Research Resources at UNC
This page has two sections. Section I offers core research resources by discipline to familiarize faculty with fields outside their own expertise and facilitate interdisciplinary work. Section II lists resources for interdisciplinary fields.
For additional assistance, you can arrange a direct consultation with UNC Humanities Reference Librarians through the UNC Library Research Consultation Request Form.
I. Core Indexes and Encyclopedia Works by Discipline (Arts, Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences)
ANTHROPOLOGY
Provides 3,000 abstracts per year from several hundred anthropology and related journals.
Provides indexing for the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; also for ethnology, archaeology, folklore and material culture.
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource provides more than a century of publications online.
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ART
A core database for art and art historical research.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
The most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online - Contains Full Text
The Grove Dictionary of Art provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove, 1996, 34 vols).
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CLASSICS
Annee Philologique on the Internet
Index for classical literature, philology and archaeology.
The definitive quick reference tool for information about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from more than 6,800 major science and social science journals.
A collection of digitized literary texts in Greek from the time of the poet Homer in the 8th Century B.C.E. to the fall of Byzantine Empire in 1453. It currently includes more than 3,700 authors and 12,000 works. Ultimately, the goal is to create a digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present.
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COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Communication and Mass Media Complete
The major indexing and abstracting tool for Communication Studies and Journalism & Mass Communication.
ComDisDome: Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome
The Dome is the premier information service for speech-language pathologists, audiologists and students in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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HISTORY
An index for North American history consisting of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and book reviews.
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
International Medieval Bibliography
This bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c 450-1500) indexes periodicals, books, essay collections and more.
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LITERATURE
Offers a wealth of critical and biographical information about more than 120,000 authors from the Classical period to the present.
Discusses 20,000 works by 9,300 authors; more than 3,500 authors are profiled in up-to-date, extensive, analytical biographies.
MLA International Bibliography Plus Full Text via Chadwyck-Healey's LiteratureOnline
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore and cultural studies.
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LINGUISTICS
Linguistic Bibliography Online
Database provides bibliographical references to scholarly publications on all branches of linguistics and all the languages of the world, irrespective of language or place of publication.
Indexes and abstracts articles from nearly 300 linguistics journals.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers the international literature dealing with the discipline of linguistics and related language sciences.
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MUSIC
Grove Music Online - Contains Full Text
Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the Web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes).
International Index to Music Periodicals
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 400 international music periodicals from more than 20 countries and indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Published since 1949, The Music Index: A Subject-Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature indexes more than 725 international periodicals about classical and popular music.
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PHILOSOPHY
A major index that provides indexing for philosophy journals, books and essay collections.
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials
Provides access to a searchable database of more than 30 important scholarly philosophy journals.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
SEP was designed from its inception (September 1995) as a dynamic reference work.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Broadly covers the social sciences, indexing more than 2,700 journals and about 7,000 books each year.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields.
Database contains Web versions of Amnesty International’s publications (including periodicals, reports, briefing papers and news releases) going back to the early 1990s.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
CIAO is designed to be the most complete source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, tables of contents of selected journals and proceedings from conferences.
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RELIGION
A major index to journal articles, book reviews and essay collections in the field of religion.
Collection contains 20 versions of the Bible. In addition to the 12 complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
The Patrologia Latina Database [PLD] is the searchable full-text database of the Patrologia Latina, which, with the Patrologia Graeco-Latina, comprise the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, one of the most important collections of Western philosophical and theological writing.
The international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. These materials, from about 2,500 periodicals worldwide, include journal articles, books, reviews, papers and multi-author works. The authors are Western scholars and Muslims writing in European languages.
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SOCIOLOGY
Family and Society Studies Worldwide
Family and Society Studies Worldwide currently comprises three databases that cover journals and other literature in the area of family studies and related topics.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Broadly covers the social sciences, indexing more than 2,700 journals and about 7,000 books each year.
Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.
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II. Core Resources for Interdisciplinary Fields (Arts, Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the US, Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, provides full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. Subject coverage is wide-ranging and multidisciplinary, crossing the humanities and the social sciences as they relate to Black Studies.
African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 (Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost 100 years from the early 19th through the early 20th centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel and Emanuel Love.
African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Starting with the Freedom’s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of 10 to 12 million words of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
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AMERICAN SOUTH
An index for North American history consisting of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and book reviews.
Atlanta Constitution Historical Newspaper
The Atlanta Constitution, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the publishing history of the newspaper from 1868 to 1929.
Documenting the American South
Digitized texts in a variety of subjects relating to the South.
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AMERICAN STUDIES
Provides US Census data from 1990 to the present. Access data from the Decennial Census (1990 and 2000), the Economic Census (1997 and 2002), Annual Population Estimates (2005-06), Annual Economic Surveys (2003-05) and American Community Survey data as they become available.
Updated daily, America's Newspapers offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from newspapers nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of 827 newspapers - with 75% of these sources not available in any other library database.
The American National Biography highlights the lives of more than 18,000 persons who have been important and influential in the history of the United States, from the early days of European exploration to the present.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
A major index for English language literatures, linguistics, folklore and cultural studies
Provides indexing for the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; also for ethnology, archaeology, folklore and material culture.
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews and more provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Free-text searching and complete indexing makes Ethnic NewsWatch easy to search.
glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, & queer culture
The glbtq is the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture online. It is written for everyone who has an interest in glbtq people and culture. At present the encyclopedia’s strengths are in literature and the arts, with more than one million words in more than 900 entries. On glbtq.com, visitors can review a range of topics and then quickly zoom in on specific sub-topics with ease.
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JEWISH STUDIES
RAMBI: Index of articles on Jewish studies
RAMBI is a selective bibliography of scholarly articles published in journals and as part of collections of articles covering Jewish studies and Israel.
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd Ed.
This new edition includes more than 21,000 articles on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, from the beginnings of Judaism to the present. It represents the latest in scholarship and provides expanded treatment for such topics as women in Judaism, contemporary Jewish life and the full scope of the Diaspora. It also includes more than 600 maps, charts, photographs and other images, as well as detailed bibliographies and lists of newspapers and periodicals.
Internetarchiv Jüdischer Periodika
The Internet Archive of Jewish Periodicals offers the full text of more than 100 German-language, Jewish periodicals published mainly in Germany, beginning in 1806 and ending in 1938. Three search options (basic, advanced and expert) provide several means to find particular texts, or an alphabetical list of the periodicals can be browsed.
Shoah Foundation's visual history archive project
The Visual History Archive contains almost 52,000 videotaped interviews of Holocaust survivors, rescuers and witnesses gathered by the Shoah Foundation between 1994 and 2005.
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LATINA/O STUDIES
The UNC Program in Latina/o Studies Web site includes a detailed section on relevant resources at UNC and beyond, including library resources, Latina/o studies journals, recent publications and North Carolina Latina/o links.
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MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY INDEXES
The 19th Century Masterfile compiles a rich and growing assortment of indexes to 19th century printed material (actually from about 1774 to 1920). The indexes cover periodical literature, selected newspapers, books, U. S. government documents, U. S. patents and British Parliamentary Debates. New indexes are added regularly.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-ca. 1980)
The Readers' Guide Retrospective offers indexing of more than 500 popular periodicals and magazines for a period of more than 100 years, providing access to articles chronicling the daily lives and the momentous events of America in the 20th century.
Periodicals Index Online (Formerly PCI-Humanities & Social Science Journals, late 17th c. to 1990s)
Periodical Index Online provides keyword indexing to the contents of more than 4,700 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. The scope is international and includes separate records for approximately 15 million journal articles across 37 subject areas and 44 languages and dialects.
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