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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science : 1987 - )
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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 (ProQuest)
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.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
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The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. It is edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and has been continuously published since 1935. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.

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.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, & III Collection
JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides full-text accesss to complete runs of back issues of over 550 scholarly journal titles in approximately 40 fields.

Oxford English Dictionary
Contains the complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. The Premium edition includes the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and essays from the Oxford Companions series. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database.

Project Muse
Provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

ScienceDirect College Edition
Extensive Full Text access to the Elsevier journal collections relevant to humanities: Social Sciences & Humanities (350 peer reviewed journals).

Anthropology

Anthropological Index Online
FREE
The Anthropological Index is a regionally arranged subject and author index to periodical articles in all areas of anthropology. It is produced by the Museum of Mankind Library.

AnthroSource
American Anthropological Society's portal to its peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins.

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Fine and Performing Arts

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.

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.

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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History

America: History and Life (ABC Clio: 1964 - )
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

Belgian-American Research Collection (UW Digital Collections)
A digital display of the Belgian-American Ethnic Resource Collection in the Special Collections Department of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Cofrin Library. A record of the historical, social, and cultural legacy of this unique ethnic group. The collection contains photographs; oral history tapes and abstracts; and select publications from the Belgian American Resource Collection.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
The largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it offers the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women and will eventually include approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from 1500 to 1900. The collection represents all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Early Canadiana Online
FREE
A full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
A collection assembled from hundreds of sources, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
The Eighteenth Century Collections Online has access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Gerritsen Collection – Women's History Online, 1543-1945
The Gerritsen Collection delivers two million page images of original printed works, spanning 4 centuries and 15 languages. The collection includes periodicals, books and pamphlets.

History Cooperative
History Cooperative is nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. It offers full text and contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colony to 1950
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This collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2002) (Proquest)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times.. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2001. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year's content added annually.

Wisconsin Pioneer Experience (UW Digital Collections)
The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The project has been made available through the partnership of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS).

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
Includes books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. The resource examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present and is updated on a quarterly basis.

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Literary Studies

Black Drama – 1850 to Present
Black Drama integrates approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Zora Neale Hurston, Femi Euba, Randolph Edmonds, and others.

LitFinder
FREE to all residents of Wisconsin via BadgerLink
Full text plays, poems, short stories, essays and speeches. Can search by genre, subject, title, author and timeline. There is also a section focusing on children's material.

Literary Index
FREE
Literary Index is a master index to the printed editions of the 43 literary series published by Gale. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.

MagillOnLiterature (EBSCOhost)
The definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. This database, which is compiled by Salem Press, contains all of Masterplots and Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and Magill's Literary Annual.

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 York Times Book Review
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Includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, bestseller lists, and more.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.

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