LibGuides: Research Guide for Literature: Resources

Recommended Databases for Literature

LION: Literature Online
Full-text English and American poetry, drama, and prose, as well as literary criticism and author biographies.
Project MUSE
WILL BE DISCONTINUED AS OF JANUARY 1, 2021.
Articles and book chapters covering the humanities and social sciences.

See journal titles covered in Project MUSE.
JSTOR
Articles and books from many subject areas (anthropology, art, business, education, history, literature, science, etc.) from the 1900s - present.
Literary Index
Citations to biographical information and literary criticism for major international authors and individual works.
Literary Sources (Gale)
All of Gale's literary databases into one cross-searchable environment. Literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of expertly written work overviews.
Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers.
Litfinder
Access to literary works and authors, including more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Humanities Source Ultimate
Subjects include archaeology, the arts, communications, gender studies, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Academic Search Ultimate
Arts, humanities, science, social sciences, business, and technology journals, e-books, and other resources from 1887 - present.
MasterFILE Premier
Full-text articles, reference book entries, primary source documents, and more, in a variety of subject areas, from 1975 - present.

Background Information

If you're looking for background information about a writer or text, try these resources:

Oxford Reference
Subject, language, and quotations dictionaries, as well as in-depth subject encyclopedias and other reference books.
LION: Literature Online
Full-text English and American poetry, drama, and prose, as well as literary criticism and author biographies.
Gale eBooks
Encyclopedias and other background reading in a variety of subject areas.

Websites

Today in Literature: Authors
Contains information about authors' lives and works, with links to web resources about each author
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
Collection of English literary works from the Medieval period to the 19th Century
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Contains hundreds of essays related to fiction, poetry, and drama
Bartleby.com
This site offers a collection of reference and nonfiction works as well as literature.
Modern American Poetry
Contains reviews, essays, and biographical information about 150 modern poets
Project Gutenberg
A source of e-books for works of literature in the Public Domain.

Additional Library Resources

Articles

UMGC Library OneSearch
Simultaneously searches multiple Library research databases. Note: Does not include all databases.
Databases by Title (A-Z)
Alphabetized list of research databases.

E-Books

UMGC E-Book Collection
Searches approximately 90% of the Library’s e-book collection. E-books can be read online, and in some cases, downloaded.
Additional E-Book Collections
Access to additional Library e-book collections.

Print Books

Library Catalog
Searches the 17 University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI).

Open Educational Resources

English Language and Literature Studies
Peer-reviewed open access journal covering English literature, linguistics, and translation studies.
Studies in Gothic Fiction
Online peer-reviewed academic journal concentrating on the Gothic from the 18th Century to the presnet
Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature
A peer-reviewed, open access journal from graduate students at the University of Alberta's comparative literature program
Early Modern Literary Studies
Peer-reviewed journal covering literature, culture, and language in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

For more OER Resources (including multidisciplinary and textbooks), see the Open Educational Resources LibGuide

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