The American Council of Learned Societies, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Library, offers over 3,700 high quality e-books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.

• audio database and listening service that documents the history of African American music
• collection includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs and narratives
• listen online to over 16,000 selections of great historical recordings from Document Records
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Includes authoritative versions of feature films that have won a major award and have historical or sociological significance. Provides access to the full-text of the script at the scene or character level and the means to view scenes in all scripts by subject.

Includes over 5000 documentaries, newsreels, public affiairs, and archival videos from sources such as A&E, PBS, and Universal Newsreel.

Provides free online access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Materials from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.

AP (Associated Press) Images provides photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. It contains over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920's, and news stories dating from 1997.

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

Contains over 250 full-text plays, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information representing the various ethnicities within the Asian American community: writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent, as well as Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry. The collection begins in the late nineteenth century and continues to the writings of contemporary playwrights.

Contains over 1,200 full-text plays, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information, written from the 1850s to the present, by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

• audio database and listening service of classical music from over 30 prominent labels
• collection includes vocal, choral, chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental and opera
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• many items include .pdf files of album covers with liner notes
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• database of significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who have died AFTER January 1, 2000
  
• contains full-text critical essays taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals preceded by complete bibliographical citations
  
• each entry also includes biographical information and suggestions for further reading
  
• due to copyright issues, coverage is NOT the same as in the print volumes

Includes full-text information from reference works, primary documents, illustrations, and maps related to the day-to-day lives of average Americans past and present.

Contains performances, documentaries, and interviews in streaming online video format by the most influential performers & companies of the 20th c. Selections cover ballet, jazz, tap, as well as contemporary, experimental improvisational genres. Liner notes available in pdf.

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• audio database and listening service that provides audio, liner notes and essays from the diverse catalogue of recordings by New World Records
• collection includes folk to opera; Native American to jazz; 19th century classical to early rock; also musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond
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• listen online to over 7500 selections through web streaming using QuickTime Player (6.5.2 or later)
• check HELP for troubleshooting about streaming, technical requirements, etc.

Indexes international design journals and yearbooks from the early 20th century to 1987. It supplies bibliographic information and abstracts for articles.

full-text information on more than 11,000 designers & design organizations influential in the 20th century.

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• article searching for over 1,000 journals

ebrary Academic Complete offers over 43,900 full-text titles in the following subject areas:

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Art Abstracts

INDEX BEGINS 1983
ABSTRACTS BEGIN 1994

Art Index Retrospective

1929-1984  NO ABSTRACTS

• bibliographic databases that index art-related periodicals worldwide
  
• search for both articles and reproductions of works of art

Film & Television Literature Index

• bibliographic database that provides international coverage of all areas of film and television
  
• indexes articles in over 500 journals
  
• covers topics in theory, writing, production, preservation & restoration, cinematography, technical aspects, as well as program and film reviews.
  

Omni File Full Text Mega

INDEX BEGINS 1982
ABSTRACTS BEGIN 1984
FULL-TEXT BEGINS 1994

• multidisciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts and full-text
  
• combination of six Wilson databases: Standard Catalogs Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
  
• full-text coverage varies among individual journals

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• databases can be searched separately or at the same time
  
• results can be limited to peer-reviewed journals (or full-text where available)
  
• results can be saved, printed or e-mailed

• 700 full-text articles by leading scholars
  
• coverage of the Enlightenment extends from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815
  
• includes not only Western Europe but also North America, Brazil, and Iberian, Russian, Jewish, and Eastern European cultures
  
• signed articles with extensive bibliographies
  
• information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
  
• published by Oxford University Press
  
• edited by Alan Charles Kors, Professor of History since 1968 at the University of Pennsylvania

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• 3,000 full-text articles by leading scholars
  
• coverage on all aspects of the period from the 5th to the 15th Century
  
• explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history
  
• signed articles with extensive bibliographies
  
• information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
  
• published by Oxford University Press
  
• edited by Andre Vauchez, Director of the French School in Rome

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• published by the U. S. Department of Education
  
• contains more than one million citations to a broad collection of education-related resources
  
• includes journal articles, government reports, conference proceedings, curriculum guides, bibliographies, etc.
  
• now provides links to the full-text of selected non-journal documents
• ERIC Thesaurus lists subject headings that the database uses as descriptors.

For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE

• 2,000 full-text articles by leading scholars
  
• coverage includes theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance
  
• cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers
  
• signed articles with extensive bibliographies
  
• information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
  
• published by Oxford University Press
  
• edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen

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"Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. At launch, the collection includes works licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige. Labels being added include Circle Records, GHB Records, Good Time Jazz, GRP Records, Impulse, Peak, Riverside, Solo Art Records, Stretch Records, Verve, and dozens more." -Alexander Street Press

• database of back runs of core scholarly journals, some dating back to the 1600s
  
• contains full text scanned articles that can be printed or downloaded
  
• UArts subscribes to JSTORs 'Arts & Sciences III' collection, which indexes 151 journals in the arts & humanities, including language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture

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Choice of 3 search types: Basic, Advanced, and Article Locator. Use Advanced for greater control over search; use Article Locator for citation searching.
Browse Journal titles to select from entire run.

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TO PRINT: in order to print entire article, use PRINT command in JSTOR instead of your browser; default is high-quality PDF which requires Adobe, or you can download a software helper application, JPRINT.

Contains full-text poetry, fiction and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. The vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. About 30% of the database is previously unpublished or rare materials.

• database of wide-ranging news, business, legal and reference information
  
• contains full text documents from over 5,900 publications including newspapers, journals, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, wire services, financial reports, and other medical and legal sources
  
• source lists available by clicking icon next to publication types
  
• results can be printed, saved or e-mailed - be sure to e-mail full text from full text display

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• online catalog provides access to records from the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
  
• many of the records include digital images, about one million in all
  
• information provided on downloading or obtaining copies from the Library's Photoduplication Service
  
• excellent resource for the researcher
  
• Note: not all images in the public domain

• database of over 1400 new raw materials, processes and products
  
• drawn from a large spectrum of industries
  
• results include thumbnail images
  
• can search by product name, application, country, etc.

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Music Online provides a single place to search the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that UArts Libraries subscribes to. Music Online can cross-search any combination of these databases:

• African American Music Reference
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Opera in Video

• audio database and listening service of classical music from the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues
• collection includes classical, jazz, world, folk and Chinese
• listen online to over 165,000 selections
• includes documentation from original disc issues
• browse by artist, genre, composer, year of composition, period or instrument
• includes custom playlist capability

• audio database and listening service of jazz from the entire catalogues of Naxos and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz
• listen online to over 22,600 tracks from over 2,300 albums
• includes documentation from original disc issues
• browse by artist, album, or composition
• includes custom playlist capability

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.

Includes full-text information on all aspects of Canadian and American theatre: people, plays, characters, companies, theatres, awards, etc.. Records and full-text plays are included, as well as many reference sources in their entirety.

Contains over 1,500 full-text plays by more than 300 playwrights, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection spans the colonial times to the present.

• union catalog of digital resources created by the University of Michigan
  
• provides access to records and files of digital images, audio and video from 900 contributing institutions
  
• users can search by TITLE, CREATOR or SUBJECT
  
• Most of the images are freely available for educational use
  
• Note: check the Rights information for each record for details on permitted usage

Omnimusic offers tens of thousands of production music tracks for use in film, television, theater, and multimedia projets. Tracks are sorted by style, mood, and tempo and may be downloaded as mp3 or wav files.

• the most comprehensive online reference resource for visual arts
  
• continually updated worldwide coverage from prehistory to the present day
  
• includes: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, photography
  
• signed articles with bibliographies
  
• includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
  
• image search includes 5,000 images from MOMA, the Met, AICT, and The Artists Rights Society; over 40,000 images from selected gallery and museum websites link to subject entries

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If you are looking for images, note that the IMAGE SEARCH on the first screen includes only selected images; for more images, locate the text information on your topic, and click on the IMAGES tab on this screen to get related images

• 4,000 full-text entries nearly half biographical
  
• coverage on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th Century Europe
  
• includes comprehensive coverage of the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period
  
• most entries contain bibliographies
  
• information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
  
• edited by Gordon Campbell, Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester

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• 1,200 full-text articles by leading scholars
  
• definitive source for information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered Europe in the 16th Century
  
• explores church polity, theology, developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature
  
• signed articles with extensive bibliographies
  
• information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
  
• edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand, Professor of Religion at Duke University

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• 4,300 full-text articles by specialist contributors
  
• coverage extends from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments
  
• includes dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions
  
• signed articles with bibliographies
  
• information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
  
• edited by Dennis Kennedy, Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, and head of the School of Drama, at Trinity College

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• extensive online music reference resource
  
• continually updated worldwide coverage
  
• signed articles, selected bibliographies
  
• includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music
  
• music timelines and topical guides provided
  
• articles link to related content

• over 30,000 plays and 500 monologues written or translated into English
  
• coverage extends from ancient Greek theatre to the present
  
• search for plays by title, author, subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage), style (symbolism, experimental theater), genre (comedy, melodrama, musical), cast type
  
• provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations including plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections

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To find printed plays, either select 'search for a book' on the main search screen or choose link 'Find this play in a book' in the Master record.
Easy to get LOST among citations: use 'Master record' link to return to your search.

ProQuest: The Arts offers a combined interface for searching Art Bibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, International Index to Music Periodicals, and International Index to Performing Arts. Many articles also include full-text.

Containins digitised, full-text versions of 19th and early 20th century fine and decorative arts journals

• audio database and listening service from various archives worldwide of folk and ethnic musics
• listen online to over 35,000 selections of the world's musical and aural traditions
• audio files can be downloaded
• many items include .pdf files of album covers with liner notes
• browse by artist, ensemble, genre, country, cultural group, language, album title, instrument or label
• includes custom playlist capability

Will contain over 2,000 full-text plays by more than 300 playwrights, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection spans the late 1800s to the present. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print.

A digital image database created by the Visual Resources Library at the University of the Arts, hosted by ARTstor. Contains images not availabe from the main ARTstor collection.

The world's largest network of library content and services, WorldCat allows you to simultaneously search thousands of libraries around the world through the FirstSearch interface.

features articles covering 1500 to the present, organized by era; from the Reformation through the Information Age.