Humanities Full Text

Humanities Full Text includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals–of which 470 are peer-reviewed–dating as far back as 1984. The database provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.

Periodicals Index Online

This resource has moved from the Chadwyck Healey search interface to the ProQuest search interface.

Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies

A systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa produced by the National Information Services Corporation.

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Trial expires: Saturday, April 27, 2013

Digitalia

Digitalia is a database of Hispanic ebooks and ejournals offering broad access to high-quality content in the Spanish Language from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American Publishing Houses. Baylor subscribes to the Social and Humanities collection, which includes ebooks only in the subjects of Art, Film Study, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Architecture, Political Affairs, Religion, Philosophy, and Social science.

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Trial expires: Thursday, October 04, 2012

Duke University Press Journals Online

Provides online access to the full text of 42 humanities and social science journals.

Last year, EBSCO Publishing bought HW Wilson.  EBSCO is in the process of migrating all Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform.  The following Wilson databases acquired by the Baylor University Libraries have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform:

• Art Index Retrospective
• Book Review Digest Retrospective
• Education Index Retrospective
• Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Play Index
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective
• Short Story Index Retrospective

The remaining Wilson databases should be migrated to the EBSCOhost platform before the end of February 2012, and include the following resources acquired by the Baylor University Libraries:

• Children’s Core Collection
• Fiction Core Collection
• Middle and Junior High Core Collection
• Public Library Core Collection Nonfiction
• Senior High Core Collection

Web of Knowledge — Book Citation Index

The Book Citation Index has been added to our Web of Knowledge subscription for a trial period. To use this feature, click on the “Cited Reference Search” link and complete the search form. Just below the search form you will see “Citation Databases” with a “+” to the left. click on that plus to view the options that allow you to narrow your cited search to books or chapters in books.

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Trial expires: Thursday, December 15, 2011

Australasian Digital Theses

This resource has been discontinued.  Trove will provide access to most theses and dissertations from this region.

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog — Dissertations

Searchable online index of foreign (non-U.S.) doctoral dissertations held by the Center for Research Libraries.

Trove

Trove is a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. Trove provides integrated access to millions of items from a range of the National Library’s collaborative services and from elsewhere. Metadata (information about items) is pooled from Australian sources including: The Australian National Bibliographic Database – containing location information from thousands of Australian libraries, The Picture Australia program, The Australian Research Online program, The Music Australia program, The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and The People Australia program, and some overseas sources.