IDS 101 Metamorphoses
Gretchen Flesher Moon, Professor

1. General and Specialized Reference Tools

Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. Includes The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, etc.

Grove Music : New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is a monumental work of 29 volumes and the definitive music reference source. The online version is GROVE MUSIC.

Grove Art : The Dictionary of Art is the only comprehensive art reference work in the world. The online version is GROVE ART.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry: Provides online access to several of the classic Granger's print resources.

2. Image Resources and other websites

ArtStor: Provides a broad and deep general collection of images of world art and architecture.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ImageBase Search:

National Gallery of Art Subject Index:

The Ovid Collection from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center

The Ovid Project: Metamorphising the Metamorphoses from the University of Vermont


3. Other Library Databases for finding articles and primary texts

Iter: Provides a bibliography of close to 550,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

MLA International Bibliography. Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3,000 journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, and working papers.

JSTOR: Provides access to the complete backfiles of more than 322 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s. Over 12 million pages are now available.

Early English Books Online: Provides indexing, citations and full text of Early English publications from 1475 to 1800. Covers English literature, languages, music, religion, science, travel and exploration and politics.

Evans Digital Edition: The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.

Image of Atlas in the Galleria Dell 'Academia, Italy by Gay Sherman courtesy of Pics4Learning

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