through 1975 that increased the authority of the committee and gave the bureau power to investigate suspected communists.
The archive is divided into three parts. The first part, 1938-1945, documents clashes between HUAC chairman Martin Dies and the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. The second section, 1946-1949, records the process by which the FBI and HUAC chose their targets. The final section follows HUAC, renamed the Internal Security Committee, in its attempt to protect the FBI from other congressional investigative committees.
