Core Databases | Related Databases | Encyclopedias | Selected Web Pages

Resources with Full-Text
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Core Databases

Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Full-text

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides access to selected journals covering a broad range of disciplines including humanities and sciences.
TYPE: Full-text

JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collection
Provides a retrospective, full-text collection that includes many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Type: Full-text

Literature Online (LION)
A complete literature reference database which includes author biographies as well as literary criticism.
Type: Full-text

MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Languages Association database provides indexing of journals in the fields of literature, folklore, linguistics and modern languages.
Type: Index with Citations

Oxford English Dictionary
Provides the pronunciation, meaning and history for over 500,000 words in the English language.
Type: Full-text

Related Databases

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides full-text from over 200 journals in the fields of communication and mass media. Coverage extends to speaking, writing and public relations.
Type: Index with some Full-text

Google Scholar @ Marylhurst
The Google Scholar search is configured to connect to Shoen Library's resources improving the availability of some content.
Type: Web Page

IPA Source for Songs and Arias
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Source is the web's largest library of transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts with over 5598 texts.
Type: Full-text

Encyclopedias

Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
Covers world authors from many periods and genres.
Type: Full-text

Literary Movements for Students
Summarizes major literary movements including Romanticism, Realism and Existentialism.
Type: Full-text
Selected Web Pages

Selected Web Pages

Bartleby.com
Provides full-text access to many of Bartleby's famous literary reference works including Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's Quotations, The Harvard Classics and much more.
Type: Web Page

Encyclopedia Mythica
The encylopedia contains many definitions and articles about figures in mythology, folklore and religion.
Type: Web Page

Map History / History of Cartography
The historical site serves as a gateway to map resources online with several thousand links to map collections.
Type: Web Page

Middle English Compendium
Provides Middle English texts with an accompanying dictionary and bibliography.
Type: Web Page

OWL: Online Writing Lab
The Purdue University sponsored Online Writing Lab has provided writers with related resources for over 10 years.
Type: Web Page

Project Gutenberg
Provides access to over 17,000 works of literature that are in the public domain.
Type: Web Page

TEAMS: Middle English Texts
Provides translations of Middle English texts.
Type: Web Page

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