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All Humanities Subjects
Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- indexing and
citation analysis of scholarly articles on all arts and humanities
subjects from 1,144 journals cover to cover and another 6,800
journals selectively back to 1975.
Project MUSE -- full text access to 170 core humanities and social science journals from over 50 academic and association publishers. Start date depends on the journal, but most start around 1998, through the latest issue. Also includes indexing/abstracting for another 130 journals.
Saskia Art Images -- contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre, as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. Images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. Descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in nineteen major art history texts. Look up images by title, creator, type, culture, location, size, style or keyword. If you are using from off campus please select "University of Illinois at Springfield" and enter your library ID number to view high resolution, full-scale images.
History
America: History and Life -- citations to articles on
U.S. and Canadian history from over 1,700 journals back to 1964
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Gerritsen
Collection: Women's History Online 1543-1945 -- full
text of over 2 million pages on women's rights and feminism
HarpWeek
-- full text articles from Harper's Weekly from 1857
through 1889
Historical
Abstracts -- citations to articles on world history
(excluding U.S. and Canadian history) from over 2,000 journals
back to 1954
Iter - Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance -- access to 8 different databases covering medieval and Renaissance literature. Main journal article index is the Iter Bibliography, indexing over 100 journals.
E-books & Encyclopedias
- Dictionary of American History -- e-book version of the 3rd edition (2003) ten-volume work from Scribner, with over 4,000 signed entries (though no biographical ones); one of the standards in the field
- Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World -- e-book version of this 2004 two-volume work, with around 500 signed entries
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia -- e-book version of this 2002, six-volume work, with over 2,600 signed entries; the standard work in the field
- Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social & Military History -- e-book version of this five-volume work published in 2000, with over 1,600 signed entries
- History E-Book Project -- hundreds of electronic books covering all fields of history, ancient times to the present; the books are academic, scholarly works, the majority from university presses
Maps
- Digital Sanborn Maps on-campus only! -- black and white fire insurance maps of Illinois communities for the years between the years 1867 and 1970
Literature
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select -- full text essays on 250
major authors
Iter - Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance -- access to 8 different databases covering medieval and Renaissance literature. Main journal article index is the Iter Bibliography, indexing over 100 journals.
MLA International Bibliography -- citations to
articles on literature from over 3,000 journals; indexes books
and chapters from books as well, back to 1926.
Dictionaries
- Middle English Dictionary -- electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a hyperbibliography of Middle English prose and verse and associated network of electronic resources
- Oxford English Dictionary Online -- full text, online version of the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language, with definitions and contextual examples of usage, including the first written usage
Encyclopedias
Philosophy
Philosopher's Index -- citations to articles and
books on all philosophy-related fields from over 480 journals,
back to 1940
Handbooks & Encyclopedias
- Companion to the Philosophers -- e-book version of this 1999 one-volume guide to major Western and non-Western philosophers; part of the series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
- Companion to World Philosophies -- e-book version of this 1999 one-volume overview of non-Western philosophy; part of the series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics -- e-book version of the 3rd edition (2004) of this five-volume set, with around 450 signed entries on moral and ethical aspects on a wide variety of medical and life science issues, including lengthy bibliographies; the standard work in the field
- Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs & Practices -- e-book version of this 2004 four-volume set, with around 1,200 entries on specific religions, as well as specific countries and their religious practices
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