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Databases
and Websites in Literature 
Citation Guides - correct
format for proper documentation
Databases - scholarly
materials, citation indexes and full text
E Books - use free electronic texts when
you can't find the printed book
Quick Reference -
quality, credible, and timely reference
resources -mostly all are free
Specialized Search Engines -
gateway sites, specialized search engines, Web portals
Web Directories - subject guides
to selective and carefully chosen sites on the Web
Web Resources - selected list of free
sites
Web Search in a Nutshell -
getting started in library research
Subscription Databases Available
Only to the WSC Community:
M L A International
Bibliography. From CSA. A citation
subject index for books and articles published on modern languages,
literatures, folklore, and linguistics. The
electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains
over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals.
While the majority of records are from English-language
publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including
French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.
Literary Reference
Center - from
EBSCO
 Contains full text for 26,000 plot summaries,
synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary
criticism, author biographies (including 14,300 in-depth bios), literary
journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and
contemporary short stories, author interviews, and
7,500 classic texts.
Funded
by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
Essay and
General Literature Index -
This unique reference offers
precise access to nearly 86,000 essays contained in some 7,000
anthologies and collections—a wealth of information that might be
otherwise hidden away in your library. Spanning
1985 to present, coverage is across the entire range
of the humanities and social sciences, including art history, political science, and history to criticism of literary
works, drama, and film.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library. Available through InfoTrac (Gale Virtual
Reference Library). Contains full text of standard reference
works previously only found in print on library shelves:
Funded
by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
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Contemporary Novelists - 7th ed. (2001)
Contains
biographical/critical essays on the most important living
novelists writing in English worldwide.
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Contemporary Poets 7th ed.
(2001) 789 of
the world's most important contemporary English-language poets,
including 120 new to this edition.
Biographical information plus each entry includes a
signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works,
written by an expert in the field.
Contemporary Authors.
Profiles of contemporary writers worldwide
Vols. 1-249. (Gale, 1962-2007).Updated
profiles on prominent contemporary writers
Vols. 1-155. (Gale, 1980-2007)
through the new revision Series. Search is
through the Biography Resource Center which also combines over 432,000 biographies from over 980 volumes of 135 respected
Gale sources such as Encyclopedia of World Biography
(26 vols.), Newsmakers,
Dictionary of American
Biography (20 vols.) and the
Writers Directory.
Funded
by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
More Biographical Resources
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select. an
extensive full text collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary
authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a
list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
Updated monthly; users
can search by author name, title of work,
nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
Funded
by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) -
updated quarterly with new words. Contains over half a million entries
with multiple corollary word forms, extensive etymology, date of first
recorded use of a word, usage and status of a word. The OED is the
accepted authority of international English.
Oxford
Reference Online.
From one of the world's most respected reference
publishers, the
Premium
collection brings together 170 well-known and trusted
sources such as the complete Dictionaries
series, Oxford Companion (to American Literature and English
Literature) plus the complete Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations. Specialized subject sources in foreign languages,
mythology, bilingual dictionaries, and more.
Academic One File
has good general coverage of popular topics
and many full text articles for literary criticism. Indexes
peer-reviewed, full text articles available in HTML or PDF formats from
the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Search Tips
(PDF)
Funded
by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
Academic
Search Complete
Good general coverage of popular
topics and many full text articles for literary
criticism.
Indexes
peer-reviewed, full text articles available in HTML or PDF formats from
the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Search Tips (PDF)
Book Index with Reviews -
access to over 4 million book titles as well as close to 700,000 music
and DVD/video titles, updated constantly. Easy to
use.
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Other Web
Resources - selective list of free sites
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Arts & Humanities Hub
- from the staff at University of Oxford, U.K. Access
to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated
by a network of subject specialists. There are over 18,000 Web resources
listed that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.
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Labyrinth -
resources for anything medieval. Search in
categories from coins to Old Norse
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Literary Criticism -
from the Internet Public Library. The IPL
Collection contains critical and
biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by
author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
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Literary Index - Internet Resources in Literature, maintained by Chris
Flack of Vanderbilt University.
Provides both an overview and a review of the more
significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to
scholars, students, and lovers of literature.
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Literary Resources on
the Net - A collection of
links to sites with English and American literature, limited to collections
of information useful for academic research. From Jack Lynch at Rutgers
University.
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Perspectives
in American Literature - a research and reference guide for American
literature, early American to contemporary. Organized by time periods and
themes. Maintained by Paul Reuben at Cal State.
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Poetry Online
- First line or title poem index; timeline, criticism, glossary.
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Romantic Chronology -
Chronology of 17th through 19th
century that links to sites and full-text documents.
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Romantic Circles -
Scholarly articles, texts and discussion of
Romantic-period literature and culture.
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Search Engines
These
are "gateway" sites: they don't have
literary information, but
link you to sites that do. Less exciting than PBS
TV but
more practical.
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Voice of the Shuttle -
Literature in English. Thousands of links to electronic texts, websites;
sections devoted to American Literature, Victorian literature, Modern
American and British literature, minorities literature, and more. From the
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
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Victorian Web - Social matters,
gender, texts, authors, philosophy and much more.
Web
Directories
There are excellent subject directories on the web. that can point you
to the best online resources in specific areas world
literatures. These human guides to the Internet are a great way
to find the best of the Web, and often find sites that can't be accessed by search engines.
The best ones
to use for scholarly material are:
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Librarians
Internet Index - Provides
a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources. Covers a broad range of
subjects, has both a topical directory arrangement and search capabilities.
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InfoMine - Virtual library of
scholarly Internet resources.
Features
well organized access; notable for its
collection of annotated and indexed links.
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Academic Info -
gateway
to freely available academic resources on the web,
with annotated entries. General links, related topics, in
the news sections.
More
subject directories on the web
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