Arts and Humanities
Number of resources: 108
Academic Search Premier   This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals Access offers indexing for approximately 85 unique popular periodicals that may not be indexed elsewhere. Abstracts Only [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Alternative Press Index Indexes articles, editorials, reviews, interviews, obituaries, speeches, fiction, songs, recipes, regular columns from 250 publications. The bibliographic citations cover North American alternative, radical and left analysis and opinion sources concerning cultural, economic, political, and social change. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Aluka An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Alukaâs partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies The principal current bibliography for North American research; covers books, articles, dissertations. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Annee philologique Online The most comprehensive index to Classical Studies. It is an index of citations to books and articles in all areas of ancient Greek and Latin studies. Print index available at WILSON Reference PA29 .A5x. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Art Full Text Art Full Text, produced by The HW Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. There is full-text coverage for selected periodicals. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Art Index Retrospective Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism and research from leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, resources include data from yearbooks and select museum bulletins. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ArtBibliographies Modern Index and abstracts of articles from periodical articles, books, exhibition catalogs, and index entries for dissertations. Covers all aspects of late 19th and 20th century art, including decorative and applied art, with particular reference to photography and three-dimensional design. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Asian American Drama Brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, so providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and it is planned to include contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ATLA Religion Database ATLA lists journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Some listings link to full text of articles. More about ATLA [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Recognized as one of the world's leading databases of the architectural literature. Indexes more than 1,000 western language periodicals published worldwide on architecture, archaeology, decorative arts, environmental studies, furniture, historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban planning/city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 10 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft This is a core bibliographic research tool for German literature and Germanic philology. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies References principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 - broad, but not comprehensive. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Bibliography of Native North Americans Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, policy makers and will be helpful to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Covers art of Europe and the Americas (4th century to modern), painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, popular and folk art. Photography, new media, and the performing arts are also covered in connection with the visual arts. --- Materials Covered: articles from more than 2,500 periodicals, plus books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (R鰥rtoire d'Art et d'Arch鯬ogie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Black Drama Contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection of black drama, is the project's editorial advisor. More than a quarter of the collection will consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| British Newspapers 1600-1900 The most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Central & Eastern European Online Library C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 301 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Chicano Database Subjects include Mexican-American and Chicano studies topics. Index to books and articles in English and Spanish languages. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| China Academic Journals Full-Text ä¸å½å¦æ¯æåç½ Chinese Academic Journal Database (CAJ) contains 2424 titles of journals in History/Literature/Philosophy and Education & Social Sciences since 1994. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI) ä¸å½ç¥ç½ CNKI comprises four databases including Chinese Academic Journals Database (CAJ), China Core Newspaper Database (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), and China Conference Proceedings (CPCD). Searching is freely available online. The China Academic Journals (CAJ) Database puts over 9.5 million full text articles of all academic subjects contributed by over 5,000 serials titles, nearly 2,000 in social sciences and humanities alone, at the fingertips of users. The archive begins with 1994. With an archive beginning in 2000, the China Core Newspaper Database collects full text articles from hundreds of newspapers from every province of China. CDMD compiles full text masters and doctoral dissertations on all subjects from over 250 Chinese universities, colleges and institutes. These include the 211 Project universities selected by the Chinese government to receive special funding to support advanced research in crucial subjects. The China Conference Proceedings Database collects documents and articles from the conferences of over 340 national and international societies and associations holding conferences in China. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Classical Music Library Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of recordings with a supplementary reference database that users may search and listen to music delivered to their desktop. Classical Music Library is cross-referenced to a database of supplementary information and features fully licensed recordings, thousands of program notes and composer biographies, advanced searching, and hundreds of recommended play lists themed by genres. Browser RequirementsPC users: IE 6+, Netscape 8+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+Mac users: Netscape 7+, Safari 1+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+ Media player requirmentsPC users: Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x; Microsoft Windows Media Player up to and including version 10.xMac users:Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online An index to poems in anthologies. It includes 250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author categories. Also provides biographical entries, bibliographies, anthology descriptors and fulltext versions of poems in the public domain. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals, and indexing or abstracts to nearly 600 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Contemporary World Music Contains 50,000 tracks from genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dance Collection Online The Dance Catalog lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media. It includes materials in many languages and serves as an index to an international range of dance periodicals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Database of Recorded American Music The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a collaboration between New World Records and New York University. DRAM facilitates research in American music by offering on-demand access to audio-streaming files of complete works by American composers. The 7,500 compositions currently in DRAM are drawn from the catalogues of the New World, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable record labels. Ranging from folk to opera, native American to jazz, 19th-century "classical" to early rock, and musical theater to contemporary, electronic, and more, DRAM's goal is to make available for educational use and scholarly research the widest possible spectrum of recorded American music. Alongside the high-quality music streams, complete liner notes, scholarly essays, bibliographies, and discographies are available for viewing on the Database. Playlists can be created by faculty to address specific curriculum needs. Browser RequirementsThe Database is designed to be compatible with the following browsers:
Media Player RequirementsQuickTime 6.5.2 or later is the preferred player for DRAM streaming media. If you do not already have QuickTime installed, you may download it free from Apple. Windows users click here to select the most current version for your operating system. While you may be able to stream DRAM media using Windows Media Player or Real, display issues and/or performance interruptions may occur if an application other than QuickTime is used to listen to music files. If QuickTime is installed on your system but is not set as the default application handler for files of extension type *.smil and *.sml, you will need to alter your preferences to effect this change. Windows UsersTo set QuickTime as the default handler for smil files, you will need to access the default setting in within your Windows Folder Options (found under Control Panel in Windows XP and/or Settings in earlier iterations of the OS). From the list of extensions, you will need to locate file extensions *.smil and *.sml and specify QuickTime the default application handler for files of that type. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Design and Applied Arts Index DAAI is an international index to design and craft journals. It contains annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals, and data on nearly 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, fashion design, textile design, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, book design, photography, advertising, theatre design, ergonomics, and design management. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dyabola DYABOLA literature database contains citations from the subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Click on "With IP-Access" to search Dyabola. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Economist Historical Archive Presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them. Includes new full-colour images, exportable financial tables, a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week, supplements, special reports and surveys. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Essay and General Literature Index Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Essay Finder LitFINDER: Essays provides the full texts of 2800 essays on many subjects, including essays on architecture, art, drama, economics, history, literature, psychology, science, sociology, and other subjects. Find an essay by its author, by the author?s nationality, or by the time period in which it was written, or by its broad subject, or by specific keywords within the essay. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Ethnic Newswatch FULL TEXT articles from over 125 American ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus A bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text This database can be used to find research articles on film studies' topics. List of titles included. Aspects covered include theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews (back to 1914) and more. The database allows full searching of more than 270 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Articles are available for more than 80 journals and texts from nearly 50 books. If the article you are interested in is not available online, click the Find It-button to see if the article is available in another library database, or to see if the library has the article in print. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film Indexes Online This web portal combines three research databases in the film studies area: FIAF International Film Database Plus (info), AFI Film Catalog (info), and Film Index International (info). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| FMG On Demand - Film Media Group Online educational films. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| HRAF Collection of Archaeology Please see eHRAF Collection of Archaeology. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews International bibliography of book reviews of scholarly literature. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature An international, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and up-to-date online periodical database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals Covers all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Articles in over 350 international music journals, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Coverage also includes reviews, letters, and editorials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| IMB: International Medieval Bibliography This guide to what has been published about the Middle Ages is interdisciplinary, including conference proceedings, collected essays, and journal articles on philosophy, literature, the arts, etc. in addition to those of historical analysis covering the period between the years 476 and 1500. Covers all aspects of medieval studies for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Citations classified by date, subject and location. This index is available in an electronic edition through the University of Minnesota Libraries Web Page. In addition to English, the IMB indexes articles published in foreign languages with characters not found in English. In order to view and print diacritics the user will need to download the special fonts from the "Select Database" page. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index Islamicus Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It covers all aspects of Muslim life - history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. Over 2,500 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. The bibliography covers numerous disciplines such as bibliography, history of the Islamic book, education, religion and theology, philosophy, science and mathematics, architecture, music, theater and drama, geography and ecology, anthropology and sociology, archaeology, cookery, epigraphy, economics, history, political thought, politics and current affairs, and the languages and literatures of countries and regions worldwide.
Periodicals devoted solely to the fields of Islam are indexed completely. Other journals are indexed only for articles on Islamic subjects. |
| Index of Christian Art Early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index to Jewish Periodicals An index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals (AAI) is the only online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series IPM is a database created to facilitate on-line searching for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. IPM will eventually contain detailed information on all music listed in "Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography," by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens. Additional titles will be added, as appropriate. IPM is searchable by composer, title, and series name and number. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index Translationum Bibliographic citations of translated books and book-length translated works published since 1979, according to UNESCO records. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Informe Design InformeDesign (www.informedesign.umn.edu) is a research and communication tool for designers of the built environment, such as interior designers, architects, landscape architects, and graphic designers. It contains a database of Research Summaries about design and human behavior research, accessible through either a full-text search or by using the topics listed within the three main categories, Space, Issues, or Occupants. Researchers at the University of Minnesota transform findings from refereed journal articles into research-based design criteria in user-friendly language. Approximately 500 Research Summaries are added annually on average 10 per week. Register with this free, totally accessible site to receive automatic email notification of Research Summaries posted to the site on your topics of interest. The site also offers a Calendar of Research Events, a Glossary of Terms, and a monthly newsletter, Implications. This project is funded through 2005 from a $1.18! million grant to the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel from the American Society of Interior Designers. For more information, go to the Web site, or contact Dr. Caren Martin, Director at cmartin@che.umn.edu [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| IngentaConnect This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications. Full text of articles is sometimes available for subscribed journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Inter-Play: An Online Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals Contains citations to plays from the late 19th century through the current year. A valuable source for finding plays, many of which are not included in standard print play indexes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Index of Black Periodicals Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Iter is a bibliography of over 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and renaissance journal titles. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC) Includes articles from more than 800 Latin Ameri- can journals included in the ARL Latin American Research Re- sources Project. It allows for article searches by keyword, title, author, and journal; and ILL requests [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Latino Literature Brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. Latino Literature currently has over 106,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (Classic) FOR OFF-CAMPUS, WIRELESS, & ON CAMPUS USE LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. (Classical interface) [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Government Periodicals Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles. Check periodical title in MNCAT to locate copies in the Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LGBT Life Full-Text LGBT Life Full-text contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 GLBT-specific core periodicals; additionally, books as well as newsletters, case studies, dissertations, etc. are represented. Disciplines covered by GLBT Life include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, psychology, religion, sociology and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LitFINDER LitFINDER provides either the full text or a citation to a print source in which to read any of 125,000 poems, 5000 stories, 2800 essays, 1000 plays, and 1800 speeches, with new material added regularly. You can search by many ways, including author, subjects, nationality, and time period. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Locus Index to Science Fiction Indexes almost all English-language science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror books and short stories published during those years, including indexing contents of anthologies and individual magazine issues; also contains links to annual updates beyond 1998 and to a more limited index to anthologies and story collections published previous to 1984. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Minnesota Historical Society's Visual Resources Database Information about photographs, artwork, posters, and fine art photographs, as well as selected images from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society are included in this database. These historical collections visually represent Minnesotans, their lives, landscapes, leisure and occupations from the pre-territorial period to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MLA International Bibliography Indexes scholarship on English and American Literature, folklore, language and linguistics, and dramatic arts. Covers over 4,400 periodicals published worldwide in all languages, as well as critical monographs, reference works, conference proceedings, and abstracts of dissertations. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Music Index Online Bibliographic citations from more than 690 international music periodicals covering a broad range of subjects, including music history, forms and types of music, musical instruments from ancient to modern, and electro-acoustic and computer-produced music. Book reviews, reviews of music recordings, tapes, and performances, first performances, and obituaries are also indexed. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Naxos Music Library The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio-- primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz. Browser requirmentsPC users: Features are optimized through IE. May also use Mozilla based browsers (Firefox).Mac users: Access via Mozilla, IE, or Safari Media player requirmentsPC users: Must have Windows Media Player 9 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site.Mac users: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New Testament Abstracts The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, this database is a research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. NTA contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,100 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition, approximately 800 current books are also summarized annually. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New York Times (1851-2004) Full-page, digital archive of the New York Times, 1851-2004. Search content, and view images of pages and articles, advertising and more. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers Digital archive of 48 nineteenth century British newspapers. This online collection includes national and regional newspapers including those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included in the collection. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers Digital archive of 19th century U.S. newspapers (1.7 million pages). Includes digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| North American Theatre Online An electronic index to web-based materials on theatres, performances, plays, productions, and people, along with indexing to assist searching, and selected links to the full text of the narratives, and also contains the full-text of reference works on these subjects. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| North American Women's Drama Brings together more than 1,500 plays by more than 300 playwrights, along with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The collection begins with the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson in colonial times and spans the 19th and 20th centuries to the present. It includes playwrights such as Marsha Norman, Beth Henley, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Gertrude Stein, Maria Irene Fornes, Emily Mann, Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Martin, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck, Nora Ephron, Susan Sontag, Edna Ferber, Alice Childress, Rachel Crothers, Megan Terry, and many more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Old Testament Abstracts The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, this database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Print Edition: Wilson Reference BS410 .O42 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PCI: Periodicals Contents Index This title has changed its name to Periodicals Index Online. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Periodicals Index Online PIO is an electronic index to the tables of contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PIO currently indexes over twelve million journal articles in over 3,500 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Philosopher's Index Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Database Fact Sheet available at: http://www.csa.com/factsheets/philosopher-set-c.php [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Play Finder LitFINDER: Plays provides 1000 plays of many kinds, from all time periods, in English or translated into English. Search for plays in many ways. Brief biographies are provided for authors. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Poem Finder Covers poetry from antiquity to the present; it contains 500,000 citations for poems by 70,000 authors from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author collections, and 4,000 periodicals. Contains the full text of some poems online. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (via 19th Century Masterfile) A significant resource compiled by William Frederick Poole. A core resource for researching nineteenth-century topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective Provides comprehensive, historic indexing of the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States during the 20th century in the following subject areas: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biographies, Business, Children, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Gardening, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Radio, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Religious and Theological Abstracts (online) Summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals, covering a wide variety of periodical literature including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (via 19th Century Masterfile) An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899. (ed. Ernest Cushing Richardson). 81,000 citations from 21,000 writers covering 600 periodicals and encyclopedia. Of particular interest are the heading definitions, often with references to encyclopedia articles for continued research. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Effective July 1, 2004, this database is now available via the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface RILM indexes scholarly writings on music and related disciplines, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, music therapy, music librarianship, the physics of music, and other fields as they relate to music. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| RIPM: Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 RISM (the International Inventory of Music Sources) is a database of musical sources, such as manuscripts & printed music, works of music theory, and opera libretti which are preserved in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections around the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database Indexes over 60,000 books and articles about science fiction, fantasy, and related fields, from both professional publications and fanzines. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SCIPIO Art and Rare Books Sales Catalogs The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Digital archive covering British news media from 1757-1817. The archive contains about 700 newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney. The contents were published mostly in London, and some were published in English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Smithsonian Global Sounds Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| South and Southeast Asian Literature In English This is a machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of the writings from 1825 to the present, written by authors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji, including fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Story Finder LitFINDER: Stories provides the full texts of nearly 5000 stories, from all periods and all nationalities, in English translation. For some additional stories, it provides the citation to a book or periodical in which you can read the story. You can search by author, by title of story, by nationality, by period, or by subject. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Television News Archive The Television News Archive available from Vanderbilt University, is an index to more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here. To view the CNN content, you will need the free RealOne media player from RealNetworks or Real Alternative. For more information please see the Television News Archive FAQ [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Textile Technology Index The Textile Technology Digest (TTD) database contains bibliographic citations, with abstracts, and provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects. Selected articles summarize the technological advancements and applications of science and research to the textile industry. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile production and processing, and the automation and management systems of these operations. Coverage also includes many of the major resources of the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Theatre in Video / BBC Shakespeare Series Online Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains over 180 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, and the complete works of Shakespeare as produced by the BBC and other theatrical companies. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and more. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging, and these landmark performances can become a permanent part of the curriculum. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Times Digital Archive Digital Archive of The Times of London for the years 1785-1985. Full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive presents one of the world's premier contemporary literary reviews in fully searchable image format. Content covers 1902 to 1990. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| TOCS-IN "TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%). The project began to archive current tables of contents in 1992, and now contains ca 185 journals, and over 45,000 articles, in a database at Toronto." |
| Twentieth Century North American Drama Contains 1,122 plays by 170 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. More than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition A rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history, from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives. Additional congresses are added each month. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Victorian Database Online This database covers the British Victorian period, from about 1830 to the beginning the War in 1914. It is interdisciplinary, containing information on publications from 500+ journals on painting, architecture and music, philosophy and religion, histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the British colonial empire, sociology, women's studies, law and education, science, technology and medicine, and literature. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Web of Science (ISI) Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| World Textiles World Textiles provides coverage of the current textiles literature. It is the only source of British, European, and American patens and international standards information in this field. Coverage includes: synthesis, physics & chemistry of polymers for fibres; science , technology, properties, products and uses of fibres, yarns and fabrics; chemical and mechanical treatment of textiles; technical management; production, consumption and international trade data; test methods and quality control; standards and legislation and environmental safety and health issues. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 1 user at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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