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19th Century US Newspapers

Cover-to-cover digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 19th Century
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (funded by VIVA)

2,500 poems written by African-Americans Based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1760-1900
Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I

Fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Includes clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1760 - 1900
Vendor: Readex
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American Poetry Full-Text Database (funded by VIVA)

Over 40,350 poems by 209 poets.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Colonial period – Early 20th century
Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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L'Annee Philologique

Ancient classical world; literature, history, linguistics, philosophy, political life, economics, religion, science, archaeology, society, and other related topics. 1,500 periodicals, some collections, and conference papers.

Text Coverage: No Full Text
Date Coverage: 1969 - 2001
Vendor: SIBC
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ARTFL Project (American French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)

Nearly 2,000 texts in French, including novels, non-fiction works, technical essays, travel accounts, pamphlets poetry, drama, journalism, correspondence, and treatises.

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Vendor: Univ. of Chicago
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index

“fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.” Unique feature: ability to search citations to a person's work in footnotes and bibliographies (included in Web of Science).

Text Coverage: Full Text Linking
Date Coverage: 2004 - present
Vendor: ISI
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Arts & Humanities Search (funded by VIVA)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Articles from over 8,000 scholarly journals.

Text Coverage: No Full Text
Date Coverage: 1980 – present
Vendor: FirstSearch
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Chicago Manual of Style Online

Searchable version of the 15th edition

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Current
Vendor: Univ. of Chicago
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Contemporary Authors (included in Literature Resource Center)

Biographies, literary criticism, citations to other relevant biographical sources; part of the Literature Resource Center.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1900 - present
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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Credo Reference

Credo is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology.

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Vendor: None
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Evans Digital Edition)

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints from 17th and 18th century America.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1690-1800
Vendor: Readex
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819

American books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints from 1801-1819. Continuation of Early American Imprints, Series I: 1639-1800 -- Evans Digital Edition. To be completed July, 2007.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1801-1819
Vendor: Readex
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Books and other items in the English language printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and elsewhere between 1473-1700.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1473-1700
Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm collection. English and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Nearly 150,000 titles will be made available online over the course of the next two years.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1701-1800
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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English Poetry Full-text (funded by VIVA)

Over 165,000 poems in English by writers from the British Isles.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Anglo-Saxon – 1899
Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

Lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly in Britain and North America. Most titles are in English.

Text Coverage: No Full Text
Date Coverage: 1473 - 1800
Vendor: British Library
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Fuente Academia (funded by VIVA)

Scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Subject areas include agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.

Text Coverage: Selected Full Text
Date Coverage: Varies by Title
Vendor: EBSCOHost
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Handbook of Latin American Studies

Bibliography on Latin America. Books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1936 - present
Vendor: Library of Congress
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HarpWeek (funded by VIVA)

Harper's Weekly, including text, illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1857-1912
Vendor: HarpWeek
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Humanities International Complete (funded by VIVA)

(formerly American Humanities Index) Art, archaeology, dance, drama, film, folklore, drama, history, language, literature, music, philosophy, popular culture, religion, theatre, women's studies. Articles, essays, reviews, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations found in over 1,000 scholarly journals published in the United States and Canada. Includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,100 titles and 2.47 million records) plus full text for more than 890 journals.

Text Coverage: Selected Full Text
Date Coverage: 1975 - present
Vendor: EBSCOHost
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JSTOR

Almost 800 multidisciplinary and subject-specific full-text, scholarly journals. Please note: JSTOR does not include the most recent 3 to 5 years of the journals it indexes. Please use other databases to retrieve recent articles, especially for current events topics.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Varies by Title
Vendor: JSTOR
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Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (funded by VIVA)

Language and linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Text Coverage: Full Text Linking
Date Coverage: 1973 - present
Vendor: CSA
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Literature Criticism Online

Commentaries on major literary works. Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Shakespeare Criticism; Literature Criticism 1400-1800; Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism; Drama Criticism; Children’s Literature Review

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Varies by Title
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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Literature Resource Center (funded by VIVA)

Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Current
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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Los Angeles Times (LA Times), 1881-1986

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1881 - 1986
Vendor: ProQuest
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Masterplots Complete (CD-ROM at Swem)

Contains plot digests, critical essays, character descriptions, and author biographies for works of world literature, drama, and poetry. Includes the contents of 21 multivolume "Masterplots" reference book sets.

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Vendor: None
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Merriam-Webster Online

English language dictionary and thesaurus.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Current
Vendor: Merriam-Webster
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MLA International Bibliography (literature &language) (funded by VIVA)

Literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and Directory of Periodicals.

Text Coverage: Full Text Linking
Date Coverage: 1963 – present
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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Nineteenth Century US Newspapers

Cover-to-cover digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 19th Century
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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Oxford English Dictionary - OED (funded by VIVA)

22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, commonly known as the OED. complete Second Edition(1989) and the New Edition in progress

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Current
Vendor: Oxford
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Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index-PCI)

Humanities and social sciences. Scholarly journals.

Text Coverage: Full Text Linking
Date Coverage: 1665 – 1995
Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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Project Muse (funded by VIVA)

Arts, humanities, and social sciences. 600 multidisciplinary and subject-specific scholarly journals.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: Varies by Title
Vendor: Johns Hopkins
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Rotunda Collections

Digital editions of works from the American Founding Era: The Adams Papers, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Papers of George Washington and the Dolley Madison Digital Edition. Also contains the 19th-Century Literature and Culture Collection including William Wells Brown, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: varies
Vendor: Univ. of Virginia
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Times Digital Archive (London Times)

Includes entire newspaper, all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos. Does NOT include the Sunday Times.

Text Coverage: Full Text
Date Coverage: 1785-1985
Vendor: Thomson Gale
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Voltaire Electronique

Includes all of Voltaire's literary works from the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the "Complete works of Voltaire."

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Vendor: Univ. of Chicago
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Web of Science

Information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals in all areas of research. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004 - present). Unique feature: ability to search citations to a person's work in footnotes and bibliographies.

Text Coverage: No Full Text
Date Coverage: 1990 - present
Vendor: ISI
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World Shakespeare Bibliography

Shakespeareana. Annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials.

Text Coverage: No Full Text
Date Coverage: 1964 – present
Vendor: Johns Hopkins

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