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Librarian - Carol Scamman
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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
Arts and Humanities Search (First Search) covers articles in literature, language, art and the performing arts.
Literature Resource Center - LRC (Gale Cengage Learning) provides access to literary criticism on authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 120,000 writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors and works. It includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. It draws material from “Drama Criticism,” “Shakespearean Criticism,” “Short Story Criticism,” and other Gale literary series. Users can link to current, full-text critical essays on major authors from over 260 prominent literary journals. Merriam-Webster's "Encyclopedia of Literature" further enhances the LRC.
Literary Databases (Gale Cengage Learning) provides access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography in one database. It is a part of the LRC - with information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors, along with critical reactions to their works.
MLA Bibliography (Ebsco) provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide on literature and language topics.
LitFinder (Gale Cengage Learning) is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature, including full-text poems and excerpts, as well as short stories, essays, speeches, and plays. To aid understanding, there are basic critical explanations of some literary works.
PLAY Index (H.W. Wilson) lists more than 30,000 plays written in or translated into English published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present.
Databases for Advanced Research
WorldCat (FirstSearch) is a catalog of millions of books, audiovisuals and other materials owned by libraries worldwide. We can borrow books SFASU students and faculty identify.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) includes bibliographic citations for dissertations and theses worldwide from 1861 to the present with full text access available for the newer titles and abstracts available for the older titles.
The Hengwrt Chaucer (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, MS. Peniarth 392 D, hereafter Hg), is believed to be the earliest extant copy of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and has usually been dated soon after Chaucer's death in 1400. According to editor, Estelle Stubbs, this web version "contains colour images of each folio of the Hengwrt Chaucer which give all scholars the opportunity of examining the testimony of this manuscript at close quarters."
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509). These reproductions are edited, translated, and include introductory material.
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NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Scribner Writers Series includes signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from the Scribner print series.
Twayne's Authors Series contains the full text of 200 Twayne Literary Masters books on individual authors.
LitFinder (Gale Cengage Learning) is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature, including full-text poems and excerpts, as well as short stories, essays, speeches, and plays. To aid understanding, there are basic critical explanations of some literary works.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere:
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Encyclopedia of American Religions
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Writer's Directory 2005
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
A major site for students and teachers of English. Searchable, full-text of many classic works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are available including the Oxford Shakespeare. There are also important reference books, such as The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, quotation books, and The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Oxford Text Archive
The OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.
Online Books: Language and Literature
AwardWeb:
Science fiction awards, with some other literary awards.
Award Winners
A listing of 58 different book awards from Amazon.com. Nominees and past award winners are included. Awards can be browsed by award name and award categories. Free e-mail notification of newly announced awards is available.
Creative Writing
The Suburban Ecstasies
Seth Abramson’s blog includes his picks for the best MFA programs in Creative Writing, Application Response Times data for MFA creative writing programs, links to recent issues of literary journals, and poets online. He is a contributing writer to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: a Guide for Prospective Graduate Students (2nd ed.), 2009.
Poets & Writers
The publishers of Poets & Writers Magazine offer links to publication opportunities, conferences, workshops, and a database of literary magazines.
General Literature
The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
An extensive source of links to critical and biographical sites on hundreds of authors. In some cases free summaries of critical articles are provided, but the articles themselves must be purchased.
The Victorian Web
This is a portal to all things Victorian: literature, art, religion, philosophy, science, and more.
King Arthur
The Camelot Project
A collection of "Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information" at the University of Rochester.
Shakespeare
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This is a megasite with annotations for " . . . scholarly Shakespeare resources available on [the] Internet." It aims to present " . . . new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Style Guides
MLA Style Manual FAQs (The Modern Language Association of America)
The FAQ addresses some finer points of MLA citation, including citing web pages that don't have page numbers.
APA Style (The American Psychological Association)
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
