Online resources : subject listing
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ADB (Deutsche Biographie)
Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.
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Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. (Deutsche Biographie)
Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.
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ArticleFirst
Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.
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Arts & humanities citation index (Web of Science)
ISI Web of Science is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
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Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance
Selected titles from the series, with full text.
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Brepolis international medieval bibliography (International medieval bibliography online)
Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967-, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
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Buchhandel.de
Browses, searches and orders books, newspapers, almanacs, electronic resources, textbooks, etc. available in German speaking areas.
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Chronicling America
"Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress."--website home page.
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ClasePeriodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources) and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology (over 1,400 sources). Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
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Deutsche Biographie
Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.
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Digital dissertations (ProQuest dissertations and theses global)
Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).
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Dizionario biografico degli Italiani
This scholarly biographical encyclopedia is the standard source for information on prominent men and women from Italian history. The title is in progress and as of August 2009 had covered names A-M. The Web site updates coverage as new volumes are completed.
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Electronic Enlightenment
Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.
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Electronic text collections in western European literature
Provides links to Internet sources for literary texts in the Western European languages other than English.
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FirstSearch
Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.
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German books in print (Buchhandel.de)
Browses, searches and orders books, newspapers, almanacs, electronic resources, textbooks, etc. available in German speaking areas.
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Historic American newspapers (Chronicling America)
"Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress."--website home page.
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Index chemicus (Web of Science)
ISI Web of Science is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
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International medieval bibliography online
Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967-, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
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Iter bibliography
"Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues)."--About the Iter bibliography page.
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Iter Italicum
Provides electronic access to the first online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes between 1963 and 1992, it is an essential tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.
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Journal citation reports |
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MediaPlus
A cross-searchable collection of video, images and audio from a wide range of sources, including ITN and Reuters archives, news sources, Royal Geographical Society images, Getty images, and incorporating the Education Image Gallery, Film and Sound Online and NewsFilm.
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MLA bibliography
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Proved access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
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Le Monde
Full text of the newspaper, offering news of current affairs in France and worldwide.
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NDB (Deutsche Biographie)
Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.
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Neue deutsche Biographie. (Deutsche Biographie)
Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.
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Nexis UK
Database of fulltext information taken from local, national and international general news sources and agencies, professional journals and specialist trade, company and industry sources. Includes company information from ICC, Extel, Disclosure, and Directory of Directors. Aimed at business users, but also covers general current affairs. Information is drawn from over 4000 business information sources, including the Financial Times and other global news sources, offering company news items and financial information on UK and international companies.
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OCLC ArticleFirst (ArticleFirst)
Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.
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OCLC FirstSearch Service (FirstSearch)
Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.
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Oxford language dictionaries online
"Fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages"--About page.
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Oxford scholarship online. Literature
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Literature.
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Periodica (ClasePeriodica)
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources) and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology (over 1,400 sources). Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
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PERSÉE
"Website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Provides full text articles in French from online academic journals via the 'Revues scientifiques' tab, including Cahiers d'études africaines, Annales de géographie, and Revue française de science politique, and to the monograph series Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée and Publications de l'École Française de Rome via the 'Publications et séries' tab.
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ProQuest dissertations and theses global
Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).
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Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. (PERSÉE)
"Website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Provides full text articles in French from online academic journals via the 'Revues scientifiques' tab, including Cahiers d'études africaines, Annales de géographie, and Revue française de science politique, and to the monograph series Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée and Publications de l'École Française de Rome via the 'Publications et séries' tab.
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Publications de l'École Française de Rome. (PERSÉE)
"Website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Provides full text articles in French from online academic journals via the 'Revues scientifiques' tab, including Cahiers d'études africaines, Annales de géographie, and Revue française de science politique, and to the monograph series Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée and Publications de l'École Française de Rome via the 'Publications et séries' tab.
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Research in Germanic studies |
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Scopus
A large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus has journal coverage in many subjects across the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher-Profisuche (Buchhandel.de)
Browses, searches and orders books, newspapers, almanacs, electronic resources, textbooks, etc. available in German speaking areas.
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Web of Science
ISI Web of Science is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
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Web of Science (Journal citation reports) |
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WorldCat
WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.
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Zetoc
The newly funded ZETOC service provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With almost 15 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily. A list of journal titles covered by the database is available. Copies of all the articles and conference papers listed on the database are available from the British Library's Document Supply Centre in Yorkshire.
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