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Research Assignment - Literature Databases and Resources

Use the handout which will contain instructions for our in-class research exercise. As you follow the instructions for this assignment, you will post select answers to questions from your handout in the Google Sheet as instructed.

Interdisciplinary Research Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary full-text database of over 10,000 academic journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, and books. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study including the humanities, sciences and social sciences, education, arts, literature, and more.
(replaces Academic Search Complete)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary archive of journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. JSTOR also contains a large collection of scholarly ebooks from academic publishers.

Searching for scholarly articles in MLA International

Special note: If you are interested in exploring MLA International Bibliography below, you will need to search for more than just your author's name to find relevant results. This would be a good database for finding literary criticism on a particular story or on a particular theme in your author's work. For example, I might search "James Baldwin" and race to find articles that analyze that topic in Baldwin's work.

Literature/Humanities Databases

Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
This database provides online access to the full-text of the Thomson Gale Literature Criticism Reference Sets Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism & Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Includes author biographical information, criticism (excerpts or full-text) published from an author's own time to the present as well as bibliographical information.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text journals, books and other published sources, covering all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content. Includes abstracts and full text from journals, books and book reviews, art work and images, performances and reviews, literature and criticisms, poems and short stories, and conference proceedings.
(replaces Humanities International Complete)
Literary Reference Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes focusing on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature and children's literature. Also includes volumes of fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy and religious literature, and literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature and literary genres.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
A large collection of full-text works of prose, poetry and drama. Works may be located by author or title, or searched full-text for specific words or phrases. Also includes secondary sources of biographical and critical pieces on authors and their works.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
(replaces MLA International Bibliography)