ABELL Plus[Full Record] Information about books, book reviews, articles, essays and
dissertations on all aspects and periods of English
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America: History and Life[Full Record] Information on articles, books, book reviews, and
dissertations published since 1964 on U.S. and Canadian
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Archive of Early American Images[Full Record] Digitized images relating to the Americas which appeared in
books printed in Europe before 1825, many reproduced here
for the first time. From the collections of the John Carter
Brown Library, Brown University.
Art Abstracts[Full Record] Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for
international art publications, including periodicals,
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Artcyclopedia / John Malyon[Full Record] Searchable database of information on art and artists with
links to image sites. Includes a chronological listing of
women artists from the Renaissance to the present.
ARTFL Project[Full Record] A corpus of texts ranging from classic works of French
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ATLA Religion Database[Full Record] Citations from international titles and multi-author works
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Indexes materials published 1949 to present, with selected
records going back to 1818. Subscription only - contact your library.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals[Full Record] Information about articles on architecture, archaeology,
city planning, interior design, and historic preservation
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bbc.co.uk History[Full Record] Provides short encyclopedic entries for historical topics
related to Great Britain. Includes biographies of historic
and literary figures, historical timelines, essays on topics
realted to society, culture, wars, conflicts and more.
Bibliography of the History of Art[Full Record] Information about articles on European and American art
from late antiquity to the present appearing in
international art journals and other publications, 1973 to
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British Academy John Foxe Project[Full Record] Information about project to publish Foxe's Acts and
Monuments ("Book of Martyrs") on cd-rom, with
presentation of portion of the text as demonstration.
British Book Trade Index[Full Record] Database of brief biographical and trade
details of all those who worked in the English and Welsh
book trades before 1852. Includes not only printers,
publishers and booksellers but also other related trades,
such as stationers, papermakers, engravers, auctioneers,
ink-makers and sellers of medicines.
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue[Full Record] A single portal for access to the mainstream catalogues of
the British Library Department of Manuscripts, covering
materials acquired from 1753 to the present day.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes[Full Record] Full text electronic version of the 1907-21 edition of the
encyclopedia. Essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction,
drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators,
humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders,
economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even
non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
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Cotsen Children's Library[Full Record] A major historical collection of rare illustrated children's
books, manuscripts, original artwork, prints, and
educational toys from the 15th century to the present day in
over thirty languages.
Discovering American Women\'s History Online[Full Record] This database provides access to digital collections of
primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.)
that document the history of women in the United States.
Early Modern Literary Studies[Full Record] Electronic journal devoted to the study of English
literature, literary culture, and language during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also includes pages of
links to electronic texts and other Web resources.
Early Modern Women's Poetry / Ellen Moody, ed.[Full Record] Scholarly essays and bibliographies on the following authors
Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna, Anne Kingsmill Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea, Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of
Oxford, Katherine Fowler Philips and Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu.
English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800[Full Record] Searchable, online archive of ballads from the Samuel
Pepys collection held by Cambridge University. Includes
facsimile images of the ballads along with transcriptions
and backgropund essays.
English Emblem Book Project[Full Record] Images of scanned pages of emblem books printed in Early
Modern England. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and
links to other emblem book Web sites.
English Folk Dance and Song Society (efdss)[Full Record] The English Folk Dance and Song Society serves to preserve
and promote traditional English folk dance, song and music
by providing national and local outreach services which
enable and increase access to all.
English Short Title Catalog[Full Record] Catalog of most imprints (books, pamphlets, and broadsides)
published from 1473 to 1800 in English or published in any
language in English-speaking countries. Many titles are
available on microform.
Genders[Full Record] Publishes articles that "consider genders and sexualities in
relation to artistic, semiotic, political, literary, social,
ethnic, racial, economic, rhetorical or legal concerns."
GenderWatch[Full Record] Full text database comprised primarily of periodicals that
deal with gender issues, including academic and scholarly
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Historical Abstracts[Full Record] Information on articles, books, and dissertations published
since 1954 about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine[Full Record] International bibliography for the history of science,
technology, and medicine and their influence on culture,
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articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews,
and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related
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Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipies, & Helpful Hints[Full Record] Exhibit exploring the cabinet contents of the 16th,
17th, and 18th century housewife, including her medicines,
perfumes, cosmetics, cleaning solutions, pest controls, and
preserving hints, as recorded in books and
manuscripts.
Instruction of a Christen Woman[Full Record] A Google books electronic edition of Richard Hynde's 1529
English
translation of De Institutione Foeminae Christianae, written
by the Spanish humanist, Juan Luis Vives and
published in 1524, "has been recognized as the most
important voice in sixteenth-century Europe in defining the
roles and educational principles pertaining to women."
International Margaret Cavendish Society[Full Record] Society devoted to the study of Margaret Cavendish. Includes
a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, information
on past conferences, and links to related materials.
Intute: Arts & Humanities[Full Record] Arts and humanities Web gateway. Subdivided by discipline.
Links to author Web sites, texts and projects, teaching
resources, electronic journals, and other related
material.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance[Full Record] Bibliography lists books, journal material, dissertation
abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in
conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and
exhibition catalogues) for materials pertaining to the
Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Also features
an International Directory of Scholars (IDS) and online
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JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive[Full Record] Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities,
social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of
journals with full-text of all articles published prior to
the most current five years. Subscription only - contact your library.
Lexicons of Early Modern English / Ian Lancashire, ed.[Full Record] Historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot
dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries,
spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving
in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline,
Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Public and
subscription versions are available--the public version
allows simple searches on the multilingual lexical database
--which includes major bilingual English and
French-Italian-Latin-Spanish dictionaries--but lacks
advanced retrieval options. LEME replaces the Early Modern
English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD).
LION: Literature Online[Full Record] Full text searchable database of selected British and
American poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th century to
the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
Literary Resources on the Net / Jack Lynch[Full Record] Web site devoted to English and American literature.
Includes links to author Web sites, primary texts, teaching
resources, electronic journals, listservs, scholarly
conferences, and other related material.
LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts[Full Record] Information on journal articles, books, book chapters,
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and book
reviews on linguistics and its subdisciplines published
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London Provisioner's Day Book, 1550-1563[Full Record] Online demonstration of planned electronic edition of the
diary of Henry Machyn, a rich source for the
history of mid-16th century London (and England generally).
Manuscript Miscellany[Full Record] A collaborative production of the college
teacher-participants in a 2005 NEH summer humanities
institute. “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England“
sought to compare the states of scholarship and consolidate
research on the role of manuscripts in a variety of
discourses for a variety of audiences in a period extending
from the late middle ages into the eighteenth century.
MLA International Bibliography[Full Record] Information about journals, books, essay collections,
proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies published
worldwide in the areas of literary criticism, language,
linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore of all countries.
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Modern Humanities Research Association[Full Record] Founded at Cambridge, England, in 1918, the MHRA has become
an international association representing scholarship in the
field of the modern and medieval languages and literatures
of Europe (including English) with members in all parts of
the world. Publishes books, texts and dissertations,
journals, and bibliographies.
Modern Language Association of America[Full Record] Web site for the MLA, whose mission is to work to strengthen
the study and teaching of language and literature. Includes
information on membership, publications, annual convention,
and professional resources.
Music Index Online[Full Record] Indexes international music periodicals published since
1979. Includes citations for articles, dissertations,
obituaries, and reviews. Covers nearly all genres of music,
music equipment and technology, musical instruments, the
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections[Full Record] A free cooperative cataloging program operated by the
Library of Congress for manuscript collections. Allows users
to search both the RLG Union Catalog and the OCLC Catalog
for manuscript materials.
netLibrary[Full Record] Complete electronic texts of scholarly monographs and
editions, as well as reference works, literature and
fiction. Also includes a number of publicly accessible
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New York Public Library Dance Collection Catalog[Full Record] Lists the holdings of the New York Public Library Dance
Collection. The collection consists of books, periodical
articles, video recordings, and other media. All forms of
dance, from all cultures, in many languages are included.
Orlando Project: A History of Women's Writing in the British Isles[Full Record] This project, which is under construction, will include the
first full scholarly history of women's writing in the
British Isles. It will appear both as four individually
authored volumes of history and as an extensive,
collaboratively authored, electronic textbase.
Oxford Art Online[Full Record] Includes the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art (1996)
and the Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001) with online
updates and links to images from museum Web sites worldwide. Subscription only - contact your library.
Oxford Text Archive[Full Record] Provides high-quality scholarly electronic texts and
linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term
interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines
including history and law.
Perdita: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations[Full Record] The project has purchased a microfilm collection of about
400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Subjects
include poetry, religious writing, autobiographical
material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. An
online catalog is available (a password is required) which
offers bibliographical information and detailed descriptions
of contents for the information of historians and literary
scholars. The catalogue also includes the team's research on
the manuscripts and their compilers. Subscription only - contact your library.
Periodicals Index Online[Full Record] Indexes articles in arts, humanities and social sciences
periodicals published since the 19th century in 37 key
subject areas. Includes a full text archive and direct
linking to JSTOR. Subscription only - contact your library.
Pocahontas Archive[Full Record] Collection of materials relating to the study of Pocahontas
(and, by association, John Smith, Jamestown, and early
Virginia) from early America into 2007. Includes histories,
biographies, poems, plays, fiction, textbooks, movies,
essays, dissertations, newspaper articles, children\'s books,
paintings, sculpture, recordings, genealogies. Also
includes an image gallery with over 150 images of Pocahontas.
Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online[Full Record] Full text of recent issues of journals from Johns Hopkins
University Press and other scholarly publishers. Covers the
fields of literary studies, history, the visual & performing
arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender
studies, economics, and many other arts and humanities and
social science disciplines. Subscription only - contact your library.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies[Full Record] A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields
of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material
listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals
and from collections of articles in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Renaissance Dance / Andrew Draskóy[Full Record] Information on European dance from the 15th to early 17th
century. Includes bibliography of primary and secondary
resources, discography, dance treatises, other renaissance
dance links, early music and linguistic resources.
Repositories of Primary Sources[Full Record] A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of
manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,
and other primary sources for the research scholar.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature[Full Record] An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music
and related disciplines published since 1967. Includes
articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference
proceedings, dissertations, reviews and more. Subscription only - contact your library.
Scottish Book Trade Index[Full Record] An index of printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders,
printmakers, stationers and papermakers based in Scotland,
from the beginnings of Scottish printing to ca. 1850.
UK National Register of Archives[Full Record] The indexes of the NRA offer a means of searching the
catalogues and lists held within the NRA. This material
provides information on the nature and location of
manuscripts and historical records relating to British
history. Search by corporate name, personal name, family
name, or place name.
Victoria and Albert Museum[Full Record] Images of works in the museum's permanent collection of art
and design including fashion, furnishings, photographs,
prints, and textiles.
Voice of the Shuttle -- Art History / Alan Liu, ed.[Full Record] Web directory of sites devoted to art history. Organized by
subject and geographic area, it also includes links to
museums, galleries, institutes and centers, art history
journals, academic departments and programs, and teaching
resources.
Voice of the Shuttle -- Literature (in English) / Alan Liu, ed.[Full Record] Major Web directory of sites devoted to literature in
English. Includes links to author websites, texts and
projects, teaching resources, electronic journals, listservs
and information on scholarly conferences and other related
material.
Voice of the Shuttle / Alan Liu, ed.[Full Record] Major Web directory of sites devoted to the Humanities.
Subdivided by discipline. Links to author websites, texts
and projects, teaching resources, electronic journals,
listservs and information on scholarly conferences and other
related material.
Witchcraft Collection[Full Record] An online collection of a portion of Cornell University
Library's Witchcraft Collection. It documents the earliest
and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as
well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this
history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture,
demonology, trial testimony, and narratives.
Women's Studies International[Full Record] Compiled from ten women's studies indexes and
bibliographies. Primarily an index of the feminist
press--including periodical sources, books, book chapters,
nonprint materials, proceedings, reports, theses, websites,
web documents and grey literature--from 1972 to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
Women Writers Online[Full Record] Full text of women's writings in English or in English
translation from 1400 to 1850. Includes novels, poems,
drama, and non-fiction. The Renaissance Women Online (RWO)
database is a subset of this database. Subscription only - contact your library.
WorldCat[Full Record] Combined catalog of books, serial publications, media,
visual materials, musical scores, archival and other
materials in libraries worldwide. Subscription only - contact your library.