|
Quick Links
 Northwestern Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students, and staff)
What's New
Northwestern Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students, and staff)
- Chronicle
of Higher Education
University-wide online subscription is now available.
- Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Edited by Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore, 2005,
2nd edition. The Guide is a full-text searchable database of articles on individual
critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the
critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves
shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary
and secondary bibliography. Access restricted to Northwestern users.
- Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT
CLCLT is the world’s leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions.
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online
A growing collection of content, including more than 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields, and much more. Qur’anic studies resources, including two Oxford World’s Classics translations of the Qur’an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur’an by Hanna Kassis. Primary source documents with editorial introductions. Timelines covering major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in general world history for context. Images provide useful visual perspectives on Islam. Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur’an and Concordance, and much more.
- Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion
The subjects covered by the books selected for Oxford Scholarship Online - Religion module include: Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Church History, Early Christian Studies, Hinduism, History of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Literature, Religion and Society, Religion in the Ancient World, Sikhism, Theology, and World Religions.
- TLS: Times Literary Supplment Centenary Archive
Fully searchable archive of the TLS in image format and full-page context, with the identities of contributors, who were published anonymously until 1974, disclosed.
This site provides access to an English translation of book one of
Andreas Vesalius' anatomical atlas, On the Fabric of the Human
Body.
Originally published in 1543 and revised in 1555, the atlas offers
a detailed account of human anatomy and a selection of beautiful
and intricate anatomical drawings. This is the first English translation
of the atlas to be published online.
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
Research Guides A-Z -> Directory of Subject Specialists
Last updated: 06/10/08 |
