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  • Academic Search Premier

    This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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    1975 - present; updated daily
  • America: History & Life

    Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada

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    1964 - present
  • Art Abstracts

    Art Abstracts produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

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    1984 - present
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

    Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

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    1975 - present
  • CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

    This database offers images, text and multimedia representing a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums. It highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms.

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  • Communication & Mass Media Complete

    Combines CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index and provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media. 

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    1915 - present (varies by publication); updated annually
  • Historical Abstracts

    Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

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    1955 - present
  • Humanities International Index

    Covers journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.

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    1975 - present
  • IIPA Full Text

    International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text is a performing arts journal resource with nearly 350,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text, covering film, theatre and dance.
    4 simultaneous users

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    1864 - present
  • JSTOR

    Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

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    varies by publication
  • Literary Reference Center

    Ebsco's scholarly articles and criticisms, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, & poems.

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    varies by publication
  • Literature Resource Center

    Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, Gale's Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

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    varies by publication
  • MLA International Bibliography

    Literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.

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    1926 - present; updated quarterly
  • Play Index

    Play Index enables users to search some 44,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. The database covers a wide range of plays written or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

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    1949 - present
  • Project MUSE

    Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

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    varies by title; updated monthly
  • Theatre in Video

    Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 60 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
    3 simultaneous users

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  • World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

    The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online consists of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1962 and 2006. Contains over 110,000 annotated entries.

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    1962 - 2006

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  • Cambridge Journals Online

    Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

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    varies by publication
  • Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

    Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

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    varies by publication
  • International Medieval Bibliography

    Bibliography of articles in journals and conference proceedings, essay collections, etc. Worldwide coverage. Click on the Enter Databases button. On the next page click on the "Go" button.
    3 simultaneous users - Please log out when finished

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    1967 - present
  • MasterFILE Premier

    Provides abstracts and indexing for multi-disciplinary periodicals, reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.

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    1975 - present
  • Newspaper Source Plus

    Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers and selective full text for 410 U.S newspapers. The database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts.

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    varies by publication
  • Readers' Guide Retrospective

    Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.

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    1890 - 1982

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  • Creative Wilmington.com

    This resource offers directory entries for people connected with the arts in Wilmington, such as film-makers, visual artists, dancers, authors, musicians, and others. The directory entries include contact information, websites, and portfolios of the artists’ works. 

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  • PBS Video Collection

    You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

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  • WorldCat

    Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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    1200 - present; Updated daily