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Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources, including African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 and Twentieth Century African American Poetry.

America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Each volume offers abstracts and citations for some 8,000 articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences.

Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection -- the most extensive in existence -- American Broadsides and Ephemera offers 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. Featuring many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing, theater and music programs, stock certificates and more.

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries knits together more than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home.

The American Film Institute Catalog draws its content from six printed volumes that document every American film from 1893 to 1970 (except 1951 to 1960). The catalog provides comprehensive filmographic information on over 45,000 films. Search the compiled records by keywords.

American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.

A database providing biographical information on over 17,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.

American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Some publications include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and the popular magazine Vanity Fair.

Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources. In addition to the full text of the resources above, LION provides access to an extensive collection of secondary resources (resources ABOUT these works and their authors).

American Song is a collection of music that reflects the history of the United States. Includes streaming audio versions of songs about American Indians, slaves, pioneers and more.

The American State Papers is a critical resource for the study of all aspects of American history. Sources include legislative and executive documents as well as speeches from President Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison.

Art Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929 and 1984. The database cites articles from 579 influental art publications throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.

ARTstor has collections of over 500,000 digital art images and associated data that can be used for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. The images are drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.

The American Theological Library Association's ATLA Religion Database, is the leading international database indexing citations in all scholarly fields of religion. It is a compilation of three printed indexes namely: Religion Index One: Periodicals, Religion Index Two: Multiple Author Works and Index to Book Reviews in Religion. It covers such topics as Biblical Studies, World Religions, Church History, and religious perspectives on social issues.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals provides citations to more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Also includes major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

A comprehensive public reference library containing a searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature.

Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources. LION provides access to an extensive collection of secondary resources (resources ABOUT these works and their authors).

The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

The Bibliography of the History of Art is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. The total number of biographical sketches indexed by BGMI is now more than 12.7 million.

Biography Reference Bank contains Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated and Biography Index Plus, in one integrated database. Wilson Biographies Plus contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases.

When complete, Black Drama will contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Brepolis is a comprehensive index for Medieval Studies. The online database comprises over 300,000 records. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 400-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript.

Cambridge University Press dates from 1534 and is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Their purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing learning, knowledge and research.

CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts) database compiled by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The database contains a large number of texts from earliest times (bone and bronze inscriptions) up to the 6th century AD.

Find reviews and other materials related to the field of children's literature. A large catalog of MARC records for children's books is also featured.

A poetry index. To read the full text of the poem in print, check PittCat+ for the title of the book.

D-scribe contains over 100 thematic digital collections published by the ULS. With over 100,000 digital objects, D-scribe contains photos, manuscripts, maps, books, journal articles, electronic theses and dissertations, government documents and other grey literature such as working papers, white papers and technical reports.

Search documents that reveal gender perceptions and realities from 1450-1910. The collection is composed of contemporary essays, biographies, and historical documents.

Series 1 is based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and the collection has served as the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Series 2 is an unique Web-based collection that thoroughly chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States.

Early Encounters in North America is a full text collection of primary documents related to early encounters of North American Indian, European, American, and African peoples and cultures in North America, as well as descriptions of the natural features of North America at the time. The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico.

Early English Books seeks to be a comprehensive collection of all books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the English language in any country from earliest times through 1700. This includes books on philosophy, religion, science, politics, exploration and poetry, prose and drama. Contains over 96,000 titles -- 230 years of English printing.

Shakespeare Editions and Adaptations, 1591-1911, is part of Literature Online (LION), an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources.

Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources, and includes English Poetry.

ERIC, sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier national bibliographic database of education literature.

A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

A master index to the major print literature series published by The Gale Group, combining and cross referencing more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source.

GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.

The Gmelin database is based on Gmelins Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie and contains references back to 1772. The database covers the structures, properties, and reactions of inorganic and organometallic substances, elements, and alloys.

The HarpWeek database contains all the pages of Harper's Weekly for the Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1912) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

A comprehensive indexing and abstracting database with more than 1.6 million records, covering over 1,900 journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.

Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.

Full-text access to this publisher's collection of journals.

IIMP draws its current content from more than 375 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The ITER database is comprised of two main components: Journal Citations, and Books. The Journals section is a bibliography of citations indexed from the complete runs of more than 500 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The Books section is a bibliography of citations for monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

The complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.

JSTOR is an online archive of academic journals in all fields.

L'Année Philologique is the most comprehensive index for scholarly research in Classical Studies.

Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is a valuable reference tool for current awareness in information sciences.

The definitive database on the nature and use of language.

A database featuring an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources.

A complete literature reference database containing information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

MagillOnLiterature is a source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.

The leading online dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary contains more than 75,000 definitions, including pronunciation guides and word histories.

Military and Government Collection provides full text from over 320 military and general interest publications.

The MLA International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present.

Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources, and includes Modern Poetry.

A database for finding information on Current Events, Lifestyle, Biographies, Sports, Economics, Consumer Products, World Affairs, Public Health, Business Trends, Entertainment and Travel.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition is universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.

National Newspapers via ProQuest provides a link to access the New York Times Historical database- full text (1851-2001). This newspaper can be accessed individually through the drop-down database menu in the advanced search.

Newspaper Source provides access to both national and international newspapers, and contains abstracts and indexing from the following papers (cover to cover): the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (IMLD) provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada.

Currently contains 200+ plays by 67 playwrights but, when complete, will contain more than 1,500 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before.

When complete this collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials.

Lets you search within these four art reference sources simultaneously: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Consice Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive historical dictionary of the English language.

Full-text access to this publisher's collection of journals.

Past Masters encompasses the history of political thought and theory, classics, and philosophy in full-text format.

A database containing more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.

A database for finding information printed in publications before 1925. Notably, it covers wide range of popular magazines from the 1800s.

Access to over 380 humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.

The Publishers' Catalogues Web site provides links to the websites of more than 7,500 publishers worldwide.

Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources, and includes Twentieth Century African American Poetry.

Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources, and includes Twentieth Century American Poetry.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged is part of the Literature Online (LION) database, which features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources.

A database outlining the lives and achievements of some 18,500 distinguished people from around the world.

Women's Resources International is a composite of nine contributing databases covering women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused scholarship from throughout the world.

WordNet® is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1969 and mid-2002.

Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. Based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,1690-1820"

Eighteenth Century Collections Online digitally captures this influential period and provides new research opportunities in ways previously unavailable. Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes a variety of materials -- from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements -- and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors.