Arts & Humanities Subject Guide
Article Databases
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There are many more specialized indexes available, please check the guides for Art, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Theater, etc.
(FirstSearch) Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals and selectively covers relevant articles from over 5,800 social science and science journals. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. Updated weekly. See also the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
(Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Indexes and abstracts 2,100 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations about the history and culture of the US and Canada. Searches are by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage from 1964 to the present and is updated monthly. This subscription is limited to six simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Indexes more than 400 of the leading journals in the arts, including areas such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, film, folk art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, musicology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Coverage is from 1984 with abstracts since 1994. Updated monthly.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
This index covers back issues of Art Index and includes citations from over 420 periodicals in English and other languages. Covering fine, decorative and commercial art, it also indexes reproductions of art works appearing in these periodicals.
Index to 1.7 million citations to journals and edited books as well as book reviews in the field of religious studies. Coverage from 1908 to the present, with selected records back to 1818. Full text is provided for more than 285,300 electronic articles Updated twice a year.
This index covers 70 key journals in Communications. It has much broader and more complete coverage than Communication Abstracts. It does not, however, contain abstracts of the articles indexed. Some useful search features include: full Boolean search logic and provides context sensitive online help and pop-up keyword dictionaries to assist novice searchers. ComIndex tracks co-occurrence links between concepts (e.g., the term "television" often co-occurrs with the term "violence") and authors (e.g., "Smith" frequently publishes with "Jones"). This unique feature allows the user to discover interrelationships of concepts and ideas and makes transparent cooperative relationships among authors (sometimes referred to as "invisible colleges"). ComIndex's author frequency sort may also be used to explore publication rates and practices within the communication field.
Essay and General Literature Index
Indexes essays in over 300 books each year, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1985-present. Updated annually.
Full-text as well as images from the important American magazine Harper's Weekly. Coverage: 1857-1912.
Indexes and abstracts over 2,100 journals, books, and dissertations in world history, excluding the US and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Searches by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage: 1955 to present. Updated monthly.
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Indexes more than 465 major humanities journals in art, history, literature, philosophy, religion, music, and related areas. Coverage from 1984, abstracts from 1994 to the present.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexes core journals published in the 20th century in North America and Europe. Coverage 1907-1984.
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International Medieval Bibliography
An index to articles in journals and other publications about Europe, the Middle East and North Africa within the dates 400-1500 AD. Coverage: 1967-present. To search, click Enter Databases, then click on the link to the database.
Print: Z 6203 .I62x (Ref) 1967-2004, This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts all aspects of language study including linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as speech pathology. About 1,500 English and foreign language sources are indexed. Coverage: 1973-present. Updated monthly.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year. Has citation tools for Refworks, Endotes and Procite. It also has a personal folder option to save articles and citations.
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
An index to over 8 million articles from popular and scholarly journals published between 1802 and 1906. Based on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the Masterfile adds periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. and U.K. government documents, and U.S. patents not found in the old print index.
Project MUSE offers more than 400 journal titles from several scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, economics, and others.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Indexes and abstracts over 475 music journals as well as dissertations, Festschriften, yearbooks, symposia, and other publications and electronic resrouces. Coverage is from 1967. Updated monthly.
TLS: Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
An index to full-text articles from the world's oldest weekly contemporary literary reviews. (The TLS is associated with The Times of London, published since 1788. The library subscribes to this source in paper and has a full run of it in microfilm). Coverage: 1902-1990.