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Finding Sources

Below you'll find a selection of resources you can use for your research. Use the tabs to navigate to databases, scholarly journals, books, and freely available Web resources.

Unsure how to begin your research? Follow the link below to access numerous tutorials to help you develop your search strategy for library resources.

Search Strategies for Electronic Resources

Resources

Kaufman Library provides access to many databases that can help with your research. In addition to the those highlighted below, you can access our full list of databases using our Databases A-Z list (link below).

A to Z Databases

English Databases
Databases that provide support for the study of English

Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central provides access to thousands of ebooks. New titles are added each year from leading publishers to help libraries build collections that meet the needs of their community of researchers.
EBSCOhost eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary eBook titles
GALE eBooks This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary titles, including current eBooks on Black history and experience, civil rights and racism, Hispanic heritage, and indigenous peoples and Native American studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Center includes thousands of plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; full text of over 430 literary journals; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories; full text of over 7,000 classic novels; author interviews; and images of key literary figures.
Literature Online (LION) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
LION (Literature Online) is a full-text library of over 330,000 works of British and American poetry, drama and prose. In addition to literary texts, LION includes biographical sketches of major writers, selected author bibliographies, and critical and reference works.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Contains literary criticism and biographical information about authors.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Detailed bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Video titles in humanities, social sciences, world languages, business, economics, health, and science.
Safari O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
NOTE: Please log into the platform using your GGC email.
This platform includes more than 35K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly’s global conferences. Includes content from more than 250 publishers.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 14,000 streaming videos: films, documentaries, and must-see movies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.
GALE Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
OmniFile Full Text Select This link opens in a new window
Full text research database that serves multiple disciplines.
Arte Publico Historical Collection This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of historical content pertaining to Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture in the United States.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life (AHL) is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 530,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study, including archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and other fields.

General Reference

Credo Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text online reference service.

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Video titles in humanities, social sciences, world languages, business, economics, health, and science.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 14,000 streaming videos: films, documentaries, and must-see movies.

Kaufman Library provides access to many journals both individually and through our databases that can help with your research. Below is a sampling of titles in this subject area. In addition to the those highlighted below, you can access our full list of electronic journals using the link below.

Electronic journals - English
Subject search result for e journals in English
Writing Journals
Journal titles dealing with the subject of Writing
Rhetoric Journals
Journal titles dealing with the subject of Rhetoric
Literature Journals
Titles of journals dealing with the subject of literature
Literary Studies Journals
Journal titles dealing with the subject of Literary Studies

Newspapers

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Christian Science Monitor
GALILEO Databases: Newspapers
Newspapers In Microform - Foreign Countries
Newspapers in Microform - United States
Newspaper Source
Full text for 35 national and international newspapers; selective full text for 375 regional newspapers; full-text television & radio news transcripts.
New York Times
New York Times, 1857- Present

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central provides access to thousands of ebooks. New titles are added each year from leading publishers to help libraries build collections that meet the needs of their community of researchers.
EBSCOhost eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary eBook titles
GALE eBooks This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary titles, including current eBooks on Black history and experience, civil rights and racism, Hispanic heritage, and indigenous peoples and Native American studies.
Safari O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
NOTE: Please log into the platform using your GGC email.
This platform includes more than 35K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly’s global conferences. Includes content from more than 250 publishers.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Electronic access to eBooks, journals, and reference works.

The link below will take you directly to books about Political Science in the Kaufman Library collection. You'll also be able to edit the search (limit by date, eBook vs. physical book, and more).

Library Catalog Search - Books

Books on Literature
GIL Catalog search on the subject of literature
Books on English
GIL Catalog subject search on books on English
Books on Language
GIL Catalog subject search on books on Language
Books on Rhetoric
GIL Catalog subject search on books on Rhetoric
Books on Writing
GIL catalog search for books on the subject of writing

Resources on the Web

The resources in this section are freely available on the Web.

American Verse Project
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
Bartleby - Great Books Online
Although bartleby.com has morphed into a pay site, it still has some free aspects, e.g., Great Books Online, which includes Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and The King James Bible.
The Booker Prize
Home page of The Booker Prize in Fiction
Emory Women Writers Research Project
A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century.
Jane Austen Information
Contains biographical and bibliographical information as well as links to e-text versions of her six major novels and her minor writings.
Modern British, Irish, and American Drama: A Descriptive Chronology, 1865-1965
Authoritative chronology tracing the development of modern dramatic literature and theory in Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States.
Online Books Page
Search 20000+ title list or browse by author, title or subject. Includes foreign language titles. (University of Pennsylvania)
The Oxford Shakespeare
The Oxford Shakespeare - Edited by W. J. Craig
The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare ranks among the most authoritative published in the twentieth century. The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse constitute the literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
Poets.org
Website for the Academy of American Poets
Project Gutenberg
An archive of public domain books available in a variety of formats including plain text, PDF, HTML and EPUB. Books can be searched by author or title. An RSS feed is available for tracking site additions. An online and offline catalog is included.
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Excellent source for information on American Women writers. Includes links to many individual writers resources.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Includes anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse. (Indiana University)
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."
Wright American Fiction Collection
A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.