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Humanities Abstracts - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs from over 465 sources in the humanities.
International Medieval Bibliography - 1967 to present.
Covers all aspects of medieval studies for the period from 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. More than 300,000 citations to articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - 1859 to present
Access to over 550 scholarly journals with published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials [EBSCO] - 1949 to present - Full Text
Covers religious and theological scholarship in 1,400 international journals and 14,000 multi-author works. Includes citations and some full text from Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
Bibliography of British and Irish History - 1901 to present
Produced by the Royal Historical Society, this consolidates over 50 existing bibliographies (including the Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History) listing books and articles. Also includes many records from before 1901.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective - 1907-1984
Indexes nearly 1,200 English-language scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; also includes citations to book reviews.
Index Islamicus - 1906 to present
Lists articles, books, essays, reviews on Islam, the Middle East & the Muslim world (incl. Asia, Africa, & Muslim minorities elsewhere). Covers art, archaeology, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, sciences...
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Complete full text backfiles of over 400 scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, General Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, and Music excluding the most recent 2 to 5 years.
MLA Bibliography - 1926 to present - Help
Indexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, includes 1,200,000+ records.
Philosopher's Index - 1940 to present
Indexes books and journals of philosophy and related fields, including ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
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Access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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Books in Print - 1979 to present
Includes information on scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books covering all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. Includes titles declared out-of-print from July 1979 to the present.
REFERENCE TOOLS
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Middle English Compendium - Full Text
Contains the Middle English Dictionary, the HyperBibliography of Middle English (listing the materials cited in the MED), and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (a collection of e-texts). Also offers links to associated electronic sources.
Style Manuals
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INTERNET META-SITES
History Web Page, University of Virginia
Labyrinth: A WWW Server for Medieval Studies
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Reti Medievali: Online Initiatives for Medieval Studies
INTERNET RESOURCES
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Primary source documents in U.S. and international law, history and diplomacy.
Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Historical Text Archive
RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
Department of Art
Department of History
Department of Religion and Biblical Literature
Medieval Studies Program
Department of English Language & Literature
Department of French
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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