HUMANITIIES DATABASES

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Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

 
Anthropological Index Online - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1970-present | Updates: monthly | Provider: British Museum]
This database provides basic bibliographic references to over 700 periodicals in the British Museum's Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library). A browsable list of journal titles and abbreviations is also available.

APA's Frequently Asked Questions  - on psychological tests--American Psychological Association.

Architectural Publications Index - [Contents: citations | Coverage: 1980 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Royal Institute of British Architects] 
This database provides an index to over 300 of the world's most respected architectural periodicals as well as a catalogue of the books and audio visual materials held in the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Library.

 
Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Getty Museum] 
This database contains articles from over 400 leading journals relevant to the international conservation field that are abstracted annually.

 
Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC]
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.

 
Black Women in America - [Contents: full-text reference | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This second edition reference publication is a digital collection that contains 600 entries of achievements and contributions of African-American Women.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1994 - 1997 | Updates: regularly | Provider: Haverford College] 
This database covers over 500 international journals as well as book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.) with Russia extending to 1613.

Google Scholar - [Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

Grove Art Online - [Contents: full-text & images | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Oxford University Press] 

Now available through the Oxford Art Online gateway, Grove Art Online features over 45,000 signed articles, 5,500 images, 40,000 image links, timelines of world art, and MoMA lesson plans.  Users also have access to the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.


HeritageQuest Online - [Contents: citations & full-text | Coverage: 1790-1930 | Updates: regularly | Provider: ProQuest] 
This database contains a collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture, including a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories and the complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930.

 
Ingenta - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1988 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Ingenta] 
This database contains over 11 million citations, abstracts, and links to electronic journal articles from more than 20,000 periodicals in all subject disciplines. This database also contains a current awareness service that delivers search alerts and topics of selected journals.

 
National Archeological Database - [Contents: reports | Coverage: early history - present | Updates: annually | Provider: National Park Service]
This database is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation.

 
Oxford Companion to World Exploration - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: early history - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This online reference offers topics about world exploration such as advances in navigation, discovery of the world, polar expeditions, and the new age. It contains over 800 entries that ranges on everything from ancient cultures to modern space exploration.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos] 
This reference has 650 biographies of women's role in history. It is a four-volume set that contains topics on geography and history, culture and society, movements, and gender studies.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) - [Contents: Citations & Full Text | Coverage: 1992-present | Updates: quarterly | Provider: PMW Matheson (Toronto, Canada)] 
This database provides tables of contents for about 160 journals of interest to classicists. Where possible, links to online abstracts or full text are provided

 

World History Collection - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco]

World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

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