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Chicago Manual of Style Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
Credo Reference: Religion Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of a dozen reference books that cover topics related to religion; includes the Atlas of the Bible, Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend, Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend, Holy Bible (King James version), Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible, The Qur'an, Who's Who in Christianity, Who's Who in Classical Mythology, Who's Who in the Old Testament, and Who's Who in the New Testament. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Religion Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Encyclopedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, the New Catholic Encyclopedia, and many other electronic, Religion-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection. You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Horowitz (6 vols; Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005), which covers major concepts and ideas over time and across cultures. Note: The Library has print versions of the new edition and the first edition in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. The 1973-1974 edition, edited by Philip P. Wiener, is also available online from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.

Other Resources
19th Century Masterfile - Poole's Plus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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..
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.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(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.
Cambridge Companions Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of over 220 titles in the Cambridge Companions Literature and Classics series and Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series.
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.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(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.
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.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
Essay and General Literature Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(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.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text & Humanities Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(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.
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.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(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.
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.
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.
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.