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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
General
Database of more than 8,500 scientific journals. From anthropology and law, to women's studies and zoology. Also includes videos, reports, books, indices, and summaries. Publications come from all over the world and provide an international perspective. Useful resource if your research falls within multiple scientific disciplines.
Acta Sanctorum (ProQuest)
History
Religion
Online version of the Acta Sanctorum: a collection of biographies of saints. Organised by each saint’s feast day. Contains all 68 volumes of the original text, published between 1643 and 1940. Supplemented with indices and references to the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina (BHL). For church history research.
African American Poetry 1760-1900 (ProQuest)
Literature
Read the poems of African-American poets from the 18th and 19th centuries. From ballads and romantic odes to sonnets and historical epics. A must for literary scholars and researchers of African American studies, linguistics, women's studies and literary heritage.
Alba amicorum before 1800
Book & library science
Catalogue with descriptions of early-modern alba amicorum (book of friends) in private and public Dutch collections. You can search by title, description or annotation. The information about the title shows where the physical copy is located.
Algemeen Letterkundig Lexicon (ALL)
Literature
Find the meaning, origin and explanation of more than 4,600 literary terms. From ab ovo to zwanenzang (swan song) and from alwetende verteller (omniscient narrator) to zelfspot (self-deprecation). An indispensable tool for anyone who works with Dutch language and literature.
Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek (ANW)
Literature
Digital dictionary of contemporary Dutch in the Netherlands and Flanders, Suriname and the Caribbean. The descriptions are supplemented with images, videos and sounds. The language period runs from 1970 to the present day. For the interested layperson to the professional linguist.
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon online (AKL) - Artists of the World online (De Gruyter)
Visual arts
An extensive database of biographical data on architects, visual artists and people from the world of film, music and stage, amongst others. From ancient times to the present day. The descriptions are in German and English.
American drama, 1714-1915 (ProQuest)
Literature
Plays
Access to over 1,500 plays by more than 500 American authors from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The works range from melodramas to farces and from comedies to adaptations of Shakespeare. You can search through the work of David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller, among others.
American Periodicals (ProQuest)
Culture / society
American magazines from 1741-1941 on fine art, history, literature, science, medicine and more. A unique glimpse of American history: from colonial times and the Civil War, to the abolition of slavery and the early 20th century. Includes colour scans of the original documents. For researchers and other interested parties who want to know more about America.
American poetry (ProQuest)
Literature
More than 40,000 American poems from the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes works by major poets such as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson, as well as lesser-known names. Contains the complete text of each poem, plus notes and prefaces from the poets themselves. For teachers, students and researchers of American literature.