My Recommendation
Literature Resource Center [GaleGroup]
- a literature reference database
- ull-text of reference articles and many full-text journals
- information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more
MLA Bibliography
Databases
Academic Search Elite [EBSCOhost]
- extends back to 1980 with many full-text titles back to 1990
- academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural
- full text for over 1,200 journals
- abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals
Arts & Humanities Search [OCLC FirstSearch]
- 1980- present, updated monthly
- more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals
- selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals
Essay & General Literature Index [WilsonWeb]
- search for chapters of books
- 1985- present, updated monthly
- Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada
- More than 300 volumes are indexed annually
JSTOR
[select Language & Literature journals]
- a database of full text scholarly journals
- covers over 300 scholarly periodicals
- Contains searchable full text of all the contents back to their beginning
Oxford English Dictionary
- most comprehensive dictionary of the English language
- traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day
- varieties of English covered include British English, American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, the Englishes of the Indian subcontinent, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean, among others
Proquest Research Library - Humanities Module
- a subset of the Research Library restricted to humanities journals
- 1971 - present, Updated monthly
- Indexes over 416 publications. Many are also in full-text.
Page compiled by Gretchen Pearson updated 04/01/09.