Databases by Subject - Humanities & Arts
See also Literature, General & Multidisciplinary and Biography, and History.
| Database Title | In Quick Find | Description | Coverage | Some Full Text | Restricted to...† |
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Historical abstracts of global history research journals, covering 1450 to the present. America History and Life can be searched by choosing the drop down option for for U.S. and Canadian history. Titles Indexed |
1886- |
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Covers journal literature of the arts and humanities, including citation information for authors' works. Titles Indexed | Workbook |
1980- |
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Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select |
Collection of critical essays on contemporary authors who are living or died after 1959. |
Current |
Y |
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InfoTrac databases cover scholarly sources on a variety of topics. Great starting place for articles. Includes titles from Expanded Academic ASAP and others. |
1980- |
Y |
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Google Scholar |
Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities. |
Varies |
Y |
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HighWire Press |
From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included | Search Tips |
Varies |
Y |
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Indexing and full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world on various humanities topics. Titles Included |
1920s+ |
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Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included | Search Tips |
1800s- |
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Databases |
Georgetown University provides two citation databases from the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature and National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics databases (ETHX and GenETHX) on ethics and human genetics. |
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Digital library of books and journal articles in American social history from the antibellum period through reconstruction. Search Tips |
Varies |
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Indexes books, essay collections and bibliographies on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Titles Included | Search Tips |
1926- |
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Listen to over 75,000 classical, jazz, and world music selections. |
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Electronic version of twenty volume The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. Search Tips | Tutorial |
Current |
Y |
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Search full text of The Grove Dictionaries of Music and Musicians, Opera and Jazz. Search Tips |
Current |
Y |
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Full text access to scholarly humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Titles Included |
Varies |
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The Readers' Guide Index to Periodical Literature back to 1890. Titles Included |
1890 - 1982 |
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Wiley Interscience |
Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips |
1946- |
Y |
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