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Article Databases

These resources provide access to scholarly journal articles, some of which are full-text
  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: varies
    Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

  • Free online resource Early Modern Women Database

    Coverage: 1500 to ca. 1800
    Provides links to resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. Coverage 1500 to 1800. Includes links to Web sites about the Medieval period and 19th Century. Resources have been selected by librarians of the University of Maryland Libraries. The database includes bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources are free.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Humanities International Complete (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other reference sources in the humanities. The database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works.

  • Free online resource Humanities Text Initiative Modern English Collection

    Coverage: 19th-20th cent. Works in English
    Classic works from British and American writers.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff JSTOR

    Coverage: varies
    Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years. UMBC subscribes to Arts & Science I, II, III, General Science, Ecology & Botany.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff LION (Literature Online Complete)

    Coverage: varies
    Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Literature Resource Center

    Coverage: varies
    Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association - Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: 1963 - present
    Indexes 4,000+ journals in the areas of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, rhetoric, dramatic arts, printing and publishing.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Project Muse

    Coverage: varies
    Searchable full-text of select journals in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.

  • Free online resource Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto

    On this site you will find the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. Includes background information, text comparisons, commentary on the plays and the historical context.

  • Available to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff World Shakespeare Bibliography Online 1963-2006

    Coverage: 1963-2006
    The Bibliography provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical produc-tions & reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials produced 1963-2006.


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