Research Guides: HLI 114: Western Lit II: Reference & Biography

Useful Databases

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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography, an EBSCOhost database, collects citations and abstracts for articles, books and other scholarship on literature, modern language, linguistics, and folklore.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences, a scholarly database, provides access to scholarly journal articles on the arts, sciences, social sciences, psychology and management. Full-text availability of most journals starts from their first year of publication. JSTOR is an archival database, so it doesn't usually provide full-text access to the most recently published volumes of journals. Full-text access is usually kept behind a "moving wall" of volumes published 3 to 5 years in the past.

Biography Resources

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Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
A full-text reference database that includes synopses, author biographies, literary criticism, bibliographies, and more.

Finding Background Information: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

The S.C. Williams Library subscribes to many databases that contain full-text dictionaries and encyclopedias, which can be excellent tools for collecting background information on any topic.

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Britannica Online
Britannica Online is the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a comprehensive reference work encompassing all knowledge, first published in print in 1768 and updated regularly since.