Humanities Databases

Most Useful Databases

Humanities Full Text

Humanities Full Text contains abstracting and indexing coverage for all 400 periodicals included in Humanities Index as well as the full text of over ... (more info)

Literature Online (LION)

Contains the full-text of over 350,000 English, American, and Canadian literary works, including poetry, drama, and prose. Full-text access to over 16... (more info)

MLA International Bibliography

Indexes 3,000+ international journals and series, monographs, working (unpublished) papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies and more. ... (more info)

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for nearly 1,560 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals... (more info)

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AATA (Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts) Online

Abstracts of International Conservation Literature, Contains over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of... (more info)

America: History and Life

America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. ... (more info)

Annee philologique

A database published by the Societe Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, with the Database of Classical Bibliography.... (more info)

Art Full Text

International in scope, provides bibliographic access to 378 art journals, yearbooks and bulletins. Covers ancient to contemporay, indexes articles, e... (more info)

Art Index Retrospective

International in scope, provides bibliographic access to over 300 art journals, yearbooks and bulletins. Covers ancient to contemporay, indexes articl... (more info)

ARTbibliographies Modern

Emphasizes 20th century art, provides bibliographic access to over 500 art journals, and selectively to exhibition catalogs, books, dissertations; als... (more info)

ARTFL

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language... (more info)

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library that offers collections of art images with descriptive information.... (more info)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Emphasizes architecture design and history, provides bibliographic access to over 700 architecture and related periodicals. International in scope, co... (more info)

Bibliography of Asian Studies

This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social s... (more info)

Bibliography of Native North Americans

Contains more than 60,000 citations to books, essays, journal articles and dissertations on Native North American history, life and culture. Includes ... (more info)

Bibliography of the History of Art

Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books,... (more info)

Chicano Database

The Chicano Database is a comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics and the ... (more info)

Classical Music Library

Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource-a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes ten... (more info)

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography

Gale Literary Databases includes biographical and bibliographical information on 90,000+ writers. ... (more info)

Film & Television Literature Index

Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing.... (more info)

GenderWatch

GenderWatch (enlarging the scope of Women 'R') is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, spe... (more info)

Groveart (Grove Dictionary of Art Online)

41,000 entries. "With The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, all of the thousands of extensively detailed entries from the print version, considered the ... (more info)

Grovemusic

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. ... (more info)

HAPI Online

"The Hispanic American Periodicals Index is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico...... (more info)

Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, wh ... (more info)

Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective

This database offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. Coverage also includes content from H.W. Wilson?s International... (more info)

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text

IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and n... (more info)

International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text

IIPA covers nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts. Subjects include dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance... (more info)

International Medieval Bibliography

All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa... (more info)

JSTOR

Contains the full text of over 169 journals available from JSTOR.... (more info)

Linguistics & language behavior abstracts

CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disci... (more info)

Music Index Online

The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for possible inclu... (more info)

North American Theatre Online

As it grows, it will be the largest, most comprehensive reference work in North American drama. It will provide detailed bibliographic information on more than 10,000 ... (more info)

OED Online

The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show... (more info)

Philosophers Index CSA

bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940... (more info)

Project Muse

Full text of articles published in over 300 journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences mathematics, and many others.... (more info)

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's these... (more info)

RAMBI (Index of Articles on Jewish studies)

RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of ... (more info)

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Reader's Guide Retrospective provides citations to articles from general interest magazines published from 1890-1982.... (more info)

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. This file is produced by the Repertoire Internationa... (more info)

Smithsonian Global Sound

Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural tra... (more info)