Use OneSearch to search across almost all of the library's databases at once for newspaper, magazine, and scholarly journal articles, as well as books and DVDs.
Tips for Searching Library Databases
Start with the databases to your right to locate scholarly articles and remember the following tips:
- Limit results to full-text.
- Look for peer-reviewed journals.
- Check your spelling!
- Select PDF over HTML format.
- Check references or bibliographies to expand your search.
- Look at subject terms to identify new keywords.
Best Databases for Scholarly Articles in Literature
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, and sciences, with an embargo for current issues of 2-5 years. - Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Up-to-date biographical information, literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world - Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly and popular literary criticism and commentary periodicals, books, encyclopedias, and more.
Try These, Too
- Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Search many of the library's literature resources together to find literary criticism, biographies, and some full text of literary works.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Open access (freely accessible), quality, peer-reviewed academic journals covering all subjects.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online This link opens in a new window
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Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of literary figures worldwide, as well as some literature topic overviews. - Latino Literature This link opens in a new window
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Collection of Latino literature, including poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish. Also find Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences. - Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new window
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The first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels.
General Databases
Great for any subject!
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