Subject Portals
Subject portals provide direct access to a range and variety of resources in a particular academic discipline or area of study. These resources would include electronic databases, journals, videos, monographs, images, scholarly tools, and software. Each portal requires different levels of funding or endowment. While the emphasis is on electronic access, non-electronic resources are also included, such as paper, audio-visual materials, and manuscript and archival primary source material. It should be noted that a portal is not a static resource, but will change as information changes, both in terms of quantity, currency, and format. Each subject and resource portal can be a funding opportunity for an individual, group of individuals, corporate sponsorship, or foundation.

Arts and Applied Arts

Humanities

ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the most comprehensive database of full text books published in the 18th century EEBO Funds needed to sustain support for access, maintenance, and a TCP (Text Creation Project) to add titles to this important full text digital database of books printed before 1700. John E. Hart American Literature Fund

Other Resources

Periodicals and Newspapers American Periodicals Series Online Historical Newspapers

Reference Resources

Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed.

The 22-volume second edition of this work is coming out in December 2006. The first edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica was lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s. For the second edition, over 2,600 new entries have been added and 11,000 have been extensively revised and expanded. This reference work includes more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. Cost: $1,995

Encyclopedia of Islam Online, 2nd ed.

This essential academic resource contains articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, tribes and dynasties, the crafts and sciences, political and religious institutions, geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of various countries and history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. It also encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries. Initial Cost: $12,360

Special Collections

Americana Randolph Adams McGregor Plan Fine Press Poetry Kimball Other Collections M.F.K. Fisher Artist Books