English Language and Literature Research Guide: Find Articles

Combined search of articles, magazine articles, and reviews. Can filter for scholarly articles and peer-reviewed articles only.

The MLA Bibliography indexes materials on literature, languages, linguistics, film and folklore, excluding book reviews. Access to citations from journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, and dissertations.

The annual bibliography of English language and literature lists English language monographs, periodical articles, literary works, book reviews, essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. Coverage begins in 1920, with select publications available between 1892 and 1919.

An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. The Citation Index allows one to find what later articles have cited earlier books or articles.

Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database for many journals with indexing and abstracts for many more journals in the collection. Nearly every area of academic study is included: computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Images are also included in this collection.

A virtual library containing works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Searchable database of full-text articles, essays, book reviews, plot summaries, poems, short stories, plays, and interviews with contemporary writers.

multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500c.e.). It provides a A comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

Most dissertations and theses are full-text from 1997 to the present.

Short tutorials that will demonstrate how to use the MLA Bibliography

The primary resource to find resources on history. Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. Materials in many languages are indexed.

Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada.

Indexes film and television periodicals. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. FLI Online contains citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

Provides full text searchable archives for journals of opinion, such as American spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harper's magazine, LaFollette's magazine, Moment, The Nation, National review, The New leader, The New republic, New York review of books, The New Yorker, Orion magazine, The Progressive, Washington monthly, and The Weekly standard.