- Literature Resource Center
- is a complete literature reference database and the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods and in all genres. Provides electronic access to Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 115,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, profiles of 266 most studied authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works. Links to more than 250 prominent literary journals. Includes the Scribner Writer Series, featuring more than 1500 biocritical essays on authors. Over 4900 explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to 5800 websites focusing on major authors and their works; over 6000 timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, 2300 author portraits; and a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper.
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=uiuc_csu&authCount=1 - MLA International Bibliography
- is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric, composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=mzh
General Interest Databases
Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.
JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.
