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Literary Criticism: Databases

Databases

SUBJECT SPECIFIC DATABASES

Bloom's Literature

  • A source for literary research on writers and their works throughout history and the world.

  • Content is obtained from Facts On Files print literature collection, Harold Blooms essays, and critical articles published by noted scholars under the Blooms Literary Criticism imprints.

  • Content includes overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism. Also, contains advice on how to write quality essays on frequently assigned authors

MLA International Bibliography

  • The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1926 to the present.

  • It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

 

  • Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic OneFile (Gale)

  •     Covers indexing from 1980 to the present

  •    Indexes journals and magazines in all subject areas, many of them full-text

  •    Can limit to "Peer-Reviewed (scholarly) Publications"

Academic Search Complete

  •     Covers indexing from 1975 to the present

  •    Indexes journals and magazines in all subject areas, many of them full-text

  •    Can limit to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals"

JSTOR

  •     A multi-disciplinary  peer-reviewed journal archive, including literature

  •    Mostly full-text

  •    Use quotation marks ( “ ” ) when searching for an exact phrase

  •    Includes foreign language publications

  •    Can limit by item type, date, and language

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All Databases

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