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• Academic OneFile
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).

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  • OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile

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  Covers

  • Periodicals -- General interest magazines; scholarly academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers
  • Newswires -- 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
  • Newspapers -- Indexes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor

  This database was formerly a part of Infotrac Onefile.

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• Academic Search Premier
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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  Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.

  • Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
  • Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
  • Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals

  While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.

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• ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)
  Almost 2,000 full-text French books, including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose and technical writing. The 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are about equally represented; some earlier material included. 1200-current.
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  Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago

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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  Scholarly journal articles in arts and humanities. Includes some full-text. From Web of Science. More comprehensive searching than FirstSearch. 1994- current.
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  Subjects covered include:

  • Archaeology
  • Art & Architecture
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (FirstSearch)
  Scholarly journal articles in arts and humanities. Provides earlier coverage than Web of Science. 1980-current.
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• CHIN -- Canadian Heritage Information Network: Research and Reference
  Information about museums, galleries, and heritage information in Canada and around the world. current.
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  Includes:

  • Conservation Information Network (BCIN), with over 172,000 bibliographic records in the field of conservation in museums and libraries
  • Museology Bibliography (BMUSE), bringing together holdings from many international sources, including the UNESCO-ICOM Museum Information Centre, the Library of the Canadian Conservation Institute, and the Library of the Direction des Musées de France. Referenced material includes over 25,000 journals, journal articles, books, and reports
  • National Gallery of Canada Library Catalogue: books, periodicals, microforms, and audiovisual materials in the National Gallery of Canada Library.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
  Information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works. Includes Contemporary Authors. Current.

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  • Gale Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

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• Diderot and d'Alembert's Enclopédie
  2,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Enclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences. Full title: Enclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Societ 1751 to 1772.

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  • d'Alembert's and Diderot - Enclopédie

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  The Enclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Societé de Gens de Lettres was published under the direction of Diderot, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Enclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate Enlightened ideas. The impact of the Enclopédie was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Enclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.

  The Enclopédie contains 18,000 pages of text, 17 volumes of articles, and 11 volumes of plate legends.

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• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  Full-text of over 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Covers history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. 1701-1800.

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  • ECCO

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  Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Search every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.

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• International Medieval Bibliography
  Provides citations to articles about Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. Citations to over 300,000 articles.

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  • IMB

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  Over 300,000 articles derived from regular coverage of some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). All articles are classified with full bibliographical details and subject classifications and indexing familiar to medievalists.

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• JSTOR
  Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology. Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
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  Subjects include:

  • African American Studies
  • African Studies
  • American Indian Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture & Architectural History
  • Art & Art History
  • Asian Studies
  • Botany
  • Business
  • Classical Studies
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Feminist & Women's Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Finance
  • Folklore
  • General Science
  • Geography
  • History
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Language & Literature
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Middle East Studies
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Population Studies
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy & Administration
  • Religion
  • Slavic Studies
  • Sociology
  • Statistics

  UConn subscribes to all available JSTOR Collections.

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• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
  Indexes scholarly articles in linguistics; language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, and hearing. 1973-current.
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  Covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology. Summarizes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media Updated quarterly. Subjects:

  • Anthropology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communications
  • Education
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Neurology

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• LWPA -- Linguistics Working Papers Directory
  Abstracts of working papers in theoretical and experimental linguistics. 1996-current.
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  Abstracts of working papers in theoretical and experimental linguistics.

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• MLA International Bibliography
  Scholarly articles in literature and linguistics. Indexes over 6,000 national and international journals, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. From the Modern Language Association. 1926-current; selective coverage 1886-.
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  Subjects include:

  • Literature and drama (English and world)
  • Linguistics
  • Literary Theory
  • Folklore
  • Rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy

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• Oxford Reference Online
  100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Subjects include: biology; classics; computing; dance; earth sciences; economics; mythology; history; law; literature; medicine; opera; performing arts; politics; science, theater; and more.
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  We subscribe to three collections at Oxford, all via the Boston Library Consortium. They are:

  • Core Collection, United States
  • Premium Western Civilization
  • Premium Collection

  Includes the Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford Companion to American Theatre, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford Dictionary of Dance, and Who's Who in Opera.

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• Project MUSE
  Full-text of over 200 journals in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
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  Journals published by major university presses, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects include:

  • Classics
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
  • History
  • Judaic Studies
  • Language
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math
  • Music
  • Philosophy & Religion
  • Philosophy & Science
  • Politics

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.

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  • Dissertation Abstracts

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• WorldCat
  Catalog of books, journals, DVDs, CDs, scores, and sound recordings from over 9,000 libraries. 40 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries. Request items not at UConn via Interlibrary Loan..
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  WorldCat indicates if UConn owns the item, but it does not have UConn’s specific call numbers for books, music, and scripts, and it does not have any AV call numbers.

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