English and Literature Databases

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Literary Reference Center Full Text EBSCO
Literary reference from antiquity to the present. Detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
Literary Index Index only Thomson Gale
Indexes literature publications from Gale Thomson such as Short Story Criticism and Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. References over 152,000 authors and 202,000 of their works.
Academic OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources covering physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.
Academic Search Elite Full Text EBSCO
Indexes over 3,400 journals including full text for over 2,000. Some publications back to 1985. Multi-disciplinary including the social sciences, humanities, sciences, education, and more.
Expanded Academic ASAP Full Text Thomson Gale
Indexes over 3,880 publications on a wide range of topics including full text for over 3,500, some from 1980.
InfoTrac OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale
Indexes over 9,200 titles including full text for over 5,156. Some titles back to 1980. Multidisciplinary and updated daily.
JSTOR Full Text JSTOR
For older articles. Contains back runs of core scholarly journals, some as far back as 1890. Does not include more recent issues.
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Full Text Oxford University Press
Explanations and definitions to literary terms
Oxford English Dictionaries and Thesauruses Full Text Oxford University Press
Several different versions of Oxford's dictionaries and thesauruses.
Oxford English Language Reference Full Text Oxford University Press
Dictionaries and guides to English grammar and usage.
Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction Full Text Oxford University Press
Shows the development of science-fiction words and their associated concepts over time, with full citations and bibliographic information.

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MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO
Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.
MAS Ultra Full Text EBSCO
Full text for over 550 general interest publications, some back to 1975.
Books in Print Full Text Bowker's
Online catalog of over 5 million books, audio books, and video titles.
Dissertation abstracts Index only OCLC - FirstSearch
Indexes over two million doctoral dissertations and master's theses as far back 1861.
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare Full Text Oxford University Press
Guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems.
Dissertations & Theses @ Cardinal Stritch University Index only ProQuest
Search Cardinal Stritch University doctoral dissertations and Master theses. Includes abstracts.
Oxford Reference Online: Literature Full Text Oxford University Press
Several companions to various forms of literature.
Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Full Text Oxford University Press
Covers world fiction, historical context, writers, works, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics Full Text Oxford University Press
Covers every aspect of this multidisciplinary field, including sociolinguistics, language theory and history, language families, and major languages from all over the world
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations Full Text Oxford University Press
Offers a vivid picture both of the world today, and of the landmark events and key voices leading to it since 1900.
SAGE Premium Publications Online Full Text Sage
Search full text journals in the fields of business, humanities, social science, science, and technology.
ARTstor Image ARTstor

Digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. Interdisciplinary guides



Dissertations and Theses - Full text Full Text ProQuest
Includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.