Electronic Databases for Arts & Humanities

Academic Search Premier - Type: Full Text

Description: The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. It offers critical information from many sources found in no other database.

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Bartleby.com - Type: Full Text

Description: The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

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Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1908-1982 (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Article Index

Description: Book Review Digest Retrospective is an index providing citations for book reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction published and/or distributed in the United States and Canada from 1905-1982.

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Clase and Periodica - Type: Article Index

Description: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities

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Communication and Mass Media Complete - Type: Full Text

Description: CMMC indexes over 640 periodicals in the fields of communications, media, and related disciplines. In addition, full text for over 240 of these periodicals is available.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography - Type: Full Text

Description: Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

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Dissertations & Theses: Full Text - Type: Full Text

Description: With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download, and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.

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Duotrope's Digest - Type: Full Text

Description: A database of more than 2,500 literary markets, including a wealth of contemporary poetry and fiction journals. Includes tools such as deadline calendar and submission tracker. Updated weekly.

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Emporia State Institutional Repository Collection (ESIRC) - Type: Full Text

Description: The purpose of ESIRC is to collect, preserve and share a range of artifacts related to teaching, scholarship and cultural events at Emporia State University with the wider scholarly community and public.

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Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments Online - Type: Full Text

Description: Provides a complete examination of each of our nation's 27 Constitutional Amendments. From the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, to slavery, to the voting rights of women, this text illustrates how the US Constitution has changed since its ratification in 1789.

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Expanded Academic ASAP - Type: Full Text

Description: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! From 1980 to the present.

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Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Full Text

Description: Humanities Full Text covers both scholarly journals and general magazines in all aspects of the humanities, including art, communications, film, folklore, history, literary criticism, music, religion, philosophy, and related fields. Indexing and abstracts are from 1984 to present, with selected full text from 1994 to present.

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In The First Person - Type: Article Index

Description: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.

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JSTOR - Type: Full Text

Description: Archive and fulltext of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. Each journal begins with the first issue. Has a moving wall of 3-5 years.

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Kansas Memory (Kansas Historical Society) - Type: Full Text

Description: Kansas Memory has been created by the Kansas State Historical Society to share its historical collections via the Internet. It supports the mission of the Society--to identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials and information pertaining to Kansas history in order to assist the public in understanding, appreciating, and caring for the heritage of Kansas. Kansas Memory provides a very tangible means of fulfilling the vision of the KSHS, which is to enrich people's lives by connecting them to the past.The value of the site is in its rich content?letters, diaries, photographs, government records from the State Archives, maps, museum artifacts, and historic structures in Kansas.

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Literature Criticism Online - Type: Full Text

Description: This resource offers full-text access to current volumes of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. Each literary criticism set represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

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Literature Resource Center (LRC) - Type: Full Text

Description: Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

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MLA Directory of Periodicals - Type: Article Index

Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains information available on the journals and series that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography database.

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MLA International Bibliography - Type: Article Index

Description: This database is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics which has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926. The electronic version includes the Bibliography's entire print run and currently contains more than 2 million records.

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OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Full Text

Description: This database provides full text articles from a variety of databases that cover several disciplines including education, science, humanities, business and the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1982 and goes to the current date.

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Oxford Art Online - Type: Full Text

Description: The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - Type: Full Text

Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. It traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day. Most entries contain information on all of the following: spelling, pronunciation, derivation, meaning, and usage.

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Oxford Music Online - Type: Full Text

Description: Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

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Oxford Reference Premium - Type: Full Text

Description: Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

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Philosopher's Index - Type: Article Index

Description: This bibliographic database offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.

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