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ASU English Home > Faculty > Library LinksSELECTIVE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS, AND RHETORIC & COMPOSITION The electronic resources listed below are available at: A few of the resources listed below are noted as Library Use Only.
Literature, Linguistics, and Creative Writing E-Resources L’Annee Philologique. L'Annee Philologique (1969+): An international, multi-lingual bibliography of all aspects of classical studies. Antislavery Literature Project. Provides access to the literature and history of the antislavery movement in the United States. Arden Shakespeare (Library Use Only). Full-text of plays, poems & sonnets by William Shakespeare. Includes Arden introductions, commentary notes, variants, & appendices; facsimiles of First Folios; early Quarto texts; a grammar & glossary for each reference, & sources for further research. Athena: Classical Mythology (Library Use Only). Database of classical myths and literature with descriptive information on mythic figures, myth summaries, & full text English prose translations. Profiles contain information about mythical characters, with images and family trees. Black Drama. Contains around 1000 plays by more than 170 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Black Short Fiction. (Mid-1900’s to present) Contains about 4370 stories and folktales by 272 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. It includes short stories published from the mid-1900s to the present, as well as fables, folktales and previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts by many authors. British Humanities Index. The database is an online index to (1962+) humanities journals and weekly magazines published in Great Britain and other English speaking nations including newspapers in UK. Dictionary of Old English Corpus. (before 1100 AD) Contains full text of all surviving material in Old English, excluding some variant texts. Includes over 3000 different texts. Early English Books Online: (1475-1700) From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short- Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts. Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access to the digital images of every page of more than 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. English Short Title Catalogue. (1473-1843) Describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. International Corpus of English: the British Component (ICE-GB) (Library Use Only). (1990-1993) Grammatically annotates over one million words of spoken and written British English from the 1990s. Also contains orthographic representations and sociolinguistic information about the authors, texts and speakers. International Medieval Bibliography Online: (1967+) Index to journal articles and miscellaneous Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A newly incorporated, non-profit research project to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), by creating online bibliographies. Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. Alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction. Features 186 plays and more than 13,000 pages of poetry and fiction from authors of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Chicano, Central American, South American, and Cuban descent. You will find stories of interracial relations, politics, religion, romance, war, and much more. Plays, poems, and prose, touch on many topics but often return to the unique experiences of being Latino in America. Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA): (1973+) Indexes literature on the nature & use of language. Covers linguistics (nature & structure of human speech); language (speech sounds, sentence & word structure, meaning, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, & hearing pathology. Literature Online (LION). (600+) Includes fully-searchable texts, reference works, bibliographies, catalogues, & links to relevant websites. Includes American Poetry; English Bible; Shakespeare; English Drama & Poetry; Biographical Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia; Dictionary, etc. Includes Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1980-2003). Literature Resource Center. Includes biographies, bibliographies & critical analysis of authors from every age & literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists & other writers. Includes full text of journals on literature and literary criticism. Major Authors Online (The Brontës) (Library Use Only) Major Authors Online (Virginia Woolf) (Library Use Only) Major Authors Online (Samuel Johnson and James Boswell) (Library Use Only) Major Authors Online (Miguel de Cervantes) (Library Use Only) Major Authors Online (Walt Whitman) (Library Use Only) Middle English Compendium. (1100-1500) Includes 3 major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and electronic resources, including Middle English texts. MLA Bibliography: (1963+) Indexes journals, books, proceedings, bibliographies, and dissertations in the subjects of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. MLA Directory of Periodicals. (1963+) Searchable index contains information on the periodicals and series covered regularly in the MLA Bibliography. The directory provides editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, submission guidelines, and information on whether or not journals are peer reviewed. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted. Radical Scatters: (Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886) Short Story Index: (1983+) The index provides references to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to periodical Literature and Humanities Index. The database contains over 80,000 short stories entries which include author, title and subject for stories from collections; author and title for stories from periodicals. Full text is included for over 1000 stories. Whenever possible, links are provided to the full text of the story. Twayne’s Women Authors on CD-ROM (Library Use Only). Contains the full-text of 138 books on women writers from Twayne’s U.S. Authors, English Authors, World Authors, and Young Adult Authors series. World Shakespeare Bibliography Online. (1972-mid 2001) Provides annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.
Rhetoric and Composition E-Resources L’Annee Philologique. L'Annee Philologique (1969+): An international, multi-lingual bibliography of all aspects of classical studies. Antislavery Literature Project. Provides access to the literature and history of the antislavery movement in the United States. British Humanities Index. The database is an online index to (1962+) humanities journals and weekly magazines published in Great Britain and other English speaking nations including newspapers in UK. British National Bibliography (Library Use Only). (1950+) Lists materials published in Great Britain. ComAbstracts. (1966+) Indexes and abstracts articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. No other electronic resource on the world wide web provides more comprehensive coverage of the communication discipline's scholarship. Communication & Mass Media Complete. (1915+) Communication & Mass Media Complete is a research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 100 more. This database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing. Early English Books Online: (1475-1700) From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short- Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts. Education Full Text (Education Abstracts). (6/1983+) Covers education topics such as critical thinking, teaching methods, curriculum, comparative education, literacy standards, multicultural education, psychology, special education, counseling, teacher/parent relations, vocational education, etc. Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access to the digital images of every page of more than 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. English Short Title Catalogue. (1473-1843) Describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. ERIC (via CSA Illumina). (1966+) Premier U.S. database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education. Includes journal (EJ) and ERIC Document (ED) citations with abstracts; full text of ERIC Documents from 1993 to present. ***Note about CSA vs. US Dept of Ed Essay and General Literature (Wilson Essay and General Literature Index). (1985+) Cites essays & articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Focuses on humanities & social sciences, including history, economics, psychology, religion, political science, folklore, film, music, drama, literature, etc. International Medieval Bibliography Online: (1967+) Index to journal articles and miscellaneous publications (conference proceedings, essay collections) on the Middle Ages published worldwide starting in 1967. Includes citations on over 300,000 articles on the Middle Ages in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A newly incorporated, non-profit research project to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), by creating online bibliographies. Middle English Compendium. (1100-1500) Includes 3 major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and electronic resources, including Middle English texts. MLA Bibliography: (1963+) Indexes journals, books, proceedings, bibliographies, and dissertations in the subjects of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. MLA Directory of Periodicals. (1963+) Searchable index contains information on the periodicals and series covered regularly in the MLA Bibliography. The directory provides editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, submission guidelines, and information on whether or not journals are peer reviewed. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
General E-Resources Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost):(1975+) Covers a wide range of academic subjects. Features full text for selected journals, abstracts and indexing for over 3,600 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. Arts and Humanities Citation Index: (1975+) Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references. Covers more than 1,150 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. Books in Print. The only complete record of in-print and forthcoming books published and distributed in the U.S. which are available to the general public or trade for single or multiple copy purchases. Contains over 1.2 million books of all kinds. Books in Print A-Z; Books Out of Print A-Z; Publishers, distributors, and wholesalers in the U.S. British National Bibliography (Library Use Only). (1950+) Lists materials published in Great Britain. Dissertations and Theses @ Arizona State University (Doctoral Dissertations). A searchable database for full-text, citations, and abstracts of ASU dissertations. 1954-1979, index only; 1979- full-text of dissertations included. DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals. This resource is a directory which provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now over 600 journals in the directory. Ebrary. The Ebrary Academic Complete collection has over 22,000 full-text books, journals, and maps covering five main subject areas - Business and Economics, Career and General Education, Computers, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Humanities, Social/Behavioral Sciences and Life/Physical Sciences. Google Scholar. Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Humanities Full Text: (2/1984+) Indexes articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications, language, literature, literary criticism, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Index Translationum (International bibliography of translations). (1979 +) International bibliography of translations. Covers books published in 500 languages including English. JSTOR: Includes long runs of back files of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Education, History, Language & Literature, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Slavic Studies, and Sociology. netLibrary. Provides full-text books from many of the world's leading commercial publishers and university presses. Includes a wide range of scholarly, reference, and professional titles. Also includes a large number of public domain titles. Subjects covered by netLibrary include Arts & Entertainment; Business & Economy; Computer & Internet; Education; Health; History; Government & Law; Recreation & Sports; Reference; Science & Technology; Social Sciences; Society & Culture Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Poole's Plus: The Digital Index of the 19th Century). (1787-1922) Merges every relevant index to 19th- century newspapers, periodicals, books and government documents into a single, searchable site. Provides unprecedented access to the printed output of this extraordinary period. OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat: A database whose approximately 50 million records for books and other materials form the largest union catalog. This resource is more extensive than RLIN. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford English Dictionary: Regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive English language dictionary in the world. Includes information on the English language, its history, and the social, cultural, and political influences that have shaped the language through the centuries. Past Masters. One of the largest full-text humanities databases in the world. Includes definitive editions of the full corpora of the seminal figures of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence ranging from ancient Greece to the late 19th century. Includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary and Motif-Index of Folk Literature. Periodicals Archive Online: (1770-1995) full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Periodicals Index Online: (1770‑1995) Electronic indexes to articles published in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences since 1770 to 1995 Every article is indexed. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University Press): (1990+) Provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of nearly 300 quality journal titles from 60 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature: (1983+) Indexes articles from the most popular general-interest magazines published in the U.S. & Canada. Covers all subjects & such general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, education, history, sports, food, & science. Readers’ Guide Retrospective: (1890+) Indexes articles from the most popular general-interest magazines published in the U.S. & Canada. Covers all subjects & such general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, education, history, sports, food, & science. The retrospective database covers the years 1890-1982 and includes links to full text. Social Sciences Full Text. (1954+) Indexes and Abstracts over 2,400 articles, bibliographic citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the USA and Canada from prehistoric to the present time. Ulrichsweb.com. (1979+) Covers periodicals, annuals, & irregulars published worldwide. Includes daily & weekly U.S. newspapers; newspapers published outside of the U.S; & cessations since 1979. Provides contact information for over 80,000 publishers worldwide. Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (Library Use Only). This research tool for scholars presents an index to articles published in Victorian periodicals from 1824 to 1900.
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