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Subject Guide: Literature INDEXES  |  REFERENCE WORKS   |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of Literature. INDEXES Arts & Humanities Search Citations for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Covers 1980-present. Updated weekly. Book Review Digest Reviews of fiction and nonfiction books. For Southwestern community only.* Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition (includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary) Enhanced electronic version of the comprehensive multi-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica. Contains links to relevant Internet information resources. For Southwestern community only.* Essay and General Literature Index Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature. Gale Literary Index For author research, begin with this index. You can search by author's name, title of a work, or author's nationality. Your results list will give you citations to works the library may own. Please check your citations in the library catalog. For Southwestern community only.* Humanities Abstracts Periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Includes some full text. Humanities International Index A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Covers over 700 journals published from 1975 to the present. All journals included here are indexed in their entirety (cover to cover). This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced. Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A growing online service that provides citations for published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through online bibliographic databases. Databases include "Journals" (citations for articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies from the full runs of 518 scholarly journal titles published since 1853), "Books," "Reviews," "Iter Italicum," "Scholars of Early Modern Studies," "International Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations and Institutions," and "Baptisteria Sacra: An Iconographic Index of Baptismal Fonts." JSTOR: Journal Storage Collection Online An electronic archive of scholarly journals from the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences. Each of the 100+ titles is an essential or primary one for its field. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals (excluding the most recent five years) have been digitized, starting with the first issues, many of which date back to the 1800s. Users canbrowse the complete table of contents for every volume and issue, or search for words or phrases in the full text of the article, author and abstracts. JSTOR displays articles in page-image format. MLA Directory of Periodicals Produced by the Modern Language Association, this research directory lists over 7,000 journals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory includes periodicals relating to the areas of literature, language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and folklore. Entries for each title include editorial contact information, information about submission for publication, language, advertising rates, publication frequency and circulation subscription prices. MLA International Bibliography Indexes the world's research literature in language, linguistics, and literature. Access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. 1963-present. Project MUSE Provides full image journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, in particular the areas of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. WorldCat Access to listings of the holdings of library collections worldwide including Smith Library Center. REFERENCE WORKS To find printed reference material relevant to your topic start with the library's online catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords to describe your topic. You can also check the library's Web pages for subject guides for specific topics to find other suggested sources. Below are a few titles to get you started. To find call number and location information, search the Voyager catalog. Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction REFERENCE, 1st floor 809.3 B353a British Writers REFERENCE, 1st floor 820.9 B777 Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia REFERENCE, 1st floor 803 B435r3 Cambridge Guide to English Literature REFERENCE, 1st floor 820.9 C144l Cambridge History of American Literature REFERENCE, 1st floor 810.9 C1442 Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature REFERENCE, 1st floor 820.3 C748 Cyclopedia of World Authors REFERENCE, 1st floor 809 C992 Dictionary of Literary Biography REFERENCE, 1st floor 928.1 D561 Encyclopedia of American Journalism REFERENCE, 1st floor 070.03 P192e Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literature in English REFERENCE, 1st floor 320.99 En19 Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century REFERENCE, 1st floor 803 En19 European Writers REFERENCE, 1st floor 809.894 Eu74 Literary History of the United States REFERENCE, 1st floor 810.9 L712 1974 Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English REFERENCE, 1st floor 820.3 Ox2 Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Twentieth Century American Literature 810.9 T918 World Authors REFERENCE, 1st floor 928 W89 WEB LINKS BUBL WWW Subject Tree: Language, Literature, and Culture BUBL LINK is a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). LINK stands for Libraries of Networked Knowledge. The Dickens Project A project of the University of California, this site is a scholarly consortium devoited to promoting the study and enjoyment of Charles Dickens. Electronic Literature Directory The Electronic Literature Directory is a unique and valuable resource for readers and writers of digital texts. It provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. English and American Literature A guide to internet resources from the University of Delaware. The English Server The EServer publishes 31573 documents in a range of humanities topics including essays, fiction, journals, theory, drama and poetry in its collections. (University of Washington) Geoffrey Chaucer "Harvard's Chaucer site remains an outstanding tool for students and teachers. It provides both introductory and critical articles, translations, glossed versions of relevant sources, analogues, visual and auditory aids, sample quizzes, a Teach Yourself Chaucer page, and a plethora of other resources pertaining Internet Public Library: Literature The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. Also especially useful is its Criticism Reference. Literary History Begun in 1998, this index to free Internet articles on English and American literature currently indexes over 50 nineteenth century British authors and over 200 twentieth century British and American authors. All links on the site lead directly to articles which meet rigorous academic standards. Library of Southern Literature The goal of the "Library of Southern Literature" is to make one hundred of the most important works of Southern literature available world-wide for teaching and research. The texts come primarily from the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently the project includes over fifty titles that were digitized with special funding from the Chancellor of the University and the Academic Affairs Library. Literary Resources on the Net A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature The New Chaucer Society "Provide a wealth of resources for study and teaching. Its rich, comprehensive list of online sources includes texts, journals, societies, conferences, and calls for papers...The Chaucer Bibliography Online, accessible from the banner across the top of the home page, can be searched by author, title, keyword, and subject heading." (Choice Reviews Online) Project Gutenberg The Project Gutenberg aims "to make information,books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." The Romantic Age A site that "encompasses the letters, correspondence, and in some instances the diaries and the notebooks of the most significant figures in English literature, letters, politics, the church and the arts," this site makes available electronically 18 collections of letters. The Romantic Age database offers full-text searching of all books; hyperlinks direct readers to more information about a specific letter's author or recipient or to a significant third party. Shakespeare Resource Center Collected links from all over the World Wide Web on William Shakespeare. Sections include: biography, works, play synopses, authorship debates, The Globe Theatre, Elizabethan England, and others. TEAMS Middle English Texts "Created by The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS), this is still the most important free Web site for Middle English literary studies, especially for teaching. By policy, the site omits the major canonical texts by Chaucer and Langland that are widely available in other student editions." (Choice Reviews Online) Voice of the Shuttle (University of California-Santa Barbara) William Faulkner on the Web A rich collection of Faulkner sources covering every aspect of Faulkner's life and work. The site is hosted by the University of Mississippi. PERIODICALS To find holdings and location information for specific periodicals titles (both print and online), search the online catalog. To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes.

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