Literature and language Databases/Indexes
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Literature
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Searches all of the following databases simultaneously: Academic
Search Complete , Book Review Digest, Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, MLA International Bibliography, America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts.How to Search This Database |
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| Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects. How to Search This Database | |
| PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews. How to Search This Database | |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index | Part of ISI Web of Knowledge, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a broad multidisciplinary index to journals published since 1975 in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, etc. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching.A good place to start if you want to know which writers are citing a particular author. How to Search This Database |
| Contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. One of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work. | |
| The Twentieth-Century Poetry database consists of two collections: "American Poetry" includes the full text of 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. "English Poetry" includes the full text of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope, and Carol Ann Duffy; it also incorporates the works in The Faber Poetry Library. How to Search This Database |
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Provides nearly 10,000 full-text biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres. How to Search This Database |
| A separate database also contained in eLibrary Curriculum Edition, ProQuest Learning: Literature is designed for secondary school teachers. It contains more than 100 full-text literary journals and magazines, author biographies, and streaming videos of contemporary poets reading from their own works and from the works of other poets. How to Search This Database | |
| International Index to the Performing Arts | Indexes more than 200 performing arts journals and as well as biographical information, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, and reviews. Subjects include film, television, theater, ballet, opera, musical theater, puppetry, mime, rodeos, circuses, etc. Some material is full-text. This is a good place to begin researching film and television studies. Abstracts span back to 1998, and indexing begins as far back as 1864. How to Search This Database |
| An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939. It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy. How to Search This Database | |
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Electronically indexes book reviews from 1965 to the present, making them easily accessible from an intuitive interface. Researchers can search through the most trusted review publications using multiple search options and see results presented quickly and accurately. |
| Short Story Index | Detailed index of more than 76,500 stories from more than 4,025 collections, either written in English or translated into English. It is searchable by subject, author, date, title, keyword, and source alone or by any combination. Subjects include narrative technique or device, locale, theme, and genre. This reference database grows by 4,000 records each year, and includes coverage dating back to 1984. Although primarily an index, it links to full text if available. How to Search This Database |
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The Scribner Writers series includes approximately 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study. How to Search This Database |
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The Twayne Authors Series is the premier literary reference resource series comprising Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum. How to Search This Database |
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The online version of Contemporary Literary Criticism provides full text access to more than 11,000 critical essays on 20th and 21st century authors. It also provides bibliographic citations for each author's principal works. For more information consult the printed version of Contemporary Literary Criticism at call number Ref PN94 .C6 in the reference area on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library. For additional sources of criticism, ask for a copy of our Literary Criticism guide at the McDermott Library reference desk. |
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The online version of Contemporary Authors provides biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 living U.S. and international authors. For information on other 20th and 21st century writers, consult the printed version of Contemporary Authors at call number Ref PN453 .C6 in the reference area on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library. |
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Contains 823 scripts, together with detailed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays. How to Search This Database |
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The North American Theatre Online database provides detailed information on thousands of theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies in Canada and the United States, including 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources. The database covers the time period from the Colonial era to the present. How to Search This Database |
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Produced by Alexander Street Press, Women's American Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Plays selected currently cover the 18th through the 21st centuries with future additions planned. Almost a third of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. The collection will be of particular interest to students of feminism and for women's studies. The indexing makes it possible to find and analyze particular dialog, characters and events. How to Search This Database |
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Full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. This database will provide information on related productions, theaters, productions companies, as well as selected playbills, productions photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. How to Search This Database |
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The Twentieth Century North American Drama database contains1,386 plays by 209 playwrights. Along with the plays, the database contains information on theaters and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs, and other materials related to the plays. Twentieth Century North American Drama also allows searching by character, author, theater, and production. How to Search This Database |
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Latin American Women Writers is a full text database containing prose, poetry, and plays by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America from the colonial era to the present. The writings are in their original language (Spanish or Portuguese). How to Search This Database |
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Contains approximately 380 plays and over 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. LALI also includes full-color images of book jackets, brochures and flyers. Documents are available in English, Spanish, and Italian. Coverage ranges from 1872 to present. How to Search This Database |
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Brings together more than 250 plays by 42 playwrights, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information for a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and will soon include contemporary playwrights such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. How to Search This Database |
| FRANCIS | Francis is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages. How to Search This Database |
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Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. LRC also has access to full-text critical essays on major authors from more than 260 journals. Other products available in LRC are explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to websites focusing on major authors and their works; timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, including author portraits; and a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper. How to Search This Database |
Languages / Linguistics
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| Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts | An international index to journals, books, dissertations, and reports about language, linguistics, speech, communications and related topics. The index starts in 1973. Each document in Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts contains a summary. How to Search This Database |
| Linguistics POWERSEARCH | Searches all of the following databases simultaneously:
Academic
Search Complete,
Humanities Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography. How to Search This Database |
| The OED is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day." It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of 500,000 words, tracing their historical appearances through 2.5 million quotations. | |
Oxford Reference Online Bilingual Dictionaries |
The award-winning Oxford Reference Online (ORO) database contains the full text of over 200 reference books and dozens of English and bilingual dictionaries, plus 50,000 in-depth articles, hundreds of links to valuable web resources, and thousands of maps and illustrations, all produced by the authoritative Oxford University Press. ORO provides efficient one-stop-shopping for facts, definitions, biographies, and dates in one scholarly, full-text database. How to Search This Database |
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