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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Bibliographic and citation information for journal articles in the arts and humanities from 1975-present. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection.

Includes over 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more; curated for the educational experience.

Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography.

A general knowledge encyclopedia on all topics. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research.

Biographical dictionary with essays on the lives, works, and careers of literary figures from all eras and genres.

UC Berkeley image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. As a visual catalog, DS allows scholars to verify with their own eyes; special emphasis is placed on the touchstone materials: manuscripts signed and dated by their scribes.

Database of videos of live performances, productions, masterclasses, interviews, workshops, and documentaries. Written materials such as study guides, practical workshop guides, and encyclopedia entries also included. New content is added regularly.

A combined database made up of many individual resources including the library catalog and the majority of our subject-specific databases.

Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue, and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution. All 2000+ films are immediately available, and come with performance rights for campus viewings.

Resource for researching every aspect of 17th and 18th-century America. Digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.

The EBL and eBrary ebook collections have merged to become Ebook Central

Works published in the UK during the 18th century. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more on all subjects.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.

Google books allows for searching anywhere from basic bibliographic information to the partial text, to the full text of a book. Sometimes a Google Books search allows for a more detailed search of the contents of a book, even if you then locate an actual physical copy via the library catalog.

Google's database of scholarly works. Much of the content is articles and books, but you will also see theses, dissertations, patents and other items here.
If you are on campus you can often access full text articles available through the library directly from Google Scholar. If you are off campus, go into the settings and set the library link to Mount Holyoke College.

HathiTrust Digital Library is a searchable collection of over 10 million digitized books and publications from more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries. Over 3 million of the items included are public domain and fully viewable. For full access, click Log In, choose Mount Holyoke College from the list of institutions, and click Continue.

A database of over 1.5 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes citations for books and journal material, as well as citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books.

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually.

Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. Published by University of Michigan.

National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.

19th century primary source collections. Collections included materials on Asia and the West; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture; European Literature; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography; Religion, Reform, and Society; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; Women: Transnational Networks.

The finest and most comprehensive dictionary of the English Language. Includes extensive quotations documenting usage, searchable by author.

Dictionaries, language reference, and subject encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.

This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.

Short Story Index Retrospective includes bibliographic entries for more than 150,000 short stories going back to 1915, and some citations from periodicals and short story collections going back to the 1830s. Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique and source, or combinations of terms.

Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 to the present.

WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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