ABELL [Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature] | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; ABELL indexes scholarly articles, doctoral dissertations, books and reviews concerning English language, literature, bibliography and folklore published anywhere in the world. (1991-)
ABSEES [American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies]: Guide; No account or password necessary.; American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1990-present. (1990-, updated monthly)
Academic Search Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This collection of African-American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s. It also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements, all of which embody the African-American experience. This database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
Aluka | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions - Fondren Library has guest access through the end of 2007. Aluka seeks to attract contributed collections about Africa from institutions and individuals around the world. Current collections include a) African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes (including excavation reports, manuscripts, field notes, unpublished documentation, travelogues, maps, site plans, and scholarly research), b) African Plants (specimens of African plants linked to a wide range of related images and data, including photographs, drawings, botanical art, field notes, published flora, and other reference works) and c) Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa (documentation of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, beginning with Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, including archival materials, periodicals, oral histories, books, and photographs).
America: History and Life: No account or password necessary.; Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, this database indexes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. (1964-)
Analecta hymnica medii aevi digitalia | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Analecta hymnica medii aevi, originally published in 55 volumes, contains texts of hymns of the Catholic Church, 500 - 1400. This complete digital edition allows for searching the full text of the hymns, including the bibliographic references to manuscripts and prints. The user may also search by author and title, and browse by volume. (500-1400)
AnthroSource | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Current issues of American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA's journals, newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.
Architectural Index: No account or password necessary.; Provides indexing for a number of journals in the field. Search by architect/designer, location or magazine. (1982-)
Archives Image Gallery - Smithsonian Institution | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of archival visual records that are part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's main catalog. It includes over 90,000 electronic images from several archival repositories at the Smithsonian. You may browse these images by archival repositories or by their physical forms.
Art Abstracts (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Art Index contains more than 200 key international, English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. (1984-, updated monthly)
Art Index Retrospective | includes Full Text: Source List; No account or password necessary.; A bibliographic database that cumulates citations to volumes 1-32 of the printed Art Index. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. (1929-1984)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index see Web of Knowledge: No account or password necessary.
ArtStor Appropriate Use | System Requirements | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
ATLA Religion Index see Religion Index: No account or password necessary.
Avery Index to Architecture (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Avery Index describes articles in over 1,000 periodicals in the fields of architecture and related disciplines from 1977 to the present, with partial coverage for earlier materials. Coverage includes architecture, architectural design, history of architecture, interior design, historic preservation, city planning, and landscape architecture. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07. (1977-)

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und literaturwissenschaft: No account or password necessary.; Established as a special bibliography of the University Library Frankfurt am Main the "Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft" (BDSL) has been published by Vittorio Klostermann Verlag since 1957 and comprises world-wide coverage of published literature on the German language, literature and general Germanic studies.
Bibliography of Asian Studies: No account or password necessary.; This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database. (1971-, updated quarterly)
Bibliography of Native North Americans (courtesy of Texshare): No account or password necessary.; Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; BHA is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. BHA indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index: No account or password necessary.; BGMI provides biographical material on people from all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor. Over 4 million entries include: name, birth & death dates, and citations to sources of additional information.
Black Studies Database : Kaiser Index to Black Resources (1948-1986): No account or password necessary.; BSD includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience from 1948-1986. This valuable resource covers events critical to the study of Black life and culture outside of Africa including notable figures in Black history, culture, and sports; the Civil Rights Movement, the growth of the NAACP and the National Urban League; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; jazz and soul music; and much more.
Bya-ra: a Tibetan Research Database: No account or password necessary.; A database containing over 9700 bibliographic entries to materials located in New York at the Himalayan and Inner Asian Resources (HIAR); the Library of Congress; and university and private holdings in Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; CAMIO - RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. (Supercedes AMICO )
Central and Eastern European Online Library | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 260 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 280 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
China Academic Journals | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The China Academic Journals Database puts over 9.5 million full text articles of all academic subjects contributed by over 5,000 serials titles, nearly 2,000 in social sciences and humanities alone, at the fingertips of users. The archive begins with 1994. Full text access is available only in the Literature, History, and Philosophy section.
China Academic Journals -- Literature, History, Philosophy: No account or password necessary.; China Academic Journals (CAJ) now contains more than 8,200 journal titles covering 1994–current. In addition, more than 3,500 CAJ titles are also accessible in deep archives from as early as 1906 through 1993 in the Century Journal Project (CJP). CAJ and its complement, CJP, are both accessed through the single interface of CAJ.
Clase and Periodica (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. The combined database indexes over 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. (1975-)
Classical Music Library Be sure to check the "Compatibility" link under the system's "Help" tab for current technical requirements | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Classical Music Library is a substantial collection of classical recordings, covering music from the medieval period to the 20th century. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels-- Territory restrictions apply outside the US and Europe), with a particular focus on contemporary music and women composers. In addition to the ability to search or browse, and then listen to streaming audio, the resource includes glossaries, images and biographies.
Contemporary Authors (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Contemporary Authors helps researchers discover biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States are featured.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; CLC presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Each entry contains the following: a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay and most essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.
DaSind –Datenbank der Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland: No account or password necessary.; Provides access to information related to German women authors who have been writing from 1945- . Database contains bibliographical references to monographs, anthologies and contributions in anthologies, and radio dramas broadcast since 1945. Bibliographical citations are supplemented by the biographical data of women writers and translators who have published in Germany since 1945, portrait photos, and other pieces of photographic documentation
Database of Recorded American Music | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Currently, there are over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions) on DRAM. The basis for the collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since 1975. A further DRAM initiative is the expansion of content to include American music from other sources. Other labels currently represented on the Database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable. Alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources are crucial to DRAM's goal of collecting the widest spectrum of American music possible for educational use and scholarly research. (19th century -)
Datenbank der Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland: No account or password necessary.; A database of women writers in Germany from 1945 until today, published by the Society for the Research of Women's Literature (Die Stiftung Frauen-Literatur-Forschung.) This ever-expanding resource contains biographical information for over 26,000 writers as well as an extensive bibliographical index of their works.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) records the achievements of the world's most influential literary figures. Each entry includes personal data, the author's principal works, and sources for further study.
Digital Sanborn Maps (Texas) (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: Guide; No account or password necessary.; Appropriate Use
Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools - they are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas.
Dyabola: Click on 'IP Access' button and then on 'Start'; Select language of interface by clicking on appopriate flag; Dyabola contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. It includes the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt. Select interface language (German, English, French or Italian).

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC): No account or password necessary.; The English Short Title Catalogue describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
Essay Finder | includes Full Text: Password required; Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. Account/password: On campus/VPN and
Fiction Finder: No account or password necessary.; FictionFinder provides a work-based approach to fiction. You can search by place (New Orleans, for example); by character (Nancy Drew), and more. When you find an item you are interested in, you can then learn whether your library has it.
Film and Television Literature Index | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
FirstSearch (Assistance in choosing a database) FirstSearch (Listing all available databases) (via FirstSearch): No account or password necessary.; FirstSearch is a tool which provides access to a variety of databases, including: WorldCat, a combined catalog for over 15,000 libraries in over 45 countries. In addition, FirstSearch includes subject and special format indices. The information is updated daily.
FRANCIS (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information with over 4,000 journals covering the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature world literature. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.

Handbook of Latin American Studies: No account or password necessary.; The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. (1935-)
Health and Wellness Resource Center (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text periodicals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.
HeritageQuest Online (courtesy of Texshare): No account or password necessary.; This collection assembles genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials, as found in the corresponding microform collection. When complete (est. 2003), Genealogy & Local History Online will encompass materials from all 50 states including over 7 million pages.
Hispanic American Periodicals: No account or password necessary.; The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) covers over 400 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities, or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics. A guide to searching the Hispanic American Periodicals Index is available online. (1970- updated annually)
Historical Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The definitive bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine. HST describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in these and allied historical fields. Citations reflect the contents of over 600 journals, plus partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07. (1976-)
Humanities Citation Index see Web of Knowledge: No account or password necessary.
Humanities International Complete | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.

Index Islamicus | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library. Records included in the database cover almost a century of publications, with some going back to 1906. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1906-)
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals (AAI) is the only online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The 42 journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.
International Index to Music Periodicals | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; IIMP draws its current content from nearly 400 international music periodicals from over 30 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Every IIMP record in the current file (1996-present) contains an abstract. Only journals in the full text file (1997-present) contain full texts of articles. (1996-)
International Medieval Bibliography (Note down-loadable IMB-fonts for non-Arabic characters in indexed literature): No account or password necessary.; The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies. (1981-)
International Online Bibliography of Dada: No account or password necessary.; The International Online Bibliography of Dada is the online catalog of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries. The catalog includes materials in all formats that have been cataloged for the collection, including books, essays in books, periodical articles, manuscripts, sound and videorecordings, and other media related to the Dada movement and to the individual dadaists.
Iter Gateway to the Renaissance: No account or password necessary.; Includes a journals database, which includes approximately 135,000 records from scholarly journals pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and Middle Ages (400-1500), as well as a monographs database (under construction), which acts as a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, the Middle Ages (400-1500).
JSTOR | includes Full Text: Source List; No account or password necessary.; JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)
L'annee philologique: No account or password necessary.; Bibliography of classical languages and literature (1996-)
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project: No account or password necessary.; Indexes the contents of over 350 periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Individual articles can be located through a variety of browsing and searching combinations, including article author, title, country, journal title, and date.
Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei -- Soviet Periodical Index: No account or password necessary.; "Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei [is] a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in publication since 1926, covers more than 1,700 journals, series, and continuing publications of academies, universities, and research institutes in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, and the social sciences, and it also covers the popular periodical literature. Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei provides access to the periodical literature of an essential time in modern Russian history, beginning with the period of the Khrushchev "Thaw" following the 20th CPSU Congress and continuing through the first half of the so-called Brezhnev "Period of Stagnation". Virtually any student or scholar studying Russian political science, literature, or history between 1956-1975 will find Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei to be an invaluable resource."
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online / International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages | includes Full Text: Click on Enter databases; Lexikon des Mittelalters online (LexMA) is an indispensable research tool for medievalists of all disciplines. Based upon the most important encyclopaedia (published in German between 1977 and 1999), LexMA’s articles cover all aspects of medieval studies. Its geographical scope covers the whole of Europe, part of the Middle East, and parts of North Africa to document the roots of Western culture and those of its neighbours in the Byzantine, Arab and Jewish worlds. LexMA ias been enhanced through the inclusion of English keywords and an integral translation tool, and through the provision of links to the cumulative bibliographies: International Medieval Bibliography and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale. The International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA), an entirely new supplement to the Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA), is being produced under the joint auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Brepols Publishers. (300-1500)
Library Literature (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; More than 200 library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year. ( (1984- updated monthly)
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts: No account or password necessary.; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. (mid-1960s-)
Linguistic Data Consortium [LDC] Online Special account requirements. Accounts available to Rice University faculty, students and staff | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; LDC-Online is to facilitate linguistic research and development. LDC-Online retrieves only concordances or statistical summaries, not whole documents. Browsing is allowed only if the material is public domain, or the copyright holder specifically permits it.
Linguistics Abstracts: Source List; No account or password necessary.; Provides access to 15,000 abstracts from nearly 300 linguistics journals. (1985-)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1973- )
Lit Finder: Password required; This database indexes thousands of poems, stories, plays, speeches, and essays and includes the fulltext for many titles indexed.
Account/password: On campus/VPN and proxy users
Literature Resource Center (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Magazine Stacks: No account or password necessary.; This freely-accessible database allows you to search or browse the table of contents information of numerous German and English-language historical journals, Festschriften and monographic series. Many journals are represented in complete runs and many extend back to the nineteenth century.
Modern Language Association Bibliography (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide between 1926 and the present. The MLA Bibliography is updated ten times per year. (1926-)
Music Index: Source List; No account or password necessary.; Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject Heading List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. (1979-)
Musical America.com: Account: riceuniv Password: willy6; A multi-purpose resource for music and other performing arts. The site includes industry news, reviews, feature articles, and artist and manager listings. Links are provided to venues, presenters and associations of interest to the performing arts.
Naxos Music Library 15 simultaneous users - please remember to logout | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Naxos Music Library is an unique resource, giving you online access to the entire Naxos catalogue of recordings. Through a sophisticated online search engine, you can select works by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. Playlists also can be created, and you can read insightful information about the works, artists and composers. Naxos's new releases (currently around 200 CDs per year) are continually added to ensure that the music library is always complete and up-to-date
netLibrary (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Contains reference books, scholarly monographs, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format for electronic distribution. Rice University's private collection (emphasizing computing "how to" manuals, employment resources, and general reference titles) are available full text - as are thousands of titles purchased by the state library consortia, Texshare. In addition, fulltext access is available to hundreds of classic academic texts that are n the public (copyright) domain. See Webcat for specific titles (keyword="netlibrary").
New York Review of Books | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The electronic edition of the NYRB includes nearly every piece ever published in the Review, from the very first issue in 1963 to the most recent one. (1963 to date)
Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Series I and V): No account or password necessary.; Within Series I are the main multi-title, periodical indices, spanning nearly all Anglo-American periodicals of the late eighteenth through early twentieth century. PP reproduces the indexing from: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Index to Periodicals (1890-1902) (Ed. William T. Stead), Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals, Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1890-1899), ... and many more. Series V provides online access to the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S., 1774-1882, Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830) and Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830).
NYPL Digital Gallery Appropriate Use | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Opera America: No account or password necessary.; Provides access to several listings/databases, including a database of the season's opera performances, artists, and productions. In addition, the listing includes a guide to opera education programs
P.A.I.S. [Public Affairs Information Service] Combined login with Archive (1915-1976) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; PAIS includes more than 200,000 records from the last ten years relating to the area of public affairs. Citations are to articles from journals, magazines and newspapers, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, and government documents. This database, which has an international focus, is an excellent source for materials on political science, international relations, diplomacy, and any topic which is international in scope. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.) (1975-)
Philosophers Index | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Coverage is from 1940 to the present for U.S. materials, and 1967 to the present for non-U.S. references. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)
Physical Education Index | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Indexes the scholarly and trade literature covering physical education. Indexing begins in 1970; abstracts were added starting in January 2001. Areas of coverage range from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1970-)
Poem Finder | includes Full Text: Password required; This database indexes over 850,000 poems and provides full-text of over 125,000 poems. Poem Finder has an international scope and covers a wide-variety of poetry from various periods in world history.
Account/password: On campus/VPN and proxy users.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Paratext) Index to nineteenth century U.S. periodicals. See Nineteenth Century Masterfile: No account or password necessary.
PsycArticles | includes Full Text: Source List; No account or password necessary.; This database offers the combined resources of the journal articles and the PsycINFO records for those articles. The article records contain the Citation information, abstract, acknowledgements, body of the document, references, and appendices. The PsycINFO records contain the citation, the abstract, and several additional fields including keywords, keyphrases, classification codes, and age and population group information.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies Unicode browser required for character set - see instructions: No account or password necessary.; A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library. RAMBI Web Catalog - Unicode Edition contains the entire Rambi database (1966 - present) and uses a Unicode-based interface to facilitate display and entry of Hebrew characters. (1966-)
Reader's Guide Retrospective | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of late 19th through 20th century America. (1890-1982)
Religion and Philosophy Collection (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
Religion Index - ATLA | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). (1949-)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; About 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. (1969-)
RIPM: International Index to 19th Century Music Periodicals: No account or password necessary.; A cumulative index to the Repertoire International de la Press Musicale index to 19th-century music periodicals. Updated annually.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Scores after 1600: No account or password necessary.; RISM series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. Updated semi-annually.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography: No account or password necessary.; The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. All titles in the Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish History for the years 1993-2002 are included in the online data. (55B.C. -)
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (via FirstSearch): No account or password necessary.; A unique and rich new source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies and social sciences about materials published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe. Created by one of the world's largest producers of bibliographies in the social sciences and humanities. RAS cites and abstracts books, manuscripts, dissertations, plus articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.

SBRNET [Sports Business Research Network] | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; SBRnet is a fee-based service, focusing on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It's mission is to provide a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sale Catalogs (via FirstSearch): No account or password necessary.; SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sale Catalogs is the only online union catalog of auction catalog records in existence. SCIPIO provides bibliographic access to valuable sources of information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history of collecting, and contemporary and historical market trends. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.
Sport Discus | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The database contains information on the following: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. (1975-)
Story Finder | includes Full Text: Password required; Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories from the classic to the most contemporary plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly and has been chosen based on standard, library indexes.
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Voice of the Shuttle: No account or password necessary.; Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))
Women's Studies International: No account or password necessary.; Includes over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts (1984-), Women's Studies Database, New Books on Women & Feminism, WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies, Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography, The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines, European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography and Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research. (1972-)
World History Collection (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. (1964-)
WorldCat (courtesy of Texshare) (via FirstSearch): No account or password necessary.; WorldCat is a combined catalog for over 18,000 libraries worldwide. The information is updated daily. [See also Worldcat.org which presents the same data with an interface similar to familiar search engines, and which is freely available to any internet user.]
Xipolis: No account or password necessary.; German-language resource offering a selection of the most important reference books of well-known German publishers. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, and articles from archives.
Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB): No account or password necessary.; ZDB is the largest database of periodicals and serials in the world. It contains over 1,2 million titles in all languages, published from 1500 to the present day. Electronic editions of periodicals are also included. In addition, ZDB lists over 6 million holdings of these titles in 4,300 German libraries.