Databases/Article Indexes for English and Literature


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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI)
1980-current

41 concurrent users maximum
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
 
Research database that contains the full text and informative abstracts for more than 2,100 popular nonfiction books found in school and public libraries.
 
Provides access to publication information for over 3.5 million books in-print, out-of print, and forthcoming.
 
Index of over 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Articles are published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
 
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans
 
HLAS Online
1936-current

Open Access
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
 
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.
 
Humanities Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Upon entering Wilson Omnifile, choose the Humanities subject area to limit results
Provides full text and abstracts of journals in the humanities.
 
Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
 
JSTOR
Dates vary
Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Recommended resource
LION (Literature Online)
Dates vary

4 concurrent users maximum
Features a searchable collection of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus 175 full-text journals, with complementary secondary reference resources including biographies, criticism and reference works.
 
Literary Market Place Online
Current

one user maximum
literarymarketplace.com contains 2 important reference works, Literary Market Place and International Literary Market Place: Literary Market Place (LMP) is the directory of America and Canadian book publishing, and The International Literary Market Place (ILMP), provides a similar scope of publishing data for more than 180 countries around the world.
 
Literature Criticism Online (Trial)
1980 - Present

This trial runs through June 11, 2008.
Gale Literature Criticism Online is a cross-searchable database including the following series: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 14001800, Shakespearean Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review.
Recommended resource
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Recommended resource
MLA Bibliography
1926-current
Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
 
NoveList
Dates vary
Novelist is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles.
 
Original Sources
Prehistory-current
Searchable full-text of Primary works by the most important figures in all aspects of World History.
 
Online version of the classic extensive dictionary which includes word origins. Fully searchable.
 
Perseus Digital Library
Dates vary

Open Access
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities.
 
Project Muse
Dates vary
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.
 
WorldCat
1200-current
Records for materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. WorldCat offers holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.

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