FAU Libraries Suggested Research Guide

“Principles and Problems of Literary Study”

October 5, 2006

Rachael Cathcart, Assistant University Librarian

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL / MANUSCRIPT DATABASES

ALEPH

The FAU Libraries Catalog to the holdings of its libraries, almost 1,000,000 books, journals, microforms, etc.  

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

NEW! Central Search [SerialSolutions]

Central Search is a powerful search engine that allows users to search the FAU Libraries online catalog and research databases simultaneously.  You may search a number of databases grouped together by subject, or select databases by title.

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 | 17^th-20^th 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 19^th-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

FAU Libraries Research Guide for English

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