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Tragic Classical Literature
- LOEB Classical LibraryA virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations.
Best Bets for Articles
- JSTORFull-text, page-image archive of scholarly journals starting with volume one of each journals. Titles include Callaloo, MLN, Shakespeare Quarterly, and others.
- Art Full TextIndexes and provides some full text of scholarly and popular journals in the field; covers materials published from 1985 to the present.
- Project MUSEAccess to over 100 full-text scholarly journals from JHU Press, Duke UP, Penn State and more.
Death, Burial and Remembrance
- Oxford Scholarship Online: ReligionOxford University Press publishes original scholarship in all areas of religion and theology. The books included in Oxford Scholarship Online represent the diversity of the list, and the subjects covered are of interest to both scholars and students alike. In addition to major recent titles, the list also includes classic works of enduring influence.
- Proquest ReligionSearch a comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.
Poetry
- English PoetryEnglish Poetry contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- American PoetryOver 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
Psychology and Psychoanalysis
- PsycINFOContains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
- Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP)PEP is a fully searchable digital archive of classic psychoanalytic texts. Books and journals are included. Freud's collected works are included: Gesammelte Werke by Freud as well as the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by Strachey.