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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles from over 1200 journals. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. Featuring articles written in 36 languages, ATLA includes over 400,000 article citations from over 1,400 journals, 600 of which are currently indexed. It also provides bibliographic coverage of over 200,000 essay citations from 15,500 multi-author works, over 375,000 book reviews, and features 128,000 subject-headings. (CSA)
Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Full-text coverage of over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world from 1992 to the present. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 4. (Responsive Database Services)
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
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)

Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world--both works written about the Middle East as well as about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. (CSA)
The Index of Christian Art is an iconographic, descriptive and bibliographic database that indexes works of art from early apostolic times to 1400 AD. Records include bibliography, references to reproductions and a growing number of links to images.(Princeton University)
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.
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.)
"The Left Index is a[n] ... index to the contents of periodicals of the left. Journals selected for inclusion in the index have a Marxist, radical or left perspective..."
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)
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)
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)
Past Masters contains the full-text of the works of several Western philosophers. (InteLex Corporation) 
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey) 
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. 
Full-text of articles from 1990 forward in over 275 journals covering
Arts, Sciences (including medicine and mathematics), Humanities and
Social Sciences. 
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.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

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)

Religion & Philosophy Collection
The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Some full text. (EBSCOhost)

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. 
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Designed from its inception (September 1995) as a dynamic reference work for philosophy--each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.

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. 
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
1824-1900
Provides access to printed sources of Victorian thought and
opinion. Indexes 45 Victorian era periodicals. (CD-ROM available at
Ekstrom Reference Dept.)
