Finding Resources Online:

1. Search a Specific Database

Recommended Databases:

Literary

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English Head, Dominic, ed. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006.
[1993 edition online; 2006 ed. in print at Olin Ref PR 85 C29 2006+] [Online edition restricted to Cornell]
Not to be confused with the Cambridge Guide to English Literature, this alphabetically-arranged compendium covers some of the same material, but expands its coverage to Africa, India, and other areas, and aims to include more material on contemporary literary figures. Illustrated.

JStor [Restricted to Cornell]
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.

MLA International Bibliography [Restricted to Cornell]
An international database providing references to scholarly articles from over 4000 journals dealing with languages, literature, folklore and linguistics. It is useful for finding literary criticism of a particular author or work, as well as articles on literary theory, women’s studies, popular culture, and performing arts.

LION (Literature online) [Restricted to Cornell]
Articles, monographs and dissertations from the Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL); full-text articles from literary journals; and biographical information on widely studied authors.

Literature Resource Center [Restricted to Cornell]
A complete literature reference database designed for the undergraduate student. LRC combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information to deliver a complete reference/resource package on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Centering on respected Gale sources, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism, this data set is augmented with full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material. LRC [also] offers the Encyclopedia of Literature, The Scribner Writer Series, and American National Biography.

Oxford Companion to English Literature. [Restricted to Cornell]
Also in print: Olin Ref PR l9 O94 2000
Available online and in print. Provides brief articles on authors and literary works from all periods of English literature are arranged alphabetically in this comprehensive single volume handbook.Contains extensive cross-references. Appendices include a chronology of English literature, and lists of poets laureate and major literary award winners.

General/Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Premier [Restricted to Cornell]
EBSCO Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 academic multi-disciplinary serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. 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.

ProQuest Research Library [Restricted to Cornell]
Includes an extensive number of periodicals, covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Also included are citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Full text of many articles is provided.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.
Available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library [Restricted to Cornell]
or in print : Olin Library Reference CB9 .N49 2005+
This six volume set is “designed to introduce a general audience to the main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the twenty-first century.” (Preface)

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