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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

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.

Includes thousands of essays from over 300 authoritative guides in Cambridge Univesity Press' Companions series. Covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics and cultural studies.

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

Broad coverage of general interest periodicals, including newspapers.

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.

Library of Latin Texts is a full-text database of modern critical editions of Latin classical, patristic, and medieval Christian writers including the entire corpus of ancient Latin literature up to the second century A.D. The database also contains a significant amount of Neo-Latin Literature (after 1500) including decrees from modern ecumenical councils up to Vatican II and sixteenth century translations into Latin of important medieval works.

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

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Temple subscribes to titles in the Biology, Business, Classics, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Math, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Religion, and Social Work subject-area collections.

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.

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.

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.

Note: A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some texts. With some browsers, you may also be able to input your search in Greek; with others, you may have to input Beta Code or Latin Transliteration. Extensive information about font requirements is available at the TLG website at: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help.fonts.html .