PennWest University Libraries: English: Resources

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Research Databases: English

Humanities Source This link opens in a new window The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
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 and JSTOR Primary Sources
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.
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.

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: English

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.
Biography in Context 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.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Noted for its award-winning in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy; each single-themed report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist, footnoted and professionally fact checked. Reports are published online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications.
Statista This link opens in a new window Consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and presented in a variety of formats including infographics, industry reports, and in-depth data analysis.
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window Access hundreds of U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wall Street Journal, and more. Coverage from the 1980's through today.

Web Resources

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Use this link to show PennWest full text in your Google Scholar results.

Google Books
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.