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Welcome to the Literature Guide. This guide will introduce you to resources that may help you with your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help tab.
Research Databases: Literature
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window The definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources.
Media Resources
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Access streaming videos in the humanities, sciences, medicine, business, social sciences, and more.
Other Databases: Literature
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is THE definitive source for understanding the English language. In addition to definitions and etymologies, you will find a wealth of historic literary examples of how words have been used.
Web Resources
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Use this link to show PennWest full text in your Google Scholar results.
- Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg provides access to tens of thousands of free electronic books. Due to copyright restrictions, many of these are older, "classic" texts.