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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.



• 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.



• Bach Bibliography - Can search 14,000 citations of books, journal articles, unpublished dissertations, conference papers.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) - Can search over 12,900 citations on music theory, ethnomusicology, etc.



• Diotima's Bibliography - 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.



• Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities - 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 - 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 - 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.



• 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) - 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.



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



• 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.



• 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 - 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.