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Primary Resources

  • Art Full Text
    Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.
  • CAMIO
    Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
  • FirstSearch
    Includes access to WorldCat, ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online (ECO), and other database.
  • Gale Powersearch
    Full-text and Absracts to numerous databases including New York times, Expanded Academis ASAP, Academic OneFile, InfoTrac Pop Culture Collection, Fine Arts and Music Collection, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and others.
  • IPA Source
    Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 3500 texts!
  • NAXOS Music Library
    An invaluable resource for music professionals with a wide range of standard and specialist repertoire, first-class performances and sound, over 18,000 CD's, 267,000 tracks of music, comprehensive liner notes, opera synopses and libretti, composer and artist biographies, and other essential information.
  • Wilson OmniFile Full-text Select
    Full-text and abstract access to articles in all areas of the academic curriculum.

Secondary Resources

  • ABC-CLIO eBooks
    A collection of reference ebooks including Gamelan, Hip Hop Cultures, Music of European Nationalism, and South African Music
  • ABI-INFORM
    A leading business database with full-text available for many titles including the Wall Street Journal.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
    Over 1500 full-text ebooks from the American Council of Learned Societies covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.
  • ATLA Religion
    Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
  • Biography Index
    Covers biographical information from English-language periodicals and books for all subject areas covered by H.W. Wilson indexes.
  • Biography and Geneology Master Index
    A database that enables users to locate biographical entries of people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
  • Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture  
      
    The Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists.
  • Cambridge Histories Online  
      
    This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series.
  • Christian Periodical Index (CPI)
    An index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. See Journal titles. Some of these titles are available full-text online.
  • Ebrary
    A large collection of religious titles in an electronic format. You will need to download the Ebrary Reader before using this site.
  • eLibrary Elementary
    Easily search-able reference sources, especially suited to K-12, including 35 popular magazines, 37 reference books, 11 newspapers, TV & radio transcripts, and a rich archive of photos and maps.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Includes the encyclopedia, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, a world atlas, the year in review, and a link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites."
  • ERIC
    Access full text ERIC documents by ERIC number, author, or title.
  • Harpweek
    Electronic access to the images and text of the Harper's Weekly 19th century issues.
  • History Study Center
    A rich full-text history database from Proquest.
  • International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    A rich encyclopedia with thousands of full text articles relating to the social and behavioral sciences.
  • JSTOR
    The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 119 complete back runs of many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. See the journal list.
  • Kids InfoBits
    A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe  
      
    Search full text newspapers, company news and financial info, International/Federal/State legal information, medical and health information (some abstracted), as well as general reference resources.
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    CSA's database that covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. (See Journal Titles list)
  • NetLibrary
    A collection of ebooks covering all topics.
  • Oxford Journals Religion Collection
    A full text collection of 25 Oxford religious journals from 1996 through the present including Early Music and The Musical Quartrly.
  • Project Muse
    Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
  • PsycINFO
    Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages since 1887.
  • Sage Fulltext Collections
    SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Click here to search the journals from off campus. You will not be able to export directly to Refworks using this link.
  • SIRS Discoverer
    Research resources for grades K-9
  • SIRS Renaissance
    Provides information about architecture & design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts. philosophy & religion, and visual arts.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    CSA’s database of the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
  • Social Sciences Abstracts (SocialSciAbs)
    Provides records for English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.
  • Wiley Online Library
    A fulltext journal collection covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.

Interdisciplinary Resources

  • MEL
    Michigan Electronic Library
  • RefWorks
    A personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
    Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).

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