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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Humanities Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, interviews; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; reviews of books, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; biographies, and more. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
Literature Resource CenterBiographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Resources for critical scholarly materials in literature and the humanities. Full text coverage. Gale Group
MLA International BibliographyMore than 1.7 million citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present. Coverage in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Gale Group/Modern Language Association
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OED OnlineElectronic version of the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

GR - Folklore P - Philology and Linguistics
PA - Classical Languages & Literature [Greek & Latin] PC - Romanic Languages
PD - Germanic and Scandinavian Languages PE - English Language
PF - West Germanic Languages PG - Slavic Languages and Literature
PJ - Oriental Languages and Literature PK-PM - Asian Languages and Literature
PN - Literature - General PN1600-3307 - Drama
PQ - Romance Literature [French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese] PR - English Literature
PS - American Literature PT - Germanic and Scandinavian Literature

Reference books

BookCall number
Masterplots: 1,801 Plot Stories and Critical Evaluations of the World's Finest Literature (12 volumes)REF PN44 .M33 1996
A Dictionary of English Folklore (online book)A Dictionary of English Folklore
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language (online book)Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
Contemporary Authors (multiple volumes)REF Z1010 .C65
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series (multiple volumes)REF Z1010 .C665
Critical Survey of Poetry (8 volumes) [listed by author]REF PR502 .C85
Critical Survey of Short FictionREF PN3321 .C7
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism (multiple volumes)REF PN761 .N56
Oxford English Dictionary (also online)REF PE1625 .M7 (also OED online)
Poetry Criticism (7 volumes)REF PN1010 .P499
Shakespearean Criticism (multiple volumes)REF PR2965 .S43
Short Story Criticism (multiple volumes)REF PN3373 .S386
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (online book)The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (online book)The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (online book)The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism (multiple volumes)REF PN771 .G27

Web resources

BookSpot.com
Electronic Poetry Center
English Department Homepages Worldwide
Mudlark : An Electronic Journal of Poetry and Poetics
National Public Radio Selected Shorts
Performing Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress)
Poet's Corner
Poetry Archive
The Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative