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ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGS

UMass/Five College Online Catalog

WorldCat
The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries.

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Free, public WorldCat
Same database, but open access. Cannot be used for Interlibrary Loan; for that you must use the UMass WorldCat link.

News & magazines

LexisNexis Academic
Massive database of US and international newspapers; case and statutory law and law reviews; business periodicals, 1980-present.

Westlaw Campus Research
Legal encyclopedias, law reviews, and legal treatises; case, statutory, and regulatory law; newspapers and magazines; business data, 1980's-present.

Readers' Guide Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles from popular periodicals from the U.S. and Canada, 1983-present.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Citations to articles in 600 popular U.S. magazines, 1890-1982.

Article databases

MLA International Bibliography
An index to journal articles and other scholarly literature on literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics, folklore, and (since 1996) film, 1920s -

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Academic Search Premier
Scholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.

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Academic OneFile
A large interdisciplinary collection of scholarly, professional and trade journal articles, 1980-present.

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JSTOR
Core scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.

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Historical Abstracts Full Text
Journal articles, many in full text, and citations to books and dissertations on world history from 1450, published 1954-present.

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Film Literature Index
Citations to articles appearing in popular and scholarly film periodicals journals from 130 countries, 1976-2001.
America: History & Life
Journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews, many in full text, relating to United States and Canadian history and prehistory, 1954-present.

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Humanities International Complete
Journal articles in archaeology, classics, cultural studies, arts, philosophy, history, linguistics, and literature, plus literary magazines, 1975-present.

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Web of Science
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Index to articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines.Search by cited reference, topic, author, and more. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1900-present; and Science 1900-present.

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REFERENCE SOURCES

The world encyclopedia of comics 7 vols. PN6710 .W6 1999 +

Literary Reference Center

Literature Resource Center
A large collection of literature reference material, including criticism and author biographies.

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Literature Criticism Online
Biographies and substantial excerpts from critical responses over time, on the works of a huge number of authors from classical time to the present.

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Literature Online Complete Collection
350,000 literary works in English: British and American poetry, drama and prose, plus some journals and literature reference sources.

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Art databases

Art Abstracts

Art Index Retrospective

Bibliography of the History of Art

ArtBibliographies Modern

RefWorks

RefWorks is a bibliographical management software which will help you organize your citations, articles, books, etc. paid for by the UMass Amherst Library, that the UMass Amherst community can access from the Library website. RefWorks collects, stores, and organizes citations from books, articles from databases, web sites, and other sources. RefWorks automatically converts citations into properly formatted bibliographies

Better than using 3"x5" index cards!