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Literary Index (Gale)
 
Updated: quarterly.
Literary Index is a master index which combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Search this resource to find locate entries in the library's literature reference books: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, and Shakespearian Criticism. |
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Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
 Resource Guide
Through June 2008
Literature Criticism Online includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Literature Criticism Online includes full text content from 10 series':
Contemporary Literary Criticism® * Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism® * Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism® * Shakespearean Criticism * Literature Criticism from 1400–1800 * Classical and Medieval * Literature Criticism * Poetry Criticism * Short Story Criticism * Drama Criticism * Children's Literature Review.
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LitFINDER (Gale)
20th century essays, more than 1,000 complete plays from various time periods, and speeches from the past 2,500 years are included. Updated: quarterly.
A resource where one can search for poems, stories, essays, speeches, and plays. Over 125,000 full text national and international poems are available, along with thousands of short stories that are complemented by biographies, explanations, and images.
- Quick Tip: Find a poem among LitFINDER’s 125,000 full text poems. |
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1926 to present. Updated: monthly.
Citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Subjects: literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of language and literature. |
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Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press)
Coverage: 1150 A.D. to present. Updated: quarterly.
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium covering the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
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Project Muse
Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated: monthly.
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. |
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ComAbstracts (CIOS)
Coverage: 1980 to present. Updated: monthly.
Citations and abstracts of journal articles published in over 50 primary professional journals in the communications field. |
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Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
Coverage: Early 20th century. Updated: Daily.
This resource includes full text from at least 25 communication studies journals (i.e. full text for the National Communication Association Journal), and citations for over 40,000 articles on mass media. Materials in this database are the result of merging CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index with ongoing enhancements and improvements underway. |
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Web of Science (Thomson)
Coverage: 1987 to present. Updated: weekly.
Access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index,, Science Citation Index Expanded,, and Social Sciences Citation Index, which collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover. |
Multidisciplinary Article Databases | |
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: Daily.
Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600 titles covering subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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- Quick Tips: Find Book Reviews | Auto-Generate Citations | Create a Permalink to Your Search |
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JSTOR
Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001.
Access to the full text of over 490 scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001. |
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LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
Over 5,600 full text sources.
News: 350 newspapers, 400 magazines/journals, 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts, campus news, wire services.
Business: news, accounting literature, company information, directories.
Legal Research: secondary literature, case law, codes & regulations, tax law, international legal materials, patent research, career information.
- Guides: Finding a Case, Tax Research |
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Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1991 to present. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on internationally significant subjects. |
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Alternative Press Index. Archive (FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1969 to 1990. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on internationally significant subjects. |
Periodicals | |
English Periodicals
A title list of the library's individual periodical subscriptions in English. Many more English related periodicals are available through the library's article databases. |
Find Books E-Reference Books | |
Early English Books Online (ProQuest)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1475 A.D. to 1700. Updated: quarterly.
Early English Books online (EEBO) offers critical material needed for in-depth research. With more than 20 million pages and 125,000 rare volumes collected from over 150 of the world’s top libraries, EEBO provides online access to full-page images for 227 years of printed works ranging from 1473 to 1700. The texts cover subjects from art to religion, science to literature, and music to medicine. Search and retrieve the centuries-old books, pamphlets, and periodicals that helped shape and record cultural developments around the world. |
Featured Reference Books @ Murphy Library
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Literary Index
Online index for all of these multivolume sets:
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Something About the Authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Shakespearian Criticism
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Library Catalogs | |
NoveList (EBSCOhost)
NoveList provides information about 155,000 fiction books. Search by subject, author, title, author read-alikes. This resource also includes book discussion guides, reading lists, and more. |
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: bi-annually.
Provides citations from biographical dictionaries, volumes of literary criticism, and Who's Who for biographies of over 4 million people. |
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Contemporary Authors (Gale)
Coverage: 20th century authors. Updated: quarterly.
Includes biographical information, a list of the author's writings, awards received, and references to further information about the author.
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Who's Who (Marquis)
Coverage: 1607 to present. Updated: daily.
Comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and more.
Note: This resource is limited to 1 simultaneous user. If access is unavailable, please try again later. |
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Lexikon des Mittelalters & International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages (BREPOLiS)
Coverage: 300-1500.
An encyclopedia for medieval studies, this online resource covers all aspects of Medieval Studies for Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa, and includes over 36,000 articles. The International Encyclopeadia for the Middle Ages (IEMA) is a fully integrated supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters with a chronological range of IEMA is 300-1500 CE, and it will cover all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
This resource is limited to 1 simultaneous user. If access is unavailable, please try again later. |
Find Primary Sources Letters & Diaries | |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Coverage: 1701 - 1800. Updated: materials are continuously uploaded.
This resource contains digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century covering all topics. Materials include: English-language titles such books, Bibles, tract books, sermons, and printed ephemera. |
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