Featured Databases - HSSE Library

This database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/2KDHCBn-dRU

ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. Coverage varies according to journal -- some dating back to 1966. Media studies, mass communication, journalism, personal and interpersonal, rhetoric are included.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/tf4QHLZ6RtU

With over 60,000 articles written by over 6,000 music scholars, Grove Music Online (GMO) is the authoritative resource for music research with an ongoing mission to chart the diverse history and cultures of music and musicians from around the globe.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/GN07KnHXN3E

This database includes many of the most important academic journal in the Humanities, with full-text articles from over 300 titles. It also features interviews, bibliographies, and original works, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, and many other programs.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/dz_FnYrI5w8

Provides instant online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes more than 4,000 U.S. and international titles—from 100 countries in 60 languages.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/uRvyGkNpvlc

The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Coverage: 1940-Present
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/VpcZiFbZiuo

A comprehensive resource for art information from more than 900 periodicals, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Researchers can track the careers of artists and review their materials and methods, and find books by and about artists, as well as interviews, profiles, and much more. Indexing of art reproductions helps users find virtually any work of interest—including works by emerging artists—as well as examples of styles and movements in art.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/67Kbsh4EJi4

Kanopy offers one of the largest collections of films in the world with 50,000+ films from thousands of leading producers. These films are all genres - from documentaries to movies and training videos.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/OF0ZBeF6-ug

Gale Literature is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across the content of several Gale databases: Gale eBooks; Gale Literature Criticism: Children's Literature Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism; Gale Literature Resource Center; Something About the Author; Something about the Author Autobiography Series. Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, book reviews, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/J_PmJuFvMS8

Includes the full text of plays from across the history of the theater, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions, first night program texts, and critical analysis and contextual information. Critical interpretations, theater history surveys and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods and genres are included alongside performance and practitioner texts, acting and backstage guides. Also includes over 500 images from the Victoria and Albert Museum's archive of production photos.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/A2Pt3F9KHd0

Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth. Please note: a login is NOT required to access this database. You may create a personal account if you wish to have access to the ability to save searches, etc.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/SsX8dX27OrE