An interdisciplinary database providing citations to articles in more than 1800 scholarly and general interest journals. Many journals are full text or full image. This is an excellent place to begin a search for periodical articles.
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, as well as individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
The Dante Society of America publishes the annual Dante Studies, a semi-annual Newsletter, and an electronic version of the American Dante Bibliography.
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.
Bibliographical database covering journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. N.B.: Books written by a single author are not indexed in Feminae.
Enables users to access citations in journal, book, and reviews databases; provides online access to Paul Oskar Krisetller's Iter Italicum (a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts); provides access to the International Directory of Scholars
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors (novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers) from every age and literary discipline.
This database provides direct access to a wide collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages. These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. The project combines: a) Multiple manuscript sources detailing the journeys of famous travelers from Prester John and Marco Polo to Sir John Mandeville and John Capgrave; b)Translations and supporting materials (all of which are fully searchable); c) Maps showing the routes of the travelers; d) Introductory essays by leading scholars.
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), this electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
Beginning Friday, July 26 and lasting for up to 10 days, EBSCO ebooks and databases will experience a pause in availability of new or updated content. Products will be available during this maintenance period, but the most current content may not be available until after the work is completed which could take up to 10 days.
Citations and abstracts to more than 2 million dissertations and masters theses in all fields produced in North American colleges and universities from 1861 to the present, and from around the world since 1988.
Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database. Use it for author, subject and citation searching in a wide array of disciplines. Find H-Index information, compare journal impact data, and analyze publication and citation trends. Scopus provides comprehensive coverage of a large number of journals from 1996 - present, with added older content.
Periodicals Index Online is a database of millions of citations for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Describes sources of current, contemporary (recent past), and historical newspapers available in print or electronically via the Boston College Libraries and/or on the Web.
A collection of local, regional, and international news sources. Additionally it provides access to many sources of foreign news in translation.
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