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E - Resources: Core Humanities
Core Humanities
Program - Villanova University
If you would like instruction or assistance in using these or any other resources,
please contact the Reference Desk at Falvey Memorial Library by email or phone:
610-519-4273.
Selected Databases
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Recommended Databases
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Features citations, abstracts and/or full-text for articles from more than 2500 scholarly and general interest publications.
Covered subject areas include current events, the arts, history, literature, psychology, political science, sociology,
communications, engineering, health and medicine, and the general sciences.
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Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 300 periodicals in archaeology, art ,
classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts,
philosophy, religion, world history and world literature.
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson's International Index is also included.
Other Helpful Databases
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Provides abstracts, full-text, and/or full-text with images
of records of articles taken from over 1,000 business journals. Also features 27 national newspapers.
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A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database also includes citations
and links to book and media reviews.
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This database covers Greek and Roman antiquity and includes volumes from 1949 to
2004 of the index L'Annee Philologique.
It indexes 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.
Vol. 1-75(1924-2005) available in the stacks: PA2.M35a
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Indexes key international English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews and more.
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Citation index to articles in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
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Indexes over 600 international journals, multi-author works, and book reviews from the research literature of religion and related fields in 26 languages.
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Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. NOTE: MFI does not include books written by a single author, but does offer links to catalogs of libraries with strong collections in medieval studies to search for such books.
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An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada)
from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and
dissertations.
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Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every
age and literary discipline. The LRC is built on Contemporary Authors Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Online and Scribner Writers Series, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars as well as
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
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The MagillOnLiterature Plus is comprised of approximately 30,000 records, more than 1,000 images, and has a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and extended character profiles covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. MagillOnLiterature Plus also contains over 6,500 biographical essays on more than 3,500 different authors, including up-to-date lists of each author's principal works.
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Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language,
linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations to articles from over 3000
journals and series published internationally, as well as monographs,
collections, and various types of reference works. Access the
MLA Directory of Periodicals from here.
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Indexes and abstracts books and more than 480 journals of philosophy and related fields in many languages. The book reviews in the print version are not included in the online version.
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Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, as
well as theatrical productions, reviews of productions and other material
related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1968 and 2003, with
coverage continuing to extend forward and backward in time.
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