Humanities Gray Literature

• 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.



• Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions. Search articles in over 5,300 publications (over 4,460 peer-reviewed) back to 1865, citations & abstracts for 9,300 journals & 10,900 publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.), cited references for 1,000 journals. Covers all areas of academic study (area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• 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.



• Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music - Can browse over 160 citations & abstracts.



• 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.



• Bach Bibliography - Can search 14,000 citations of books, journal articles, unpublished dissertations, conference papers.



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



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



• CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) - Can search, browse over 550 etexts on Irish literary & historical culture in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, English. Has resources (journal tables of contents, bibliographies, maps, etc.).



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



• Classics of American Colonial History - Can browse primary sources (books & articles) on African & Native Americans, economics & trade, European immigration, politics, religion, wars.



• CogPrints - Can search, browse, download (pdf) self-archived cognitive sciences eprints.



• Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Virtual Archive - Can search, browse documents, working papers, etc., on Russia, Eastern Europe, China, the former Communist Bloc.



• DDM-Online (Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online) - Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature. Can search over 12,900 citations on music theory, ethnomusicology, etc..



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



• Directory of History Dissertations - Can search over 22,700 citations of history theses at 195 academic departments in the U.S. & Canada.



• Dissertations & Theses @ Touro - Search over 440 School of Health Sciences & 150 Graduate School of Jewish Studies masters theses. All theses also listed in UMI's printed Masters Abstracts International, included in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations Database, preserved on microfilm in the UMI vault & at the Midtown Library. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual theses. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ. TO DOWNLOAD THESES, FOLLOW THE ONLINE INSTRUCTIONS & DOWNLOAD THE ACROBAT READER IF NECESSARY.



• Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities - Electronic Text Center. Can browse a list of ETDs in progress.



• EPrints Repository - Can search, browse over 1,500 journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., by Australian National University faculty.



• eScholarship Repository - California Digital Library (CDL). Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 13,900 articles in journals & peer-reviewed series, working papers, etc.. Covers business, education, the social sciences.



• 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 - A ***** Google search engine. 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.



• History News Service (HNS) - Has articles back to 1997 ("op-ed" articles to the press, for Talking History & H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online), etc.). Includes a citation guide, Jewish Studies Network Directory of Professionals, etc..



• 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.



• Index to Classical Dissertations and Theses in Progress or Recently Completed . . . , An - Can browse citations compiled from the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 1994-99.



• IRE Resource Center (Investigative Reporters and Editors), The - Can search 20,000 journal articles & broadcast stories, 1,900 tipsheets & guides.



• Linguist List Publications Area, The - Can search citations & abstracts of over 3,660 books & 1,030 book reviews, 850 dissertations, etc..



• LiteraryHistory.com - Can browse a Webliography of over 7,000 links to scholarly articles on 300 major 19th & 20th century English & American authors, postcolonial literature, 20th century poetry.



• Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Has most of The Autobiography & The Papers, speeches, sermons, a biography, chronology, staff articles, links.



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



• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research worldwide.



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



• New Deal Network (NDN) - Directory. Can search, browse 20,000 photos, political cartoons, etexts (speeches, letters, documents). Has lesson plans.



• OAIster - Can search & link to over 9.7 million ebooks, ejournal articles, audio files, images, movies in digital collections of over 700 academic institutions.



• Online Archive of California (OAC) - California Digital Library (CDL). Can search, browse over 1,000 etexts & tens of thousands of photos, paintings, graphics, etc..



• Online Papers in Philosophy - Can search, browse links back to 2003 & bibliographies via international directory of online philosophy papers, The.



• Online Papers on Consciousness - Can browse 2,160 links on the philosophy & science of consciousness, philosophy of mind.



• Original Sources - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Search & browse original source documents in history, politics & government, philosophy, religion, science, the social sciences & original work of literary figures writing in English & other languages. Has a quotation finder, concordance. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Our Documents - Has 100 milestone acts, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, constitutional documents, presidential speeches, resolutions, executive orders, etc., from 1776-1965.



• Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, The - Can search over 100 survey reports on public attention to news stories, opinion on political & social values back to 1997.



• ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PDQQ) - Can search citations & abstracts of U.S. dissertations for the last two years & download (pdf) the 1st 24 pages.



• PsycINFO - Search nearly 2.3 million citations & summaries of articles (2,100 journals, 97% peer-reviewed), book chapters, books, dissertations back to the 1800s. Covers the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, etc..RESTRICT ED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN.



• Public Documents Masterfile - Search & browse citations of federal, state, local, international public documents back over 200 years, Includes links to World Bank publications back to 1946. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA) - Can search unreviewed research papers in optimality theory.



• 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.



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



• Theses Canada Portal - Can search over 220,000 citations, with abstracts back to 1995, download (pdf) theses submitted between 1998 & 2002.



• Theses Link Collection - Has links to collections in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, Sweden, the U.S., etc..



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



• United States Code - U.S. House of Representatives. Can search, download (zip) general & permanent law of the U.S..



• University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - Can search, browse journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., back to 1945.



• Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports - Can search 185 journal articles, conference papers, reports, etc..



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



• World History Archives - Can search, browse documents from a working-class & non-Eurocentric perspective.