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Hathi Trust Emergency Temporary Access Service
Hathi Trust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) provides online access to in-copyright books in the Yale Library collection. Catalog records for ETAS items can be found through Quicksearch and Orbis. From the catalog record, select "Online Book." Then select the "Log In" link at the top of the Hathi Trust page to which you will be directed and select Yale from the drop-down menu (if you access Hathi Trust without using the VPN, you will initially receive a prompt to use Duo Multi-Factor Authentication in order to access the database first). In order to view the book, you must click "Check Out" from the book record page.
A short video on the Hathi Trust ETAS can be found here, and a library guide here.
Welcome
The primary purpose of this research guide is to assist students and faculty in the Yale University Department of English in conducting research; and using the Libraries' resources and services. The resources in this guide represent the best and essential research sources. You may also want to visit other subject research guides found in the Related Guides section.
For more assistance, or to schedule an appointment, please contact the Librarian for English Language and Literature by clicking on the "Email Me" button on the right.
Top Resources
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MLA International BibliographyThe 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.
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Literature Online: The Home of Literature & CriticismA virtual library containing works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
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Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticismSearchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.
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Oxford ReferenceBrings together digitized entries from Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning multiple subject areas. Includes research tools: timelines, quotations, and subject overviews.
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Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyThe Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains biographies of noteworthy people, no longer living, who inhabited or were connected with the British Isles.
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Gale Literature Resource CenterSearchable database of full-text articles, essays, book reviews, plot summaries, poems, short stories, plays, and interviews with contemporary writers.
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ProQuest News and NewspapersThis database provides access to both historical (dating from 1764) and current newspaper content for various ethnic groups and geographic regions, although the majority of the newspapers are published in the United States.
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Opinion ArchivesProvides 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. Covers domestic and international politics, arts and culture from leading authors, poets, journalists, and statesmen.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalProQuest dissertations & theses global contains dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.