Databases by Subject - Humanities & Arts

See also Literature, General & Multidisciplinary and Biography, and History.

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts	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-	N
Arts & Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Knowledge	Covers journal literature of the arts and humanities, including citation information for authors' works. Titles Indexed \| Workbook	1980-	N
Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select	Collection of critical essays on contemporary authors who are living or died after 1959.	Current	Y
Gale PowerSearch	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
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	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Humanities International Complete	Indexing and full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world on various humanities topics. Titles Included	1920s+	Y
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
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.	-	N
Making of America	Digital library of books and journal articles in American social history from the antibellum period through reconstruction. Search Tips	Varies	Y
MLA International Bibliography	Indexes books, essay collections and bibliographies on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1926-	N
Naxos Music Library	Listen to over 75,000 classical, jazz, and world music selections.	-	Y
Oxford English Dictionary	Electronic version of twenty volume The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Current	Y
Oxford Music Online	Search full text of The Grove Dictionaries of Music and Musicians, Opera and Jazz. Search Tips	Current	Y
Project MUSE	Full text access to scholarly humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Readers' Guide Retrospective	The Readers' Guide Index to Periodical Literature back to 1890. Titles Included	1890 - 1982	N
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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