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This interdisciplinary resource, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies provides citations to articles on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Materials referenced include journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and more, published since 1989.
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  • E-books & e-texts
This resource is North America's largest collection of digitized resources in French. It comprises ARTFL-FRANTEXT, which indexes French texts, and more specialized collections of French women writers, Provençal poetry, ancient French texts, and historical dictionaries.
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This resource provides access to many research sources that are not available elsewhere in the United States. Materials include international newspapers, foreign language books and theses, and extensive primary sources collections. Request non-digital items through Interlibrary Loan.
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This collection provides access to English-language newspapers published in China between 1832 and 1953. Papers are fully digitized in PDF and include news articles, editorials, cartoons and advertisements.
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This resource is a searchable database of literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, profiling past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights worldwide from every era.
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  • Streaming video
This resource provides access to a collection of ethnographic films with broad geographical and cultural coverage. It includes some of the most seminal ethnographic films ever produced, and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
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This resource provides citations to the social sciences and humanities literature that focuses on Latin America, including: Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean Basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. It includes citations to articles, book reviews, documents, and original literary works. Some citations have links to full-text articles.
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  • Library catalogs
This resource provides access to millions of digitized titles that are in the public domain. Use it to locate historic or primary source materials from around the world. Use is open to everyone but UVM affiliates can log in to download texts for offline use.
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This resource is a multidisciplinary index to journal articles, books, essays in books, book reviews, and dissertations pertaining to all aspects of the Middle Ages (the medieval period) and Renaissance (400-1700).
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This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary database of the full content of archival issues of scholarly journals. Issues published within the last 3-5 years are generally not covered. It also provides citations to books and pamphlets provided by JSTOR in digital format.
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  • Streaming video
This resource is a platform for streaming video, including feature films and documentaries from around the world. Faculty note: please contact Multimedia Services if you need Kanopy videos for teaching, as access varies over time.
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  • Reference sources
This peer-reviewed online encyclopedia provides authoritative background and short criticism on world literature and cultural history. The work includes authored essays, chronologies, critical bibliographies, and more. It is continuously updated.
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This database contains biographical profiles of significant writers worldwide from all eras and literary genres. It also includes full-length or excerpted literary criticism articles and book reviews from scholarly journals and magazines, book chapters, and reference books. It also includes overviews of literary topics and work overviews (plots, themes, characters).
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This is a comprehensive index for research works on world literatures, literary theory, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and the dramatic arts. It contains citations (some with links to full text) to articles in scholarly journals and magazines, books, book chapters, and dissertations.
This resource is a collection of thousands for recordings of popular music from around the world, including pop, rock, alternative, new age, hip hop, holiday (e.g. Christmas) and more.
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  • Images & sounds
  • Streaming audio
This audio resource, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways, offers listeners access to a wide variety of recorded music and spoken word, including folk songs and world music, poetry, historic events, lectures and language instruction, and music for dance.
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This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary full-text database of scholarly journals primarily in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It also provides citations to books provided by Project Muse in digital format.
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This resource includes access to primary historical materials relating to Latin America and the Caribbean. Dates of coverage are 1492 to the 1980s and types of materials include digitized manuscripts, historical newspapers, and government documents. English and Spanish languages.

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