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English Subject Guide Databases and Journal Indexes The following databases are only available to faculty, staff, and students of Charleston Southern University: Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)  A general, multi-disciplinary database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals Biography in Context (Gale) Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson on EBSCOhost) Provides book reviews on a wide range of topics, from a variety of sources, with many of the reviews from serious, academic works. Includes reviews of books for adults, young adults, and children. Book Review Index Online Plus A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews. Books and Authors
This readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction provides genre lists, plot summaries, author information, award lists, book jacket images, and book reviews from more than 30 sources. User-friendly tools allow users to store reading and search lists, create reviews and ratings, and graphically view search term relationships. Columbia Granger's World of Poetry An index to poems published in anthologies. Some of the poems indexed in this database are full text. Included in Granger's World of Poetry are The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8-12, The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2, and The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry. Contemporary Authors Provides access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors with continuously updated information on the most active authors in this database. Included are author-provided updates, expanded entries, bibliographies, awards, and recent update information. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides extensive biographical and critical information on more than 600 significant authors. Dictionary of Literary Biography Contains more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars. e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection: Expanded Provides online access to journal titles published by Duke University Press. Subjects include the Humanities and Social Sciences. The number of titles in the collection is expected to grow from year to year. All of the journals are also accessible by title through the library's Journals by Title webpage. EBSCO eBook Collection A collection of over 21,000 electronic books available in full text online. These titles may be searched in the library's catalog or directly in the EBSCO database. Formerly known as NetLibrary, titles in this collection cover all subject areas. Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson on EBSCOhost) A unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. General OneFile (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines ranging from architecture to biology and history to mathematics. Expanded Academic (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals. JSTOR An archive of scholarly journals that offers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Literary-Historical Timeline This literary timeline is incuded on a separate tab from within Literature Resource Center and allows you to target a specific date range for literary figures, movements, and historical events. The Literary Timeline Search offers a sociological, cultural, and historical context alongside literary reference. It provides you with a sense of events that took place in an author's life and/or the period in which a work was published, helping to make interdisciplinary connections. Literary Index FREE An index for Gale literature publication materials. This includes Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Children's Literature Review, Nonfiction Classics for Students, and many more. Literature Resource Center A database which will help you find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. It allows you to search each of the following databases individually or together: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer's Series, Twayne's English Authors, Twayne's US Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. MagillOnLiterature Plus Combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors, this database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors. MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOHost) Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. New York Times Selected full text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present is available in several of the library's databases, with complete digital coverage from 2008 to three months ago available in ProQuest Digital Microfilm. In addition, the library keeps the last 8 weeks of the newspaper in paper format, and has 1851 to 2009 on microfilm. To locate the correct resource for the date you need, see this list. Opposing Viewpoints in Context Provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, it features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Oxford English Dictionary Find the definition, pronunciation, etymology, quotations, and a date chart for words in the dictionary. Oxford Journals Online Provides abstract and full text access to journals published by Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered in Oxford Journals are the humanities, law, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine, and social sciences. Oxford Reference Online Premium Combines language and subject reference works together to form a large reference library. It contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works. Play Index (H.W. Wilson on EBSCOhost) Indexes over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title, author, subject, style, genre, or cast type. Provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations. Scribner Writers Series Features more than 1,500 biocritical essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. SIRS Knowledge Source A comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS WebSelect, SIRS Discoverer, and Discoverer WebFind. SIRS provides relevant, credible, full text information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. Twayne's English Authors Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers from Great Britain, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. It is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion written for readers ranging from high school students to scholars. Each entry explores criticism with new insights and original points of view. Twayne's US Authors Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers from the United States, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. It is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion written for readers ranging from high school students to scholars. Each entry explores criticism with new insights and original points of view. Twayne's World Authors Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers from all countries, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. It is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion written for readers ranging from high school students to scholars. Each entry explores criticism with new insights and original points of view. Print Sources Reference American Writers (Ref. PS 129 .A55) British Authors Before 1800 (Ref. PR 105 .K9 1961) British Writers (Ref. PR 85 .B688 v. 1-8 + Index and Supplements) Cambridge Guide to English Literature (Ref. PR 85 .C28 1993) Cambridge Guide to English Usage (Ref. PE 1464 .P47 2004) Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (connect to E-book or create a NetLibrary account first) Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature (Ref. PN 41.C3) Contemporary Literary Criticism (Ref. PN 771 .C59 v. 1-) DLB: Dictionary of Literary Biography (Ref. PS 129.D5) Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory (Ref. PN 41 .C83 1998) European Writers (Ref. PN 501.E9 1983 v. 1-14) Handbook to Literature (Ref. PN 41 .T5 2000) Literary History of England (Ref. PR 83 .B3 1948) Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (Ref. PE 1591 .L625 2004) Oxford Companion to Literature
Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature (Ref. PR 56 .B34 2000) Wilson authors series Index (Ref. PN 451.I5)
Ready Reference Contemporary Authors (Ref. Z 1224.C61 v.1-) Critical Survey of Long Fiction (Ref. PR 821.C7 2000) Critical Survey of Short Fiction (Ref. PN 3321.C7 2001) Critical Survey of Poetry (Ref. PR 502.C85 1982 v.1-) Critical Survey Of Short Fiction (Ref. PR 33321.C7 2001) Drama Criticism (Ref. PN 1601.D59) Literary Criticism Index (Ref. PN 523.W44 1994) Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism (Ref. PN 523.Z9 M3 v. 1-) Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Ref. PE 1628.M36 1996) Poetry Criticism (Ref. PN 1010.P499 v. 1-) Reference Storage NCLC: Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (Ref. PN 761.N5 v .1-) TCLC: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Ref. PN 94.T83 v. 1-) Internet Resources The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Text
The Camelot Project
Critical Reading, A Guide
English Literature on the Web
Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection
Literary Resources on the Net
LitLinks
Luminarium
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Online Books Page
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, A Research and Reference Guide Project Bartleby
Victoria Research Web
Voice of the Shuttle
Journals and Magazines The following journals are available in the CSU library: American Literature American Quarterly American Scholar Antioch Review Atlantic (Monthly) CEA Critic CEA Forum Chicago Review Christianity & Literature College Composition & Communication College English Columbia Journalism Review Comparative Drama Comparative Literature Computers and Composition Computers and composition Contemporary Literature Contemporary Poetry Critique Daedalus Drama Review Eighteenth Century Studies Elementary English ELH English Literary History ELT Journal English Education English Journal English Language Notes English language teaching Explicator Forum French Review German Life and Letters Greece and Rome Harper's Hispanic Review Hudson Review Humanities Index Journal of American Folklore Journal of Basic Writing Journal of English and Germanic Philology Journal of English Linguistics Journal of Linguistics Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Language Language arts Literary and Linguistic Computing MLA Abstracts MLN Modern Language Notes Modern Drama Modern Fiction Studies Modern Language Journal Modern Language Quarterly Modern Language Review Nineteenth Century Literature Nineteenth century fiction North American Review Notes on Contemporary Literature Parabola PMLA Poet Lore Poetry Poets and Writers Publisher's Weekly Renaissance Quarterly Review of English Studies Romanic Review, The Sewanee Review South Atlantic Quarterly South Carolina Review Southern Folklore Quarterly Southern Review Speculum Studies in Romanticism Studies in Short Fiction The Journalism Quarterly Theatre Journal TLS Times Literary Supplement (London) Trollopian: A Journal of Victorian Fiction Twentieth Century Literature Victorian Studies Victorian studies William and Mary Quarterly World Literature Today Writer Writers Digest Yale French Studies Yale Literary Magazine Yale Review Find a list of e-journals in English available at CSU |
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