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ChoiceReviews.online
CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in Current Issue.They also are searchable by using Advanced Search, selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various other criteria.
Historic Campus Architecture Project (Council of Independent Colleges)
A searchable database of historic buildings, master plans, and landscape features on nearly 370 college campuses is now available online, thanks to the Council of Independent Colleges and the J. Paul Getty Trust. The database covers about 2,000 campus sites, many of them in considerable detail, and includes some 4,300 illustrations. There are almost 100 sections on Salve Regina buildings and architects associated with them.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Access to electronic reference titles subscribed to by the McKillop Library. Subjects covered include religion, history, the arts and social sciences.
FirstSearch Databases (FirstSearch)
A list of subject-specific databases ranging from medicine, tobusiness, and including others in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Film and Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.
Encyclopedia Judaica (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students.
Encyclopedia Britannica
An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.The encyclopedia includes maps, tables, and graphs.
EBSCOhost (EBSCOhost)
A collection of full-text and abstract databases in the humanities, nursing, business, and life sciences.
Ebrary
Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors - Short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from the accession of the Emperor Augustus to the death of the Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each essay on this site, which is peer reviewed, is written by a scholar and is accompanied by a bibliography, illustrations, and footnotes.
Data for Research (JSTOR)
A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.
Credo Reference
Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Contains reports dating back to 1991.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.
ARTstor (ARTstor)
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Newsbank)
Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage 1887-1998.
Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Highly recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
Alternative Press Index Archives (FirstSearch)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Archive for Alternative Press Index. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers years 1969-1990.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 (Newsbank)
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham´s " History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. Includes coverage of the Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury1758-1886; as well as newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Art & Humanities Citation Index (FirstSearch)
Citations and abstracts referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Articles from 8,795 journals. From 1980 and updated weekly.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929 - 1984 (Wilson Web)
Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides a searchable index covering more than 55 years of art journalism from over 420 notable publications. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins and also includes publications in French, Italian, German, and Dutch. Art Index Retrospective features many document types including feature articles, interviews, film reviews, book reviews, bibliographies, exhibition listings, reports, conferences anthologies, editorials, reproduction of works of art, notices of competitions and awards, and letters to the editor published throughout the world. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles.
ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch)
Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCOhost)
The Avery Collection is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.
Blackwell Synergy Full Journal Collection (Blackwell Publishing)
This database holds the full-text of articles from over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. The subjects covered range across Medicine, Science, Social Science and the Humanities. Nearly 1 million articles to discover!
Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson Web)
Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.
Book Review Digest Retrospective (Wilson Web)
Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. This database contains more than 300,000 records covering Roman Catholic publications.
Readers' Guide Full Text (Wilson Web)
Reader's Guide provides current events coverage in over 400 magazines and popular periodicals going back to 1983. Full text of nearly 200 publications is available. Included are such popular publications as Atlantic Monthly, Commonweal, Discover, Education Digest, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Harper's, Life, Maclean's, Money, Nation, National Geographic, Newsweek, People, Psychology Today, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, Time, US News & World Report and Yankee.
Art Abstracts (Wilson Web)
Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 400 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history. Coverage for this database spans from 1984 to the present. Examples of publications indexed in Art Abstracts include: American Art, American Artist, Archaeology, Ceramics Monthly, Creative Review, Entertainment Design, Journal of Popular Film and Television, etc.
Providence Journal (ProQuest)
Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island. Coverage: 1988-current
Historical New York Times Access (ProQuest)
Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.
Newspapers of the World
Gives access to hundreds of newspapers and news magazines from all continents. Newspapers may be selected by country or by title.
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary includes more than 25,000 notable men and women whohave shaped our world from ancienttimes to the present day. The dictionary can be searched bynames, birth years, death years,positions held, professions, literary andartistic works, miscellaneousachievements, and other keywords." --Biographical Dictionary
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary)
The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition,
Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.
New Catholic Encyclopedia (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
NCE is the single most comprehensive reference resource on Catholicism. Over 12,000 individual articles, arranged alphabetically, the entries offer up-to-date commentary on the multifaceted religious body of one billion adherents, from its foundations in Judaism to the papacy of John Paul II. Readers will find both statistical and cultural information about the Catholic Church in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Zimbabwe, as well as an entry for almost every Catholic diocese and religious organization in the United States. Exhaustive treatment is given to biblical studies, Christology, liturgical practice, and Byzantine Christianity, and ethical and moral issues of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, and the human genome.
Proquest Newspapers (Proquest)
Proquest Newspapers provides:
Naxos Music Library
The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues, and selected titles from other labels. Most recordings come with scholarly notes which have been written by respected musicologists. All notes can be accessed and read while listening. NAXOS has 90,000-plus tracks, and more than 6,000 CDs. Over 7,000 composers are represented. Besides classical other genres include Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly.
Sage Journals Online (Sage Publishing)
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 Present for most journals.
Salve Regina University Dissertations (Salve Regina University)
Salve Regina Dissertaions from the Ph. D. Humanities program are available online.
Sanborn Maps - Digital 1867-1970 (ProQuest)
Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Rhode Island. In electronic form Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.
Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare (Alexander Street Press)
Contains more than 250 of the world´ s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Eastern edition ( 1984 - current )
Project MUSE Basic College Collection (John Hopkins University)
The Basic College Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of over 130 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.
JSTOR (JSTOR)
JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.
Wilson OmniFile FullText Mega (Wilson Web)
OmniFile provides access to 6 core Wilson databases including full-text from over 2,000 publications and abstracting/and indexing of another 3,800 periodicals. Covers almost all areas of academic interest including art, biology,business, education, general sciences, humanities, law, library and information science and social sciences.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (Wilson Web)
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
This database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies)
The ACLS HEB Project is a collaboration of nine learned societies, over 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan´ s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. The ACLS HEB Project includes nearly 1,400 titles selected by scholars in the humanities. Approximately 350 titles are added each year. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from 1885 through 2006.
Newspapers - Selected Direct Links
Links to the homepages of selected e-Newspapers including local papers.
International Bibliography of Theater and Dance (EBSCOhost)
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
History Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
History Reference Center is a full text history reference database designed for undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. It also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals. The database contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is a news, law, and business information service. Includes up to date news; company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals; company financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's; archival SEC filings; and accounting, auditing, and tax literature. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Indexing and abstracts of journals in medicine. 1966 -. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog.
MLA Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
This database is produced by the Modern Language Association and is the most important index for students and scholars of literature. The MLA Bibliography indexes articles from journals worldwide that cover literary criticism and theory, language, linguistics and folklore. MLA Directory of Periodicals
Humanities Full Text (Wilson Web)
This database covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Subject areas include archaeology, classical studies, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, literary criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. The database cites feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, works of fiction, drama and poetry, and reviews of ballets, theatre, dance, movies, musicals, operas, plays and television programs. Coverage is from the present to 1984. The database includes the full text of over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of another 550 titles.
CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in Current Issue.They also are searchable by using Advanced Search, selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various other criteria.
Historic Campus Architecture Project (Council of Independent Colleges)
A searchable database of historic buildings, master plans, and landscape features on nearly 370 college campuses is now available online, thanks to the Council of Independent Colleges and the J. Paul Getty Trust. The database covers about 2,000 campus sites, many of them in considerable detail, and includes some 4,300 illustrations. There are almost 100 sections on Salve Regina buildings and architects associated with them.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Access to electronic reference titles subscribed to by the McKillop Library. Subjects covered include religion, history, the arts and social sciences.
FirstSearch Databases (FirstSearch)
A list of subject-specific databases ranging from medicine, tobusiness, and including others in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Film and Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.
Encyclopedia Judaica (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students.
Encyclopedia Britannica
An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.The encyclopedia includes maps, tables, and graphs.
EBSCOhost (EBSCOhost)
A collection of full-text and abstract databases in the humanities, nursing, business, and life sciences.
Ebrary
Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors - Short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from the accession of the Emperor Augustus to the death of the Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each essay on this site, which is peer reviewed, is written by a scholar and is accompanied by a bibliography, illustrations, and footnotes.
Data for Research (JSTOR)
A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.
Credo Reference
Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Contains reports dating back to 1991.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.
ARTstor (ARTstor)
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Newsbank)
Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage 1887-1998.
Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Highly recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
Alternative Press Index Archives (FirstSearch)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Archive for Alternative Press Index. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers years 1969-1990.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 (Newsbank)
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham´s " History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. Includes coverage of the Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury1758-1886; as well as newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Art & Humanities Citation Index (FirstSearch)
Citations and abstracts referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Articles from 8,795 journals. From 1980 and updated weekly.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929 - 1984 (Wilson Web)
Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides a searchable index covering more than 55 years of art journalism from over 420 notable publications. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins and also includes publications in French, Italian, German, and Dutch. Art Index Retrospective features many document types including feature articles, interviews, film reviews, book reviews, bibliographies, exhibition listings, reports, conferences anthologies, editorials, reproduction of works of art, notices of competitions and awards, and letters to the editor published throughout the world. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles.
ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch)
Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCOhost)
The Avery Collection is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.
Blackwell Synergy Full Journal Collection (Blackwell Publishing)
This database holds the full-text of articles from over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. The subjects covered range across Medicine, Science, Social Science and the Humanities. Nearly 1 million articles to discover!
Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson Web)
Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.
Book Review Digest Retrospective (Wilson Web)
Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. This database contains more than 300,000 records covering Roman Catholic publications.
Readers' Guide Full Text (Wilson Web)
Reader's Guide provides current events coverage in over 400 magazines and popular periodicals going back to 1983. Full text of nearly 200 publications is available. Included are such popular publications as Atlantic Monthly, Commonweal, Discover, Education Digest, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Harper's, Life, Maclean's, Money, Nation, National Geographic, Newsweek, People, Psychology Today, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, Time, US News & World Report and Yankee.
Art Abstracts (Wilson Web)
Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 400 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history. Coverage for this database spans from 1984 to the present. Examples of publications indexed in Art Abstracts include: American Art, American Artist, Archaeology, Ceramics Monthly, Creative Review, Entertainment Design, Journal of Popular Film and Television, etc.
Providence Journal (ProQuest)
Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island. Coverage: 1988-current
Historical New York Times Access (ProQuest)
Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.
Newspapers of the World
Gives access to hundreds of newspapers and news magazines from all continents. Newspapers may be selected by country or by title.
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary includes more than 25,000 notable men and women whohave shaped our world from ancienttimes to the present day. The dictionary can be searched bynames, birth years, death years,positions held, professions, literary andartistic works, miscellaneousachievements, and other keywords." --Biographical Dictionary
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary)
The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition,
Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.
New Catholic Encyclopedia (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
NCE is the single most comprehensive reference resource on Catholicism. Over 12,000 individual articles, arranged alphabetically, the entries offer up-to-date commentary on the multifaceted religious body of one billion adherents, from its foundations in Judaism to the papacy of John Paul II. Readers will find both statistical and cultural information about the Catholic Church in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Zimbabwe, as well as an entry for almost every Catholic diocese and religious organization in the United States. Exhaustive treatment is given to biblical studies, Christology, liturgical practice, and Byzantine Christianity, and ethical and moral issues of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, and the human genome.
Proquest Newspapers (Proquest)
Proquest Newspapers provides:
- Providence Journal-Bulletin from 1988-current
- Wall Street Journal from 1982-current
- NewYork Times from 1851-2001 (historical)
Naxos Music Library
The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues, and selected titles from other labels. Most recordings come with scholarly notes which have been written by respected musicologists. All notes can be accessed and read while listening. NAXOS has 90,000-plus tracks, and more than 6,000 CDs. Over 7,000 composers are represented. Besides classical other genres include Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly.
Sage Journals Online (Sage Publishing)
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 Present for most journals.
Salve Regina University Dissertations (Salve Regina University)
Salve Regina Dissertaions from the Ph. D. Humanities program are available online.
Sanborn Maps - Digital 1867-1970 (ProQuest)
Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Rhode Island. In electronic form Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.
Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare (Alexander Street Press)
Contains more than 250 of the world´ s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Eastern edition ( 1984 - current )
Project MUSE Basic College Collection (John Hopkins University)
The Basic College Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of over 130 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.
JSTOR (JSTOR)
JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.
Wilson OmniFile FullText Mega (Wilson Web)
OmniFile provides access to 6 core Wilson databases including full-text from over 2,000 publications and abstracting/and indexing of another 3,800 periodicals. Covers almost all areas of academic interest including art, biology,business, education, general sciences, humanities, law, library and information science and social sciences.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (Wilson Web)
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
This database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies)
The ACLS HEB Project is a collaboration of nine learned societies, over 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan´ s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. The ACLS HEB Project includes nearly 1,400 titles selected by scholars in the humanities. Approximately 350 titles are added each year. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from 1885 through 2006.
Newspapers - Selected Direct Links
Links to the homepages of selected e-Newspapers including local papers.
International Bibliography of Theater and Dance (EBSCOhost)
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
History Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
History Reference Center is a full text history reference database designed for undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. It also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals. The database contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is a news, law, and business information service. Includes up to date news; company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals; company financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's; archival SEC filings; and accounting, auditing, and tax literature. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Indexing and abstracts of journals in medicine. 1966 -. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog.
MLA Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
This database is produced by the Modern Language Association and is the most important index for students and scholars of literature. The MLA Bibliography indexes articles from journals worldwide that cover literary criticism and theory, language, linguistics and folklore. MLA Directory of Periodicals
Humanities Full Text (Wilson Web)
This database covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Subject areas include archaeology, classical studies, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, literary criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. The database cites feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, works of fiction, drama and poetry, and reviews of ballets, theatre, dance, movies, musicals, operas, plays and television programs. Coverage is from the present to 1984. The database includes the full text of over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of another 550 titles.