ENG213: Writing and Research About Literature

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.

JSTOR is our most comprehensive interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journal articles. It includes the full-run of some 4,000 journals, from the journal's first issue up until the most recent 3-5 years (typically). Covers a wide variety of subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, as well as extensive area studies collections and applied fields, such as business and criminal justice.

This full-text database covers all literatures worldwide and includes a comprehensive array of source types, including scholarly journal articles, chapters in books, biographical articles, topic and work overviews, reviews, and some primary source material. It includes articles directly from the sources as well as tens of thousands of items that have been reprinted in Gale literary sets, such as Twentieth Century Literary Criticism or ,i>Short Story Criticism.

The world's largest book database, WorldCat serves as a shared library catalog for 25,000+ libraries worldwide. Contains links to books, periodical titles, videos, internet resources, and other cataloged resources in libraries. It also contains selected collections of periodical articles. Access from on campus or off campus, with no ID required.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Search across 1,000+ Gale reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

This database features the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. It features comprehensive historical volumes (often in multi-volume sets) for time periods, country or regional histories, specific literatures, important events, many fields of study, movements, fields of thought and practice (i.e. music, philosophy, political science, religion, theater), and a vast array of histories for socio-cultural topics (i.e. the Holocaust, slavery, law, war, sexualities, food).