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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.

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.

CIA World Factbook
Produced and published annually by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides brief factual and graphical surveys of the economic, geographic and political conditions of some 267 countries, dependent areas and other entities.

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.

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.

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.

Keesing Record of World Event
Keesing's distills coverage of political, economic and social events from primary news sources worldwide into concise, detailed reports. Events that may have taken place over time are edited down to essential information. Coverage is somewhat weighted toward the United Kingdom (where it is published), Europe and the British Commonwealth.

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.

Labyrinth Middle Ages
A World Wide Web server at Georgetown and provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies.

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
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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Index Online
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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CATALOGS

The John Carter Brown Library
Una de las bibliotecas más importantes del mundo para los interesados en la historia y la literatura de las Américas hasta 1820. En el campus de la Universidad de Brown, a una hora de Boston.

The Library of José Durand
Catálogo de la biblioteca del gran estudioso del mundo virreinal hispanoamericano. La colección se encuentra actualmente en la Universidad de Notre Dame, Indiana.

Harvard University Library
Link to the main page of Harvard University's extensive library system

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.

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.

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 University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Biblioteca Nacional Digital (Lisbon, Portugal)
This website enables online access to full text Literary works and other manuscripts from the National Library of Lisbon.

Biblioteca do Senado Federal (Brazil)
Access the virtual library from the Federal Senate of Brazil in Brasilia.

Biblioteca Virtual de Educação - B V E (Brazil)
Sponsored government website, this is a virtual library devoted to the field of education.

Biblioteca Virtual de Educação a Distancia - (Brazil)
Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Federal University of Bahia.

Library of Congress - Hispanic Reading Room
The Hispanic Reading Room serves as the primary access point for research relating to those parts of the world encompassing the geographical areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and Iberia; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage, including Latinos in the U.S., and peoples of Portuguese or Spanish heritage in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Access restricted to Harvard ID.


Last updated on September 18, 2007