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General sources that cover Art, Theater, and Music

Academic OneFile | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
Academic Search Premier| | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  Some full text More info
Expanded Academic ASAP | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
General Reference Center | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
General OneFile (Previously InfoTrac OneFile | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
PROQUEST | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  No full text More info
SIRS Knowledge Source | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  Some full text More info
TDNet - Electronic Journals Master List | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  Some full text More info
Wilson Web | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1983- |  Some full text More info
World Cat OCLC | Available Free on the Web |
 Some full text More info

Core sources for Art, Theater, and Music

Art Full Text (Wilson Web) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
To search only this database, click Art (ART) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It covers topics such as advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.

Biography Resources Center | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
For all age groups, this database is a comprehensive source for biographical information. It provides over 300,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout history, quick reference information on nearly one million people from Who's Who sources, and full text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected biography Web sites.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
The following databases are available in this system: AFSA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Communication Abstracts, Conference Papers Index, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Abstracts, ERIC, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Medline, Oceanic Abstracts, Plant Science, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and TOXLINE.

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus | Available Free on the Web |
Produced by the J. Paul Getty Trust, this comprehensive vocabulary of nearly 120,000 terms describes objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names | Available Free on the Web |
Produced by the J. Paul Getty Trust, this structured vocabulary was developed primarily for the field of art history but has the potential for wide applications related to disciplines such as archeology, history, and geography.

HarpWeek: Harper's Weekly | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1857-1865 |
This database contains all of the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1865) as scanned images with a series of indexes. It is searchable by date, index terms, literary genre, and occupation/role.

Humanities Full Text (Wilson Web) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1984- |
To search only this database, click Humanities (HUM) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. This database covers archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

JSTOR | Available to Authorized Users On Campus Only | date varies |
JSTOR offers full-text online access to back issues of more than 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Issues are entered online after having been published for 2-5 years. The entire printed matter of the journal as published is included, and coverage for most titles begins with their starting numbers. Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary to view and print from JSTOR.

MLA International Bibliography| | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
An index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography are also included.

Project Muse | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
Includes the full-text of over 300 quality journal titles, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.


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