Religion, Comparative Subject Guide

Electronic Full-Text Collections

 

8 resources available
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Black Drama restricted Full text of more than 1,300 plays from the mid-1800s to the present written by 200 African or African-American playwrights. Each play is indexed by keyword and by numerous subjects. Enhanced by reference materials, ancillary information and images.

Librarian's Comment: May be useful in exploring African-American religions.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) restricted Contains digital 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. The collection is indexed at the British Library website. The index (in print) and images (on microfilm) are also available in Waldo Library.

Latino Literature restricted Contains more than 100,00 pages of poetry, fiction and drama by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. Includes almost 400 plays.

Literature Online (LION) restricted A full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites. This database has a personal folder option where you can save articles. This database also has a citation export feature into Refworks, and Endnotes. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

Librarian's Comment:
This resource includes separately searchable full-text databases of selected well-known as well as some not so well-known literary works in English and American poetry, drama, prose fiction, and criticism from the year 600 to modern times. The 22 databases can also be searched at one time. Besides the actual literary texts there are quick links to selected literary criticism through the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. This bibliography, in turn, includes full-text articles from some of the journals. It is possible, then, not only to have a keyword searchable edition of a literary work available from LION but some interpretations of that work as well. The Bible in 21 versions, 11 editions of the complete works of Shakespeare, all of W.B. Yeats's works, 52,000 poems by 20th century American poets, and 250 complete 19th century English novels are just some of the texts included.

Making of America (Cornell University) open access

Making of America (University of Michigan) open access A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Includes over 4 million page images, representing close to 13,000 volumes of primary source materials, including books and periodicals. Cornell University has focused on the major journal literature of the period. The University of Michigan has focused on monographs.

New York Times restricted Full-text articles from 1985 to date available from NewsBank and also from InfoTrac. Older articles are available in New York Times 1851-2006 (ProQuest)
Print copies: recent issues are kept at the Recreational Reading Area on the Lower Level of Waldo until the microfilm arrives.
Microfilm: AN 2 on the Lower Level Waldo, 1851 to date.

Oral History Online restricted An index to thousands of oral histories in English from collections on the public Web, gathered from repositories, libraries and archives around the world. When possible, interview transcripts, sometimes with audio or video, are included. There are numerous ways to search the interviews. Updated regularly.

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