Library Databases

This series of close to 700 titles offers concise, intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects, from Public Health to Buddhist Ethics, Soft Matter to Classics, and Art History to Globalization, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.

Service Provider: Oxford University Press

The collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry related periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for over 600 journals. Full text information dates as far back as 1985.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

“Woven” by Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, VoS is one of the earliest humanities research portals. It began in 1994 as a 70+ Web-page directory of humanities research resources organized by field, historical period, author, etc. It was reimplemented in 2001 as a database-to-Web system allowing for dynamic views of the data and user contributions.

Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities.

Service Provider: University of California Santa Barbara