Electronic Resources: Arts and Humanities

Resource Name	Source	Description
Art Abstracts	FirstSearch	Topics include archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, and textiles. September 1984 - present. Updated monthly.
Arts & Humanities Search	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for journals in the arts and humanities and related articles in social science and science journals. 1980 - present. Updated weekly
African-American Poetry 1760-1900	Chadwyck-Healey	A collection of over 2,500 poems based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975.
American Poetry	Chadwyck-Healey	Includes 40,356 poems from 1,288 works by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century
English poetry full-text database	Chadwyck-Healy	Works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 19th century
English verse drama	Chadwyck-Healy	Works from the late 13th century to the end of the 19th century.
Expanded Academic ASAP	InfoTrac SearchBank	Provides indexing for recently published popular magazines and scholarly journals. Topics include astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. Selected full-text articles. 1995 - present with access to backfile (1980-1994). Updated weekly.
Humanities Abstracts	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for publications on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history and world literature. Indexing from February 1984 - present, abstracts from March 1994. Updated monthly. * MLA International Bibliography Provides indexing for publications on linguistics, modern languages, literature, and folklore. 1963 - present. Updated quarterly
MLA International Bibliography	SilverPlatter	Provides indexing for publications on linguistics, modern languages, literature, and folklore. 1963-present.
Periodical Contents Index	Chadwyck-Healy	PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for international music publications. 1969 - present. Updated monthly
Additional CD-ROM art, dance and music resources are available in the McConnell Library reference area.

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