Art, History & Literature

• Art
  • ArtStor - Description
    

    Fulltext: N/A Source: JSTOR

    ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. Users can either browse or conduct specific searches of over 500,000 digital images covering architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture.

  • JSTOR - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: JSTOR

    A reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR is important if you are doing a research project that needs older information in the arts and sciences. Due to its very nature as a retrospective journal archive, JSTOR does not contain current journal articles. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete back files of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. Over 4 million pages are available.

• Biography
  • Biography Reference Bank - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: WilsonWeb

    This biography database covers over 550,000 authors, artists, composers, political figures, scientists, influential women and more. Biographical information is provided through full-text biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, and obituaries. There are also over 36,000 images available. The database covers historical and contemporary people of the United States, Britain and Europe.

  • Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Salem Press

    Worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement who flourished between 1801 and 1900. The length essays in this set provide in-depth coverage and annotated bibliographic resources with worldwide focus including strong coverage of non-Europeans and women. Major world leaders appear here, as well as the giants of religious faith who dominated the century: monarchs, presidents, popes, philosophers, writers, social reformers, educators, and military leaders who left their imprint on political as well as spiritual institutions.

  • History Reference Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: EBSCOHost

    History Reference Center® is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, such as Branden Publishing, Compass Point Books, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds Inc., Oliver Press, Oxford University Press, Rourke Publishing LLC., Salem Press, Stackpole Books, Toucan Valley Publications and more. The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review, American History, Archaeology, Aviation History, British Heritage, Chinese America: History & Perspectives, Civil War Times, Foreign Affairs, German History, History, History Review, History Today (back to January 1975), History: Reviews of New Books, Kansas History, Journal of American History, Manitoba History, Military History, Naval History, North Carolina Historical Review, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Wild West, World War II and more. Further, the database contains nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 37,400 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

  • Lexis Nexis Academic (People Search) - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Lexis Nexis

    "Contains biographical sources, people-related news sources and selected biographical stories, obituaries and business related stories covering company executives." Information is obtained from a variety of news sources including NY Times and Associated Press, “Who’s Who”, business and management profiles, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and industry journals. Select View Tutorials once you’ve accessed the database to learn more about Lexis Nexis searches.

  • Literary Reference Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: EBSCOHost

    Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™ and much more.

• History
  • Facts on File - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: InfoBase

    Provides general information on academic and career-related collections. This is an excellent source of graphics and encyclopedia length articles on general topics. Because it does not have a single interface, however, finding information may take some digging.

  • Facts on File History - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: InfoBase

    Facts on File offers six history databases that can be searched together or individually: American History; African American History; American Women’s History; Modern World History; American Indian History; and Ancient and Medieval History. Each database includes Biographies, Events and Topics articles, Primary Sources, Timelines, Images and Videos, and Maps and Charts. This is an easy-to-use resource to get background historical information or begin research on a specific historical event.

  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Salem Press

    Chronicles important historical events that have identified, defined, and legally established the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities. Selects events that help to mark the definition of "gender," the emergence of social, cultural, and political movements around homosexuality, and the struggles to gain civil rights. Essays have been supplemented with approximately 140 sidebars that will further inform a reader's understanding of the topics discussed; primary source documents such as court decisions, mission statements, laws and important supporting texts; biographical profiles of people who were key to the event; tables providing statistics by state; filmographies; photographs and other illustrations.

  • Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Salem Press

    Cover the world's most important events and developments from 1801 through 1900. Lengthy essays provide in-depth coverage and references. Worldwide focus includes coverage not only of the Western world but also of Middle Eastern, Asian, African, and Latin American events. Essays address important social and cultural developments in daily life: major literay movements, significant developments in art and music, trends in immigration, and progressive social legislation. Paticular attention has been given to expanding coverage of Canada, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

  • Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Salem Press

    Worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement who flourished between 1801 and 1900. The length essays in this set provide in-depth coverage and annotated bibliographic resources with worldwide focus including strong coverage of non-Europeans and women. Major world leaders appear here, as well as the giants of religious faith who dominated the century: monarchs, presidents, popes, philosophers, writers, social reformers, educators, and military leaders who left their imprint on political as well as spiritual institutions.

  • History Reference Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: EBSCOHost

    History Reference Center® is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, such as Branden Publishing, Compass Point Books, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds Inc., Oliver Press, Oxford University Press, Rourke Publishing LLC., Salem Press, Stackpole Books, Toucan Valley Publications and more. The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review, American History, Archaeology, Aviation History, British Heritage, Chinese America: History & Perspectives, Civil War Times, Foreign Affairs, German History, History, History Review, History Today (back to January 1975), History: Reviews of New Books, Kansas History, Journal of American History, Manitoba History, Military History, Naval History, North Carolina Historical Review, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Wild West, World War II and more. Further, the database contains nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 37,400 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

  • JSTOR - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: JSTOR

    A reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR is important if you are doing a research project that needs older information in the arts and sciences. Due to its very nature as a retrospective journal archive, JSTOR does not contain current journal articles. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete back files of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. Over 4 million pages are available.

  • World Data Analyst - Description
    

    Fulltext: Source: Britannica

    World Data Analyst, a feature of Britannica Online Academic Edition, provides a variety of statistics for every country in the world. Look up population, area, GNP, and more. The database also allows you to create a side-by-side comparison of statistics for multiple countries, which can be formatted into printable tables and graphs. The Country Snapshots detail demography, economy, trade, military, social services and many other topics.

• Literature
  • Bloom's Literary Reference - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Facts on File

    Find biographical information about authors, explanations of genres and literary themes, overviews of works of literature, and articles of critical analysis. Articles in this database are drawn from Facts on File's Companions to Literature, various literary encyclopedias, and Harold Bloom's works of critical analysis and writing strategies. Also included are images, videos, and a literary timeline. This is a good database to find basic information and brief articles about a work of literature, author, or genre that you are unfamiliar with before looking for more scholarly articles.

  • Book Review Index Plus - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Over 700,000 full-text articles. The rest is citations. Source: Gale

    Book Review Index Plus indexes more than 5.2 million reviews from more than 5,800 journals and general interest publications

  • Contemporary Authors - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Gale

    "Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors." Drawn from the vendor's website.

  • Facts on File - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: InfoBase

    Provides general information on academic and career-related collections. This is an excellent source of graphics and encyclopedia length articles on general topics. Because it does not have a single interface, however, finding information may take some digging.

  • JSTOR - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: JSTOR

    A reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR is important if you are doing a research project that needs older information in the arts and sciences. Due to its very nature as a retrospective journal archive, JSTOR does not contain current journal articles. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete back files of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. Over 4 million pages are available.

  • Literary Reference Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: EBSCOHost

    Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™ and much more.

  • Literature Critical Insights - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Salem Press

    Online access to Salem Literature's Critical Insights series of books. Literary criticism of the following authors and works are available in full-text: Isabel Allende, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Articles about context, literary devices, genres, and themes are included.

  • Literature Resource Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Gale

    "The Literature Resource Center on GaleNet is a complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, the Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more."

• Music & Theatre
  • Backstage - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Backstage

    Backstage is an online performing arts resource. It includes weekly casting notices for shows in the United States, artists' toolbox and feature articles. Please contact your instructor for the login information.

  • JSTOR - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: JSTOR

    A reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR is important if you are doing a research project that needs older information in the arts and sciences. Due to its very nature as a retrospective journal archive, JSTOR does not contain current journal articles. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete back files of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. Over 4 million pages are available.