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Databases by Subject: Arts & Humanities

Academic Search
Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.
 
Acta Sanctorum
The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the text of the sixty-eight printed volumes of Acta Sanctorum published in Antwerp and Brussels by the Société des Bollandistes, from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. [Please note that this site uses dynamic HTML and browsers below IE 5 and Netscape 6 are not supported.]

America History and Life

1964-present. Comprehensive international database for research on all periods of U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to the current decade. Includes abstracts of journal articles and listings of books and dissertations. For world history, use Historical Abstracts.
American Humanities Index
A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. This database contains over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present.

 

ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.

Arts and Humanities Search
A citation index to the literature of the arts and humanities, including over 8000 journals in English and other languages.

ATLA Religion Database
The leading international database indexing journals, books and book chapters in the scholarly fields of religion. This resource covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues, dating from 1949 to the present. Full text of approximately fifty religion journals are available here.[* Note: When off-campus you will get a login screen from Ebsco Publishing. In order to access the database, simply enter your 14-digit library barcode number.]
Biblical Archaeology Online Archive
The BAS Online Archive is an educational Web site containing the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazine Biblical Archaeology Review from 1975 to present, as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS): Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, Aspects of Monotheism: How God Is One, Feminist Approaches to the Bible, The Rise of Ancient Israel and The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels

 

Biography Resource Center
a full-text database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people throughout the world, across history, and in all disciplines

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index - CD-ROM Database
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. This database contains more than 300,000 records covering Roman Catholic publications.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
A searchable database of international affairs documents and abstracts.

Citing Electronic Information
how to cite Internet resources, Web pages, and other forms of electronic information

 

 
Clase and Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
 
 
EthnicNewswatch
News, culture, and history from over 240 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Both English and Spanish search interfaces are available.
 
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
a comprehensive full-text reference resource for the visual arts from prehistory through the 1990's

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Includes the full text of the new Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Grove Dictionary of Opera.

HAPI - Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Index to journal articles, book reviews, original literary works and other materials. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From 1970 to present.

Historical Abstracts
1954-present. International database for research on history of all regions (except the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the current decade. For US history, use America History and Life.

 

Internet Movie Database
Database which provides information on films such as director, producer, screen writer, and cast.
 

JSTOR
A full-text, searchable archive of core scholarly journals. Current issues are not available on JSTOR. Read these JSTOR Search Tips.

 

Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges
This new online database originates from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundación San Telmo, which contains the world’s largest collection of materials related to Borges’ life and works. The collection was begun in 1986 and includes manuscripts
and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other objects and documents. The Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges is based on this extensive collection and is the first database to provide access to a wide range of materials on Borges, including those that are rare or appeared in unindexed national and provincial newspapers and journals. [More Information]

 

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Published by Gale Research.

MLA Bibliography
MLA (Modern Language Abstracts) lists journal articles and a variety of other types of materials on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore
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Music Index Online (1979 - present)
A subject-author guide to music periodical literature.Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000. Note: This database allows only one simultaneous user at a time. When finished please click on the logout button located in the upper right corner of the screen.
 

 

Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP's core scholarly books in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion and Theology) and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed, fully searchable database. With 926 classic and newly published titles now available, OSO will be updated quarterly with an additional 200 titles added each year.
 

Patrologia Latina Database
an electronic full-text Latin version of the works of the Church Fathers from 200 A.D. to 1216 A.D. It contains all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and index.

Philosopher's Index
provides abstracting and indexing for books and journal articles in philosophy and related fields from 1949 to present. Updated quarterly.

Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

PubList - Internet Directory of Publications
a directory listing of over 150,000 periodical and serial publications
 
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
A fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced dynamic Web version of the original encyclopedia. Includes more than 2000 articles covering Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.
Routledge Religion Resource
Provides online access to the best reference titles on Religion in a single fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced resource. With some 14,000 pages of content, this site comprises thousands of authoritative, signed articles on world religions, the sociology of religion, and the history of religion.

 

Visual Collections: Images of art, history and culture
View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections. Search for a particular artist, time period, or medium, and use powerful tools to zoom, pan, view image data and save groups of images.