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Getting Started:

  • Academic Search Elite
    Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.

  • Library Catalog
    Search for books, videos, CDs, music scores and other materials available in the University Library.

  • Humanities Full Text
    Abstracts of 250,000 articles and reviews of 300,000 books published in over 600 humanities journals from 1984 to the present, including selected literary and English journals.

Most Comprehensive:

  • MLA Bibliography
    Citations to scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from over 6,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings published from 1926 to the present.

  • Contemporary Authors
    Biographical information about current authors, a bibliography of their publications, as well as citations to important critiques of their work. Also available in the Library's Reference Collection shelved under the call number REF CT120 .C62x

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
    Full-text of selected articles which critique and interpret works by current authors. Also available in the Library's Reference Collection shelved under the call number REF PN771 .C59

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
    Biographical information about authors from ancient times to the 20th century, a bibliography of their publications, as well as citations to important critiques of their work. Also available in the Library's Reference Collection shelved under the call number PN451 .D52x


Other Useful Databases:

  • Book Review Index
    Citations to reviews of books published in selected academic journals, newspapers and magazines from 1965 to the present.

  • Book Review Digest Retrospective
    Citations to reviews of books published in a leading journals and magazines from 1905 to 1982.

  • JSTOR
    Full-text of older issues (five years or more) from select academic journals, including 47 language and literature journals. 

  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Full text of the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of the English language, containing the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

  • Project MUSE
    Full-text of over 250 scholarly journals, including over 60 literature journals. Coverage includes the current and previous year; back files vary.

  • Wilson OmniFile
    Searches the abstracts (descriptions) of over 7 million articles published in almost 2000 peer-reviewed journals and over 2000 trade and popular magazines since 1984.

  • WorldCat
    FirstSearch database with over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries: books, musical scores, manuscripts, video recordings, cassettes, maps, etc. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.

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