Databases: Arts, Literature & Humanities

Gale Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases including the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center, & Contemporary Authors Online.

This database includes all data from Humanities International Index™ (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 350 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literary Reference Center contains full text for thousands of plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies; 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 poems; more than 19,700 short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts.

MLA thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors' names, with links to brief descriptive notes.

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues.

Choose View all Resources and then choose OED from the list. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

ProQuest Religion is a valuable resource for religious studies programs and for anyone researching religious issues and perspectives. This resource presently has more than 150 journals, with most of them available with full-text.