Humanities

DATABASES

Academic Search Elite

A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals. Covering virtually every area of academic study, it offers full text information for many of it's journals dating as far back as 1985.

NEW! Books In Print   

Find books, movies, and audio books in this user-friendly database of over 5 million titles.

Britannica Online

Includes the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus. Search results include articles in the encyclopedia, web sites, and links to relevant journal articles.

JSTOR Scholarly Journals

Offers back issues and current issues of 117 journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

In the First Person

Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.

Libro - The Library of Iberian Resources Online

The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula.

MLA International Bibliography

An index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

NetLibrary

Provides access to 10,912 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks.

Philosopher's Index

Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.

ProQuest Research Library

Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Wilson Humanties Full Text

A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

Wilson Web

Provides a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Includes the following indexes: Applied Science and Technology, Art, Biological and Agricultural, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Legal, Readers’ Guide, and Social Science.

WEB RESOURCES

General

All Movie Guide

Contains a variety of information on movies including cast, director, genre, etc, plot synopsis, reviews, actor biographies, and more.

Internet Movie Database

Contains a variety of information on movies including cast, director, genre, etc, plot synopsis, reviews, actor biographies, and more.

Literature

American Literature Association

This is the homepage of the American Literature Association, which includes links to societies devoted to many individual authors and subject areas, which in turn provide lots of links to more specific sites, bibliographies, etc. I find it very useful, and I think students will, too.

Electronic Text Collection University of Virginia Library

Provides full-text of resources that are available on the public domain; not all collections/works are available to the public, but these are so noted. Collections inlcude: Middle English, Modern English, Poetry, Shakespeare, and Bibles. Text also available in other languages, including Latin, French, Japanese, and German.

Internet Classics Archive

Offers 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Literature and Composition Resources

This guide presents primary and secondary resources, including lists of lists, biographical and bibliographical information, analytical articles, reference works, instructional materials, electronic texts, databases, archives, literary history, journals, magazines, and newspapers, among numerous other categories.

Literary Resources on the Net

A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics. Categories include, but are not limited to: Classical and Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, Twentieth Century, American, Women's Literature and Feminism, and Ethnicities and Nationalism.

Luminarium

Designed to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Offers three categories: Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century. Each category includes links to full-text versions of books and other works by selected authors as well as articles and essays.

Nobel Prize.org

Web site for the Nobel Prize, an international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for peace. The Literature section includes Nobel Prize winners in literature, articles written by Nobel Laureates and other invited authors.

The Online Medieval & Classical Library

a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Can be searched by Title, Author, Genre, and Language.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

Provides information on authors including Primary Works and selected bibliographies. Categories include, but are not limited to: Early American Lit to 1700; Early American Lit, 1700-1800; Early 20th Century; and American Drama.

Project Gutenberg

The Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). No text are published that are still in copyright. Because of this, texts are generally taken from books published pre-1923. You will find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.

Shakespeare.com

Offers content on the life and work of the world's greatest author, including eNotes to more than 20 titles. Includes study guides, information on his life and world, translations, an encyclopedia, and topical essays on Shakespeare's most popular plays.

Sparknotes

Offers free access to online study guides to literary classics (summaries, plot analysis, charaters lists, themes and motifs. Also offers a dictionary, thesaurs, and information on how to cite Sparknotes.

Victorian Women's Writers Project

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, to include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Site can be searched by keyword or by title or author.

Writing & Citation Guides

APAStyle.org

The web site for the American Psychological Association Citation manual.

CBE Citation Guide

From Ohio State University, this style guide is based on the Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 6th edition, 1994.

Citation Style Guides

From Seattle Central Community College Library. This Style guide provides information for MLA, Chicago, APA, and American Anthropological Association (AAA) formats.

Chicago Manual Of Style Tools & FAQ's

The Chicago Manual of Style presents two basic documentation systems, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. This site provides information on both styles as well as an FAQ.

The Elements of Style

This classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

Landmark Citation Machine

Contains a "citation machine" - an easy-to-use tool that will generate a work cited entry in either MLA or APA format.

Literature and Composition Resources

Includes links and lists to resources for Composition, Business Writing, Technical Writing, Linguistings, Journalism, and Creative Writing.

MLA Style

Home page of the Modern Language Association. The MLA Style for preparing scholarly manuscripts and student research papers concerns itself with the mechanics of writing, such as punctuation, quotation, and documentation of sources. MLA Style Guides are available at the Reference Desk.

Online Writing Lab

Purdue University. Provides information and resources for writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, research and documenting resources (including MLA and APA styles), and professional writing (resumes, cover letters, etc.)

Online

Several chapters from the book Online, by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, which provide instruction on citing electron sources in MLA, APA, CBE, and Chicago Style.

Research and Documentation Online

This site offers an annotated list of specialized sources for more that 25 disciplines, guidelines for documenting print and online sources, (MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles), sample papers with annotations for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE, a list of style manuals for a variety of disciplines and a glossary of library and research terms.

Turabian Style Guide

This style guide provides students with a basic introduction to citation style for social sciences term papers. It is based on the 6th edition of Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

UCA University Center for Communication Support

Provides writing handouts and links to web resources, including links to online citation guides.

Synthesis: Using the Work of Others

Provides information on plagarism and copyright and provides links and information for citing the works of others including citation guides not only for papers, but for presentations and websites.

History

The American Civil Ware Homepage

Crisis Before and After, Battles and Campaigns, Documentary Records, and Rosters and Regimental Histories.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web

Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

In the First Person

Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.

The Labrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

Sponsored by Georgetown University. Provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.

Picture History

An on-line archive of images and film footage illuminating more than 200 years of American history. Included in its holdings is the acclaimed Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 19th century photography as well as thousands of images that have been researched and acquired by Kunhardt Productions for use in historical documentaries over the past fifteen years.

The Valley of the Shadow

The Valley Project details life in two communites, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the Reconstruction. This digital archive includes original letters, diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, from Augusta County, VA and Franklin, County, PA.

Philosophy

American Philosophical Association

Website of the American Philosophical Association, the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Select Web Resources from the left side menu (scroll down a bit) for selected internet resources.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Provides articles on a variety of philosphers and topics. Look under "About IEP" for information on citing sources from this database. Site editors and contributors are faculty members from various universities and colleges.

Philosophy @ Large

Philosophy @ Large is a guide to philosophy resources on the web. The site was founded by Professor Stephen Clark and is edited and hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Categories include: Associations and Societies, Bibliographic, Discussion, Institutions, Subject Guide, and Working in Philosophy.

Religion and Ethics

From the BBC. Provides information on various religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduisim, Islam, Judaism, and Mormonism. Information includes: History, Customs, Beliefs, Holy Days, and Worship. Site also includes Ethics information on various topics such as abortion, war, human cloning, Euthanasia, and same-sex marriage.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.