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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
African-American Poetry
3000 poems by African-American poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Includes or has links to full-text.
America: History and Life
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. Coverage also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 100 major journals of American history and culture and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
American Drama
American dramatic literature from 1714 to the present. Includes or has links to full-text.
American Periodical Series Online
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers. Includes or has links to full-text.
American Poetry
40,000 poems of American writers from the 17th to the early 20th century. Includes or has links to full-text.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Index to books, articles, reviews, collections, and dissertations in English studies.
Anthropology Plus
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.
Anthrosource
AnthroSource is the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Anthrosource combines digital access to the AAA's peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins with high-level electronic content functionality.
Art Full Text
Indexes several hundred international journals plus yearbooks and museum bulletins on art including archaeology, architecture, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, museology, and photography. The electronic counterpart to the printed Art Index. 1929- present. Updated monthly.
ARTFL (French Literature)
Full text of 2000 works in French. Includes or has links to full-text.
ArticleFirst
Index to articles from over 12,000 journals.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

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Bibliography of American Literature
A comprehensive bibliographic guide, providing nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the American Revolution to 1930. Includes or has links to full-text.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Index to articles, books, and other materials in art history, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present.

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Chicano Database
Index to resources on Mexican-American and Latino topics. Includes or has links to full text.
Clase and Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Includes or has links to full text.

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Digital Media Center - OhioLINK
Several databases of electronic images or videos; will eventually also include sound, numeric data, and other types of electronic media.
Digital Video Collection - OhioLINK
Digital videos covering many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

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Early American Fiction
440 novels and short stories of 80 American writers, 1774-1850. Includes or has links to full text.
Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars - from their desktop! - in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Full text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, and related works. Includes or has links to full text.
eHRAF World Cultures
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a Web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm™. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Full text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles, 1700-1780. Includes or has links to full text.
EJC
Full text of 6000+ research journals. Includes or has links to full text.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Britannica School Edition
Access to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.
English Poetry 600-1900
More than 175,000 poems by over 1,400 poets from British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries, 600-1900. Includes or has links to full text.
English Prose Drama
Full text of over 1800 plays written in prose for the stage, from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Includes or has links to full text.
English Verse Drama
Full text of over 2200 works of poetry intended for the stage. Includes or has links to full text.

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FRANCIS
Index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Includes or has links to full text.

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Grove Dictionary of Art
An online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
A 30+ volume online encyclopedia containing all things music.

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HarpWeek
Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. Includes or has links to full text.
Historical Abstracts
Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada). Includes or has links to full text.
Humanities Full-Text
Contains full text for over 550 journals of interest in art, philosophy, history, communications, and general interest.
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content.

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In the First Person: An Index To Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories And Personal Narratives
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
Index to articles from 42 art journals published in 19th century U.S.
Infotrac Full-Text Articles (1,000 Journals)
Index to citations in 1,000 journals with full-text access to almost 900 journals. Covers many subject areas at the undergraduate level. Includes or has links to full text.
International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text
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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.

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JSTOR
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never “out”; they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.

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Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. 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. In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, the Bloom Series of over 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers edited by Harold Bloom, complete content of hundred of literary journals, and hundreds of literary books from Taylor & Francis, ME Sharpe, Peter Lang, Oxford University Press and many other publishers.

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MLA Directory of Periodicals
List of periodicals in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.
MLA International Bibliography
Index to books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes or has links to full text.
Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796–1850
Bibliography of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, 1796–1850.
Music Index
The Music Index covers over 670 journal titles relating to music and the performing arts.

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Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
NewsBank Newspapers
Online full-text newspapers, including 17 Ohio newspapers. Includes or has links to full text.

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Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Project Gutenberg
Thousands of classic books from the start of this century and previouscenturies. This collection adds an electronic book per day to its list.

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RefWorks
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. To sign up for a RefWorks account, point your browser to https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp and view the quick start guide.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Index, abstracts, and full text covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Includes or has links to full text.
Religion Index (ATLA)
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Index and abstracts in Slavic studies, covering articles, books, and other literature on social sciences and humanities.

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SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
Lists approximately 7000 international institutions with holdings related to the performing arts, including information about special collections.

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20th Century African-American Poetry
12,000 poems and with biographical profiles by more than 100 African-American poets. Includes or has links to full-text.
20th Century American Poetry
Over 52,000 works from more than 316 poets. Includes or has links to full-text.
20th Century English Poetry
Over 44,000 poems by 288 poets. Includes or has links to full-text

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University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages.

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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
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The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1965 and early 2004. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 97,679 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.

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William Butler Yeats Collection
The complete work of William Butler Yeats. Includes or has links to full text.