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African American Song	Database
(Alexander Street Press) - includes jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, spanning more than 100 years, from the era of post-reconstruction through the civil rights movement.
Art Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - covers a broad range of subject areas, from Computers in Art to Art History, Fashion Design to Sculpture. Includes indexing from 1984 and select full text dating back to 1997. Indexing of reproductions of works of art appearing in featured periodicals is also provided.
ARTstor	Database
Contains some 500,000 digital images of works of art, architecture and archaeology from all periods and from diverse cultures, with accompanying software for searching, viewing and creating presentations. Copy and paste the following URL to check for system requirements: http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-html/requirements.shtml
Black Drama	Full-text database
Contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Classical Music Library	Database
(Alexander Street Press) - offers the world's largest multi-label collection of music recordings for libraries, featuring performers from 32 independent and major classical labels, including EMI Classics. In addition, links to biographical and reference materials are provided.
Grove Art Online	Full-text database
full-text articles from the 34 volume Grove Dictionary of Art with hot links to images on the WWW.
Grove Music Online	Full-text database
full-text articles from the 29 volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition with hot links to the WWW.
Humanities Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson)- provides citations and some full text in a broad range of subject areas including literature, art, archeology, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, history, and gender studies. Some original works of poetry, fiction, and drama are included. Indexing dates back to 1984, with select full text coverage beginning in 1994.
Humanities International Complete (HIC)	Full-text database
(Ebsco) - covers a broad range of subjects in the humanities, providing the full text of 770 journals as well as book chapters, with journals dating as far back as 1925.
International Index to Music Periodicals	Full-text database
(Proquest) - is a Full Text resource for music information. It provides instant access to abstracts and selected full-text coverage of over 300 of the most important scholarly and popular music journals.
International Index to the Performing Arts	Full-text database
(Proquest) -provides access to journal literature of the various performing arts including dance, film, theater, circus, and puppetry from 1998 onwards (with 29 titles full-text), and provides retrospective access to many selected titles.
JSTOR	Full-text database
a searchable scholarly archive providing the full text of journal articles in business, economics, history, political science, literature, sociology, as well as other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Coverage of each journal begins with its first volume (going back to the 1880s, in some cases), and usually excludes the most recent 2-5 years.
Musical America Directory	Database
(CBM) - An online version of the annual Musical America Directory. Also includes current music industry news, reviews, etc.
Naxos Music Library	Database
provides online access to the complete recordings from the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Decapo catalogs in streaming audio format. Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music are all represented in this collection. Brief biographies of individual composers are also included.
Play Index	Database
(Wilson) - indexes over 30,000 plays published from 1949 to the present.
Project Muse	Full-text database
provides the full text of scholarly journals in fields including literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Years of coverage vary by title with selected titles beginning as early as 1993. **Note: if you receive any gateway errors when using the link above, use this alternate URL: http://0-muse.uq.edu.au.alicat.adelphi.edu/