Text, video, audio clips and images about 250,000+ people from throughout history, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

LION contains the full text of English and American poetry, drama, and prose from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. Includes literary criticism, biography and reference sources.

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Provides access to The Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 signed articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts. Content updated 3x/year. Includes several other art reference works.

Comprehensive reference covering on all aspects of music

Comprehensive index of biography and criticism from antiquity to the present day.

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Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.

Searches journals (approximately 600 titles) and books from over 120 publishers worldwide, often in full-text. Emphasis on humanities and social sciences.

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Indexes scholarship on American and Canadian history and culture. Provides some full-text. 1964-present.

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The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.

Index of scholarship on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. 4,000+ journals and 1,000+ book publishers covered. Some full-text. 1925-present.

Search for journal articles, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. 1910- present

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 includes a wide range of peer-reviewed content such as comprehensive indexing for nearly 1,200 periodicals, more than 1,300,000 citations and over 240,000 book reviews.

Searches 2,000+ humanities journals and and books from U.S. and international sources. Includes creative works including poetry, fiction, and works of art.

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Searches 7000+ journals and magazines across all disciplines, mostly full-text. Emphasis on scholarly journals. 1985 - present.

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Searches magazine and journal articles in the arts and humanities. 7000+ sources, mostly full-text from 1986 - present.

Covers many years of National Theatre Live broadcasts as well as recordings never previously seen outside of the National Theatre's archive. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as photographs, scripts, costume designs, etc., is available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.

Academic video online delivers more than 62,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 17,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street and includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, and thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners

Archival resource for the historical study of the entertainment industry in the U.S. and U.K. Provides information on industry economics as well as on TV series, plays, films, musicians, record labels, etc. Covers industry’s impact on political, cultural and social change and the creation of subcultures and youth movements. Included are full-text back files of major trade magazines: Billboard (1894-2000), Variety (1905-2000), Broadcasting (1931-2000), etc. and consumer and fan magazines.

Full-text of 1,300+ newspapers, news websites, and blogs worldwide. 1984-present.

Current and archived news content for the United States. Access local, in-state, and national news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, web-only and video content.

Full-text articles and images; in PDF format. 1851-2015.

Full-text of the daily newspaper. 1980-present.

Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.

Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals published during the latter half of the 20th century.

A searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s through to recent years.

Searches digitized images/text of American periodicals from 1740 to 1940. Coverage varies by title.

Collections I and II: full-text primary source periodicals, 160+ journals from Early British Periodicals and 300+ journals from English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. Fully searchable text. Topics covered: literature, arts, social sciences. 17th-19th centuries.