Humanities Information
A
research guide: books, articles, web sites, & videos
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library: Search in the ODU Library Catalog.
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Reference Books—A Selection
Reference books provide a good starting point for
your research. Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference
collection, behind the Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.
See
also these related research guides: American Literature and Literary Analysis,
Classic Literature, English Literature and Literary Analysis, Myth, Shakespeare
Research, and Theology.
Bibliographies and Guides
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Atlas of World Art. R 702.23 O29a
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Art Information and the Internet: How to Find it and
How to Use it. R 025.067 J77a,
1999
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The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources. R 016.0160013
B6144h, 2000
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Photography:
An Illustrated History. R 770.9 S569p, 2002
Biographies
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A to Z
of American Women in the Visual Arts. R 704.042 K8451a
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Contemporary
Artists. R 709.22 C7673a
Dictionaries
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Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. R 780.922
B178b, 2001 6 vols.
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Dictionary of American History. R 973.03
D543a, 2003 10 vols.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography. R 928.1 D554 8 vols.
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas. R 901.9 W423d, 1973 5 vols.
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Dictionary of the Middle Ages. R 909.07
S913d, 1982 10 vols.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. R 780.3
G884s, 1980 10 vols.
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The Oxford
Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition R 913.38 C333o, 1996
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The
Oxford Dictionary of Art. R 703 O25d, 2004
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The
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance. R 940.21 C1526o
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World
Poets. R 809.1 W89375p 3
vols.
Encyclopedias
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology. R 930.103 C178, 1980
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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts. R 791.4303 H3358c,
2006
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The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in
Art. R 398.369 W4959c, 2004
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Encyclopedia
of the Classical World. R 913.38 C948
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Encyclopedia
of Novels into Film. R 791.436 T432e
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Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. R 940.23 E197r 6 vols.
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The Encyclopedia of Sculpture. R 735.2303 E197s, 2004
vols. 1-3
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Encyclopedia of World Art. R 703
W927 10 vols.
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures. R 306.097 E56 10 vols.
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Encyclopedia of World History. R 902.02 E198w 2001 with
A/V suppl.
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Great Composers and Their Works. R 780.9 Sl54g 2 vols.
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Medieval
England: An Encyclopedia. R 942 M4688e
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. R 270.6 O98, 1996 4
vols.
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The Oxford History of Western Art. R 709 O982h, 2000
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. R 100 R869, 1998 10 vols.
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Women and Music in America since 1900: An Encyclopedia. R 780.82
W8422m 2 vols.
Guides and Handbooks
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Cambridge Guide to English Usage. R 423.1 P4423c, 2004
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College Writer’s Reference. R 808.042 F9599c
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A Companion to Romanticism. R 820.9145 C7381r, 1999
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A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. R 940.21
C7381w
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America’s Musical Life: A History. R 780.973 C858a
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Great Lives from History:
Ancient and Medieval Series. R 920.009 M194gr, 1988 5 vols.
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Great Lives from History:
Renaissance to 1900 Series. R 920.009 M194gr, 1989 5 vols.
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Historical
Atlas of Central Europe. R 911.43 M2757h
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Homework Helpers: English Language &
Composition. RCI 808.042 L6449h, 2005
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Official Museum Directory. R 069.025 O27m, 2005 2 vols.
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The
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The Oxford History of Western Music. R 780.9
T179o vols. 1-6
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World
Musicians. R 780.922 W89365
Reference Resources Online
Images. Contains art and architecture images contributed by OhioLINK institutions.
Editions
and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Full-text. Includes 11 major
editions of Shakespeare's works, and related works.
Full-Text. Compiles reference resources for all aspects of the visual
arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Updated quarterly.
Provides full-text access to many reference resources online,
including:
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Merriam
Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature;
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Beacham's
six-volume Research Guide to Biography and Criticism;
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Continuum’s
encyclopedia’s of American, British, and children’s literature;
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The
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and The
Columbia Companion to the 20th
Century American Short Story;
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The
Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature; The Literary Encyclopedia;
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Masterplots and Masterplots II;Cyclopedia of
World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary
Characters, and Magill's
Literary Annual;
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The Harold
Bloom series of over 500 books; and additional resources of information on notable authors of long and short fiction,
poetry, drama, and philosophy.
Full-text Brings
together 100 dictionaries and other reference books in various subjects into
one searchable database. Includes full-text dictionaries and guides for Art and
Architecture, Classics, English, History, Literature, Modern Languages,
Mythology and Folklore, Performing Arts, and Religion and Philosophy.
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
Vergil Reference on CD-ROM
Full-text. Available at the Top Floor Circulation Services
only (Reserve 873.01 V587r).
Includes Latin editions of the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics
plus their English translations; assignment guides and search strategies; texts
of Distler's Vergil and Vergiliana and Murray's Manual of
Mythology; Vergilian word list; Vergilian quotations; and, grammar charts. May
be checked out and loaded on any PC in The ODU Library.
eBooks
Full-text ebook database. Search
among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including reference books, other
nonfiction, and fiction—including books about children’s literature Search by
keyword, title, or author. To
access: From the library homepage, click on Books, and
then select NetLibrary.
Other Electronic Resources
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Humanities Tutorial on Dominican Learning
Network
To access this on-campus tutorial, follow these steps:
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Click on
the "Start" button in the lower left corner of your desktop.
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Click on
the "Programs" menu
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Click on
the "Humanities" menu
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Click on
"Humanities" item
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Use an online
research database to find articles in scholarly journals, general magazines,
and newspapers. ·
To access the
databases below, from the Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the Arts & Humanities
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page. ·
To Help You Search
in the Databases: |
Recommended
Databases
Contains
peer-reviewed journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly
publications. Covers many academic areas of study,
including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences,
and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
Art
Abstracts
Indexes international art
publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Topics
included are related to art, such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk
art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history.
Coverage: 1984 to the present.
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Citations. Indexes
articles from 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as
well as covering select relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social
science journals. Note: Not intended as a substitute for a comprehensive
subject database such as Humanities International Complete, which comprehensively indexes journal
articles, books, conference proceedings, and other documents.
Bibliography
of the History of Art
Includes art-related books, articles from more than 4000
periodicals, conference proceedings and dissertations, and catalogs, covering
European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Electronic
Journal Center
Presents over 4300 research journals, covering numerous subject areas,
including humanities.
Film
& Television Literature Index
Covers the literature about television and
film writing, and provides indexing and abstracts for more than 300
publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Subject coverage includes film
& television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production,
cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
FRANCIS
(international humanities and social sciences)
Citations only. Cites multilingual, multidisciplinary
information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Updated monthly.
Humanities
International Complete
A database covering journals, books and other important reference
sources in the humanities. Humanities International Index provides
cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles with coverage
dating as far back as 1925. HII includes all data from American Humanities
Index.
International
Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
IBTD is a Full Text
multicultural and interdisciplinary research tool for theater students,
educators and professionals in a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated
databank of journal articles, books, and dissertation abstracts on all aspects
of drama, theatre, film and performance in 126 countries.
MLA
International Bibliography
Citations only. Indexes books and articles on modern
languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Updated 10 times per year.
Provides online, worldwide,
institutional subscription access to the full text of more than 250 scholarly
journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
RILM
Abstracts of Musical Literature
Indexes international scholarly writings on music and
related disciplines (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues,
dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical
commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference
proceedings, reviews, etc.). Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical
manuals of scholarly interest are also indexed.
Finding
Periodicals in this Library
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How Do
You Find Out if a Periodical Exists in this Library? ·
Use the ODU Library Catalog to
search for the title of the journal or newspaper you’re trying to find.
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Listed below are web
sites that may be of particular use to you in your information search. Recommended
criteria for evaluating websites: ·
Accuracy of the
information ·
Authority of the
person or group responsible for the information ·
When the information
was created and last updated |
Web Sites—A Selection
See also these related research guides: American
Literature and Literary Analysis, Classic Literature, English Literature and
Literary Analysis, Myth, Shakespeare Research, and Theology.
Art and
Art History
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Art and Architecture [Images and Criticism], from the Digital
Media Center Databases http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/art/Login
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Art and
Art History Links on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu
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ArtCyclopedia:
Explore 125,000 Great Works of Art http://artcyclopedia.com
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ArtLex
Art Dictionary http://www.artlex.com
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AskArt http://askart.com
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New York
Public Library’s Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Classics
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Best History Web Sites: Ancient/Biblical Resources—Greece http://www.besthistorysites.net/AncientBiblical_Greece.shtml
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Classical Studies - Directory of Online Classics Resources http://academicinfo.net/classics.html
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The Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu
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The Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
History
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Best History Web Sites http://www.besthistorysites.net
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