Recommended Library Databases - ENC 1102 - Prof. Erin Burns-Davies

Online Literature Sources

These are just a few of the many literature-specific databases available through the library. View additional online resources.

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies This link opens in a new window Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies analyzes and contributes to popular culture by offering useful information for researchers in social science, history, art, and liberal arts courses.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete provides full-text for more than 4,650 publications, including full-text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window The Gale eBook platform enables users to find and retrieve multi-disciplinary digital content from Gale imprints, and those of over 150 publishing partners. Titles are authoritative, relevant and DRM free and ebooks are accessible! Audio files can be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages. Content can be translated as well. Ebook content is highly findable via detailed indexing, Discovery Services and MARC records. Formatted citations are easily exported; bookmarked links will never change and may be shared with non-users. Users can enable easy web reading with HTML or enjoy a more visual experience with cover-to-cover book view.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search and find content across these resources in entirely new ways. Gale Literature features a new mobile-responsive design with all of the same features of Artemis Literary Sources, but with the ability to cross-search all of Gales literature databases. It includes full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, primary sources, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Gale Literary Sources replaces Artemis Literary Sources.
Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window This database includes all 2,800+ JSTOR academic journals that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window Literary Reference Center Plus is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. It includes full-text plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; literary journals; book reviews; classic & contemporary poems; short stories; classic novels; and author interviews.
Literary Themes for Students This link opens in a new window Literary Themes provides analysis and criticism of recent novels and other works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture This link opens in a new window St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum resource that will find use among a wide variety of users. Major topics include: television, movies, theater, art, books, magazines, radio, music, sports, fashion, health, politics, trends, community life and advertising.
Short Stories for Students This link opens in a new window This multi-volume series provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. It includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Films on Demand provides streaming access to more than 20,000 videos covering a wide range of subject areas.