English Article Databases

Core Resources

Essay and General Literature Index (1985-Present ): Identify essays, articles, and chapters found within books. Find biographical and critical essays about famous people, authors, politicians, literary works, films, etc.
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What is it? Index to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Covers humanities and social sciences.

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Humanities Abstracts (1980-Present ): Find articles on topics in the humanities, including archaeology, classical studies, folklore, history, journalism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. Find literary and political criticism. Find book reviews.
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What is it? Abstracts for scholarly journal articles in the humanities. Covers archaeology, art, architecture, literature, history, music, philosophy and religion.

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Literature Criticism Online (1400-Present): Find literary criticism about a novel, poem, play or short story. Find an overview of an author's career. Get an author's bibliography.
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What is it? Scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Organized by time the criticism was published (1400-1800, 19th century, 20th century, Contemporary) or subject (Short Story, Shakespeare, Drama).

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MLA International Bibliography (1926-Present): Core resource for literary and linguistic research; find critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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What is it? Index to scholarly literature for language, literature, linguistics and related areas. Published by the Modern Language Association. MLA indexes articles, book chapters, working papers and proceedings.

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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-Present): Find authors that cited a particular paper. Track research by moving backward and forward in time through a specified discipline. Search Tutorial
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What is it? One of three databases included in Web of Science. It indexes scholarly journal articles in the arts and humanities.

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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1995-Present): Find scholarly articles about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700 AD). Find a discography of medieval music.
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What is it? Index to Middle Age and Renaissance articles, reviews, catalogs, abstracts and discographies.

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JSTOR (Coverage Varies): Search a full-text archive of multi-disciplinary scholarly journals.
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What is it? Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social sciences. Historical collection covering complete run of each journal from its inception to 1-5 years ago.

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Project MUSE (Coverage Varies): Search a selection of current humanities and social sciences ejournals.
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What is it? Journals published by major university presses, especially journals in the humanities and social sciences.

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