Bibliography
of the History of Art
(BHA) Indices and abstracts of art-related books, conference proceedings
and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles
from more than 2,500 periodicals. Covers European and American art
from late antiquity to the present. Updated quarterly and covers
1973 to the present.
Philosopher's
Index
A bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts
covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy,
published in journals and books since 1940. Over 480 journals are
covered, from 38 countries. 1940-present.
Ovid
databases
The Ovid databases are: AGRICOLA (plants and animals), ATLA Religion
Database, Books in Print, ERIC (education), Medline (medicine),
MLA Bibliography (language, literature, and film criticism), and
PsychINFO (psychology).
Historical
Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. Indices
to over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Includes
books, chapters from books, and dissertations. You will find no
primary material in this index.
ISI
Basic Social Sciences Index
The ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Basic Social Sciences
Index covers nearly 185,000 articles from 500 leading worldwide
social science journals. Coverage: current year plus the most recent
nine years.
Expanded
Academic Like Social Science and Humanities Abstracts, expanded
academic covers a wide range of sources but does not cover any field
with great depth. There are some full-text articles in this database.
Also, a good place to go fishing if you're not sure of your direction
yet.
FirstSearch
databases
A multidatabase search service that includes:
Social Sciences Abstracts: Covers the high-circulation, highly regarded
journals in the social sciences. A good place to browse for an overall
view but not very "deep" in coverage.
Humanities Abstracts: Covers the high-circulation, highly regarded
journals in the humanities and arts. A good place to browse for
an overall view but not very "deep" in coverage.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index: Unlike the Basic Social Sciences
Index (see above), this index has complete coverage of the humanities
and arts.
Art Abstracts: More concentrated on English-language journals than
BHA. Includes only journals.
Once you click on FirstSearch, use the pull-down menu to select
a database.
JSTOR
(Journal Storage)
This is a unique digital archive of over 100 core scholarly journals.
The collection covers material from the 1800s up to a "moving
wall" of between 1 and 8 years before the current publication
date. It covers 15 subjects at present, mainly in the Humanities
and Social Sciences, including over 100 journals. You will find
journals such as Renaissance Quarterly here as well as general
history journals.
Project
Muse
Full-text of over 110 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines.
Most coverage begins in 1996 and continues through the present.
You will find the Journal of Medieval and Modern Studies
here as well as other general history journals.
Library
catalogs (books, videos, CDs)
Four College libraries
... UMass library
...
Remember: When using the catalog, you are not searching articles
from journals.
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