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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
An online, fully searchable collection of more than 1,000 high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access.
American Periodicals
This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
ARTFL Project (French)
Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of nonfiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Recently added is a Provencal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
C19 is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level. Covers materials published from 1790 to 1919.
CantApp: The General Prologue
A reading of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in middle English with accompanying translation, notes and glosses. From the University of Wales, edited by Richard North, Barbara Bordalejo, Terry Jones and Peter Robinson, and performed by Colin Gibbings, this website and app include background, context and bibliographies on Chaucer's times and his work.
Country Life Archive
A full-text collection containing every page and issue of this historical British culture and lifestyle magazine from its first issue in 1897 (when it was known as Country Life Illustrated) to 2005. All pages are in full color, are reproduced in high-resolution and are fully searchable.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Early European Books Online
Contains digital facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access sources printed in Europe from the origin of printing to the end of the 17th century.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part I and Part II
Includes more than 180,000 English-language and foreign-language books printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, including thousands of important works from the Americas.
Gale Group Literary Index
An up-to-the-minute index to the Gale "Brown Books" -- collections of literary criticism on works dating from 1400 to the present -- as well as other Gale literary reference titles.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust preserves and provides access to a collection of 17 million digitized items that includes over 8 million digitized books, and over 400,000 serial titles (book series, journals, magazines, etc.). It "offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection." All users on campus and off must login with their Bard credentials to gain access. Click on the yellow Login button, choose Bard College from the drop-down menu and login.
Internet Archive: African American Literature
Download free African American literature e-books from the past and present.
JSTOR
A backfile of core journals in the arts and sciences, JSTOR contains millions of pages in PDF format searchable through JSTOR itself or through the appropriate subject indexes.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide from 1963 to the present. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Oxford Bibliographies -- Classics
Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship on the Classics. OBO provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.
Oxford Scholarship Online -- Classics
Offers access to thousands of academic works from the celebrated scholarly list of Oxford University Press. Our subscription includes titles in Classical Studies only. To search, key in your search terms, click on the box next to "Search my Subject Specialization" and choose Classical Studies.
Project MUSE
With well over 100 journals in full-text, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others, searchable through Project Muse itself, or through the appropriate subject indexes.