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  • Literature, Arts and Music
    • African American Song
           50,000 tracks of music including jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. It is a resource to document the history of African American music in the form of an online music listening service. Users search using a powerful interface, identify the music and performances they want to hear, and click to listen through speakers or headphones.
    • ARTstor
           Digital library of approx. 700,000 images in art, architecture, the humanities, & social sciences with tools to view, present, & manage images
    • Booklist Online
           Book Reviews from the American Library Association
    • Classical Music Library
           An ever-growing, fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings, including tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones
    • Contemporary Authors
           Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
    • Contemporary Literary Criticism
            Designed to provide access for readers of all ages and skill levels. Users enter an author or title or broaden or narrow their results via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics and more.
    • Dictionary of Literary Biography
           Provides authoritative, signed essays on authors and their works, across a broad range of time periods and genres.
    • Gale Literary Databases (searches all three above from one location)
    • Grove Art Online
           Encyclopedia of the arts and art history with web links.
    • JSTOR
           Archived Scholarly Journals in Architecture, Art History, Film, Literature, Music & Performing Arts
    • Literature Online
           Searchable library of more than 3500,000 works of English & American poety, drama & prose.
    • Literature Resource Center
           Literary criticism and biography on notable authors.
    • MagillOnLiterature Plus (Ebsco)
    • Oxford English Dictionary - Online
           The Entire Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, available online.
    • Project Muse
          The Project MUSE® complete collection offers a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities, arts, and social sciences journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum at any academic institution. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
    • ProQuest Arts Database
           Search periodicals on subjects such as arts, dance, theater, cinema, and more
    • Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries®
            A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions -providing educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
    • WilsonWeb: Humanities (OmniFile)
          Feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.
    • WilsonWeb: Readers' Guide (OmniFile)
           Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature covers current events, curriculum support, and quality periodicals research

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