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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.
Collins German-English English-German Dictionary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Collins German-English English-German Dictionary (4th ed.; Glasgow: Collins, 1999).
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 Language Dictionaries Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
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.
World Authors. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Biographical and critical information on major world writers.

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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.
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.
BL Online: The Bibliographical Database of Linguistics Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(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.
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.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(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.
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.
Library PressDisplay Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains full-page, full-color images of over 400 national and international newspapers, including many foreign-language newspapers; includes the current day's papers as well as a 60-day archive. Note: Up to three people 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.
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.
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.
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.