Other Libraries and Library Catalogs
Electronic Databases
- WorldCat - The union catalog for OCLC, reflects the combined holdings of all OCLC members (>50,000 libraries), and contains over 1 billion bibliographic records. From before 1500-present.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index - From ISI. Covers over 1,100 journals, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references. 1975-present.
- Periodicals Index Online - Indexes thousands of selected international periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 to 1995. Also includes the complete table of contents for each issue of each journal.
- MLA International Bibliography - Citations on literary criticism, linguistics, modern languages, literature, drama, folklore, and film and video. 1926-present.
- JSTOR - Archived issues of over 770 academic journals. Articles are available as scanned versions of journal pages. 1800's-present.
- Project Muse - Over 200 e-journals published by university presses covering the arts and humanities, social science, and mathematics. 1993-present.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic - Full text of over 6,000 sources covering international news, business, legal, medical, and general reference research. 1970's-present.
- Academic Search Premier - Full text for over 1,800 journals, with abstracts and indexing for over 3,600 scholarly journals. 1975-present.
- Indexes and Guides to Western Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Many other scholarly databases are available through Duke and NCSU, in the areas of history, literature, classics, religion, art history, musicology, philosophy, etc. See metasearch.library.duke.edu/ and www.lib.ncsu.edu/searchcollection/databases/ for more information.
Full-Text Books, Journals
- Collections of Electronic books from Duke
- Bartleby's Great Books Online Extensive collection of free reference, fiction, non-fiction, essays and poetry
- LION (Literature Online) A searchable collection of over a quarter million works of English and American literature including poetry, drama, and prose, plus English language versions of the Bible, biographies, bibliographies and other secondary sources.
- NetLibrary A collection of online, cover-to-cover full text books. Access to 14,356 books from academic, professional, and reference publishers, as well as over 4,000 literary classics in the public domain
- Project Gutenberg Searchable database of over 20,000 free electronic works of literature, mostly pre-1923
- The Online Books Page Over 25,000 Free books and serials from the University of Pennsylvania
Book Reviews
Humanities Reference Sources
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