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Collins Latin Dictionary Plus Grammar Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Collins Latin Dictionary Plus Grammar (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1997).
Dictionary of Literary Symbols Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Dictionary of Literary Symbols, edited by Michael Ferber (New York: Cambridge, 1999). Provides definitions of symbols from English, European, and American literature, as well as the Bible. Note: The Library also has a print version in Reference at call number R 809.9 F346d.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
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.
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.
Perseus Digital Library Off-Campus access available; no password required.	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.
Reference Guide to World Literature Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of The Reference Guide to World Literature, edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast (3rd ed.; 2 vols.; Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003). Includes biographical and critical essays on important writers from around the world; also contains essays on selected literary works.
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.

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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.
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.
DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender In the Ancient World Off-Campus access available; no password required.	Includes a bibliography as well as links to other online resources, including journal articles, images, course syllabi, book reviews, and databases. Interdisciplinary in scope.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perseus Digital Library Off-Campus access available; no password required.	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.
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.
TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) Online	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.
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.