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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.
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.
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.
MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
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.
Arts & Letters Daily
A reader's dream come true, this site is updated six days per week and features links to newspapers, magazines and journals, book reviews, articles, essays, editorials, news services, columnists, literary criticism, and 'amusements' in every area of the humanities. While there is no original content on the site, the variety and wide range of material makes this an excellent find for those of us enamored of the written word.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
As any reference librarian knows, Brewer is the first place to look for the meaning and origin of phrase and fable. And although this edition is taken from the 1898 edition of the book, many of the phrases and fables we encounter today will appear in this classic source. The text is browsable or easily searched by keywords. The site is brought to the Web by Bartleby.com, a source for many titles of classic literature.
Center for Arts and Culture
The mission of this nonprofit organization is to "enlarge the public vision of the centrality of the arts and culture in everyday life." Includes news, events, and publications in "seven areas where [public] policies intersect with cultural issues: law, globalization, access, preservation, community, investment, and education." Searchable.
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
Provides a way for scholars to cross over from one discipline to another in their studies. Areas within each discipline will include the following: 1) a basic glossary area for provisional definitions; 2) a collection of quotes from authors that illustrate the use of terms in (1); and 3) a bibliography of all works cited. There are also links to several general dictionary and grammar resources.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
"NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities." The site features projects, grant guidelines and deadlines, recent awards, and NEH news and publications.
OneWorld.net
Dedicated to providing news and information on world poverty and human rights issues. The information on the site is gathered from over 1,600 organizations (partners) all over the world including the International Children's Foundation, Cross Cultural Solutions, Amnesty International USA and Information for Action. OneWorld is funded through donations and sponsorships that do not compromise the editorial integrity of the organization.
The Online Medieval & Classical Library
Full text editions of over thirty "literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization." Searchable; and browsable by title, author, genre and language. Includes allegories, Arthurian legends, Icelandic sagas, and more. Maintained by librarian Roy Tennant.
Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
A database of 16,000 objects (printed material, audio, and video) from "the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes." Searchable; and browsable by name, title, subject, and format (books, clippings, photographs, manuscripts, moving images, music, posters and lobby cards, programs, recorded sounds). Includes sections on dance, music, and theatrical productions. From the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Project Gutenberg Index
There are three portions of the Project Gutenberg Library: Light Literature (i.e. Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, etc.); Heavy Literature (i.e. Holy Bible, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, etc.), and References (i.e. Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, dictionaries, etc.).
Voice of the Shuttle
A directory of briefly annotated "links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet," including disciplines that "interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media." Searchable; and browsable by discipline, and resource (including teaching resources, libraries and museums, and reference). From the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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