Suggested Resources for English
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Password protected; ONLY UMD students, faculty and staff both on and off campus. Indexes
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Academic OneFile |  |
Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals |
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Academic Search Premier | |
Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles |
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MLA International Bibliography | |
Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore |
Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...
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American Poetry Database | |
Covers the works of 200 American Poets |
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index | |
Index to articles in arts and humanities fields |
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Chaucer: Life and Times |  |
The complete works of Chaucer with modern translations and a glossary, critical commentary, historical information, graphics and audio clips in Middle English |
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Database of African-American Poetry | |
Works of 54 poets from 1760-1900 |
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) | |
Early English Books Online provides digital access to more than one hundred thousand literary and historical classics. |
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English Poetry Database | |
Works of 1,350 poets from 600-1900 |
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English Verse Drama | |
Contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works. |
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JSTOR | |
Full text of over 100 periodicals from first issue. A tutorial is available |
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Literature Resource Center | |
 Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
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Project Muse | |
Covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. |
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Scribner Writers Series | |
Full-text essays on 510 writers |
Web Sites
American Literature on the Web American literature and its social, cultural contexts. From Nagaski Univ. of Foreign Studies.
Edsitement Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
General Literature and Literature Websites Set of links maintained by Lilia Melani, Brooklyn College.
Literary Encyclopedia Profiles the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language.
Literary Resources on the Net Set of links maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, Newark.
National Endowment for the Humanities Home page for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Online Books Page Listing of over 20,000 free books on the Web by John Mark Ockerbloom, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
The Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
Voice of the Shuttle Extensive links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet. From UC-Santa Barbara.
For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:
Thomas Ambrosi, Reference Librarian Email:tambrosi@d.umn.edu Phone:218-726-7861 L262 University of Minnesota Duluth Library 416 Library Drive Duluth MN 55812-2495
University of Minnesota Campuses