Selected Resources for: English and American Literature
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Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *MLA International Bibliography   Indexes scholarship on English and American Literature, folklore, language and linguistics, and dramatic arts. Covers over 4,400 periodicals published worldwide in all languages, as well as critical monographs, reference works, conference proceedings, and abstracts of dissertations. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) AHCI covers arts and humanities, including archaeology, architecture, area studies, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language and linguistics, literature and literary reviews, music, philosophy, poetry, radio and television, religion and theology, and theater. Indexes articles, book reviews, performance reviews, fiction, poetry, editorials, letters, etc. "It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| JSTOR Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Victorian Database Online This database covers the British Victorian period, from about 1830 to the beginning the War in 1914. It is interdisciplinary, containing information on publications from 500+ journals on painting, architecture and music, philosophy and religion, histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the British colonial empire, sociology, women's studies, law and education, science, technology and medicine, and literature. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online An index to poems in anthologies. It includes 250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author categories. Also provides biographical entries, bibliographies, anthology descriptors and fulltext versions of poems in the public domain. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Essay and General Literature Index Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LitFINDER LitFINDER provides either the full text or a citation to a print source in which to read any of 125,000 poems, 5000 stories, 2800 essays, 1000 plays, and 1800 speeches, with new material added regularly. You can search by many ways, including author, subjects, nationality, and time period. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Poem Finder Covers poetry from antiquity to the present; it contains 500,000 citations for poems by 70,000 authors from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author collections, and 4,000 periodicals. Contains the full text of some poems online. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Bibliographies| World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Cumulating the annual bibliographies in Shakespeare Quarterly, this database lists books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1964 and early 2005. The scope is international, including more than 118 languages from around the world. The 102,200 records also cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings. Search by author, title, subject, keyword, phrase, date, language, publisher, and/or periodical title. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources| Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Contemporary Authors A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 100,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. Please note: our license only allows for one simultaneous user. If you are denied access please try again later. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography A valuable resource providing background information on important literary figures.Use the index in the latest volume. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Directories
| On-Line Books Page, The A directory of thousands of online books that can be read freely on the internet. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Benét's reader's Encyclopedia, 4th ed., 1996 Covers literary terms, authors, characters, works, and important events internationally [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Handbook to Literature, 6th ed., 1992 Brief explanations of literary concepts, terms; outline of literary history [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, The The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism provides 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography with extensive cross-referencing with hyperlinks. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Reference Online This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Oxford Companion to American Literature Entries for authors, works, literary schools and movements, literary awards, literary societies, scholarly organizations, anthologies, newspapers and magazines, book collectors, printers, etc. For online version, use the Oxford Reference Online listed below. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Companion to English Literature Entries for literary authors, works, critics, terminology, nonliterary figures, and important periodicals. For online version, use Oxford Reference Online listed below. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Reference Guide for English Studies Comprehensive guide to primary, secondary, and reference sources [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Literary Authors
| Literature Criticism Online Digital Archive This product includes ten core literature reference series (Contemporary Literary Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Mediaeval Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review). Each CIC institution holds print copies of most of these series, and most libraries hold annual subscriptions allowing electronic access to newly published material. The content is targeted to support undergraduates, and the CIC agreement includes access for the campuses in Duluth, Morris and Crookston. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites| English Server Gateway to many Internet resources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection, The Directs you to websites for criticism and biographical information about writers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Literary Resources on the Net A collection of links to web sites dealing with all aspects of literature--especially English and American. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Primary Source Materials
Historical Documents| Full Text Resources for English and American Literary Studies The collections of literary texts owned or leased by the University Libraries provide online access to thousands of literary texts. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
| Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
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