Databases and Indexes
Arts & Humanities:
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- RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based research management, writing and collaboration tool, designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies (Provided in part by the Office of Information Technology). - RefWorks @ NKU
- Art Index
- "Indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins." [Wilson Web]
- Arts and Humanities Search
- Coverage: 1980-present. Updated weekly. A citation index to international journals in the humanities. The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete indexing for many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. Also includes individually selected, relevant items from thousands of the world's leading science and social sciences journals. [from FirstSearch]
- ARTstor
- Approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture, and archeology. Need help getting started with ARTstor?
- Clase and Periodica
- Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. [from FirstSearch]
- Classical Music Library
- A streaming classical music service for libraries that enables listening and learning at library and home computers.
- Essay and General Literature Index
- Coverage: 1900-present. Updated semiannually. Reference area print index.
- Grove Music Online
- Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Articles have been updated since their appearance in print.
- Humanities Index
- Coverage: 1974-present. Updated monthly. Index to periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Reference area print index.
- Humanities Index Online
- Index to periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. [from WilsonWeb]
- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Full Text
- “International Index to Music Periodicals is an excellent resource for anyone who needs information on virtually any style or genre of music. It combines the ability to search the thesaurus-controlled indexing of the International Index to Music Periodicals with in-depth, full-text searching. It instantly delivers complete articles, including images, from many important music journals.” [ProQuest]
- Iter
- Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of electronic resources. It contains the following databases: The Iter Bibliography; Iter Italicum; Renaissance Quarterly Online (RQ Online);and the International Directory of Scholars.
- JSTOR
- Journal archives across the curriculum. The individual titles can be found in NKUIRE.
- Naxos Music Library
- Naxos Music Library includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
- Novelist
- An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It is searchable by title, author, or keyword. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Like the print version but online. Also available in the reference area: Ref PE 1625 .O87.
- Project Muse
- Coverage: 1995-present. Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Search full text across all journals in the database or in selected journal titles. Individual titles listed in NKUIRE.
- Wilson Select Plus
- Articles in science, humanities, education, and business. [from FirstSearch]
- WilsonWeb
- Access to Art Index, Biography Reference Bank, Book Review Digest Plus, General Science Index, Humanities Index, and Library Literature.
History:
- Accessible Archives
- Provides primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals.
- ACLS Humanities E-Books
- Fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians.
- All ACLS History E-books
- America: History and Life
- Coverage: 1964-present. Updated quarterly. A comprehensive index to journal articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations related to the history of the U.S. and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Abstracts are provided.
- Biography Index
- Coverage: 1946-present. Indexes biographical information appearing in periodicals and books, including interviews, obituaries, and autobiographies as well as other types of sources. Reference area print index.
- Biography Reference Bank
- Draws from every article about any individual on any of the WilsonWeb databases. Contains over 446,000 biographies. [KYVL and WilsonWeb]
- Civil War Era
- “ProQuest Civil War Era illuminates the cultural, regional, ethical, and economic viewpoints from the American Civil War period (1840-1865). Available together digitally for the first time, eight regionally balanced cover-to-cover newspapers and nearly 2,000 pamphlets offer comprehensive coverage of a vast range of Civil War Era research topics.” [from ProQuest]
- Historical Abstracts
- Coverage: 1954-present. Index to journal articles on topics related to history (outside the U.S. and Canada) since 1450. [ABC-CLIO]
- Historical Abstracts
- Coverage: 1955-1983. Index to journal articles on topics related to history (outside the U.S. and Canada) since 1450. Reference area print index.
- Historical New York Times
- Coverage: 1851-2003. For more recent indexing, see the New York Times Index (in print) or Academic Search Premier.
- Index Islamicus
- The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world.
- Kentuckiana Digital Library
- From the KYVL. Provides online finding aids and digitized material from archival collections across the state of Kentucky. [KYVL]
- Kentucky Encyclopedia
- "The web edition of The Kentucky Encyclopedia contains all of the entries in the print and CD-ROM editions along with selected front and back matter. Entries have been enhanced with descriptive markup using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a widely recognized standard for the encoding of electronic scholarly editions, which allows for additional search and display capabilities in the web environment."
Literature:
- English Short Title Catalog
- Coverage: 1473 to 1800. "Contains records for items of all types published in Great Britain and its dependencies or in English anywhere in the world from the beginnings of print through the 18th century including materials ranging from Shakespeare and Greek New Testaments to anonymous ballads, broadsides, songs, advertisements, and other ephemera." [RLG]
- Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
- Provides more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
- Literary Reference Center
- "Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else." [from EBSCO]
- Literature Resource Center
- Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Coverage: 1921-present. Updated annually. Comprehensive index to books and articles on the modern languages and literature. International coverage. Online and reference area print index.
Religion & Philosophy:
- Philosopher Index
- Coverage: 1940-present. Updated quarterly. International index to philosophical periodicals and books. Reference area print index. [Firstsearch]
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full-text journals, including nearly 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
updated: Wednesday, 30-Jan-2008 14:44:18 EST