2008* Arts & Humanities 'Core' or Essential Reference Tools Results

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  1. Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  2. Grove Dictionary of Art
  3. Literary Criticism Sets from Gale, Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of Literary Biography
  4. Oxford Dictionary of Music, Contemporary Authors Series, International Encyclopedia of Dance
  5. Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece, other handbooks, guides, encyclopedias to specific periods and regions of history or types of art, music, etc, The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy

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  1. Arts and Humanities digital libraries projects (many specific digital library collections of images, recordings, documents, etc. each cited once), The Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com
  2. Intute Arts and Humanities - http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/, Google  http://www.google.com and Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
  3. Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia Library) - http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/, KnightCite - http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/, Voice of the Shuttle - http://vos.ucsb.edu/
  4. Avalon Project Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
  5. Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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  1. Library of Congress American Memory Project - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
  2. Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia - http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
  3. International, State, regional, local government sponsored digital libraries (image, recording, and documents collections cited individually)

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  1. Grove Music/Grove Art Online - http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/ or http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
  2. Art Full Text/Art Abstracts - http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/artindex.htm, JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org/
  3. Academic Search Complete/Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=633 or http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=1&marketID=1, MLA International Bibliography - http://www.mla.org/bibliography
  4. America: History and Life - http://www.abc-clio.com/products/serials_ahl.aspx, Historical Abstracts - http://www.abc-clio.com/products/serials_ha.aspx, Literature Resource Center (Gale) - http://www.gale.cengage.com/, Project Muse - http://muse.jhu.edu/
  5. ATLA Religion Index - http://www.atla.com/products/catalogs/catalogs_rdb.html, Footnote - http://www.footnote.com, HeritageQuest Online - http://www.heritagequestonline.com/ or http://www.il.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/heritagequest.shtml, Philosopher's Index - http://www.philinfo.org/

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