Databases: Arts & Humanities

See also the following websites: Art & Art History, Literature, Philosophy & Religion.

Search Multiple Datbases

• Search multiple databases
  Searches WebPAC (Catalog), Academic Search Complete, Artstor Digital Library, Biography Reference Bank, Biography Reference Center, Britannica Academic, eBook Collection, ERIC, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Literature Resource Center, MasterFILE Complete, Newswires, OmniFile Full Text Select, Opposing Viewpoints, Points of View Reference Center and the following websites: British Library EThOs, DASH, Directory of Open Access Journals, Europeana, Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique, LUNA Commons, Manuscriptorium Digital Library, OAPEN Library, Persée, RECERCAT and TDX.

eBooks, Magazine & Journal Articles

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
  Nearly 6,000 full-text magazines and journals from all academic disciplines.
• ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch)
  Includes Clase, an index of Latin American periodicals in the social sciences and humanities.
• eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
  eBooks covering a wide range of topics and subject areas.
• MasterFILE Complete (EBSCOhost)
  Multidisciplinary database providing full text from magazines, newspapers, journals, reference books and primary source documents.
• OmniFile Full Text Select (EBSCOhost)
  Full text articles from roughly 1,000 magazines and journals covering a variety of disciplines including the arts and humanities.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  A collection of encyclopedias covering the arts, biography, history, literature, multicultural studies, philosophy and religion.
• Global Road Warrior
  County profiles covering business, culture, demographics, travel information, the economy, food, religion, maps, images, and more.

Image Libraries

• Artstor Digital Library
  A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present and manage images.

Literature

• Literature Resource Center
  Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
• LitFinder
  Find poems, short stories, essays, plays, speeches, as well as author biographies and pictures.
• NoveList K-8 Plus
  Find just the right fiction or nonfiction book for children from kindergarten through grade 8.
• NoveList Plus
  Find recommendations, reviews and series information for fiction and nonfiction books.

Religion

• World Religions
  A comprehensive guide to the world's major religions and spiritual traditions. Contains essays, biographies, videos and images.

Theatre

• Digital Theatre Plus
  High quality theatrical productions, interviews, analyses of play texts and other resources for educators, students and theatre professionals.
• New Play Exchange
  The National New Play Network’s database of plays and musicals shared by writers from more than 40 countries.