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General Serial Bibliographies in the Humanities

Check more general sources for interdisciplinary publications you might have missed with the more specialized tools. For example, MLA-IB or ABELL focus on language and literature, so they would not include all the information possible on your topic, if your topic includes historical perspectives. For that, you would have to go to a specialized history index or one of the more general tools.

Essay and General Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications.

Specialized Bibliographies and Indexes in Particular Fields: Art, History, Music

America History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers 1,700 journals on the literature and history of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to present day.
Humanities Index This link opens in a new window
Formerly BHI: British Humanities Index. Indexes over 400 humanities journals and magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Covering 42 periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century, this database is the sole online index to virtually all the art journals published in that period.
ARTFL This link opens in a new window
Covers literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy, dating back to the 18th century.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. Artstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images. For more information: https://about.jstor.org/librarians/artstor/
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. From late 1960s to present with over 13,000 new entries being added each year.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
International coverage on a variety of topics including musicology, theory and analysis, pedagogy, criticism, and more.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text This link opens in a new window
A database for all things music covering the scholarly to the popular. Indexing and abstracts for hundreds of international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and full text for more than 140 of indexed journals.
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
International annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, covering approximately 1800 to 1950.
Music Online: African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
50 thousand+ pages of biographies, lyrics, images, etc. covering the history and culture of African American music.