Journal Article and Literary Criticism Databases:

MLA Bibliography on Ebsco with linked full-text
A subject specific database for journals, books, and dissertations on topics in language and literature. As an international database, MLA includes citations for sources in many languages.

Scholarship on Southern Literature

The SSSL Bibliography is an annotated checklist of scholarship on writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) associated with the American South.

Communication and Mass Media Complete on Ebsco

Research and reference covering many areas of the communication field. Over 600 journals are indexed, with full text for almost half. Provides access to author profiles for thousands of important figures in the field.

Primary Literature:

African American Poetry -- 20th Century from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive -- Full-text.

African American Poetry -- 1750-1900 Collection from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive -- Full-text

American Poetry -- 20th Century from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive -- Full-text.

American Poetry -- 1600-1900 from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive -- Full-text.

English Poetry -- 20th Century from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive -- Full-text.

English Poetry -- 600-1900 from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive -- Full-text.

Shakespeare's Quartos from the British Library -- Full-text.
Full-text images of the original Quartos of Shakespeare's plays. This is the source that is used for the original copies of these plays.

English Language and Literature Reference:

Oxford Reference Online -- Full-text.

Author biography and brief criticism:

Critical Companion to Popular Fiction-- Full-text

Literature in Context -- descriptive analysis of fiction

Literary Criticism Search -- Descriptive information about an author

General Databases and Resources

Databases:

Arts and Humanities Search -- Abstracts only.
Article index database with scholarly titles in literature, history and religion.

Primary Sources:

New York Times Historical (1851-2001) -- Full-text.

An amazing unique primary resource, the Historical NYT provides full image of pages and individual articles. Use the "Advanced Search" to look for certain article types, editorials, cartoons, advertisements and photographs.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) on NCLive -- Full-text.

The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It includes some 300 biographies to enhance the use of the database.

Searching Other Collections:

Dissertation Abstracts on FirstSearch -- Abstracts only.
Abstract database to masters and doctoral dissertations.

WorldCat on FirstSearch via NCLive

The Online Union Book catalog with over 60 million book (other formats as well) and format records.

The Herman H. and Louise M. Smith Library

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Updated 03/12/2008