Literature & Writing

MLA Bibliography

The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current.

American Periodical Series Online (APS)

Provides digitized images of "over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals."  Includes titles such as Ladies Home Journal, Vanity Fair, The Dial, Puck, McClure's, New England Magazine and more.

Literature Resource Center

Contains critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes over 200 full-text journals, biographies, bibliographies, reference works, and the full-text of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Results are displayed under different tabs, rather than in one list.

JSTOR

Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years.

Project Muse

Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present.

PCI: Periodicals Contents Index

Indexes the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.  Some records include links to full-text in Periodicals Archive Online. Dates of coverage vary, but some publications go back before the 1900's.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current.

Periodicals Archive Online

Searchable archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 - 2000.  Our customized package includes a liberal arts collection and is searchable with the British Periodicals I collection.  Formerly called PCI Full-text.

Oxford English Dictionary

Full-text of the complete work. Include in-depth etymologies of words.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Complimentary online subscription to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--ending November 5, 2005. (Also available in paper format Ref CT773 .D4 2004) 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

Indexes journals, books, and reports on Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Hispanics in the U.S. Covers the humanities and social sciences. 1970-currrent.

Women Writers Online

A collection of over 200 texts dating from the 16th to the 19th century which are important examples of early women's writing.

AfricaBib

AfricaBib.org provides access to multiple databases, including:

• Bibliography of Africana
• Periodical Literature Database
• African Women's Bibliographic Database
• African Studies Abstracts
• DISA - Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990

American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies (ABSEES)

Indexes U.S. and Canadian journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. All subjects. 1990 - present. Available in print, Starr Library Index Area DR10 .A1 A65, 1956 - 1994.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

Indexes western language publications on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. All subjects. 1971 - present online. 1941 - 1991 available in print. Reference DS5 .A1

Dissertation Abstracts

Index with abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations and masters' theses published from 1851 to current. These have to be borrowed via InterLibrary Loan or purchased.  See a librarian if you need help.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Expanded Academic ASAP is an interdisciplinary article index that indexes journal and magazine articles (both scholarly and popular) in all subject areas. Includes some full-text. 1980-present. Click here for a guide to Expanded Academic ASAP.

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

Indexes journals, books, documents, and reports on Latin America and Mexico. Covers the humanities and social sciences. 1935-currrent. ESPAÑOL version PORTUGUESE version

World Shakespeare Bibliography (Print Only)

Annual supplement to the Shakespeare Quarterly, located in the periodicals section. 1950 - current.