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Databases A - Z
Databases
| Art & Humanities - Databases |
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| Art Full Text |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Subjects covered include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video. Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
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| ATLA Religion Database |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: A comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion.
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Contains records describing articles in over 1,000 architectural periodicals in the fields of architecture and related disciplines. |
| BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. The database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals. |
| Black Drama (Second Edition) |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: This edition of Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Some 600 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.
The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area.
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| Black Thought and Culture |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material.
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| Black Women Writers |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women's struggles through time. The database currently features over 106,234 pages |
| CAMIO |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) Offers art images that are rights-cleared for educational use. About 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. |
| Dance in Video |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Dance in Video will contain 500 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 286 videos, equalling 241 hours. |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Comprised of the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography series, which over its 30-year history has been dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. |
| Grove Art Online |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual 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. mohttp://famuproxy.fcla.edu/login?url=http://www.grovemusic.com/re...
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| Grove Music Online |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen. |
| Humanities Full Text |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals in the areas of Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines are also included. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
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| Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: 42 periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century. |
| Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database 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. |
| LION |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes a Master Index to search for full text works from Chadwyck-Healey's Literary Databases and elsewhere on the Web.
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| Literature Criticism Online |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Literature Criticism Online provides scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. |
| Literature in Context |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: The historical, social, and cultural context that shaped selected pieces of classic literature such as The Grapes of Wrath, A Raisin in the Sun, Romeo and Juliet, A Separate Peace, Their Eyes Were Watching God, To Kill a Mockingbird and more. more...
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| Literature Resource Center |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critic al analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline .Combining Gale's most used literary databases in a single Internet-searchable service, the LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path. |
| LitFinder |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Provides primary content vital to literature and language study. Access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, plays, speeches, short stories, and more.
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| MLA Directory of Periodicals |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals: A Guide to Journals and Series in Languages and Literatures contains entries on 4,400 of the most frequently cited MLA Bibliography journals. A companion volume to the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals assists scholars with placing their intellectual work by providing the following types of information in its entries: 1) Name of journals or series, 2) Contact information (street address, phone, etc.), and 3) Editorial Details (years first published ISSN frequency of publication, languages accepted, electronic availability, subscription information, etc.)
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| MLA International Bibliography |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: 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.
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| Music Literature Abstracts (RILM) |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Published by Rèpertoire International de Littèrature Musicale, New York. Contains nearly 300,000 entries in over 200 languages. Includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest.
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| Naxos Music Library |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 78,760 CDs with more than 1,132,100 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
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| Project Muse |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Project Muse provides full text humanities and social science content from scholarly journals published by leading university presses and scholarly societies. |
| ProQuest Religion |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: ProQuest Religion is an indispensable resource for students researching religious issues and perspectives. The database includes nearly 120 titles, with more than 100 available in full text. Designed to meet the needs of both religious studies programs and general library collections, the database is an excellent source of religious news and information.
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| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Published by Rèpertoire International de Littèrature Musicale, New York. Contains nearly 300,000 entries in over 200 languages. Includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest.
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| Theatre in Video |
Art & Humanities |
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| Description: Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
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