Library Search and Databases A-Z
- Library SearchIf you want to check a specific book or article and find out whether it is held in the King's library collections then Library Search is a good place to start.
While you can search in Library Search with keywords to discover material you didn't know about, it will never give you the full flexibility and searching capacity that a specialist database can.
Where electronic versions of a book, article, or other material type are available, Library Search will give you a link to access it. You may then be prompted to login before being able to actually the thing you were interested in.
Digital Humanities Information
Welcome to the Collections Guide for Digital Humanities.
Key classmarks for this area of study are:
- QA76.9.A8 - Applications of computers in the humanities
- QA76.9.A25 - Access control, computer security
- QA76.9.A73 - Architecture, computer
- QA76.9.A96 - Automatic theorem proving
- QA76.9.C65 - Computer simulation
- QA76.9.C66 - Computers and civilisation, social aspects
- QA76.9.D3 - Database management
- QA76.9.D35 - Data structures
- QA76.9.D5 - Distributed and parallel processing
- QA76.9.E94 - Evaluation of computer performance
- QA76.9.E96 - Expert systems
- QA76.9.H85 - Human computer interaction
- QA76.9.I58 - Interactive computer systems
- QA76.9.N38 - Natural language processing
- QA76.9.P75 - Psychological aspects
- QA76.9.S65 - Software engineering
- QA76.9.S88 - System design
Once you know the call number (or classmark) you are looking for, you can use a floor plan to help you find the area of the library to visit. Most books that are relevant to Arts & Humanities are held in the Maughan Library.
Books are organised on the shelves using call numbers (or classmarks). We use the Library of Congress Classification Scheme which creates call numbers (or classmarks) using a series of letters and numbers - eg DD237 PEU.
- The initial letters denote the general subject area (eg DD denotes the history of Germany)
- The numbers denote a more specific subject area (eg DD237 denotes general works on the history of Germany post 1918)
- The final combination of letters and numbers denote the author.
Journals for Digital Humanities
- JSTOR ebooks and journals This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Via JSTOR books, King's currently has access to over 54,000 titles from over 42 publishers.King’s subscribes to the following collections within JSTOR: 19th Century British PamphletsArts & Sciences I-XV CollectionBusiness I CollectionBusiness II CollectionIreland CollectionJewish StudiesLanguage & Literature CollectionLife Sciences CollectionMusic CollectionPolitical ScienceFilm StudiesLanguage and LiteraturePhilosophyReligionSociologyBusiness and Economics
One of the best known collections of journal articles relevant to the Arts & Humanities is JSTOR, which focuses on older journal articles. There are many other collections which offer more recent articles of a similar academic standard.
You can use the Library Search to access an extensive selection of ejournals and print journals. Titles include:
- Computational Linguistics
- Computers and the Humanities
- Literary and Linguistic Computing
Arts & Humanities print journals are held on the ground floor of the Maughan Library. These are reference only and cannot be taken out of the library.
Databases & Ebook Collections
- ACLS Humanities eBooks This link opens in a new window ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of approximately 4,000 high quality humanities books. These titles are offered by the ACLS in collaboration with 30 learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division at the University of Michigan Library. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
- Blackwell Reference Online This link opens in a new window Blackwell Reference Online is an online library giving access to over 500 reference ebooks. The collection covers topics from across the humanities and social sciences and includes the critically-acclaimed Blackwell Companions and Handbooks in addition to other valuable reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions with integrated seamless links to standalone major reference works on the Blackwell Reference Online platform.
- Cambridge Companions Online (Cambridge Core) This link opens in a new window Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. CCO offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.King's users have access to the complete collection of Cambridge Companions, which is divided into three subsections: Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion and Culture; and Music.
- Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge Core) This link opens in a new window Contains over 400 volumes published since 1960 over 15 academic subject areas including: American History, British History, Economic History, General History, History of Science, History of the Book, Language & Linguistics, Literary Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political & Social Theory, Regional History, Religious Studies, Theatre Studies & Performing Arts and Warfare.
- DigiPal (Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic) This link opens in a new window DigiPal is a resource for the study of medieval handwriting, particularly that produced in England during the years 1000–1100, the time of Æthelred, Cnut and William the Conqueror. It is designed to allow you to see samples of handwriting from the period and to compare them with each other quickly and easily.Funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), it is based at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
- EBook Central (Proquest) - King's This link opens in a new window Ebook Central is an ebook platform. King’s have purchased over 21,200 titles covering a range of subjects and provides further access to over 176,350 titles.
- Humanities Index (1962-) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Formerly known as BHI: British Humanities Index.An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, HI indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. It covers current affairs, political science, religion, law, history, archaeology, education, economics, environment and gender studies.Updated monthly with approximately 1,500 records added; it also has the capability to link to electronic full text of many journal articles
- JSTOR ebooks and journals This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Via JSTOR books, King's currently has access to over 54,000 titles from over 42 publishers.King’s subscribes to the following collections within JSTOR: 19th Century British PamphletsArts & Sciences I-XV CollectionBusiness I CollectionBusiness II CollectionIreland CollectionJewish StudiesLanguage & Literature CollectionLife Sciences CollectionMusic CollectionPolitical ScienceFilm StudiesLanguage and LiteraturePhilosophyReligionSociologyBusiness and Economics
- Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. Updated monthly.
- LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window The LISTA database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
- OAPEN This link opens in a new window The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. Please note that some ebook titles in OAPEN only have single chapters published as Open Access, with the remaining chapters of the book behind a paywall.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window Oxford Handbooks Online covers many different subject areas and the series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. King's has access to all collections.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries, reference books and Encyclopedias, into a single cross-searchable web database. The Premium Collection offers all of these, plus added functionality and more detailed information from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ORO provides integrated, consistent coverage of a broad range of subjects: everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window An essential research resource for students, scholars, and academics, Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to prestigious academic books across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine. Available online on Oxford Academic, scholars and students can discover these academic books alongside Handbooks, Very Short Introductions, practitioner medicine and psychology texts, and hundreds of the highest quality journals. King's subscribes to the full or partial sets listed below and has access to some additional single titles:Business & ManagementClassical Studies 2007 – 2013Economics & FinanceHistory 2011 – 2013LawLiterature 2011 – 2013Music 2011 – 2013PhilosophyPolitical ScienceReligion
- UPCC Political Science and Policy Studies ebook collections (Project Muse) This link opens in a new window The Political Science and Policy Studies UPCC collections (2010, 2011, 2012) offer over 600 peer-reviewed digital books from 65 major university presses and scholarly publishers, and allow books to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE. King's has access to the 2010, 2011 and 2012 collections only.
Archives and Special Collections
The Foyle Special Collections Library holds over 180,000 rare printed and manuscript items, ranging in date from the 15th century to the present day. Its collections provide extensive scope for digital humanities research and the Library has an extensive track record of active involvement in the digitisation of heritage materials.
Here is an example of an item held in Special Collections on this subject:
The first book of Moses, called Genesis. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1655. Foyle Special Collections Library