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Academic Search Premier
Full-text of articles from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. It features full text for over 4,500 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 periodicals and scholarly journals, over 3,600 of them peer-reviewed journals.

America: History & Life
Index to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Limited to six simultaneous users.

American Periodical Series Online
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

L'Année Philologique
Guide to articles, essays, and conference papers on subjects from the Classical time period.  Includes references to articles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.  Searches may be limited to one or more of these languages.

Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

ATLA Religion Index
Database containing citations and full text to more than 1100 international journals, essays, and publications in religion and related fields. Also annually indexes more than 14,500 book reviews from over 450 international journals (including New York Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement) in religion and related fields.

BAS (Biblical Archaeology Society) Online Archive
Full-text database covering publications of the Biblical Archaeology Society, including the Biblical Archaeology Review (1975-present), and numerous conference proceedings.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
References western-language articles and book chapters published since 1971 about all parts of Asia.

Clase & Periodica
A database of 2,600 scholarly journals from 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. These journals specialize in science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Encyclopaedia of Islam
The most important and comprehensive reference resource on Islam, in an electronic edition. NOTE: If your computer does not display all of the characters correctly, you may need to download a special font. Click "Fonts" on the encyclopedia's main page for downloading instructions. Limited to three simultaneous users.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliography on Latin America, consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.

HarpWeek
This database enables you to directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. Coverage extends from 1857-1912. Full text of the magazine from the Civil War era, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age is available.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full-text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

Historical Abstracts
An index to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, this database comprises over half a million entries.  (For information on subjects from the Middle Ages and Renaissance [400-1700], try Iter.) Limited to six simultaneous users.

Historical New York Times
Full text and image coverage of the New York Times from 1851 to 2004. For access to more recent NYT articles, use LexisNexis (covers 1980-present).

Humanities Abstracts
Includes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs from more than 570 periodicals. Indexing dates back to 1984, and abstracts start in 1994.

IDIOM (Links to CD-ROM)
Indexes and tables of contents to over 7,000 of the most important monographic texts in the humanities and social sciences from 1922-1994.

In the First Person
Provides in-depth indexing of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world, including 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries. (About 25% of the material in this database is copyright-protected and cannot be accessed for free. Use the Search Documents advanced search to limit to free products only.)

ITER
Meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, ITER is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.

JSTOR Journal Archive
Stores over one thousand scholarly journals in full-text format from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups.  For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available.  Here's why.

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to more than 38,000 full text critical literary analyses, 122,000 biographies of authors from every age and literary discipline and in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to the full-text of newspapers from across the United States and the entire world.

MLA International Bibliography 
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. The MLA Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations.

Newspaper Archive
Newspaper Archive is the largest historical newspaper database online and contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1753 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date. The site adds about 2.5 million new pages each month.

New Testament Abstracts
New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.

New York Times
The Historical New York Times offers full text and image coverage of the newspaper from 1851 to 2004. For access to more recent NYT articles, use LexisNexis (covers 1980-present).

Old Testament Abstracts
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. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.

Philosopher's Index  
Philosopher's Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. It is considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject and contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages.

PRISMA
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish-, Portuguese- and English-language content. Articles examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage includes anthropology, business and economics, history, literature, political science and sociology.

Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, online access to over 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

Religion Index -- see ATLA Religion Index above

Review of Biblical Literature
Searchable by author, title, subject and keyword, The Review of Biblical Literature is a source of book reviews on multi-author volumes, reference works, biblical commentaries, dictionaries, bible translations, and books for the biblical studies classroom from 1996 onwards. The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) is published by the Society of Biblical Literature, a nonprofit professional association for scholars in the field of biblical studies.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
This collection of primary sources includes the following databases:

• Oral History Online
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries
• Black Thought and Culture
• Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the Antiquarian Society
• American Civil War Letters and Diaries
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Women and Social Movements
Contains over 30,000 pages of documents from 1769-present pertaining to women and social movements, with an additional 5,000 pages added annually. The database is organized into "document projects," which pose a question (e.g., How Did Women Participate in the Underground Railroad?) and present a collection of documents to answer that question.

Women Writers Online
A product of Brown University's Women Writers Project (WWP), this online resource provides full text access to hundreds of documents and works of literature writen by women, covering a period from 1400 to 1850. 
 

Web Resources

Government Information on the Web
Guide to finding United States government publications, documents and other information available full-text on the web.

Making of America
This digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction covers subjects in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Making of America is a collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan and houses primary source material from both institutions.

Perseus
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. It consists of a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.

Research Guides

Africana Studies Research Guide
Guide to Africana Studies resources at Tredway Library. This guide can get you started on Africana Studies-related projects in a large variety of disciplines.

Asian Studies Research Guide
Guide to Asian Studies resources at Tredway Library. This guide can get you started on Asian Studies-related projects in a large variety of disciplines.

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