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Electronic Resources - Canizaro Library (Not Logged into the Intranet)
| Click here for a list of AMU's Electronic Journal Subscriptions |
| Click here for Online Books |
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General/Interdisciplinary Resources |
| Books in Print: [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – Bibliographic database with over 5 million in-print, out-of-print, book, audio book, and video titles. |
| Britannica Online [http://search.eb.com] – Contains all the articles in the print set of Encyclopedia Britannica with illustrations, videos and multimedia clips, and related statistics databases, as well as Merriam Webster’s dictionaries and thesaurus, and selected journals and magazines. |
| Chicago Manual of Style Online [http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html] – Fully searchable 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. |
| Dissertations Abstracts [http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] is a bibliographic database that provides a guide to subject, title and author for every dissertation granted at accredited American Universities since 1861, as well as to selected dissertations from other institutions worldwide. Ask for the username/password at the reference desk. Upon entering the FirstSearch site, select the Databases tab and go to Dissertations. |
| eLibrary [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – Contains materials on a wide variety of subject areas from newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio/video, and TV/radio transcripts. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| Infotrac [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – A collection of 12 databases with many full text articles covering all academic disciplines. This resource also features newspapers, legal and business information, and information on computers. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| JSTOR [http://www.jstor.org/] – full text back issues of over 500 important journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. |
| LexisNexis Academic: [http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic] - Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. |
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
[http://www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com] provides
fully searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries
in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and
Chinese. OLDO also features native speaker audio
pronunciation.
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| Project MUSE [http://muse.jhu.edu/] – Full text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. |
| ProQuest [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – A collection of 7 databases with many full text articles across all subject areas. One useful feature of this resource is that it allows users to simultaneously search all 7 databases for cross-disciplinary research. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| RCL Web [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – RCL Web is the online version of the new Resources for College Libraries. It is a collection development guide that features recommended titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects selected by bibliographers and subject specialists |
| Vault Online Career Library [http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=2409] - Contains career guides, articles, and company/industry profiles. |
| WorldCat: [http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] – Union catalog of over 9,000 libraries worldwide, containing over 61 million records. |
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Art and Music |
| ARTSTOR: [http://www.artstor.org] – Repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data covering artwork from every period in history. |
| Classical Scores Library [http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com] - Collection of in-copyright and public domain scores, including works from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Currently release includes 800 scores (approximately 25,000 pages) by 49 composers. |
| Naxos Music Library [http://amu.NaxosMusicLibrary.com/] – Extensive collection of online classical music. |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature [http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] Index of music literature resources including articles, books, bibliographies, discographies, dissertations, and videos. Most citations include abstracts. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
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Classics and Early Christian Literature |
| L'Année philologique [http://www.annee-philologique.com/] - Extensive bibliography of over 600,000 records of scholarly work in Classical Studies, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. |
| Library of Latin Texts [http://www.brepolis.net] – Contains a wide range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin texts, along with selected modern texts. |
| The Patrologia Latina Database [http://pld.chadwyck.com/] – An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, containing the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. |
| The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/] – Contains most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. |
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Economics |
| EconLit [http://www.csa.com]– Index of Economics articles, books, and dissertations since 1969. Also contains book reviews. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| International Financial Statistics [http://imfstatistics.org/imf/] – International Monetary Fund database containing statistics from more than 200 countries and areas from 1948 to the present. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| National Bureau of Economics Research Working Papers [http://www.nber.org/papers] The National Bureau of Economic Research is the nation's leading nonprofit economics research organization. The Working Papers make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form before final publication. |
| World Development Indicators [http://www.worldbank.org/data/onlinedatabases/onlinedatabases.html] – World Bank database of developmental data, including social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators from 1960 to the present. For access, follow the link on this page, and select the link for "Institutional Subscribers to WDI Online. |
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History and Political Science |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book Project [http://www.humanitiesebook.org/] - Ever-growing collection of over 1000 scholarly e-books in the field of humanities. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States [http://hsus.cambridge.org] – Electronic edition of the 5-volume reference work of quantitative facts from American history. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| Iter Bibliography [http://www.itergateway.org/databases.cfm] – Contains citations for books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). |
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Literature |
| Literature Resource Center and MLA International Bibliography [http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/avemariauniv?db=LitRC] - The Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.6 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: [http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl] – Extensive dictionary of the English language featuring definitions, etymologies, and quotations. |
| Shakespeare Survey Online [http://cco.cambridge.org/] Makes all issues of the Survey available online for the first time; each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays. |
| World Shakespeare Bibliography [http://www.worldshakesbib.org/] – Annotated bibliography of books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1963 and the present. |
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Philosophy and Theology |
| Acta Sanctorum Database: [http://acta.chadwyck.com] – A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day. |
| The ATLA Religion Database: [http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] – Index to over a million journal articles, book reviews and essays in the subject of religion and theology. Also includes the full text of over 70 journal titles dating back to 1924. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
| Intelex Past Masters [http://library.nlx.com/] - Contains various works of Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas in Latin and English. |
| Poiesis [http://poiesis.nlx.com/] - Full text collection of philosophy journals. |
| Philosopher's Index: [http://firstsearch.oclc.org]– Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy published in books and journals since 1940. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk. |
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Science and Mathematics |
| Science Direct [http://www.sciencedirect.com/college] - Contains millions of articles and abstracts from over 1450 journals in the Health, Life, and Physical Sciences. |
