English, Language & Literature Subject Guide: Databases

A collection of more than 8,000 journals covering a variety of academic disciplines — from science, technology and medicine to the humanities.

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Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications.

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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras in an online historical encyclopedia, It covers the history of various disciplines such as architechure and design, fashion, literature, music, philosohy, religion, theater and more. It also has biographical profiles of important people.

This database features content from Facts On File's literature collection; Harold Bloom's essays examining the lives and works of great writers; critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint; entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and authors; and almost 2,200 video clips.

Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Each volume profiles approximately four to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, philosophers or other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. A full citation and annotation precede each of the approximately 75 essays per volume; many include an author portrait.

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Critical Insights series presents both classic and current literary criticism of the world's most-studied literature. Titles are available according to author (e.g., Flannery O'Connor and F. Scott Fitzgerald), work (e.g., Dracula and Handmaid's Tale), and theme (e.g., "good and evil" and "literature of protest"). 23 titles are now available online and in print at FDU campus libraries.

This collection provides access to over 140,000 full-text books, reports, and other authoritative documents in the fields of Business & Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; and Social & Behavioral Sciences.

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The Films on Demand Master Collection provides access to over 41,000 educational videos and award winning documentaries covering a wide range of topics.

Gale Literature allows you to simultaneously search the Gale eBooks, Literature Criticism, Literature Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and LitFinder resources.

Humanities International Complete covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. In addition to hundreds of full-text books, the database includes over 1,200 full-text journals. Over 1,100 additional journals are indexed.

The JSTOR journal archives provide full-text collections of core scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines from the arts to the sciences with a strong emphasis on the humanities.

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Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database providing information on authors and their works from antiquity to the present. It includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies and interviews, book reviews, literary journals, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, classic texts, and several major literary reference works.

Book Review Index Online is a comprehensive source for book reviews from 1965 to the present and covers review published in nearly 500 periodicals and newspapers.

Gale's Literature Resource Center offers a wealth of information for the student of literature, including criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text authors' works, and reading lists.

Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Magill's Literary Annual evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature published during the previous calendar year. Covers works of interest to general readers. Backfiles available dating from 1977 to the present, and includes cumulative author and title indices.

The MLA International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, from 1963 to the present. The database provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,400 journals titles. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

NoveList is a database for promoting discovery of popular fiction and readable nonfiction, whether for adults, young adults, or children. It provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for some 180,800 fiction and 80,000 nonfiction titles. Included also is other content of interest to readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. The database allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest

The Oxford English Dictionary is the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It includes definitions of over 600,000 words, plus over 2.5 million quotations showing how words have been used over the last 1,500 years.

Search ProQuest for information from over 3,300 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and physical sciences.

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