Databases

Academic OneFile
This database provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study with over 500 journals related to literature.

Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge is a full text database which includes prominent journals about language, linguistics, and Victorian as well as other areas of literature.

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
A rich compilation of the world’s best remembered and most often taught poems and poets. Of
the 450,000 citations almost half contain the full text and many in their original language.  Audio
is included for some 100 poems as well.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
CMMC contains full text journals in the subject areas of journalism, rhetoric, linguistics, and literature. In addition, the database contains over 3,000 author profiles of scholars whose articles are included within the database.

International Medieval Bibliography
An interdisciplinary index of people and works from the medieval time frame of A.D. 400 to A.D. 1500 in the geographical locations of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

JSTOR
A full-text archival database providing access to 88 journals in the fields of the language, literature, and folklore.

Literature Resource Center
LRC provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors and works from every age and literary discipline including novelists, poets, playwrights, and screenwriters.

MLA Bibliography
This database indexes literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from 4,400 journals and series worldwide.

Oxford Reference Online
Online collection of Oxford Reference resources including dictionaries and companions to many literary subjects.

Web resources

Bartleby.com
Literary site with access to reference sources like Bartlett’s Quotations and older classics in fiction, non-fiction and verse.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
Links to critical and biographical sites for various authors and their works

Literary Resources on the Net
Maintained by Rutgers’, Jack Lynch, this is a collection of scholarly resources in English and American literature useful to academics.

MIT Literature Resources
Web resources devoted to English and American literatures and maintained by MIT

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
An annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet maintained by Terry Gray at Palomar Community College

Project Gutenberg
Electronic copies of many literary works and some sheet music in the public domain

Representative Poetry Online Project
From the University of Toronto, good poetry resources and an especially strong glossary of poetic terms

Voice of the Shuttle
Excellent gateway for scholarly English Literature resources maintained by Alan Liu, Professor of English University of California at Santa Barbara along with his development team

Writing and Research

Doing a Literature Review
A tutorial sponsored by Adelphi University on how to conduct a literature review in a discipline within the social sciences

Evaluating Scholarly Content Online
Tutorial sponsored by UC California at Berkeley identifying the distinctives of scholarly information

Online citation style guide
All major style guide citation samples are shown

OWL – Online Writing Lab
Sponsored by Purdue University - online reference for scholarly writing

Dictionaries

Cambridge dictionary of American idioms

Cambridge guide to English usage

Facts on file dictionary of classical and biblical allusions

Facts on file dictionary of clichés

Oxford American writer’s thesaurus

Oxford dictionary of quotations (e-book)

Oxford english dictionary (OED)

Shorter Oxford English dictionary (Shorter OED)

The New Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English

Twentieth century literary movements dictionary

Encyclopedias

Cyclopedia of literary characters

Cyclopedia of world authors

Encyclopedia of American poetry

Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century

Facts on file encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism

Oxford chronology of English literature

Oxford encyclopedia of American literature

Oxford encyclopedia of children’s literature

Reference guide to world literature

Something about the author

World literature and its times

World poets

Style guides

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

MLA handbook for writer’s of research papers

Gregg reference manual

Chicago manual of style

Market guides

Christian writer’s market guide

Literary market place

Novel and short story writer’s market

Poet’s market

Writer’s market

Professional organizations

Academy of American Poets
An organization dedicated to the support of poets at all stages of their careers

American Comparative Literature Association
A scholarly organization created to support cross-cultural literature and its study

American Folklore Society
Association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world

American Humor Studies Association
The association goal is to foster and to promote study, criticism, and research in American humor

American Literature Association
An association created to support scholars in their study of individual authors

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Dedicated to supporting the professional development and skills of teachers of technical writing

Children’s Literature Association
The association is to encourage high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children's literature

Modern Language Association
MLA is dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. 

National Council of Teachers of English
Dedicating to the advancement of teaching, research, and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels.

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Authors

Authorship

Authors and Publishers

Bibliography

Black Authors

Book Reviews

Children’s Literature

Christian Literature

Classical Literature

Creative Writing

Criticism -- 28 Related Subjects

Dramatists

English Language – Rhetoric

Epic Literature

Folklore

Humor

Journalists

Literature

Literature - Comparative

Novelists

Plagiarism

Poetry

Poets

Publishing

Quotations

Religion and Literature

Screenwriters

Shakespeare

Style, Literary

Technical Writing

Writing

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Google Search: Literature & Writing

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.

Shakespeare Searched is a search engine from Clusty that provides quick access to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.  Search by topic, work, or character.