Arts and Humanities Databases

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DIALOG databases: if the databases listed below are not sufficient, you may request that one of the librarians conduct a search using one of over 400 specialized databases of the DIALOG Information System. DIALOG databases: by subject; alphabetical.

ArtAbstracts (1984 to present)
Leading publications in the world of the arts.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present)
Access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in scholarly arts and humanities journals with coverage from 1975-present.

ATLAReligion - American Theological Library Association (1949 to present)
Religious and theological literature for students and faculty.

Cambridge Collections Online
A full-text collection of over 250 titles covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies and includes Shakespeare Survey Online.

Dictionary of Old English A to G
Defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language.

Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
At least one copy of each text surviving in Old English, fully searchable, and providing the basis for the production of the Dictionary of Old English.

Grove Music Online
A dynamic resource including the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.

Harper's Weekly (1857-1889)
Electronic access to Harper's Weekly examining nineteenth century America from 1857-1889.

HumanitiesAbs - Humanities Abstracts
Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities from 1984 to the present.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Index of articles from journals covering the humanities & social sciences from 1907-1983.

International Medieval Bibliography
Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages.

Literature Resource Center
An interdisciplinary approach to literature containing full-text articles from more than 170 literary journals, critical essays, overviews, plot summaries, and author biographies.

LitFinder
Thousands of full-text short stories, poems, essays, plays and speeches.

MLA - Modern Language Association International Bibliography (1926 to present)
Literature, language, linguistics, folklore.

Naxos Music Library
A web-based streaming audio collection of over 320,000 tracks of classical music plus other genres including jazz, blues and world music.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to present)
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance and music therapy from 1967 to the present.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 leading scholarly social sciences journals from 1956-present.

Web of Knowledge
A fully integrated database that allows citation tracking and in depth research.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Annotated entries for all important works related to Shakespeare published between 1964 and 2005.