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Arts - ProQuest Research Library | Usage Help
Search periodicals on subjects such as arts, dance, theater, cinema, and more in this module of ProQuest Research Library.
Biography Resource Center | Usage Help
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 200,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Black Drama | Usage Help
A full text database of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of these works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Cambridge Collections: Shakespeare Survey | Usage Help - NEW
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
Classical Music Library | Usage Help
Classical Music Library is the world's first classical music listening service for libraries. Our growing collection of 30,000-plus tracks for listening and searching is supplemented by extensive reference materials and backed by a powerful suite of tools designed for librarians and educators.
E-BRARY | Usage Help
A growing collection of more than 23.000 full-text books. This collection spans multiple subject areas such as Business & Economics, Computer, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Humanities, Science, Medicine & Allied Health, and Social Sciences - READER DOWNLOAD NEEDED (FIRST TIME ONLY).
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text | Usage Help - NEW
Film & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications (and selected coverage of 301), as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books.
Gale Literary Databases | Usage Help
Made available via Gale Literary Resources. A resource of contemporary authors which provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism: An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers; each entry also contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works and sources for further study.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documents the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres; provides biographies, critical studies, bibliographies and sources for further reading.
Literature Resource Center (LRC): Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
JSTOR | Usage Help
The JSTOR archive presents high-resolution page images for viewing and printing articles in combination with a linked text file for each article that enables full-text searching. The complete archives of core scholarly journals in the areas of African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language and literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics have been digitized starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. New titles and fields are being added regularly.
Literature Criticism Online | Usage Help - NEW
Thomson Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.
Literature Online (LION) | Usage Help
LION is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 131 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Oxford Art Online | Usage Help
Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
Oxford Music Online | Usage Help
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.
Project Muse | Usage Help
(1993-present) Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
ProQuest (click here to search ALL modules) | Usage Help
(coverage varies) Includes the business/management database ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Religion, and a research core of scholarly articles, accompanied by extra modules in key research areas. Includes the L. A. Times.
ResearchNow | Usage Help - NEW
ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals and all working papers, preprints and other “grey literature” content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive. ResearchNow also includes an XML gateway (see below) to expose indexed content to federated search engines. Readers can browse ResearchNow by subject area, or set up tailored email notifications of newly posted content.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nine learned societies, nearly 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Books 24x7: Business Pro
This database contains books which cover all aspects of corporate performance support, professional development and key business topics with content from the industry's leading business publishers, such as Project Management Institute, Jossey-Bass, Harvard Business School Publishing, Oxford University Press and many more.
Cambridge Collections: Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
E-BRARY
A growing collection of more than 23.000 full-text books. This collection spans multiple subject areas such as Business & Economics, Computer, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Humanities, Science, Medicine & Allied Health, and Social Sciences - READER DOWNLOAD NEEDED (FIRST TIME ONLY).
History Books Online
Made available via ABC CLIO. This online reference book collection focuses on the history of the world.
Net Library
Browse through CLU's collection of electronic books available through our subscription to Net Library. You will need to set up an account. There are several eBook collections available to CLU students and faculty. The Library Collection contains books that CLU has purchased for its patrons to use. The Public Collection contains public eBooks that NetLibrary has made available to all subscribing institutions.
Oxford Reference Collection
Over 130 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offer unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,350 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level, and up to 200 new and recently-published books are added each year.
Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. There are 20,000 free books in this collection.
PsycBooks
PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 10,000 chapters in PDF from over 600 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2004. It also includes 100 out-of-print books and an additional 70+ classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.
Reference Library
Made available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
This is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
WorldCat
(1200-present; updated daily) Contains over 40 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.
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