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HUMANITIES
(Art, Music, and Literature)
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Which
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SUBJECTS: It is highly recommended that students researching art,
music, and literature topics use the NetLibary
database, a book database.
ART: Humanities
International Complete and SIRS Renaissance
MUSIC:
Classical Music Library, The Music
Index, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
LITERATURE:
The Library's Literature Bibliographies page <link
here> provides detailed guides to researching literature.
For more than one hundred authors, it provides suggestions as to
exactly what databases to search and what search to use. Literature
databases include Book Review Digest Plus, Columbia
Granger's Index to Poetry, Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism,
Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Humanities International Complete, JSTOR,
Literary Reference Center,
Literature Resource Center, LitFinder,
Scribner Writers Series, SIRS
Renaissance, Twayne Authors Series.
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ACLS
Humanities E-Book via American
Council of Learned Societies
Includes over
1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with
a number of learned societies, publishers, and the University of
Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. |
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America:
History and Life via ABC-CLIO
Contains abstracts
of journal articles and citations to book and media reviews concerning
history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric
times to the present. |
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Arts
and Humanities Search via FirstSearch
Indexes arts and humanities resources.
Does not include full text, but does allow you to limit searches
to materials owned by Troy. |
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Book
Review Digest Plus via Wilson Web 
Includes full text.
Covering
over 550,000 books, provides indexes of reviews of current fiction
and non-fiction, with over 100,000 reviews in full text.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Classical
Music Library via CML
Includes full text.
Continually
growing catalog of thousands of classical music tracks available
for searching, browsing, and listening, accompanied by extensive
biographical and reference materials. |
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Columbia
Granger's Index to Poetry
Includes full text.
Contains full
text of thousands of poems; brief biographies of poets, critical
materials, a glossary, and bibliographic information on a number
of anthologies. |
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Contemporary
Authors via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
Provides full-text
biographical and bibliographical information on over 100,000 writers
in a variety of fields. This material is primarily biographical
rather than critical, though some analysis is included.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Contemporary
Literary Criticism via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Dictionary
of Literary Biography via
InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
Provides
nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works,
and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from
all eras and genres.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Fiction
Connection
Provides lists
of suggested reading in fiction and biography titles. Users may
select by author, genre, timeframe, etc., to find similar titles.
Reviews, excerpts, and other information are included. |
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Humanities
International Complete via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Full text of
hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around
the world in all aspects of the humanities. |
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JSTOR
(Arts & Sciences Collections) via JSTOR
Includes full text.
Multi-disciplinary
full-text collections which include the complete back runs
of journal titles in many disciplines, mainly in the social sciences
and humanities. Does not have current information, but is an excellent
resource for background information on many topics. |
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Literary
Reference Center via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Literary
Reference Center (LRC) combines information from over 1,000 books
and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works,
hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available
anywhere else.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Literature
Resource Center via InfoTrac
Includes full text.
Over 600 full-text
resources providing biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses
of more than 120,000 authors.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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LitFinder
InfoTrac
Includes full text.
Gateway to
a variety of full-text literature resources. Indexes thousands
of poems, stories, plays, and essays, containing full text
of many. International in scope, the database covers all time periods.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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MLA
Directory of Periodicals via
EbscoHost
Offers detailed
information on over 7,100 journals, primarily those pertaining to
literature and the arts. Entries include editorial contact information,
as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission
guidelines. Does not include articles. |
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MLA
International Bibliography via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Text is linked from other Ebsco databases.
Index
to the writings about literature, criticism, language, linguistics
and folklore. Some citations are linked to text in other databases.
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The Music Index
via
EbscoHost
Provides
indexing to topics concerned with every aspect of classical and
popular music. Articles full text in other Ebsco databases are
linked to the citations.
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NetLibrary
Includes full text.
A specially created online
collection of nearly 50,000 full-text books, in a broad range of academic
subject categories. These are actual academic books that have been digitized
for the convenience of library users. Make sure to read HELP.
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RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature
via EbscoHost
International
bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related
disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present. An indexing of
sources published in over 140 languages is offered. A few citations
are linked to full-text articles in other databases. |
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RIPM
Music Periodicals via
FirstSearch
Retrospective
Index to Music Periodicals provides citations to eighteenth-, nineteenth-,
and twentieth-century international periodical literature dealing
with music. |
- Help
Detailed user's guide (PDF).
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Scribner
Writers Series via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
Includes over
1,600 bio-critical essays on authors from around the world.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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SIRS
Renaissance
Includes full text.
Reference database
providing current information on architecture, culture, the arts,
religion and philosophy. Full-text articles are selected
from over 700 domestic and international publications. Full-text
articles and many illustrations are selected from over 700 domestic
and international publications. Informative rather than scholarly.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Twayne
Authors Series via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
Contains
the full text of 600 frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters
books on individual world, U.S., or English authors, with critical
introductions to their work.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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This page updated, spelling and links checked :
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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