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ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) (via Chadwyk-Healey) \| via LION )	Description
Academic Search Premier (FT)	Description
Access World News (FT)	Description
ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly ACLS History E-Book Project) (FT)	Description
African American Biographical Database (FT)	Description
African American Experience (FT)	Description
African American Music Reference (FT)	Description
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (FT)	Description
African-American Poetry (1750-1900) (FT)	Description
African American Song	Description
African Writers Series (FT)	Description
America: History & Life (via ABC-Clio \| via EbscoHost) (or search simultaneously with Historical Abstracts via ABC-Clio \| via EbscoHost) Note: Access to this database via ABC-Clio will cease on June 30. Access will continue via EbscoHost.	Description
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (FT) (now includes Series 2 [more info] and Series 3 [more info] )	Description
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)	Description
American Civil War Letters and Diaries (FT)	Description
American Drama (FT)	Description
American Film Scripts Online (FT)	Description
American National Biography (FT)	Description
American Periodicals Series Online (FT)	Description
American Song	Description
L’Année Philologique Online	Description
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) (via Chadwyk-Healey \| via LION )	Description
AP Images	Description
Archive of Americana (FT) (Simultaneously search Early American Imprints and America's Historical Newspapers)
Art Index (1929- )	Description
ARTbibliographies Modern	Description
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science)	Description
ARTstor Note: Must DISABLE all pop-up blockers	Description
AskART.com	Description
Asia-Studies Online: Humanities (FT)	Description
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (FT)	Description
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals	Description
Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) Archive (FT)	Description
Bibliography of American Literature	Description
Bibliography of Asian Studies	Description
Bibliography of the History of Art	Description
Black Drama (FT)	Description
Black Historical Newspapers (FT)	Description
Black Literature Index	Description
Black Short Fiction (FT)	Description
Black Studies Center (FT)	Description
Black Thought and Culture (FT)	Description
Blackwell Compass (FT)	Description
Blackwell Reference Online (FT) Philosophy & Religion Collection only	Description
Blackwell Synergy (FT)	Description
Book History Online (BHO) International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries	Description
Book Review Digest Plus (now via WilsonWeb)	Description
Brill's New Pauly [English / German] (FT)	Description
British Periodicals Online (FT)	Description
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index	Description
Cambridge Companions Online (FT)	Description
Cambridge Journals Online (FT)	Description
Canadian Poetry (FT)	Description
Clase and Periódica	Description
Classical Music Library	Description
Classical Scores Library (FT)	Description
ComAbstracts	Description
Comindex (Only accessible from within Temple Libraries)	Description
Communication & Mass Media Complete (FT)	Description
Contemporary Authors	Description
Contemporary World Music	Description
Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) (FT)	Description
Design & Applied Arts Index	Description
Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) See... Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Digital Dissertations now called Proquest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University (subset of PQDT that only includes Temple dissertations & theses)	Description
Digital National Security Archive (FT)	Description
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)	Description
Early American Fiction 1789-1850 (FT)	Description
Early American Fiction 1789-1875 (FT)	Description
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) (FT)	Description
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) (FT)	Description
Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) (FT) (see America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922)
Early Encounters in North America (FT)	Description
Early English Books Online (FT)	Description
Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700) (FT)	Description
EEBO (Early English Books Online) (FT)	Description
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (FT)	Description
Eighteenth Century Fiction (1700-1780) (FT)	Description
Encyclopedia of American Studies (FT)	Description
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online (FT)	Description
English Drama (1280-1915) (FT)	Description
English Poetry (600-1900) (FT)	Description
English Poetry, Second Edition (FT)	Description
English Short Title Catalog	Description
Essay and General Literature Index (now via WilsonWeb)	Description
Faber Poetry Library (FT)	Description
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus	Description
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text	Description
Film Indexes Online	Description
FRANCIS (International Humanities & Social Sciences)	Description
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (FT)	Description
Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online, 1543-1945 (FT)	Description
Grove Art Online (FT)	Description
Grove Music Online (FT)	Description
HarpWeek (FT)	Description
Historical Abstracts (via ABC-Clio \| via EbscoHost) (or search simultaneously with America: History & Life via ABC-Clio \| via EbscoHost) Note: Access to this database via ABC-Clio will cease on June 30. Access will continue via EbscoHost.	Description
Historical Statistics of the United States Online (FT)	Description
History Cooperative Journals (FT)	Description
History Databases from ABC-Clio (via ABC-Clio \| via EbscoHost) (simultaneously search America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts) Note: Access to these databases via ABC-Clio will cease on June 30. Access will continue via EbscoHost.
History Reference Center (FT)	Description
Hollywood Creative Directory Note: Click "log-in" button near upper right-hand corner of HCD Online homepage	Description
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (19th Century) (FT)	Description
Humanities Index (1907- )	Description
In the First Person	Description
Index of Christian Art	Description
Index Islamicus	Description
Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series	Description
IngentaConnect	Description
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text (FT)	Description
International Index to Black Periodicals Full-Text (FT)	Description
International Index to Music Periodicals (FT)	Description
International Index to the Performing Arts (FT)	Description
International Medieval Bibliography Online	Description
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance	Description
JSTOR (FT)	Description
King James Bible (FT)	Description
L’Année Philologique Online	Description
Latin American Women Writers (FT)	Description
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction (FT)	Description
Library of Latin Texts (FT) Note: Follow link, scroll down to Library of Latin Texts and click "Go"	Description
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)	Description
Literature Criticism Online (FT)	Description
Literature Online (LION) (FT)	Description
Literature Resource Center (FT)	Description
(London) Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (1902-1990) (FT)	Description
MLA Directory of Periodicals	Description
MLA International Bibliography	Description
Movie Review Query Engine	Description
Music and Performing Arts Online (FT)	Description
Music Index Online	Description
Naxos Music Library / Naxos Music Library Jazz	Description
NDEO Research in Dance Education Database	Description
NetLibrary (FT)	Description
New Pauly [English / German] (FT)	Description
New York Times (FT) Full-Text (2000 - present) (via Newsbank) Full-Text / Full-Image (1851 - 2003) (via Proquest Historical Newspapers) Full-Text (1980 - present) and Index (1969 - present) (via LexisNexis Academic) Index (1851 - 1922) (via Chadwyck-Healey Historical Newspapers) Index (1863 - 1905) (via 19th Century Masterfile)
19th Century Fiction (FT)	Description
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (FT)	Description
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (FT)	Description
Oral History Online (FT)	Description
Oxford African American Studies Center (FT)	Description
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) (FT)	Description
Oxford Journals Online (FT)	Description
Oxford Reference Online (FT)	Description
PapersFirst	Description
Past Masters (FT)	Description
The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 (FT)	Description
Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County 1809-1870 (FT)	Description
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870 (FT)	Description
Periodicals Archive Online (FT)	Description
Periodicals Index Online	Description
Philosopher's Index	Description
PhilSci Archive	Description
POIESIS (FT)	Description
ProceedingsFirst	Description
Project MUSE (FT)	Description
Proquest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University (subset of PQDT that only includes Temple dissertations & theses)	Description
RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies	Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1890- )	Description
Religion and Philosophy Collection (FT)	Description
RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature	Description
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals	Description
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources	Description
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (FT)	Description
Sage Journals Online (FT)	Description
Smithsonian Global Sound	Description
SpringerLink (FT)	Description
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (FT)	Description
Television News Archives-- Vanderbilt University Note: Now includes streaming video of the NBC evening newscasts back to 8/5/1968	Description
Theatre in Video	Description
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (FT)	Description
(London) Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (1902-1990) (FT)	Description
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (FT)	Description
Twentieth Century American Poetry (FT)	Description
Twentieth Century English Poetry (FT)	Description
Twentieth Century North American Drama (FT)	Description
Vanderbilt University Television News Archive See... Television News Archive -- Vanderbilt University
Visual Collections	Description
Web Gallery of Art	Description
Web of Science (Backfiles added)	Description
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals	Description
Wilson OmniFile (FT)	Description
Women Writers Online (FT)	Description
World History Collection (FT)	Description
xreferplus (now called Credo Reference) (FT)	Description