American History in Video provides access to a video collection related to the study of American history, with over 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on file. The collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and documentaries. The database organizes the video by historical era as well as relevance to historical people and events, providing the videos with historical context. New content is added periodically.

Art Full Text is a database that features full-text articles, abstracting and indexing of a number of peer-selected publications, podcasts, and page images. The subjects covered by this database include fine, decorative, and commercial art, photography, folk art, film, architecture, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. The database also indexes a growing selection of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art. The full text is provided for articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997, along with indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984 (including 260 peer-reviewed journals), as well as over 18,000 art dissertations, art reproduction records, and more. The database is updated daily and as new information is available.

Art Retrospective is a record of contemporary art history that provides access to over half a century of art literature. In addition to many English-language art journals, Art Retrospective also covers a number of publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. The database allows users to view contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, helps track the body of work of an individual artist or an entire movement, and gives access to artists' interviews, commentaries, and more. In total, Art Retrospective contains almost 600 publications over 55 years (many of them peer-reviewed), citations to over 25,000 book reviews, indexing of art reproductions to help researchers in focusing on a single artist or on individual works, and searches based on keywords, subject headings, personal names, article title words, organizations, publications, and year.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

Asian American Drama is an online text collection that brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, green design, sustainable development, and interior design/decoration. The database contains over 700 American and international journals (including scholarly and popular periodical literature), publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and serials on architecture and design from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Some of the publications included in this collection are American Architect, Domus, Dwell, El Croquis, and more. The Avery Index also contains references to more than 13,000 obituary citations thereby providing architects, architectural historians, and researchers with a source of biographical and professional information about architects. The database is updated weekly, and contains over 650,000 records.

This database provides access to a collection of 37 streaming video recordings of Shakespeare's plays, from the BBC Shakespeare Collection.

This platform offers access to all the library’s licensed and open-access content from Brill, a strong publisher in the humanities, social sciences, and international law. Content includes subscribed Brill journals and all ebooks.

ccMixter is an international community of 40,000 musicians. The database provides access to a collection of original samples licensed under Creative Commons which can be used to create tracks collaboratively. Users can listen to, sample, and interact with music within the database.

The largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of modernism from students to academics. Interdisciplinary and global content about the Modernist period. The content is fully cross-referenced, allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields

This database allows users to search for poems, short stories, and essays by keyword, genre, subject, with some links to full text online.

Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

IPA Source is a library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions, literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. The database has been online since 2003, and currently contains over 6500 texts and more than 1150 arias.

The Stationers’ Company Archive is one of the most important resources for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Explore extremely rare documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century in this invaluable resource of research material for historians and literary scholars.

This database indexes more than 350 current and 140+ archival (pre-1996) journals from over 20 countries and also indexes features, music articles, and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and the Washington Post. Indexed titles cover both scholarly and popular periodicals in the areas of classical music, opera, jazz, popular music and pop culture, music education, musicology, music theory, and many others.

The Dictionary of National Biography is a reference work providing over 58,000 biographies about British historical figures. The database is updated every January, May, and September. January updates extend coverage into the 21st century; May and September updates add biographies across all historical periods.

Pro Sound Effects® (PSE - CORE6 Complete Bundle) is a database of curated sound effects. The database contains over 1 million sounds and more than 357,000 files. The database draws on the feature films and TV shows across 30 years and from a global network of recordists. Sound files are organized in more than 500 categories and include ambiences, urban and natural soundscapes, animals, vehicles, foley effects, sound design elements and much more. All sounds are royalty free. Access is via a web-based Pro Sound Effects Library Access Portal. The interface permits searching, browsing, and previewing. Users can create playlists or projects, and can download files and sounds.

This is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities

The Grand Tour was a rite of passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young Britons of the eighteenth century, and a phenomenon which shaped the creative and intellectual sensibilities of some of the era’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers. Study the history of travel with this unique collection of written primary and secondary sources, artworks, photographs and maps, c. 1550-1850, which highlights the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.

Explore domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950 with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study. Trade catalogues have been a prominent feature in commerce and manufacturing from the eighteenth century to the present day. Highly illustrated, they are an essential visual record of a variety of products and facilitate research into popular culture, material culture, social norms and attitudes, as well as the history of marketing, business, and technology. These documents provide evidence of the evolution of distribution and communication systems linking manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers across the emerging United States and beyond. They document the changing commercial tastes and fashions of the consumer over a period of rapid growth, expansion and crisis (both at home and overseas), revealing contemporary prices and economic expenditure for households and individuals on a range of products. Interrogation of trade catalogues, trade cards and marketing ephemera provides opportunities for interdisciplinary research across the social sciences including:

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is a primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels, beginning with underground comix from the 1960's to the works of modern sequential artists. The collection contains more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of related interviews, criticism, and journal articles.

Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.