LibGuides: ENG 499C: Literature Resources

Find journal articles for English

Databases for finding journal articles (English)

Literary Databases (that are not journal indexes)

Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers comprehensive and accessible essays written by experts. The authors are placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed. The generic and topical Companions cover periods and genres.
Subject Coverage:
major authors, periods, genres
Dates of Coverage:
1993 to present
Update Frequency:
as new print volumes are published
Size:
more than 176 titles and more than 1500 essays
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text of the most widely-read poems in a number of modern and ancient languages. It offers complete coverage of a number of major poets. In addition users will find current poetry from poetry periodicals, such as Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Poetry Northwest.
Subject Coverage:
poetry in English, Anglo-Saxon, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Provencal, Spanish, Welsh, and Yiddish
Dates of Coverage:
antiquity to the present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 250,000 poems
more than 450,000 citations
NoveList This link opens in a new window
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Is a readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
Subject Coverage:
covers a variety of subjects that appear in fiction
Dates of Coverage:
1800 to present
Update Frequency:
quarterly
Size:
more than 56,000 records
Shakespeare Survey This link opens in a new window
Is a yearbook of international Shakespeare scholarship in English. Each volume focuses on a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
Subject Coverage:
reviews of scholarship relating to Shakespeare
Dates of Coverage:
1948 to present
Update Frequency:
annually
Size:
more than 60 volumes

Other useful databases for English

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Cites biographical material appearing in periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Subject Coverage:
biographical information
Dates of Coverage:
July 1984 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 500,000 people
more than 36,000 images
Book Review Digest This link opens in a new window
Cites and excerpts reviews appearing in periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. which cover English-language fiction and non-fiction. Children's books are included, but excluded are: textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences.
Subject Coverage:
thousands of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1983 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 600,000 records
Choice Reviews Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides an online archive of objective, high-quality evaluations of nonfiction academic writing. Contains over 200,000 reviews of academic monographs. Publishing some 5,000 new reviews annually.
Subject Coverage:
multi-disciplinary

Dates of Coverage:
1988 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 200,000 book reviews
Congressional Research Service Reports This link opens in a new window
CRS is Congress’ think tank, and its reports are relied upon by academics, businesses, judges, policy advocates, students, librarians, journalists, and policymakers for accurate and timely analysis of important policy issues. The reports are not classified and do not contain individualized advice to any specific member of Congress.
Dates of Coverage:
mid 1990s to the present

Update Frequency:
unknown

Size:
more than 8,300 reports

Note:
As government information these reports are in the public domain and can be used freely without concerns over copyright.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Is a topical weekly publication that explores a single "hot" issue in-depth. Each weekly report seeks to be an objective, balanced treatment of the topic and runs approximately 12,000 words.
Subject Coverage:
social issues, teen issues, the environment, health, education, science, and technology
Dates of Coverage:
October 25, 1991 to present
January 1996 (PDF files included)
January 2001 (color PDF files included)
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
not available
Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Offers documentaries and interviews to reveal the inner workings of the theatre arts in Britain.
Subject Coverage:
British theatre arts

Dates of Coverage:
2009 to present

Update Frequency:
approximately twice monthly

Size:
more than 200 hours
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Indexes doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers Master's Theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations going back to 1637. Nearly half of the records link to the full-text document.
Subject Coverage:
covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
Dates of Coverage:
1637 to present (for selected British and European dissertations)
1861 to present (for indexing of U.S. dissertations)
July 1980 to present (for dissertations with abstracts)
January 1988 to present (for Master's Theses with abstracts)
1997 to present (for the full-text of most dissertations)
2013 to present (for indexing and full-text of theses produced at Morehead State University)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 3,800,000 records
more than 1.700.000 full-text documents
eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Offers a large collection of mostly non-fiction e-books. The library's catalog contains records for all of these e-books. [Formerly known as NetLibrary]
Access to individual e-books is limited to 1 user at a time.
Subject Coverage:
scholarly monographs, reference titles, computer manuals, and other non-fiction
Dates of Coverage:
2001 to present
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 125,000 e-books

Restrictions:
Access to individual e-books is limited to 1 user at a time.

Note:
An e-book may be viewed for any period of time but will automatically check itself back in after 15 minutes of inactivity. "Activity" is defined as traffic between the PC and the server. Using the scroll bar to move down the page is not activity. Clicking into a new page is activity.
Learning Express Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides practice tests and test preparation guides for many of the most common standardized tests. It also offers courses, e-books, and practice tests for improving basic skills along with job search and career development.
Subject Coverage:
business writing, citizenship, cover letters, interviewing, job search, resumes, skills improvement, and test preparation
Dates of Coverage:
most recent materials available
Update Frequency:
regularly
Size:
more than 1,000 tests and tutorials
more than 200 e-books
OAIster This link opens in a new window
Provides access to digital resources that are often hidden from search engines (aka "the deep web"). It harvests their descriptive metadata using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Oxford English Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window
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Widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world, tracing the evolution and use of words. This is the only English dictionary that aims to trace the first recorded use of every sense of every word, to show when it entered the language. Also included in OED Online is the Historical Thesaurus which groups senses and words in the OED according to their subject, and orders them by date of first use. It functions as a taxonomic index of language history.
Subject Coverage:
English language etymology - covers British, American, and other varieties of English, and all types of usage from formal to slang

Dates of Coverage:
over 1000 years of English

Update Frequency:
four times a year with thousands of new and revised meanings

Size:
600,000 words
3.5 million quotations

E-Journals

E-Journals for Creative Writing

E-Journals for Linguistics

E-Journals for Literature

[A to Z list for all online journals]

Selected E-Book Encyclopedias

The Oxford English Dictionary Online The OED is the ultimate authority on the usage and meaning of English words and phrases.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, The Considered to be the most authoritative reference work for literary theory and criticism.
ISBN: 0801880106
Atlas of North American English - 2006 Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change
ISBN: 9783110167467
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics - 2006 Considered to be the most authoritative reference work for the discipline of linguistics.
ISBN: 9780080448541
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric - 2001 Brings together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion.
ISBN: 9780195125955 eISBN: 9780195188448
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics - 2003 Encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
ISBN: 9780195139778 eISBN: 9780195307450

Browse

Browse for books in the following Dewey numbers.

410     Linguistics
800     Literature & rhetoric
810     American literature in English
820     English & Old English literatures

Search for books in other libraries

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Is a worldwide online union catalog that offers bibliographic and holdings information for thousands of libraries. Each item in the database not held in the library at MSU can be easily obtained by using the 'Request it' button.
Subject Coverage:
covers countless subjects
Dates of Coverage:
1000 C.E. to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 548 million item records
more than 3.3 billion holdings records
Note:
It includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century as well as books cataloged yesterday. It would be a challenge to name a book that would not have a record in this database. Numerous journal articles are also available through WorldCat.

Streaming Video for English

Films on Demand - English & Language Arts
Is a collection of streaming video.
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Subject Coverage:
numerous subjects and disciplines are covered.
Dates of Coverage:
unknown

Update Frequency:
new titles are added individually (about 600 annually)

Size:
more than 1,400 titles

Notes:
Closed captioning is available for many of the titles using Windows Media Player and Flash Player.

Ambrose Digital Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
A package of 37 plays by Shakespeare produced in the 1980s by the BBC.
Subject Coverage:
Shakespeare's plays

Dates of Coverage:
not applicable

Update Frequency:
no updates

Size:
37 steaming video theatrical productions