Databases for Articles

LION: Literature Online http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://lion.chadwyck.com
	LION: Literature Online provides access to English language literature in full-text, reference works, bibliographies, web pages and full-text journals. [more]

ABELL http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://lion.chadwyck.com/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=abell
	Also Known as: Annual Bibliography of English Language and LiteratureABELL lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctorial dissertations dealing with the study of literature and linguistic published anywhere in the world. Coverage is 1920 to date. [more]

Gale Virtual Reference Library http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/morenetuomcolum?db=GVRL
	Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. [more]

MLA International Bibliography http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://lion.chadwyck.com/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=mla
	MLA indexes critical scholarship in the modern languages, literatures, linguistics and folklore. [more]

LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa3.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=columbia&access=columbia8&cat=llba

Assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. [more]

Literary Index http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
	Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references more than 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source. [more]

Academic Search Premier http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,500 journals. Over 3,500 journals are peer reviewed. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Provided courtesy of MORENET. [more]

Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?CustID=0000114818&prod=RGR
	Readers Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. [more]

A & H Search http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/autho=100336350;dbname=AHSearch&screen=advanced;done=referer;FSIP
	Also Known as: Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Arts & Humanities SearchA & H Search is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. [more]

ArticleFirst http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/autho=100155003;dbname=Article1st;done=referer;FSIP
	ArticleFirst is an OCLC index of articles from approximately 16,000 journals. Subjects covered include business, social science, science, technology, humanities, medicine, and culture. Coverage is 1990 to date. [more]

ECO: Electronic Collections Online http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/autho=100155003;dbname=ECO;done=referer;FSIP
	ECO: Electronic Collections Online contains the original content and images from scholarly journals. Full-text (primarily archival) access is available for over 200 journals to which the MU libraries also subscribe in print format. [more]

GenderWatch http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2QmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=45247
	GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues. [more]

Google Scholar http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/databases/googlescholardirections.htm
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JSTOR http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org

A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 4-5 years of the present. [more]

Project Muse http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
	Project Muse provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journal titles from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics. [more]

Journals

Browse Journals on Literature http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://mulibraries.1cate.com/?category=art.lit

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Other Resources Online

Literary Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Literature Online: Web Sites http://lion.chadwyck.com/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=www
	LION editors have selected substantive, scholarly websites dealing with English and American literature.

Voice of the Shuttle Web Site for Humanities Research http://vos.ucsb.edu/

eBooks / Books

Webster’s Third International Dictionary http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://lion.chadwyck.com/initRefShelfSearch.do?initialise=true&listType=mwd

Oxford English Dictionary Online http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.oed.com

Also Known as: OEDGives current and historical definitions and usage of over half a million words in the English language worldwide, from formal language to slang. Each entry provides etymologies and quotations demonstrating usage. The online version includes the 2nd edition and ongoing updates to the 3rd, and permits free-text searching of an entire entry or searching within the etymology, definition or quotation fields. [more]

Literature Online: Reference Collection http://lion.chadwyck.com/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=ref
	LION provides a collection of online reference tools, including author biographies, dictionaries of literary terms, and summaries of major literary works.

Literature Online: Text Collection http://lion.chadwyck.com/gotoSearchTexts.do;jsessionid=D99987337B34AEA3A50ED08900024C3A?initialise=All
	The text collection in LION includes standard works of English and American literature from Beowulf through the early 20th century. The search screen allows the user to define a body of literature by genre, time period, nationality, and author characteristics, and search within the defined corpus.

Google Book Search http://books.google.com
	Google Books contains the full text of books provided by libraries and publishers. Materials that are out of copyright (generally pre-1925) can be viewed online. For more recent books, Google Book Search functions as a detailed index. Books identified may be available at MU, via MOBIUS, or may be requested through ILL@MU. [more]

Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
	The first creator of ebooks, Project Gutenberg provides over 25,000 works. Audiobooks and digital sheet music are also available from this site.

Bible in English http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://collections.chadwyck.com
	Bible in English is a collection of 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and translations by William Tyndale of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. [more]

Copac http://copac.ac.uk/
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/
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British Library Manuscripts Catalogue http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/INDEX.asp
	The catalog lists handwritten documents of all types from the pre-Christian era to modern times. Reproductions may be ordered through ILL@MU.

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