Humanities

Books

"Humanities" describes areas of human endeavor including the arts, language and literature, philosophy and religion. For this reason humanities books are not located in any one call number, but within their separate disciplines and subject areas. Use topic keywords to pinpoint books in your area of interest.

Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf...
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Databases

Academic Search Complete
Full text articles online. Search by topic or title of publication.

ACLS Humanities E-Book
http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Search by name or topic for full text e-books

Arts and Humanities Citation Index ISI
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/wok
Click on the Web of Science tab, then scroll to the bottom and uncheck all the databases but Arts and Humanities. Enter your search terms in the boxes above. This database provides citations to articles and a FIND IT! link which may locate the full text of the article in another OhioLINK database.

Digital Media Center
Art images, sound files and downloadable videos on humanities topics.

Electronic Book Center - Humanities
Full text e-books on various topics that are keyword searchable.

Electronic Journal Center
Select the Advanced Search, open Limit Options, highlight Arts and Humanities. Full text journal articles online.

Humanities International Complete
Index, abstracts, and full text for journals, books and other resources in the humanities.

Oxford Scholarship Online
The complete texts of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press.

Websites

Exploring Ancient World Cultures
http://eawc.evansville.edu/
University of Evansville's online

Great Books Index
http://www.mirror.org/books/gb.home.html
Links to available online editions of the Great Books.

Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu
Full text books

Internet Public Library - Arts and Humanities
http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&tid=6925&parent=0
Provides links to websites that have been evaluated by librarians.

Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities
Gateway to arts and humanities links, from the UK.

Lascaux Caves
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
Early cave paintings in Europe.

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Gateway of humanities documents and links.