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Literature and Linguistics

Arts and Humanities Search
via FirstSearch
Arts and Humanities Search is equivalent to ISI's Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete access to articles from more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles in over 5,000 social science and science journals.
Essay and General Literature
via Lan
 
Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. 
Humanities Abstracts
via FirstSearch
Humanities Abstracts indexex periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Full-text is now available for approximately 100 titles.
MLA Bibliography
via SilverPlatter
MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,200,000 records. 

Multi-Discipline

Full-Text

Academic Search Elite
via EBSCOhost

Academic Search Elite provides full text for over 1230 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

Expanded Academic ASAP
via InfoTrac

Expanded Academic ASAP 1994 - Present with access to backfile (1980 - 1993) Use this database to find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. It also contains full-text for over 750 titles.

JSTOR
via JSTOR

JSTOR contains extensive back files of full-text articles from major scholarly journals, many of which go back to 1800s. Use JSTOR to find information on: general science, social sciences, humanities, and business. The most recent 2-5 years of the published materials are not available in this database.

WilsonSelectPlus 
via FirstSearch

WilsonSelectPlus Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of full-text records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.

Citation

Biography Index
via FirstSearch

Biography Index includes more than 2,700 English-language periodicals and more than 1,800
books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews. 

Book Review Digest
via FirstSearch

Book Review Digest contains critical evaluations from 95 selected journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as library review media published in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction. 

Dissertation Abstracts
via FirstSearch, via LAN Stations 

Dissertation Abstracts from UMI contains more than 1.2 million citations, with abstracts
(since 1980) to dissertations accepted for doctoral degrees by accredited North American
educational institutions and over 200 other institutions.
World Cat
via FirstSearch
World Cat contains records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century

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