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Encyclopedias -- Gathering Background Information
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to Oxford art reference resources including Grove Art Online, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford Companion to Western Art and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Grove Art Online also includes linking to ARTstor.
- Britannica Online Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowThe foundation of Britannica Online is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. Besides topical articles, it includes maps, photos, illustrations, videos, multimedia clips, and yearbooks from 1993 onward.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to multiple dictionaries and encyclopedias from Oxford University Press.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowThis unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike.
Art Research Databases (Articles)
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984. Includes expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowExcellent source for full text scholarly journal articles in history, economics, education, philosophy, literature, African studies, Asian studies, African American studies, sociology, political science, science, and psychology.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
General Databases (Articles)
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Search more than 13,300 periodicals, including full text for nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. It features a mix of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers and books.
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,000 titlesnearly 2,800 in full textfrom 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources. Coverage across academic subjects. Part of the Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) project of the Washington State Library.
Additional Subjects
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Plus This link opens in a new window ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS (ATLAS PLUS )combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's largest collection of full text religion and theology journals. ATLAS PLUS contains a more than 450 full text titles, including all ATLASerials (ATLAS) titles and content previously available in the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (ATLA CPLI). This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new window 15 of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly, plus archive of all AAA journals.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Historic coverage of the world (excluding the US and Canada) from 1450. Citations and abstracts from 1954 to the present. Includes links to JSTOR and ProjectMUSE. (For research on the U.S. and Canada, use America: History and Life.)
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with commentaries, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, and timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans.
Primary Resources for Research
- Primary Sources for Research Guide
- How to define primary and secondary resources, evaluation, and links to digital collections.
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new windowAccess millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.