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Abstracts of English Studies |
PE25.A16 - 1958 to 1991. |
| Academic Search Premier | Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications as well as including key popular magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Economist, and US News & World Report. |
| ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | Over 880,000 citations for scholarly books, articles and reviews in the field of English studies, from 1920 to the present. Links to full text. |
| Arts & Humanities Search | 1980 to present. |
| Book Review Index | Z1035.A1B6 - 1965 to present. |
| BookReview Digest | 1990 to present. |
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Book Review Digest |
Z1219.C95 - 1905 to 1993. |
| Essay and General Literature Index | AI3.E752 - 1900 to 1992. |
| Essay and General Literature | 1985 to present. |
| JSTOR | Archives full-text contents of several hundred journals JSTOR does not include articles from roughly the past 5 years - see Project Muse. |
| LION (Literature Online) | English and American poetry, drama and prose, 154 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. |
| MLA International Bibliography | 1926 to present. An essential index to articles and essays on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. |
| MLA International Bibliography | Z7006.M64 - 1968 to 1991. |
| Project Muse | Full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. 1993 to present. |
| Wilson Humanities Abstracts | 1984 to present. |
| Wilson Select Plus | 1994 to present. |
| Find Books |
| Option 1 - Ames Library Catalog |
Search for books and other materials owned by IWU
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| Option 2 - WorldCat |
A catalog of books and other materials worldwide.
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| Early English Books Online | Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. |
| English Call Numbers Ranges: |
P Philology and linguistics The Ames Library uses Library of Congress Classification. |
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| Reference & Web Resources |
| General Dictionaries & Encyclopedias |
| CREDO Reference | Dictionaries and guides to language, literature and more |
| Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | |
| Magill Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 vol.) | REF PN44.M3 1998 |
| Oxford English Dictionary | REF PE 1625.087 1989 |
| Roget's Internet Thesaurus | REF PE1591.R73 1992 |
| Your Dictionary.Com | |
| WWWebster Dictionary | Dictionaries and thesauri |
| General Handbooks & Style Guides |
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Chicago Manual of Style |
14th ed. REF Z253.U69 1993 |
| Basic CGOS Style - Columbia University Press | Part of the Columbia Guide to Online Style, this site features simultaneous guidelines for using both humanities (MLA) and scientific (APA) citation styles. |
| Glossary of Literary terms (Abrams) | REF PN41.A1841988 |
| Handbook to Literature (Harmon & Holman) | REF PN41.H355.2000 |
| IWU Writing Center Style Guides | Examples for APA, Chicago and MLA Style. |
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Literary Research Guide (Harner) |
PR83.H37 2002 |
| MLA Format - Purdue's Online Writing Workshop | |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | REF PE1478.M57 2003 |
| Reference Guide for English Studies (Marcuse) | REF PR56.M37 1990 |
| Reference Works in British and American Literature (Bracken) | REF PR83.B74 1998 |
| American Language & Literature |
| American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | REF PE1628.A623 1992 |
| Ben?t's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature | REF PS21.B461991 |
| Oxford Companion to African American Literature | REF PS153.N5 O96 1997 |
| Oxford Companion to American Literature | REF PS21.H3 1995 |
| Paul P. Reuben Website | Perspectives in American Literature |
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| English Language & Literature |
| Chaucer Bibliography Online | Searchable database of citations for articles and books on Chaucer |
| Middle English Dictionary | Also available in print REF PE679.M54 |
| Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature | REF PR83.O94 1987 |
| Oxford Companion to the English Language | REF PE31.O84 1992 |
| Oxford Companion to English Literature | REF PR 19.O94 2006 |
| Literary Theory & Criticism |
| Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism (Gale) | REF PN81.E6 1990 |
| Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory | REF PN98.W64E53 1997 |
| The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism | REF PN81.J554 1994 |
| Poetry |
| The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. 10th ed. | REF PN1022.H391994 - Indexing anthologies published through June 3, 1993. |
| The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works | REF PN1022.C631996 - edited by Nicholas Frankovich. |
| Originally created as a companion to the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, this site provides biographical information, criticism and reviews, some texts, a bibliography, and links to external websites for modern American poets. | |
| New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics | REF PN 1021.N39 1993 |
| Poetry Portal | A gateway to websites dealing with all facets of poetry. |
| World Poets | REF PN1021.W67 2000 |
| Authors |
| Gonzaga University | |
| American National Biography | |
| American National Biography | REF CT 213.A68 |
| Contemporary Authors | REF PN141.C6 |
| Dictionary of National Biography from the Earliest Times to 1900 | REF DA28.D45 |
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Dictionary of American Biography |
REF E176.D56 |
| Gale Literary Index | Search for an author or title to see where it's discussed in Gale's literature criticism series. |
| Internet Public Library | Literary Criticism Collection |
| LION: Literature Online | Literature Online includes biographical entries for over 4,000 authors. |
| World Authors 1900-1950 | REF PN451.W674 1996 |
| Online Full-Text Literature |
| Full text literature and reference publications. | |
| Classics Archive | 1,600 of mankind's greatest works full text in HTML and PDF |
| Early English Books Online | Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. |
| Electronic Literature Dictionary | Database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. |
| The Internet Public Library Reading Room | Texts of books |
| A virtual library containing over 350,000 literary texts together with full-text journals. Accessible to IWU only. | |
| Luminarium | Texts, biographies and criticism of authors from the Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century periods. |
| The Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center | University of Virginia |
| The On-line Books Page | This website facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. |
| Open Source Shakespeare | Shakespeare's complete works (derived from Complete Moby Shakespeare) |
| Project Gutenberg | A collection of over 20,000 free e-books from classics by Shakespeare and Dante to the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs. |
| TEAMS Middle English Texts | The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages |
| Women Writers Project | The Brown University Women Writers Project is a research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. |
| Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 | As listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. |
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| Web Directories & Metasites |
| Literary Resources on the Net | Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, this website provides a directory of links predominantly dealing with English and American literature. |
| MIT Libraries Literature Resources | Internet collections by period, genre, etc. |
| Voice of the Shuttle | Literary subject areas include literature (in English and other languages), literary theory, creative writing, fiction, and poetry, and more. |
| Yahoo Literature |
| Professional Associations |
| Academy of American Poets | This site provides biographies for over 450 poets writing in English; in addition, the site also includes a "listening booth" that provides access to audio recordings of poems. |
| Modern Language Association |
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