Databases for LITERATURE & CRITICISM ...

DATABASES

Literary Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
 
Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.


Literature Resource Center (LRC)  (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
 
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.


MLA Bibliography  (EBSCOhost)
 
This database is produced by the Modern Language Association and is the most important index for students and scholars of literature. The MLA Bibliography indexes articles from journals worldwide that cover literary criticism and theory, language, linguistics and folklore. MLA Directory of Periodicals


JSTOR  (JSTOR)
 
Browse by Language & Literature
JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
 
Browse by Language & Literature
A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.


Film and Television Literature Index    (EBSCOhost)
 
A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more.


Book Review Digest Plus   (Wilson Web)
 
Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.


Book Review Digest Retrospective   (Wilson Web)
 
Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.


Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare     (Alexander Street Press)
 
Contains more than 250 of the world´ s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.


Academic Search Complete  (EBSCOhost)
 
Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Credo Reference
 
Browse Literature and Language
Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.


OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary)
 
The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition,

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