This is a great place to start when you do not know where to begin. The Library Search is the library's version of Google. It searches both our library catalog and many of our databases all at once!
Databases allow you to search for articles about your topic. They show you information about an article: the title, author, and name of the journal or magazine the article appeared in. This is called the citation. Some databases also contain an abstract , or summary, of the article.
Many databases also include the articles themselves (called the full text of the article). When that happens, you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. If you do not see a link, click on
This will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
Some databases also have information about other types of resources: sometimes they have information about books, book chapters, government documents, and other things.
• Articles, books, and other scholarship related to literature, language, linguistics and folklore
Features:
• Saves your recent searches
• Citation tool
• Full-text, searchable access to a wide range of English language literary works, criticism, and reference sources.
Features:
• Robust searching allows users to find authors by nationality, ethnicity, movement and period.
• Includes full text access to a wide range of sources for literary research, including peer-
reviewed journal articles, book reviews, biographical and topical overview essays and poetry and short fiction from contemporary literary magazines.
Features:
• Topic Finder
• Person Search
• Works Search
• Abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
Features:
• Web News
• PlumX Metrics (tracks citation, usage, and capture data for individual articles)
• Provides citations
• Good to use for when you need sources
• Described as "an ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999"
• Contains abstracts and indexing for articles, books, and other scholarly materials related to linguistics and its sub-disciplines
• Coverage is from 1973 to the present
Features:
• Citation tool
• Thesaurus
• Saves your recent searches
