Literature

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MAIN INDEXES AND DATABASES
Literature Criticism Online via GaleNet	Varies	Literary analysis in the form of scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers. This collection encompasses full-text of Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400–1800, Shakespearean Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. Content is fully cross-searchable within each series or across the entire database
Literature Resource Center (LRC) via GaleNet	Varies	Journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, book chapters, and websites, on 130,000+ authors and their works. Search by author, title, authors by type, genre, or literary timeline. Includes a link to Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary Index. Includes Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online.
MLA International Bibliography via EBSCOhost	1920s-present	Indexes 4,400+ international scholarly journals and other publications in folklore, linguistics, languages, and literature.
Essay and General Literature Index via WilsonWeb	1985-present	Indexes essays and articles that have been published in 7,000+ anthologies and collections of literary criticism.
Humanities Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective via WilsonWeb	1907-present; Full text: 1994-present	Indexes scholarly journals and popular magazines in the humanities. Full text coverage begins in 1994. Allows to search Humanities Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective concurrently.
SPECIALIZED INDEXES AND DATABASES
ArchiveGrid via OCLC	Current	Finding aids/collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
English Short Title Catalogue via British Library	1473-1800	Catalog of materials printed in English from 1473-1800.
JSTOR via JSTOR	Varies	Full text of backfiles of 520+ scholarly journals, including many important literary journals. Be sure to check the box next to language and literature and any other areas relevant to your research.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	1973-present	Indexes over 1,500+ international scholarly journals and other publications in language and linguistics.
Literature Compass via Blackwell Synergy	2004-present	Peer-reviewed surveys of the most important research and current thinking in literature.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile (NCM) via PARATEXT	Prior to 1925	Includes over 60 subject indexes to nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications. Contains 5 series: Series I: Multi Title Periodical Indexes; Series II: Book Indexes; Series III: Newspaper Indexes; Series IV: Individual Periodical Indexes; Series V: U.S. and U.K. Government Documents Indexes and U.S. Patent Index.
RELATED INDEXES AND DATABASES
Academic OneFile via InfoTrac	1980-present	Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Indexes 11,000+ journals.
America: History and Life via ABC-CLIO	1954-present	Indexes 2,000+ scholarly journals in history covering the United States and Canada. If you use ABC-CLIO, select "United States and Canadian History" from the drop down menu next to "Search."
America: History and Life via EBSCOhost	1954-present
Arts and Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Knowledge	1977-present	Indexes 1,144+ multidisciplinary scholarly journals and other publications in the arts and humanities, with cited references. Very useful for finding articles which cite earlier articles.
Arts and Humanities Search via FirstSearch	1980-present
Book Review Digest Plus via WilsonWeb	1983-present	Indexes 109 English language publications for book reviews of fiction and non-fiction. Provides many full-text reviews.
FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies) via FirstSearch	1984-present	Indexes 4,300+ international scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
General OneFile via InfoTrac	1980-present	Indexes 11,100+ multidisciplinary scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Includes 70+ reference sources. Covers topics in business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, etc. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Historical Abstracts via ABC-CLIO	1954-present	Indexes 2,000+ scholarly journals in history from 1450 to the present. Excludes the United States and Canada. If you use ABC-CLIO, select "World history excluding US & Canada" from the drop down menu next to "Search."
Historical Abstracts via EBSCOhost	1954-present
OmniFile Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb	1982-present	Indexes 4,000+ multidisciplinary scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Provides access to information on virtually any subject. Full text coverage of 2,300+ publications begins in 1994.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center via InfoTrac	Varies	Database covering viewpoints on a variety of social topics. It includes articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics court cases, profiles, and more.
INTERNET SITES
FIU English Department		FIU
Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature		University of California, Santa Barbara
Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other Than English		University of California, Santa Barbara
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts		Infomotions, Inc.
English Literature on the Web		Nagoya University
Bibliomania		Bibliomania.com Ltd.
RELATED GUIDES AND TUTORIALS
Literary Criticism Research: A Guide to Sources		FIU Libraries