Please explore these databases for full-text articles and other information about subjects related to the arts and humanities.
- Academic Search Complete: This multidisciplinary database provides full text articles for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or earlier are available for well over 100 journals and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This database is updated daily.
- Britannica Online: Explore this updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, and more.
- Humanities Source: Humanities Source is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
- JSTOR: This is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to provide public access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines in the humanities and sciences.
- Literature Resource Center (Gale): Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO): This database is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics which has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926. The electronic version includes the Bibliography's entire print run and currently contains more than 2 million records.
- Periodicals Index Online (Chadwyck-Healey): This electronic index provides access to millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over more than 300 years.
- Project Muse: Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100 percent full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE is managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the participating publishers and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the Web.
- Art Index Retrospective: 1929–1984 (EBSCO): An invaluable, in-depth record of contemporary art history, this database allows users to search 55 years of art journalism. Users can research leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. A unique resource, Art Index Retrospective helps users find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artist interviews and other commentary, and much more.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index: Part of the Web of Science database on Intellectual Property and Science by Thomson Reuters, this multidisciplinary index includes arts and humanities journal literature.
- ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest): ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The wide-ranging subject matter includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
- Art & Architecture Source: Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
- ARTstor: ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. The Charter Collection provides students, faculty, curators, and staff with access to a large and expanding resource of digital images and data for teaching and research in art history, as well as in the humanities and other disciplines.
- Oxford Art Online: Oxford Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database: The database currently includes almost a million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of each journal and covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
- ComAbstracts (CIOS): The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field.
- ComIndex Online: Bibliographic indexes to the primary scholarly literature in communication.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO): This resource provides robust, quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies: CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association or NCA), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). It provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
- Ethnic News Watch (ProQuest): An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses. Coverage begins in 1990.
- Gender Watch: An authoritative source of historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles. Gender Watch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining more than 200 academic, gray, and popular literature titles, Gender Watch provides researchers with more than 100,000 articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
- America: History & Life: This bibliographic resource provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada. Selective indexing includes over a thousand journals dating back over 55 years. This source has proved to be an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
- Historical Abstracts: This database is a complete reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
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