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Literary Studies
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Literary Reference Center Plus (incorporates MLA International Bibliography)Provides access to articles, essays, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, and background information in literary studies. Incorporates the MLA International Bibliography, the definitive resource for the study of language, literature, film, and other related fields. It includes access to journal articles, book articles, and more.
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Literature Resource CenterProvides access to articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, book reviews, author biographies, poems, short stories, and background information in literary studies.
Multidisciplinary & Cultural Studies
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JSTORHigh-quality, full-text journal articles from a range of scholarly disciplines.
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Project MuseFull-text scholarly content from journals and books, covering the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Subjects include ethnic and women’s studies, the arts, medicine and health, philosophy and religion, technology and mathematics, literature, and history.
Books, Ebooks, Music, & Movies
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WorldCatWorldCat is the OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide, before 1000BC-present.
Updated: Daily.
Background Sources
Multidisciplinary encyclopedias
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Oxford Reference Online: PremiumA large collection of Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias, covering literature, art and architecture, science and technology, religion, history, law, philosophy, quotations, and the social sciences. Includes English translation bilingual dictionaries for a number of world languages. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
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Credo Reference Academic CoreA comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
Discipline specific sources
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Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2006
Contains essays on authors, literary movements, periods, and themes, each containing entry its own primary and annotated secondary bibliography. -
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Call Number: Reference Main Level PS21.E537 2004ISBN: 0195156536Publication Date: 2004
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Routledge Companion to World Literature
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780415827959Publication Date: 2013- Covers:
The history of World Literature; its disciplinary relationships to globalization, diaspora studies, philology, etc.; theoretical issues; and the politics of World Literature
Biographies
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Biography in ContextBiographical articles from reference sources, journals, and magazines. Contains images, video, and audio files, as well as primary source material.
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Biography Reference CenterIncludes access to some important standard biographical resource, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Great Britain), American National Biography, and more.
Primary Sources
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Early English Books OnlineA primary source collection containing digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineA primary source collection containing digitized books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera printed in the United Kingdom and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
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Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineDatabase of digitized primary sources from the nineteenth century, curated by an international team of scholars and culled from the collections of the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the British Library, and other major repositories. Contains photographs, books, manuscripts, maps, letters, government documents, journals, and newspapers.
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Empire OnlinePrinted and visual primary source materials for the study of ‘Empire” and its theories, practices, and consequences. Also Includes secondary sources such as scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800A primary source collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides listed in the bibliography compiled by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement.
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819A primary source collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides listed in the bibliography compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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Citing Your Sources
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