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ATLASerials Oxford campus users only; ATLA Religion Database available to all users.

A comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship.  It contains more than one million citations from 1,400+ international journal titles and 14,000 multi-author works and book reviews related to religious studies.  The database also includes full-text access to more than 238,000 articles, book reviews and essays from major religion and theology journals.

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) indexes and abstracts scholarly writing on the history of European and American art from late antiquity (4th century AD) to the present. Sources include art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and over 4,300 periodicals.

Subject coverage includes fine arts, decorative and applied arts, industrial design and architecture, and popular and folk art. Photography and contemporary new media as well as performing arts (scenography and costume) are also covered.

BHA is particularly strong in European art from the medieval through modern periods, and in the indexing of foreign language materials.

Biographical information on over half a million people from around the world, with articles from such biographical reference books as Current Biography and the World Author Series, as well as magazine citations from Biography Index Database after 1984. Some third party publications are included, such as a subset of the biographies from Oxford's American National Biography.

Provides the full-text of Cambridge University Press Companions in literature, Classics, philosophy, religion, and culture. New Companions are added on publication. The Cambridge Companions consist of authoritative, up-to-date articles that discuss current issues in and aspects of the subject in question, such as Cambridge Companion to Henry James, Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith, Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology.

Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS) is a multidisciplinary, multilingual database providing full-text coverage pertaining to all facets of central and eastern European countries. The collection contains hundreds of full-text publications covering many academic areas including business and economics, medical sciences, political science, law, library and information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, and sociology relating to this geographic region.

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Online version of the monthly book review publication, Choice, this provides web access to the entire database of Choice reviews published since September 1988.

Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political development, Cities in American Political History presents a unique singular focus on American cities, their government and politics, industry, commerce, labor, and race and ethnicity. Cities in American Political History analyzes the role that large cities from New York to Chicago to San Jose, have played in U.S. politics and policymaking. Each entry is structured for straightforward comparison across issues and eras. The city profiles include basic data and statistics for the era and are accompanied by maps of each era and the largest cities at that time.

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World provides users with access to authoritative information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the world. Coverage extends beyond the country level to states, cities, towns, provinces, counties, villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods. In addition to statistical data, the Gazetteer provides rich, in-depth information about the economic, historical, and cultural context of places. Gazetteer's entries cover: demography, physical geography and political boundaries; industry, trade, and agriculture; cultural, historical, and archaeological points of interest; transportation lines, longitude, latitude, and elevations; official government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. Includes maps, almanacs, and historical population figures, starting with every available U.S. census from 1790 to 2000.