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America: History and Life Indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present relating to U.S. and Canadian history. Also provides citations and links to book and media reviews. Anchor Bible Dictionary CD-ROM version of the 6-volume print resource (in our Reference Collection: REF BS 440. A54 1992). Provides 6,000+ entries from 800 scholars. Arts & Humanities Search Indexes 1,300 leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage: since 1980. Updated weekly. Title list; off-campus access. ARTstor Provides online access to over 500,000 images and 950 virtual reality panoramas of important architectural locations, as well as descriptions for each item. Off-campus access. Black Thought and Culture The database contains over 1,200 non-fiction sources from leading African Americans. Speeches, interviews, essays, and other materials are also included.  Off-campus access Contemporary Authors, included in Literature Resource Center Online version of Gale's print set (find it in the Reference Collection at REF PN 453. C63), providing biographical data on contemporary authors. Off-campus access. Grove Art Online, available through Oxford Art Online. Online version of Grove's 34-volume Dictionary of Art, with the addition of extensive internal links, and links to images from art collections around the world. Off-campus access. HarpWeek Online access to images from every issue of Harper's Weekly, the 19th-century "Journal of Civilization." Literary Index [Gale] Indexes all Gale series on literary criticism and biography in our Reference Collection, i.e. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, and others. This product is freely available online. Literature Online (LION) Covers 350,000+ works of literature, including tens of thousands of primary sources, 880,000+ records of literary criticism via the ABELL index (138 journals of which are full-text), and eight renowned reference works. Coverage: since 1920. Off-campus access. Literature Resource Center, including Contemporary Authors Contains 400,000+ full-text articles, 40,000+ critical essays, 122,000+ biographies, and more, covering all topics related to literature in all genres.

MagillOnLiterature Plus Provides online access to Salem Press' editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries, combined with thousands of biographical records and images. Source materials include Masterplots, Masterplots II, and other Magill review publications. Off-campus access. Milestone Documents in American History A collection of primary source documents from Salem Press relating to American History. Full text of documents and commentary is included. MLA International Bibliography Indexes 4,000 international periodicals covering literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage: since 1969. Updated ten times annually. Off-campus access. Nineteenth Century in Print Provides access to 1,500+ nineteenth-century and 23 popular periodicals, all in full-image (.PDF) format. Title list available in-product. This product is freely available online. Off-campus access. NoveList: Your Guide to Fiction Reader's advisory resource, assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Also provides a searchable database of stories based on story elements such as character or theme. Provides 1,000+ theme-oriented booklists and award lists. Off-campus access. Oxford Art Online Combines Grove Art and Oxford's art reference in one place. Thousands of images and artists biographies are available.Off-campus access. Oxford English Dictionary (2d. ed.) Online version of the premiere etymological dictionary of the English language (20-volume set in print, found in our Reference Collection at REF PE 1625. N53 1933). Sage E-Reference Fourty-seven reference titles covering a wide variety of subjects, including the humanities and social sciences. Saskia Digital Art Images Contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, from collections worldwide. Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive Fully searchable, the Times Literary Supplement contains a wide variety of contemporary literary review. Women and Social Movements Covers women and their connections with social movements in the United States from 1600-2000. Includes 2,400 documents from 1,700 authors. Off-campus access.

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Off-campus access

Many of the above databases provide off-campus access. Monmouth College students, faculty and staff may obtain login / password information by contacting the Reference Desk at (309) 457-2301.