Research Guide for English/Literature

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Other Useful Databases

• Literary Reference Center
  Plot summaries and work overviews, author biographies, critical essays, over 630,000 book reviews, plus 90,000 full text poems, short stories and classic texts. Includes the entire Masterplots and Masterplots II series. From EBSCOhost.
• Bloom's Literary Reference Online
  Author biographies, work overviews, literary criticism essays, literary timeline, plus good coverage of literary themes and movements. From Facts on File.
• Omnifile Full Text Mega
  Multidisciplinary database offering full text for 2300 journals and magazines. Strong coverage in the humanities.
• ProQuest Research Library and GenderWatch
  Combined search of ProQuest's general full text database (Research Library) and its gender and women's studies database (GenderWatch).
• CompPile
  Searchable inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies, dating from 1939 to present. Full text not included, but may be available through other sources.
• ARTstor
  Searchable database of images, including portraits and photographs of authors, artistic interpretations of literary themes and characters. See ARTstor Resources in Literary Studies for more information.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Over 750,000 downloadable full text dissertations and theses, covering a wide range of graduate research topics, including literature and composition.

Additional Sources for Book Reviews

• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Offers a variety of magazines and news sources; find reviews of books, films, and theater.
• New York Times
  Search for book reviews published between June 1980-present. See Newspapers Online page for additional date coverage.
• Global Books in Print
  Database of books published worldwide, with full-text book reviews.
• Choice Reviews Online
  Brief reviews of books and websites; intended for an academic audience.
• Academic Search Premier
  Full text reviews of books on various academic disciplines.

Print Indexes

• Book Review Digest (1925-2002), REF 016 B64 INDEX*
• Book Review Index (1965-1991), REF 016 B645 INDEX*
• Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, REF 808.81 G758
• Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections, REF 016.80882 OT8
• Play Index, REF 016.80882 W35P7 INDEX*
• Short Story Index, REF 016.8 Sh81 INDEX*

Items marked INDEX* are located on the short shelves at front of Reference Room.