Credo Reference helps you start your research in American literature with reference guides to historical and contemporary US authors, their times, and their works.
Credo Reference helps you start your research in British literature with reference guides to historical and contemporary UK authors, their times, and their works.
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) database is a powerful tool that allows researchers to search for English Literature- related peer-reviewed articles, essays that appear in books as chapters, and the books themselves that collect these essay chapters. The MLAIB database can be easily accessed by clicking on Articles & Databases on the e-Library home page, and then selecting "M" from the horizontal alphabetic menu. Or click on the link below.
Gale Literature Criticism gives full-text article access to everything in, but not limited to, the following Gale print reference book series. Currently, it's recommended that users perform their search by using the "Discover New Ideas" search box towards the upper middle of the screen rather than engaging with one of the two options underneath. This database provides access to the complete run of each of the following series, all of which contain a tremendous collection of essays on authors and specific works.
You can do a search on the title or author of a literary work and retrieve a list of citations with links to full-text, as well as a way to limit search results by using the left-hand menu.
JSTOR is an excellent resource for finding articles published in archival and recent issues in scholarly journals. In 2015, JSTOR will be adding the contents of current issues of journals as well. Some electronic books are also available. JSTOR and MLA have a giant overlap, but there is much miore full-text material available via the former.
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