Welcome to the LibGuide for Liberal Arts & Sciences! In the boxes below, find articles, books, and reference materials covering various aspects of different topics. On the additional tabs above, find links to websites covering general education & subject area, government & law, language arts, and physics & physical science.
Articles from Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
A resource for researchers of film and television, providing the most comprehensive, balanced collection of full-text and bibliographic coverage from scholarly and popular sources and spanning the entire spectrum of film and television studies.
A research tool for theatre and dance studies. In addition to all the comprehensive indexing of the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (IBTD), it contains full text for the top performing arts journals.
Search back issues of scholarly journals in arts, humanities, and social science disciplines, as well as business, finance, and health science fields; capture titles that cross discipline boundaries. Dates from the 1700s on, with a lag of more than one year. Allows advanced searching. Includes some open-access Artstor materials.
Source for critical analyses, character studies, author biographies,and plot summaries of the most studied literary works.
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Unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Collection of dictionaries (general, slang, medical, etc.)
More than 1,200 reference works providing background information for topics ranging from agriculture to technology. Search within multiple sources using keywords, or browse topics in different subjects. Recommended for introductory research in all topics.
Covers the who, how, and why of American government through primary and secondary sources, plus maps, graphs, images, and many other formats
Includes plots, critical articles/essays, author biographies/interviews, full-text poems/short stories, reference works, and more. Browse authors, titles, and keyword search. Recommended for classes.
Full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts. Designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks of the world's great literature with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Full-text content focusing on the humanities and social sciences; includes e-books and some scholarly journals. Project Muse is maintained by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Extensive collection of online academic books in all subject areas
Extensive collection of online academic books in all subject areas.
5000+ scholarly books in full text, online or downloadable, covering all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Titles are chosen by scholars as important to further scholarship; includes classic works. Search full texts by keyword, or browse titles or authors. Recommended for course reserves. Website is ADA compliant.
Vast catalog of streaming music selections with emphasis on Classical. Access individual works or playlists
Unique and comprehensive collection of art masterpieces of all varieties, eras, and cultures. Entries: 66,919 Images: 66,934 People: 33,040
View maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films
This database from the New York Public Library provides free access to thousands of digital materials including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.