Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

MLA International Bibliography
Literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.  more info

Literature Resource Center
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.  more info

More Databases

Project Muse
Journals in humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.  more info

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  more info

Oxford English Dictionary
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - Literature
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - Classics
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - Mythology & Folklore
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

Essay and General Literature Index
Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.  more info

Humanities Abstracts
Covers a wide range of subject areas in the humanities.  more info

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Citations to sources of biographical information.  more info

Book Review Digest
Reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books.  more info

Books in Print
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, with optional reviews  more info

Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.  more info

Gale's Literary Index
Master index to Gale`s series for authors and literary criticism.  more info

JSTOR
Electronic archive of journals in the arts, history, and sciences.  more info

ArticleFIRST
Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.  more info

NoveList
Reader`s advisory service to assist fiction readers.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

Library of Congress Poetry Center
Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress. Includes webcasts of  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

Abstracts of English studies
Published by National Council of Teachers of English, to 1968.  more info

CD Coreworks
Located on dedicated workstations near the Reference Desk.
Extensive indexing to English-language materials.  more info

Classical and medieval literature criticism.
From the Gale Research Co.  more info

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Located on dedicated workstation near the Reference Desk.
Indexes more than 100,000 poems.  more info

Contemporary authors.
From the Gale Research Co.  more info

Contemporary literary criticism
From Gale Research Co.  more info

Dictionary of literary biography yearbook.
From the Gale Research Co.  more info

Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800.
From the Gale Research Co.  more info

Nineteenth-century literature criticism.
From the Gale Research Co.  more info

The Oxford English dictionary.
1989 Edition, includes supplements.  more info