Library Guides: English, Literature, and Linguistics: Article Databases

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
The complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition OED. Quarterly updates of the in-progress third edition. Entries include etymology, usage quotes, and date charts.

English Composition
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JSTOR
Core academic journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.
Note: Funded by the Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
Project MUSE
Full text journals and books in the humanities and social sciences from several university presses and scholarly societies. 1993- present for some titles.
Note: Funded by the Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
MLA International Bibliography
Over one million citations to books, scholarly journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies from languages, literatures, linguistics and folklore. 1926 - present.
Literature Online (LION)
A database for the study and teaching of literature in English. Includes thousands of literary works with a library of criticism and reference resources.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
A&HCI covers over 1,700 core journals plus selected articles from social science and scientific publications that are relevant to arts and humanities topics, including archaeology, architecture, music, dance, poetry, folklore, and more.

Bibliography Of American Literature
Detailed descriptions of the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. More than 37,000 works are listed, essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Gale Literature (formerly Gale Literary Sources)
Integrates full-text literary content with metadata and subject indexing and provides workflow tools to analyze information. Users can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres.
Note: Currently, Gale Literature includes Literature Criticism Online.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

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