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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Fuente AcademicaScholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain. Interdisciplinary coverage. Updated weekly with full text for more than 450 publications from 18 countries. EBSCOhost
Humanities Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, interviews; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; reviews of books, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; biographies, and more. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
Literature Resource CenterBiographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Resources for critical scholarly materials in literature and the humanities. Full text coverage. Gale Group
MLA International BibliographyMore than 1.7 million citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present. Coverage in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Gale Group/Modern Language Association
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

PC - Romanic Languages PD - Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
PE - English Language PF - West Germanic Languages
PG - Slavic Languages and Literature PJ - Oriental Languages and Literature
PK-PM - Asian Languages and Literature PN - Literature - General
PQ - Romance Literature [French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese] PT - Germanic and Scandinavian Literature

Reference books

BookCall number
The Concise Oxford Spanish (English-Spanish) Dictionary (online book)The Concise Oxford Spanish (English-Spanish) Dictionary
The Concise Oxford Spanish (Spanish-English) Dictionary (online book)The Concise Oxford Spanish (Spanish-English) Dictionary
The Concise Oxford-Duden German (English-German) Dictionary (online book)The Concise Oxford-Duden German (English-German) Dictionary
The Concise Oxford-Duden German (German-English) Dictionary (online book)The Concise Oxford-Duden German (German-English) Dictionary
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French (English-French) Dictionary (online book)The Concise Oxford-Hachette French (English-French) Dictionary
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French (French-English) Dictionary (online book)The Concise Oxford-Hachette French (French-English) Dictionary
The Pocket Oxford Latin (English-Latin) Dictionary (online book)The Pocket Oxford Latin (English-Latin) Dictionary
The Pocket Oxford Latin (Latin-English) Dictionary (online book)The Pocket Oxford Latin (Latin-English) Dictionary

Web resources

19th Century German Stories
El PaĆ­s Digital
Goethe Institute
HAPAX: French Resources on the Web
Latin American News Information Center
Le Monde
Spiegel Online