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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
Bartleby
Contains thousands of works of English language classic fiction, nonfiction, and reference works, including Bartlett's quotations and the 18 volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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Essay & General Literature Index
Essay & General Literature Index is an index of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Bibliographic information comes from more than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications. Subjects focus on the humanities and social sciences, with topics ranging from archeology, children's literature, and fiction to political science, religion, and women's studies.
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Gale's Literary Index
Online index to more than 130 literary criticism and literary biography reference sets. Hekman owns many of these reference sets (up to 2008) in print in the Reference Collection; read the full annotation to see a list of the sets owned by the library (with call numbers). Online full-text access is also available for a number of these titles (selected coverage from 1998-current) through the database Literature Resource Center.
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Humanities Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts contains abstracts (summaries) of feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. It indexes nearly 600 journals covering a variety of subjects in the humanities, including philosophy, film, folklore, religion, music, and the performing arts.
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Literature Resource Center (LRC)
LRC is primarily a literature criticism database, comprised of the complete Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, selected coverage from ten Gale literature criticism series, many single set literary monographs, and a large periodical file of literature titles containing biographies, criticism, essays and more. Articles and entries are all full-text. (Note that Hekman Library also owns some of these literature resources in print; see Gale's Literary Index for an index to the print materials.)
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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books,
articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures,
folklore, and linguistics. MLA International Bibliography dates back
to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400
periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access
to the MLA Directory of Periodicals database.
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Oxford English Dictionary - PE1625 .O87
The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record. Available in print and in electronic version.
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Worldcat is a catalog of materials found in hundreds of libraries throughout the world. There are currently over 62 million records in 400 languages extending back to as early as 1,000 B.C. WorldCat is updated daily.
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Reference Materials
Dictionary of Literary Biography - PN451 .D5
This vast series includes over 300 volumes, with each volume focusing on a particular time period, author, or literary movement.
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Handbook to Literature - PN41 .H6 1992
A standard guide to literary terms. Each entry provides a definition and often examples of the term.
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Oxford English Dictionary - PE1625 .O87
The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record. Available in print and in electronic version.
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Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary - PN597 T94 2000
Over five hundred literary, critical, and theatrical movements, along with individual authors representing these movements, are described and explained.
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Web Sources
Intute: Arts and Humanities
A major UK web portal for the finest Arts and Humanities web resources for education and research. More than 18,000 sites have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists and made available through an intuitive search interface.
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Literary Resources on the Net
Focuses mostly on English and American literature, and websites that are "useful to academics."
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Literature and Criticism Resources - Calvin College English Department
This page provides a gateway to English language and literature web resources, compiled by the Calvin English Department.
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Voice of the Shuttle - Literature (in English)
Includes links to resources in various genres and time periods, as well as links to major journals, departments, discussion lists, etc.
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