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Liberal Arts Resources/Databases

For information on how to access the restricted databases from off-campus, click HERE.

ACLS History E-Book Project - An online collection of over 1,200 e-books in various areas of world and U.S. history, recommended and reviewed by historians.

Academic OneFile- A meta search engine for journal, magazine and news source provided by Gale Research

The African American Experience - A wide-ranging research tool for African American history and culture.  The more than 300 titles include reference books, primary source materials, WPA slave narratives, and thousands of photographs, maps and other images

Ageline -  Abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, book, and reports 

America: History and Life - More than 400,000 citations to articles concerning the history and literature of America

American Founding Era - Electronic access to primary and secondary source materials including the diaries, letters, and papers of George Washington and Dolley Madison.

The American Mosaic – A collection of resources documenting the multiethnic experience in the United States. Includes primary sources, landmark historical documents, reference books, maps and photographs.

American Periodical Series: Journals from the 18th Century to the 20th Century

Art Images from Saskia - QCat display of available paintings. QU ID needed to see full images.

ArtStor - A collection of curated art images and associated data. To use this resource from home, go to https://citrix.quinnipiac.edu , login using your normal network login and password, open the Library Databases folder and choose ArtStor.

Biography Resource Center  -  Links to reference book entries and articles about famous people

Black History Resources at Quinnipiac - A mix of on-campus resources and selected materials on the Web.

Books in Print - An online version of Books In Print®, this database provides complete bibliographic information on over 5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

Comabstracts - Citations and Abstracts in Communications

Communication Studies

Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library

Countries and their cultures - A look at how culture defines and separates the nations of the world

CQPolitics - News, analysis and interactive tools to help you track the campaigns, the players and the issues

Criminology Full-text -  A Sage Full-Text Collection: A collection of 23 journals covering topics such as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, corrections, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence

EBSCO Online - Full Text Journals - Full Text Journals . Electronic access to more than 200 journals that the Quinnipiac Library subscribes to in paper

Electronic Reference Books - Consult these books for background information on oa topic. Click on this link to search the entire Liberal Arts E-reference collection.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Access to more than 70,000 articles.

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion - Traces the stylistic and functional threads that unite clothing and cultures across time.

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security  A subject specific guide to the history, uses, scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security

Encyclopedia of Irishhistory and culture -  Spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail

Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in America - A comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States

Encyclopedia of recreation and leisure in America - Provides a comprehensive survey of leisure activities

Encyclopedia of the American constitution 

Encyclopedia of U.S. economic history - Presents over 1000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiles, geographic profiles, and more


ERIC Resources in Education  - A citation database maintained since the 1960's by the U.S. Department of Education

Expanded Academic ASAP - Full-text journal articles and citations in all fields

Film & Television Literature Index- A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing

FirstSearch - More than 40 citation databases in all fields

The Forum -  A journal of applied research in contemporary politics

Frankenstein resources

Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America - Original essays on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S.

Gale Ready Reference Shelf - Search for organizations, publications or databases by locale or subject

General OneFile - Includes full-text and cited articles from Health Reference Center, Expanded Academic ASAP and Gale's Professional Collection, among others

General Reference Center Gold - A general collection of full text articles and citations linked to Quinnipiac holdings 

Granger's World of Poetry 

Grove Art Online - Substantive articles about artists and trends,  with links to selected graphics

Hartford Courant 1992-Current

Hartford Courant 1764-1922

Historical Abstracts -  Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, with indexing of academic historical journals since 1955.

History electronic reference book shelf

History Reference Center - A comprehensive full text database that covers both U.S. and World history.

¡Informe! (Revistas en Español) Full-text Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals

Internet Movie Database A complete reference guide to all films made anywhere in the world

JSTOR scholarly online journals - Complete runs of more than 200 journals - mainly in the Humanities. Some of the holdings are more than a century old. In making a search, you only need to specify what general category of journal you want to search

Latino American Experience - A wide-ranging research tool for the history and culture of Latinos in the United States from the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas to the present. Included are more than 150 books, 1500 images, hundreds of primary documents, Spanish-language content, a timeline, and 225 vetted web sites.

Legal Resources

Lexis-Nexis Universe -  This database includes easily searched material in business, law and government, but it is most notable for its database of full-text newspapers: more than three hundred, including the New York Times

Liberal Arts Sites 

LION (Literature Online) -  Criticism and reference resources, as well as the full-text of poetry, drama, and prose in English from the 7th century to the present

Literature electronic book shelf

Literature Resource Center  - Critical and biographical information about 120,000 authors

MLA - A citation database of articles about Literature

Making of America full-text journals

Making of America full-text journals  - with indexing from University of Michigan

NetLibrary: Current Online Books

New Dictionary of the history of ideas -  An essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible to general readers

New Library holdings by Subject or by Month

New York Times Historical Archive from 1850's to 2002

Oxford English Dictionary

Periodicals at Quinnipiac - The paper and microform holdings at the Arnold Bernhard Library

Periodicals in Print and Online in Quinnipiac's databases - All journals available in print, microform or online at the Arnold Bernhard and Law School libraries

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection:  Includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years

Project Muse Full text articles - Full-text access to more than 200 journals. Specializes in humanities journals - usually covering the most recent 3-5 years

Proquest Direct- Full Text Articles and citations in all fields, with special emphasis in business and education. Includes access to the New York Times from the 1850's to 1979.

PsycArticles - Full-text articles from major psychological journals

PsycBooks - A database of nearly 14,000 chapters from more than 800 books published by APA and others. Includes most scholarly titles published by APA from 1953 – 2005, as well as 100+ out-of-print books, and an additional 200+ classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.

PsycInfo - Comprehensive database of citations, abstracts and full-text articles from major psychological journals

Psychology and Religion electronic reference book shelf

Psychology resources at Quinnipiac

Qcat online library catalog

Quinnipiac University Digitized theses

RefWorks  - A citation management program that will take citations from an online source and compile them into a bibliography using MLA, APA and other formats. Click HERE for further information and tutorials about RefWorks.

Resources about coping with disabilities- Materials relevant to the April 2005 conference sponsored by the Schweitzer Institute

Sage Journals - Online access to the full text of over 485 SAGE journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Medicine and Technology. The SAGE Full-Text Collections in Communications, Criminology, and Political Science are also available through this platform.

St. James encyclopedia of popular culture - A cross-curriculum resource with an emphasis on ideas, people, events and products that symbolize America

Scribners' Authors - Material on more than 1500 key authors

Selected Search Engines

Social Sciences electronic reference book shelf

SocINDEX with Full Text - A comprehensive sociology research database.  Contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers

Sociological Abstracts  - Citations to articles in the social sciences

Tobacco in history and culture: an encyclopedia - Explores how tobacco became one the the most important commodities in the history of world trade and the source of one of the biggest public health concerns in modern history

Trial Databases

Twayne's Authors - Full text books of biography and criticism of major authors

Ulrich's Web - The authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 of all types from around the world.

Vietnam Resources at Quinnipiac

Vietnam War reference library - Traces the progression of this controversial war from its beginnings in 1941 through its last days in 1975

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World Development Indicators OnlineOver 550 development indicators for more than 200 countries.  Provides access to data from 1960 – 2003