Arts, Culture and Humanities

America: History and Life (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
Search for books and articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals. (1964-present)
Art Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing of 370 international art publications. [More Info]
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Current NU Only)
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Citations and abstracts from over 1,160 of the world's leading journals in archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993-present
ARTstor (Current NU Only)
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, photography, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. See system requirements for optimal use.
ATLA Religion with ATLA Serials (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals [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.
Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street) (Current NU Only)
A primary source database for essays, articles, speeches, books, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. Includes unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials.
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)
interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. [More Info]
Expanded Academic ASAP Plus (Gale Cengage) (Current NU Only)
Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
Journal articles in a variety of disciplines, including popular, professional, and scholarly.
Film Literature Index (Open Access)
150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. Covers 1976-2001, for more recent articles, use FIAF.
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 (Ebsco) (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. 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)
A partnership between the AHA (American Historical Association) and the OAH (Organization of American Historians), this site supplies academic research articles in history. [More Info]
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.
Intute: Arts and Humanities (Open Access)
A free web site and database of curated links to a massive amount of scholarly and research information in the arts and humanities.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Current NU plus Alumni)
Review articles on literary theories, movements, and critics. Extensively revised in 2004 and updated annually.
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)
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. (10 simultaneous users) [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)

Journal articles in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
Smithsonian Global Sound (Current NU Only)
An international network of music audio archives grounded in the mission of the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Offers access to the "smaller voices" of people all over the world via digital downloads. Aims to heighten communication among and about people and cultures, accomplished principally through the culturally potent, meaning-laden medium of music, accompanied by informative notes, images, videos, educational features, and lesson plans.
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]