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Articles & Databases
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Citations to and full text of over 8,500 journals and magazines, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Covers a wide range of academic subjects including the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, and more.
- What dates are covered? Coverage varies, but generally covers the mid 1990s - present. Updated daily.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Indexing of nearly 1,200 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, including magazines and scholarly journals.
- What dates are covered? 1907-1984.
- ITER Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
- What dates are covered? 400 AD - 1700 AD.
- Gale Literature Criticism (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Online database of literary criticism. Currently provides online access to Contemporary Literary Criticism vols. 1-421 and Short Story Criticism vols. 1-250 (through 2018).
- Gale Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Includes work overviews, plot summaries, and explications.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Guide to scholarship on language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. International in scope, the MLA Bibliography covers scholarly publications including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. Full text for more than 1,000 journals.
- What dates are covered? Early 20th century - Present.
- Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Contains bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories from the Short Story Index.
- What dates are covered? 1915 - 1983.
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Created & revised by
rev. Jim Kinnie, 10/09, 8/10
rev. Sara Deignan, 3/14; J Kinnie, 7/18
rev. Julia Horwitz 7/23