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Art Full Text UIUC
Art Full Text, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.

Art Index Retrospective UIUC
Art Index Retrospective provides searchable index spanning 55 years of art journalism from 420 noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984. Art Index Retrospective cites sources published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as English. In addition to periodicals, users will find data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Publications covered focus on advertising art; antiques; archaeology; architecture and architectural history; art history; computers in art; crafts; decorative arts; fashion; folk art; graphic arts; industrial design; interior design; landscape architecture; motion pictures; museology; painting; photography; pottery; sculpture; television; textiles; and video.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index  UIUC
The Arts & Humanities Citation Index provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references for more than 1,140 arts and humanities journals, and relevant items from over 7,000 science and social sciences journals. Topics include archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literary reviews, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, television and film, religion, and theater. Covers 1980-present, updated weekly.

ATLA Religion Database   UIUC
The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive reference tool designed to support the religious and theological scholarship of graduate students and faculty. It is produced by the American Theological Library Association, and covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. The database covers research literature in over 30 languages from 1400 journals. About half the material covered is English language, with extensive coverage of European publications. Coverage: periodicals, 1949-present; index to book reviews, 1975-present; index to Doctor of Ministry Project Reports and theses, 1981-present. Links are provided to full text of thousands of journal articles and book reviews from international titles and multi-author works in the ATLA Serials Database (ATLAS).

Bibliography of the History of Art UIUC
Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.

Bibliographie Der Deutschen Sprach- Und Literaturwissenschaft UIUC
This bibliography, retrospective to 1990, contains entries for primary and secondary material for German literature and language studies. There are several search options, for instance, by author name, title of work, journal title, publication year, keyword, and locale. Simple and combination searches allow add greater flexibility to queries.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index WWW

Francis UIUC
FRANCIS provides indexing and abstracting for more than 4,200 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences published mainly in Western Europe and North America, plus selective coverage of conference papers and chapters in edited collections. Coverage begins with 1984. Subject headings are provided in French and English, and there are searchable abstracts in French. FRANCIS is produced by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Historical Abstracts UIUC
Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) UIUC
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text draws its current content from more than 325 international music periodicals from over 20 countries with over 50 Full Text titles. IIMP Full Text also includes retrospective coverage from over 165 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. Included in the current and retrospective titles are 29 complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial-run titles. IIMP Full Text covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. The database provides full text for 50 titles back to 1997.

International Medieval Bibliography UIUC
The International Medieval Bibliography is a bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500, and has been published since 1968. The entries are drawn from the regular coverage of over 4,000 periodicals and from a total of 5,000 miscellany volumes. All aspects of life are covered. Annual updates are scheduled.

Internationale bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur UIUC
IBZ  has been the preeminent German index to periodical literature in English, German, and other European languages since 1896. Articles in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and life sciences are included. IBZ-ONLINE (1983-date) is updated monthly. Searches may be conducted in German English, or other European languages; however for the most part only citations to articles in the languages searched in will be retrieved. Searches can be conducted by author, keyword in title, publisher, ISBN, ISSN, and other access points . The "browse" command in the upper-left hand box enables a searcher to view the subject thesaurus.

Italinemo WWW
Index of Italian Studies periodicals published worldwide since 2000. Italinemo provides a list of periodicals indexed, description of the periodical and abstracts of each article. The search feature allows for searches by author, title, keyword, periodical title and collaborators.  

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance UIUC
Iter, means 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. A Journals database of approximately 250,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 400 medieval and renaissance journal titles is currently available. It is updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually. Iter's future plans include providing access to conference proceedings, dissertations, online resources, and works of art and music, and publishing directories of medieval and renaissance scholars, research projects and organizations.

JSTOR (Journal Storage)  UIUC
Includes the full-text of over 100 journals in the areas of African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Most include full texts of complete journals from their inception up to a "moving wall. " The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.

MLA International Bibliography UIUC
The MLA International Bibliography indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly journals, theses, proceedings, and books on literature, language and folklore. The indexing of scholarly journals is reasonably comprehensive for the major languages of the world. The coverage of books and theses is not as inclusive as it is for journal articles. Book reviews are not included. Ancient and classical languages are excluded. Covers 1963-present.

Music Index UIUC
Music Index covers primarily English language music periodicals but does include some foreign language titles. The Music Index is available in print format, 1949-present. Online covers 1979- present.

Philosopher's Index UIUC
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

PCI Periodical Content Index UIUC
Online periodical archive of backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Provides context for each entry by displaying it within the table of contents from the original source journal. The scope is worldwide and includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and other Western languages. Major subjects included are: anthropology and ethnology, archaeology and ancient civilizations, area studies, art and architecture, black studies, economics and business studies, education, geography, general history, American history, humanities, Jewish studies, law, library and information science, linguistics and philology, literature, and music and performing arts. 

Project MUSE  UIUC
Project Muse, created by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, enables access to the full text of over 40 of the Press's scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics. Subjects include psychology, mathematics, history, American studies, history and literature of medicine, black studies, literature, performing arts, human rights, religion, children’s literature, philosophy, politics, and others. Coverage varies among journals, usually from between 1994-1997 to the present

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature UIUC
RILM offers a broad, international coverage of all types of scholarly research, including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc. Over 350 music-related journals are indexed. Areas covered include historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics. Covers 1969-present.

 

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