Literature Research Guide

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This guide includes the library's resources in Literature.

The tabs include resources/databases for:

Primary Sources - Text and archival collections.
Journal Articles & Books - Journal Articles and books in literature
Encyclopedias & Bibliographies - Background information, synopses, and curated bibliographies
Writing & Citing - Resources for writing better papers

Below are links to quick links to databases:

MLA International Bibliography (1926-current) This link opens in a new window
Database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Compiled by the Modern Language Association.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more on authors, their works, and literary movements. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
Is a historical dictionary. It includes present-day meanings and also the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

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