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Databases

  • Academic OneFile (Gale InfoTrac) Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Updated daily.
  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale InfoTrac) Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
  • Christian Periodical Index (EBSCOhost) Provides access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical perspective or of interest to the evangelical community. The index includes more than 140 selected publications from a broad spectrum of knowledge — science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education.
  • Credo Reference Digital Library (Credo Reference) Provides facts, words, concepts, people, statistics & more.
  • ELH ELH publishes superior studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. We currently have electronic access thru 2008, but as of January 1, 2015 we will have access from 1934-present.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale InfoTrac) This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines with scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Full-Text and Images.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale InfoTrac) Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • General Reference Center Gold (Gale InfoTrac) A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources – newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.
  • Gender Studies Collection This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
  • JSTOR (JSTOR) Includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Overall, there are 119 titles in twenty-one disciplines.
  • The Lion and the Unicorn The Lion and the Unicorn, an international theme- and genre-centered journal, is committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children. Electronic access from 1977-present.
  • Literature Resource Center (Gale InfoTrac) Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
  • Modern Fiction Studies MFS publishes theoretically engaged and historically informed articles on modernist and contemporary fiction. Electronic access from 1985-present.
  • OmniFile Full Text Select (Ebsco) Contains articles in science, humanities, education and business. Full-Text.
  • Oxford English Dictionary Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
  • PMLA PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Full text is available from 2002-present.
  • Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare Quarterly is a refereed journal committed to publishing articles in the vanguard of Shakespeare studies. We have this title now electronically from 1950-present.

Internet Resources

  • A Celebration of Women Writers – This website is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library system online and is a reading guide that focuses specifically on women writers. It represents a directory of Internet resources with links to biographical and bibliographical information on women writers throughout history.
  • The Chicago Homer – The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. Except for fragments, it contains all the texts of these poems in the original Greek.
  • Emily Dickinson Archive – Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.
  • Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Folder – Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library houses the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare materials and major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art. The library has made many of their podcasts, videos, recordings, music, and audio tours freely available to the public.
  • Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection – This database offers access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art. Users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct persistent URLs linking back to items or searches.
  • Google Books and Project Gutenberg – Full-text, searchable versions of many out-of-copyright books.
  • Historical Literary Criticism (ProQuest) – A collection of over 20,000 historical contemporary reviews, essays and commentary related to more than 500 influential authors from the 17th to the early 20th century. The content comes from a range of sources such as contemporary periodicals as well as published and unpublished letters.
  • Literary History – Literaryhistory.com is a free, public service reference site for online literary criticism. Its purpose is to review open-access literary criticism and recommend the credible material.
  • Outline of American Literature – This e-book traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation.
  • OWL at Purdue – The OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University houses a great deal of information on English grammar rules, subject specific writing guidelines and tips, as well as proper APA/MLA/Chicago Style citation information.
  • Poets.org – Founded in 1934, the Academy of American Poets works to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The Poets & Poetry section has links to information about poets, audio and video clips, podcasts, poems, essays, and reading recommendations. (Also see The Poetry Archive for audio recordings.)
  • Voice of the Shuttle – This website provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources in the humanities.

Associated Professional Organizations

  • Association of Departments of English (ADE) – The ADE is a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) that specifically focuses on departments of English, writing programs, and divisions of humanities.
  • Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) – The AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.
  • Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)- The CCCC is an organization that supports and promotes the teaching and study of college composition and communication.
  • H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online – H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA) – The LSA exists to advance the scientific study of language. LSA plays a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional linguists and to the general public.
  • Modern Language Association (MLA) – MLA provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy.
  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) – The NCTE is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.
  • Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) – The SCMS is the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and teaching grounded in the contemporary humanities tradition.