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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
This database offers 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
This is an index to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. 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.

BAS (Biblical Archaeology Society) Online Archive
A 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 Latin American journals that indexes documents in 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. These journals specialize in science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A 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)
A source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.  HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 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.

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 300 publications. 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 hundreds of scholarly journals in full-text format, including many social science journals.  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 biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
LexisNexis includes articles in full text from over 350 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times back to 1980, as well as from magazines and journals, such as The New Yorker and Newsweek. L
exisNexis also includes publications in other languages.

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
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MLA Bibliography 
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.
Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

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.


North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Period -- 1950
When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled.  Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers.

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

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the story of Britain told through the lives of 55,00 men and women from the 4th century B.C. to the 21st century. Many leading biographers and scholars have contributed articles on the most influential figures in British history from all walks of life. The online version contains the full-text of the 60-volume print edition.

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.

PRISMA
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) 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
250 full text journals published by John Hopkins University in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Religion Index (ATLA)
A 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.

Religion on the Web  
The following information is intended as a guide and starting point for locating religious studies information on the web.  Faculty in the Religion Department and the Library have collected some of the most appropriate web resources for the kind of work done here at Augustana.

R
eview 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.

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 (i.e., "How Did Women Participate in the Underground Railroad?") and present a collection of documents to answer that question.
Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences

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. 
 


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