Multi-subject databases
These databases cover a variety of subjects and may be good starting points for locating more interdisciplinary information. Because they do not focus on literature, they may not be the best tools for finding literary criticism.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowA scholarly, multi-disciplinary, database; with full text coverage of 10,021 journals in a range of subjects. This database is a good starting place for almost any topic search.
- Gale Access This link opens in a new windowA broad collection of authoritative periodicals, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reference content.
- Web of Knowledge This link opens in a new windowConsolidated searching of citation search engines and multidisciplinary listings of articles in 8,500 major scholarly journals. Limited full text access. Clusters results in subject areas and document types.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsA directory of peer-reviewed, online journals that do not charge readers or their institutions for access to content.
English literature databases
- MLA International BibliographyThis database offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. Topics include language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Some material is in full text, many others are bibliographic citations or abstracts.
- Gale LiteratureProvides literary content from primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. Integrates material from Literature Resources Center, Literature Criticism Online, and LitFinder
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA scholarly journal archive that provides image and full text access to archival (more than 5 years old) scholarly journals in a wide variety of subject areas.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to a selection of humanities and social sciences journals.
- Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new windowDatabase providing full-text access to literary criticism from a wide range of sources. User can search by author, work, or topic. This is a standard resource for students of literature. Includes criticism for drama, poetry and short story criticism.
- Poetry & Short Story Reference Center This link opens in a new windowA collection of full-text poetry, short stories, and supplemental content, offering users a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of poems, as well as biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowCitation index that provides consolidated searching of a social science citation index, art and humanities citation index and multi disciplinary databases—may be searched by author, title, subject, and topic. These are citations of usage, not full text and will be useful primarily to upper division students and faculty doing research.
- Salem Literature This link opens in a new windowReference resource for literary criticism. Provides access to the Critical Insight and Critical Surveys collections.
- Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new windowProvides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Features a collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and more.
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