Resource Guide for English Graduate Students: Research Databases

Covers literary theory and criticism, film, radio, television, theater, all aspects of folklore, and more. Indexes academic journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations.

Bibliographical listing of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations about English language, literature, and culture published anywhere in the world. Literature: poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, and studies of individual writers. English culture: custom, belief, narrative, song, dance, and material culture.

Annotated entries for scholarly and popular Shakespeare materials. Reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.

Archive of scholarly journal articles in full-text. Use Advanced Search to narrow by discipline and/or publication title. Does not include recent years for many journals; date coverage varies by title.

Indexes full-text articles from journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

ProQuest is a general database (covers many disciplines and subject areas). It provides citations to books, book chapters, journal articles, magazine & newspaper articles including historical newspapers, dissertations, and other sources. Date coverage varies by title.

Literary guide to significant sources on a variety of subjects. Serves as an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Biographies, literary & cultural analysis, work & topic overviews, selected full-text primary sources (short stories, poetry, speeches, plays, and essays), and more. Simultaneously searches Gale's Literature Criticism Series and most of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Author pages, literary criticism, primary sources in full-text (selected poetry, drama and prose), reviews, and reference sources.*Searches the Annual Bibliography of Language and Literature.*

Index of important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered.

Provides bio-critical essays on the lives and works of European writers.

Provides critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world, and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements.

Provides introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods.