FAU
Libraries Suggested Research Guide
“Principles and
Problems of
Literary Study”
May 25, 2005
Anthony
Adams, Ph.D. Coordinator, Academic Support Services
FAU Libraries Web Site
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
/
MANUSCRIPT DATABASES
WebLUIS
[FCLA]
The FAU Libraries's
catalog to the holdings of its libraries, almost 1,000,000 books,
journals, microforms, etc. Also provides access to the holdings
of the rest of the state university libraries catalogs.
WorldCat
[FirstSearch]
The world's most
comprehensive bibliography, with over 48 million bibliographic records
representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000
years of knowledge.
RLG
Union Catalog (RLIN) [Eureka]
Contains records
for materials from many different libraries, museums, and archives.
Each record describes an item or collection; most give local holdings
information.
Archival
Resources [Eureka]
Provides
centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids
that have been encoded using SGML and the emerging standard for Encoded
Archival Description (EAD).
English
Short Title Catalogue [Eureka]
A catalog of
materials printed from the beginning of print until 1800 in Great
Britain, its territories, and in English from around the world.
National
Register of Archives [Historical Manuscripts Commission | Open
Access]
Contains
information on the nature and location of manuscripts and
historical records that relate to British cultural history.
INDEXES
Arts & Humanities
Citation Index [Web of
Science | 1975-present]
Indexes and
provides searching of cited references for articles from more than
1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Arts
and Humanities Search (AHSearch) [FirstSearch | 1980-present]
Provides complete access to articles from more than 1,300 of the
world's leading arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles
in over 5,000 social science and science journals.
Essay and General Literature Index [Wilson |
1985-present]
Indexes essays and
articles that have been published in book collections.
Iter Gateway to the
Middle Ages and Renaissance
[Iter | 400-1700]
A Middle Ages and
Renaissance bibliography of close to 500,000 records for articles,
essays, books, and reviews.
Literature
Resource Center [Gale Group | Some Full
Text]
Delivers
biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works
in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, etc. Includes the full
text of works such as the Twayne Authors Series.
MLA International
Bibliography [Gale
Group | InfoTrac
| 1963-present]
From the Modern
Language Association, provides access to more than 1.5 million
bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations
in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore,
linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
Periodicals Contents
Index (PCI) Full Text
[ProQuest | Some Full Text | 1770-1995]
Provides selective
full text of periodical articles from humanities journals from 1770 to
1995.
FULL
TEXT COLLECTIONS
American
Periodicals Series Online [ProQuest |
Full Text | 1740-1900]
Complete full text
digital images of over 1,100 American periodicals published between
1740 and 1900.
ARTFL
[University of Chicago | Full Text]
Consists of nearly
2,000 French texts, including classic works, non-fiction, and technical
writing.
Dictionary of Old
English Corpus [University of
Toronto | Full Text]
Complete record of
surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual
texts.
Early English Books
Online (EEBO) [ProQuest | Full
Text | 1475-1700]
From the first book
printed in English by William Caxton through the age of Shakespeare,
EEBO will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard &
Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title
Catalogue (1641-1700), and the
Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Evans
Digital Edition [NewsBank | Full Text |
1639-1800]
Based on the
renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, definitive resource
for every aspect of life in colonial America, from agriculture to
literature. Will contain over 36,000 works.
JSTOR [Full Text]
“Journal Storage,”
includes complete back run of 48 scholarly journals in literature, such
as American Literature (1929-1999), PMLA (1884-1990),
and Shakespeare Quarterly (1950-2000).
Literature for Children
[SUS Digital Library |
Full Text | 17th-20th centuries]
From the
Departments of Special Collections at several of the State University
System of Florida Libraries, a growing collection of digitized works
published predominantly in the US and Britain.
Literature Online (LION)
[ProQuest | Full Text]
Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American
poetry, drama and prose, 147 full-text literature journals, and other
key criticism and reference resources.
Project Muse [Johns
Hopkins UP | Full Text]
Online access to
current issues of scholarly journals, including 51 in literature, such
as The Chaucer Review, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and
Victorian Studies.
Wright
American Fiction [Full Text | 1851-1875 |
Open Access]
A collection of 19th-century
American fiction with full text access to more than 1,700 books.
OTHER
REFERENCE SOURCES
Book
Review Digest Plus [Wilson | 1983-present]
Reviews of current
English-language fiction and nonfiction books.
Digital
Dissertations [ProQuest | Full Text |
1861-present]
Authoritative
source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's
theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000
graduate schools and universities. Includes full text access to
most dissertations/theses after 1997.
Oxford
English Dictionary (OED Online) [Oxford UP
| Full Text]
The accepted
authority on the evolution of the English language over the last
millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and
pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Web Sites of Interest
Critical
Readings: Literary Theory & Criticism
Postmodernism
and Its Critics
Voice of the
Shuttle:
Literary Theory
The William Blake Archive
The Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Archive
The Online
Book Page
The Walt Whitman Archive
Oscar Wilde: An Overview, from the Victorian Web
