Databases: All Arts & Humanities

Premier Arts & Humanities Databases:

Arts & Humanities Search
Subject: Humanities.
Arts & Humanities Search covers articles in the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Some social science and science journals are also included.

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Academic Search Elite
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
Academic Search Elite
is a multidisciplinary database covering both popular and scholarly journals. This database is most useful for students in the early stages of research, because searches return a broad range of article results
America: History & Life
Subject: Humanities > History.
America: History & Life offers access to scholarly articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations about United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
Arts & Humanities Search
Subject: Humanities.
Arts & Humanities Search covers articles in the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Some social science and science journals are also included.
ATLA: Religion Database
Subject: Humanities > Religion & Theology.
ATLA provides access to scholarly articles and chapters from multi-authored books about theology and religion. It is the premier theology and religion database.

Clase & Periodica
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences.
Clase & Periodica provides access to articles, essays, book reviews, etc., published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and from publications related to Pan-American issues. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.


Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Multidisciplinary
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a selection of freely available full-text journals in a variety of subjects. Their search page is one way to find articles that are freely available.


Gale Literary Index
Subject: Humanities > Literature & Drama.
Gale Literary Index is a quick searchable database of Gale print publications. Reeves owns the following Gale print publications: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.
HAPI: The Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Subject: Foreign Language. Social Sciences
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is your 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.
HighWire Press Stanford University
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1054 journals and 4,343,436 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. Some articles are available in full text.
Historical Abstracts
Subject: Humanities > History.
Historical Abstracts offers access to scholarly articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations covering world history (except for the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Infotrac Contemporary Authors
Subject: Humanities >Literature & Drama.
Infotrac Contemporary Authors includes biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Featured are current writers, the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th Century and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States.


Iter
Subject: Humanities > History.
Iter provides access to published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700 AD). Iter means 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin.


JSTOR
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences. Sciences.
JSTOR provides access to core scholarly journals covering many liberal arts disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Biological Sciences, Business, Classical Studies, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, History of Science & Technology, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.


MLA International Bibliography of Literary Criticism
Subject: Humanities > Literature & Drama.
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography of Literary Criticism provides access to scholarly articles, book chapters, and dissertations about literature and drama topics, with global coverage.

New Testament Abstracts
Subject: Humanities > Religion & Theology
This database is created through a partnership between ATLA and Boston College. It contains over 40,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 14,900 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.  


Old Testament Abstracts
Subject: Humanities > Philosophy, Theology & Religion.
Old Testament Abstracts includes content from over 450 journals related to Old Testament studies. 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.


Project MUSE
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences.
Project Muse provides access to scholarly articles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.

RILM(Répertoire International de Litérature Musicale)
Subject: Humanities > Music.
RILM is the premier database for finding articles related to music topics. It contains abstracts for articles from over 500 scholarly music journals and chapters in some books.


Statesman's Yearbook
Subject: Multidisciplinary. Reference. Business & Industry. Humanities > History. Social Sciences > Political Science.
Provides brief entries on countries, people, & international organizations. Areas of description include city profiles, climate, government, industry, defence, & economy, as well as others. Available On Campus Only.


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