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International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

It contains 4,000 articles, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Publication coverage: Classical antiquity - present

A key resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Includes entries on literary critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. 

Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism

Publication coverage: 1850-1980

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture is a collection of digitized primary sources documenting the development of mass tourism from the mid-19th through the 20th century.

LGBTQ+ Source

Publication coverage: 1917-

Provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.

Literature Online

Publication coverage: 1892 - present (some primary texts date from 600 AD)

Mass Observation Online

Publication coverage: 1937-1972

Diaries and personal writings, published studies and questionnaires, photographs, and file reports, manuscript and typescript papers on everyday lives of people in Britain from 1937 to 1965.

OpinionArchives

Searchable full-text archives of major American opinion magazines known for commentaries and reviews on politics, culture, and the arts. Indexing reaches back to the first issues of the indexed publications.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media and Popular Culture

This encyclopedia offers a foundational space for understanding the cultural life, and imaginative force and power, of crime and punishment.

Oxford Handbooks Online

Full text access to handbooks in the following subject areas: Archaeology, Business and Management, Classics, Criminology, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Sociology. Content published online 2013-2023 is available.

Oxford Reference Online - Society and Culture

A selection of society and culture dictionaries, companions and other reference works published by Oxford University Press.

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