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  • Academic Search Premier
    Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals multi-subject databases news current events
  • Art & Architecture Complete
    Provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 780 periodicals and over 230 books, and an image collection of over 63,000 images. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and more. Coverage: Details not available. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
    Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) indexes over 1,100 journals in the arts and humanities including architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, history, languages, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, and theater. AHCI provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references and is very useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic. Coverage: 1975-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • Artstor
    The Artstor Digital Library provides images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Comprises contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Images form ARTstor are for noncommercial educational or scholarly use only. Images may be used in educational or scholarly presentations, including printed handouts, but may not be otherwise distributed or publicly displayed. artwork images primary sources video multimedia
  • Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS
    Produced by Atla, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology, this database combines the premier indexing from Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials, one of Atla’s online full-text collections of major religion and theology journals. Coverage: 1818-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals

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  • Bible in English (990-1970)
    Contains twenty different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. Coverage: 990-1970. literary texts

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  • Ebony Magazine Archive
    Ebony Magazine Archive covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014. Coverage: 1945-2014. primary sources
  • Ebook Central
    Academic e-books covering a broad range of subjects. Books may be read online in any web browser. WFU user login required. books e-books multi-subject databases
  • Electronic Theses and Dissertations at WFU
    The Wake Forest University Electronic Theses and dissertation database consists of PDF versions of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences students’ theses and dissertations. At this time, students have the option of submitting electronic versions; it is not yet a requirement. For a comprehensive listing of WFU theses and dissertations, please consult the online catalog. Coverage: 2002-. books e-books theses dissertations
  • Ethnic Diversity Source
    Ethnic Diversity Source is a full-text database that covers the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America. articles scholarly journals books e-books

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  • Gale Literature: Book Review Index
    Includes more than 5.6 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. The original print edition of Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. literary criticism reference
  • Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies
    Gale OneFile: Popular Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. articles scholarly journals
  • Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism
    This collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily. Coverage: 1980-. articles newspapers magazines

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  • HathiTrust Digital Library
    HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Log in as a WFU user to get access to downloadable PDFs of public domain items. Coverage: Varies. books e-books multi-subject databases
  • hoopla
    Formerly RBdigital. Download ebooks and audio books provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Users will need to register for an account before accessing NC LIVE content on hoopla. Enter an email address, select library as “NC LIVE”, enter any number you like in the library card space. Browse and borrow from hoopla’s Flex collection! books e-books multi-subject databases
  • Humanities International Index
    An index to creative, critical and scholarly English-language literary journals and magazines (primarily American and Canadian). Most of these journals are either not indexed elsewhere or are indexed only partially in other indexing services. All publications are indexed in their entirety – including fiction and poems. Coverage: 1975-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals literary criticism reference

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  • Jacoby Online
    Jacoby Online is anchored in the work of Felix Jacoby, who started the work of collecting fragments and testimonia of Greek historians, and other authors from antiquity and writing commentaries. To his Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker I-III (1923-1959) are added two new editions, Brill’s New Jacoby (2006-2021) and Brill’s New Jacoby, Second Edition (2016-), edited by Ian Worthington. encyclopedias reference
  • JET Magazine Archive
    JET Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014. Coverage: 1951-2014.
  • JSTOR
    A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund. Coverage: Varies. articles scholarly journals multi-subject databases primary sources

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  • Kanopy Video
    Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas. video multimedia

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  • LGBT Magazine Archive
    LGBT Collection 1 contains archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes The Advocate and Gay Times. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. Coverage: 1954-2015. primary sources historical newspapers periodicals

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  • MLA Handbook Plus
    The go-to resource for writers of research papers and anyone citing sources. MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook as well as the first editions of both the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature. citation style guides encyclopedias reference

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  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
    As well as providing factual information, the Oxford Classical Dictionary contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, gender, and ecology. Anthropology and reception have been added as new subject areas, covering topics such as creolization and kinship, as well as dance reception and translation. dictionaries

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  • Queer Pasts
    Queer Pasts is a digital queer history project consisting of primary source document collections and curatorial essays. The digital exhibits on this platform are designed for students, teachers, and scholars of queer history. primary sources

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  • Routledge Handbooks Online
    Overviews of research and trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology. encyclopedias reference

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  • Theatre and Drama Premium
    Theatre and Drama Premium provides everything you need to bring the spectacle of theatre and drama into the classroom, from interviews with giants like Arthur Miller or James Earl Jones to previously unpublished play manuscripts from the genius of Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga.Includes the Drama Text collection, featuring Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, and more; and the Theatre Performance and Design Collection, featuring the National Theatre Collection, Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, and more.  literary texts video multimedia

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