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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
Extensive index to books, articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, essays and dissertations; 61 journals. | | | Humanities Abstracts [EBSCO] - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews of plays, television, and radio from 465+ sources. | | | Humanities International Index [EBSCO]
Citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works (poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations) from books and journals. | | | JSTOR - Full Text
Complete full text backfiles for hundreds of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years. | | | Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts - 1973 to present
Abstracts of journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, & book reviews on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics, and more. | | | MLA Bibliography - 1926 to present - Help
Extensive index to literature, language, linguistics and folklore in journal articles, books, dissertations, proceedings, and more. From the Modern Language Association of America. | | | Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] - 1965 to present - Full Text
Full text for 4,500+ scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. | | | Arts & Humanities Search - 1980 to present
Extensive Index to 1,300 journals in all arts and humanities disciplines. | | | British Periodicals Collection - 1680s to 1930s - Full Text
Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th 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 from the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada, 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 1,200 scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; with citations to book reviews. | | | International Index to the Performing Arts
Indexes 210+ scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and more. | | | 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 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 Periodicals Archive Online database. | | | Project Muse - Current issues - Full Text
Full text of 400+ scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. | | | World Shakespeare Bibliography - 1972 to present
Annotations for all important books, articles, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews, media, and more related to Shakespeare. | | | Popular Articles | | | American Periodical Series (APS) - 1740 - 1900 - Full Text
Over 1,100 titles including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, early professional journals, and popular magazines 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 17th century to the early 20th 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 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 Periodicals Archive Online database. | |
| BOOKS AND MEDIA | | | Help Finding Books | | | BBC Television Shakespeare
Streaming video; BBC production of every Shakespeare play. | | | Theatre in Video
Streaming video of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, and 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. No printing or downloading. | | | 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
Extensive catalog (OCLC) of books, serials, media, web resources, and more worldwide. | | | English Short Title Catalog - 1473 - 1800
Lists books published in Britain and North America before 1800. 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 [EBSCO] - 1983 to present
Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books from U. S., Canadian, and British periodicals.
| | | Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - 1902-1990. MLIN - Full Text
Over 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles from the TLS. | | | Times Literary Supplement Subscriber Archive - 1994 to present - Full Text
Complete coverage of the TLS from 1994. (New issues added 2 weeks after publication). Request username and password at Reference desk. | |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | | | 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. | | | Cambridge Histories Online - Full Text
Contains all titles of the Cambridge Histories series. Topics include political, economic & regional history (ancient to modern) plus language & literature, philosophy, music, religion, science, the performing arts, etc. | | | Addresses, Phone Numbers, Etc. | | | MLA Directory of Periodicals [EBSCO] - Full text
Details on 7100+ journals with contact information, pricing, and submission guidelines. | | | 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
Biographies from dictionaries, encyclopedias, and magazines. | | | Dictionary of National Biography - Full Text
50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the 4th century BC to the year 2001. 2nd edition, with illustrations. | | | Dictionaries | | | Dictionary of Old English: A to G Online - Full Text
Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language. DOE font required for proper display, see trouble shooting. | | | 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
Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present. Entries include spelling, pronunciation, derivation, meaning, and usage. 2nd ed (1989)+ updates. | | | 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 Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography of Middle English (listing the materials cited in the MED), and Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (a collection of e-texts), with links to associated electronic sources. | | | Encyclopedias | | | Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text
350+ titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion. | | | Oxford Companion to American Literature [Oxford] - Full Text | | | Oxford Companion to English Literature [Oxford] - Full Text | | | Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature [Oxford] - Full Text | | | Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature [Oxford] - Full Text | | | Style Manuals | | | Citation Guides & Style Manuals | | | Documentation Guidelines for Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
(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 - Full Text
Electronic texts of women's writing from 1400-1850. | | | Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry - Full Text
Index to 450,000 poems; 250,000 full text. With commentaries; biographies; a glossary; foreign language poetry; translations; and audio recordings. | | | Early English Books Online (EEBO) - 1475 - 1700 - Full Text
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 350,000+ works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, criticism and reference sources.
| | | Play Index - 1949 to present
Lists plays written from Antiquity to the present; includes plays published separately and in collections, with full publication details. | | | Asian American Drama - Full Text
252 plays, with biographical, production, and theatrical information, from the late 19th century to pressent. | | | Early American Imprints (Evans Digital) - 1639 - 1800 - Full Text
Early American books, pamphlets, and broadsides on agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, and religion. From Charles Evans' bibliography. | | | Early American Imprints (Shaw-Shoemaker) - 1801 - 1819 - Full Text
Books, pamphlets, and broadsides on every aspect of American life from 1801-1819. Shaw-Shoemaker's continuation of Charles Evans' American bibliography. | |
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