Humanities Bibliographies & Indexes

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• AATA Online - Can search 100,000 citations & abstracts of articles in over 470 journals, plus books, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, audiovisual & selected digital resources on the conservation of cultural material. Requires free registration.



• ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature Scholarship - Can search citations of articles in 12 journals.



• Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP), The - Can search citations of articles, news items, editorials from military & aeronautical periodicals back to 1988.



• Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of books, journal articles, films, CD-ROMs, Web sites on how nuclear issues have influenced the evolution of science & technology, domestic politics & international relations, the arts & humanities.



• American Music Resource (AMR) - Can search, browse over 800 bibliographies with citations of books, journal articles, dissertations, theses, etc., on American music, musicians, composers back to the 1800s.



• Artistic Representations in Virtual Reality (VRArt) - Can browse 200 citations of books, journal articles, theses, etc., on art & technology. Links to online exhibits, performers/artistis, etc. Last updated in 1999.



• Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt index (ANRW) - Can search over 680 citations of journal articles on Roman literature & society.



• Bach Bibliography - Can search 14,000 citations of books, journal articles, unpublished dissertations, conference papers.



• Bakhtin Bibliography - Can browse citations of books & journal articles by & about the Bakhtin Circle.



• BEARS in Moral and Political Philosophy (Brown Electronic Article Review Service) - Can search, browse reviews (last 6 months only). Has a listserv, email updates.



• Beethoven Bibliography Database, The - Can search citations of books, journal articles, theses.



• Bibliography of Children's Literature Criticism - Accompanies P. Nodelman & M. Reimer's Pleasures of Children's Literature, 3d. ed. Can browse citations of books & journal articles.



• Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology, A - Can search over 135,000 citations of books & chapters, journal articles, films, etc.



• Boundary news archive - Can search citations & abstracts to over 10,000 boundary-related journal & newspaper articles, reports, radio transcripts, etc., back to 1991.



• Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography - Can search citations of dialogues, journals, diaries, essays, interviews, letters, plays, monologues, screenplays, poems, prose songs.



• CineFiles - Can search citations of reviews, press kits, program notes, newspaper articles, etc., of over 25,000 films worldwide.



• Comics Research Bibliography - Can browse over 16,900 citations of monographs & journal or magazine articles on comic books, comic strips, animation.



• Daily Life in Classical Antiquity - General Bibliography - Can browse over 100 citations of books & journal articles.



• Diotima's Bibliography - Can search, browse citations of book chapters, journal articles, dissertations, etc.



• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - Can search citations of articles, book reviews, essays in books about women, sexuality, gender during the Middle Ages.



• Film Literature Index - Can search, browse citations of articles, reviews, book reviews in journals (many peer-reviewed) on film, television, video.



• Film Reviews Index - Can search movie review citations in magazines & journals back to 1992.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Gnomon Online - Can search, browse over 3,000 citations of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, on classical studies.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• HAPI Online - Web version of the Hispanic-American Periodicals Index. Can search 265,000 citations of articles (34,000 with links to full-text) in over 500 journals worldwide.



• Hellenistic Bibliography, A - Can browse 15,100 citations of books & journal articles on post-classical Greek poetry & its influence.



• History On-Line - Directory. Can search, browse over 40,000 citations of books, journal articles; 3,300 citations of U.K. theses back to 1993, etc.; university lecturers & research; evaluated links.



• IngentaConnect - Can search, browse over 20 million citations & abstracts of over 29,600 books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc. in 15 categories.



• Initial Bibliography of the Ancient Novel, An - Can search, browse over 3,000 citations of books & journal articles.



• International Bibliography of Sign Language - Can search over 30,000 citations of journal articles, monographs, etc., on modern sign language research, deaf culture, sign language interpreting, education of the deaf.



• International Dada Archive - Can search citations of books, articles, microfilmed manuscript collections, videorecordings, sound recordings, a few computer files.



• Literary Index - Can search 143,000 author names & 187,000 titles for references in Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, Twayne Publishers imprints.



• Locus Index to Science Fiction: Site Directory, The - Can browse citations of science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror books, short stories, anthologies, magazine articles back to 1984.



• Metaphor and Metonymy Abstracts - Can search citations & abstracts of books, journal articles, conference papers, etc.



• New Communication Technologies, Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography - Can search over 2,600 citations of journal articles, books, government publications.



• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - Can search, browse primary works by over 400 authors, bibliographies (citations of books, journal articles, etc.) of criticism, etc.



• Physicists and the Bomb Bibliography - Can search over 500 citations to books & journal articles.



• pSearch - A customized search engine dedicated to philosophy-related web pages.



• RHS Bibliography (Royal Historical Society) - Can search over 420,000 citations (some links to full-text) of books, articles in over 580 journals, etc. Covers Irish history.



• Rhythm and Meter in Tonal Music: A Bibliography and Glossary of Terms specific to the Bibliography - Can browse citations of books & journal articles.



• Romantic Circles Bibliographies (RCB) - Can search, browse citations of primary texts back to 2000, articles in 8 journals.



• SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - Can register for emailed tables of contents for Carfax, CRC Press, Frank Cass, Parthenon, Psychology Press, Routledge, Spon Press, Taylor & Francis journals.



• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) citations of English-language journal articles, books, proceedings, other printed & electronic sources, most back to 1990, on publishing on the Internet.



• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database - Can search over 60,000 citations of historical & critical books & journal articles about science fiction, fantasy, horror back to 1878.



• SIL Bibliography - Can search, browse 12,500 citations of books, journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, other academic papers on languages.



• SSSL Bibliography : A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature - Can search, browse over 20,700 annotated citations of journal articles & books on 1,000 writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) associated with the American South.



• Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI) - Can search citations of articles in over 100 journals on joint & multinational operations, military history & naval science, operational warfare, operations other than war. Many links to full-text.



• Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (TOCS-IN) - Can search 45,000 citations of articles in over 185 journals back to 1992.



• U.S.-Mexico Border Issues: A Selected Bibliography from the Smithsonian Institution . . . - Can browse citations of books, journal articles, Web sites, databases.



• Undocumented Immigrants: An Annotated Bibliography - Can search citations of journal articles, government documents, books up to 2005. Many links to full-text.



• Untimely Past, The - Has citations of books, journal articles, etc., on the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, allied areas of theory/practice.



• Vietnam War Bibliography - Lists books, journal articles, government documents, etc., in subject categories, from 1946-72. Has some links.



• Viva Search - Can search, browse citations of articles in over 170 west European & American scholarly journals on women's history back to 1995.