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Art Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1984- )
Provides abstracting and indexing for 313 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history. Coverage includes abstracts from Spring 1994 and indexing from September 1984.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science: 1987 - )
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6800 major science and social science journals.

Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healy)
Contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition. This collection can fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.

Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1984- )
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 350 English-language periodicals, plus the full text of over 95 of those periodicals. It covers the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

Humanities International Index (EBSCOhost)
The Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing, Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.

International Index to Music Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healy : 1996 - )
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IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. More than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

International Index to the Performing Arts (Chadwyck-Healy)
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IIPA Full Text draws its current content from more than 200 international performing arts periodicals and also indexes performing arts related articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. IIPA Full Text covers nearly all aspects of performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
MLA bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are screened, and entries for books are included. Entries appear both for collections of essays and for their contents.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd Edition (GroveMusic)
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Universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. This great work is widely used throughout the academic and professional community, and revered by music-lovers worldwide.

New Grove Dictionary of Opera (GroveOpera)
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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (now absorbed into the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians) is the world's premier opera dictionary. Covers composers, singers, stage designers, producers and directors, representatives of dance, managers, patrons and impresarios and numerous others whose contributions make opera what it is, including opera houses themselves.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (FirstSearch 1967-)
RILM Abstracts of Music, contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. The majority of citations include abstracts. Over 500 scholarly journals are represented. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals are indexed if they are of scholarly interest.

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