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Access the full text of over 300 reference volumes from the Cambridge History series, with a focus on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music, and the arts. Note: the library’s collection includes only titles published through 2016.
A selection of over 80 Critical Surveys and Critical Insights volumes from the Salem Press Literature Series. Each contains full text reviews, insights, and summaries of a particular author, literary theme, or individual work of literature.
Contains the following Gale literary databases: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literature Criticism Online, and Literature Resource Center. The interface incorporates workflow tools and features, including topic finder, term frequency graphs, search assist, and interface translation.
Explore over 2,800 academic journals across more than 60 disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access millions of primary sources from four unique collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Discover over 3 million high-quality images from ARTstor, along with a growing library of 10,000+ open access books. Click more… for links to specific collections.
ARTstor on JSTOR
Existing ARTstor logins automatically work on JSTOR. The separate artstor.org platform will be available until Aug 1, 2024, when it is scheduled to be retired.
Open Access books on JSTOR
More than 10,000 open access (OA) books from 125+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, University College of London, and University of California Press.
19th Century British Pamphlets
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities spanning more than one million pages. Brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.
New Collections Added Aug 2023
Thematic Collections
Three collections focusing on emerging areas of research and containing multiple types of content, including journals and open research reports. Collections include:
•Lives of Literature - Academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements.
•Security Studies - Academic and open policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues.
•Sustainability - Academic and open policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Looks at sustainability and resilience through a broad lens spanning more than 30 disciplines.
Primary Sources
Global Plants
A growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type plant specimens and related materials from over 300 community contributors around the world.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images related to the liberation struggles and end of Apartheid in Southern Africa during the 20th Century, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
World Heritage Sites: Africa
More than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites.
Full text archive from volume one through the last editions published in 2017, for six series: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Shakespearean Criticism. Poetry Criticism is available for volume 1 through 230 (2021). The complete archives to the present are available for these 2 series: Contemporary Literary Criticism and Short Story Criticism.
Full text biographical information, overviews, full text literary criticism, and reviews on writers and their works in all disciplines, time periods, and regions of the world.
Index of journals, series, and books spanning literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and the historical development of printing and publishing, covering materials from the 1920s to the present.
Full text scholarly journals in the fields of: area and ethnic studies; art and architecture; creative writing; education; film, theater, and performing arts; history; language and linguistics; library science and publishing; literature; medicine and health; music; philosophy; religion; science, technology, and mathematics; social sciences; studies by time period; women's studies, gender, and sexuality.
Over 500,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th century to the present.
ProQuest One Literature searches these literature collections. Use the Literature collection filter within the ProQuest interface to select individual modules to include in your search.
Index of books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular resources related to Shakespeare and his works. It covers materials published or produced worldwide from 1960 to the present and is maintained by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Over 500,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th century to the present.
ProQuest One Literature searches these literature collections. Use the Literature collection filter within the ProQuest interface to select individual modules to include in your search.
Full-text poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Latino authors—including Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and others—living and working in the United States. The archive also features audio recordings of selected poems and plays. Most of the works date from the Chicano Renaissance of 1965 to the present day.
Collection of digitized comic strips, graphic novels, illustrations, commentary, and other primary sources highlighting adult comics from North America and Europe—spanning from the earliest underground comix of the 1950s to contemporary works by modern artists.
Contains ProQuest Ebooks, a collection of over 700,000 unlimited user ebooks across a wide range of subject areas from 4,000 publishers and over 290 university presses, as well as miscellaneous individually purchased titles with varying numbers of users. Important: Starting September 15, a new reader app will be available to UM users for offline ebook reading. See more… for details.
Starting September 15, a new reader app will be available to UM users for offline ebook reading. This app will replace Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) for downloading and reading ebooks on your device.
Here’s what to expect:
Please note: The new app is only for offline reading. You’ll still use the Ebook Central platform to search for books, read online, and choose titles to download.
As Adobe Digital Editions will no longer be supported, any annotations made within ADE will not carry over to the new reader app. To avoid losing your notes and highlights, we recommend reviewing the following resources to help you preserve your annotations
1. ProQuest Support - Ebook Central: Adobe Digital Editions notes and highlights
2. Adobe Community - How do I preserve or save my highlights and notes?
Full text of over 10,000 electronic books in all subject areas, with the majority having a pre-2006 copyright date. Access generally limited to 1 user per book.
See also the Newspapers Guide for more historical papers.
Digitized full-text newspapers from the 1800s, authored by African Americans for African American communities. The collection also includes early biographies, vital records, essays, editorials, poetry, prose, and advertisements.
Digitized full-text reproductions of over 1,500 American newspapers and periodicals from the 18th and 19th centuries, archived by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The collection includes a wide variety of publications—general interest, children's, women's, early scientific, and professional titles—documenting over 150 years of American history and cultural development.
Contains the following Gale collections: American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS); Eighteenth Century Collections Online; History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Digital Archive; Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO); Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers; Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century; Sabin Americana, 1500-1926; 17th and 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection; The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926; and The Times Digital Archive. This interface incorporates downloadable OCR text and textual analysis tools.
An index of essays and miscellaneous works across all subject areas, published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain since 1985. Access limited to 1 user at a time.
Indexes over three million articles from 550 popular magazines, featuring the complete content of the print editions of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. This comprehensive index covers general interest publications widely read in the U.S. throughout the 20th century. Produced by H.W. Wilson.
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