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HUMANITIES
Art, Classics, Languages, Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Communications

Database

Subject

Coverage

Description

Source

Academic Search Premier General

 1984-

Provides full text from 4500 serials, including over 3600 peer-reviewed titles. Contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.

EBSCO

Academic Onefile General

 1980-

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily.

Gale

ACLS Humanities
E-Book Project (HEB)
History, Humanities

eBooks 

With over 2800 titles, HEB is expanding from history titles to include most humanities disciplines and area studies.  Formerly the ACLS History E-Book Project, HEB adds approximately 300 books annually to the collection.

ACLS

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Religion

1949-

Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. Offers over 488,000 article citations 1,500+ journals, more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. Coverage begins in 1949 with indexing for some journals going back to the 19th century.   

EBSCO

Books & Authors Literature

Varies

Books & Authors combines over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of preferred reading lists to help library users find books that they want to read. Includes content for both fiction and non-fiction.

Gale

CAMIO

Art

Images

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) offers 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. Art images are rights-cleared for educational use.

OCLC

EBSCO eBooks General

eBooks

EBSCO eBooks (formerly NetLibrary) offers more than 60,000 eBook titles in all subject areas. Includes scholarly reference and professional works from leading university, academic, and professional publishers. NOTE: Adobe Digital Editionsmust be installed on your computer to view EBSCO eBooks.

EBSCO

Films On Demand General

Varies

Films on Demand is a web-based digital video service providing streaming videos from Films Media Group 24/7. Choose from more than 5,500 educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, and personalize folders.

Films Media Group

General Reference Center Gold General

1980-

General Reference Center GOLD is a general interest database from a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, and more.

Gale

In the First Person Biography

Varies

In the First Person from Alexander Press is an index to personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories that are publicly available on the Web or held by repositories and archives.

WWW

JSTOR General

Varies up to most recent 2-5 years

JSTOR offers complete indexing to all its backfiles of core journals in various subjects: economics, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science and many more. Coverage begins with the first date of publication of a journal and cuts off at the most recent 2-5 years. If you need CURRENT articles, JSTOR is not for you. Full-text access is determined by subscription. CBU subscribes to three JSTOR sets: Arts & Sciences I, II, and IV.

JSTOR

Literature Online Reference Edition Literature

Varies

Literatre Online is a library of literary criticism and reference, biography and bibliography. Includes 128 full-text literary journals and 6,500 essays from literary reference and textbooks covering: literary movements, world fiction, poetry, biographies of contemporary and canonical authors, and bibliographic information. Usage Info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

Pro-
quest

Literature Resource Center - LRC Literature

Varies

Offers biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers - with in-depth coverage of 2500 of the most-studied authors.

Gale

MLA International Bibliography Humanities

1926-

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, it contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage includes almost 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

 EBSCO

Philosopher's Index Philosophy

1940 -

Philosopher's Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Philosopher’s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. Usage Info: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user.

EBSCO

Religion & Philosophy Database Religion & Philosophy

Varies

Custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and philosophy and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. The content in this database is in Academic Onefile.

Gale

Salem Literature Literature

 1977-2011

Contains Magill's Literary Annual, which critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year.

Salem Press

General, Sciences

Varies

Journals covering all subjects, including cultural studies, languages, literature, philosophy, and religion. In addition, CBU has begun adding Wiley e-books. Includes a personal registration option for users to save references for later use.

Wiley