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• America: History and Life (Current NU Only)
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• Art Abstracts (Current NU Only)
  Provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing of 370 international art publications. [More Info]
• ARTstor (Current NU Only)
  ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. See system requirements for optimal use.
• ATLA Religion Database (Current NU Only)
  Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. [More Info]
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
  Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.
• Blackwell (Current NU Only)
  Selected titles available, now part of Wiley Interscience.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC) (Current NU Only)
  Excerpted criticism on works of selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959. Each entry contains a short biography, critical introduction, and excerpts from essays and book reviews taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals, and, if available, interviews with the author. Excellent starting place, but not exhaustive.
  
• DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music (Current NU Only)
  Diverse American recorded music, folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, available for streaming.
• Early English Books Online (Current NU Only)
  Virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700, with digital facsimile page images.
• Ethnic Newswatch (Current NU Only)
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• Expanded Academic ASAP Plus (Current NU Only)
  Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
  
• Film Literature Index
  
• Genderwatch (Current NU Only)
  reprints full articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's. You can browse a list of subjects or search by key words. [More Info]
• Historical Abstracts (Current NU Only)
  Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. Indexing/abstracting of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 with links to full text where available.
• History Cooperative (Current NU plus alumni)
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• Humanities International Complete (Current NU Only)
  Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources, including all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content.
• JSTOR (Current NU Only)
  Note: Arts and Sciences IV courtesy of NU School of Law
  Collections: Arts and Sciences I and IV, Health and General Science [More Info]
• LiOn (Literature Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
  Note: Limited to 4 concurrent users
  A searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
• Literature Resource Center (Current NU Only)
  Note: Limited to 2 concurrent users
  Provides biographical and critical overviews of most authors, together with critical reactions to their works and bibliographies for further research. Includes cross-search of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Excellent starting place, but not exhaustive.
• Metapress (Current NU Only)
  Note: Selected articles from Frank Cass, Taylor & Francis and Routledge publishers
  
• MLA Bibliography (Current NU Only)
  A core index for the study of literature, folklore, language, and linguistics, with good coverage of many additional cultural forms like film, music, and theater. Contains over 2 million citations to journal articles, books, proceedings, book chapters, and dissertations, dating from 1926 to present. [More Info]
• Naxos Music Library (Current NU plus alumni)
  Over 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming. [More Info]
• New Grove Dictionary of Music (Oxford Music Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
  The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), plus numerous other Grove Music Dictionaries (Opera, Jazz), now all part of Oxford Music Online. [More Info]
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Current NU Only)
  Rich primary source database with over 150,000 pages of diaries and letters from 1,325 women. Keyword-searchable and with some pre-selected sub-collections of primary sources arranged around important historical events. Also includes author biographies and bibliographies for further research.
• Oxford Art Online (Current NU plus Alumni)
  Formerly "Grove Art Online" this resource includes images, definitions, and analysis from Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
• Oxford Music Online (Current NU plus Alumni)
  Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002) plus additional resources. [More Info]
• Oxford University Press Journals Online (Current NU Only)
  Note: Selected titles only
  
• Philosopher's Index (Current NU Only)
  A bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.
• Project MUSE (Current NU plus alumni)
  Project Muse allows searching of articles from journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts. Coverage is generally from about 1994 to the present, depending on the journal.
• Religion and Philosophy Collection (Current NU Only)
  
• Women Writers Online (Current NU plus alumni)
  Early modern women's writings from 1400 to 1850. Includes searchable full-text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. [More Info]