Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Humanities


American Periodicals Series ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.

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Année Philologique ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.

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ARTFL ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language covering nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.

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Arts and Humanities Citation Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities (available in ISI Web of Science).

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Asian American Drama ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of 2,500 international journals published worldwide on architecture and urban design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.

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Bartleby.com
Project Bartleby is a full text database of quotations, verse, and reference works from over 100 sources.

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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library of Congress reference staff

  • Business and Economics Web sites
  • Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
  • International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
  • Science and Technology Web sites
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Bibliographic Index Plus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cumulative bibliography for information in all areas of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology.

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Cambridge History of English and American Literature
The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.

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Chicago Manual of Style Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
CMOS provides the rules for editing and publishing - punctuation, italicizing, bolding, capitalization, tables - for American English grammar, usage, and document preparation.

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Digital Dissertations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.

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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.

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E-Journals in Languages & Literatures ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Languages & Literatures.

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ECO: Electronic Collections Online Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexing and abstracts for articles from over 5,400 scholarly journals covering agriculture, library science, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.

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Editoria Italiana Online (Click on "Access for Institutions") ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Electronic editions of more than 500 books and 100 journals, in a wide range of disciplines, produced by some of Italy’s most important publishers.

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Érudit
Erudit contains the full text in French of some 40 journals and a dozen or so books and proceedings covering a wide range of disciplines within the humanities, social and natural sciences.

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Essay and General Literature Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cites 65,000 essays and articles contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections.

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Essay and Speech Finder ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes full-text essays, speeches, and discursive writing.

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Fiction Catalog & Archive Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Public Library Core Collection: Fiction delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or translated into English.

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Foundation Directory ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Foundation Directory Professional provides program details for leading grantmaking organizations.

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FRANCIS Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).

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Gnomon Online
Online index to journals and series in classics and archaeology.

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GrantSelect ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Offers more than 10,000 funding opportunities and an extensive list of sponsored research opportunities.

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HAL
HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne) provides access to full text documents in all academic fields submitted by French universities and institutions.

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Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes all aspects of the humanities and social sciences from over 1,200 North American and European periodicals.

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Humanities E-Book ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project contains hundreds of full text works of major importance in history, area studies, and the humanities.

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Humanities Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson Humanities Abstracts covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature.

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Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815
Collection of major primary source periodical literature of the German Enlightenment (1750-1815), covering all subjects.

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Index to Theses ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

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Informaworld ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

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JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Complement and Health & General Science Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century.

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Open Humanities Press
OHP peer reviewed publications cover all areas in the humanities.

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PERSEE
Database of French journals in the social sciences and humanities.

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Perseus Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece
A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined.

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Poesie francaise
Database of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.

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RAND Publications Online
A topical listing of online publications by RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

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Retrospective Indexes from Wilson Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search the Wilson Applied Science & Business, Art, Humanities, Legal, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences Retrospective Indexes (1890 - 1982), as well as Bibliographic Index Plus, simultaneously.

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Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
TOCS - IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of over 180 Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.

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Vascoda
Vascoda is a German gateway for scientific and scholarly information.

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William Blake Archive
The Blake Archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 27 copies of 16 of Blake's 19 illuminated works.

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