ENGL 5750: Bibliography and Methods of Research in Literature
Electronic Resources
Provides a scholarly collection providing full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications.
MLA
Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
Provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Sixty different languages are represented including English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Starting with the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this is an electronic collection of 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement
Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are included
Fully searchable library of more than 343,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 235 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources
Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
Middle English Compendium
A compilation of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
Oxford English Dictionary
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Contains words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The online resource contains all the printed materials that appear in the complete 23 volumes.
English Short Title Catalog: British Library
Comprehensive bibliography that includes items printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, the United States (1776-1800), and Canada; in any language. Also, items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any other part of the world.
The holdings of over 1,500 libraries around the world are represented.
A current directory of over 5,400 repositories and over 124,400 collections of primary source materials across the United States. Included are the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (1959 to current), the contents from National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States, and collection descriptions submitted directly from repositories as well as links to online finding aids. This resource could be useful for researchers from many fields as the included collections can deal with any individual or organization for which primary materials were saved--including authors, scientists, businesses, societies, etc.
WorldCat
WorldCat via FirstSearch is the OCLC Online Union Catalog and contains more than 35 million records describing items owned by your library or libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. WorldCat does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.
Godey’s Lady’s Book
The magazine developed an important literary reputation over time with the inclusion of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others . Also contains fashion descriptions with hand-colored plates, biographical sketches, recipes, sheet music, and information about health, hygiene, and handcrafts.
Searchable access to a nineteenth-century social and literary magazine for American women.
Reader’s Guide
Art, business, education, entertainment, fashion, health & medicine, history, politics, religion, sports & fitness, travel and much more.
Indexing for more than 300 American and Canadian publications.
Popular, general-interest subjects.
Thousands of journals and magazines published in the United States.
RefWorks
Allows users to easily gather, manage, store, and share information. It allows users to generate citations and bibliographies in a variety of formats.
Finding Aids
Guide to the different types of finding aids