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Browse Database List by Subject -- Arts and Humanities
Databases displaying this notation are supplied to the University of Connecticut
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project. A note for off-campus users: you must use the
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Indexes and abstracts over 1600 magazines and journals in all fields of the sciences, social sciences, communication sciences, and humanities since 1980, and reproduces the full text for over 600 titles.
Indexing and abstracts, along with selected full text, of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals on a wide variety of topics, with coverage from 1975 to the present.
Fully searchable collection of high quality history titles; topics include American, African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history, and the history of technology.
Audio access to more than 50,000 tracks that document the history of African American music, including jazz, blues, gospel, spirituals, farming and labor songs, war songs, and more.
Indexing and abstracts of literature covering the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada, with coverage of over 1,700 books and journals from 1964 to the present.
American Periodicals Series 1740-1900
Digitized images of American magazines and journals that began publishing between 1741 and 1900, including special and general interest magazines, literary and professional journals, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Audio access to more than 50,000 tracks that capture the American experience through song, including the songs of civil rights, political campaigns, wars, Prohibition, hymns, anti-war protests, and more.
Index to literature in anthropology and archaeology from the 19th century to present.
Provides bibliographic access to holdings of over 4000 archival repositories, with contact information
Indexing and abstracts of articles from more than 450 art and art history publications, with coverage from 1984 to the present.
Index to art periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, from 1984 to the present.
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
Index of articles, interviews, reviews, and other pieces from more than 600 art publications, with coverage from 1929 to 1984.
ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)
Database of nearly 2000 texts in French, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of
non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented.
smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
Index to current, readily available reference sources that contain biographical information for both contemporary and historical figures worldwide.
Searching Biography and Genealogy Master Index will enable you to quickly determine which publication to consult for
biographical information.
Comprehensive bibliographic database that provides records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos. Coverage from 1979 to the present.
Directory of journals in the areas of economics and finance, psychology, accounting, management, marketing, and education, along with information on style, format, and publication guidelines.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Research reports, conference proceedings, and working papers on international affairs.
Coverage includes human rights issues and the United Nations.
Images of photographs, drawings, and prints from Connecticut history.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors, along with critical reaction to their works.
Audio access to more than 50,000 tracks includes reggae, world beat, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, and traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, gagaku, gospel, klezmer, zydeco.
Includes full text access to CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher from 1983 to current. Content is devoted
to congressional news, analysis, summaries of events and bibliographies.
Full text images of books, pamphlets, essays, and biographies on gender-related topics written between 1450 and 1910.
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Contains the full text of all surviving material in Old English, except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides links to over 1,000 free online scientific and scholarly journals, covering a variety of subjects.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (Proquest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text of doctoral dissertations and some masters theses from most North American graduate schools and some European universities. Indexing from 1861 to the present, abstracts from 1980 to the present, and full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990 to the present.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans
Digitized collection of books and pamphlets printed in America between 1639 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. Based on Evans' American Bibliography, the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, the database can be searched and browsed in a variety of ways.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker
Online collection of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published between 1801 and 1819, presented as fully searchable digitized images.
Early American Newspapers (1690-1922)
Online collection of American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, presented as fully searchable digitized images.
Education: A SAGE Full Text Collection
Full text of 19 education journals, covering curriculum, adult and continuing education, education administration and policy, educational psychology, teaching methods, and all levels of formal education, with coverage from 1982 to the present.
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
Collection of full text primary source materials such as books, articles, and dissertations, on world cultures and societies.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Online collection of English and foreign language books and pamphlets published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents.
Bibliographic database of education literature, with coverage from 1966 to the present.
Descriptions of over 25,000 tests and research instruments, including both commercial and noncommercial measures, with coverage from 1900 to the present. Go to http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1533 for more details.
This leading reference work on world affairs provides political and economic information on over 250 countries and territories.
Company, industry, and market data, stock price history reports, company financial reports
and company-to-industry and company-to-company comparison reports, and full text access to
hundreds of newspapers, general interest magazines and academic journals.
Coverage is current and varies by publication.
Film and Television Literature Index
Indexing of articles in film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, and technical aspects, with coverage from the 1970s to the present.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Biographical essays on more than 100,000 authors, along with criticism and interpretation of plays, novels, poetry, and short stories.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full text access to a variety of popular reference books.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Comprehensive online encyclopedia devoted to world music research.
International trade and market information and statistics.
Searches for articles, books, theses and other scholarly materials on a variety of topics through Google interface, with links to full text in UConn Libraries where available.
Full text online version of the 29 volume encyclopedia The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, a source universally acknowledged as an authority on all aspects of music.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Index of over 400 journals covering political, economic, and social issues since 1970.
Full page and article images of the Hartford Courant newspaper, with coverage from 1764 to 1984.
Indexing and abstracts of literature covering the world, excluding the U.S. and Canada, with coverage of over 1,700 books and journals from 1954 to the present.
Collection of online reference works in history.
Bibilography of 250,000 articles and reviews from medieval and renaissance journal titles. Of interest to Middle Ages and Renaissance scholars.
JSTOR provides digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals in many academic fields, beginning with the first issue up to a ‘moving wall’ of 2 to 5 years.
News and educational service on Latin America (click on Search Archive at the top of LADB screen).
Full text access to a variety of publications, including newspapers, magazines, legal journals, business journals, as well as state and federal primary legal materials such as statutes, regulations, and case law.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Consists of over 250,000 bibliographic records with abstracts citing journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media since 1973. Over 2,600 journals from 50 countries are scanned for inclusion in the database.
Biographical essays on more than 100,000 authors, along with criticism and interpretation of plays, novels, poetry and short stories.
Full image online archive of every page published by The Times from 1785 to 1985.
LWPA -- Linguistics Working Papers Directory
Abstracts of working papers in theoretical and experimental linguistics.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online
Searchable digitized versions of historical British and Irish source material published from the 11th to the 18th centuries.
MLA International Bibliography
Index to worldwide critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, from 1963 to the present.
Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2003. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
Series of indexes to periodicals, newspapers, and books on a variety of subjects, with coverage from 1786 to 1922.
Index to worldwide public and social policy literature, from 1972 to the present.
Full text of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Mignes Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes, published between 1862 and 1865.
Pennsylvania Gazette 1784-1800
Full text of this important 18th century newspaper, with coverage from 1784 to 1800.
Indexing and some abstracting of literature published in the field of philosophy from 1940 to present.
Professional Development Collection
Indexing and selected full text of journal articles and reports related to education.
Indexing and abstracts of literature published in the field of psychology, from 1887 to the present.
Indexing and abstracts of articles from popular U.S. general interest periodicals, from 1890 to 1982.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text of journal articles on the topics of religion and philosophy, with coverage from 1975 to the present.
Includes ArtBase, which contains over 1,800 digital art works, and TextBase, which holds over 2,500 new media art-related articles.
Provides access to the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social
science, and policy science.
Springer (formerly Kluwer Online)
Full text of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines.
Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce.
Indexing and abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with coverage from 1994 to the present.
Group of indexing, abstracting, and selected full text databases
in many fields of science, social science, and the humanities from 1983 to present.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Collection of primary materials on the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000.
Comprehensive bibliography of titles from libraries across the world, with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages, covering information back to the 11th century.
Databases displaying this notation are supplied to the University of Connecticut
as part of the Connecticut Digital Library
project. A note for off-campus users: you must use the
Law Library Research Database pages in order
to access iConn databases from off campus.