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Classics

L'Année philologique	Thirty-three years (1969-2001) of the Année philologique (volumes 40 to 71) have now been put on-line. Each spring a new volume will be added to the database with the next update planned for the spring of 2004 when bibliography from 2002 will be added. Features 375,000 bibliographic records for the years 1969 to 2001, with 12,500 new records added each year.Over 1,500 journals are indexed and information for articles is accompanied by a brief abstract. Covers all aspects of classical studies.
Art Full Text	Citations to articles from American and foreign periodicals and museum bulletins dealing with the arts and related disciplines such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, fine arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, films and museums.Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. For complete list of indexed journals, click here. Coverage: 1984 - Present.
Art Index Retrospective	Cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. Features citations to articles from American and foreign periodicals and museum bulletins dealing with the arts and related disciplines such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, fine arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, films and museums. Coverage: 1929 - 1984.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index	Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. For journal directory, click here. Coverage: 1975 - Present.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive	BAS Online Archive contains the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazine Biblical Archaeology Review, as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS): Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple; Aspects of Monotheism: How God Is One; Feminist Approaches to the Bible; The Rise of Ancient Israel; and The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels. The site allows users to browse the entire corpus of material and perform boolean searches by title, author, subject, any word, issue, date range, or a combination of these categories.
Bibliography of the History of Art	Citations and abstracts of art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals covering current writing on Western fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, and prints), decorative and applied arts, industrial design and architecture, popular and folk art, and material culture of interest to art historians. Photography, new media and the performing arts are also covered in connection with the visual arts. Click here for journal list. Coverage: 1973 - Present.
DYABOLA	Dyabola contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. Our subscription includes the subject catalogue of European pre- and early history and the archeology of the Roman provinces in the RGK (Roman-Germanic Commission) in Frankfurt, and the Realkatalog of the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) in Rome.
Humanities Full Text	Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites articles from more than 350 English-language periodicals, plus the full text of over 95 of those periodicals. It covers the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage: 1984 - Present.
Oxford Classical Dictionary	Covering literature, art, philosophy, law, biography, mythology, science, geography, daily life, and broad cultural and historical trends, the OCD presents clear, authoritative information on all aspects of the ancient world. In over six thousand entries ranging from long articles to brief definitions, the OCD continues its historical tradition of authoritative, signed articles with bibliographies and incorporates the insights and interests of a new generation of classical scholars. There is substantial coverage of women in the ancient world, sexuality, Asia and the Far East, Jews, and early Christians. In addition new thematic articles reflect the current emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to classical studies. *Scroll down to the link for Oxford Classical Dictionary from the PastMasters Welcome page.
Past Masters	Full-text, searchable versions of many important philosophical writings, including the collected works in English of Aquinas, Aristotle, Berkeley, Calvin, Dewey, Hume, Locke, Santayana and Sidgwick; the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Anselm's Opera Omnia, Hegel's Werke, Nietzsche's Werke, Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers and Samlede Værker, Luther's Sermons, Ockham's Work of Ninety Days and Wittgenstein's Published Works..
Patrologia Latina Database	The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) is a comprehensive electronic version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's massive Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes. The Patrologia Latina, though originally published in the 19th century, still represents the only scholarly edition of many works.
Patrologiae Graecae	Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. J.-P. Migne, a priest from 1824-1833, moved to Paris and began the work of assembling an enormous body of early texts from 1833 till his death in 1873. His work consists of the The Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca (Paris, 1857-1866), 161 volumes (a.k.a PG), and the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina (Paris, 1844-1855), 221 volumes.
Perseus Project	This innovative multimedia database contains interactive sources and studies on Ancient Greece, including primary texts such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with an English translation by A.T. Murray; Apollodorus, the Library, with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer; and Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Wier Smyth. For visual texts, Perseus has a vast library of over 4,000 vase, sculpture and coin images from collections such as the Agora Museum and the Acropolis Museum in Athens; the Antikensammlungen in Munich; the British Museum in London; and the Arthur S. Dewing Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There are two versions of the Perseus Project, one on CD-ROM and one on the Web.
Regesta Imperii	Principally a chronological index of source documents, with brief summaries and genealogical charts. Also includes online historical monographs and a searchable catalog of over 130,000 books, journals and periodical articles on European medieval history and electronic documents (full text and page images) with ancillary bibliographical database. Site navigation in German; text chiefly in German, with some French and Latin.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae	The TLG Canon of Authors and Works is a bibliographic guide to the authors and works included in the TLG® Digital Library. The Canon represents many years of research conducted by TLG staff members. A printed version of the Canon is available (Luci Berkowitz and Karl A. Squitier, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1990); an electronic file is included in all TLG CD ROMs. The web Canon database is regularly updated to include new entries added to the TLG® Digital Library. Before you begin, you may select a Greek font for your session. A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some work titles that appear in Greek. To save your searches and set your default preferences, you need to establish a personal account.
TOCS - IN	TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%). Collection list here.

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Individual Drama & Theater Arts Related Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index	Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. For journal directory, click here. Coverage: 1975 - Present.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare	Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).
English Prose Drama	English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama are now combined in this database of 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
Humanities Full Text	Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites articles from more than 350 English-language periodicals, plus the full text of over 95 of those periodicals. It covers the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage: 1984 - Present.
International Index to the Performing Arts	IIPA provides citations and abstracts to articles published in more than 200 international journals and magazines in the performing arts, including dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and performance business. The database also includes citations to performance-related feature articles and obituaries published in the New York Times and Washington Post. Users may search by author, subject, publication, date, or by keywords within various fields. While the majority of citations are for current literature, IIPA also includes retrospective citations from 46 periodicals dating back to 1864.
Inter-Play	On-line index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of languages. Contains approximately 16,130 citations to plays, many of which are not included in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index. The sources indexed range from the late 19th century through the current year. Where possible, editor and translator information for each play has been included and page numbers in the various sources where the plays are located have been provided. Cross references are provided for variant spellings of an author's name, for pseudonyms, and for variant titles of a single play. The call numbers cited are those assigned by the Portland State University Library.
MLA Bibliography	The MLA International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Users may search or browse by author, title, subject and by several other fields using the 'Search Builder' feature. In addition, searches may be limited by language, publication type and publication year or range of years. The database includes a searchable thesaurus, and allows subject searches to be focused using 'role indicators' and 'subfield codes.' Coverage: 1963 - Present.

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General Humanities

Academic Search Premier	Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Alternative Press Index & Alternative Press Index Archive	The Alternative Press Index and its archive, covering 1969 - present, are widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from roughly 250 alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. API indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books. 90% of the publications indexed in API are unique; you won't find them indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social Sciences Index. Approximately 17,000 new records (some with abstracts) are added each year.
America: History & Life	America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, covering over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals. All abstracts are written in English. Coverage: 1964-present.
Book Review Digest Plus	Book Review Digest Plus, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes approximately 109 leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Coverage: 1983-present.
Dissertations & Theses	Dissertation and Theses - Full Text (ProQuest) contains more than 2 million entries with information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. It is the same database as Dissertation Abstracts, but with the significant advantage that titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.
Essay and General Literature Index	Essay and General Literature Index (EGL), produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. EGL also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. EGL focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. Click here for a journal list. Coverage: 1985-present.
Humanities Full Text	Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites articles from more than 350 English-language periodicals, plus the full text of over 95 of those periodicals. It covers the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage: 1984 - Present.
IBZ Online	The IBZ is an "international bibliography of periodical literature covering all fields of knowledge." It indexes periodical articles in all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English. Coverage of the printed volumes, including earlier titles, goes back to 1896.*
Periodicals Index Online	Periodicals Index Online is the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
WilsonWeb	A collection of periodical indexing databases covering the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. You can search the databases separately, or use WilsonWeb's Check Relevant Databases feature at the bottom of the initial search screen to search across multiple databases simultaneously. WilsonWeb replaces the Expanded Academic Index which was available through Orbis.

Not sure where to start or want to cross search several databases at once? Try the following multiple database searches (full-text resources / indexes / image databases) in the following areas:

Architecture / Art & Art History

Now that you've found a citation, where is the article?

• YALE Links Tool: Look for Yale Links button when searching YUL databases. When you click on the the Yale Links button, a menu will open in a new browser window with options for the citation. The citation will be displayed first, and then a link for full text (if available). Click on the full text link, and Yale Links will get you either to the article or as close as it can to the article (some publishers only let us link to the journal level, not to the specific article).For more information on the SFX button, click here.
• Citation Linker: Citation Linker is a quick tool to use when you have a citation for an article you need to find. Enter the information you know about the citation into the Web form and Citation Linker will search for the article in Yale's online content. Citation Linker will create a menu of options for you. If it finds full text, that link(s) will display at the top of the menu. Additional links for searching Yale Library catalogs or list of online journals will also display.
• Search in Orbis by journal title (Not the title of the article). You may use the "Quick Limit" feature to limit your results to only online journals; however, not all of our online journals are listed in Orbis. Note the location and call number.
• Head to the Art + Architecture Library stacks to find back issues. Current issues are kept in the Periodical section. Journals do not circulate, so what you want should be there.
• Can't find the volume you want? Ask at the circulation desk in Art + Architecture.

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Contact the Public Services Librarian, Hannah Bennett, at 436-8052 or use our electronic reference question form.

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