Arts and Humanities Databases
Entries marked with
link
to full text articles online.
Interdisciplinary
Databases
- Academic
Search Premier
References to articles from approximately 8,000
scholarly journals (about half of them full text) covering a wide range of
academic areas, 1975 to current (coverage varies). Included is a searchable
collection of images.
- Encyclopædia
Britannica Online
Includes the complete encyclopedia, the Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica
Book of the Year, and thousands of links
to World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.
- LexisNexis
Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal, and reference information.
- Periodical
Abstracts (PerAbs)

References to articles (some full text) from
over 2,000 popular and academic periodicals, 1987 to current.
- Reference Collections
Online
- Credo
Reference
Online access to a selection
from 240 reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books
of quotations, as well as many subject-specific titles) from the world's
leading publishers.
- Oxford
Reference Online
Online access to over 170 cross-searchable
dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford
University Press, one of the world's most trusted reference publishers.
- WilsonSelectPlus
Full text articles from over 1400 sources in
science, humanities, education, and business, 1994 to current.
For access to more complete list
of general interest resources see the General Interest
Databases page.
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Specialized Humanities
Databases
- AHSearch
(Arts & Humanities Search)
Corresponds to the Arts &
Humanities Citation Index, covering all the arts--visual, musical, performance,
and literature--and philosophy, history, religion, and all other aspects of
the humanities. Use this database to identify journal articles that cite specific
publications, 1980 to current. Library use only--ask
for assistance at Library Reference desk.
- Alternative
Press Index (AltPressIndex)
References to articles from over
250 alternative, radical, and leftist periodicals and newspapers in the humanities
and social sciences, 1991 to current. Library use only--ask
for assistance at Library Reference desk.
- Art
Abstracts
References to articles from leading
international art publications including English-language periodicals, yearbooks,
and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian,
German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Also indexed are reproductions
of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals, 1984 to current.
- The
ARTFL Project / Trésor de la Langue Française
The Project for American and French
Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) includes nearly 2000
texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of
non-fiction prose and technical writing.
- Book
Review Digest (BookReview)
Cites and excerpts reviews (some full text) of
current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children,
1983 to current.
- Contemporary
Authors
In-depth biographical and bibliographical
information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
- Essay
and General Literature Index (EssayGenLit)
References to essays and articles
contained primarily in books published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada,
with a focus on the humanities and social sciences, 1985 to current. Library
use only--ask for assistance at Library Reference desk.
- Film
Literature Index
References to articles from popular
and scholarly publications on film and television. This free, online version
of the print Film Literature Index includes indexing and deeper historical
coverage (1976 - 2001) for selected titles than the Film & Television
Literature Index (see below).
- Film
& Television Literature Index
References to articles from popular and scholarly publications, including
books, on film and television. Coverage varies by title, continues Film
Literature Index (see above).
- Grove
Art
Includes the entire text of The Dictionary
of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates
to the text, plus extensive image links.
- Grove
Music
A comprehensive, encyclopedic resource covering
all aspects of music including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (second edition) and The New Grove Dictionary
of Opera.
- HAPI:
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Authoritative index to worldwide information
about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the
United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
- HLAS
Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
References to journal articles, books and book
chapters, and conference proceedings published worldwide on Latin America, 1936
to current. Volumes alternate annually between the humanities and social sciences.
- Humanities
Abstracts
References to articles from leading
English-language periodicals on literature and language, history, philosophy,
archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts,
history, religion and theology, 1984 to current.
- Iter:
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
References to scholarly journal
articles and books pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
- JSTOR
- The Scholarly Journal Archive

An historical, fulltext archive of core journals in the arts, humanities,
and social sciences.
- Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
References to articles, books, research reports
and proceedings on all fields of librarianship. Coverage varies by title,
and extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
- Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts
References to articles from over 1,200 journals
(1973 to current) and links to web resources on all aspects of the study of
language.
- Literary
Index
Comprehensive indexing of
many standard literary criticism print sources which
contain biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.
Most of the referenced sources are
available in the Reference Collection, 1st floor.
- MLA
International Bibliography
References to articles,
books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and
bibliographies published worldwide in literature, languages, linguistics,
and folklore, 1926 to current. Included is the MLA Directory of Periodicals,
providing detailed information on the periodicals covered in the Bibliography.
- Music
Index Online
References to articles
from more than 690 international music journals and magazines covering every
aspect of classical and popular world music, plus book reviews, record reviews,
first performances, and obituaries, 1979 to current.
- Oxford
English Dictionary (OED Online)
The OED is the unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of English-language words,
both present and past. In addition to offering access to the material contained
in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions
Series, the online edition is updated quarterly with the results of the
OED revision project. To learn more about researching the evolution
of language, and how the OED is made, see the Oxford
Dictionary Corpus.
- Philosopher's
Index
References to journal articles
and books published worldwide covering all fields of philosophy, 1940 to current.
- RILM
(Répertoire International
de Littérature Musicale) Abstracts
of Music Literature
References to articles, books, catalogues,
critical commentary, reviews, and more on music and musicology, 1967 to current.
- SASKIA
Art Images Collection
(CARLI Digital Collections)
30,000 digital images of paintings,
sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections:
the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well
as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images are
displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format.
- World
Shakespeare Bibliography Online
References to all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations,
theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic
media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and
published or produced between 1969 and mid-2002.
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