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.gif) Abbreviationes
2.3
Offers researchers a quick solution to finding
common abbreviations in medieval Latin manuscripts, reference
works, and other documents.
Academic
Search Premier (EBSCO)
A multi-disciplinary database that includes citations
and abstracts from over 4,500 scholarly publications (journals,
magazines and newspapers). Full text is available for more than
3,500 of the publications and is searchable.
AccuNET/AP
Multimedial Archive
A searchable database of over 700,000 Associated
Press photographs, charts and other graphics from the 1840s to
the present.
Acta
Santorum
An electronic collection of documents examining
the lives of Christian saints, organized according to each saint's
feast day.
American
Film Scripts Online
American film scripts, produced or written in the
20th century; includes independent films as well as those created
by major studios.
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI), a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature
of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading
arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually
selected, relevant items from over 7,000 major science and social
science journals.
Associations
Unlimited
A searchable database of more than 400,000 associations,
professional societies and nonprofit organizations worldwide.
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
Searching this Index enables you to quickly determine
which publication to consult for biographical information. It
is an index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more
than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference
books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout
the world.
Biography
Resource Center
This database combines biographies from Gale Group
sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles
from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or
more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality,
ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create
a highly-targeted custom search.
College
Source Online
Published by the Career Guidance Foundation, provides
the full text of over 22,000 U.S. and international college catalogs,
from 2-year colleges to graduate and professional schools.
Columbia
Gazetteer of the World
This gazetteer provides descriptions of more than
165,000 places in the world. It offers access through 3 types
of searches (place name, type of place, and keyword).
Contemporary
Literary Criticism
CLC Select includes significant published criticism
on works of selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short
story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died
after 1959. Each entry contains a short biography, critical introduction,
and excerpts from essays and book reviews taken from books, magazines,
literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals, and, if
available, interviews with the author.
Current
Biography Illustrated
Includes biographies of living persons (and their
obituaries) published since 1940 in its printed version, Current
Biography (CB). It is strong on popular culture and political
figures.
Dissertation
Abstracts/Digital Dissertations
Indexes dissertations and masters' theses from
most North American graduate schools as well as some European
universities. Provides full text of dissertations from 1997 -
the present.
Early
English Books Online (EEBO)
Altogether, EEBO contains over 125,000 titles,
covering a broad range of subjects such as literature, history,
music, art, linguistics, and religion.
Encyclopedia
Britannica
Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection
of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article
database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica,
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica
Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other World Wide Web
sites selected by Britannica editors.
Facts
on File
Facts.com is composed primarily of the full text
of the Facts on File News Digest, a weekly summary of world news.
Global
Books in Print
Global Books In Print With Reviews contains 5.5
million records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books.
Grangers
World of Poetry
Currently includes 13,000 poems in full text, and
250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line,
author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author category
(Asian-American, Irish, Polish, etc.). Includes commentaries,
biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of
prosodic terms.
Grove
Dictionary of Art Online
The world's first comprehensive art reference work
covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture,
graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to
the 1990s.
Grove
Dictionary of Music
An integrated music resource that includes the
full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second
edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove
Dictionary of Jazz (second edition).
Hand
Press Books File
The HPB file is the first and only online union
catalog for European hand press books produced c. 1455 to 1830.
Historical
Abstracts (ABC-CLIO)
A reference guide to the history of the world from
1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
This database offers annotated references to information on topics
from the Renaissance to the present -over half a million entries
in all.
Historical
Newspapers
Historical Newspapers Online (formerly History
Online), produced by Chadwyck-Healey, provides the researcher
with retrospective indexes to the Times, a major resource of information
on all aspects of British life and world affairs in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, as well as to the New York Times.
History
E-Project
This five-year project developed by the American
Council of Learned Societies plans to place a significant number
of history titles online. These will include 500 frequently-cited
books of major importance that are not widely available at present,
and 85 new electronic titles.
Index
to Theses
Describes theses accepted for master's and doctoral
degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the
Council for National Academic Awards from 1970 to date.
International
Medieval Bibliography
A comprehensive, current bibliography of journal
articles, essay collections and conference proceedings in this
interdisciplinary field.
Iter
Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin,
is intended to increase access to all published materials pertaining
to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle
Ages (400-1500), by creating online bibliographies.
John
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
The Guide is an alphabetically arranged survey
of literary criticism and theory, with entries for individuals,
critical topics, movements, theories, and contributions of specific
countries and periods. Includes bibliographies and indexes to
related entries at the end of each entry. International in scope,
with emphasis on Western critical theory.
Kluwer
Online
Provides access to the full text of more than 700
journals. Articles are generally from 1997 or 2000 forward and
are available in PDF.
Left
Index Online
Provides access to the diversity of literature
on the political left, with a primary emphasis on politically
and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy
and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources
of news and ideas.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Provides access to thousands of news, business,
legal, and medical publications and information sources, including:
newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services,
and broadcast transcripts. Additionally LexisNexis Academic offers
international resources in French, Italian, and German.
Literature
Online (LION)
Produced by Chadwyck-Healey, intended as "the
home of English and American literature on the World Wide Web."
Medieval
Sources
A web-based learning resource containing hundreds
of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching
and study of history. Developed from the Manchester University
Press Medieval Sources series, Medieval Sourcesonline will contain
over three thousand pages of Medieval sources when complete. All
new titles in this series will be placed online two years after
their publication.
MLA
(OVID)
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by
the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records
pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore,
and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International
Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000
journals and series.
Newspapers
@ Harvard
Harvard Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room Collections.
Nineteenth
Century Master File
W. F. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature is
a pioneering and still important index to American and English
periodicals. Covering the period 1802-1906, it indexes 12,241
volumes of 479 periodicals and contains more than 400,000 citations.
North
American Immigrant Letters
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and
Oral Histories (IMLD) provides a unique and personal view of what
it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Our goal is to include
more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters,
diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, providing
a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines.
Oxford
Classical Dictionary
This electronic edition of the Oxford Classical
Dictionary is based on the one-volume 3rd edition (1996) of the
text edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Focusing
on ancient Greece and Rome, the 3rd edition improved upon its
predecessor (1970 2nd edition) by updating or replacing existing
entries, emphasizing previously underrepresented areas of classical
studies, and including interdisciplinary fields such as anthropology,
archaeology, literary theory, gender studies, and ancient sexuality.
Oxford
English Dictionary
The OED is an historical dictionary of English,
covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also
to trace their development through time.
Oxford
Journals Online
Provides access to the full text of approximately
130 journals published by Oxford University Press. Dates of full-text
access vary. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF.
Past
Masters - Philosophy
The Past Masters series from InteLex Corporation
comprises full-text electronic editions of works by major philosophical
figures, in both original language and in English translation.
Texts include published and unpublished works, articles and essays,
and correspondence.
Patrologia
Latina
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul
Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, published between 1844 and
1855, and divided into two parts, the Series Latina and the Series
Graeco-Latina. The PLD contains all 221 volumes of the first edition
of Jacques-Paul Migne's Series Latina, which includes the original
217 volumes (1844-1855) plus the later four volumes of indexes
(1862-1865).
Patrologiae
Grecae
The electronic version of Jacques-Paul Migne's
Patrologiae Graecae contains digitized page images of the 161
volumes of the first edition of his Patrologiae Cursus Completus,
Series Graeca (Paris, 1857-1866). It is a collection of the writings
of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern
"Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before
the Latin takeover of the West in the third century.
Periodical
Contents Index (PCI)
An index to the contents of Ithousands of journals
in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues
to 1990/1991. When complete it is expected to contain records
of approximately fifteen million journal articles from 3500 journals.
PCI covers journals from North America, the United Kingdom and
the rest of the English-speaking world and journals in other European
languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Project
Muse
Intends to provide networked access to the full
text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by several
university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
RLG
Bibliographic File
Contains information about more than 22 million
books, periodicals, recordings, scores, archival collections,
and other kinds of material held in major research institutions.
RLG
Cultural Materials
This database provides digital images of primary source materials,
such as objects, manuscripts, maps, letters, sheet music, prints,
photographs, broadsides, etc. from the collections of an international
alliance of RLG (Research Library Group) libraries, museums, and
archives.
Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae
A research center at the University of California,
Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized
most literary texts written in Greek from Homer (8 BC) to the
fall of Byzantium in AD 1453.
Times
Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
includes complete page images of the Times Literary Supplement
(TLS), a leading book review periodical, from its inception in
1902 to 1990 (1994 by the end of 2002).
Vanderbilt
Television News Archive
The guide to the collection of network television
news programs at Vanderbilt University. Since August 5, 1968,
the Archive has systemicaly recorded, abstracted, and indexed
national television newscasts. Individuals can search the abstracts
by keyword to find information and/or request videotape loans.
Webster's
International Dictionary
A radical and controversial departure from its
more encyclopedic and proscriptive predecessors, Merriam Webster's
Third New International Dictionary has slowly established itself
as one of America's premier lexicographical works, containing
over 450,000 vocabulary entries.
Women
Writers Online (Brown University)
In its own words, "a long-term research project
devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out
of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of
teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support
research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic
texts in teaching and scholarship."
Women's
Resources International
Citations and abstracts are drawn from a variety
of essential women's studies databases which range in coverage
from classic works & core studies to the latest scholarship
in feminist research.
World
Biographical Index
WBI online contains over 3.1 million short biographical
entries for prominent people past and present from Africa, Australia,
Europe, New Zealand, North America, Oceana, and South America.
World
Cat
A union (i.e. collective) catalog of records of
any type of material (books, periodicals, scores, films, recordings,
etc.) cataloged by over 41,000 OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
member libraries, primarily but not exclusively, from libraries
in the United States, but extending to 82 other nations.
World
News Connection
World
News Connection (WNC) provides online access to full text English
translations of current non-U.S. media sources.
Universal
Access
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An online catalog of Italian language journals and magazines.
American
Dante Bibliography
An online publication of American Dante Bibliographies
from 1953 - 1999.
Bib Naz -Manoscritti
A website of various images of manuscripts from the special collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze.
Bobst
Guide of Italian Literature
An online guide of Italian Literature provided
by New York University.
Center
for Research Libraries
An international, non-profit consortium of colleges,
universities, and libraries which makes available more than 5
million volumes of scholarly research to users everywhere.
Clearinghouse
of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet
Resource Guides, now officially known as the Argus Clearinghouse,
provides a central access point for value-added topical guides
which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information
resources.
CRILet
Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura from the University of Roma 'La Sapienza.'
Dante
Journals
A list of journals dedicated to Dante studies that
include tables of contents of all articles.
Dante
Resources
A link for library resources for the Devers Program
in Dante Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Digital Library (Napoli)
Digital Library from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli.
Digital Scriptorium
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Digal
Scriptorium
A prototype image database & visual union catalog
of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
Guido
Mazzoni Collection
This online exhibit showcases a representative
sample of the Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection at Duke University.
Harvard
Map Collection
The oldest map collection in America. The collection
has grown to include ca. 400,000 maps, over 6,000 atlases, and
several thousand reference books. Topographic maps, nautical charts
and thematic maps provide an excellent research collection representing
all chronological periods and notable map makers. The Map Collection
also has a strong commitment to digital resources, including historical
images and the Harvard Geospatial Library.
IFLANET
Citation Guide for Electronic Documents.
Italian
history and politics guide
An online research guide for Italian history and
politics provided by Brigham Young University.
ITER
Bibliography of Renaissance Europe (1300-1700)
provided by Yale University.
Labyrinth
Middle Ages
A World Wide Web server at Georgetown and provides
free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies.
Newjour
NewJour is the place to announce your own (or to
forward information about others') newly planned, newly issued,
or revised ELECTRONIC NETWORKED journal or newsletter. It is specially
dedicated for those who wish to share information in the planning,
gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of publication
development and availability.
Newslink
Provides comprehensive access to web pages sponsored
by national and international newspapers, newswires, magazines,
broadcasters and other media-related sites.
Northwestern
University Guide of Italian Literature
An online guide of Italian Literature provided
by Northwestern University.
OASIS
The OASIS database allows users to search a SMALL
PERCENTAGE of the finding aids for archival and manuscript materials
found at Harvard University and Radcliffe Institute.
Resources
for Italian Literature
A site of library resources for Italian Literature
provided by the University of Connecticut..
WESS-WEB
- Italian Studies
A list of resources for Italian Studies provided
by Association of College and Research Libraries.
WESS-WEB
- Western European Studies
Western European Studies Section of Bibliographies
and Research Guide.
Women's
Studies Database
This web site contains a variety of resources on
women's studies, including conference announcements and calls
for papers; employment listings; bibliographies, syllabi, and
reading lists; film reviews; information on Congressional bills
and legislation affecting women; and links to other electronic
resources related to women.
LIBRARY
CATALOGS
Harvard
University Library
Link to the main page of Harvard University's
extensive library system.
AIB-WEB
An Italian website dedicated to library studies
and research.
Archivi-sistema archivistico nazionale
A list of the central state and city archives in Italy listing addresses and contact details, and links to relevant archive websites. Berenson
Library at Villa i Tatti
Catalog of Harvard's Berenson Library at Villa
i Tatti in Italy.
Biblioteca
digitale
An ongoing project of online images of Italian
literary manuscripts provided by the National Library of Rome.
Biblioteche
Italiane
List of Italian libraries, with links.
Casalini
Casalini Libri provides a full range of on-line and integrated services and is committed to working with libraries and institutions to find personalized solutions for the supply and management of Italian publications.
Centro
inter-bibliotecario
A library metasite for the libraries of the University
of Bologna.
CERL
Consortium of European Research Libraries. Edit
16
An online catalog of books printed in Italy between
1501 and 1600, in any language, and editions printed abroad in
Italian.
E. S. Burioni Ricerche Bibliografiche
Books, databases, networked information for academic and research institutions, companies and professionals.
The European Library
The European Library offers access to the web-based
services of its 41 member libraries. National Library homepages,
online public access catalogs, national bibliographies, digital
collections and selected indices to periodical contents and the
virtual exhibitions, "Treasures from Europe's National Libraries,"
are linked to this site.
ICCU
A website dedicated to the unification of Italian
library catalogs with useful links to Italian libraries.
ITALINEMO
An online catalog of most important academic journals
of Italian literature with summaries of articles.
Index
Translationum
An online catalog of international translated books
provided by UNESCO.
ITER
Bibliography of Renaissance Europe (1300-1700)
provided by Yale University.
Karlsruhe
Virtual Catalog
Karlsruhe
Virtual Catalog allows simultaneous searching of records for over
75 million book and serial titles in German union catalogs, other
national library catalogs and selected booktrade catalogs. Included
are France's BNF Catalogue of printed books and periodicals, Spain's
Libros modernos desde 1831 and Italy's Libro Moderno from 1830.
Libraries
on the Internet
A metasite of links to library catalogs found on
the internet provided by Alice.it.
Libraries
in Italy
A metasite of links to Italian library catalogs
found on the internet.
Libraries
on the Web - Italy
A metasite of links to Italian library catalogs
provided by Sunsite-Berkley.
LIB-Web
A metasite of links to library catalogs on the
internet provided by Sunsite-Berkley.
LII
Librarians' Index to the Internet. MAI
A cumulative query in Italian internet library
catalogs.
Medici
Archive Project
Founded in 1995 in order to realize the undeveloped
potential of the Medici Granducal Archive, housed in the Archivio
di Stato in Florence.
Ministero
per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
A site that provides various links to Italian library
catalogs provided by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
RLG
Union Catalog
A set of online catalogs that offer reference librarians,
interlibrary loan units, archivists, catalogers, teachers, scholars,
students, and other researchers millions of records describing
materials created around the world.
SBN
The National Library Service of Italy.
Virtual
Library
A metasite dedicated to Italian libraries and research
with various useful links.
Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary
This electronic edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, included with Britannica Online, is a popular dictionary
of English and has over 260,000 index terms in 73,415 documents.
WELCOI
A metasite that provides links to online Western
European Library catalogs.
WorldCat
WorldCat
is a union catalog of over 49 million bibliographic records for
books, periodicals, scores, films, sound recordings, scores, internet
resources, manuscripts, and computer files. It includes information
for materials held by libraries in 45 countries.
Yale
CD-ROM + FT
Center for Cd-rom Reference and Full Text Database
provided by Yale University.
Yale
University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
