Research Guides: #English and Literature: Scholarly Research

Accessing the Databases

Access online library materials through the library databases!

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Databases for Literary Analysis

Bloom's Literature (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
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Essays and criticism examining the lives of great authors and their works throughout history.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources.
Twayne's Author Series (Gale Literature) This link opens in a new window
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Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
Literature Criticism Online (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
Includes Short Story Criticism: Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods.
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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. (pronounced jay-store)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database. Useful when main stream literary databases fail to yield results or literary analysis extends into other disciplines.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies, and other fields within the humanities and social sciences.

Databases for Current Issue Research

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Full-text, balanced, comprehensive journalistic reports and analysis of current and controversial issues of the day.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
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Provides topic overviews as well as collects a variety of sources, including statistics, reference materials, journal articles, news articles, images, and audio broadcasts.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. (pronounced jay-store)

Even More Databases:

Consider which disciplines apply to your specific topic when choosing your databases.

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