All Literature Databases
LION (Literature Online)
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English and American poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Search the MLA International Bibliography and ABELL simultaneously by choosing Criticism & Reference > Criticism > Combined Search.
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey / ProQuest
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Literary criticism published in journal articles, book chapters, books and more.
Search this subject index to identify journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations about literature in English and modern languages, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts. Links to full text whenever available; to search within the full text of some articles, search MLA via LION's Criticism & Reference search.
Alternate name: MLA Bibliography
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey / ProQuest
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Index of literary criticism published in books, journal articles, and collections of essays.
Use this resource for to find articles about English language and literature, literary authors, critical theory, and bibliographic studies. Includes citations to critical editions of literary works, and book reviews. To search within the full text of articles, search ABELL via LION's Criticism & Reference search.
Alternate name: ABELL
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: annual
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Corresponds to material found in the print publication: Annual bibliography of English language and literature (and its earlier title: Bibliography of English language and literature).
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Author biographies and overviews of literary criticism from every period.
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduates, the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by author name, title, genre, literary movement, or literary themes.
Vendor name: Gale
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Alternate name: EbscoHOST, ASP
Vendor name: Ebsco
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
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Novels, plays, poetry, traditional African folk materials and non-fictional accounts of African culture and history.
The Heinemann African Writers Series published authors mainly from English-speaking countries in western, southern and eastern Africa. Also searchable from within LION.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Individual titles can be accessed from UNLV Library Catalog.
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Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
Search full text and view page images for articles in categories such as news/opinion, election returns, letters, poetry, legislative information, prices, advertisements, matrimony notices and death notices.
Alternate name: Archive of Americana, Early American Newspapers Series 1-3
Vendor name: Readex
Update frequency: complete
Scope: U.S.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Can also be searched in combination with Early American Imprints I and II.
Series I, 1690-1876: provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's bibliography, History and bibliography of American newspapers, 1690-1820, as well as other bibliographies; Series II, 1758-1900: focuses on the period between 1820 and 1860; Series III, 1829-1922: focuses on the period between 1861 and 1920 providing in-depth coverage of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era and beyond.
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Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
This index includes almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Books, media reviews, and dissertations are also covered, and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. The Get Text button links to online full text when available and offers access to UNLV print collections and document delivery options for books and articles not available online.
Vendor name: Ebsco
Scope: U.S. and Canada only
Languages: Abstracts of articles in 40 different languages
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Print volumes 0-10 available in LASR. Vol. 0, published 1972, covers periodical literature published from 1954 until the issuance of vol. 1 in 1964. Issues for 1964-1973 published for the American Bibliographical Center.
Scripts and detailed, searchable information on scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains scripts together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. Most have never been published in any format and many are now available as PDF documents. Draft, shooting and continuity scripts are included.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
Languages: English
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Ipri, Tom
More info: Individual scripts can also be located by searching the UNLV Library Catalog.
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Magazines and journals published in the U.S. before 1900.
Use this resource to search the full text of American journals and magazines published between 1741 and 1900, including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.
Alternate name: APS Online
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Derived from the microform collections--American periodical series, eighteenth century; American periodical series, 1800-1850; and: American periodical series, 1850-1900.
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Slave narratives collected by the WPA Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938.
This searchable full text collection of slave narratives is indexed several different ways. Some sound files are also included.
Alternate name: Slave narratives
Vendor name: Greenwood Publishing Group
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Originally published in 19 vols. under title: American slave : a composite autobiography / edited by George P. Rawick. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972 with supplements issued in 1977 (12 v.) and 1979 (10 v.). Also includes: A comprehensive name index for The American slave / compiled by Howard E. Potts
Classic works of French and Italian literature, non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Subsets of the collection include French Women Writers, Provencal Poetry, Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database, Multilingual Bible Project, and Textes de Francais Ancien (TFA). Use this resource to search a number of French dictionaries and encyclopedias originally published between 1606 and 1935.
Alternate name: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Vendor name: University of Chicago
Languages: French, Italian, Provencal, Latin
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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Articles in all subject areas from more than 16,000 journals.
Subject coverage in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture is particularly strong.
Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Web of Knowledge
A&HCI ® provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals. Use this tool to identify how often a particular author has been cited in the work of peers or to identify the most influential scholarship on a topic. (Covering period: 1975-present. Update frequency: Updated weekly. )
Asian American Drama
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1891-2004.
Plays by Asian-American playwrights along with biographical, production and theatrical information.
Each play is indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. Plays are also included in North American Theatre Online.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: complete
Languages: English
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Individual titles can be located in the UNLV Library Catalog.
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King James Bible.
Search the full text, notes and apparatus of the King James Bible, or select a particular chapter and verse to display.
Alternate name: Holy Bible
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Descriptive bibliography of significant American literary writers from Revolution to 1930.
List of published books from significant American literary writers from 1760 to 1930.
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Print equivalent is
Bibliography of American literature / compiled by Jacob Blanck for the Bibliographical Society of America
Plays written in the mid-1800s to present.
Playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Plays are also included in North American Theatre Online and individual titles can be found in the UNLV Library Catalog.
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Index of book reviews.
Provides citations and excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews in at least three of the periodicals. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are excluded.
Vendor name: H. W. Wilson
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
More info: Print volumes available 1906-2003 in Index Area.
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Searchable collection of women's letters and diaries.
Facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscripts offer exact reproductions of letters and diary pages by both famous and otherwise unknown women in Great Britain and Ireland. The range of diary formats includes the travel diary, offering detailed accounts of journeys and descriptions of places; the daily personal diary, in which women reflected more broadly on aspects of their lives; letter diaries, wherein a daily dated letter to a recipient served simultaneously as a diary entry; and other forms.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: ;
Finley, Priscilla
More info: Content indexed in In the First Person.
Reviews of children's books and additional juvenile literature information.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a research and reference service including reviews of children's books from review sources (all full text searchable), book jacket images, links to web pages featuring individual authors and illustrators, and information provided by various Reading Measurement Programs such as Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile and Reading Counts.
Vendor name: CLCD
Update frequency: monthly
Scope: Children's and Young Adult Literature
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Fabbi, Jennifer
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Reprints of poems and poetry anthologies, index of first and last lines.
Includes biographical information about poets and some commentary on well-known poets, as well as glossary, a subject index, and indexes of first and last lines.
Alternate name: Granger's
Vendor name: Columbia University Press
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: Contains the contents of the following works: Classic hundred poems, Top 500 poems, Columbia Granger's index to poetry in anthologies (eds. 8- ), Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works, and Columbia Granger's index to African-American poetry.
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Dictionaries, specialized encyclopedias, quotations, thesauri, and bilingual dictionaries.
Full text of encyclopedia entries plus over 20,000 searchable images including photographs, fine art, scientific diagrams and more. Covers a broad range of topics from biography to medicine and Shakespeare to technology.
Alternate name: xreferplus
Vendor name: Credo Reference
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Full text of most dissertations produced after 1997; citations and abstracts for others.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses contains over 1.5 million entries, providing citations to North American and European dissertations from 1861 forward, with abstracts from 1980 forward. It also provides citations and abstracts for theses from 1988 forward. Full text of UNLV theses and dissertations available from 1996 to the present. Full text from all other institutions available from 1997 to the present.
Alternate name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Update frequency: Updated quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Complete books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America before 1800.
Books, pamphlets and broadsides listed in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. These searchable full text materials are primary sources documenting every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, including agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and slavery.
Alternate name: Evans Early American Imprints
Vendor name: Readex
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Early American imprints, 1639-1800 [microform] : based on the 13-volume Charles Evans bibliography, including supplements and corrections to Evans
Searchable full text collection of texts selected from the Early American Imprints (Evans) collection.
These accurately keyed editions allow better browsing and more precise searching than the page images supplied in the larger collection, but this search is available for only a small subset of the texts available in the main database.
Alternate name: Text Creation Partnership
Vendor name: University of Michigan
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Complete books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America between 1801 and 1819.
These searchable full text materials are primary sources documenting every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, including agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and slavery. This is the online equivalent of microfilm research collections based on lists from Evans' American Bibliography (and supplements) and Shaw and Shoemaker's American Bibliography, 1801-1819.
Alternate name: Shaw-Shoemaker
Vendor name: Readex
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist For 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw And Richard H. Shoemaker, available in UNLV Reference.
Books on all subjects published in England between 1475 and 1700.
Page images accurately reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions. Included are works by such authors as Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. The database also includes musical exercises by Henry Purcell, novels by Aphra Behn, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources. This is the online equivalent of the Early English Books microform series, which is based on the Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); the Thomason Tracts, and the Early English Books Tract Supplements.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: annual
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Fully searchable text editions of works selected from the Early English Books Online project.
This is a subset of EEBO texts that have been rekeyboarded and edited for improved searchability. Images of these books are also searchable from within the main EEBO database.
Alternate name: EEBO TCP
Vendor name: University of Michigan
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Digital copies of more than 30,000 complete books, reports and other resources covering all academic subject areas.
Books and other materials are arranged in five main subject areas - business and economics, career and general education, computers, engineering and applied sciences, humanities, social/behavioral sciences and life/physical sciences. The ebrary reader is required to view books and can be downloaded for free from ebrary. A free account is needed In order to access some features (i.e. saving notes and highlights).
Vendor name: Ebrary
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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Simultaneous search of books published between 1475-1800 in England and America.
Selected texts from EEBO, Early American Imprints and Eighteenth Century Collections Online have been rekeyboarded and edited to provide accurate and easily searchable texts.
Alternate name: TCP
Vendor name: University of Michigan
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Books on all subjects published in English between 1701 and 1800.
Digitized books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera in English and foreign languages published in the British Empire and in English elsewhere in the world, from 1701-1800. It includes digital reproductions of every page of a variety of primary source materials-by many well-known and lesser-known authors.
Alternate name: ECCO
Vendor name: Thomson Gale
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
More info: The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.
Newspapers and periodicals from the 17th and 18th century.
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center holds one of the finest collections of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals in the world, and it was from here that items for Eighteenth Century Journals II were selected. These holdings were documented in 'British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1632-1800' compiled by Powell Stewart in 1950.
Vendor name: Adam Matthew Digital
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Encyclopedia entries covering the Enlightenment from 1670-1815.
Covering the 'long' Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, these 700 articles by leading scholars range from discussions of mercantilism and democracy to the battlefield to the dissemination of ideas in salons and coffeehouses. Breaking conventional geographical boundaries, coverage includes not only Western Europe but also North America, Brazil, and Iberian, Russian, Jewish, and Eastern European cultures.
Vendor name: Oxford University Press
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Articles on all aspects of life from the 5th through the 15th century.
The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages provides 3,000 concise and detailed articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. It explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history. With a focus on focus on Europe and Christendom, the Encyclopedia also covers the rise of Islam and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.
Vendor name: Oxford University Press
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Journal and magazine articles about film and television.
Film & Television Literature Index indexes articles covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Alternate name: FLTI
Vendor name: Ebsco Publishing
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Ipri, Tom
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Index of film and television periodicals from 30 countries.
The Film Literature Index (FLI) indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular.
Alternate name: FLI
Vendor name: Free
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Ipri, Tom
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print volumes in the index area for citations from 2002 forward.
Online index of print Gale literary criticism sets. See Literature Resource Center for online content.
Locate biographical information about authors and excerpts of literary criticism in the print volumes of the Gale literary series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC), and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB). For the full text of some of this material, use Literature Resource Center.
Alternate name: CLC, TCLC, DLB
Vendor name: Gale
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
A magazine with firsthand information on social, historical and cultural aspects of the 19th century.
Godey's Lady's Book provides information on 19th century American history including important social issues of the day and information on social history, women's issues, material culture, textile studies, and contemporary literature. Also appearing in this publication are pieces of sheet music, stories, poetry, book notices, and historical writing.
Vendor name: Accessible Archives Inc.
Update frequency: complete
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: ;
Finley, Priscilla
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Search the full text of digitized books.
Depending on copyright status, you may see your search term highlighted in snippets of the text or in a "limited preview" of a few pages of the book. If the book is out of copyright (published before 1923), you'll be able to page through the entire book or download it as a PDF.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
Journal articles and books about world history from 1450 forward (Does not include the United States and Canada).
Historical Abstracts identifies journal articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada (See: America: History and Life). Articles from over 2,000 journals are indexed and annotated, and the database includes over half a million entries in all. A select 3,000 books are also listed.
Vendor name: Ebsco
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Primary documents, encyclopedia entriess, and journal articles about U.S. history.
The History Resource Center: U.S. is an integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. It combines more than 1,000 primary documents with coverage found in more than a dozen reference sources, including Scribner's Dictionary of American History and the Dictionary of American Biography. Complete full text coverage of approximately 65 periodicals, as well as access to the citations for history journals from ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index is provided.
Vendor name: Gale
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Index to personal narratives (letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories) from online collections.
Some are available on the Web, some through UNLV's subscriptions to Alexander Street Press collections, and some are held by repositories and archives around the world. Perform in-depth field and keyword searches across letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within Alexander Street Press databases and more than one million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Database of grants, fellowships and scholarships for individuals and institutions.
Over 9,000 funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities can be located in this resource. Advanced and basic search features are offered as well as links to the websites of the funding organization. The database has an alert service that allows users to be notified of relevant funding. An expertise service allows individuals to create a profile by institution for others to view their activities.
Vendor name: Illinois Researcher Information Service
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka
Index of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books, including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues. (Covering period: 1784 - present. )
Vendor name: University of Toronto
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago.
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and mroe.
Vendor name: JSTOR
Update frequency: constant
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Memoirs, letters, and essays by Latin American women.
Writers from the following countries are represented: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Novels, short stories and poems, and plays written by Americans of Spanish or Latin American heritage.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Lexicons of Early Modern English
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1480-1702.
Explore word histories in this compilation of over 150 dictionaries from the early modern period.
Compiles over 150 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries and glossaries from the early modern period in which either source or target language is English, as well as linguistic treatises, and encyclopedic or topical works. A half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia.
Alternate name: LEME
Vendor name: University of Toronto
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Source materials relating to the African-American experience.
Full text of both primary and secondary source material relating to the African American experience. Included are autobiographies, case law and statutes, government publications, photographs, reference and scholarly articles, speeches, and excerpts from manuscript collections such as the files of the NAACP and the White House civil rights files of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Vendor name: LexisNexis
Update frequency: Quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Images held by the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress.
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.
Vendor name: Library of Congress (free)
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Index of articles in linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
LLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Alternate name: LLBA
Vendor name: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Update frequency: monthly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Books available for 1-3 day delivery to UNLV Libraries.
LINK+ is a book request service that uses a shared library catalog to allow UNLV students, staff and faculty to search for and borrow over 8 million books and documents from over 40 libraries throughout California and Nevada.
More borrowing options.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
Manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
Complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse Additional features include interactive essays, biographies, a palaeography section with transcriptions and alphabets, and a large selection of colour images demonstrating over 320 examples of 17th and 18th century English handwriting.
Alternate name: Brotherton Collection
Vendor name: Adam Matthew Digital
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines for 7100 journals in modern languages and literature.
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, of which 4,400 are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Entries include editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. This directory has publication information only - use the MLA International Bibliography to locate journal articles in literature.
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Records of primary source material in archival and manuscript cataloging in the OCLC union catalog.
Search records of primary source material in archival and manuscript cataloging in the RLG and OCLC union catalogs. The mission of the NUCMC program is to provide and promote bibliographic access to the nation's documentary heritage. This mission is realized by NUCMC production of cataloging describing archival and manuscript collections held by eligible repositories located throughout the United States and its territories.
Vendor name: Library of Congress
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Digital copies of more than 3,000 complete books, reports and other resources covering all academic subject areas.
Browse e-books for quick research and reference or create a free account to check out items, create notes, and list favorites.
Vendor name: NetLibrary
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Cover to cover digital reproductions of the New York Times with searchable full text.
For 2003- present see ProQuest Newspapers
Vendor name: ProQuest-CSA
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Indexes of nineteenth century books, journals and newspapers.
Search up to 60 indexes (list) of publications issued between 1774 - 1925 to find citations to articles and books accessible by subject, by date, and more. 19th Century Masterfile includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Palmer's Index, indices to specific periodicals, catalogs of scientific papers, patents and government documents, and bibliographic records for 19th century books and serials published in English in all subject areas. Most citations do not link to full text, but many of the books and periodicals indexed are available in microform.
Alternate name: 19th Century Masterfile
Vendor name: Paratext
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories about immigrating to the U.S. or Canada.
People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, audio files let users hear the actual voices of the immigrants and facsimile images show pages of their scrapbooks.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Reference texts in American theater, as well as images of posters, playbills, photos, architectural images, floor plans, and other ephemera.
This collection also allows cross-searching of the full text contents of five online full-text drama collections: Black Drama, Twentieth Century North American Drama, Asian American Drama, Latino Literature, and North American Women's Drama
Alternate name: NATO
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Plays written by women in the United States and Canada.
Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. Plays are also included in North American Theatre Online.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
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Diaries, journals, and letters written by famous and not-so-famous North American women.
Drawn from sources including articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, the material represents diverse age groups, geographical regions, and ethnicities. Advanced search features allow limiting by age, marital status, age at marriage, number of children, race, occupation, religion, and much more.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
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Index of online digital collections and finding aids.
Provides links to electronic scholarly resources not found by other search engines. These resources, which include the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints, white papers, images of paintings, manuscript collections, movies, and audio files of speeches, are created and hosted by more than 250 research libraries and institutions around the world. Examples include: the arXiv.org Eprint Archive (physics); Directory of Open Access Journals; Ethnologue: Languages of the World; Library of Congress American Memory Project; and NASA Technical Report Server. Resources can be located by searching or by browsing an alphabetical list of participating libraries and institutions.
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Oral history interviews.
Interviews by topic, interviewee's occupation, time period, geographical location, and many other features. Over 20% of entries are linked to the full text or to an audio file of this rich primary source material. Records for items that are not available via the WWW show details about the archive or library that preserves the interview.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Encyclopedia of Byzantine history.
With more than 5,000 entries by an international group of historians, this is the standard research tool on 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Exhaustive in its coverage, entries on patriarchy and emperors coexist with entries on surgery, musical instruments, and the baking of bread, bringing to life this vastly important culture and empire, from the 4th century to the 15th.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
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Encyclopedia of all aspects of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century.
Detailed essays examine all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe, including comprehensive coverage of the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period. The text explores the influence that this intense intellectual and cultural revival continues to have on modern thought and society. Nearly half the entries are biographical, covering artists, thinkers, statesman, and reformers. A table of European ruling houses and a table showing the dates when cities and countries changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar are also included.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
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Essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists.
Essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes. Articles offer historical perspective and social context along with a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Accounts of individual authors and detailed histories of themes, movements, genres, and institutions in British literature.
Provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
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Essays about religious and social changes in Europe in the sixteenth century.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation presents essays about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature. This broadly cast, interdisciplinary definition allows for a comprehensive social and intellectual history of early modern Europe.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
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Meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Alternate name: OED
Vendor name: Oxford University Press
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Subject dictionaries and reference works.
Access to over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works containing over 60,000 pages of material. Includes sources covering general reference, language, science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business. List of full text reference books.
Vendor name: Oxford University Press
Update frequency: Updated regularly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
Journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published between 1802-1995.
Search international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995. PAO includes pre-1995 issues of over 400 journals, including many journals published in languages other than English.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: quarterly
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Locate plays published in anthologies, search for plays by subject, and find plays by size and gender of cast.
Play Index is useful for locating plays published in anthologies, searching for plays by subject, and for selecting plays by size and gender of cast, running time, set requirements, musical numbers, and other criteria. An annotated listings for each play summarizes the plot, set and scenery requirements.
Vendor name: H. W. Wilson
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Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Vendor name: Johns Hopkins UP
Update frequency: monthly
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ProQuest Newspapers
full text
1980s-.
Searchable current and recent newspapers from ProQuest.
Full text of articles from nine major national newspapers: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective
1890-1982.
Index to articles in popular magazines before 1983.
Citations to articles in U. S. general-interest magazines, providing coverage of events prior to 1983. Covers nonfiction, fiction, poems, short stories, and reviews of books, dance, motion pictures, musicals, operas and operettas, radio and television programs, and theater.
Vendor name: H. W. Wilson
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
In-depth encyclopedia entries from international experts across the discipline of philosophy.
Topics include Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. REP Online also provides editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web.
Update frequency: quarterly
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Index of articles on cover all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and weird fiction.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is an online searchable index designed to cover all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and weird fiction.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Dynamic encyclopedia of philosophy.
Professional philosophers donate their time and labor to collaboratively write, referee, and maintain encyclopedia entries. A freely available encyclopedia.
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Streaming video of theatre productions.
Theatre in Video presents online streaming video of complete professional performances of more than 250 well-known plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries. View and bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
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Full text of the London Times though 1985
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, presents searchable full text and page images of The Times (London). The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Search the full text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, and advertising.
Alternate name: London Times
Vendor name: Gale
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Page images of the London Times Literary Supplement.
More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available, and the identities of anonymous contributors are disclosed.
Vendor name: Gale
Update frequency: complete
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Full text scripts of plays.
Authors from Britain and Ireland, North America, India, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean, indexed by subject and keyword-searchable. Strengths of this collection include Irish drama, off-Broadway and alternative theatre, political plays, and global and postcolonial theatre. The "Find Monologue" feature helps actors find good audition pieces. Also searchable from within LION.
Alternate name: 20th Century Drama
Vendor name: ProQuest
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Plays from the United States and Canada.
In addition to providing a comprehensive full-text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Plays are also included in North American Theatre Online.
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Information on serials published throughout the world, including whether or not they are peer reviewed.
Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world, including whether or not they are peer reviewed. It covers all subjects and includes information about publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Updated weekly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Haslam, Michaelyn
Browse DVDs available by subject area.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Ipri, Tom
UNLV Libraries Microform Collection Finder
Discover microform research collections at UNLV Libraries.
Browse or search brief descriptions of the research collections available on microform at Lied Library. Use a very broad search term (for example,
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