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Humanities : Guide to Online Research

(see also : Guides to Art ; Philosophy and Theater Arts)

Accounting Anthropology Art Biology and Environmental Studies Business, Finance and Management Careers and Employment Criminal Justice Education History Human Services Human Resources Humanities Law Marketing Mathematics Media/Communication Medicine and Health Philosophy Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics Political Science Psychology Sociology Sports Management Theater Arts & Music Veterinary Science	Online Reference Sources Consult for background information, facts, definitions, statistics, etc.
	Gale Literary Databases Includes three comprehensive, full-text literary databases - Contemporary Authors (biographical information), Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, , and Dictionary of Literary Biography (biographical, historical and critical information.). All three are searchable by author's name, title of work, nationality, subject or genre, and keyword.
	Writing: Tools and Strategies From Medaille College's Humanities Department iDiscourse.com web site. Includes citation guides, sample papers, guides to writing and other tools.
	Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Contains selected critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. Most sites are freely accessible.
	MLA Directory of Periodicals (through EBSCOhost) Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, including subject coverage, contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
	MLA Style : Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web Examples of documentation authorized by the Modern Language Association (MLA)
	Article Indexes and Databases Search for magazine, journal and newspaper articles and other resources in the humanities.
	EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite Provides full text and indexing/abstracts for academic journals in a variety of disciplines, including art, literature, philosophy, theater arts and other disciplines in the humanities.
	MLA International Bibliography (through EBSCOhost) Index of journal articles, books and dissertations.Subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, printing and publishing history, and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.
	MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine Provides access to online full-text movie reviews to over 27,000 films.
	New York Times Movie Reviews Browse or search 15,000 movie reviews. Includes all movies from 1960 - present, plus all Academy Award "Best Pictures." Requires free registration.
	ProQuest Search for magazine, newspaper and peer reviewed journal articles.
	Recommended Web Resources Some of the "Best Humanities Sites on the Web." If you are looking for information on a specific subject - these links can be a great time saver.
	Web Directories
	HumanitiesDepartment.com Medaille Humanities Department web site - information about degree programs, course webs, recommended web links by subject area, discussion forums and more.
	Literary Resources on the Net A very comprehensive collection of links to scholarly sources on literature. Search by time period, genre and authors' names.
	Poetry Portal Overview and links to the Internet poetry world.
	Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research A Humanities meta site providing links to scholarly Internet resources on all fields in the humanities. Click on Literature (English) for information on authors and literary criticism.
	Web Sites
	Alt-X This groundbreaking text and image site is operated by author and cultural critic Mark Amerika and features interviews with contemporary avant-garde fiction writers.
	Electronic Poetry Center Produced by the University at Buffalo, the EPC serves as a gateway to electronic poetry and poetics on the Web, focusing on "contemporary, experimental, and formally innovative poetries."
	iDiscourse.com Online discussion board of the Medaille Humanities Department.
	In the First Person Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories from hundreds of published volumes and those publicly available on the Web and held by repositories and archives around the world.
	Introduction to Islam Covers all aspects of Islam. Based on book of same title by M. Cherif Bassiouni.
	Legends Explores the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, and other legendary characters and works.
	Modern American Poetry : A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry Includes : material by, on or about over 160 American poets, including analyses of poems, biographical information, bibliographies, historical background, interviews, essays about the poet, book reviews, archival resources, and study questions.
	Poets.org - The Academy of American Poets Find essays on poetry, biographies of more than 200 poets, texts of nearly 600 poems, or listen to poems read by their authors.
	Postcolonial and Post Imperial Authors in English This page provides information about recent and contemporary writers from the former British colonial world; selected African countries, Australia, India, Canada and writers of the Caribbean.
	Renaissance: The Elizabethan World
	Representative Poetry Online Access to the works of over 200 poets, plus links to criticism and other poetry resources.
	Storytellers: Native American authors online Look for information on a particular Native American author alphabetically or by tribe. Find out about their life and writing.
	The Victorian Web Web resources on the literature, history and culture of the Victorian age.
	Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color An instructional Web site, focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.
	E-Texts & Digital Collections- Online Books, Journals, Reports, etc.
	African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers, from the Schomburg collection of the New York Public Library. "Provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920."
	Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts Collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
	Bartleby Great Books Online Full text reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction collection.
	Bartleby Verse: American and English Poetry 1250 -1920 Full text of 6 major collections of British and American poetry 1250-1920. The entire site, as well as individual collections, is searchable by poet, poem title and first line.
	The Cambridge history of English and Amerian literature: an encyclopedia in eighteen volumes Includes English literature history from the Middle Ages through the Victorian Age. Highlights colonial, revolutionary, and national American literature history.
	Canadian Poetry Archive
	Electronic Literature Directory An extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers, covering poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. Forms of writing include hypertexts and other interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration.
	Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts A collection of about eight hundred full text folk tales and myths.
	The Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction Seventy volumes "cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." From Bartleby.com
	Modern English Collection : Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, newspapers, manuscripts from 1500 - present.
	National Library of Canada : Digital Library : Literature Online full-text resources on Canadian literature and authors.
	New York Public Library Digital Gallery The searchable database includes digital images from the NYPL's collections, including rare prints and photographs, manuscripts, and other images. Among the collections are; Treasures of the American Performing Arts 1875-1923; Nabokov Under Glass; and Best of Times: the theater of Charles Dickens.
	The Online Books Page Facilitates access to thousands of books that are freely readable over the Internet, and provides links to archives and directories of online texts. Promotes the development of freely accessible online books and other resources.
	Twayne Authors Series: Twayne World, English, and US Authors Full text of 600 books from the Twayne Literary Masters series; includes discussions about the authors' works as well as biographical information.
	Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 The Wright American Fiction online collection, from the Indiana University Digital Library, attempts to include every American novel published 1851-1875. Currently 1752 texts (1602 unedited, 155 fully edited and encoded) by 845 authors are included.
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