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Article
First
1990-present. 12.7 million records from 12,500
journals, many in full-text. Broad-ranging in the literary aspects
of humanities and popular culture |
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
1945-present, citations only. Over 3 million
records of articles and reviews in more than 1100 journals. Excellent
for tracing the influence and history of articles cited by scholars |
Book
Review Digest
Over 420,000 reviews in English of fiction,
non-fiction, children's books from 117 journals. Full-text and citation-only.
Limited, mostly recent coverage. No technical books or textbooks |
Contemporary
Authors
Huge collection of essays, criticism, awards,
bibliographies of over 110,000 influential authors, journalists, screenwriters,
cartoonists published in English worldwide. All genres, all presses |
Contemporary
Women's Issues
1992-present. Full-text articles and studies
from 1500 books, journals, newsletters and reports from non-profits,
in over 150 countries. Source of rarely-cited information |
Dissertation
Abstracts
1861-present; abstracts since 1980. US, Canadian,
British and other European doctoral dissertations and many Master's
theses. Searchable by author, subject, title, and year |
Humanities
Full Text
Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+. Over 600 journals, half with full text. Scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines
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JSTOR
Full-text complete back issues of over 45 language and literary Journals, excluding the last 3 to 5 years. Scholarly, international criticism in several languages, keyword-searchable. |
Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Topic-based, encyclopedic coverage of literary
criticism, mostly in long essays written by over 200 leading scholars.
Searchable; Many cross-references, bibliographies. No journal articles
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Literature
Resource Center
Ongoing. The most comprehensive one-stop literature
database. Full-text articles, author biographies, bibliographies,
pictures, links to other resources and literary timelines |
MagillOnLiterature Plus
Large literary database covering all major
authors, periods, works. Summaries, analyses, biography. Includes
Masterplots. Spanish, French & German translations. No journal articles |
Modern
Language Association (MLA)
1963-present. Citations to journals, books,
proceedings, literature, linguistics, folklore, cultural studies,
film. Considered the definitive resource for modern scholarly criticism.
Some full-text. |
Project
MUSE
Full-text issues of over 80 scholarly journals
in literary, linguistics and related areas. Keyword-searchable. Most
coverage is of the last 2-3 years; some titles go back further
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Twayne
Author Series
Text of 600 Twayne Literary Masters full-length
scholarly books on major world, US and English authors; plus 18 books
on themed criticism. All genres and periods. Bibliographies |
World
Shakespeare Bibliography Online
1968-present. Citations only. A comprehensive
worldwide listing of publications on Shakespeare. 92 languages. Editions,
films, staging of plays, poems. Literary criticism, history, reviews,
etc. |
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