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Full text of over 300 reference volumes published by Cambridge History, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts. Note: The library has only licensed books 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.
Full text of all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Also explore 3+ million images from ARTstor and over 10,000 open access books. Note: The library does not license any collections of fee-based books from JSTOR.
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.
Index to journals, series, and books covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing from the 1920s-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.
Full text of more than 500,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th century to the present day. Includes more than thirty individual literature collections comprised of canonical texts, non-English language literature, and diverse underrepresented authors and their works. Supported with full text journals, criticism and reference resources extending to all aspects of literary studies, featuring coverage by the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL). Note: Database contains all content formerly in Literature Online (LION). Click more... to view a list of modules.
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 to books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and productions published or produced worldwide from 1960-present. Published by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Full text of more than 500,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th century to the present day. Includes more than thirty individual literature collections comprised of canonical texts, non-English language literature, and diverse underrepresented authors and their works. Supported with full text journals, criticism and reference resources extending to all aspects of literary studies, featuring coverage by the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL). Note: Database contains all content formerly in Literature Online (LION). Click more... to view a list of modules.
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.
Contains the Academic Complete and College Complete full text electronic book collections, as well as miscellaneous individual titles totaling over 150,000 titles from leading publishers and 130+ university presses in all subject areas. Access limited by number of users for some books.
See also the Newspapers Guide for more historical papers.
Full text digitized newspapers from the 1800s, written by African Americans for African Americans. Also provides early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
Full text digitized reproductions of more than 1,500 eighteenth and nineteenth century American newspapers and periodicals archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Titles include general interest, children's, women's, early scientific, and professional publications that chronicle the development of America across 150 years published from 1740-1940.
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.
Index to essays and miscellaneous works covering all subject areas that were published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, dating back to 1985. Produced by H.W. Wilson. Access limited to 1 user.
Index to over three million articles from 550 magazines, includes all content from the print volumes of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, a comprehensive index of popular general interest periodicals published in the U.S. during the 20th Century. Produced by H.W. Wilson.
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