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Academic OneFile | 1980-present | Full Text  | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier | 1975-present | Full Text  | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

Accessible Archives | Full Text  | Vendor: Accessible Archives Inc.
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 Accessible Archives DATABASES contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. [FAU Libraries has a one-year free subscription to this resource, 10/26/2009.]

ACLS Humanities E-Book | Full Text | Vendor: ACLS
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Contents/Info: Humanities E-Book is a digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly 80 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.

African-American Biographical Database | 1790-1950 | Full Text | Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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Contents/Info: Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

African American Music Reference | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Almanac of American Politics | Full Text | Vendor: National Journal
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Contents/Info: This Web edition includes detailed Congressional voting records, hard-to-find census data, current state district maps, up-to-date information on special election results, committee changes, election forecasts, primary results, and election previews.

Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex) | 1991-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

Alternative Press Index Archive | 1969-1990 | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

America: History and Life | 1964-present | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: This release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.  The product includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor.  The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long. 

American Civil War Research Database | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.

American History in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling approximately 420 hours.

American Jewish Committee Archives | Full Text |  Vendor: The American Jewish Committee
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Contents/Info: Provides access to a massive online archive that contains materials from AJC's last hundred years. The website features speeches, radio programs, commercials, articles and much more.

American Memory  | Full Text | Vendor: Library of Congress
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Contents/Info: American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

American Periodical Series (APS) Online | 1740-1900 | Full Text |  Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900 | 1690-1900 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: Early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states.  Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) and Series II (1758-1900).

Anthropology Plus | 19th Century-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

AnthroSource | Full Text | Vendor: AAA
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Contents/Info: Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review; A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003; Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications; Newsletters and bulletins.

ArchiveGrid  (Formerly: Archival Resources) | Some Full Text | Vendor: OCLC
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Contents/Info: Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.  Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.

Archives Florida | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: A growing database of finding aids (guides and inventories) to collections held by archives in Florida. The online site allows search, browsing, and display of finding aids, and links to related information, including a comprehensive guide to archives and manuscript repositories in Florida.

Archive of Americana | 1690-1876 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.  This resource contains "America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876" "Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800," and "Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819."  This resource provides the opportunity to search all three collections at once.

Archivision Digital Library see ARTstor | Vendor: ARCHIVISION INC.
 
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Contents/Info:  The Archivision Digital Library is a core architecture collection of 28,000 images covering important Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th and 19th Century, Islamic and Modern sites, gardens, parks and works of public art.  [ If you want to be able to make full use of ARTstor, you will need to register.  You may register on campus or off campus via EZproxy.]

Art Index Full Text | 1984-present | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Subjects 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. Full-text coverage for Art Index with Full Text begins in 1997.

Art Index Retrospective | 1929-1984| Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Subjects 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.  Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984.

ARTFL  |  Full Text | Vendor: University of Chicago
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Contents/Info: Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.

ArticleFirst | 1990-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Contains bibliographic citations with some full text from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Incorporates OCLC's ContentsFirst as of 10/15/01.

Arts and Humanities | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Search multiple databases covering arts and humanities.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index see Web of Science | 1975-present | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: A unique citation database which allows searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination with Science Citation Index Expanded or Social Sciences Citation Index. 

ARTstor | Vendor: ARTstor Inc.
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Contents/Info:  ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and tools to actively use those images. [If you want to be able to make full use of ARTstor, you will need to register.  You may register on campus or off campus via EZproxy.]

Asian American Drama | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more.  The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the play.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials | 1949-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  | 1930s-present with select coverage from the 1860s | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Covers the current literature of architecture and design, indexing more than 1000 US and foreign journals.

Bibliography of the History of Art  | 1973-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. 

Black Drama | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Black Drama - Second Edition | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: This initial release of Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora | Mid-1900s - Present | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: The most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

Black Studies Center | Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info:  Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.  It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.

Black Thought and Culture  | Colonial Times-1975 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.

Black Women Writers | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings.  Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.

Britannica Online see Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection now includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.

CAMIO | Vendor: OCLC
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Contents/Info: CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

Caribbean Literature | 19th-20th Centuries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers.

The Center for Research Libraries Catalog  | Vendor: CRL 
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Contents/Info:
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Collection highlights include:  6,500 international newspapers; 2,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era; and 2,000 ethnic titles indexed by language, state, culture, etc.  Also included are more than 38,000 international journals rarely held in U.S. and Canadian libraries, more than 800,000 non-U.S./non-Canadian doctoral dissertations, and major collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast Asia.  As a member library, FAU provides free access to materials held by CRL.  Check with your interlibrary loan department for more information on availability of materials from CRL.

Chicano Database  | 1967-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Covers all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos including materia
l on the broader Latino experience, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers | 1690-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
Open Access
Contents/Info: This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Classical Music Library  | 1966-present | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Classical Music Library is an ever-growing, fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive collection of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones.

Classical Music Reference Library  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form. This release includes 26,774 essays and images from 22 sources, over 15,010 pages.

Classical Scores Library  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores. This release includes 11,987 scores and 209,140 pages.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms see Oxford Art Online | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Featuring clear definitions of movements and media, from Baroque to Minimalism, aquatint to raku, and canvas to Venetian glass, this publication provides succinct and accessible explanations of art terms.

Contemporary Authors see Literature Resource Center  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info:  Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select see Literature Resource Center  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info:  E
ncompasses more than 600 significant authors and includes more than 266 major retrospective authors re-crafted from the series' earlier volumes. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

CQ Historic Documents see Historic Documents | 1972-present | Full Text | Vendor: CQ Press
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Contents/Info: In CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, you can find the entire collection of the acclaimed Historic Documents print editions.  Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

CUMINCAD (Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design) | Some Full Text | Vendor: CUMINCAD
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Contents/Info:  CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures, DDSS and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some  papers are also available. A separate index of a number of Spanish language papers are maintained. [Users will need to login to use this resource.]

Current Research@ Florida Atlantic University  | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: A digital library of dissertations and theses from Florida Atlantic University.

Dance in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 47 videos, equalling 82 hours.

Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) | 1973-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: The Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract. DAAI also includes two supplementary databases: Education Directory and Periodicals Directory.

Dictionary of Literary Biography see Literature Resource Center   | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Dictionary of Old English Corpus  | Full Text | Vendor: Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
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A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. [Due to state budget cuts, this resource will no longer be available after December 15, 2009.]

Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Ex Libris
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Contents/Info: Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries is a project that highlights university scholarship of various types (working papers, journal articles, dissertations and theses, etc.).

Digital Library of the Caribbean   | Some Full Text | Vendor: Florida International University (FIU) in partnership with the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) and the University of Florida (UF)
Open Access
Contents/Info: Provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

DigiTool@FAU Libraries  See Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Ex Libris
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Contents/Info: Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries is a project that highlights university scholarship of various types (working papers, journal articles, dissertations and theses, etc.).

Dissertation Abstracts see ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 1861-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

DRAM | Some Full Text | Vendor: Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc.
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Contents/Info: DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers the educational community on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works.
The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond. [Click here to see the "DRAM Requirements for Streaming."]

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 | 1639-1800 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 | 1801-1819 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

Early Encounters in North America | Full Text |Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. 

Early English Books Online (EEBO)  | Full Text | Vendor: Proquest Direct
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Contents/Info: From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). 

Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)  | Full Text | Vendor: Proquest Direct
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Contents/Info: This is a text version of EEBO with multiple search capabilities.

EBSCOhost  | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Provides access to CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Pre-CINAHL (nursing and allied health journals); EconLit (economic literature); RILM Abstracts of Music Literature; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Academic Search Premier; Film & Television Literature Index; Business Source Premier; and Regional Business News.

ECCO-TCP (Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Text Creation Partnership) | Eighteenth Century | Full Text |  Vendor: University of Michigan and Thomson-Gale
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The University of Michigan and Thomson-Gale are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 10,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 150,000 titles available in the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) corpus. ECCO is a significant collection of titles relating to the history of eighteenth century Britain, and the Text Creation Partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  | 1701-1800 | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Online access to the digital images of books published between 1701 and 1800. This collection includes ancient and contemporary history, accounts of voyages and discoveries, historical biographies and memoirs, genealogical collections, gazetteers, works on church antiquities and tourist guides of Britain. Topics include chronologies, recreation (travel, sports, parlor games), military history, maps, local history, and topography.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide | Full Text | |Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Allows you to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics see Oxford Art Online | 1998| Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: This encyclopedia surveys the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society; it is a comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts – from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture.

English Short Title Catalogue  | Vendor: British Library
Open Access
Contents/Info: A catalog of materials printed from the beginning of print until 1800 in Great Britain, its territories, and in English from around the world.

Essay and General Literature Index | 1985-present |  Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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 Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Ethnic NewsWatch  | 1990-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History  | 1960-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

Evans Digital Edition see Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 | 1639-1800 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Evans Early American Imprint Collection - Text Creation Partnership (Evans -TCP) | Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries | Full Text | Vendor: The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society
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Contents/Info: The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early American Imprints Collection. Evans is the most significant collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America, and the Text creation partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works.

Expanded Academic ASAP  | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines. 

FIAF Index to Film Periodicals | 1972- present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: A bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day.

Film & Television Literature Index |  Indexing and Abstract Backfiles Primarily from 1990; Back to 1975 Selectively | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: This resource is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Film Literature Index | 1976-2001 | Vendor: Indiana University Libraries
Open Access
Contents/Info: This resource contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews.

Fine Arts and Music Collection | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Cengage
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Contents/Info: With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered, this collection provides resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

FirstSearch  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via WebLUIS Web Gateway for FAU.

FirstSearch  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via LINCCWeb Gateway for Florida Community Colleges.

Florida Digital Newspaper Library | Full Text | Vendor: University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
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Contents/Info: Florida’s newspapers are a state treasure, the historian's and genealogist's best friend, and the community's collective memory. In the world of newspapers, today's news is already history, from the moment their stories are printed. The Florida Digital Newspaper Library exists to provide access to the news and history of Florida.

Florida Memory Project | Full Text | Vendor: State Archives of Florida
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Contents/Info: The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. The Project utilizes selected original records, photographs and other materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.

FRANCIS  | 1984-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics. 

Gale Group/InfoTrac  Databases  | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Includes access to Associations Unlimited, Biography & Master Genealogy Index, Custom Newspapers and Literature Resource Center among other databases.

GenderWatch  | 1970-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.

General OneFile | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

Gilded Age | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history.

glbtq  | Full Text | Vendor: glbtq Inc.
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Contents/Info: An Encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, & queer culture.

Grove Art Online see Oxford Art Online | 1996-present | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990's. This resource comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001).

Grove Music Online see Oxford Music Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: Authoritative resource on all aspects of music. This resource comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).

Hand Press Book  see Heritage of the Printed Book | 1455-1830 | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries.

Handbook of Latin American Studies  | 1990-present  | Vendor: Library of Congress
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Contents/Info: Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers social sciences and humanities.

HarpWeek | 1857-1912 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: This resource provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly: 1857-1912.

Heritage of the Printed Book | 1455-1830 | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries.

Historic Documents | 1972-present | Full Text | Vendor: CQ Press
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Contents/Info: In CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, you can find the entire collection of the acclaimed Historic Documents print editions.  Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

Historical Abstracts  | 1954-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life)

Historical Statistics of the United States | Full Text | Vendor: Cambridge University Press
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Contents/Info: The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. This resource provides access to data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade.

History E-Book Project see ACLS Humanities E-Book Project | Full Text | Vendor: ACLS
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Contents/Info: Humanities E-Book is a digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly 80 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.

History Resource Center: U.S. | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.

Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective | 1907-1984 | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
 This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Subjects include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.

Humanities Full Text  | 1984-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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 Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  The Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines website makes it possible for you to discover the lively news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era.

Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Provides a vivid visual history of a nation in crisis. Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database currently holds over 1400 images.

Index Islamicus | 1997-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: This resource indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.

Index to Jewish Periodicals | 1988-present | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: The definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture & History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals  | 19th century | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes entire journal contents--articles, art notes, illustrations, poems, and advertisements--of American art periodicals published in the nineteenth century. 

InfoTrac OneFile now General OneFile | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

InfoTrac Web/Gale Group  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Menu of InfoTrac/Gale Group databases.

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance   | 400-1700 | Vendor: University of Toronto Libraries
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Contents/Info: A Middle Ages and Renaissance bibliography of close to 500,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews.

The Internet Movie Database  | Some Full Text  | Vendor: Amazon.com
Open Access
Contents/Info: Online movie database.

ISI Citation Databases see  Web of Science | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

JSTOR  | Full Text | Vendor: JSTOR
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Contents/Info: Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines)

Judaica Sound Archives  | Vendor: Florida Atlantic University
Open Access
Contents/Info: The Judaica Music Rescue Project is committed to finding phonograph recordings of Yiddish, Hebrew and Sephardic music in any language from the various countries where Jews have lived, both secular and religious. Click on "Search for a Song" to access the Judaica Music Rescue Project database.

Latin American Newspapers | 1805-1922 | Full Text | Vendor: Readex in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries
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Contents/Info:
This collection provides more than 35 fully searchable key Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries, featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)  | Vendor: ARL
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Contents/Info: A searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

Latin American Women Writers | Colonial period-present | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the difficult task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection. Starting in the colonial period and moving through to the present, the literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials will give researchers the feminine perspective of the development of an entire continent. The writings will also reveal the personal struggles and histories of the authors themselves.

Latino Literature | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. It currently contains over 106,000 pages of poetry.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection | 1789-2003 | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: This resource is an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. [To access this database, choose the Advanced Search tab.]  [LexisNexis is digitizing the 1970-2003 collection incrementally on a chronological basis. It is estimated that roughly 60% of the pages from 1970-2003 will be online by the end of 2009, with the remainder going online in 2010.]

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web | Some Full Text | Vendor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Contents/Info:
 This site is a product of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.  This resource features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts  | 1973-present  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: This database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Literature For Children  | Full Text | Vendor: SUS Digital Library
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Contents/Info: Literature for Children is comprised of volumes from the Departments of Special Collections at several of the State University System of Florida libraries. It is a growing collection of digitized titles published, predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

Literature Online (LION) | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info:  Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images and Texts  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 06/15/09
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Contents/Info: Local and Regional Histories Online contains historical images and texts from Arcadia Publishing's series of local history books, covering thousands of towns and cultural groups in all 50 states. All of the images and texts have been indexed, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more.

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: This collection
from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society brings together 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts.

Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) | Full Text | Vendor: TannerRitchie
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Contents/Info: 
Provides access to a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources online.

MLA Directory of Periodicals | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Provides all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

MLA International Bibliography  | 1920's-present | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Provides a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The indexed materials coverage is international.  Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

Muse see Project Muse | Full Text | Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Contents/Info: 300+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines.

Music Index  | 1974-present | Vendor: Harmonie Park Press
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Contents/Info: Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

Music Online | Vendor: Alexander Street press
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Contents/Info: Music Online cross-searches five related music databases: African-American Music Reference, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, and Dance in Video.

NetLibrary  | Full Text | Vendor: OCLC
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Contents/Info: Well over 10,000 E-Books covering a full range of subjects.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians see Oxford Music Online | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: Authoritative resource on all aspects of music. This resource comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).

NewsBank   | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: Menu of NewsBank databases and major newspapers.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.

North American Indian Thought and Culture  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:   Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.

North American Theatre Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies.

North American Women's Drama  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.  More than 30% of the plays in the collection have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the play.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

NYPL Digital Gallery | Full Text | Vendor: NYPL
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Contents/Info: NYPL Digital Gallery is the New York Public Library's new image database, developed to provide free and open online access to thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of the Research Libraries. Spanning a wide range of visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of the Research Libraries, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.

The Official Index to the Times (1906-1980)  | 1906-1980 | Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd
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Contents/Info: A collection of short index entries from the 296 printed volumes of the Official Index to the London Times which covers the years 1906-1980 inclusive. Coverage includes all issues of The Times, The Sunday Times, and supplements.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
 Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

Oxford Art Online | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: This resource includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Companion to Western Art see Oxford Art Online | 2001| Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: Contains more than 2,600 entries, and provides discriminating and reliable coverage of over 1,700 artists and their work. Articles give fresh treatment to topics of contemporary interest, including art movements, theory, and criticism. In addition to thorough regional and cultural surveys, this publication lists all relevant museums and galleries under the city of their location, such as Barcelona and Moscow.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)  | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Oxford Journals Online (OUP)  | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: Online fulltext access to journals published by the Oxford University Press. Your library may not subscribe to all journal titles offered through this site.

Oxford Music Online | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: This resource includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Oxford Reference Online   | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: A comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering general reference, language, science, medicine, humanities, the social sciences, business and professional.

Oxford Scholarship Online | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of Oxford books in the following subjects areas: History, Philosophy, Religion, Economics & Finance, and Political Science.

Past Masters | 1989-present | Full Text | Vendor: InteLex
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Contents/Info: Past Masters is a collection of primary-source full-text humanities databases. This resource includes the following: Aquinas: Collected Works; Aristotle: Complete Works; Augustine: Opera Omnia; Augustine: Works (2nd Release); Boyle: Works; Collingwood: Philosophical Texts (2nd Release); Continental Rationalists: Descartes-Spinoza-Leibniz; Darwin: Works; Descartes: Oeuvres Completes; Dewey: Collected Works; Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights; Hume: Complete Works and Correspondence; Latin Background: 1100-1550; Peirce: Collected Papers; Peirce: Published Works I; and Santayana: Works.

Periodicals Archive Online | 1665-1995 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: An archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Periodicals Index Online  | 1665-1995 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
 
Persee | Full Text | Vendor: French Ministry for Higher Education and Research
Open Access
Contents/Info: The main goal of the Persée project is to widely disseminate the scientific output of French language specialists in the humanities on the internet.

The Philosopher's Index | 1940-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.

Play Index | Antiquity-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
 Search over 44,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  | Full Text | 1982-present | Vendor: SAGE
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Contents/Info:  Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 6,700 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.

Project Muse  | Full Text | Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Contents/Info: 300+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations see ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 1861-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  | 1967-present | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: RILM offers a broad international coverage base and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.

Ringling Collection | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
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Contents/Info: The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of 19th Century American and British actors and actresses. There are more than 6,000 images in this digital collection depicting more than 3,000 actors and actresses. The Collection is important not simply for its pictures of the idols of a bye- gone era but for its depictions of clothing, hair styles, and other indicators of the period's social mores and attitudes. The original collection is housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP Online) |  Full Text | Vendor: Routledge
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Contents/Info: A fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced dynamic Web version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP).  As well as regular additions of new articles, this resource also provides editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web and revisions and updates of key entries. [Due to state budget cuts, this resource is no longer available.]

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A unique and rich new source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies and social sciences about materials published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe.

Sage Full-Text Collections  | 1982-present | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides access to Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection; Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection; Politics and International Relations: A SAGE Full-Text Collection; Sociology: A SAGE Full- Text Collection; and Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection.

SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs  | Late 16th century-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info:  Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works.

Scribner Writers Series see Literature Resource Center   | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Provides access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Shoah Visual History Archive see Visual History Archive | Full Text | Vendor: USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
Access available in the S.E. Wimberly Library and the John D. MacArthur Campus Library
Contents/Info: Florida Atlantic University serves as a site where users can access testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.  This collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses—in 32 languages and from 56 countries—is the largest visual history archive in the world. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies and war crimes trials participants. Note: Not all video testimonies are available immediately, but can be requested to be viewable within 48 hours. To check the status of a certain interview prior to visiting the Library, please call the Reference Desk at 561-297-3785, or e-mail LYREF@fau.edu.

Short Story Index | 1984-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
 An index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals included are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: A single cross-searchable platform for the entire family of letter and diary databases: North American Women's Letters and Diaries; British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories; The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries; Black Thought and Culture; and Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries (forthcoming).

SpringerLINK  | Full Text | Vendor: Springer
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Contents/Info: Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines. This resource also provides access to the following book series: Lecture Notes in Physics and Topics in Current Chemistry.

Theatre in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

Twayne's English Authors see Literature Resource Center   | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Twayne's US Authors see Literature Resource Center   | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Twayne's World Authors see Literature Resource Center   | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: Brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

Twentieth Century North American Drama | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info:  Contains 1,530 plays by 223 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
More than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.

Visual History Archive | Full Text | Vendor: USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
Access available in the S.E. Wimberly Library and the John D. MacArthur Campus Library
Contents/Info: Florida Atlantic University serves as a site where users can access testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.  This collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses—in 32 languages and from 56 countries—is the largest visual history archive in the world. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies and war crimes trials participants. Note: Not all video testimonies are available immediately, but can be requested to be viewable within 48 hours. To check the status of a certain interview prior to visiting the Library, please call the Reference Desk at 561-297-3785, or e-mail LYREF@fau.edu.

 Web of Knowledge  | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Provides access to the Web of Science databases and MEDLINE.

 Web of Science | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

WilsonWeb  | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
A collection of databases provided by HW Wilson.

Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar's Edition | 1600-2000 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.  This edition includes the Women's Commission Reports.

Women's Studies International | 1972 (& earlier)-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: This database covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.  This resource includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Provides access to to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

Wright American Fiction  | 1851-1875 | Full Text | Vendor: Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Open Access
Contents/Info: A collection of 19th century American fiction with access to more than 1,700 full-text books.


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