Start out with:
| MLA International Bibliography |
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Type of Resource: Index, with e-Link full-text access for selected articles
Coverage: 1926 onwards; updated 9 times a year
For the areas of literature, linguistics, language, and folklore, provides international listings of journal articles, book articles, books, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. |
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| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature: ABELL |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text access to more than 190 journals
Coverage: 1920 onwards
For the areas of English literature, English language, and English philology, covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. All aspects and periods of English literature are covered, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. British, American and Commonwealth writing are all represented. Coverage is international, including material in languages other than English. |
 Researchers who wish to be thorough should consult BOTH of the above resources.
Other Significant Resources
for English & American Literature
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| Book Review Digest Plus |
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Type of Resource: Index with excerpts; includes full text for many reviews
Coverage: 1983 onwards
Book Review Digest Plus brings together the data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. |
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| Humanities Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text for selected titles beginning 1995
Coverage: 1984 onwards; updated monthly
Provides listings, brief summaries, and in some cases full text, of articles in a wide variety of humanities fields, including: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Types of articles covered include: feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. |
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| Readers Guide Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text for many titles beginning 1994
Coverage: 1983 to the present
Provides listings, brief summaries, and in some cases full text, for articles from popular and general-interest periodicals. Coverage includes literary works published in those periodicals (short stories, poetry, etc.). |
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| Readers Guide Retrospective |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: 1890-1982
Provides listings of articles in popular and general-interest periodicals. Coverage includes literary works published in those periodicals (short stories, poetry, etc.). |
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| TLS, The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive |
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Type of Resource: Full text and full page image
Coverage: 1902-[1994, when complete]
A full-text and full-page-image online edition of The Times Literary Supplement beginning with its inception in 1902.
NOTE: for listings of articles appearing in TLS subsequent to 1994, see Humanities Full Text. |
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| Victorian Database Online |
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Searches over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to the present on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. |
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Branching out in Your Research
Depending on the nature of your English and/or American literature research, there is a wide range of additional resources that may be useful to you.
In order to assist you in branching out in your research, some of the core databases in various disciplinary areas are listed below. For help in identifying further resources, consult the appropriate LWEB Subject Guide.
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| America: History and Life |
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Type of Resource: Index, with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: 1955 onwards, updated monthly
Covers writings about the history and culture of United States and Canada from prehistory through the recent past. Provides listings for journal articles, book articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations, along with brief summaries of journal and book articles. Also provides links to full text for selected journal articles. |
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| Art Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full-text for selected titles beginning 1997
Coverage: 1984 onwards; updated monthly
Indexes art periodicals in English and other Western European languages. Subjects covered include: archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. |
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| ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS |
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Type of Resource: Index, featuring full text for selected items
Coverage: Religion Index 1 - Periodicals, 1949-present; Religion Index 2 - Multi-author works, 1960-present; Research in Ministry, 1981-present; Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-present; Methodist Reviews Index, 1818-1985.
An international index of religion and theology journals, festschriften, and essay collections, with some links to full-text articles. |
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| Historical Abstracts |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; and with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: 1954 onwards
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), as represented in more than 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Provides listings for journal articles, book articles, books, and dissertations. |
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| FIAF International Filmarchive Database |
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Type of Resource: Index
Contains: International index to film periodicals, 1972- ; International index to television periodicals, 1979- ; List of periodicals indexed; Treasures from the film archives; International directory of film and TV documentation collections; and Bibliography of FIAF members' publications. |
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| International Medieval Bibliography Online |
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Type of Resource: Index
Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location. |
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| The Music Index |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: 1978 onward
Covers topics in "every aspect of classical and popular" music as reflected in more than 670 international music periodicals. |
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| The Royal Historical Society Bibliography |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; and with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: items published 1900 onwards (with some pre-1901 publications), updated 3 times a year
Provides listings of historical writings "dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present." It "aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for publications since 1900." Includes books, articles in journals and collective volumes, and review articles. Now includes data from Irish History Online and London's Past Online. The database as a whole contains listings for over 387,000 items. |
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| Social Sciences Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index with abstracts; full text for selected titles 1995 onwards
Coverage: 1980 onwards
Provides listings of, or access to, articles from a wide range of social sciences journals. Subjects covered include: "Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies."
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