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.
- 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.
- General 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.
- MLA Directory of Periodicals Index only EBSCO
- Offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
- MLA International Bibliography Index only EBSCO
- Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Additional Resources
- MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.
- MAS Ultra - School Edition Full Text EBSCO
- Full text for over 550 general interest publications, some back to 1975.
- Oxford Companion to Shakespeare Full Text Oxford University Press
- Guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems.
- 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.
- Academic Search Complete Full Text EBSCO
- Multi-disciplinary full text database that contains more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- ARTstor Image ARTstor
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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
- 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
- Dictionary of English Idioms Full Text Oxford University Press
- Contains entries for over 6,000 idioms, including 700 entirely new entries, based on Oxford's language monitoring and the ongoing third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
- Dissertations & Theses @ Cardinal Stritch University Index only ProQuest
- Search Cardinal Stritch University doctoral dissertations and Master theses. Includes abstracts.
- 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.
- Humanities International Complete Full Text EBSCO
- Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around 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.
- Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang Full Text Oxford University Press
- Authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.
- 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.
- Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins Full Text Oxford University Press
- Describes the origins and development of over 3,000 words and phrases in the English language.
- Oxford Reference Online: Literature Full Text Oxford University Press
- Several companions to various forms of literature.
- SAGE Premium Publications Online Full Text Sage
- Search full text journals in the fields of business, humanities, social science, science, and technology.