Summer research is a great opportunity to explore both the depth and breadth of a topic. To help you do so, here鈥檚 a listing of disciplinary research guides and databases available through the 99精品视频 College Libraries website.
Please join the Libraries and peers for doing research on campus this summer on Thursday afternoons.
And remember: are a great resource for any stage of your research!
Indexes journal articles and edited works in archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics; also covers sociology, history, ethnohistory, demography, geography, international development, and human genetics.
1888鈥損resent. Full-text online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association.
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1895鈥2015. Full-text archive of over 65 international magazines, presented as searchable full-color page images, that cover fine art, art history, photography, decorative arts, interior design, graphic and industrial design, architecture, and more. The college owns perpetual access to Collection
Covers a broad range of subjects, from fine, decorative, and commercial art to various areas of architecture and architectural design. International in scope covering English-language journals, books, and more, as well as works published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. The database also has an extensive collection of images.
Online bibliographical database providing full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards.
Alternate Name(s)Arte Publico Online database pertaining to Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture in the United States. Content is drawn from Arte P煤blico Press's Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, an effort to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, from colonial times to 1960.
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1975鈥2007. The Getty, a cultural and philanthropic institution based in Los Angeles, hosts this searchable database combining the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and the R茅pertoire International de la Litt茅rature de l'Art (RILA), providing citations for articles from over 1,200 journals covering American and European visual arts. RILA covers 1975鈥1989 while BHA covers 1990鈥2007.
Art history databases maintained by the Frick Collection in New York City. Includes The Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Digital Image Archive, The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories, and Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary.
A collection of electronic books on museum-related topics from Exact Editions.
Online art encyclopedia, covering all aspects of visual culture. Includes the Grove Dictionary of Art. Contains articles, bibliographies, learning resources, and searchable images made available through Oxford鈥檚 partnerships with museums, galleries, and other arts organizations.
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Search these 3 databases at the same time.
From the National Library of Medicine, the PubMed interface searches biomedical and life sciences literature from MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf. Look for the 鈥99精品视频 College鈥 full text link.
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Interface provides in-depth coverage of the scholarly research literature published worldwide in all areas of chemistry.
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Comprehensive bibliography of the literature on all aspects of the classical period, published by the Soci茅t茅 Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, in collaboration with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the American Philological Association. A print edition is also available (Z7016.M35 A1).
A repository of up-to-date bibliographical articles written and reviewed by top scholars in the field of Classics, including citations, annotations, and commentary on a wide variety of topics. The Oxford Bibliographies database is designed to help researchers cut through academic information overload by providing expert recommendations.
Digital library of resources for the study of the humanities, with particular emphasis on the Greco-Roman world, that seeks to present its material so as to illustrate the connections between disciplines, events, ideas, and concepts.
Full-text digital library containing most of the surviving Greek texts from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 CE. Create a user account to access the various content areas.
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Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), whether in journals, transactions, magazines, newsletters, SIGs, or conference proceedings, plus bibliographic citations from other major publishers in computing.
1991鈥損resent. An e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
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Peer-reviewed journals in business and management, business-focused newspapers, trade publications, industry reports, and other documents for the study of business.
1969鈥損resent. Provides citations for journals, books, dissertations, and working papers on economics from hundreds of sources. NOTE: Many of the articles in EconLit are working papers from the RePEc database. "Search for full text" will NOT take you to the full text of these working papers. Look for the links in the EconLit records to the full text of the working papers.
Database of nearly 450,000 working papers from the Social Sciences Research Network. Primarily covering economics and law, with some political science and other subjects. Being working papers, this research may not necessarily have been peer reviewed.
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Online encyclopedia that addresses literary works, writers, cultural movements, and historical events around the world, with interactive features that enable the user to place literature within its historical context.
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, with nearly 400 full-text literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources.
1926鈥損resent. Online database indexing scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
This online resource brings together three interconnected reference works to present a new consideration of the writings of William Shakespeare, edited from first principles from the base texts themselves and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship: the Modern Critical Edition, which features modern spelling and punctuation along with helpful supplementary materials; the two-volume Critical Reference Edition, which preserves the original spelling, punctuation, ambiguities, and inconsistencies for the advanced scholar; and the Authorship Companion, a collection of cross-referenced essays on issues of attribution and collaboration.
Contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).
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Covers film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Includes full text of more than 90 journals and indexing for more than 600 publications.
Digital repository of complete full-text backfiles of several hundred scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Health & General Sciences, and Ecology & Botany, except for the most recent two to five years.
1926鈥損resent. Online database indexing scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Access to the full text of approximately 350 scholarly electronic journals in the arts & humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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1978-present. Online resource that provides full-text information from nearly 4,000 United States and international newspapers, news services, magazines, blogs, transcripts, and more. To get to the international newspapers, use the "World" link under Shortcuts.
Collection of primary source texts from France including Diderot's 贰苍肠测肠濒辞辫茅诲颈别. Founded in 1982 as a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, the ARTFL Project contains more than 3,500 French-language texts from the 12th through 20th centuries.
1990鈥損resent. Multidisciplinary index of articles listed on the table of contents pages of over 15,000 academic journals.
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, this online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the . Users can cross-search and reuse over 28,000,000 digital items and 175,000,000 bibliographic records. To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the group.
Covers world history after 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Indexes articles from over 2,000 journals, books, collections, and dissertations.
1926鈥損resent. Online database indexing scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Indexes 2,000 journals published worldwide covering the history of the United States and Canada. Coverage includes articles, book and media reviews, and abstracts of dissertations.
Covers world history after 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Indexes articles from over 2,000 journals, books, collections, and dissertations.
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1940鈥損resent. Covers the world's mathematical literature. Provides web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic information from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
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Comprehensive online resource devoted to research on world music. Features overviews of various regions with a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Images and audio files are included. A print version with CDs is available at Burling reference.
Online resource for music research, featuring the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, and The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations. A version is also available in print at Burling reference.
Streaming audio repository for jazz music, broadly defined. Genres include bebop, acid jazz, big band music, and range from folk to reggae to gospel to bossa nova and many more. Searchable by performer, composer, genre, and song or album title. New content is added on a regular basis.
Streaming music service primarily for the genres of classical music, contemporary jazz, and world/folk, with New Age, pop/rock, and Chinese orchestral music represented as well.
Streaming service featuring a wide range of World music, representing over 1,500 cultural groups. Includes the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings catalogue.
Gateway to music research and access point for full-text Oxford music reference publications, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
1967鈥損resent. Comprehensive database to scholarly literature on music. Indexes articles, bibliographies, books, catalogues, conference proceedings, critical commentaries to complete works, dissertations, electronic resources, ethnographic recordings and videos, festschriften, iconographies, reviews, and more. Particularly strong for classical music. For popular music publications, see Academic Search Premier.
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Indexes 2,000 journals published worldwide covering the history of the United States and Canada. Coverage includes articles, book and media reviews, and abstracts of dissertations.
Over 1900 scholarly journals. Covers scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education, from early childhood to higher education in all educational specialties. Includes indexing and abstracts, as well as some full text.
1966鈥損resent. Indexes education-related literature, including library science. Covers journal articles, dissertations, government documents, conference proceedings, and much more.
Covers psychology and related disciplines including sociology, education, and sport. Worldwide coverage includes references to over 1,800 journals, dissertations, and book chapters.
1952鈥損resent. Includes citations and abstracts for articles in journals, conference papers, books, and dissertations in the social and behavioral sciences.
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1991鈥損resent. An e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
American Physical Society; search and retrieve the full text of APS journals from 1893 to the present.
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Index of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public policy, and public administration.
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Covers psychology and related disciplines including sociology, education, and sport. Worldwide coverage includes references to over 1,800 journals, dissertations, and book chapters.
From the National Library of Medicine, the PubMed interface searches biomedical and life sciences literature from MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf. Look for the 鈥99精品视频 College鈥 full text link.
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1952鈥損resent. Includes citations and abstracts for articles in journals, conference papers, books, and dissertations in the social and behavioral sciences.
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An online database of over 1,700 plays, nearly half of which are previously unpublished, by African, African American, and African Diaspora playwrights from 1850 to the present. Also included are production notes and photographs and information on theaters and companies involved in producing the plays.
聽 Searchable full-text database of the complete writings of Ben Jonson in a readable, modernized form. Also includes around 75 old-spelling texts, 600 contextual documents, 90 essays, thousands of high-quality images, and 150 music scores, as well as details on more than 1,400 stage performances and a cross-linked bibliography of nearly 7,000 items.
Streaming-video service featuring tens of thousands of full-length films and video clips in over 40 subject areas, including the humanities & social sciences, business & economics, health & medicine, and science.
In collaboration with the National Theatre of Great Britain, this collection features streaming video of stage productions as well as archival materials and documents.
This online resource brings together three interconnected reference works to present a new consideration of the writings of William Shakespeare, edited from first principles from the base texts themselves and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship: the Modern Critical Edition, which features modern spelling and punctuation along with helpful supplementary materials; the two-volume Critical Reference Edition, which preserves the original spelling, punctuation, ambiguities, and inconsistencies for the advanced scholar; and the Authorship Companion, a collection of cross-referenced essays on issues of attribution and collaboration.
A searchable digital library of new plays shared by the playwrights themselves, making their work discoverable to producers, directors, actors, students, and others interested in contemporary theater.
聽 An online database of nearly 250 plays, more than half of which are previously unpublished, by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries. The plays demonstrate Native theater's diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama鈥攎elding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
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