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English Language and Literature: Faculty Page

reference contact: Bruce Sajdak x2967

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BOOKS

Title Dates Content
Books in Print No limit
Lists most currently-available titles as well as many out of stock or out of print titles.
English Short-Title Catalogs
(CD-ROM available on computer at south end of Mair Room)

1473-1800

Bibliographic information and North American & British library locations; includes items in Pollard & Redgrave, Wing, Evans, ESTC, and more.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (CD-ROM available on computer at south end of Mair Room) 1801-1919 Bibliographical information and North American & British library locations.
WorldCat No limit
Holdings of U.S. & some foreign libraries.

INDEXES TO ESSAYS & ARTICLES

Title Dates Content
1919+
Oldest continuous index of books, essays, book reviews, articles, & dissertations in English language & literature, critical theory, folklore, and film. Some full-text articles.
1980+
Index to footnotes in twenty years of humanities periodical articles.
Chaucer Bibliography Online 1975+ Contains references to and summaries of Chaucer scholarship. Compiles bibliographies originally appearing in Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
1984+
Essays in book-length collections; most not covered in any other index.
1983+
Core journals in literature; some articles full-text online.
1864+ with many gaps
The only online index devoted entirely to the performing arts; this has a growing number of 19th century articles.
1963+
The standard source for locating books, essays, articles, & dissertations in modern languages, literatures, literary criticism, folklore, and film.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile 1802-1907 Standard index to 19th century popular periodicals. Some full-text articles.
1770-1990 with many gaps
Only contains tables of contents - but the only easily-searchable index to late 18th, 19th, & early 20th century periodicals.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals: AI 3 .W45 1999 (CD-ROM & Guide on Reserve, load on computer at south end of Mair Room)
1824-1900
Fully searchable tables of contents for major Victorian literary journals.
1972+
Compilation of the annual bibliographies from Shakespeare Quarterly.

FULL-TEXT JOURNALS & ARTICLES

Title Dates Content
J-STOR Back Issues only
170 titles including Callalo, ELH, MLN, Shakespeare Quarterly, and others from beginning up to about 3 years ago.
Project Muse

Recent Issues
(3-5 years)

Current issues of over 100 titles - ELH, MLN, MLQ, SEL, and other scholarly titles.

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

Title Dates Content
Brown Univeristy Women Writers Project 1400-1850
Full electronic texts of women writer's works; also fully searchable by words in texts.
LION - Literature Online

No limit

Very large collection of online primary texts.

DICTIONARIES

Title Dates Content
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language 1755 & 1773
Search the 1st and 4th editions displaying either a transcript or facsimile of the original. (CD-ROM on computer at south end of Mair Room)
Oxford English Dictionary

No limit

Includes all words in printed volumes plus any recent additions to the database; search not only definitions but words appearing in quotations throughout the dictionary.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Bruce Sajdak, the instructor for your library session: bsajdak@smith.edu

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