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| ABI/Inform | |
| Provides abstracts and some full text of U.S. and international articles on business and management. Includes articles from international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Covers 1971 to present. Get password from Reference Librarian. | |
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| ABSEES | |
| see American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies | |
| Abstracts of English Studies | |||
| An index to journal articles about English, American, and international drama, fiction, and poetry. | |||
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| Academic Search Premier | |
| This database provides access to over 8040 multi-disciplinary publications, many in full-text. Covers 1975 to present. | |
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| ACS | |
| see American Chemical Society Publications | |
| AfricaBib | |
| AfricaBib covers 25 years of Africana research. Includes separate database on African women. | |
| Africa Bibliography | |||
| An index by country/region to periodical articles, books and essays in edited volumes. Principally covers the social sciences, environmental sciences, humanities and arts. | |||
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| AGRICOLA | |
| An index to books, journals, government documents, and reports received by the National Agricultural Library. Covers 1970 to the present. | |
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| AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts | |
| An index to books and articles related to AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics. | |
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| allAfrica.com | |
| allAfrica.com is a news-site covering a wide array of topics from the African Continent in English and French. It allows searching by regions or countries and by topic, both for current events and archives. | |
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| Alternative Press Index | |
| Subject index to alternative and radical publications regarding movements.
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| America: History & Life | |
| An index to approximately 2,800 journals, plus dissertations and books in North American History. Indexes literature published from 1964 to the present. | |
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| American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) | |||
| An index of United States and Canadian publications in Slavic and East European Studies. Includes books, book reviews, portions of books, journal articles, and dissertations. Arranged by subject and geographical region. Covers 1967 to present. | |||
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| American Chemical Society Publications | |
| This web page provides access to the electronic full-text versions of over 30 titles published (or co-published) by ACS. Select either "Journals and magazines" or "Search the journals" to get to the list of titles available. | |
| American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 | |
| A collection of digitized magazines and journals published in the United States between 1741 and 1900. APS includes more than 1,000 titles such as Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journal, and numerous popular magazines. A complete title list is available on the Web. | |
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| Annee Philologique, L' | |||
| International index to books, journal articles, dissertations and conference proceedings related to ancient Greece and Rome.
Online access available through a dedicated terminal in the Classics Department (Old Main) |
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| Annual Reviews | |
| Index to and full text of a collection of review articles in all disciplines. See Bridge for complete list of print titles. | |
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| AnthroSource | |
| A full-text archive of all journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Represents the fields of anthropology, ethnology, and archaeology. Coverage dates back to the first issue of each journal, as early as 1880's for "American Anthropologist," and back to the 1960's for many other journal titles. | |
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| ARTbibliographies Modern | |
| Modern and contemporary art, photography and design. Covers 1974-present. | |
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| Art Index | |||
| Indexes English-language art periodicals, plus museum bulletins, bibliographies, film reviews, and conference reports. Covers 1984 to the present. | |||
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| Art Index Retrospective | |
| Indexes English-language art periodicals, plus museum bulletins, bibliographies, film reviews, and conference reports. Covers 1929-1984. | |
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| Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch) | |||
| A large index to arts and humanities journal that permits you to search for works that cite another work or author. Covers 1980 to the present.
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| ARTstor | |
| A "repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data." Covers architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many cultures. | |
| ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts | |
| The "premier reference in the field of aquatic resources." Includes books, journals, conference proceedings and more. | |
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| ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts | |
| ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly. Covers 1987-present. | |
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| ATLA Religion Database | |
| ATLA Religion Database is an index to religion journals, book reviews, and festschriften. Corresponds to the print versions of Religion Index One, Religion Index Two, Research in Ministry, Methodist Reviews Index, and Book Reviews in Religion. It is the full file version of ATLA Religion Database with the addition of links from article citations directly to the complete content of the articles. Covers 1949 to the present. | |
| BHI: British Humanities Index | |
| Indexes British periodicals only. Subjects include the arts, music, philosophy, religion, literature, economics, politics, history, and society as well as articles of popular interest in science and technology. Covers 1962-present. | |
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| Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft | |||
| An index to material on the German literature and language. | |||
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| Bibliography of Asian Studies | |||
| An index to scholarly, western-language publications on East, South, and Southeast Asia in the fields of history, the humanities, and the social sciences. Indexes journal articles, monographs, government documents, and conference proceedings. Covers 1971-present. | |||
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| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | |
| An index to biographical encyclopedias and dictionaries. | |
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| Biological Sciences | |
| An index to literature in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. | |
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| Biology Digest | |
| Provides abstracts to literature in medicine, health, zoology, botany, environmental science, and related disciplines. Covers 1989 to the present. | |
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| BioOne | |
| Collection of the full texts of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. | |
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| Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts | |
| Covers all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology. Includes 1982-present. | |
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| Black Studies Center | |
| A "fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more." | |
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| Book Review Digest | |||
| Cites and excerpts reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction. Reviews are culled from 100 periodicals in the Unites States, Britain, and Canada. | |||
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| Book Review Index | |||
| An index to reviews of books and periodicals. Citations are arranged by author or title of the work being reviewed. Includes reviews of cookbooks, novels, children's literature, textbooks, and non-fiction. | |||
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| Books In Print Plus Reviews | |
| Bowker's online version of Books In Print Plus Reviews provides access to millions of bibliographic titles with thousands of full-text reviews and out-of-print titles, as well as full publisher information. | |
| Britannica.com | |||
| An online version of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Includes all articles from the print version, plus links to reputable Web sites covering a wide variety of subjects. Also offers searching of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. | |||
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| British Humanities Index | |
| see BHI: British Humanities Index | |
| Business Periodicals Index | |||
| Indexes over 345 leading business magazines. Subjects include accounting, banking, communications, economics, finance, government regulations, insurance, investments, marketing, oil & gas, personnel, retail trade, small business, taxation, specific businesses, specific industries, and specific trades. | |||
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| Business Searching Interface (Business Source Premier) | |
| Provides an "easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in keyword search, if desired." | |
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| Business Source Premier | |
| Indexes approximately 3800 business journals with full-text for over 1100 publications. Covers 1922 to present. | |
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| Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
| A vast collection of indexes to literature in the sciences and social sciences. Search tips |
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| Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, The | |||
| An index to selected Catholic periodicals. Includes a bibliography of books by Catholic writers. | |||
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| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database | |
| A database of children's literature, from baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Many records include reviews, awards, and prizes for the book. Also includes information about reading measurement program information as well as best book lists and state reading lists. | |
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| ChoiceReviews Online | |
| The internet version of the print magazine CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries provides web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic. They are also searchable by using Advanced Search. | |
| CINAHL | |||
| An index to nursing and allied health journals. Online version covers 1982 - present. Works with the Ovid full-text database; we own many of the standard nursing journals in paper. For instruction in using CINAHL, see the CINAHL Basics guide. | |||
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| CIS (Congressional Information Service) | |
| see LexisNexis Congressional Universe | |
| CIS (Current Index to Statistics) | |
| see Current Index to Statistics | |
| Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, The | |
| An index to and full text of the Charleston Mercury, Richmond Inquirer, and the New York Herald from November 1, 1860 to April 30, 1865. | |
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| Civil War Era Newspapers (Pennsylvania) | |
| A full-text database of selected Pennsylvania newspapers during the years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War. | |
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| Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) | |
| "As a convenient source of critical opinion on early literature, this series excerpts criticism on the works of philosophers, poets and playwrights, political leaders, scientists and writers from other genres." | |
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| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, The | |
| This online version of the standard poetry index contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms. | |
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| Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Political Science | |||
| A keyword index to articles in political science journals, 1886-1974 | |||
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| Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals | |||
| The set provides author and title access to over one million book reviews which appeared in 459 scholarly journals, 1886-1974. | |||
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| Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History | |||
| An index to articles published from 1838 to 1974 in English-language journals covering all time periods and geographical areas. | |||
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| Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in Sociology | |||
| A keyword index to articles in sociology journals, 1895-1974. | |||
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| Communication Abstracts | |
| An database with abstracts to journal articles and books about communication. | |
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| Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, The | |
| Includes all the most important classics of ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. For example: astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economy, art, education, agriculture, medicine and so on. It is the most comprehensive, most important classified books collection of China and the biggest compendium of its type in the world. | |
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| Computer and Information Systems Abstracts | |
| An index to literature on all aspects of computing. | |
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| Contemporary Authors | |||
| Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. | |||
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) | |
| "Profiles influential writers via excerpted passages from selected criticism." | |
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| Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) | |
| An index to and full text of journals, newsletters, research reports from nonprofit groups and government and international agencies. Covers disciplines such as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Covers 1992 to the present.
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| CQ Researcher | |
| Provides in-depth coverage of health issues, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Includes overviews, pros and cons, and lengthy lists of other sources. | |
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| CQ Weekly | |
| CQ Weekly covers virtually every act of Congress. Search by topic, committee, bill number, or full-text. Access goes back to 1983. | |
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| Current Index to Statistics | |
| A "bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 162 core journals (as of 2003) that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources." | |
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| DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index | |
| Design, crafts and applied arts. Covers 1973-present. | |
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| Daily Graphs Online | |
| Graphs showing stock market activity. Updated daily.
Available on Rolvaag Reference Room computers. |
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| Dictionary of Literary Biography | |||
| Biographical and bibliographical information on literary authors. | |||
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| Dictionary of National Biography | |||
| The Oxford DNB contains 56,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the 4th century BC to the year 2004. | |||
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| Dissertation Abstracts | |
| An index to dissertations accepted at accredited US institutions since 1861. Please contact a reference librarian for the password. | |
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| Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online | |
| "DDM-Online presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories." | |
| DRAM | |
| "A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other important labels." | |
| Drama Criticism (DC) | |
| "For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer’s major works and more." | |
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| Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans | |
| Electronic access to a variety of American publications from 1639 to 1800. | |
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| Early American Newspapers Digital | |
| America's Historical Newspapers provides access to "cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers" from 1690 to 1922. | |
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| EconLit | |||
| Expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), published by the American Economic Association, 1969-present. Contains citations and abstracts for articles in approximately 400 journals, books, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Includes book reviews published in JEL since 1993. | |||
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| Education Index | |||
| An index to approximately 400 English-language education periodicals and yearbooks, as well as selected series, supplements, and book reviews. | |||
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| EEBO: Early English Books Online | |
| EEBO "contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700." | |
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| Electronics and Communications Abstracts | |
| Covers topics in electronics and communications including: circuits, components and materials, photonics, control and systems, telecommunications, telecommunications equipment and instrumentation, and power systems. | |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica | |
| see Britannica.com | |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management | |
| An index to literature on the environment from journals, books, proceedings, reports, and government documents. | |
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| ERIC | |
| An index to education journals, plus curricular material and reports gathered by the US Department of Education. | |
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| Essay and General Literature Index | |||
| An index to collections of essays with particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social sciences. | |||
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| Evans. See Early American Imprints... Evans | |
| see Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans | |
| FactSearch | |
| Index of statistics from newspapers, periodicals, and government documents. Covers 1984 to the present.
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| FBIS - Foreign Broadcast Information Service | |
| see World News Connection | |
| Film Literature Index | |||
| A subject and name index to film and television/video literature appearing in periodicals. | |||
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| Film Review Annual | |||
| A yearly collection of reviews of films released in the United States. | |||
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| Film & Television Literature Index | |
| A "comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews." | |
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| FirstSearch | |
| A collection of many different databases and indexes. Most are listed separately on this page. | |
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| French XX Bibliography | |||
| An index to material on French Literature since 1885. | |||
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| Gender Watch | |
| A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Covers topics such as family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders, social and societal roles. It also includes literature on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. Coverage back to the mid-1970s. | |
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| GEOBASE | |
| Indexes journals in geology, cartography, climatology, energy, environment, hydrology, meteorology, paleontology, sedimentology, and volcanology. Covers 1980 to the present.
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| Google Books | |
| A collection of digitized books in the public domain and snippets of in-copyright texts. | |
| Google News Archive Search | |
| Searches newspapers and news magazines, some of which date back 200+ years. Includes both free and pay-per-article content. St. Olaf subscribes to ProQuest and the New York Times (see in this list). For articles that aren't freely available otherwise, St. Olaf students, faculty, and staff can request a copy from interlibrary loan. | |
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| GoogleScholar | |
| Google's database of scholarly materials. Caveat: Often leads to journal home pages which request payment for articles we may already have full-text or in print | |
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| Government Periodicals Universe | |
| see LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index | |
| GPO Access | |
| An index to and full text of the Congressional Record, Congressional bills, History of Bills, Federal Register, and the US Code. Dates covered vary by database. | |
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| GreenFILE | |
| Covers "all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more." | |
| Grove Music Online | |||
| This online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It offers keyword searching of articles, biographies, bibliographies, and contributors. You can also browse by article title, abbreviations, or contributors. | |||
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| Handbook of Latin American Studies | |||
| An annotated bibliography of works on Latin America covering various fields in both the humanities and social sciences. Covers literature published from 1935 to the present. | |||
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| HarpWeek, The Civil War Era, 1857-1865 | |
| "An index to and full text of Harper's Weekly, a magazine covering military, political, social, and cultural issues." | |
| Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) | |||
| Index of articles and reviews published in and pertaining to Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Languages include English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian. | |||
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