Literature in English
Use these databases to find materials from journals and other publications.
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MLA International BibliographyProvides information about journals, books, dissertations, and collections of essays in the fields of English literature and film criticism; has limited full text content
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)An online collection of early works printed in England from 1400 to 1700; contains the full images of the texts
Technical Communication
In additon to these databases, other library databases may be helpful for certain topics. For help with your research, please contact a librarian.
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Communication & Mass Media CompleteProvides information about journal articles relating to all aspects of communications, including technical communication, with a large amount of full text content
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Compendex BackfileCovers engineering and technical literature worldwide, including conference proceedings for the Society for Technical Communication; no full text is included
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ABI/INFORMIncludes information from many business-related publications that may be of interest to researchers in technical communication
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Business Source PremierAnother business database with lots of full text articles; has a lot of overlap with ABI/Inform but also unique content
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IEEE XploreProvides full text access to conferences and transactions on professional communication
Finding Citing Sources
Both these databases allow users to see how often an article or other item has been cited in the literature and where it has been cited.
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ScopusAllows users to see how often and where materials have been cited, helping the researcher to find additional items
Other Recommended Databases
These databases are collections of scholarly journals covering many subjects, including English literature and technical communication.
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JSTORA scholarly journal archive containing full text article content back to the early twentieth century in some cases; does not include the most recent years for many of the journals
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Project MUSEProvides full-text articles from a variety of scholarly journals; provides access to the more recent issues of some titles archived in JSTOR
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Academic Search PremierA multi-disciplinary database providing full text articles for thousands of journals
Search Summon
Summon simultaneously searches online journals, databases, and the library catalog to find articles, books, and more. It does not cover all library resources, so searching individual databases may also be necessary.
Oxford English Dictionary
Learn the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 English words, past and present
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)The OED is a historical dictionary. It includes present-day meanings of words, but it also shows the history of individual words and of the English language, with both definitions and quotations showing past usage.
Films on Demand
Films on Demand is a searchable database of documentary films on many different topics.
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