Arts/Music

Subject Specific Databases

Art Abstracts Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, yearbooks, museum bulletins, and reproductions of works of art for all topic areas of art (September 1984 to present).

Communication & Mass Media Complete Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Indexing for journals in all areas related to communication studies and mass media. CMMC offers full text for 350 titles and contains citation coverage for additional 660 sources.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online Requires Library ID when used off-campus

One of the most comprehensive online references for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. It contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts. Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke.

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition Requires Library ID when used off-campus

The most comprehensive reference for all aspects of music. Over 29,000 articles on music, musical instruments and musicians from the past and present.

Humanities International Complete Requires Library ID when used off-campus

A collection of references to literary, scholarly and creative journals in the humanities, published worldwide. This database covers over 1,900 journals dating as far back as 1925, including full text for more than 770 journals.

JSTOR Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Digital archive of over 1,000 core academic journals. A complete archive of titles digitized starting with the very first issue of the journal. Browse Titles

Music Index Online Requires Library ID when used off-campus

The Music Index, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Published since 1949, The Music Index contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Requires Library ID when used off-campus

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages.

Related and Interdisciplinary Databases

19th Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive: New Readerships Collection Requires Library ID when used off-campus

The New Readerships: Women`s, Children`s Humor and Leisure/Sport Collection offers access to a wide variety of resources for the study of British life in the 19th century, including women`s issues, social issues, and Victorian life and culture.

American Periodicals Series Online Requires Library ID when used off-campus

This unique and valuable collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. (1741-1900)

Arts and Humanities Search Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Citations to articles in leading arts and humanities journals (1980 to present).

Brown University Modernist Journals Project Includes some full-text articles

The MJP was launched at Brown in 1995 as a Web site of digitized periodicals connected to the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world from 1890 to 1922. The site includes searchable editions of seven modernist journals: The New Age (1907–1922), Dana (1904-1905), Rhythm (1911-13), Blast (1914-15), The Owl (1915-1923), The Blue Review (1913), and The Tyro (1921-1922).

CARLI Digital Collections Includes some full-text articles

This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts

Clase and Periodica Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals in the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English languages from 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries. (1978 to present)

Communication & Mass Media Complete Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Indexing for journals in all areas related to communication studies and mass media. CMMC offers full text for 350 titles and contains citation coverage for additional 660 sources.

Digital Image Collections Includes some full-text articles

Various digital photograph resources either created by or licensed to Booth Library.

Dissertation Abstracts Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe. (1861 to present)

Early English Books Online Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

EBSCO Academic Search Premier Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Indexes over 8,000 periodicals, providing full text for over 4,500 titles covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index ASAP Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Abstracts and many complete articles from scholarly and general-interest journals in the social sciences, humanities and nontechnical sciences. (1980 to present)

ITER Requires Library ID when used off-campus

The mandate of this high-quality research tool is to provide a comprehensive bibliography of all scholarly materials pertaining to the study of European culture between 400 and 1700.

Lexis-Nexis Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Fulltext access to a wide range of newspapers, business, legal, medical and political information, both foreign and domestic. Includes New York Times. (1980 to present)

Newspaper Library, University of Illinois
Search for newspaper holdings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the "World`s Largest University Newspaper Library."

Oxford English Dictionary Requires Library ID when used off-campus

The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Project Muse Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Over 400 fulltext journal titles the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others, generally 1995 to present.

Readers' Guide Retrospective Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Index to popular periodical resources covering a wide range of topics. Readers` Guide Retrospective provides indexing from 1890-1982.

Ulrichs Periodical Directory Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.

WilsonSelectPlus Requires Library ID when used off-campus

Citations, abstracts and complete articles from almost 1400 periodicals covering subjects in the general sciences, humanities, current events and business (Generally, 1994 to present, updated weekly).