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HUMANITIES
Art, Classics, Languages, Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Communications

Database

Subject

Coverage

Description

Source

Academic Onefile General

 1980-

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily. (Contains material formerly found in Expanded Academic ASAP and InfoTrac OneFile.)

Gale

Academic Search Premier General

 1984-

Provides full text from 4500 serials, including over 3600 peer-reviewed titles. Contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.

EBSCO

ACLS Humanities
E-Book Project (HEB)
History, Humanities

E-Books 

With over 1500 titles, HEB is expanding from history titles to include most humanities disciplines and area studies.  (See title list.) Formerly the ACLS History E-Book Project, HEB adds approximately 300 books annually to the collection.

ACLS

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Religion

1949-

Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. Offers over 488,000 article citations 1,500+ journals, more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. Coverage begins in 1949 with indexing for some journals going back to the 19th century.   

EBSCO

Communication & Mass Media Complete Commun-
ications

Varies

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides selective full text and references in all areas related to communication and mass media.

EBSCO

General Reference Center Gold General

1980-

General Reference Center GOLD is a general interest database from a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, and more.

Gale

Grove Art Online Art

Varies

See Oxford Art Online

Oxford

In the First Person Biography

Varies

In the First Person from Alexander Press is an index to personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories that are publicly available on the Web or held by repositories and archives.

WWW

JSTOR General

Varies up to most recent 2-5 years

JSTOR offers complete backfiles of core journals in various subjects: economics, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science and many more. Full-text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present. Current and recently published issues are not available in JSTOR.  We have access to: Arts & Sciences I (title list); Arts & Sciences II (title list), and Arts & Sciences IV (title list).

JSTOR

Literature Online Reference Edition Literature

Varies

Literatre Online is a library of literary criticism and reference, biography and bibliography. Includes 128 full-text literary journals and 6,500 essays from literary reference and textbooks covering: literary movements, world fiction, poetry, biographies of contemporary and canonical authors, and bibliographic information. Usage Info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

Pro-
quest

Literature Resource Center - LRC Literature

Varies

Offers biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers - with in-depth coverage of 2500 of the most-studied authors.

Gale

MLA International Bibliography Humanities

1926-

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, it contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage includes almost 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

 EBSCO

NetLibrary General  E-Books NetLibrary offers more than 56,000 e-Book titles in all subject areas. Includes scholarly reference and professional works from leading university, academic, and professional publishers.

OCLC

Oxford Art Online Art

Varies

This gateway to Grove Art Online contains the The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Includes new and updated articles, 3,000+ thumbnail art images and line drawings, and extensive image links.

Oxford

Philosopher's Index Philosophy

1940 -

Philosopher's Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Philosopher’s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. Usage Info: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user.  EBSCO
Religion & Philosophy Database Religion & Philosophy   Custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and philosophy and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. The content in this database is in Academic Onefile.

Gale

What Do I Read Next? Literature

Varies

Features over 80,000 recommended titles, plus thousands of award winners and best sellers. Includes contemporary mainstream fiction, classic fiction, and popular nonfiction.

Gale