Databases by Title

See also: Databases By Subject and Database Content Copyrights

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ARTBibliographies Modern

Citations and abstracts of modern and contemporary art periodical articles, published from 1960s to present. Includes performance art, video art and theater arts.

Art, Film, Theater

Art Full Text and
Art Retrospective

Full-text articles from 1997 to present; citations from 1929 to present. Some page images available.

Art

ARTStor

Images of art, architecture, design, archeology, world cultural history.

Images

Biography Resource Center

Full-text biographical articles.

General

Britannica Online

Full-text encyclopedia articles on all subjects.

General

Classical Music Library

Streaming audio of over 30,000 tracks by composer, instrument, genre, and period.

Music

Dance Collection Catalog, New York Public Library

Citations to articles, books and media.

Dance

Design and Applied Arts Index

Citations from 1973 to present to articles in all areas of design and craft, including fashion design, graphic design, photography, theater design, animation and computer graphics.

Art, Film, Theater

DRAM

Streaming audio files, liner notes and essays. Music

Essay and General Literature Index

Citations to 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections.

General

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals

Citations and full-text of articles on film.

Film

Film Literature Index Online

Citations to articles and reviews published between 1976-2001

Film

FirstSearch

Citations and limited full-text for arts and humanities, business and economics, consumer affairs, education, engineering and technology, general reference, sciences, medicine, news, law, social sciences.

General

Groves Music Online see Oxford Music Online

Humanities Full-Text

Full-text of scholarly sources in the humanities, published from 1984 to present.

General

International Bibliography of Theater and Dance

Full-text articles on theater and dance.

Dance, Theater

International Index to Music Periodicals
Full-Text

Full-text articles for music from early to contemporary, published from 1970s to present.

Music

In the First Person

Letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives.

General

JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection

Full-text journal articles

General

Lexis-Nexis Academic

Full-text news, medicine, company information, law, and government.

General

Literature Resource Center

Full-text literary criticism.

General

LitFinder

Full-text poetry, plays, short stories.

General

Los Angeles Times

Full-text articles from Jan. 1985 to present.

General

Naxos Music Library

Streaming audio of over 130,000 tracks of classical, world and folk music.

Music

Naxos Music Library Jazz

Streaming audio of jazz.

Music

Oxford Art Online

Full-text encyclopedia articles on the visual arts. Art image collections.

Art, Images

Oxford English Dictionary

Etymologies of words.

General

Oxford Music Online

Full-text encyclopedia articles on musical subjects, including jazz and opera.

Music

Play Index

Citations to over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to present published from 1949 to present.

Theater

Project Muse

Full-text periodical articles

Arts and Humanities

ProQuest

Periodical and newspaper citations and full-text for many subjects, published from 1980s to present.

General

Reference Universe

Searches deeply into the complete indexes of more than 16,000 electronic and print reference works.

General

Rhizome

Full-text articles, images, job postings, new media art, animation, game projects, digital video art.

Art, Film, New Media

RILM Music Abstracts

Citations and abstracts to music literature and related fields such as acoustics, ethnomusicology and instruments.

Music

Visual Thesaurus

Interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps with meanings and branches to related words.

General

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