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American Drama (1714-1915)
  Chadwyck-Healey
Drama
  • Text
1,500+ dramatic works reflecting American writing in a wide variety of genres
  • 1714-1915

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Art Abstracts
   Ebsco
Archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, films, art, design, museology, and photography
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
400+ journals, yearbooks, museum bulletins
  • Index and abstracts, 1984+
  • Text, 1997+

  • Daily
CAMIO: Catalog of Art Images Online
  OCLC
Art
  • Images
  • Text
90,000+ digital images of art, architecture, costume, jewelry, digital arts, performance arts, and textiles from major museums. Objects date from 3,000 B.C. to the 21st century. International in scope
  • Ongoing
Communication and Mass Media Complete
   EBSCO
Communications
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
A merger of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, providing access to books and journals, including 200+ in full text
  • 1900+

  • Monthly
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
   Oxford University Press
Popular music and musicians
  • Text
  • Links
27,000 entries - includes all 4th ed. (2006) content about popular music, jazz, R & B, hip hop, country, and more from 1900 to present. Discographies also included.
  • 2006

  • Regularly (3 -4 times/year)
English Drama (1280-1915)
  Chadwyck-Healey
Drama
  • Text
3,900+ plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde
  • 1280-1915

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Graphic Novels Core Collection
   Wilson
Art, social sciences
  • Text
  • Images
2,000+ recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative comments and cover art
  • Varies
  • N/A
Grove Art Online
   OUP
Art
  • Text
  • Images
  • Links
45,000 articles, 21,000 biographies, 130,000 images, 500,000 citations
  • 2000
  • Monthly
Grove Music Online
   OUP
All aspects of music
  • Text
  • Images
  • Links
50,000 articles, 28,000 biographies, 5,000 images
  • 2001
  • Quarterly
Humanities International Index
   EBSCO
Humanities
  • Citations
Bibliographic references to 1,000+ literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the US and Canada
  • 1925+

  • Monthly
IIMP Full Text
   Chadwyck-Healey
All aspects of music
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
500+ journals from 20+ countries
  • 1996+

  • Monthly

International Encyclopedia of Communication
  Blackwell Reference Online

Communications
  • Text
  • Images
Authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in the field of communications
JSTOR
   JSTOR
All subjects
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
  • Images
Complete archive of 169 major research journals
  • Varies

  • Daily
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
   LEXIS-NEXIS
General, news, business, legal, and medical information
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
  • Web links
  • 100+ newspapers and wire services
  • 1000+ journals and newsletters
  • numerous reference sources
  • Varies

  • Daily
Literature Online
   Chadwyck-Healey
English and American poetry, drama, and literature
  • Text
Fully-searchable library of 350,000+ works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 208 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
  • 1280+

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Naxos Music Library

Classical, jazz, folk and Chinese music
  • Audio
  • Scores
85,000 tracks from the 5,500 CDs included in the Naxos, Marco Polo and Decapo Catalogs
  • -----

  • ~200 titles/year

Naxos Music Library Jazz
   Naxos

Jazz music from around the world
  • Audio
22,000+ tracks of jazz from 1,850+ albums and 500+ musicians
  • Varies by title

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Naxos Spoken Word Library

Classic novels, plays and poetry in the literary arts, humanities and education
  • Audio
  • Text
More than 350 works by 100 authors, playwrights and poets read by professional actors
  • -----

  • ~30 titles/year
Oral History Online
  Alexander Street Press
History
  • Citations
  • Text
  • Weblinks
Indexes and links web-based oral histories in English from libraries and archives throughout the world.
  • Varies

  • Quarterly
Oxford Art Online
  OUP
Every aspect of art, architecture, and archaeology from prehistory to the present
  • Text
  • Images
  • Links
Portal to a variety of art resources, such as Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Dictionary of Art Terms
  • Varies
  • Monthly
Oxford Music Online
   OUP
All aspects of music
  • Text
  • Images
  • Links
Portal to a variety of music resources including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music
  • Varies

  • Quarterly
Play Index
   Wilson
Plays
  • Citations
  • Text
31,000+ classic and historical plays reprinted in collections, anthologies, new editions and translations, as well as contemporary playwrights
  • 1949+
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
  OCLC
Music
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
475+ journals, books, bibliographies, catalogs, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, proceedings, and videos
  • 1967+

  • Monthly
Saskia Art Image Collection
   CARLI Digital Collections
Art history
  • Images
  • Text
32,000+ digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture from museum collections worldwide and references to the images in 19 major art history texts
  • 1966+

SRDS Media Solutions
   SRDS
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Advertising media rates; Demographic, segmentation, & targeting data for consumer markets and media planning.
  • Text
  • Data
Online access to: "Local Market Audience Analyst", "Radio Advertising Source", "TV and Cable Source"
  • Daily
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