Core Databases
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new windowInternational Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text (IBTD) is an index to journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. The database contains full text for more than 140 periodicals and 300 monographs.
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowIndexes scholarly research from 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theatre), and history of printing and publishing. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Coverage from 1926 to the present.
- Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis Literary Sources) This link opens in a new windowOver 1 million full-text articles from scholarly journals & literary magazines, critical essays, topic overviews, biographies, & more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) This link opens in a new windowGood source for coverage of Canadian authors and literature.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary index to the journal literature in the arts and humanities, covering over 1,700 scholarly journals 1975 to the present. Allows searching by author, title word, cited author, journal title and institution
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowAccess to scholarly literature in all subjects. Searches the full text of the article.
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- ESTC : English Short Title Catalog This link opens in a new windowBibliographic records for works published between 1473 and 1800, principally in Britain and North America. Predominantly English language. Contains almost 460,000 records representing material held in the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowA bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books.
- Nineteenth Century IndexA comprehensive source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. Provides access to the twelve most important finding aids for 19th century studies, including the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue and Palmer's Index to the Times of London.
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new windowCovers history and culture of Native North Americans; over 80,000 records. Stronger in older ethnological studies than it is in current political studies.
- International Medieval Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, proceedings, festschriften and other essay collections covering all aspects of the European Middle Ages (c450-1500).
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text article database covering communication and language. Useful for articles on language and communication technologies such as texting, MSN, etc.
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals Archive Online (PAO) offers access to international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995 in thirty-seven subject areas.
- Historical AbstractsAuthoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
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