ENGL 1190.103: Great Books? Exploring the Literary Tradition (Spring 2009)  Tags: course_guide english_literature literature linguistics_language_literature writing first_year_writing_seminars  

Some—but not all—databases provide full-text articles.

If the database does not provide full-text, but does give you a citation, take down the full article ciation. Then, go back to the library catalog and search for the title of the journal the article appears in. The catalog will indicate which issues of the journal Cornell holds in both print and electronic forms. The full text of the article may be available through a different database.

For more precise searching, search databases individually.

There are several databases devoted exclusively to literature. You can browse the list of others in the Linguistics, Language, and Literature section of Database Names. Here are the top two:

1. Search a Specific Database

Search within one of the specific databases listed below for articles on your subject.

2. Search a number of databases at the same time

From the Library Web site, try the Search by ... Articles feature. It allows you to perform a simple search across 4 general resources. For more precise searching, it is best to search the databases individually.

3. Try a Search by ... Database Names

This will allow you to find a database you've used before. If you can't remember the name of the database, you can click on Browse Databases...by Subject to see a list of subject-specific databases. The Cornell University Library subscribes to many thousands of databases. Each one of those databases has an entry in the online catalog. By clicking on the "Database Names" button on the library’s home page, you can either search for the name of a particular database (if you know it), or browse subject areas. The category named "Art and Architecture" under the heading, "Arts and Humanities" will present you with some of the options most appropriate to the subject matter of this class. You can click on any of the individual titles to get into the databases, or search them all at the same time by entering search terms into the search box at the top of the page.

Periodical indexes (databases) identify and locate the articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs.

Some databases provide the complete article online (the full-text). When full-text articles are not provided, click on the Get it! Cornell link to determine if the library owns the periodical you need, or search the Library Catalog directly for the book or journal title.

General Periodical Indexes

Academic Search Premier. Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing, 1984 - . (Cornell Subscription)

Provides indexing, abstracts (summaries) and some full-text covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.

Proquest Research Library. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, . 1986 - . (Cornell Subscription)

Available as part of the ProQuest Direct system, Periodical Abstracts indexes and abstracts over 1500 periodicals, covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. The ProQuest Direct Web interface provides the full-text, in several formats, of many articles contained in the database.

Specialized Indexes

Humanities International Index

A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities and provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records. Humanities International Index includes deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the area of humanities. The database includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.

MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1926 - .

An index to scholarly articles from over 4000 journals dealing with languages, literature, folklore and linguistics. Search tip: Enter the author's name on one line and a word from the title on the next line. Set language or document-type limits, if desired. Note: MLA also provides links to full-text articles in JSTOR & Project Muse.

Full-text Collections

JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive. New York, N.Y. : JSTOR, c1996- .

A full-text collection containing the back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals.

Project MUSE: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995- .

A full-text collection of recently published articles in the social sciences and humanities.

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