LibGuides: Humanities I: Databases and Journal Articles

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Web Sites

Dr. Shirley recommends these web sites for his section:

Internet Medieval History Sourcebook

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Reference Databases

In addition to our print reference books, we have databases that provide electronic access to reference books.

Here are some links to get you started:

General reference:

Oxford Reference Online - full text of many one-volume reference books, and a few multi-volume sets, including:
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (7 volumes, 2010)
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (4 volumes, 2010)
Gale Virtual Reference Library - includes PDF for Women in World History (17 vols., 1999) and the Encyclopedia of Religion (15 vols., 2004).
CREDO - good for basic information (dates, definition of a term, etc,)

Other useful sources:

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online - (381 volumes as of February 2018) - information on authors and their works.
Oxford Art Online - provides text of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art and other reference books on art; also images of art works.

Databases for Journal Articles

If you want journal articles for Humanities I, try these databases (links below):

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Research Library (at ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects and includes full-text access for thousands of titles, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers over 220 quality journal titles from 37 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Online editions are often available earlier than print editions.
ATLA This link opens in a new window
ATLA Full Text Plus provides a collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. ATLA Full Text Plus contains full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups.

Journal Locator
Use this if you have a citation for a journal article, and want to determine whether we have full text in any of our databases