| (c. 1603-1800) Contains digital facsimiles of approximately 1,270 seventeenth and eighteenth-century English newspapers from the British Library's Burney Collection; includes many London papers as well as some English provincial, Scottish, Irish, and colonial North American papers. The full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. |
| Contains two sets of indexes. The periodical indexes include Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), and Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899). The government documents indexes include the Subject Index to U.S. Patents (1790-1873), Descriptive Catalogue of Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Hansard's Index to the Debates of the House of Commons and House of Lords (1803-1830). The E. H. Little Library has print equivalents for Poole's Index and the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U. S.. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century. Includes more than 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of over 52,000 twentieth-century American poems. The works of 300 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song, are represented. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of over 44,000 poems published in England in the twentieth century; the works of 288 poets, including W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Benjamin Zephaniah, are represented. This collection includes works from the Faber Poetry Library. |
|  Academic Search Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1975 to present) Indexes over 8,000 popular and scholarly periodicals and provides the full text of articles from 4,500 of these periodicals. Also indexes several newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. |
| | Accessible Archives | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1827-1902) A collection of full-text, nineteenth-century periodicals. The library subscribes to the following:- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Includes Freedom's Journal, Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Papers, National Era, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder. - The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Includes selected articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer. - Godey's Lady's Book
Includes articles and over 18,000 illustrations and color plates from this important nineteenth-century magazine for women.
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| (1750 - 1900) A collection of nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
| | AKL - World Biographical Dictionary of Artists. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains brief biographical information on 275,000 painters, sculptors, architects, and graphic artists from all time periods and countries. Includes bibliographies. Information is drawn from three major art history dictionaries: Thieme-Becker (1907-1950), Vollmer (1953-1962), and Allgemeines Künsterlexikon (1991- ). In English and German. |
| (c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress. |
| Contains biographical information about more than 17,400 prominent American men and women from all periods of history. Excludes individuals who are still living. Also provides useful bibliographies as well as cross references and links to relevant Web sites. |
| (1600 - 1900) A collection of more than 40,000 poems dating from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century; the works of over 200 American poets are represented. |
| Contains transcripts of approximately 4,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states; the interviews were conducted in the 1930s under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Searchable by surname, state, county, and subject. Also includes sound files. |
| | American State Papers | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1789-1838) Contains the fully-searchable text of early American Congressional and Executive Department documents.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: The Davidson College Library also has a complete set of the American State Papers in print form. |
| (1690-1998) Contains digital facsimiles of over 1,000 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
Includes:This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| (1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing. |
| | ANRW Index | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| Indexes the print volumes of the Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt (ANRW), shelved in the Library at call number 937.008 A918. Lists articles from a number of classics e-journals and Web sites. |
| (1826 to present [photographs]; 1920 to present [audio clips]; 1990 to present [charts and maps]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of over 2 million photographs, 1 million audio clips, 48,000 diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines, and 2.8 million news briefs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily.
Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page. |
| | Archive of Americana | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1639-1980) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents. Includes American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819, America's Historical Newspapers: Early American Newspapers (1690-1922), America's Historical Newspapers: Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980), American State Papers (1789-1838), House and Senate Journals (1789-1817), Senate Executive Journals (1789-1866), and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980), each of which can also be searched separately. |
| (1929 to present) Indexes over 370 periodicals, including journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Subjects covered include art history, archaeology, architecture, decorative art, film, folk art, graphic art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and sculpture. |
| | ARTbibliographies Modern | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1960s to present) Indexes articles, essays, exhibition catalogs, books, and doctoral dissertations on topics related to modern and contemporary art. Covers traditional media such as paintings and sculpture as well as photography, artists' books, ceramics, body art, electronic art, ethnic arts, fashion, performance art, and video art. International in scope. |
| (1700 to approx. 1960). Provides the full text of nearly 2,000 French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts; most are from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, although there are some medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century texts. Includes novels, verse, essays, correspondence, treatises, journalism, and theatrical texts; also includes Voltaire électronique, the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works, and a Provençal poetry database containing 38 texts in their original spellings. ARTFL is a cooperative project between the Institut National de la Langue Française of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. |
| | ARTstor | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A collection of over 900,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and the social sciences; covers a wide range of cultures and time periods. Also includes tools to manipulate and analyze the images.
Technical Requirements (updated):
Windows XP with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.11; Windows Vista with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.13; Mac OSC 10.5.2. with Safari 3.1, Firefox 2.0.0.13, or Firefox 1.5.0.6; Mac OSX 10.4.11 and Safari 3.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.6; Flash 6 or higher; pop-up blocking disabled; cookies enabled.
Note: If you do are using an older version of IE or Firefox, you can still connect to the old version of ARTstor, ARTstor Legacy; the link to ARTstor Legacy appears on the lower left-hand side of the main page. |
| | ATLA Religion Database | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1949 to present) Provides citations to articles, books, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology. |
| | Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1980-2000) Indexes journal articles, books, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, conference proceedings, and other materials on Spanish language and literature as well as Hispanic studies. |
| | Bibliographic Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies. |
| (1971 to present) Indexes articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages. |
| (1973 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and other materials on the history of art in Europe and North America from antiquity to the present. BHA covers both the fine and the decorative arts. Contains records from RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie). |
| (1993 to present) Provides citations to scholarly articles and books in the field of linguistics; covers all branches of linguistics and includes citations to publications in related fields, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and computer science. International in scope. |
| (1905 to present) Indexes and excerpts reviews of over 850,000 English-language books; covers both fiction and non-fiction. |
| | Book Review Index Plus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1965 to present) Indexes reviews of over 2 million books, periodicals, books-on-tape, and other publications; the reviews are from a variety of sources, including popular magazines and newspapers as well as scholarly journals, and many are full text. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of over 220 titles in the Cambridge Companions Literature and Classics series and Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style as well as the Chicago-Style Quick Guide and regularly-updated questions and answers about the style.
Note: Up to ten people can search this resource at any one time. If you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again. |
| | CLCLT-6 Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCT). |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (240 B.C.E. - 1965 C.E.) Contains the full text of millions of Latin documents from the Western Christian tradition; texts date from 240 B.C.E. through the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Includes nearly all of the works published in Corpus Christianorum Series Latina and Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis as well some works not yet in Corpus Christianorum but in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Patrologiae Latina, Sources Chrétiennes, and other collections. Includes patristic and medieval texts as well as Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, the Vulgate, and other works. |
| | Credo Reference | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| An online collection of over 390 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library. |
| | Davidsonian | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1914-2006) A digital collection of volumes 1-97 of the Davidsonian, The Davidson College newspaper. Also includes a history of the paper, a list of its editors, and other related information.
The Davidson College Library has print and microfilm versions of the newspaper as well. |
| | Dictionary of National Biography. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1985 version). Includes biographical information about nearly 40,000 British men and women who died before 31 December 1985; covers all periods of history. Also includes biographies of people who lived in British colonies as well as other individuals who had a significant impact on British history. Contains the complete text of the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900) as well as the full text of all supplementary volumes and Missing Persons volumes up to 1985.
The Little Library also has the second edition, known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots Language, The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), which provides information about words from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth century, and The Scottish National Dictionary (SND), which covers words in use from the eighteenth century through the present day. |
| Contains over 63,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents dating from the mid to the late twentieth century. These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. |
| Includes a bibliography as well as links to other online resources, including journal articles, images, course syllabi, book reviews, and databases. Interdisciplinary in scope. |
| A collection of primary sources on Southern history, culture, and literature from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. Includes diaries, first-person narratives, literary works, photographs, and other materials. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Provides streaming audio for over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) from the catalogs of New World Records, CRI, and other labels; covers a wide range of American musical styles, including classical, contemporary, early rock, electronic, folk, opera, and more. The database also includes liner notes and essays. |
| Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however. |
| Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however. |
| (1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. |
| A bibliography of English-language and French-language articles and books related to early modern Italy (1550-1800); covers history, art history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and the history of science. Also includes citations to doctoral dissertations.
Available in pdf format and Microsoft Word format. |
| | ebrary | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary.
See also the system requirements for ebrary. |
| New interface and more content!
(1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. |
| | English Poetry (600-1900) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (600 - 1900) A collection of over 165,000 English poems dating from the seventh century to the turn of the twentieth century. The works of more than 1,250 poets are represented. This collection includes the full text of nearly 4,500 printed sources. |
| (1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. |
| | Faber Poetry Library | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Covers the seventy year history of this major publishing house. |
| | Film & TV Literature Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1937 to present) Indexes articles, film reviews, and book reviews from over 300 film and television periodicals; international in scope. |
| | Film Indexes Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1893 to present) Contains both Film Index International (FII) and The American Film Institute Catalog (AFI). Includes full production and cast information for films from over 170 countries as well as plot summaries, production notes, and citations to reviews, criticism, and articles on film and film personalities. |
| (1974-1996) Contains the full text of the U.S. Government's FBIS Daily Reports, the English-language translations of foreign news broadcasts, including clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, used by U.S. intelligence services, policy makers, and analysts. A valuable primary source collection for historical and political science research.
FBIS regions currently included: Africa (Sub-Sahara), Asia & Pacific, China, East Asia, East Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Near East & South Asia, People's Republic of China, South Asia, Soviet Union and Central Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West (and Western) Europe. This collection is still being digitized. More regions will be added.
For FBIS reports from 1996 to the present, search World News Connection. |
| Contains the full text of over one hundred reference books -- including many encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format. The Davidson College Library has some of these books in paper format as well.
This collection is a combination of titles selected and purchased by the Davidson College Library and by NC LIVE. |
| Contains the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., with updates), with over over 29,000 articles about people, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music. Also provides links to sound files, image files, and related Web sites and includes The Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., the Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Updated monthly. |
| (1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM. |
| (1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women's studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. |
| | HeritageQuest | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of family and local histories drawn from over 25,000 books, the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930), and other collections as well as images of selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Also indexes over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800. |
| (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. Combines the following two databases, which can also be searched separately: |
| (1851 - 2005) Provides the full text of the New York Times; page images can be viewed and downloaded as pdf files.
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| | Historical Statistics of the United States. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains statistics from Colonial times to 1970, including over 12,500 time series. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of U.S. House of Representative and Senate journals from the first fourteen Congresses.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| (1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. |
| | Index Islamicus | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion. |
| (c. 1982 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, essays, and doctoral dissertations on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts; international in scope. Includes the full text of 100 periodicals and 50 books. |
| | IPA Source | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| New!
A collection of both International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of over 700 opera arias and 4,400 song texts. |
| (c. 1842 to present for some titles) An interdisciplinary database containing citations to journal articles, essays, and books related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance; covers the time period 400 - 1700 CE. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the second edition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden et al. (2nd ed.; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). Provides descriptions of theories, ideas, and critics from the time of Plato to the present and also covers developments in other disciplines that have shaped literary theory and criticism. International in scope with an emphasis on Western critical theory. |
| | JSTOR | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals. |
| | Kafkas Werke | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| The Kritische Kafka-Ausgabe des S. Fischer Verlages bei Chadwyck-Healey contains the full text of Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher, the critical edition of Kafka's complete works edited by Jürgen Born et al. This online version also contains revisions and updates. |
| | L'Année Philologique | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1959 to present) Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays on all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Covers the period from 500 BCE to 800 CE. International in scope. Also includes book reviews. To locate articles and books from earlier years, consult the print volumes of L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference collection.
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| | Latin American Newspapers | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1805-1920) Contains digital facsimiles of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. When complete, this database will contain over 35 newspapers.
The library was able to acquire the content in this database thanks to a generous gift from Mrs. Laura Landoe, a Davidson parent; we thank her for her support. |
| (1940 to present) Provides table of contents information for over 800 journals published in Latin America. The journals are primarily in the humanities and social sciences, and many are not indexed elsewhere. The articles listed are in Spanish or Portuguese. LAPTOC is part of the Association of Research Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resource Project. |
| | Literary Reference Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, book reviews, critical essays, journal articles, and plot summaries as well as author interviews, selected reference works, and thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and other texts. |
| | Literature Resource Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes Contemporary Authors, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and substantial portions of Gale's other literature criticism series, including the Scribner Writers Series. Also includes the Gale's Literary Index and the Encyclopedia of Literature. |
| A collection of primary source materials related to America history and culture from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes page images from books and journals published in the nineteenth century.
The Cornell University Making of America site provides access to over 100,000 articles from journals such as The Atlantic Monthly (1857-1901) and Harper's (1850-1899) as well as access to over 250 books.
The University of Michigan Making of America site provides access to over 50,000 journal articles and 8,500 books. |
| (1624-1799) Compiled by John Shawcross. A revision and continuation of his Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1984, 1990). Lists manuscripts and editions of Milton's works as well as critical studies, allusions to and quotations from Milton, and imitations of his work published between 1624 and 1799. |
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(1926 to present) Indexes articles, books, and dissertations in the areas of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. |
| | Music Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1979 to present) An index to over 640 international music periodicals. Included are references to articles about classical and popular music as well as citations to book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. |
| | Musical America | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides current music industry news and a directory containing information about thousands of artists, managers, opera companies, dance companies, art festivals, performing arts series, competitions, music schools, and more. |
| | Niles Register Cumulative Index. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1811-1849) An index to The Weekly Register, Niles National Register, and Niles Weekly Register newspapers published between 1811 and 1849. The Register offered concise, comprehensive coverage of national and international events and was known for its lack of bias. The Library also has print (1811-1831) and microfiche (1811-1849) copies of the Niles Register. |
| (c. 1700s to 1950) Contains the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries written by American women from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. Includes texts that were written contemporaneously; excludes memoirs. Provides biographical information for many of the authors. |
| | OmniFile Full Text Mega | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. |
| | Oxford Art Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of -- and updates to -- Grove's Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (34 vols.; 1996- ), with over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Also contains the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and over 5,000 images. Updated regularly. |
| Contains the full text of the second edition of the OED and the 3 volume Additions Series as well as new and revised entries that will form part of the upcoming third edition (in progress). Search OED Online for word definitions, etymologies, and quotations.
The Library has the print version of the OED in Reference at call number R 423 O98m2. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (4th ed.), Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary (2nd ed.), and the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (3rd ed.), plus additional tools and resources. |
| An online collection of over 220 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more.
Technical requirements: Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher and a high-speed Internet connection. |
| (1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope. |
| Perseus
Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| A collection of primary and secondary sources on ancient Greece. The works of 31 ancient Greek authors are included, often with accompanying English translations, as are over 25,000 images of architecture, sculpture, coins, vases, and sites. Also provides annotations, an atlas, a lexicon, an encyclopedia, and other supporting reference works.
For more texts and images, see the Perseus Digital Library. |
| An evolving digital library of resources related to ancient Greece. The Perseus Digital Library contains more content than the CD-ROM listed above. In addition to Greek texts, there are also works by Latin and Renaissance authors. This Web version also contains more images and more reference tools (such as Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, and several lexica, dictionaries, and encyclopedias) and is updated more frequently. |
| | PHI Greek Documentary Texts. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Contains Greek inscriptions from Attica, Delos, Peloponnesos, Central Greece, Delphi, Crete, Ionia, Caria. Also contains Christian inscriptions, Greek documentary papyri, and Coptic New Testament and Nag Hammadi texts. |
| | Philosopher's Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1940 to present) Contains citations and abstracts from books and journal articles on philosophy and related fields. |
| | Philosopher's Index (Ebsco version) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. | This resource is being evaluated on a trial basis.
Please feel free to comment on this resource. |
| (1940 to present) Contains citations and abstracts from books and journal articles on philosophy and related fields. |
| | Play Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1949 to present) Indexes over 44,000 plays written in or translated into English and published individually or in collections. Covers plays from Ancient Greece and Rome through the present and also includes monologues, one-act plays, and radio and television plays. |
| (1674-1834) Provides the full text of the proceedings of over 100,000 trials along with original page images and background information on trial procedures, verdicts, and the types of crimes tried. The Old Bailey was the central criminal court for the City of London and the County of Middlesex. |
| | Project Muse | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses. |
| | ProQuest Religion | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1986 to present) Provides indexing and some full text and full image for more than 90 religion periodicals. Full text begins with 1992. |
| | Reference Universe | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Try this first!
Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books. |
| (1969 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, catalogues, dissertations, and films and videos on all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. RILM also covers fields related to music, such as anthropology, art, drama, literature, sociology, philosophy, and physics. |
| (c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes:- iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more.
- RoperExpress, a collection of data sets for bivariate and multivariate analyses
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| (1880s to approx. 1970) Digital, black-and-white copies of over 11,000 Sanborn Maps for 158 cities and towns in North Carolina. The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provide valuable historical information about property sites and building materials and can also be used to chart urban growth. Consult the Key (available from the "Help" page) for information about symbols and conventions used in the maps. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of Proceedings of the Senate's executive sessions. Includes material on treaties, the confirmation of presidential nominees, and other topics.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. |
| Provides digital images of 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays that were printed in quarto before 1642; allows you to view individual copies of the Quartos or compare one copy with another. Also includes background information and a glossary. A complete list of the British Library's 93 Quartos is also available. |
| | Short Story Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1915 to present) Indexes over 150,000 short stories in periodicals and edited collections; a helpful tool for locating particular short stories. |
| (1995 to present) An online-only, dynamic encyclopedia covering 35 subject areas, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, history of ideas, logic, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and social philosophy.
The Davidson College Library is a member of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy International Association (SEPIA) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and has helped to fund the encyclopedia. |
| (1902-1990) Contains the Times Literary Supplement Index as well as page images from the TLS (1920-1990). Includes more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles. In addition, the Archive provides information about anonymous contributors to the TLS, information that does not appear in the print TLS Index. |
| Contains the full text of nearly all extant Greek texts from Homer (8th century B.C.E.) to 600 C.E. as well as many other Greek texts up to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 C.E. The online version contains over 10,000 works by over 3,500 authors.
Note: this database is accessible from three workstations in the Little Library; use is restricted to Davidson College students, faculty, and staff only. |
| | TOCS-IN | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1992 to present) Lists the tables of contents from 185 journals in the field of classics. Particularly useful for locating recent articles. Information about pre-1992 articles is being added to the database, as are articles in Festschriften and conference proceedings.
Note: Does not index electronic journals, although some links to full-text articles are included. |
| | Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1595-1866) Contains the records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages from the late sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Information can be tracked by time period and geographic region. The CD-ROM also includes interactive maps and information about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage. |
| (1817-1980) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. history, including cultural, economic, ethnic, military, political, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: this digital collection is not yet complete; if you need documents from twentieth-century volumes that have not yet been digitized, please ask a librarian for assistance. The Davidson College Library has print and microfiche versions of many Serial Set volumes. |
| | Voltaire Électronique | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works. Based on the Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire; for titles that have not yet been published in the Complete Works, texts are drawn from original sources or the Moland edition of Voltaire's works (1877-1885). The database will be updated as additional volumes of the Oxford edition are published. Part of ARTFL, a cooperative project between the Institut National de la Langue Française of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. |
| | Web of Knowledge | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Includes:- Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article
- ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers
- ... and more
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Indexes the prose contents of 43 periodicals for the dates indicated (including the years 1802-1823 for The Edinburgh Review). Identifies the writers of anonymous and pseudonymous works from this time period. |
| | Women Writers Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1400-1850) Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850. |
| | World Authors. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Biographical and critical information on major world writers. |
| (1971 to present) Searchable database containing over 75,000 annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Shakespeare. Also includes book reviews as well as reviews of theatrical productions, films, and audio recordings. |
| | WorldCat | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries. |
