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| ARTICLES | | |  Help Finding Articles | | |  Journal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals. | | | Scholarly Articles | | | 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. | | | Humanities International Index
Includes data from American Humanities Index plus international journals, books and reference works. Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. | | | JSTOR - Full Text
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. | | | 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. | | | Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - 1965 to present - Full Text
Full-text and indexing for over 4,500 scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more. | | | Arts & Humanities Search - 1980 to present
Indexes 1,300 journals covering all arts and humanities disciplines. The database of almost 2.1 million records includes materials published from 1980 to the present as well as older material cited in these publications. Updated weekly. | | | ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - 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). | | | ETHXWeb (National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature)
Citations, some with abstracts or tables of contents, to literature on bioethics and professional ethics from many disciplines and publication types including journals, newspapers, books, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, and audiovisuals. | | | Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - 1990 to present
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
| | | 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... | | | Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts - 1973 to present
Covers phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics, providing abstracts of journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, & book reviews. | | | Project Muse - Current issues - Full Text
Access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. | | | PubMed (Medline) - From 1950s to present - Help
Provides access to over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Check out Medline Tutorial. | |
| BOOKS AND MEDIA | | | Help Finding Books | | | Google Books - Full Text
Indexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. Printing and downloading are not available. | | | Moodle/E-Reserves
Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more. | | | Library Catalogs | | | Five College Library Catalog - Help
 Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst. | | | WorldCat - all dates
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records. | | | LibDex
Link to other libraries' Web-based catalogs, listed by country. | | | Book Purchases and Reviews | | | Book Review Digest - 1983 to present
Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books from periodicals published in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication.
| | | Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - 1902-1990. MLIN - Full Text
More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available. | | | Times Literary Supplement Subscriber Archive - 1994 to present - Full Text
Access to articles from every issue of the TLS from 1994. (Issues are added to the Archive one month after publication). Username/password required; ask at Reference Desk. | |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | | | Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text
Includes almost 300 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion. | | | Cambridge Collections Online - Full Text
Online version of the Cambridge Companions; offers introductions to major writers, artists, topics and periods within the fields of literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture. | | | Oxford Companion to Philosophy [Oxford] | | | Dictionaries | | | Dictionary of Buddhism [Oxford] | | | Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy [Oxford] | | | Encyclopedias | | | Encyclopedia of Philosophy [Gale] - Full Text
This standard scholarly encyclopedia in philosophy contains hundreds of scholarly articles on all aspects of philosophy. Edited by Donald M. Borchert this second edition was published in 2006. | | | New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Gale] - Full Text
The NDHI is a comprehensive work that discusses the main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the twenty-first century in all fields across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East. | | | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Full Text - Help
This is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy featuring over 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy. | | | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | | | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | | | Style Manuals | | | Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper
(Duke University Library) Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA. | | | MLA Format (Purdue University Writing Laboratory) | | | Style Manuals & Citation Guides - Help | |
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