English & Communications Research Resources
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Databases
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)(searching tips)
Academic Search Premier includes general interest and scholarly articles in a variety of areas including the social sciences.
Books In Print Plus Reviews
Provides access to millions of titles with thousands of full-text reviews, as well as publisher information.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Database of children's literature, from baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Many records include reviews, awards, and prizes for the book. Also includes information about reading measurement program information as well as best book lists and state reading lists.
CQ Researcher
Provides in-depth coverage of issues on a wide range of topics. Includes overviews, pros and cons, and lengthy lists of other sources.
ebrary
DWU has a trial to ebrary, a growing e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas.
EBSCO MegaFILE(searching tips)
EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for over 19,100 total publications and indexing & abstracting for nearly 24,000 publications. Thie database is comprised of EBSCO's Academic Search Premier,, Business Source Premier and Regional Business News databases.
JSTOR
Provides access to scholarly journals in many disciplines including business. Coverage begins with volume 1 for each title. Depending on the publisher, the most recent three - five years may not be available via JSTOR.
LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to informaiton in a variety of areas including the humanities and social sciences.
Newsbank
Access to local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers. Paid advertisementss and newswire articles are excluded. This database includes the Aberdeen American News, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the New York Times.
ProQuest (searching tips)
ProQuest includes general interest and scholarly articles in a variety of areas including the social sciences.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Online index to historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
SIRS Researcher
Provides in-depth coverage of issues on a wide range of topics. Includes overviews, pros and cons, and lengthy lists of other sources.
Reference Books
Contemporary Novelists -- 2001
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of contemporary novelists, written by subject experts.
Contemporary Poets -- 2001
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of poets from around the world, written by subject experts.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Academic Edition
Online verson of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice -- 2007
Works included represent a wide range of circumstances in which individuals experience prejudice in American, British and world literature.
Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream -- 2007
Provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream.
Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace -- 2006
Presents a myriad of viewpoints, so that modern readers can begin to grasp the complexities of war and its impact.
Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them -- 1997
Provides in-depth commentary on characters, themes, and the historical and social context of 300 most-studied literary works.
Literature and Its Times Supplement 1: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them -- 2003
Provides in-depth commentary on characters, themes, and the historical and social context of 300 most-studied literary works.
Magill's Literary Annuals
Each year, Magill's Literary Annual critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year.
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Mythology -- 2009
Topics include gods and goddesses; heroes and other key characters; motifs and global themes; major myths; and national or cultural mythologies.
Videos
- Films On Demand (Select "English & Language Arts" or "Communication" under Subjects)
- In Search of Shakespeare (2003) -- DVD 104
- A Light History of the English Language (1997) -- VT 1619
Online Resources
Communications | English | Languages | Writing & Grammar
Communications
English
- DWU Department of English
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century -- Digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers, courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
- The American Verse Project -- The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
- The Antislavery Literature Project -- The project's goal is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies.
- BUBL Link: Catalogue of selected Internet resources in Literature and Rhetoric -- Includes a nice set of links to general literature resources and also foreign language literature, women writers, poetry, etc.
- Common Errors in English -- Explains errors and confusion between words and how it affects their meaning.
- David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page -- "Dedicated to bringing the genius of Dickens to a new generation of readers."
- Encyclopedia Mythica -- Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
- Garbl's Writing Center -- This portal connects to a vast array of writing resources.
- IPL Literary Criticism Collection -- Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
- Literary History Online -- Catalogs credible literary criticism on nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature that is available on the free internet.
- The Literature Collection from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections -- The Literature Collection is a multilayered grouping of works in literature and the humanities. From medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical, there is something for everyone. Diversity rules: there are texts translated from Nordic languages, and texts left untranslated from Spanish; poetry old and new; and a rich vein of information about the writer James Joyce.
- Literature Video Courses on Academic Earth
- Mark Twain Project Online -- The Mark Twain Project Online offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet -- Complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
- The Poetess Archive -- Resource for studying the literary history of popular British and American poetry.
- Poetry Foundation -- Provides access to reading guides, a poetry finding tool, poetry-related cartoons, and more.
- Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) -- Free writing resources and instructional materials.
- Reading Women Writers and African Literature -- Overview of African women writers writing in French, South of the Sahara.
- Rhetoric and Composition -- Links to a variety of resources useful to rhetoricians.
- TEAMS Middle English Texts -- The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions.
- Victorian Web -- Information on every aspect of Victorian life, including literature.
- Victorian Women Writers Project -- Highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
- The Walt Whitman Archive -- An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
- The Willa Cather Archive -- Site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings.
- William Faulkner on the Web -- Site for the study of William Faulkner's life and writings.
- Writer's Handbook -- Instructional materials developed by the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Writing Center.
Languages
- TERMIUM Plus® -- "A trilingual data bank that gives the precise English, French or Spanish equivalent to designate anything from a simple tool or a complex machine, to a disease or plant, association or committee."
Writing & Grammar
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