Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications, including full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.

ABELL contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

Also known as: ABELL

ABELL contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

Also known as: ABELL

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. A&HCI provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. Averages 2,250 new articles per week. Includes approximately 15,250 new cited references per week. Contains a current total of over 2.5 million articles. Contains unique implicit citations that reference you to actual representations of a work of art or music score. Contains title enhancements added to obscure or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents. Some of the disciplines covered include:
* Archaeology
* Linguistics
* Architecture
* Literary Reviews
* Art
* Literature
* Asian Studies
* Music
* Classics
* Philosophy
* Dance
* Poetry
* Folklore
* Radio, Television, & Film
* History
* Religion
* Language
* Theater

Also known as: Web of Science

The Bibliography of American Literature provides more than 37,000 records of the literary works of 281 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. It aims to include all first editions, chronologically arranged, of each author covered. In addition, it includes any book (pamphlet, broadside, etc.) containing the first appearance of any prose (except letters) or poetry by such authors. It records variant issues and states of the first editions, as well as details of illustrations and maps, and standard and variant publishers' bindings. European editions in English are included as and where necessary. Reprints which might be confused with first editions, and subsequent editions containing important textual changes by the author, are briefly noted. A selective list of bibliographical, biographical and critical works is also given for each author. Certain categories of material, including periodical and newspaper publications, unrevised reprints and translations into other languages, have been excluded.

Also known as: BAL

Blackwell Compass is a suite of state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed survey articles across entire disciplines. Disciplines currently covered are Geography, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.

Blackwell Reference Online contains full-text versions of reference titles from Blackwell Publishing including the highly regarded Blackwell Companions and Blackwell Handbooks. Temple currently has access to over 350 titles in the areas of Anthropology, Art, Business & Management, Classics, Communication & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Religion, and Sociology.

BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries. The database contains 28,200 records. The files can be searched by names of authors, editors, title words (including periodicals), classification, geographical keywords, names of persons (printers, publishers etc.), firms and institutions, and by subjects and words in annotations.

Subjects covered by BHO correspond with those of ABHB: all scholarly valuable books and articles relating to the history of the printed book and libraries, and to book production, distribution, conservation, description and analysis. Also included are articles referring to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques, and equipment in relation to books, and to the book and library in their economic, social and cultural environment.

BHO contains all ABHB entries from 1990 onwards. For ABHB volume 1 (1970) to volume 17 (1986) a cumulative subject index was published in 1989 as volume 17A. There is no cumulative index for volume 18 (1987) to volume 20 (1989). Volume 21 (1990) to volume 29 (1998) are covered in BHO. (Updated yearly.)

C19 indexes millions of documents published between 1790 and 1919. It is currently comprised of the following components for which further detail is available.

Books:
--Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919) (Index only)

--Nineteenth Century microfiche project (1801-1900) (Index only)

Periodicals:
--American Periodicals Series (1770-1919) (Full-Text)

--British Periodicals Series (Index only)

--Periodicals Index (1790-1919) (Index only, but links out to JSTOR)

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Index only)

--Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) (Index only)

Official Publications:
--House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) (Full-Text)

Archives:
--ArchivesUSA (19th century records only) (Index only)

Newspapers:
--Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905) (Index only - but full-text available via Times Digital Archive )

Over 2,000 essays from 200 authoritative guides in Cambridge Univesity Press' Companions series. Covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics and cultural studies.

Biographical and bibliographical details on 100,000 modern authors: novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, screenwriters, journalists and other non-fiction writers. Major authors who were active prior to 1960 whose influence is still seen in contemporary literature, are also featured.

Diamond is the catalog of books, movies, music, and other materials held by the Temple University Libraries.

Describes English-language letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or its colonies from 1473 to 1800, as well as material printed in English anywhere in the world during that period. The database sources are ESTC/North America and The British Library and represents holdings of over 1600 libraries worldwide. (Updated daily)

Also known as: ESTC

Films on Demand is a library of thousands of streaming videos across all disciplines from Films Media Group. All Temple users can search and view films or specific segments of films. If you establish a user account from within Films on Demand you can also create playlists from the various films/segments for your own use or for sharing with other Temple users.

Also known as: FMG,Films Media Group

Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance(400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. The Journals component is a bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Types of works include articles; reviews; bibliographies; catalogues; editions; abstracts; discographies; and notes. To date, the full runs of more than 400 scholarly journal titles, published since 1859, have been indexed. A complete list of titles is available for review.

The John Hopkins Guide is a full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography. Subjects covered include literature, humanities, literary criticism, and philosophy. Each entry includes an essay and a selective primary and secondary bibliography. There is extensive cross-referencing both within and at the conclusion of each entry. The indexes are designed to allow readers to locate substantive discussions of people and topics wherever they occur in the Guide.

JSTOR, originally funded by the Mellon Foundation, began as an effort to ease the increasing space problems faced by libraries by converting back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space, improved access to journal content and offer a possible solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes. Current content includes periodicals in the areas of Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Political Science and Population Studies.

A comprehensive collection of literary criticism from classical to modern times. Includes online editions of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).

Searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: LION

In addition to biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, Literature Resource Center provides access to full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database and selected criticism from other titles in Thomson Gale's Literary Criticism Series. These resources are supplemented by full-text from over 200 literary journals. Over 127,000 authors are covered.

Also known as: LRC

Provides detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in MLA International Bibliography, including editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

Also known as: Modern Language Association Directory of Periodicals

Produced by the Modern Language Association, MLA International Bibliography covers journal articles, books and dissertations back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Also known as: Modern Language Association International Bibliography

OAIster is a union catalog of digital records that began at the University of Michigan, built by harvesting records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster is one of the world's largest aggregators of records, boasting more than 19 million items from more than 1,000 contributors. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Digital resources in OAister include:

--Digitized (scanned) books and articles
--Digital text
--Audio fles (WAV, MP3)
--Video fles (MP4, Quicktime)
--Photographic images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF)
--Data sets (downloadable statistical information

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001 (as of January 2005). Published on 23 September 2004, the Dictionary took 10,000 people twelve years' to compile and resulted in a 60 volume book which has been translated to a website with over 100,000 pages and more than 10,000 images. The dictionary covers remarkable people in any walk of life who were connected with the British Isles-excluding living people. It includes not just the great and good, but people who have left a mark for any reason, good, bad, or bizarre. The online version includes a wide range of searching options from specialized biographical search terms to powerful full text searches. Extensive internal cross-referencing makes it possible to move easily to related articles, while ever growing lists of external links to carefully selected web sites (including the British National Archives) open up exciting new research possibilities.

Concurrent user limit: 6

Also known as: Dictionary of National Biography,DNB,ODNB

The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Many of the entries in the Additions volumes consist of sections which are additions to an entry previously published in the Second Edition; such sections are appended to the end of the appropriate Second Edition entry. Complete entries published for the first time in the Additions volumes are presented as free-standing entries, along with entries from the Second Edition.

Also known as: OED

Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. As of early 2009, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 550 journals, providing access to over 13.2 million article pages - representing over 2 million articles.

Also known as: PAO

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. As of early 2007, over 16 million articles going as far back as 1665 are currently indexed. Every article in each journal covered is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.

Also known as: PIO

Project MUSE is a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. This initiative makes possible worldwide networked access to the full text of the Press's scholarly journals. (Updated monthly)

Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

Also known as: Digital Dissertations

Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), 1975-present.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1961. Containing over 120,000 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.

More than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. Coverage/update frequency: from about 1000 A.D. to the present; adds new records daily. Includes holdings of 6,700 OCLC Member Libraries & Institutions.