English Resources
Literature Resource Center - DISCUS
This database provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Also contains Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring definitions of literary terms.
Literary Reference Center - EBSCO
This database provides access to literary criticism, including plot summaries, synopses, and works overviews from Masterplots; also included are author biographies, author interviews, book reviews, a literary encyclopedia, and other reference works.
MLA International Bibliography
MLA has ibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Access to research in over 3000 journals from 1926.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a collection of over 160 scholarly journal titles including more than 2,000,000 full-text articles on a wide range of topics. Both current articles and extensive backfiles are available.
Project Muse
Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community’s primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
L’Annee Philologique
An index of over 375,000 bibliographic records from 1969 to present in the Classics. Divided into two parts: ancient authors and texts; subjects and disciplines.
Expanded Academic ASAP (DISCUS)
Database for research in all academic disciplines including astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology, religion, social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology. Publications: National news magazines, general interest magazines and the New York Times. Coverage combines indexing, abstracts, full text, and images.
InfoTrac OneFile Plus (DISCUS)
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics. The database offers over 6000 indexed and abstracted titles and 3100 full-text titles.
Article 1st (OCLC)
Index of articles from 12,600+ journals.
Academic Search Premier (Collegiate DISCUS)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Academic OneFile (DISCUS)
Includes articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Also has full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present; and podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Updated daily.
Last modified on: July 24, 2008, at 04:50 AM