ENGLISH LITERATURE: A Guide to Resources  Tags: english_literature literature  

PERIODICAL INDEXES AND DATABASES

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. 1920- (ABELL)

ABELL contains over 814,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. All aspects and periods of English literature are covered, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. British, American and Commonwealth writing are all represented. Coverage is international, including material in languages other than English.

 

Abstracts of English Studies. 1958 - 1991. Boulder, CO: National Council of Teachers of English. Olin Z 2011 A16

No longer published, but for 1958 - 91 covers about 750 journals for articles in English-language literature of all periods. Includes summaries. Issued quarterly; indexed quarterly and annually.

 

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

ISI citation databases -- under the collective name Web of Science -- are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic. search by footnoted source (1975 - date)

 

British Humanities Index. London: The Library Association, 1962- . Olin Ref AI 3 S94++

An index to about 375 British periodicals in the social sciences and humanities. Among the disciplines covered are literature, classics, political science, economics and history. Issued 4 times/year. Quarterly issues contain subject listings only; annual cumulations have author and subject.

 

Comprehensive Index to English-language Little Magazines, 1890-1970, Series One edited by Marion Sader. Millwood, NY: Kraus Thomson, 1976. 8 vols. Olin Reference AI3 S12+

Indexes articles, creative works, letters and reviews published in 100 small literary magazines published between 1890 - 1970, roughly half of them American. Arrangement is alphapbetical by author or subject.

 

Humanities Index. New York: Wilson Co., 1974- . Uris Ref AI 3 H91+; a1so Olin

An author and subject index to over 250 English language scholarly journals. "Subject fields indexed include archaeology and classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language and litera ture...philosophy, religion, and theology." Also includes an author index to book reviews which have appeared in the journals indexed. Continues Social Sciences and Humanities Index and the International Index.

 

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.

 

Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines, 1964-. Olin Ref AI 3 I368

Contains author and subject indexes to "little" magazines, mostly literary periodicals, published in Great Britain, Commonwealth, and ex-Commonwealth countries.

 

International Medieval Bibliography Online.

Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.

 

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies of the University of Toronto.

A bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Includes articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, editions, abstracts, discographies, and notes.

 

JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive.

JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields.

 

MLA Bibliography New York: Modern Language Assn., 1921-. first volume in print: Olin Z 7006 M68+

The premier scholarly bibliography covering languages, literatures, folklore, film and linguistics from all over the world. Online coverage back to 1926.

 

19th Century Masterfile: a paratext resource

A reference service for scholars, bibliographers, and students of the nineteenth century. It is a scholarly tool for mining the riches of this extraordinary period. It is a great deal more than an enhanced Web edition of William Frederick Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. It is a continually expanding resource for the study of Nineteenth-Century cultural and intellectual life.

 

Periodicals Index Online(formerly, PCI)

Electronic index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages. Coverage currently extends from 1665 through 1995.

The following databases are useful for finding secondary material on the history of Great Britain: