Div I - Humanities - Databases A-to-Z - Website at Centre College

Art / Art History

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Centre College faculty may upgrade their ARTstor account to instructor status by contacting Crystal Ellis.
ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 2,000 scholarly books in history and the humanities.
African History and Culture, 1540-1921 This link opens in a new window
Created from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, African History and Culture, 1540-1921, contains more than 1,300 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history, peoples, and social and economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the early 20th century. All areas of Africa and important adjacent regions are covered.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Provides web access to the entire text of Grove Art and The Dictionary of Art along with several other art resources such as The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Subscribed access to these 33 multidisciplinary journals (and many open access journals): American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Botany, American Journal of Political Science, Art History, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Child Development, Conservation Biology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecology - NY, Economic History Review, Family Relations, FASEB Journal, Foreign Language Annals, German Life & Letters, International Social Science Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Sociology Lens, Journal of Marriage and Family, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Plant Cell and Environment, Psychophysiology, Renaissance Studies, AND The Yale Review
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, covering approximately 12,000 of the highest impact journals, as well as 160,000 conference proceedings. Centre has access to coverage from 1999 to present.
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Classical Studies

L'Annee Philologique This link opens in a new window
An indispensable index for research in Classics. Entries cover articles, books, book reviews, Festschrifte, and other collections dealing with the ancient Greek and Roman world, from the second millennium BCE to approximately 800 CE. Because APh covers worldwide scholarly publishing, in many languages, the Centre library will only have some of the items referenced. Coverage is from 1924-present. The Library also holds microfiche and print versions of earlier volumes.
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Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Literature Criticism Online takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Represented are a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis—the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals—delivered in an easy-to-use online format that matches the exact look and content of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides a subject index for books and articles published on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, and the teaching of language and literature.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Subscribed access to these 33 multidisciplinary journals (and many open access journals): American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Botany, American Journal of Political Science, Art History, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Child Development, Conservation Biology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecology - NY, Economic History Review, Family Relations, FASEB Journal, Foreign Language Annals, German Life & Letters, International Social Science Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Sociology Lens, Journal of Marriage and Family, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Plant Cell and Environment, Psychophysiology, Renaissance Studies, AND The Yale Review

Drama

National Theatre Collection 1 This link opens in a new window
The National Theatre Collection 1 makes the best of British Theatre available worldwide.
The unique collection presents high quality recordings of 30 world-class productions, giving you the best seats in the house whenever you want. The collection includes:
SHAKESPEARE
GREEK THEATRE
COMEDIES
EUROPEAN CLASSICS
AMERICAN CLASSICS
ADAPTATIONS OF NOVELS
NEW WRITING
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides a subject index for books and articles published on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, and the teaching of language and literature.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Subscribed access to these 33 multidisciplinary journals (and many open access journals): American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Botany, American Journal of Political Science, Art History, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Child Development, Conservation Biology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecology - NY, Economic History Review, Family Relations, FASEB Journal, Foreign Language Annals, German Life & Letters, International Social Science Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Sociology Lens, Journal of Marriage and Family, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Plant Cell and Environment, Psychophysiology, Renaissance Studies, AND The Yale Review
ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 2,000 scholarly books in history and the humanities.

English/German/Spanish/French/Japanese/Chinese/Arabic Literature

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides a subject index for books and articles published on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, and the teaching of language and literature.
ARTFL This link opens in a new window
The ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of French Language) database consists of nearly 2,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises.
ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 2,000 scholarly books in history and the humanities.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Archives Unbound provide smaller archival packages from Gale. To view all of the collections Centre owns, hover over the "I" information icon.
Collections:
-Liberation Movements in Africa and African America
-European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism
-European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies
-European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italy; Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in China
-Foreign Relations Between the US and Latin America
-Revolution in Honduras and America
-Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
-Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
-19th Century English Language Journals of the Far East
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
-Allied Propaganda in World War II and the British Political Warfare Executive
-The British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem, 1920-1944
-Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945
-Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes
-Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals
-Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 and Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945.
-Federal Surveillance of African Americans:1920-1984
-Policing The Shanghai International Settlement:1894-1945
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (ARTFL) This link opens in a new window
Simultaneous search capability for the following editions: 1st (1694); 4th (1762); 5th (1798); 6th (1835); and 8th (1932-5).
Contemporary Literary Criticism This link opens in a new window
Extensive biographical and critical information on key contemporary literary works. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.
Global Environmental Justice Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of 41 documentaries (with teaching guides). The subjects range from the hidden costs of fast fashion in Asia and forest preservation in Tibet to inner-city environmental issues in the US. Together these films promote understanding of the link between environmental issues and human rights and they support the search for solutions to complex global problems.
Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in several social sciences and humanities disciplines including African-American Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Education, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. The most current issues (typically from the past three to five years) are not included.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Literature Criticism Online takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Represented are a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis—the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals—delivered in an easy-to-use online format that matches the exact look and content of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips.
Mango Languages This link opens in a new window
Mango is an online language-learning system offering courses in around 60 different languages and dialects.
NoveList This link opens in a new window
Full text reviews, annotations, publication information, subject headings and more for works of fiction. In addition, NoveList can recommend similar titles and authors, provide guides for book discussions and more.
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PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) This link opens in a new window
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed for college students, this scholarly resource contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,780 journals, with full-text for more than 9,000 of those titles.
UKP (University Press of Kentucky) This link opens in a new window
ON CAMPUS ACCESS ONLY:
The University Press of Kentucky has a dual mission-the publication of books of high scholarly merit in a variety of fields for a largely academic audience and the publication of books about the history and culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley region, the Upper South, and Appalachia. The Press is the statewide mandated nonprofit scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, operated as an agency of the University of Kentucky and serving all state institutions of higher learning, plus five private colleges and Kentucky's two major historical societies.

More than 1,000 titles in the collections are freely available.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, covering approximately 12,000 of the highest impact journals, as well as 160,000 conference proceedings. Centre has access to coverage from 1999 to present.
Video tutorials
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Subscribed access to these 33 multidisciplinary journals (and many open access journals): American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Botany, American Journal of Political Science, Art History, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Child Development, Conservation Biology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecology - NY, Economic History Review, Family Relations, FASEB Journal, Foreign Language Annals, German Life & Letters, International Social Science Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Sociology Lens, Journal of Marriage and Family, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Plant Cell and Environment, Psychophysiology, Renaissance Studies, AND The Yale Review
WorldCat.org This link opens in a new window
The free public interface to the WorldCat database. Worldcat.org allows you to search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby.

Music

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in several social sciences and humanities disciplines including African-American Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Education, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. The most current issues (typically from the past three to five years) are not included.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive music encyclopedia, with coverage of music history, theory and practice, musical terminology, and biographies. Oxford Music Online is the access point for Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion to Music, and Grove Music Online.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. RILM is international in scope with materials from 150+ countries and in more than 200 languages. Coverage is especially strong for music history and musicology, and ranges from 1967 to present.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, covering approximately 12,000 of the highest impact journals, as well as 160,000 conference proceedings. Centre has access to coverage from 1999 to present.
Video tutorials

Philosophy

L'Annee Philologique This link opens in a new window
An indispensable index for research in Classics. Entries cover articles, books, book reviews, Festschrifte, and other collections dealing with the ancient Greek and Roman world, from the second millennium BCE to approximately 800 CE. Because APh covers worldwide scholarly publishing, in many languages, the Centre library will only have some of the items referenced. Coverage is from 1924-present. The Library also holds microfiche and print versions of earlier volumes.
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Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.
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PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. All sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages are monitored and maintained by academics. PhilPapers hosts the largest open access archive in philosophy.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in several social sciences and humanities disciplines including African-American Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Education, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. The most current issues (typically from the past three to five years) are not included.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, covering approximately 12,000 of the highest impact journals, as well as 160,000 conference proceedings. Centre has access to coverage from 1999 to present.
Video tutorials
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Subscribed access to these 33 multidisciplinary journals (and many open access journals): American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Botany, American Journal of Political Science, Art History, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Child Development, Conservation Biology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecology - NY, Economic History Review, Family Relations, FASEB Journal, Foreign Language Annals, German Life & Letters, International Social Science Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Sociology Lens, Journal of Marriage and Family, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Plant Cell and Environment, Psychophysiology, Renaissance Studies, AND The Yale Review

General

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
World News Digest This link opens in a new window
World News Digest is a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news from 1940-present. In addition to news articles, WND aggregates social media feeds and includes editorial cartoons, historical documents infographics and statistics. Hundreds of news sources, governments, and organizations—including ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, NPR, and the parliaments of Canada and Australia—rely on World News Digest for a broader view of the issues that matter today.

Databases A-to-Z: Div I - Humanities

Art / Art History

Classical Studies

Drama

English/German/Spanish/French/Japanese/Chinese/Arabic Literature

Music

Philosophy

General