8. Indexes for Other Fields (History, Philosophy, Film, Gender Studies, etc.) and resources for Art and Music Research
These are a few resources to help you find articles and other discussion in fields of interest to students of literature, but outside the literature of literary studies. To find more sources that lead to secondary material (journal articles, essays, chapters in books, etc.) in other disciplines, such as Psychology, The History of Science, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, and others, you can use HCL's Research Guides by Subject.
History
International Medieval Bibliography
Philosophy
Religion
Film Studies
Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology
Sociofile/Sociological Abstracts
Gender Studies
Women's Resources International
Art/Fine Arts Resources
These online encyclopedic dictionaries are useful basic sources. The Fine Arts Library and Loeb Music Library (see below) house in-depth collections to support research in these subjects. Morse Music and Media, in Lamont Library, has films, documentaries, opera and music, scores, books, and other material collected to support the curriculum.
Music
Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). It is international in scope, covering persons, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music
Morse Music & Media/Lamont Library
Art
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Includes all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s. Global coverage provides detailed analysis of the arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific, and Europe. In addition, influences on the production of art such as trade, geography, history and politics are fully addressed, helping to place art in context and further abroad understanding of the history of artistic endeavor.