Research Databases

Language, Literature & Art

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1. EBSCO's Academic Search Elite
   Index and full-text articles on research-quality information in the social sciences, humanities, engineering and computer sciences, natural sciences and medical sciences, and education.
   
   Availability:
   - All networked computers at main campus.
   -Advance Program Centers
   -Any computer with an Internet connection (get username/password from library circulation desk)
   
2. EBSCO's Master File Premier
   Full-text articles from 315 reference books, 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents. Includes image collection of more than 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
   
   Availability:
   - All networked computers at main campus.
   -Advance Program Centers
   -Any computer with an Internet connection (get username/password from library circulation desk)
   
3. AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
   Search here for downloadable political, cultural and historical images dating from the 1840s by the Associated Press. 
   
   Availability: 
   JBU Library computer. Request for CD-ROM at the Reserve Desk.
   
   
4. Art Index
   Search here for citations of articles, reports, notices, interviews, reviews and art reproductions in major English language periodicals, yearbooks and bulletins as well as European ones. Topics covered range from architecture to video. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles.
   1984-present. Updated monthly.
   
   Availability:
   Any computer with an Internet Connection
   
   
5. Arts and Humanities Search  
   Search here for citations of articles in leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles.
   1980-present. Updated weekly.
   
   Availability:
   Any computer with an Internet Connection
   
   
6. Book Review Digest
   Search here for citations of book reviews from American and Canadian periodicals. Contains online FULL-TEXT reviews.
   1983-present. Updated monthly.
   
   Availability:
   Any computer with an Internet Connection
   
   
7. Electronic Collections Online
   Search here to find citations of articles in scholarly journals in all disciplines. Includes 229 journal titles on language and literature. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles. 
   1995-present. Updated daily.
   
   Availability:
   Any computer with an Internet Connection
   
   
8. Essay and General Literature Index
   Search here for citations of essays and articles in publications of United States, Canada and Great Britain. Content focuses the humanities and social sciences literature. 
   1985-present. Updated annually.
   
   Availability:
   Any computer with an Internet Connection
   
   
9. Humanities Index 
   Search here to find citations of articles, interviews, obituaries in journals covering the humanities. Subjects include classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, philosophy, religion, world history and literature. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles.
   1984-present. Updated monthly.
   
   Availability:
   Any computer with an Internet Connection
   
   
10. LinguaLinks Library
    Search this database for reference information on anthropology, language learning, linguistics, literacy and socio-linguistics in language fieldwork.
    
    Availability: 
    JBU Library computer. Request for CD-ROM at Reserve Desk.
    
    
11. MLA Bibliography
    Search here for citations of books, essays, working papers, proceedings and periodical articles on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.
    1963-present. Updated 10 times a year.
    
    Availability: 
    All networked computers on main campus
    
    
12. Periodical Abstracts
    Search here for citations of articles from popular and academic periodicals. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles and transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.
    1987-present. Updated weekly.
    
    Availability: 
    Any computer with an Internet Connection
    
    
13. ProQuest Direct
    Search here to find citations of articles on all topics including current events, social and cultural trends. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles from literature periodicals such as the Explicator, Studies in Short Fiction, The Massachusetts Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, and the Hemingway Review, and art periodicals such as Art in America, and the Opera Quarterly.
    1986-present. Updated daily.
    
    Availability: 
    All networked computers on main campus and Advance Program Centers
    Graduate and Advance Program students should request for password for off-campus access
    A standalone version is available in JBU Library
    
    
14. PsycINFO
    Search here for citations and summaries of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports on psychology including human development and growth issues.
    1887-present. Updated weekly.
    
    Availability: 
    All networked computers on main campus
    
15. Twayne's Authors Series
    Search this CD-ROM for in-depth criticism of major U.S. and English authors, genres and literary movements.
    
    Availability: 
    JBU Library computer. Request for CD-ROM at Reference Desk.
    
    
16. Wilson Select Plus
    Search here to find citations of articles on all topics. Contains online FULL-TEXT articles. Complements ProQuest Direct as a research database. 
    1994-present. Updated weekly.
    
    Availability:
    Any computer with an Internet Connection
    
    
17. WorldCAT
    Search this catalog to find records of books, videos and computer files in major libraries in the United States. 
    Updated daily.
    
    Availability:
    Any computer with an Internet Connection