Databases by Subject - Literature

See also Humanities & Arts and Multidisciplinary for additional resources.

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
Arts & Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Knowledge	Covers journal literature of the arts and humanities, including citation information for authors' works. Titles Indexed \| Workbook	1980-	N
Blackwell Synergy	Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included \| Search Help	1879-	Y
Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select	Collection of critical essays on contemporary authors who are living or died after 1959.	Current	Y
Emerald	Contains over 25,000 management articles as well as a range of engineering, applied science and technology journals. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
Humanities International Complete	Indexing and full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world on various humanities topics. Titles Included	1920s+	Y
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Literary Reference Center	Great tool to research authors and criticism on literary works.	Varies	Y
MLA International Bibliography	Indexes books, essay collections and bibliographies on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1926-	N
Oxford Journals Online	Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas.	1995-	Y
Project MUSE	Full text access to scholarly humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Wall Street Journal - ProQuest	Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics.	1984-	Y
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science	Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial \| Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N

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