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Academic Search Complete

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Offers a good starting point for research on nearly any topic, covering most areas of academic study and containing full text for 5,500 periodicals, including 4,600 peer-reviewed publications....

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Accessible Archives

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Primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals, particulary useful for civil war and genealogical research....

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ACLS Humanities E Book

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A digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars....

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America: History and Life

Covers US and Canadian history from prehistory to the present, providing references to journal articles, books, dissertations and reviews....

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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

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Primary sources including diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide access to views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home....

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APS Online - American Periodical Series Online

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APS Online contains full digital images of over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II....

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Archive Finder

A current directory of 5,400 archives and 124,400 collections of primary source material across the US, UK and Ireland, enabling researchers to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work and find contact information for the repositories....

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Art Abstracts

Art Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for 378 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins....

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ArticleFirst

An index of articles from the contents pages of 15,000 journals covering humanities, business, popular culture, science, social science, technology and medicine....

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Articles from the most important journals in the arts and humanities, searchable by subject or cited author....

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ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials

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Journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals....

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration....

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Bibliography of the History of Art

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art....

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Book Review Digest Plus, 1983-

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Indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews....

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Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1905-1982

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Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction....

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Bridgeman Education

With over 370,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use, Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations....

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British Periodicals

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Digital images of 500 periodicals, published from the 1680s to the 1930s, tracing the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals....

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Classical Music Library

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Classical Music Library is a large multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries....

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Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities

Conference Proceedings Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide....

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Dance in Video

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Dance in Video contains dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century....

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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1630-1800

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37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides provide primary source documents on nearly 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....

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Early English Books Online

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Full image reproductions of early English texts, from Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (STC I) and Wing’s Short-title Catalogue (STCII)....

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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

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A collection of e-books covering a wide variety of subjects-- arts, humanities, business, education, computers, science, social science, and technology....

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EbscoHost

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All EBSCOhost databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines....

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Economist Historical Archive

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A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003....

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eHRAF Archaeology

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eHRAF Archaeology is an online cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on archaeological traditions of the world and is is unique because each archaeological tradition contains a variety of full-text source documents (books, articles, and dissertations) that have been indexed and organized according to HRAF's comprehensive tradition and subject classification systems: the Outline of Archaeological Traditions (OAT), and the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM)....

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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138,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, digitized and fully searchable....

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Empire Online

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Original documents, primary source material, essays, and biographical information realted to empire studies, with an emphasis on the British Empire....

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Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion

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This broad-based set surveys clothing, body adornment, and examines the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress....

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals....

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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus

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Offers coverage of academic and popular film journals....

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FictionConnection

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Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy and read book summaries and reviews....

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Film & Television Literature Index With Full Text

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Indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals....

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FirstSearch

A collection of online databases, providing coverage of much of the journal literature for academic disciplines....

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Fold3 (Formerly Footnote)

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Historical documents collections, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U S Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents....

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is an online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples....

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Google Scholar

Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research, with full text accessible via WVU Library subscriptions....

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Grove Art Online

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Grove Art Online provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove, 1996, 34 vols....

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Grove Music Online

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An English-language encyclopedia of music and musicians, covering most aspects of art music, folk music, world music and jazz....

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HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly)

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Harper's Weekly is an important primary resource for examining 19th-century America, providing a comprehensive, week-to-week chronological record of what happened worldwide in the last half of the nineteenth century....

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Historical Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering world history....

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International Encyclopedia of Dance

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The International Encyclopedia of Dance provides access to nearly 2,000 articles on all aspects of dance, including theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance....

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International Medieval Bibliography

Topics related to the Middle Ages - primarily focused on Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa - includes journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters....

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IPA Source

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IPA Source is a large library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts....

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Iter

Scholarship related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies)....

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Journal Citation Reports

Journal impact factors and citation data for 7,500 scholarly and technical journals....

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JSTOR

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JSTOR is an archive of more than 1,000 scholarly, interdisciplinary journals, with full coverage for all but the most current 3-5 years....

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Lexis Nexis Academic

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Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 newspapers (including the New York Times), magazines, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including US federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news....

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Literature Resource Center

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Full-text literary criticism and reviews and author biographical information on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world....

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MagillOnLiterature

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Plot summaries, author biographies, book reviews and critical analyses of frequently studied works of literature....

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MLA International Bibliography

Literature, language, linguistics, folklore references from the Modern Language Association....

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Music Index Online

Covering all styles and genres of music, the Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry....

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Naxos Music Library

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Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive online collection of music offering over 500,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music....

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Opinion Archives

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Scholarly opinion journals in politics, arts, and culture, including the full text of New Yorker, Alternative, Dissent, Moment, The Nation, New Leader, New Republic, Harper's, Commentary, National Review, NACLA, Commonweal, American Spectator, Orion, The Progressive, Washington Monthly, Weekly Standard, and NY Review of Books....

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Oxford African American Studies Center (One User)

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A collection of scholarship, including 8,000 articles and primary source documents, focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture....

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Oxford Art Online

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Oxford Art Online is the innovative new gateway for searching Grove Art Online and other art resources from Oxford....

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Oxford English Dictionary

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OED -a comprehensive, unabridged dictionary that records the history and development of the English Language....

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PapersFirst

Conference papers, including all published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting papers received by The British Library Document Supply Centre....

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Philosopher's Index

Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields....

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Points of View Reference Center (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)

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Term paper resources and topics - Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services....

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Project Muse

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Project MUSE provides searchable, full text access to more than 100 academic journals....

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

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This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997....

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Proquest Historical Newspapers

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Full digital images of the New York Times, 1851-1999, and the Wall Street Journal, 1889-1985....

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Reader's Guide Retrospective

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, the standard index to articles in magazines, covering from 1890 to 1982....

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RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes....

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Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources....

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Theatre in Video

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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all....

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Times Digital Archive

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Digital images of the Times (London) complete from 1785 to 1985....

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Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

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Trial ends on May 15, 2013 – Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels....

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Web of Science

The Web of Science includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and is made available with funding from the WVU Research Corp....

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