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Article Indexes

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This guide lists, in approximate priority order, indexes useful to locate literary criticism, the technical name for interpretations of literary works, such as novels, short stories, poetry, and drama.A list of "article indexes" follows the list of literary criticism resources because students of literature may also be interested in locating research about the larger historical and cultural contexts in which literature is written. These indexes list primarily journal articles (some of these also index essays in books and one indexes dissertations) and are listed in approximate priority order, with the most frequently used indexes first. Their titles suggest the subjects they cover. Students may need to use more than one of these indexes to search for pertinent articles. In some cases the indexes not only cite articles we own in print but also in electronic full-text. In other cases, however, we won't own the journal at all and you will need to request a copy of the article you want through Interlibrary Loan.

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) restricted Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year.

Literature Online (LION) restricted A searchable full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites.

Literature Criticism Online restricted This database represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Children's Literature Review.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index restricted (Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.

Internet Public Library - Literature - CriticismLinks to free literary criticism websites chosen by librarians.

Excerpts from Literary Criticism
Each of these sets of books carefully excerpts key passages of literary criticism published in books, journals, magazines, and other sources. The Libraries may own the original publication from which the excerpt is selected and which you may want to consult. Use the most recent volume as an index to the whole set to locate the volume or volumes that may have commentary on the author or work of interest.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
PN 771 .C59 (Ref) 1973-present

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
PN 771 .T85x (Ref) 1978-present

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
PN 761 .N5 (Ref) 1981-present

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts restricted Indexes and abstracts all aspects of language study including linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as speech pathology. About 1,500 English and foreign language sources are indexed. Coverage: 1973-present. Updated monthly.

Librarian's Comment: Complete coverage is also given to descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as audiology, laryngology, otology, and speech pathology. There is some overlap with the MLA Bibliography and the Web of Knowledge.

ERIC restricted The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial

Readers' Guide Retrospective restricted Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Some of these periodicals published short stories and book reviews.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref.) 1904-98

Nineteenth-Century Masterfile restricted An index to over 8 million articles from popular and scholarly journals published between 1802 and 1906. Based on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the Masterfile adds periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. and U.K. government documents, and U.S. patents not found in the old print index.

International Medieval Bibliography restricted An index to articles in journals and other publications about Europe, the Middle East and North Africa within the dates 400-1500 AD. Coverage: 1967-present. To search, click Enter Databases, then the GO button.
Print: Z 6203 .I62x (Ref) 1967-2004

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