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Literature Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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Project Muse

Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, arts and social sciences. A non-profit collaboration from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Includes such English titles as American Literary Realism, Comparative Literature Studies, Criticism, James Joyce Quarterly, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.

Coverage: 1995 - present

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JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive

An archive of journals that spans many disciplines. Provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Includes such English titles as African American Review, American Literature, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

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MLA International Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography Mobile
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

Coverage: 1926 - present

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Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

A historical survey of the field’s most important figures, schools, and movements. Includes alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

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Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center (EBSCOhost)
Literature Resource Center Mobile (EBSCOhost)
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods from around the world.

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Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)

Humanities Abstracts Mobile
Provides bibliographic indexing of sources in the humanities. Features articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and radio and television programs.

Coverage: 1984 - present

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Oxford English Dictionary

Like the print version but online.

Oxford English Dictionary Tutorials

Iter : Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Includes bibliographic records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews.

Coverage: 400 - 1700 (Middle Ages and Renaissance), updated daily

Academic Search Premier

Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Provided by the KYVL Includes such English titles as Journal of Modern Literature, Quarterly Review of Literature, and World Literature Today.

MasterFile Premier

Provides full text for general readership periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues. Also provides indexing and abstracts, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags. Includes such English titles as Black American Literature Forum, World Literature Today, American Poetry Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction.

E-Journals

Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for journals managed through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS). Allows search and retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text. Includes such English titles as Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture and English Language and Linguistics.