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Academic OneFile
Gale’s premier periodical resource, Academic OneFile offers access to more than 11,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 8,000 in full text. In addition to scholarly content, Academic OneFile also includes the full text of The Economist from 1988 to the present, full text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present, and podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, et cetera.
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Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Access World News
This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national or international levels. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Includes more than 80 Spanish language newspapers.
African American Communities
This online resource showcases a diverse range of primary source material focusing on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas. A vital resource for students, teachers and researchers of African American and American studies.
African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.
African American Newspapers 1827-1998
African American Newspapers 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes papers from more than 35 states, features many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles.
America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922
America’s Historical Newspapers offers searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of newspapers from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries and much more, this acclaimed collection uniquely chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life from 1690 to the early 20th century.
American Film Scripts Online
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.
Ancestry Library
Access only available from on campus. Ancestry Library Edition delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, as well as immigration records, family histories, military records, legal documents, and more. An intuitive search interface returns data from more than 7,000 databases. Coverage is most extensive for the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Annual Reviews of the Social Sciences
Annual reviews of 15 social science topics: Anthropology, Clinical Psychology, Criminology, Economics, Environment and Resources, Financial Economics, Law and Social Sciences, Linguistics, Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Resources Economics, Sociology, and Science and Its Application.
ArtStor
The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It is the most comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with more than two million images from 280 collections supporting teaching and research in nearly every topic imaginable, including Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Fashion & Costume, Literature, Religion, Theater, World History, and much more.
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Asian American Drama
Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, as well as detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Collection is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. The database includes over 800,000 records from 325 current and 3,080 retrospective U.S. and foreign journals, covering architecture, city planning, conservation and restoration, interior design, museums and sustainable design.
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Biological Science
This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides over 3,000 full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting edge research, with applications to medicine, technology and the environment.
Black Drama
Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 200 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights provides in-depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories and full-text periodical articles.
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CFile
CFile is a global community of creative artists, educators, critics, curators, and others engaged in contemporary ceramics. Their online campus distributes lectures, classroom material, videos, recent exhibition catalogs, monographs and textbooks. CFile Daily is a news and review journal edited for avant-garde ceramics.
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Docuseek
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution.
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Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. *For off-campus access, choose Login through your Institution, then click Google.*
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EEBO
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Ebsco E-Books
This is a database of digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, as well as 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
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Electronic Arts Intermix
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a leading international resource for video art and new media. EAI's Educational Streaming site provides access to full-length streaming videos for selected artists from EAI's full collection. Almost 2,000 titles by 65 artists are currently available for streaming via this digital delivery platform.
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EAI
Encyclopedia Britannica
The online version of Encyclopedia Britannica combines the authoritative content of the traditional print version, updated by contemporary scholars. It includes the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary as well as links to web sites vetted by the editors of the Britannica.
ERIC
ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is the largest education database in the world containing over 1.5 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
Google Magazines
Google Magazines is a repository of scanned back issues of over 200 magazines in a wide variety of topics.
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International Music Score Library Project
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Jacob's Pillow Dance Stream
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Stream is an ever-growing collection of full-length dance videos from the Jacob’s Pillow Archives. Watch historic films of Denishawn Dance Company and Ted Shawn’s Men Dancers; recent performances by top national and international dance companies working in a range of movement styles including contemporary, ballet, tap, and traditional forms; in-depth interviews with artists and experts in the dance field; and more.
Jacob’s Pillow is a National Historic Landmark, a National Medal of Arts recipient, and home to America’s longest running dance festival. Each year thousands of people from across the U.S. and around the globe visit the Jacob’s Pillow to experience the Festival with more than 50 dance companies and 200 free performances, talks, and events.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Stream was created by Jacob’s Pillow especially for Colleges and Universities to provide unprecedented online access to selected full-length videos previously only accessible at the Jacob’s Pillow Archives. Watch recent performances by top national and international dance companies working in a range of movement styles including ballet, contemporary, tap, and traditional forms; in-depth interviews with artists and experts in the dance field; master classes from The School at Jacob’s Pillow; historic films of Denishawn Dance Company and Ted Shawn’s Men Dancers; and more.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an excellent source of full-text articles in scholarly journals encompassing a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to Anthropology, Architecture, Art & Art History, Biological Sciences, Environmental Studies, History, International Relations, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Music, Peace & Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology. *For off-campus access, choose Login and login with Google using your Bennington credentials*
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Kanopy
Access only available from on campus. Kanopy offers a selection of streaming video content including films and documentaries.
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Latino Literature
Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.
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MathSciNet
Math Reviews: American Mathematical Society database of more than a million reviews and abstracts of math publications.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
This collection of in-copyright scores contains more than 53,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. More than 4,600 composers are included, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky to contemporary artists including Peter Maxwell-Davies, Kaija Saariaho, and John Tavener.
Nexis Uni
Articles from newspaper, magazine, business, and legal sources.
North American Women's Drama
North American Women's Drama contains 1,174 plays by 275 playwrights, as well as detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, you'll find the history of individual words—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature to film scripts and cookery books. You'll also find the present-day meaning of words.
Oxford History of Western Music
A narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists, Richard Taruskin. Contains 500 illustrations, 1,800 musical examples and index from the 2009 print edition and more than 1,700 editorially selected links to relevant entries in Grove Music Online.
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a single cross-searchable resource of over 50 titles on a variety of topics.
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Philosopher's Index
This resource contains citation information and author-written abstracts for 560 journals in all major fields of philosophy from 1940 to the present.
Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences
PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, it continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and Society, Culture, and Thought.
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PNAS
PsycArticles
Search PsycARTICLES for full text of articles from APA journals and EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1985 to the present.
PubMed
This resource covers articles published in 3900 biomedical journals.
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Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collection
The Royal Shakespeare Company productions set Shakespeare in context, alongside the work of his contemporaries and today’s writers.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
Swank
Swank Digital Campus' online streaming service provides instant access to feature films and documentaries, many of which have been produced by Hollywood’s biggest studios. Our subscription contains selections by Bennington College faculty for academic use, but can be viewed by any students, faculty, or staff.
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Swank Digital Campus
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Theatre in Context
Experience the history of the theatre through 40,000 pages of monumental reference works, encyclopedias, images, flyers, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks, and other resources that offer a glimpse into the productions of the past.
Theatre In Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, as well as more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all.
*NOT AVAILABLE OFF-CAMPUS*
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,122 plays by 170 playwrights, as well as detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
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U.S. Major Dailies
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
WorldCat
Catalog of books, journals, and manuscripts in 9000 libraries worldwide.
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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, et cetera.
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ArtStor
The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It is the most comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with more than two million images from 280 collections supporting teaching and research in nearly every topic imaginable, including Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Fashion & Costume, Literature, Religion, Theater, World History, and much more.
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ArtStor is now hosted at JStor. To login, click "Login" on the top right, and choose "Log in with Google" and sign in with your Bennington credentials.
Ebsco E-Books
This is a database of digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, as well as 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is an excellent source of full-text articles in scholarly journals encompassing a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to Anthropology, Architecture, Art & Art History, Biological Sciences, Environmental Studies, History, International Relations, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Music, Peace & Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology. *For off-campus access, choose Login and login with Google using your Bennington credentials*
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*For off-campus access, choose Login and login with Google using your Bennington credentials*
U.S. Major Dailies
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
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