English and Literature: Getting Started

Largest collection of academic, scholarly periodicals. Includes multimedia and some reference.

Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.

CLCD’s Enterprise PreK-12 is a comprehensive resource to locate and research children’s literature books and media spanning from beginning to young adult readers. The service combines over a 1.3M title dB including valuable supporting content of over 600K professional reviews, 1.25K award sources representing 110K book awards, reading measurement programs, author links plus lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters for locating materials to determine interest and reading levels including a 18 STEM terms search feature. Excellent teaching tool to assist in selecting trade books based on standards; creating thematic reading lists, annotated biographies; interpreting reviews; developing classroom collections and more.

Topics covered include art history & criticism, architecture & architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles and much more.

JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Overall, it provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

This robust full-text database provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Provides differing views on social issues along with supporting reference, periodicals, multimedia, statistics, and more. Formerly Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.