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Subject databases - Arts

Use subject databases to find research on a specific topic including journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters.

 

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Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

Cultures, Languages and Area Studies subject databases
 DatabaseDescriptionVideos
Is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for education institutions. BoB enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any broadcast programme from over 65 free to air TV and radio channels.

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines.

Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.

Provides access to full-text sources and expert indexing in all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

Provides access to citations on literature, modern languages, linguistics, and folklore gathered from 3,500 journals, series, books, and essay collections. MLA indexes articles, books, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies

EBSCO, which hosts the MLA database, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features.

A new MLA-specific video will be coming soon.

Provides full-text information taken from local, national and international general news sources and agencies, professional journals and specialist trade, company and industry sources. Includes company information from ICC, Extel, Disclosure, and Directory of Directors.

Provides access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway, users can access and cross-search Oxford’s acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Provides full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. 

Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

 

 

English

English subject databases
 DatabaseDescriptionVideos
Is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for education institutions. BoB enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any broadcast programme from over 65 free to air TV and radio channels.
Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.
Provides access to full-text sources and expert indexing in all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Provides access to English and American poetry, drama and prose.

Provides access to citations on literature, modern languages, linguistics, and folklore gathered from 3,500 journals, series, books, and essay collections. MLA indexes articles, books, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies.

EBSCO, which hosts the MLA database, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features.

A new MLA-specific video will be coming soon.

Provides full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

 

 

Humanities

Humanities subject databases
 DatabaseDescriptionVideos
Is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from 1643 to 1940.

Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion.

EBSCO, which hosts the ATLA database, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features.

A new ATLA-specific video will be coming soon.

Is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for education institutions. BoB enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any broadcast programme from over 65 free to air TV and radio channels.
Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to present 
Provides access to some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.

Presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the collection from all over the world. Range of recorded sound includes music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. This database is currently unavailable following the 2023 cyber attack on the British Library.

 
Contains theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors.
Contains transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Combines dozens of historical archives covering hundreds of years of history. In this exhaustive resource you will find monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs. Collections availability limited to licensing agreement.

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

EBSCO, which hosts Historical Abstracts, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features.

A new Historical Abstracts-specific video will be coming soon.

Is a multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500).
Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.

Is a virtual collection of Greek and Latin literature from the Loeb classical library at Harvard University. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek and English texts are available.

 
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music; Grove Music Online; and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Is a comprehensive directory of philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers.
Provides full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.

Provides broad international coverage of Western and Eastern classical music, pop, folk, and jazz, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music.

Covers biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

 

 


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