Finding journal articles for literature
and linguistics:
The
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is the
key database for literature studies, widely referred by professors of English. The MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB), published by the Modern Language
Association, covers scholarship published since 1963 in literature, linguistics,
folklore, literary theory and, since 1998, rhetoric and composition. It is also
an important resource for the non-technical aspects of theater and film studies,
cultural studies, critical theory, and the history of printing and publishing.
MLAIB does not cover scholarship in Greek, Latin, and other ancient languages
and literatures. Only bibliographic citations are included; there are no abstracts.
Citations are primarily to journal articles, books, essays in multi-author collections,
dissertations, and conference proceedings. Book and performance reviews are
not included. Coverage for the years 1921-1962 is available only in print and
the Library has 1969-1987 and 1989-1991 in Reference Z7006.M64. The electronic
version offers easy searching by keyword, author, and subject (characters, literary
themes, etc.).
Additional
information about the database from the Modern Language Association.
Why
Is Searching the MLA International Bibliography Better Than Searching Google?
19th
Century Masterfile
A collection of indexes to over 1 million citations
from newspapers, periodicals, books, and government documents written before
1920. Indices included: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906, Stead's Index to Periodical Literature 1890-1902, and others. Indices
range from late 1700s through early 1900s. Each Periodical Index covers a different
range of titles, in total, approximately 1500 titles.
Title
List.
Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection of black drama, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than a quarter of the collection will consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. The result is an exceptionally deep and unified collection that illustrates the many purposes that black theater has served: to give testimony to the ancient foundations of black culture; to protest injustices; to project emerging images of the new Black; and to give voice to the many and varied expressions of black creativity.
The database covers key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by critically acclaimed dramatists of the 1940s. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works. Many were published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, others have never before been published or performed.
Students and scholars will have immediate access to plays addressing a wide range of struggles and triumphs, including migration to Northern cities, mothers’ keeping families together, exploitation by white land owners, interracial unity, racial violence, civil rights activism, and the black war hero.
Black Short Fiction
Black Short Fiction is the most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.
Within its 100,000 pages, which comprise an estimated 8,000 works, Black Short Fiction will include short stories published from the mid-1900s to the present. In addition to these published works, the database will feature previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts by many authors. We will have an impressive collection of fables and folktales, which arise from the oral traditions of many peoples and date back many hundreds of years. Researchers will be able to follow their development in both Africa and the New World.
Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from Africa, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, Black Women Writers brings together more than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black women from African and the African Diaspora. Many of the writings have been hidden in rare and hard-to-find texts, obscure typewritten documents, photocopied journals, and other fugitive sources. The writings present the woman's perspective on the diversity and development of black people generally, and in particular the works document the evolution of black feminism.
Contemporary
Authors
Contains biographical and bibliographic information on approximately 112,000
American and international authors, including modern novelists, poets, playwrights,
nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Covers primarily 20th and
21st Century authors.
Database
Fact Sheet.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism
A collection of critical essays about the works of more than 600 significant
American and international authors, as well as their biographical information.
A collection of critical essays about the works of more than 600 significant
American and international authors, as well as their biographical information. Database Fact Sheet.
Dictionary
of Literary Biography
Contains in-depth information about the lives and major works of writers. Includes
writers from colonial period to present.
Database
Fact Sheet.
Gale
Literary Index
The Gale Literary Index is an invaluable tool; you can search by author, title,
or even customize your search. The results reveal which print sources contain
literary criticism. Most of the academic print sources are available in Smith
Library's Reference collection.
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry® is the source for locating poetry in anthologies. It contains 250,000 poetry citations and 190,000 poems in full text. The collection is drawn from world literature from ancient to modern times in English and English translation. Included in the online version are a series of key Columbia poetry titles:
The Classic Hundred Poems -- a fully annotated anthology of the one hundred poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
The Top 500 Poems -- an annotated anthology of the 500 poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8–12 – an index to poetry in anthologies
The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2 -- an index to poems in the other main type of poetry book found on library shelves
In
the First Person:
Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives. In
the First Person lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across
all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly
materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases.
With a single search, users can access thousands of personal narratives in English
from archives and repositories everywhere. The search returns citation information
and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
Every imaginable topic, historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th. It’s the most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created—a one-stop starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to find, explore, and analyze human experiences. And it will be updated quarterly.
The first release of In the First Person indexes
more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. With upcoming
releases, the index will broaden to cover other formats (letters, diaries, autobiographies,
and so forth). By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of
full text and 3,500 collections—more than a million pages of editorially
selected materials spanning 400 years.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of core scholarly journals in cross-disciplinary fields
such as anthropology, economics, mathematics, and the arts and sciences. JSTOR is an acronym for Journal STORage and the focus is on older volumes
rather than current issues. Dates of coverage work with a "moving
wall" set by publishers, ranging from 3-5 years back from the current
publication year of each title. Some journals are archived back to 1800s. Updated
Monthly. Title
List with dates.
MagillOnLiterature
A collection of editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries
of the most studied works in the history of literature; also includes biographies
of authors. This database equals the complete contents of 31 sets of reference
books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literary
Characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews.
Oxford
English Dictionary
The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, authority
on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an
unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a
million words, both present and past. Contains the complete text of
the 20 volume second edition published in 1989, with 3 volume additions vols.
1-2 (1993) and vol.3 (1997). Dates of Coverage: Includes definitions of words
from their earliest recorded use.
Past Masters, Women Writers Collection
This collection includes the correspondence and journals, and primary works of important women writers in the English language. It allows browsing or searching the entire or selected works of Aphra Behn, Fanny Burney, Eliza Haywood, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Project MUSE provides full-text online access to over 300 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Disciplines covered include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others. Simultaneous searching of JSTOR is offered.
Renaissance
Women Online
When complete, the Renaissance Women Online collection will include
100 Renaissance texts from the main Women
Writers Online textbase, together with contextual introductions
and topical essays on women's life and writing in the Renaissance.
Women Writers
Online
Contains the full-text of about 200 early modern works by English and American
women writers. Dates of Coverage: 400-1850.
Finding additional journal articles: You
may find additional articles by searching in an indexing database. In addition
to articles, these databases also include references to book reviews and to
essays that are included in anthologies. Some useful databases include:
Arts & Humanities Search
Access to bibliographic information and citation references from leading arts and humanities journals. Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and more.
Dates of Coverage: 1975 - present.
Iter Guest Database
The guest database is comprised of sample records from Iter's full bibliography, from selected interdisciplinary journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Subject access is available via Library of Congress Subject Headings, Dewey Decimal Classification notation, and added keywords.:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- The Sixteenth Century Journal
- Fifteenth Century Studies
- Medievalia et humanistica
General article databases that may be useful include:
Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Books in Print with Reviews
Provides access to the complete Books In Print database of over 5 million titles. Includes Books Out-of-Print, Children's Books In Print, audio and video titles.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Iincludes articles from scholarly and general interest publications covering a broad range of subjects including science and technology, current events, social sciences, the arts and humanities, and more. Dates of Coverage: 1980 - present. Updated weekly. As this database includes popular magazines, limit your search to refereed publications. Database Fact Sheet.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. With a goal of including more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies and oral histories, it provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Dates of Coverage: 1840 - present. Focuses heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a worldwide catalog which contains over 54 million bibliographic records cataloged by OCLC member libraries representing 80 countries. Records include books, videos, computer files, kits, sound recordings, serials, maps and scores. It also includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Dates of Coverage: 1200 - present. Updated daily.
Credo Reference
xreferplus is an online reference collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, subject-specific books and more. Topics include biography, language and literature.
How to Find Out If the Library Owns a Journal
Search the ECSU Journal Locator to find out what journals are available to Smith Library researchers, whether in print or online. The Journal Locator provides links to both full-text journals in databases and individual online journals (if the library has a subscription). The Journal Locator’s link for print holdings takes you to the CONSULS record, which indicates what years and issues of the journal the library owns.
English Journals in Print: Current issues of journals and magazines are shelved on the 2nd (main) floor
of the library, and older, bound issues and microforms (microfiche or microfilm) are on the 1st floor, behind the Curriculum Center. They are shelved in alphabetical order by title.
Some Key English Journals to Browse:
African American Review (Formerly: Black American Literature Forum). Available online 3/01/1992 to present in Academic Search Premier.
The ALAN Review: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, National Council of Teachers of English
American Journal of Philology. Available online from 1880 to Winter 2001 in JSTOR;
Spring 1996 to present in Project MUSE.
American Literary History. Available online ONLY from Spring 1989 to Winter 2001 in JSTOR and
from Spring 2000 to present in Project MUSE.
American Literary Scholarship. Available online ONLY from 1998 to present in Project MUSE.
American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism and Bibliography.
American Literature. Available online from 3/01/1929 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier; from 2000 to present in EBSCOhost EJS.
American Speech Available online from 10/01/1925 to Winter 1999 in JSTOR;
Spring 2000 to Winter 2004 in Project MUSE.
Black American Literature Forum V.19: No.1 (Spring 1985) - V.25: No.
4 (Winter 1991). Available online via JSTOR (Winter 1976 - Winter 1991) and
from 3/01/1990 to 12/31/1991 in Academic Search Premier. See also Negro
American Literature Forum (1967 - 1976).
Boundary 2. Available online from 9/01/1972 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier and
from 2000 to 1/31/2007 in EBSCOhost EJS.
Callaloo. Available online from 12/01/1976 to Fall 2001 in JSTOR and
from Winter 1995 to present in Project MUSE.
Canadian Literature
Children's Literature. Available online from 2003 to present in Project MUSE.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Available online from Spring 2005 to present in Project MUSE.
Children's Literature in Education. Available online from 9/01/1993 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier.
College Composition and Communication. Available online from 3/01/1950 to 12/31/2003 in JSTOR.
College English. Available online from 10/01/1939 to 11/30/2003 in JSTOR.
College Literature. Available online from 2/01/1990 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Comparative Literature. Available online from 1/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Comparative Literature Studies. Available online from 2000 to present in Project MUSE.
Contemporary Literature. Available online from Winter 1968 to Winter 2004 in JSTOR and
from Spring 2004 to present in Project MUSE.
Critical Inquiry. Available online from 09/01/1974 to Winter 2002 in JSTOR and from Spring 2002 to present in University of Chicago Press Journals.
Early American Literature. Available online from 03/01/1973 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Early Modern Literary Studies. Available online ONLY from 1/01/1999 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile.
Eighteenth-Century Studies. Available online from Fall 1967 to Summer 1995 in JSTOR and from Fall 1995 to present in Project MUSE.
ELH (English Literature History). Available online from 04/01/1934 to Winter 1994 in JSTOR and from Winter 1993 to present in Project MUSE.
English
English Education
English Journal. Available online from 1/01/1912 to 11/30/2003 in JSTOR.
English Language Notes
English Literary History. Available online from 4/01/1934 to Winter 1994 in JSTOR and from Winter 1993 to present in Project MUSE.
English Literary Renaissance. Available online ONLY from 1/01/2002 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier.
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. Available online from 1/01/2002 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile.
English Review. Available online from 09/01/1999 to 1 year ago in Academic OneFile, General OneFile, and General Reference Center Gold.
English Studies. Available online from 2/01/1975 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier and from 2000 to present in InformaWorld.
Essays in Criticism. Available online from 1/01/1997 to 10/01/1998 in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile and
from 01/01/2006 to present in Project MUSE.
Feminist Studies. Available online from Summer 1972 to Fall 2001 in JSTOR and from 3/22/1994 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, and General OneFile.
Journal of American Folklore. Available online from 4/01/1888 to Fall 2001 in JSTOR; from 6/22/1994 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile, and from Winter 2001 to present in Project MUSE.
Journal of Biblical Literature. Available online from 1890 to Winter 2003 in JSTOR and from 3/01/1973 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Journal of Children's Literature. Available online from 9/01/2001 to present in Education Full Text.
Journal of Literary Studies. Available online ONLY from 6/01/2002 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile.
Journal of Modern Literature (covers British and American). Available online from 2/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Language. Available online from 3/01/1925 to 12/31/2001 in JSTOR and from 3/01/2001 to present in Project MUSE.
Latin American Literary Review
LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Available online from 10/01/1997 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier and from 2002 to present in InformaWorld.
The Literary Review. Available online from 1/01/1990 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Literature and History. Available online from 4/01/2000 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Literature Film Quarterly. Available online from 1/01/1973 to present in Communication & Mass Media Complete and from 10/01/2005 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile.
MELUS: from the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature
of the United States. Available online from 9/01/1974 to Winter 2003 in JSTOR and from 3/01/1991 to present in Academic Search Premier.
MLN. Available online from 1/01/1962 to 12/31/2001 in JSTOR and from 1/01/1995 to present in Project MUSE.
Modern Language Journal. Available online from 10/01/1916 to 1 year ago in Communication & Mass Media Complete and from 2 calendar years ago to present in Blackwell-Synergy.
Modern Language Quarterly. Available online from 3/01/1940 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier and from 2000 to present in EBSCOhost EJS.
Modern Language Review. Available online from 10/01/1905 to 10/31/2003 in JSTOR and from 2001 to present in IngentaConnect.
Mosaic: a Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature. Available online from 1/01/1993 to present in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile.
Mosaic Literary Magazine. Available online ONLY from 6/30/1998 to present in Ethnic NewsWatch.
New England Quarterly. Available online f rom 1/01/1928 to 12/31/2003 in JSTOR and from 3/01/2007 to present in EBSCOhost EJS.
New Literary History. Available online from 10/01/1969 to Fall 1994 in JSTOR and from Winter 1995 to present in Project MUSE.
Nineteenth Century Literature (covers British and American). Available online from 6/01/1986 to 12/31/2003 in JSTOR and
from 3/01/2003 to present in University of California Press Journals.
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Available online from 1889 to 11/30/2001 in JSTOR and
from 2002 to present in EBSCOhost EJS.
Papers on Language & Literature: PLL. Available online from1/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Poetics Today. Available online from Fall 1979 to Winter 1999 in JSTOR; from 3/01/1997 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier
and from 2000 to 1/31/2007 in EBSCOhost EJS.
Representations. Available online from 2/01/1983 to Fall 2003 in JSTOR and from Winter 2005 to present in University of California Press Journals.
Research in African Literatures. Available online from 3/01/1993 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Rhetoric Review. Available online from 9/01/1982 to Fall 2001 in JSTOR and from 5/01/2001 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. Available online from 2004 to present in InformaWorld.
The Review of English Studies. Also available online via JSTOR (1925 -1999).
Shakespeare Quarterly. Available online from 1/01/1950 to Winter 2001 in JSTOR and from Spring 2001 to present in Project MUSE.
Shakespeare Studies. Available online ONLY from 1/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Signs. Available online from Fall 1975 to Fall 2002 in JSTOR and from Spring 2002 to present in University of Chicago Press Journals.
South Atlantic Quarterly. Available online from 1/01/1997 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier and from 2000 to 1/31/2007 in EBSCOhost EJS.
The Southern Literary Journal. Available online from 3/22/1969 to present in Academic OneFile and from 3/01/1993 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Speculum. Available online from 1/01/1926 to 10/31/2001 in JSTOR.
Studies in American Indian Literatures: Newsletter of the Association for Study of American Indian Literatures. Available online from Spring 2004 to present in Project MUSE.
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Available online from Winter 1961 to Fall 2001 in JSTOR and from Winter 1999 to present in Project MUSE.
Studies in the Literary Imagination. Available online from 3/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Available online from 3/22/1996 to 1 year ago in Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP and General OneFile and from Spring 2001 to present in Project MUSE.
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Available online from Spring 1982 to Fall 2001 in JSTOR.
Twentieth Century Literature. Available online from 4/01/1955 to Winter 2003 in JSTOR and from 2/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Victorian Periodicals Review. Available online from Spring 2005 to present in Project MUSE.
Victorian Poetry. Available online from Spring 2000 to present in Project MUSE.
Victorian Studies. Available online from 9/01/1974 to present in Academic Search Premier.
Western American Literature
World Literature Today. Available online from 1/01/1990 to present in Academic Search Premier.
E-journals for English:
For a list of peer-reviewed, open access journals in languages, linguistics, and literatures, freely available on the Internet, see the listing provided by the Directory of Open Access Journals. This directory currently lists 100+ titles in languages and literatures and 80 journals in linguistics; you can browse other subjects as well.
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