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Complete List of Literature & Languages Databases

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Année Philologique

Bibliography of publications since 1969 in the area of classical studies. More info

ARTFL project

A research tool for scholars and students in all areas of French Studies which "includes 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing." More info

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Indexes articles from over 1200 journals. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. (ISI's Web of Science) Database Help More info

Biography Reference Bank

"Contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations." (H.W. Wilson) Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library Database Help More info

Black Drama

"Hard to find" and previously unpublished plays by Black authors from North America, the Caribbean, and Africa, related reference materials, and records of notable performances. (Alexander Street Press) More info

Black Literature Index

Indexes fiction, poetry and literary reviews appearing in black owned and edited American newspapers between 1827 and 1940. (Companion to newspaper microfiche collection which is also available). (CD-ROM available at the Ekstrom Library Media and Current Periodicals Dept.)

Communication & Mass Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources in all aspects of communication and mass media. On trial for 2004. (EBSCOhost) Find It @ UofL More info

Corpus de la litterature francophone de l'Afrique noire

Collection of texts of oral and written literatures from all the French-speaking literatures from Sub-Saharan Africa "from the origins to Independence." The "Corpus" represents about 20 countries and over a 100 ethnic groups. (Champion Electronique France) More info

Dictionary of Old English Corpus

The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3047 texts covered in the corpus. More info

Dissertations

Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images. (Readex) More info

Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker

Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States, showing the emergence of American arts and literature, the progression of American economic, religious and scientific thought, the westward expansion, and more. (Readex) More info

Early American Newspapers

Based primarily on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1876, this collection focuses primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820. (Readex) More info

Early English Books Online

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Includes about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey) Database Help More info

EBSCO Academic

Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost) Find It @ UofL Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library Database Help

Essay and General Literature Index

Focusing on humanities and social sciences literature this databases cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. (H.W. Wilson) Find It @ UofL Database Help More info

Godey's Lady's Book

Full-text of the early American women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book. More info

Hispanic American Periodicals Index

Indexes articles and other materials covering information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. (HAPI) More info

Humanities Index

An index of articles in the humanities. (H.W. Wilson) Find It @ UofL Database Help More info

Illuminating the Manuscript Leaves

Digital collection of manuscripts dating from 1150 through 1867. These eighteen illuminated manuscript leaves represent Western European and Islamic cultures. Lesson plans available.

Iter-Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Index to interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes articles, bibliographies, books, catalogues, editions, abstracts, and discographies. More info

JSTOR

Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.) Database Help More info

Lexicons of Early Modern English

A historical database of dictionaries and other lexical works from the advent of printing to about 1700, illustrating contemporary word usage. Access only to the free public version. Full text of word entries and bibliographic entries of sources are provided. Created by University of Toronto Press.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports); Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources) Database Help More info

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

A collection of abstracts which reflects the world's literature in language behavior, linguistics, and related disciplines. 1973 - present. (CSA) Find It @ UofL Database Help More info

Literature Online (LION)

A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources. Primary texts include English texts from 600 to the present, and American and African-American texts from 1603. Critical materials include articles, monographs and dissertations from the Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL) and the MLA International Bibliography; full-text articles from literary journals; and biographical information on widely studied authors. (Chadwyck-Healey) Database Help More info

(Kate) Matthews Collection

Digital collection of the photographs of Kate Matthews (1870-1956) which depict tableaux vivants and scenes of everyday life in her community of Pewee Valley, Kentucky, at the turn of the 20th century.

Minerva

Catalog of items owned by the seven University of Louisville Libraries.

MLA International Bibliography

The MLA International Bibliography indexes books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. (Chadwyck-Healey) More info

Nineteenth Century Masterfile, Series I

Searchable index to magazine and journal articles originally indexed in:
  • Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
  • Steade's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902)
  • Jones & Chapman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)
  • Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)
  • Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899)
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Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue

The NSTC defines the printed record of the English-speaking world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the First World War. The project aims to index all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and the United States of America, all printed works in English wherever published, and all translations from English. In addition to providing an exhaustive survey of the complete spectrum of monograph publications in the period, the catalogue indexes thousands of periodicals, directories and other ephemeral publications. Includes 1,200,000 records. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey) More info

NoveList

Readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It is searchable by title, author or simply by describing a book they would like to read. Includes full-text of reviews. (EBSCOhost) Find It @ UofL Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library More info

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Comprehensive dictionary of the English language including definitions, etymologies, and quotations. More info

Past Masters

Past Masters contains the full-text of the works of several Western philosophers. (InteLex Corporation) More info

Periodicals Index Online

Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey) More info

Perseus

A digital library of source materials for studies in the humanities. It originated as a collection of Greek and Roman classics, and that remains its largest component, but has expanded to include secondary sources and digital archives of other times and places. More info

Play Index

Citations to over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present, either individually or in collections or anthologies. Find It @ UofL Database Help More info

Philosopher's Index

International index to philosophy-related journal articles and books. Covers 1940-present. (CSA) Find It @ UofL Database Help More info

Project MUSE (mirror site)

Full-text of articles from 1990 forward in over 275 journals covering Arts, Sciences (including medicine and mathematics), Humanities and Social Sciences. More info

ProQuest Digital Dissertations

Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account. Database Help More info

ProQuest Research Library

Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Some full-text. Includes the database formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. (ProQuest) Find It @ UofL More info

PsycARTICLES

Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES is only searchable within the OVID version of PsycINFO.

PsycINFO

Provides indexing and abstracting for the professional and academic literature (books, book chapters, dissertations and 1300 journals) in psychology and related disciplines.
  • Ovid: some full-text (links to Minerva show UofL journal holdings); 1872 to the present More info
  • EBSCOhost: 1887 to the present. Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library More info Find It @ UofL

ScienceDirect

Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version. More info

Short Story Index

Index to approximately 65,000 short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Approximately 850 full-text stories are included. (WilsonWeb) Database Help More info

SUR (Revista)

Full text of one of the influential and important literary magazines published in Latin America in the 20th Century. (Fundación Sur, Buenos Aires) More info

Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ

TLG®, is a comprehensive digital library of literary texts written in Greek from Homer (8th century B.C.) to 600 C.E., with a large number of additional texts in Greek written through the fall of Byzantium in 1453. Users may search either the texts themselves or the Canon of Greek Authors and Works. More info

Wellesley Index

A bibliography of articles published in 45 major 19th century British monthlies and quarterlies covering a variety of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Because many articles were published anonymously, the database includes an index to the authorship of the articles with supporting evidence and brief biographical details. (ProQuest) More info

WorldCat

Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch) Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library Database Help More info

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

"The Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time." More info

 

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