Academic Search Premier   
Coverage: Coverage varies, some starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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African American Song
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service.
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Alternative Press Index
Coverage: 1991 - present, updated quarterly.
Indexes articles, editorials, reviews, interviews, obituaries, speeches, fiction, songs, recipes, regular columns from 250 publications.
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American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
Coverage: Online: 1990 - present;
Print: 1967- present
The principal current bibliography for North American research; covers
books, articles, dissertations.
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Année philologique Online
Coverage: 1949 to 2004
The most comprehensive index to Classical Studies.
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Art Full Text
Coverage: 1997 - (full text) and 1984 - (abstracts)
Art Full Text, produced by The HW Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world.
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Art Index Retrospective
Coverage: 1929 - 1984
Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism and research from leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
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ArtBibliographies Modern
Coverage: 1974 - present
Index and abstracts of articles from periodical articles, books, exhibition catalogs, and index entries for dissertations.
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Asian American Drama
Brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, so providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field.
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ATLA Religion Database
Coverage: 1949 - present
A limited number of periodicals are available as full text in this database, some going back as far as 1949.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Coverage: 1930s - present, updated daily
Recognized as one of the world's leading databases of the architectural literature.
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Coverage: 1985/-2002-
This is a core bibliographic research tool for German literature and Germanic philology.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
Coverage: 1971-
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
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Bibliography of Native North Americans
Coverage: 16th Century - present.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Coverage: 1973 - date, updated quarterly.
Covers art of Europe and the Americas (4th century to modern), painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, popular and folk art.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
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Black Drama
Contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
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Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources
Coverage: 1948 - 1986
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources is drawn from the handwritten notes of the staff of the Schomburg Center at New York Public Library.
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Chicano Database
Coverage: 1967 - present
Subjects include Mexican-American and Chicano studies topics.
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China Academic Journals Full-Text - 中国学术期刊网
CAJ is the most comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese journals in the world.
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China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases - CNKI - 中国知网
Coverage: 1994-
CNKI comprises five databases including Academic Journals (CAJ), China Core Newspapers (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), China Conference Proceedings (CPCD) and, finally, China Academic Journals Bibliography which is freely available without a subscription fee.
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Classical Music Library
Coverage: Dates vary
Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of recordings with a supplementary reference database that users may search and listen to music delivered to their desktop.
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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online
An index to poems in anthologies.
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Communication and Mass Media Complete
A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more.
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Current Contents
Coverage: 1994 - present, updated weekly
FYI: Current Contents Database to be Replaced on January 1, 2006!
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Dance Collection Online
The Dance Catalog lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media.
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Database of Recorded American Music
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a collaboration between New World Records and New York University.
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Design and Applied Arts Index
Coverage: 1973 - present
DAAI is an international index to design and craft journals.
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Digital Dissertations
Coverage: 1861 - present (Doctoral dissertations); 1962 - present (Masters theses).
Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities.
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Essay and General Literature Index
Coverage: 1985 to present
Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.
The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time.
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Essay Finder
LitFINDER: Essays provides the full texts of 2800 essays on many subjects, including essays on architecture, art, drama, economics, history, literature, psychology, science, sociology, and other subjects.
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Ethnic Newswatch
Coverage: 1990 - present.
FULL TEXT articles from over 125 American ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals.
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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Coverage: 1994-
The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
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FIAF International Film Archive Database
Coverage: 1972 - present
Use to find articles from over 300 film-related periodicals (journals indexed).
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Film and Television Literature Index
This database can be used to find articles on film studies' topics.
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FMG On Demand - Film Media Group
Online educational films.
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FRANCIS
Coverage: 1984 - present, updated monthly.
Emphasis on French research covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary articles, books, etc.
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HRAF Collection of Archaeology
Please see eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.
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Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective
Coverage: 1906 - 1983
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas.
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IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews
Coverage: 1985 - present, updated bi-annually.
International bibliography of book reviews of scholarly literature.
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IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
Coverage: 1983 - present, updated monthly.
An international, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and up-to-date online periodical database.
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IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated daily.
Covers all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
Articles in over 350 international music journals, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
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IMB: International Medieval Bibliography
Coverage: 1967-present
This guide to what has been published about the Middle Ages is interdisciplinary, including conference proceedings, collected essays, and journal articles on philosophy, literature, the arts, etc.
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Index Islamicus
Coverage: 1906 - present
Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.
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Index of Christian Art
Coverage: 4AD - 1400AD
Early apostolic times up to A.D.
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Index to Jewish Periodicals
Coverage: 1988-Present
Selective Full-Text
An index on Jewish history, activity and thought.
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Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals
Coverage: Varies by title
The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals (AAI) is the only online
index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th
century.
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Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series
Coverage: 1650 - present
IPM is a database created to facilitate on-line searching for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions.
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Index Translationum
Coverage: 1979 - present
Bibliographic citations of translated books and book-length translated works published since 1979, according to UNESCO records.
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Informe Design
Coverage: 1997 - present
InformeDesign (www.informedesign.umn.edu) is a research and communication tool for designers of the built environment, such as interior designers, architects, landscape architects, and graphic designers.
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IngentaConnect
Coverage: October 1988 - present, updated daily
This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications.
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Inside Information Plus
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated weekly.
Inside Information Plus will not be available after June 30, 2007.
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Inter-Play: An Online Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals
Contains citations to plays from the late 19th century through the current year.
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
Coverage: 1984 - Present
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.
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International Index of Black Periodicals
Coverage: dates vary
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Coverage: varies for journal title
Iter is a bibliography of over 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from
over 475 medieval and renaissance journal titles.
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Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC)
Coverage: dates vary
Includes articles from more than 800 Latin Ameri-
can journals included in the ARL Latin American Research Re-
sources Project.
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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.
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LexisNexis Academic
Coverage: Varies by title.
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference.
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LexisNexis Government Periodicals
Coverage: 1988-present
Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles.
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LGBT Life Full-Text
Coverage: 1970-Present
LGBT Life Full-text contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 GLBT-specific core periodicals; additionally, books as well as newsletters, case studies, dissertations, etc.
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Literature Online (LION)
Coverage: Dates vary
With hundreds of thousands of full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is one of the world's largest cross-searchable databases of literature and criticism.
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LitFINDER
LitFINDER provides either the full text or a citation to a print source in which to read any of 125,000 poems, 5000 stories, 2800 essays, 1000 plays, and 1800 speeches, with new material added regularly.
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Locus Index to Science Fiction
Coverage: 1984 - present
Indexes almost all English-language science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror books and short stories published during those years, including indexing contents of anthologies and individual magazine issues; also contains links to annual updates beyond 1998 and to a more limited index to anthologies and story collections published previous to 1984.
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MagazinePlus
Coverage: 1945-present
The largest searchable database in Japan with over seven million records.
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MasterFile Premier
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
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Minnesota Historical Society's Visual Resources Database
Information about photographs, artwork, posters, and fine art photographs, as well as selected images from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society are included in this database.
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MLA International Bibliography
Coverage: 1926 - present
Indexes scholarship on English and American Literature, folklore, language and linguistics, and dramatic arts.
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Music Index Online
Coverage: 1979 - present
Bibliographic citations from more than 690 international music periodicals covering a broad range of subjects, including music history, forms and types of music, musical instruments from ancient to modern, and electro-acoustic and computer-produced music.
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Naxos Music Library
Coverage: Dates vary
The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio-- primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz.
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New Testament Abstracts 
Coverage: 1985-Present
Selective Full-Text
The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, this database is a research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu.
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New York Times (1851-2003, via ProQuest)
Search content, and view images of pages and articles of New York Times between 1851-2003.
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North American Theatre Online
An electronic index to web-based materials on theatres, performances, plays, productions, and people, along with indexing to assist searching, and selected links to the full text of the narratives, and also contains the full-text of reference works on these subjects.
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North American Women's Drama
Brings together more than 1,500 plays by more than 300 playwrights, along with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
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Old Testament Abstracts
Coverage: 1978-Present
Selective Full-Text
The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, this database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
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PCI: Periodicals Contents Index
Coverage: 18th Century - early 1990s
This title has changed its name to Periodicals Index Online.
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Periodicals Index Online
Coverage: 1665 - 1995
PIO is an electronic index to the tables of contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.
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Philosopher's Index
Coverage: 1940 - present
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S.
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Play Finder
LitFINDER: Plays provides 1000 plays of many kinds, from all time periods, in English or translated into English.
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Poem Finder
Covers poetry from antiquity to the present; it contains 500,000 citations for poems by 70,000 authors from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author collections, and 4,000 periodicals.
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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (via 19th Century Masterfile)
Coverage: 1802 - 1906
A significant resource compiled by William Frederick Poole.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Coverage: 1890-1982
Provides comprehensive, historic indexing of the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States during the 20th century in the following subject areas: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biographies, Business, Children, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Gardening, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Radio, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel.
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Repertoire International De La Presse Musicale (RIPM)
Coverage: 1805-1917
International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals
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Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (via 19th Century Masterfile)
Coverage: 1890 - 1899
An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Coverage: 1969 - present (some older), updated quarterly.
Effective July 1, 2004, this database is now available via the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface
RILM indexes scholarly writings on music and related disciplines, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology,
instruments and voice, dance, music therapy, music librarianship, the physics of music, and other fields as they relate to music.
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RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
Coverage: 1600 - present
RISM (the International Inventory of Music Sources) is a database of
musical sources, such as manuscripts & printed music, works of music theory, and opera libretti which are preserved in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections around the world.
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RLIN Bibliographic Files
Coverage: 1700s - present, with an emphasis on 20th Century materials. Library of Congress record updated weekly, other record updated continuously.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Coverage: 1878 - present
Indexes over 60,000 books and articles about science fiction, fantasy, and related fields, from both professional publications and fanzines.
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SCIPIO Art and Rare Books Sales Catalogs
Coverage: 1599 - present, updated daily.
The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time.
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Smithsonian Global Sounds
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
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South and Southeast Asian Literature In English
This is a machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of the writings from 1825 to the present, written by authors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji, including fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials.
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Story Finder
LitFINDER: Stories provides the full texts of nearly 5000 stories, from all periods and all nationalities, in English translation.
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Television News Archive
Coverage: 1968 -
The Television News Archive available from Vanderbilt University, is an index to more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present).
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Textile Technology Index
Coverage: 1978 - present
The Textile Technology Digest (TTD) database contains bibliographic citations, with abstracts, and provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects.
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Theatre in Video / BBC Shakespeare Series Online
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.
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Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Coverage: 1902-1990
The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive presents one of the world's premier contemporary literary reviews in fully searchable image format.
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TOCS-IN
Coverage: 1992-
"TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program.
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Twentieth Century North American Drama
Contains 1,122 plays by 170 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition
Coverage: Vol. 1, 15th Cong. (1817) - Vol. 8854, 70th Cong. 1st. Sess. (1928)
A rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history, from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives.
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Victorian Database Online
Coverage: 1945-present
This database covers the British Victorian period, from about 1830 to the beginning the War in 1914.
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Web of Science (ISI)
Coverage: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1975-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1975-present; Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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World Textiles
Coverage: 1970 - present
World Textiles provides coverage of the current textiles literature.
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