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CQ Press Library

CQ Press Library is a comprehensive reference resource for research on U.S. politics, elections and public policy. Includes encyclopedias, statistical sources and analyses of issues.

Critical Editions of the New Testament Online

This collection provides online access to major critical editions of the Greek New Testament, including variant readings, manuscript transcriptions, and related reference materials for the study of textual history and transmission.

CRL's Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database

Use the dissertations subset of the catalog to locate dissertations

Daily Mail (1896-2004)

The Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004 is an online digital collection that allows users to search, retrieve and browse articles, pages and whole editions of the paper, providing a gateway to engaging stories, controversies and social issues of the...

Database of Latin Dictionaries

The Database of Latin Dictionaries provides access to Latin dictionaries spanning Antiquity to the present, with linked entries for Latin lemmas across the collection of dictionaries and Library of Latin Texts.

Defining Gender Online: Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women (1450-1910)

A vast body of original British source material for those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.

Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm im Internet

Searchable version of the 32-volume Deutsches Wörterbuch (1838–1960), a major historical dictionary of the German language comparable to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Biographical accounts and church histories--from oral and written sources--integral to a scholarly understanding of African Christianity.

Dictionary of Buddhism

Brief entries on history and doctrines of major Buddhist schools, spread of Buddhism, and issues of contemporary concern such as human rights, the role of women in Buddhist teachings, and "engaged Buddhism".

Dictionary of the Bible

Brief entries on the books of the Bible, customs, religions and worship, history, theology, important places and personalities. Includes explanations of technical terms, methods of interpretation, critical analysis and notes on some biblical scholars.

Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Oxford's Dictionary of the Social Sciences is designed to break down the barriers between social science disciplines, as well as to make social scientific language comprehensible to general readers.

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

The Israel Museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project provides access to high-resolution images and interpretive materials for selected Dead Sea Scrolls from the Second Temple period.

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

Find dictionaries for more than twenty South Asian languages (such as Pali, Sanskrit, Persian and Tamil) on this website.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

This database consists of Chinese ideograph-based terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources in a range of languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan.

Digital Karl Barth Library

A digital collection of critical editions of Karl Barth’s German works ( Gesamtausgabe ) and his Kirchliche Dogmatik. Also includes some works in English translation.

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

Database of works by Protestant Christian reformers of the Reformation and post Reformation eras that can be searched or browsed. English translations are available for some works.

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation provides access to Roman Catholic theological, political, and social writings from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

Digital South Asia Library

This project of the Center for Research Libraries and the University of Chicago provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia.

Dissertations and Theses Global (Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations)

Dissertations & Theses Global with ProQuest includes dissertations and masters' theses primarily from North America, with some international coverage. Coverage begins in 1861 to present with many in full-text.

Early American Imprints, Series I: 1639-1800

This resource is based on the microform collection of books, pamphlets and broadsides issued in America from 1639 to 1800, recorded in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger P. Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography, which...

Early American Imprints, Series II: 1801-1819

This resource is based on the microform collection of books, pamphlets and broadsides issued in America from 1801-1819, recorded in American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819 by Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker, including material on...

Early Encounters in North America

Includes more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Americans on the North American continent between 1534-1860.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) will eventually contain digitized versions of all of the titles listed in the following reference sources: Pollard & Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books...

East Asian Art

A guide to images and bibliography of East Asian art. Includes religious art.

EBSCO Religion Databases Cross-Search

Search many databases at one time. Included databases: Academic Search Premier, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS, Bibliography of Asian Studies, Christian Periodical Index, Index Islamicus, Index to Jewish Periodicals, New Testament Abstracts...