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Overview of databases

Below you will find the specific databases for the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy.

Archaeology

  • The Arabic Papyrology Database
  • The Chicago Online Bibliography of Mamluk Studies
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
    Encyclopaedia Iranica is the most renowned reference work in the field of Iran studies. Founded by the late Professor Ehsan Yarshater and edited at the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University, this monumental international project brings together the scholarship about Iran of thousands of authors around the world.
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
    The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture, as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the entire range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.
  • Erfgoedkaart
  • Fihrist
  • Flepostore (Flemish Pottery & Stone Reference Collection)
  • Maritiem Digitaal
  • NetAnatomy
  • Oxford Reference Online. Premium Collection
    Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
  • PROJEKT DYABOLA
  • Thesaurus d'épigraphie islamique
  • TLG : Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  • Trismegistos
    Trismegistos Places is a database of currently 55821 ancient and modern places (Geo table), all somehow connected with the ancient world. In the long term it aims to include all place names mentioned in ancient sources (GeoRef table, now 226568 attestations), but also all places where texts from the ancient world (800 BC - AD 800) have been found or written (GeoTex table, now 848662 provenances). Right now, however, only place names mentioned in documents from Egypt and those occurring in Latin inscriptions have been systematically connected.

See also History.

Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies

  • Arkyves
    Arkyves is a database, treasure trove and toolbox for those interested in the History of Culture. It is a single access point for thematic searches across a wide variety of cultural heritage collections, contributed by partners like the Dutch Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the university libraries of Milan, Utrecht, Glasgow, and Illinois. Very rich, but standardized subject information is offered as all collections share the use of ICONCLASS, the most widely accepted multilingual classification system for cultural content.
  • Artprice
  • Artstor
    Artstor provides faculty and students with a complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth toadd context beyond the confines of your discipline. With approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5million images (and growing), scholars can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource. Artstor also supports study across disciplines, including anthropology from Harvard's Peabody Museum, archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives, and modern history from Magnum Photos, making it a resource for your whole institution.
  • Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  • BCIN : Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
    Provides access to over 190,000 bibliographic citations for conservation literature. BCIN includes citations from the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (prior to 1998), technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books and audiovisual and unpublished materials. The database also includes previously unavailable material from private sources, as well as new information gathered by a worldwide network of contributors.
  • Beeldbank Onroerend Erfgoed
  • Berg Fashion Library
    The leading resource for students and researchers of Fashion Studies. More than 13,000 color images, over 100 academic eBooks, an invaluable museum directory, a unique exhibition archive, reference works, and teaching resources are available to enrich and enliven studies across many disciplines.
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
    The National Library of France (BnF) is a public establishment under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to constitute collections, especially the copies of works published in France that must, by law, be deposited there, conserve them, and make them available to the public. It produces a reference catalogue, cooperates with other national and international establishments, and participates in research programs. Gallica In 1997 the digital library was established for online users. As of April 2006, Gallica made available on the Web: 90,000 scanned volumes, 1,200 full-text volumes, 500 audio documents, and 80,000 images.
  • British Library
    The British Library holds over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, etc.
  • Cities and Buildings Database
  • Dictionnaire des Peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours
  • Erfgoedkaart
  • Europeana
  • EYE Filmmuseum
  • Grove Dictionary of Art / Grove Art Online
  • IIPA : International Index to Performing Arts
  • IMDb : The Internet Movie Database
  • International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
  • International Directory of Arts
  • Lexicon van Oost-Vlaamse Schilders en Beeldhouwers (1700-1940)
  • NMA : Neue Mozart Ausgabe
    The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use.
  • OAR - Open Archief van publicaties van het Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
  • Oxford Music Online
  • Oxford Reference Online. Premium Collection
    Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
  • RIBA architecture.com
  • Structurae : International Database and Gallery of Structures

Gender & diversity

  • Black Freedom Struggle in the US
  • Encyclopedia of Law and Religion
    The encyclopedia covers the relation between law and religion in its various aspects, including those related to the role of religion in society, the relations between religion and state institutions, freedom of religion, legal aspects of religious traditions, the interaction between law and religion, and other issues at the junction of law, religion, and state.
  • Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States
  • Oxford Reference Online. Premium Collection
    Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
  • The Gerritsen Collection
    In the late 1800's, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.

See also Philosophy & Moral Sciences.

History

Languages & Cultures

Linguistics

Literary studies

Philoshophy & Moral Sciences

Translation, Interpreting and Multilingual Communication

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