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Current Research: Finding Articles & Journals Using Databases

Academic Search Premier provides full text coverage for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study from current articles back to 1975.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes more than 118,000 articles, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. It also provides links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Literary Reference Center includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, book reviews, poems and short stories,the full text of classic novels, author interviews, and images of key literary figures. It also includes the full-text of hundreds of books which contain literary criticism including the Bloom Series from Chelsea House Publishers.

Literature Resource Center provides information on authors from all time periods and their works, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and journalism. Over 100,000 authors are covered in general. "Author Resource Pages" provide a biography of the author and list of works, criticism and overview of the author's works, further resources, and current journal articles on selected authors.

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Finding a Specific Journal

Electronic journals can be searched by selecting " Find Magazines or Newspapers by Title" from the library home page. Researchers may also get a list of e-journals available on a given topic by selecting a subject category using the same link. The following journals are available electronically on literature.

Useful Web Sites on English Literature

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