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Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
Includes the complete text of the Encyclopædia Britannica and additional features World Data Analyst, for country statistics, Notable Quotations, and Gateway to the Classics, for essays by great thinkers.
CAMIO
A collection of art images.
Chadwyck-Healey
A full-text database of poems including African-American, American, and English poetry.
Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
Literature and literary criticism.
EbscoHOST
The main gateway to a conglomeration of EbscoHost databases and an excellent way to search multiple databases at once.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of 25 reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format.
Literature in Context
Historical and cultural context of classic titles in literature.
MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
NC Live
A statewide gateway to information resources. NC LIVE includes indexing and some full text for a wide variety of magazines and journals. Also provides online access to encyclopedias, almanacs, and other reference sources.
NoveList
NoveList is an online readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new fiction titles based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.
AICT
A free-use educational resource with art images from five different categories including Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance & Baroque, 18th-20th Century, & Non-Western.
Architecture and Art Library
Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, this web site offers a list of links for architecture and art history.
Art History Network
This Art History Network is your one stop resource for Art History, Archaeology and Architecture resources on the web. Provides links to Journals & Magazines| Images & Virtual Tours| General Resources| Organizations| Jobs| Discussion Groups & Chat| Bookstore. It also has its own search engine.
Artchive
This site divided into several galleries: The Artchive; Glyphs Art Reviews; The Galleries; Theory and Criticism; Juxtapositions; Art CD-ROM Reviews; and Art Links, which are divided into Museums, Artists, and Resources.
Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Hundreds of thousands of entries provide detailed information for movies (in theaters, on video or DVD, and forthcoming), as well as television movies and series. "Awards and Reviews" provides reviews from authoritative sources such as the New York Times, Roger Ebert, and Slate, as well as reader-supplied evaluations. Movie information includes directors, producers, actors, plot summaries, character names, running times, trivia, soundtracks, release dates, box office grosses, alternate versions, Academy Awards and other awards information, and much more.
Landscape Prints and Drawings Collection
A collection of 40 landscape prints and drawings, ranging in date from the late 1500s through the early 1900s. Searchable, and browsable by nationality of artist (American, Austrian, British, Dutch and Flemish, French, German, Italian). Includes works by James Whistler, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, and others. From the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. A part of the Online Archive of California.
Musee du Louvre
Provides links to information about the Louvre, including a short history of the Museum and Louvre Floor Plan.
National Gallery of Art
Search the National Gallery of Art's collection by artist name, title key words, school, style, creation date, medium, and/or short list of popular subjects. Images are available for some, but not all works held by the National Gallery of Art.
Smithsonian Institute
Includes archived documents from all the Smithsonians, information on new exhibits, and a virtual Smithsonian tour.
Web Gallery of Art
Contains over ten thousand images of "European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800)." Includes some annotations, guided tours of the collection, and a glossary of related terms.
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