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Databases
JSTOR
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Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
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Literature Resource Center
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Literature Resource Center (LRC) provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. A significant amount of New Zealand content is included.
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Literature Resource Center (LRC) provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. A significant amount of New Zealand content is included.
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MLA International Bibliography
Coverage: 1926 to present (Index)
Produced by the Modern Language Association. Provides access to scholarly research in over 7,000 journals and series as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies etc in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Coverage: 1926 to present (Index)
Produced by the Modern Language Association. Provides access to scholarly research in over 7,000 journals and series as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies etc in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Coverage: 400BC-2004 (Full text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2004. Excludes living people.
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Coverage: 400BC-2004 (Full text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2004. Excludes living people.
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Project Muse
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Includes over 300 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Includes over 300 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Dictionaries
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (18th ed.)
Contains entries on the meaning and origin of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags.
Contains entries on the meaning and origin of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags.
Collins English Dictionary
The 21st Century Edition of the Collins English Dictionary provides comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date coverage of today's English.
The 21st Century Edition of the Collins English Dictionary provides comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date coverage of today's English.
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms.
Extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The meaning, history and pronunciation of over 500,000 words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world. Includes the usage of words, etymological analysis, and variant spellings. Shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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The meaning, history and pronunciation of over 500,000 words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world. Includes the usage of words, etymological analysis, and variant spellings. Shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Encyclopedias
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
A comprehensive encyclopedia of English and American literature derived from individual print editions of The Cambridge History of English literature and The Cambridge History of American literature, published between 1907 and 1921.
A comprehensive encyclopedia of English and American literature derived from individual print editions of The Cambridge History of English literature and The Cambridge History of American literature, published between 1907 and 1921.
Websites
Classic Authors: Great Literature Online
Provides access to many of the works of classic authors and also links to appropriate Web resources.
Provides access to many of the works of classic authors and also links to appropriate Web resources.
English Literature on the Web
Covers Medieval, Renaissance 18th Century, 19th Century and 20th Century English literature.
Covers Medieval, Renaissance 18th Century, 19th Century and 20th Century English literature.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Provides scholarly, fully-annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.
Provides scholarly, fully-annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.
Intute: English
Compiled by UK University subject specialists, this web site offers the best web resources for research and study.
Compiled by UK University subject specialists, this web site offers the best web resources for research and study.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
This site has individual pages on over 430 American authors, listing of primary works, brief biographies, selected bibliographies and links to other relevant Web resources.
This site has individual pages on over 430 American authors, listing of primary works, brief biographies, selected bibliographies and links to other relevant Web resources.
