Alexander Street Press Streaming VideoThis link opens in a new windowVideos and audio covering a wide variety of subjects. Individual collections include Black Studies in Video, Black Thought & Culture, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Vols.1-3, Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Ethnographic Video Online :Vols.1-2, Filmmakers Library Online: Vols.1-2, LGBT Studies in Video, New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, Nursing Education in Video, and Theatre in Video: Vol.2.
Ambrose Video 2.0This link opens in a new windowEducational videos in the subjects of social studies, literature, fine arts and the sciences. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Plays.
Kanopy Streaming VideoThis link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, independent and classic feature films, educational videos, and award-winning films and shorts. Distributors include PBS, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and more.
Some titles come with full Public Performance Rights. To enable closed captions or subtitles while watching a film, select the CC icon in the bottom-right corner of the video player. Accounts must be renewed yearly on campus and using a browser, rather than the app.
Distributors part of Kanopy Streaming include Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and many more.
Spotlight On: Music Resources
Naxos Music LibraryThis link opens in a new windowComplete audio recordings of classical music.
Use the students/faculty personal accounts as login credentials for the NML mobile apps.
Naxos Sheet Music LibraryThis link opens in a new windowDigital sheet music in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part.
Provides access to more than 10,000 articles covering the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browsing capabilities. (3 simultaneous users)
Videos and audio covering a wide variety of subjects. Individual collections include Black Studies in Video, Black Thought & Culture, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Vols.1-3, Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Ethnographic Video Online :Vols.1-2, Filmmakers Library Online: Vols.1-2, LGBT Studies in Video, New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, Nursing Education in Video, and Theatre in Video: Vol.2.
Full-text corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe, including texts by St. Patrick, Augustinus Hibernicus, Columbanus, Sedulius Scottus, John Scottus Eriugena, and Peter Abelard. Limited to three simultaneous users.
Indexed records of international archival collections that include historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. Access to the physical and/or digitized archival materials varies per institution.
Index of citations from international publications on fine art. Cited materials include periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Coverage: 1929 – 1984
Black Studies Center combines three invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender.
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.
Full-text collection of literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books, and periodicals. Coverage: 1976 - present.
Full-text collection of Middle English texts including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales & Troilus and Criseyde, Langland's Piers Plowman, Malory's Morte Darthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman, and many others. Coverage: 1100 - 1500.
The DNB offers 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000. For Americans, see the American National Biography.
Dictionary of the first six centuries of the English language. Coverage: 600 - 1150.
Features a listing of every spelling attested for a word, frequency counts of each word in the corpus, usage labels, and exhaustive citation for words of 12 or fewer occurrences.
Full-text primary sources on British history from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title Catalogue, Wing's Short Title Catalog, and Thomason Tracts. Coverage: 1473 - 1700.
Full-text British and American primary sources from the 18th century on history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science, and more. Coverage: 1700s.
Full-text historical newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune (1905 - 1975), the New York Times (1850 - 2001), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), and the American Periodical Series I, II & III (1741-1900).
Indexes nearly 1200 periodicals from 1907-1984 (including 240,000+ book reviews.) A wide range of interdisciplinary fields are covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals, as well as many important scientific journals.
Bibliography of the European middle ages c.400-1500. Entries are drawn from the regular coverage of over 4,000 periodicals and from 5,000 miscellaneous volumes, (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften.)
A bibliography of 250,000+ articles and reviews drawn from 400+ medieval and renaissance journals. Plus a growing bibliography of monographs pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700)
Index of literary criticism with full-text from several collections including Contemporary, 20th-Century, 19th-Century, Shakespearean, 1400-1800, Classical & Medieval, Poetry, Short Story, Drama and Children's.
Full-text compendium covering Middle English including the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English Prose and Verse based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Coverage: 1100 - 1500.
Index with some abstracts and some full-text journal articles, books, series, translations, and dissertations on the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. Includes. Coverage: 1900s - present.
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus.
Complete access to the New York Times online edition (nytimes.com) from 1980 through the present. Users must create an account using their LUC email, to gain access to nytimes.com from any web browser or smart phone app, on or off campus, with no monthly limits on article access. This resource is limited to current students, faculty, and staff. Note: HSL students/faculty/staff need to sign up via http://accessnyt.com
For new accounts and renewals click -
https://go.openathens.net/redirector/luc.edu?url=https://ezmyaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/redir
Note: HSL students/faculty/staff need to sign up via http://accessnyt.com
Complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary 2nd ed.
Covers the evolution of the English language over the last millennium and traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.
Full-text primary sources, books, and articles related to the history of the Americas based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography. Coverage: 1500 - 1926.
Full-text reference data, scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare. Coverage: 1517 - 1975.
Contains over 10 million pages of documents submitted to the Supreme Court, including briefs and petitions, oral transcripts, memoranda, and more. Covers 75,000 cases, including cases for which the Court did not issue a full opinion.
Includes all reviews, letters, poems, and articles. The identities of anonymous contributors are disclosed allowing for greater depth in literary research.