ONLINE RESOURCES
REFERENCE
Title |
Subjects |
Description |
| ARTSTOR | VISUAL
ARTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, PHOTOGRAPHY |
A
digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of
art, architecture,
the humanities, and social sciences. |
| CREDO REFERENCE | GENERAL REFERENCE |
Credo Reference is a customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Offering more than 475 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. |
| ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA | GENERAL REFERENCE | A
set of four encyclopedias. Entries
include brief annotated bibliographies, further references
to electronic journals, selected internet sites, a video
and media collection. The Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus is
also available. |
| EUROPA WORLD PLUS | GEOGRAPHY, POLITICS, ECONOMICS, STATISTICS | Europa World Plus, which contains both the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series, provides authoritative and current information on countries and regions of the world. |
| IBA (INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ART) | ARTS | IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes records from 2008 to date. |
| THE LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA | LITERATURE All users with a @johncabot.edu mail account can set up a personal account to access the Literary Encyclopedia from off-campus. |
The
Literary Encyclopedia provides biographical information about
major literary, cultural, philosophical and historical figures;
descriptive profiles of major cultural works, introductory coverage
of the relevant historical contexts and guidance to valuable secondary
reading. |
| OXFORD ART ONLINE | ARTS
AND ARCHAEOLOGY |
On-line
encyclopedia, with full text articles covering every aspect
of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. It
also contains art images and links to museums and galleries,
bibliographies,
and biographies. |
| OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY | ENGLISH LANGUAGE | The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
| OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE | MUSIC |
A
set of on-line encyclopedias, with a compendium of music
scholarship articles, biographies
and some sound and notated examples. |
| RCLweb (RESOURCES FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES) | BIBLIOGRAPHIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
For remote use, click here, authenticate yourself and select RCLweb. |
Developed by the American Association of College and Research Libraries, RCL provides 61 bibliographies of core titles that are essential for undergraduate study. Each title is ranked according to different levels of readership, provided with a synopsis, and often a short review. |
E-JOURNALS
| Database title |
|
|
| ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER | MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
A
multi-disciplinary collection, containing more than 4,600
peer-reviewed journals. |
| BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER | BUSINESS
AND ECONOMICS |
More
than 8,200 journals for business administration and economics |
| CIAO (Columbia International Affairs On-Line) | INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS |
A
wide range of scholarly material from 1991 onward, including
working
papers, research
projects, confrence proceedings, books,
journals and policy briefs. |
| COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA COMPLETE | COMMUNICATIONS |
A
collection dedicated to communications and mass media studies,
with more than 300 full-text journals and indexing and abstracts
for more than 420 journals. |
| JSTOR | MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
Born
with the aim of long-term preservation of scholarly journals,
JSTOR offers entire collections of back issues of authoritative
periodicals. Journal coverage begins with the first published
issue and ends with a variable date, three to five years from
present. |
| LEXIS NEXIS | NEWS,
BUSINESS, LAW |
A
comprehensive spectrum of over
11,000 full text sources,
including: national
and regional newspapers, international news, U.S. Federal
and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law
reviews and international legal information. In addition,
it includes
business news journals, company financial information,
industry and market news. |
| PROJECT MUSE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY | A prestigious collection of humanities and social sciences journals available in full text. Current issues are available as well as over a decade of backfile for selected journals. |
| PSYCHARTICLES | PSYCHOLOGY |
A collection of 70 peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). |
E-BOOKS
| Database title |
|
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| ACLS HUMANITIES E-BOOK | HUMANITIES |
A
collection of nearly 2,800 high quality full-text titles in the humanities. |
| CREDO REFERENCE | REFERENCE |
Credo Reference is a customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Offering more than 475 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. |
| EBL | E-BOOKS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
A growing collection of e-books that can be searched in the Library catalog. |
| EBRARY | E-BOOKS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Click here for a video tutorial |
A collection of nearly 70,000 e-books available throughout campus. |
| EBSCO HOST e-book collection | E-BOOKS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | A growing collection of e-books that can be searched in the Library catalog. The platform also includes a set of nearly 3,000 e-books in the public domain (mostly novels). |