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| ARTICLES | | |  Help Finding Articles | | |  Journal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals. | | | Scholarly Articles | | | ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) - 1920 to present - Full Text
Contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations. ABELL now includes links to the full text of 61 journals. | | | Humanities Abstracts - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs from over 465 sources in the humanities. | | | Humanities International Index
Includes data from American Humanities Index plus international journals, books and reference works. Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. | | | JSTOR - Full Text
Complete full text backfiles of over 400 scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, General Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, and Music excluding the most recent 2 to 5 years. | | | Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts - 1973 to present
Covers phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics, providing abstracts of journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, & book reviews. | | | MLA Bibliography - 1926 to present - Help
Indexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, includes 1,200,000+ records. | | | Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] - 1965 to present - Full Text
Full-text and indexing for over 4,500 scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more. | | | Arts & Humanities Search - 1980 to present
Indexes 1,300 journals covering all arts and humanities disciplines. The database of almost 2.1 million records includes materials published from 1980 to the present as well as older material cited in these publications. Updated weekly. | | | British Periodicals Collection - 1680s to 1930s - Full Text
Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. | | | Chaucer Bibliography Online (University of Texas San Antonio) - 1975 to present
Annotates scholarly publications originally in the bibliographies from Studies in the Age of Chaucer. | | | Essay and General Literature Index - 1985 to present
Indexes essays and articles published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
| | | Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - 1990 to present
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
| | | Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective - 1907-1984
Indexes nearly 1,200 English-language scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; also includes citations to book reviews. | | | International Index to the Performing Arts
Indexes more than 210 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. | | | Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) - 1802 to 1995 - Full Text
Full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. For complete indexing use the Periodicals Index Online. | | | Periodicals Index Online (PIO) - 1665-1995
Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Full text of selected titles can be found in the Periodicals Archive Online database. | | | Project Muse - Current issues - Full Text
Access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. | | | World Shakespeare Bibliography - 1972 to present
Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. | | | Popular Articles | | | American Periodical Series (APS) - 1740 - 1900 - Full Text
More than 1,000 titles including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal. | | | British Periodicals Collection - 1680s to 1930s - Full Text
Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. | | | Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) - 1802 to 1995 - Full Text
Full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. For complete indexing use the Periodicals Index Online. | | | Periodicals Index Online (PIO) - 1665-1995
Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Full text of selected titles can be found in the Periodicals Archive Online database. | |
| BOOKS AND MEDIA | | | Help Finding Books | | | BBC Television Shakespeare
Streaming video; BBC production of every play in the Shakespeare canon. | | | Theatre in Video
Streaming video of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with film documentaries. Users can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. | | | Google Books - Full Text
Indexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. Printing and downloading are not available. | | | Moodle/E-Reserves
Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more. | | | Naxos Spoken Word Library
Streaming audio for literature, poetry, abridged versions of classic texts and non-fiction. | | | Library Catalogs | | | Five College Library Catalog - Help
Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst. | | | WorldCat - all dates
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records. | | | English Short Title Catalog - 1473 - 1800
Lists books published in Britain and North America. For selected full-text of items published pre-1700 in Britain, see Early English Books Online; for selected full-text of items published pre-1800 in America, see Early American Imprints.
| | | LibDex
Link to other libraries' Web-based catalogs, listed by country. | | | Book Purchases and Reviews | | | Book Review Digest - 1983 to present
Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books from periodicals published in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication.
| | | Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - 1902-1990. MLIN - Full Text
More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available. | | | Times Literary Supplement Subscriber Archive - 1994 to present - Full Text
Access to articles from every issue of the TLS from 1994. (Issues are added to the Archive one week after publication). | |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | | | Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text
Includes almost 300 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion. | | | Cambridge Collections Online - Full Text
Online version of the Cambridge Companions; offers introductions to major writers, artists, topics and periods within the fields of literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture. | | | Literary Reference Center [EBSCO] - MLIN - Full Text
Draws information from books, journals, major literary encyclopedias & reference works, plus other unique sources on literary authors and their works, from antiquity to the present day. | | | Oxford Companion to American Literature [Oxford] | | | Oxford Companion to English Literature [Oxford] | | | Addresses, Phone Numbers, Etc. | | | MLA Directory of Periodicals | | | Poets & Writers Directory | | | Biographical Sources | | | American National Biography - Full Text
Reliable scholarly biographies of major figures in American history. | | | Biography Resource Center - MLIN - Full Text
Draws from a variety of biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as magazines. | | | Dictionary of National Biography - Full Text
The second edition of the renowned dictionary, with an illustrated collection of 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. | | | Dictionaries | | | American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition | | | English Usage
Use this site to determine how words should be used when you write. You can search for individual words. | | | Oxford English Dictionary - Current - Full Text
Contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). | | | Oxford Reference Online
See dictionaries under "English Dictionaries & Thesauruses" and "English Language Reference". | | | Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition | | | Conjugate Old English Verbs | | | Middle English Compendium - Full Text
Contains the Middle English Dictionary, the HyperBibliography of Middle English (listing the materials cited in the MED), and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (a collection of e-texts). Also offers links to associated electronic sources. | | | Dissertations and Theses | | | RefWorks Workshops - Fall 2008 - Help
Register now for a Fall 2008 workshop: Wed. 10/1 (3-4:30), Thurs. 10/2 (3-4:30), Tues. 10/21 (3-4:30), or Wed. 10/22 (7-8:30pm). Location: Neilson Library Classroom | | | Style Manuals | | | Citation Guides & Style Manuals | | | Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper
(Duke University Library) Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA. | | | MLA Format (Purdue University Writing Laboratory) | |
| INTERNET RESOURCES | | | Brown University Women's Writers Project | | | Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry - Full Text
250,000 full-text poems, plus 450,000 poem citations. Also includes commentaries; biographies of major poets; a glossary of terms; foreign language poetry in the original language and in translation; and audio recordings of poetry read by poets. | | | Early English Books Online (EEBO) - 1475 - 1700 - Full Text
Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). | | | Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - 1701 - 1800 - Full Text
Includes every significant English- and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. | | | Evaluating Internet Resources
University of Maryland, University College. | | | Literature Online (LION) - Full Text
Fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.
| | | Play Index - 1949 to present
Lists plays written from Antiquity to the present; includes plays published separately and in collections, providing full publication details. | | | Asian American Drama - Full Text
Plans to include more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, beginning with the late nineteenth century up to contemporary playwrights. | | | Early American Imprints (Evans Digital) - 1639 - 1800 - Full Text
Will contain over 36,000 items listed in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's supplement to the bibliography. Covers early American publishing, including agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, and religion. | | | Early American Imprints (Shaw-Shoemaker) - 1801 - 1819 - Full Text
Will contain the 36,000 primary source items listed in Shaw & Shoemaker's continuation of Evans' American Bibliography, including books, pamphlets, and broadsides. Covers every aspect of American life during the first 19 years of the 19th century. | |
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