Recommended Databases
Over 1,000 books, literary encyclopedias, and hundreds of literary journals.
Literary Reference Center contains full text for
27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000
articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including
20,000 in-depth bios), 350 literary journals, 535,000 book reviews, 54,000
classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories,
4,000 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more.
Articles, criticism, reviews, and biographies covering over 130,000 writers.
The
Literature Resource Center consists of
Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than
124,000 writers;
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring
entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and
complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95;
and
Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 11,700
biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.
Other features include over 5,100 explications and overviews of prominent
literary works; links to 4,900 websites focusing on major authors and their
works; over 6,700 timeline events to help place literature in its historical and
social context, 2,300 author portraits; a guide to writing a Modern Language
Association-style research paper; access to the Literary Index, an online
database that indexes the content of all of Thomson Gale's literature products;
and more.
Citations covering research in literature, linguistics,
literature, and folklore.
Coverage: 1980 - current
MLA International Bibliography(produced by the Modern Language
Association), contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals
& series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is
international and includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for almost 3,500
titles and nearly 11,000 subject names and terms. Subjects consist of
literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism,
dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of
teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the
bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Databases
Broad collection from leading journals, newspapers and reference sources.
Coverage: 1980 - current
Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the
following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed
academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty
titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of
The
New York Times from 1990,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and
Christian
Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture,
general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry
topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any
National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced
by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the
Census and the State Department are also available.
Nearly 4,500 multi-disciplinary journals covering most subjects.
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)
In addition to full text that includes over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals,
Academic Search Premier also offers
indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly
collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including:
computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Nearly 2,000 classic works of French literature and non-fiction.
Coverage: Medieval - 20th century
Besides the Main
ARTFL Database, resources include
French Women Writers,
Provençal poetry,
Journal de Trévoux, full-text dictionary searching and the
Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database. Eighteenth, nineteenth and
twentieth century texts are about equally represented, with a smaller selection
of seventeenth century, medieval, and Renaissance texts. Subjects include
literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases
standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into
machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.
Biographical information about current and historical people.
Biography Resource Center integrates over 1,000 volumes of Thomson Gale publications with full-text
magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic
people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and
places, or gender, or by keyword and full text.
Marquis Who's Who provides
quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose
entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to
the present. Narrative biographies provide an in-depth overview of the
subject's life and accomplishments. Over 538,000 full-text magazine articles
bring coverage of the subject up-to-date and broaden the view of his or her
place in history, society, a particular field of endeavor, or the news.
Information on in-print, out-of-print book, audio, and video titles.
BooksInPrint.com Professional features over 30,000 full-text previews, 140,000
tables of contents, and over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000
publishers. Cover images, author biographies and annotations are just a few of
the many other database benefits.
Search capabilities allow you to combine up to 31 search criteria and now
features BIP ALERT that allows you to save search criteria and receive an e-mail
any time a title is released that matches your previously saved search settings.
Biographical and bibliographical information on U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Authors contains biographical details on current writers, along with the most-studied literary
figures of the early 20th century, as well as authors from around the world. In many cases, information provided by the authors
themselves is used to create sketches. In instances where an author is deceased or direct responses to questionnaires and query
letters are unavailable, details are drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided
by the authors’ publishers.
Critical essays on contemporary authors now living or who died after 1959.
CLC Select presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short
story writers, and other creative writers. Each entry contains the following: a biographical
essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken
from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available,
interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay and most
essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism.
Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.
Proporciona imágenes y el texto completo de compartimientos hispánicos populares.
Provides images and full text from popular Hispanic magazines.
Coverage: 1987 - current
Informe es una base documental para revistas y artículos en español. Este recurso incluye temas de cultura, salud, política,
entretenimiento, y noticias. Además, el contenido incluye revistas con artículos en ingles y en español.
Informe provides the full text of 50 Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals. Topics include cultural and lifestyle issues,
health and parenting, entertainment, political and current events. Includes Spanish subject guide and titles in English and Spanish.
Bibliographic citations pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods.
Coverage: 400-1700
Iter contains more than 935,000 citations from articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts,
encyclopedia entries and reviews collected from over 6,600 publications, including over 1,600 journals.
The search interface permits expert searching by keyword, title, author and, for selected records, by Library of
Congress subject headings and Dewey Decimal Classification. The interface
supports Boolean and positional operators, and allows limiting by language,
publication type and publication year. Results lists can be sorted by author,
subject, title, relevance or publication year. Records can be marked and
conveniently e-mailed or downloaded.
Arts & Science Collections I - IV offering over 500 full-text journals.
Coverage: 1800s - 1 to 5 years before current month (varies by title)
UML has access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I through IV. These collections combine to offer
509 full-text academic journal titles from the first issues until one to five years before the current month.
Most of these titles include decades worth of issues, some dating back to the nineteenth century. Topics covered
branch across all aspects of the humanities including literature, history, folklore, music, mathematics,
economics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and much, much more.
Detailed publication information on over 5,500 journals.
Entries in the
MLA Directory of Periodicals include
frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation
figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and
submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many
articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many
are submitted. Searches can be restricted by contribution policies, circulation,
peer reviewed, book reviews and much more.
Access to all issues including complete archive.
Coverage: 1963 - Current
The New York Review of Books is considered one of the premier intellectual publications in America.
Published 20 times a year, it covers not only current books, but issues of
culture, literature, politics, society, economics, and the arts. In Advanced Search you can browse by
date or author, or search by keyword, author, title of article, reviewed work, or type of article.
The definitive authority on the etymology of words in the English language.
The
OED is the excepted authority on the evolution of the English language.
It traces the usage of over half a million
words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world.
It is currently being revised, with the preparation of an updated third edition.
Draft material from the revision programme is published
online, alongside unrevised entries from the 20-volume Second Edition, first
published in 1989, and its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes
1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Revised entries are added to the online Dictionary
every quarter, replacing versions from the Second Edition and Additions Series.
Access over 300 journal titles covering the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Coverage: varies (earliest date 1995) - current
The
Project MUSE Standard Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed
journals focused extensively in the humanities and social sciences. It is particularly strong in literature
and history, but also global in scope with political and social coverage of Africa, Latin America, Asia, Canada,
and the Middle East.
Literary reference combining Twayne's U.S., English, and World Authors.
The Twayne Authors Series is a literary reference resource that combines
Twayne's U.S. Authors,
Twayne's English Authors, and
Twayne's World Authors publications. Each of these individual
titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered
in the Series to nearly 600. All titles feature comment elements, such as a chronology, a biography, a
comprehensive critical analysis, and an annotated bibliography. The discussions of each author in the series
are between 175-200 printed pages.
Publication information on periodicals of all types.
Ulrichsweb.com includes scholarly journals, annuals, conference proceedings,
trade publications, newspapers, and electronic publications, deriving data from
over 80,000 US and foreign publishers. Approximately 47,000 discontinued titles
from 1974 onward are included. Complete bibliographic citations, with buying and
ordering information, subject information, abstracting and indexing services,
and URLs to publishers’ Web sites are provided for currently available titles.
Searches can combine 30 criteria that limit by details such as type, feature,
status, language, country,and many others.
Search for books, journals and non-print materials.
Search millions of bibliographic records from libraries around the world.
Coverage: Before 1000 BC - current
WorldCat contains all the records cataloged by OCLC
member libraries -- more than 57 million -- for books, manuscripts, maps,
journals and magazines, films and slides, musical scores, sound recordings,
computer programs,articles, chapters, papers, and more. Includes records
representing 400 languages.
Biographical analysis of contemporary novelists writing in English worldwide.
Coverage: 7th edition 2001
Entries in
Contemporary Novelists include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed
bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay
covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.
Biographical analysis of contemporary English-language poets.
Coverage: 7th edition 2001
Entries in
Contemporary Poets include personal and career information, addresses, a
detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed
critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.
Signup for your own personal account so that you can create a personal bookshelf in order to
create and save highlights, notes, and more. Download the ebrary Reader in order to take notes, highlight, and use
other advanced features. Click on the help icon above for information on how to take advantage of the
many special features in ebrary.
Over 4,400 ebooks covering all major subject areas.
Coverage: 1963 - current
NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four
criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by
publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the
Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four
books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline,
downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session.
By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your
personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.
20 Oxford Companions, Encyclopedias, Guides, and Dictionaries.
Oxford Reference: Literature covers American, African American and Latino literature as well as English
and Irish, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literature. Also included are 5 dictionaries covering
literary terms, fables, Scienced Fiction, Shakespear, and authors. You can search or browse the reference
sources as a subject group of individually
