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Articles and Databases

America: History and Life
  • American and Canadian history from the pre-Columbian period to the present
  • Over two thousand journals worldwide, including state and local historical journals
  • “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online
Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
  • Over 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications.
  • Searchable in both English and Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching.
  • An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.
Historical Abstracts
  • World history from 1450 CE to present, except for the United States and Canada (see America: history and life) 
  • Over two thousand journals worldwide as well as dissertations, and books;
  • “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online
JSTOR
  • Full-text, full-image archive of journals in a various humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many journals in classical literature and archaeology
  • Some content back to the nineteenth century
  • Content excludes the most recent three to five years
ProQuest Direct
  • Electronic resource available via LIAS E-Resource List
  • Over five thousand magazines and scholarly journals
  • Especially useful for current national and world news, contemporary topics, and popular culture
  • “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online
TOCS-IN: Tables of Content of Journals of Interest to Classicists
  • Journals in classics, religious studies, and the ancient Near East
  • Indexes about 160 journals and some collections of articles, such as Festschriften
  • Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto )
  • Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto )

Books

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Online Reference Sources

Contemporary American Religion 2v, 1999

Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed., 22v, 2007 Online via Gale Virtual Reference Library

Encyclopedia of American Religions 7th ed., 2003

Encyclopedia of Buddhism 2v

Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed., 15v, 2005 Online via Gale Virtual Reference Library

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices 3v, 2006

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