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America: History & Life

Best database for United States and Canadian history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized.

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Covers prehistory to current events. Includes articles written from 1964 to the present.

History Cooperative

This non-profit humanities resource has the full-text of thousands of articles from some of the most prestigious history journals, all free. You can search all the articles by subject or limit a subject search to a certain journal. You can also browse the tables of contents for each issue.

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MLA Bibliography and MLA Directory of Periodicals

A standard source for scholarly research in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

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Includes articles published since 1926.

Arts & Humanities Search

Provides references to articles in more than 1,300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities. For more complete
coverage, search MLA Bibliography.

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1980 to the present.

Gale's Literary Index

A master index to every literary series published by Gale Combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source

Indexed titles owned by Milne are listed in GLOCAT

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Literature Resource Center - LRC

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from various time periods
and genres. NOTE that the critical analyses tend to be book
reviews. To find references to scholarly literary criticism, search MLA Bibliography.

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Covers more than 100,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,400 of the most-studied authors.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

A collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.

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Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Searchable full text of hundreds of quality reference works and classic works of fiction and nonfiction. Includes dictionaries,encyclopedias, thesauri, literary classics, philosophical and religious works, poetry collections, usage guides and more.

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netLibrary

8,000 recently published books, including scholarly, reference, and professional titles. More than 3,400 classic titles are also available.

You may actively view the full-text eContent (turning pages, searching within the full-text, etc.) in 15-minute increments. If you are not actively viewing an item, it returns to the collection for someone else to view.

If you create an account you may make a list of Favorites, make notes in individual full-text eContent items, and customize your account preferences.

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Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes Originally published in 1907-1921, the volumes include 303 chapters, edited and written by leading scholars of the early twentieth century. The print Cambridge History of American Literature is available at PS 88 C3. The print Cambridge History of English
Literature is available at PR 83 C22.

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Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education

The Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. It is intended to provide a comprehensive background for those interested in
issues involving schools and society. The Social and Cultural Foundations of Education is an interdisciplinary
field, including disciplines (to name just a few) such as history and sociology, as well as topical areas such as globalization and technology.

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This eBook consists of three volumes. The first two volumes include more than 400 A–Z entries. The third volume contains 130 biographical entries on important men and women in education, as well as a visual history of American education. This history is organized into 25 chapters and contains images from the colonial period through the 1950s.

ARTstor

Access over 300,000 images covering architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Learn about WebEx Training Sessions for individual users.

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DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

Lists open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

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All subject areas and languages are covered.

SAGE Journals Online

”SAGE publishes more than 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.”

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19th Century American Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies

A site that brings together the best materials available on the web for studying and teaching about 19th century American literature.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF 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.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles