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Academic OneFile A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
MLA Bibliography
A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers. About 75% are language and literature journal articles.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers from around the world in all disciplines and time periods.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO).
Full text articles from over 200 journals covering all areas of communication and media and indexing and abstracting for many more.
JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.
Project MUSE
Full-text titles from over 100 scholarly journals in the Basic Undergraduate Collection. There is no way to limit to language on Project Muse searches.
Readers' Guide Retrospective.
1890-1982. Index to older magazine articles.
Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
Arts and Humanities Search
Indexing of 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Citation Index allows searching of bibliographies
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907. Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
On the Web through FirstSearch.
On the Web through the official ERIC site, free to the public.
ERIC is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of journal articles, reports, curriculum guides, conference proceedings, etc. It covers all areas of education at all age and grade levels. ERIC Documents 1993+ are now freely available online. Documents before 1993 are in the library on microfiche. The library's microfiche subscription ended with ED455358.
The ERIC database, as well as lesson plans, web sites and other useful information, is available on the Web through the Educator's Reference Desk, also free to the public. (ERIC documents are not available at this site.) Coverage: Click here to show journal list.
Discovering Collection
A collection of essays, critical analyses, biographical information, primary sources, and multimedia elements in the core subject areas of history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819.
Full-text access to a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets, and broadsides from the early 1800s, based on Ralph R. Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's "American Bibliography, 1801-1819. Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
A bibliography of articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, and encyclopedia entries pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 - 1700 AD). This material has been collected from 10,360 publications, including 1,710 journals.
Anthropological Index Online. 
Free database
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Detailed descriptions of over 7100 journals, including information on editorial contacts, publication frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.
ARTFL Project,
Over 2000 French texts from the 13th-20th centuries are included, ranging from classical works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
L'Année Philologique Online
Database published by the Société Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique covering volumes 30 to 73 with more than 480,000 bibliographic records.
Communication Abstracts, 1967-2001Call Number: Reference P90 C65
Provides coverage of recent literature in the areas of general communication, mass communication, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, communication theory, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, small group communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations, radio, public opinion, speech, and television.
Essay and General Literature Index,1900-2001.Call Number: Reference AI 3 E752
A detailed index by author, subject, and some titles to essays published in books.
Index to Journals in Communication StudiesCall Number: Reference P87 M37
Often referred to as the Matlon guide, this subject and author index covers a number of important communication journals.
Language Teaching, 1982+Call Number: Periodicals PB35 L322
Indexes scholarly journals on learning and teaching languages.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
A comprehensive index to biographical sources. One simultaneous user.
Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas. Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.
American Writers.Call Number: Reference PS 129 A55
Benet's reader's encyclopedia. Call Number: Reference PN41.B4 1996
Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Call Number: Reference PN 471 B57 1992
Contemporary literary criticism. Call Number: Reference PN771.C62
211 volumes
Dictionary of literary biography. Call Number: Reference PS221 D5 1989
Encyclopedia of folklore and literature. Call Number: Reference PN41.E48 1998
Encyclopedia of the novel.Call Number: Reference PN41.E487 1998
Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century. Call Number: Reference PN 774 L433
Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies. Call Number: Reference PR83 .H27 2002
Magill's survey of world literature. Call Number: Reference PN523.M29 1993
Oxford Companion to English literature. Call Number: Reference PR19.O94 2000
Twentieth-century literary criticism.Call Number: Reference PN94. T94
168 volumes
Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts
collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
American and English Literature Internet Resources
American Verse Project
electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920 at University of Michigan
Bartleby: Great Books online.
Comprehensive literature works collection
Electronic Text Center
digital collection of publications in about 12 languages at University of Virginia, part of it is freely accessible
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
collected by D. L. Ashliman of University of Pittsburgh. Coverage is international, but is particularly rich in Nordic/Germanic selections.
Online Books Page
website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library
Online Medieval and Classical Library
at Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Project Gutenberg
oldest producer of free e-books on the internet
Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style. This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Center for Applied Linguistics
a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems
Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection
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