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Database/Vendor Subjects Contents Coverage Dates/Updates
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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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
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

International Encyclopedia of Communication
  Blackwell Reference Online

Communications
  • Text
  • Images
Authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in the field of communications
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
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  • ~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
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  • ~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
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+

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