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Indexes & Databases by Subject: Arts and Humanities

A = All – 100% full-text or linked full text articles available
M = Most – no less than 50 % full-text or linked full text articles available
S = Some – less than 50% full-text or linked full text articles available
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Full Text	Title	Description
M	Academic Search Complete	Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
	America: History and Life (6 simultaneous users)	America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
	American Film Scripts Online	This edition of American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains 776 scripts by 856 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies.
S	Art Abstracts	This database, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
	ArticleFirst	Cites articles from tables of contents of over 12,000 journals
	Arts & Humanities Citation Index	Electronic version of the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. It includes indexing and abstracting from 8600 journals in all disciplines, covering 1975-present.
	ARTstor	The ARTstor currently contains approximately 500,000 images. The collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users have to register for thier own account. Please see the system requirements page for information on how to set up your computer to use ARTstor.
A	Biography Resource Center	Provides biographical information on a wide range of people
	Dissertation Abstracts	An index to theses and dissertations (1861- )
A	Ebrary	Ebrary contains over 80,000 full-text, digital books and other authoritative content from more than 240 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers.
	Film & Television Literature Index	Definitive index to film and television topics indexes several hundred journals, with some full-text available. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
A	Gale Group Databases	This gateway offer access to several databases offering selected full-text articles from both popular magazines and scholarly journals. The "Resource Centers" offer full-text entries selected refrence sources in the areas of business, health, literature and biography.
A	JSTOR	JSTOR is an electronic archive of selected journals in various disciplines. It attempts to maintain complete journal holdings from the first volume, but current volumes (from the past three to six years) are not included.
A	Literary Reference Center	Database provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Available via EBSCO.
A	Literature Resource Center	Provides selected full-text of biographical information on authors and critical analysis of literary texts
	MLA Directory of Periodicals	The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
S	MLA International Bibliography	MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
	Music Index Online	An index to 640 international music journals (1976-present)
A	NetLibrary	This collection of thousands of electronic books includes titles in all academic disciplines. These books can be searched as a collection or accessed as individual titles through our libray's online catalog.
A	OED (Oxford English Dictionary)	This historical dictionary covers words from across the English-speaking world, providing etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, pronunciation, and tracing usage in a wide array of English-language sources. This web-based version contains the complete contents of the 20-volume print Second Edition and the 3 volumes of Additions. Quarterly updates and revisions serve as part of an ongoing effort to revise the entire publication.
A	Project Muse	This collection of electronic journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more. Coverage for individual titles varies but is generally from the late 1990's to the present.
A	Religion and Philosophy Collection	A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the database. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
	WorldCat	This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.
A	Google Scholar	Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.