Humanities

Based on the print series, contains full-text German-language works by and critical apparatuses for, canonical authors in the arts, history, philosophy, politics, and literature, spanning many centuries, from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Immanuel Kant.

IBZ is a multilingual bibliography that indexes over 8,700 periodicals primarily in the arts, humanities and social sciences. To access, select "Go to Databases," then "Bibliographies," then IBZ.

1983- (updated monthly)

A collection of prizewinning History books, published electronically. Topics include, but are not limited to, Africa, Colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military History and History of Foreign Relations.

1999- present

Combined search of 17 databases from Gale provided to all public libraries statewide by the Michigan e-Library (MeL), including Academic OneFile, Business & Company ASAP, Computer Database, Educators Reference Complete, General BusinessFile ASAP, General OneFile, Health Reference Center Academic, Informe, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, LegalTrac, etc. Provides ability to limit searching to sets of full text articles in 24 different interdisciplinary subject areas, including Diversity Studies, Environmental Studies and Policy, Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine, Pop Culture, War & Terrorism, etc. Also provides links to 8 additional Gale databases provided by MeL, including Business & Company Resource Center, Chilton Library, Health & Wellness Resource Center, etc.

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Access to 17 databases provided by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) using their FirstSearch interface, including:  WorldCat; ArticleFirst; Alternative Press Index; Anthropology Plus; Chicano Database; ERIC; GPO Monthly Catalog; Heritage of the Printed Book; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals; MedLine; OAIster; SCIPIO; and World Almanacs.  Permits simultaneous searching of up to three databases at once.

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Access to 11 databases from NewsBank, Inc., including: Access World News [full text newspapers, 1990s-present]; AccessUN [index of United Nations documents, 1944-present]; Archive of Americana, combining America's Historical Newspapers with Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) and Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) [digitized American books 1639-1819]; Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports and Electronic Index [translated from foreign language news sources, 1974-1996]; Hispanic American Newspapers; and World Newspaper Archive, combining America's Historical Newspapers with Latin American Newspapers.

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Comprising hundreds of titles written during the 16th and 17th centuries, the DLCR will give researchers immediate, Web-based access to hundreds of hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors’ manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, sacred drama, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, accounts of saints’ lives, and devotional works. Included are digital facsimiles and searchable full-text, in a variety of languages.

16th & 17th centuries

An index to more than 250,000 short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in over 4,200 collections and anthologies, and in the hundreds of periodicals covered by Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index. Includes full text of nearly 5,000 stories, with links to the full text of thousands more available in the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Includes stories originally published since 1830 that have appeared in collections, anthologies and periodicals published from 1915 - present.

Combined access to 50+ ProQuest databases, including full text journals, historical newspapers and corporate reports, and specialized indexes for many different fields, including:  Arts, Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, History, Humanities, Literature & Language, News & Current Events, Science, Social Sciences, and Dissertations & Theses.  Among the included databases:   ABI/INFORM, American Periodicals Series (APS), Environmental Science & Pollution Management, Ethnic NewsWatch, OxResearch, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, ProQuest Historical Annual Reports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Technology Collection, and Zoological Record Plus.  Includes all databases from CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). 

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New web version of the most complete and authoritative dictionary of the English language. Provides definitions, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world, with over 3 million quotations documenting how and when they have been used over time. Also incorporates the Historical Thesaurus of the OED, where words are arranged by their meaning rather than alphabetically.

Third Edition (in progress since 2000), with Second Edition (1989) entries (gradually being replaced).