Electronic Resources & Databases


Databases by Title


Key Resources in English, Literature & Folklore



Arts & Humanities Citation Index [more] 
Current and retrospective citation database.
Coverage: 1975 to present Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library
Access is via ISI's Web of Knowledge portal.



EBSCOHost [more] 
Articles covering several academic areas, including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, medicine, education, and multicultural areas.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Utah Pioneer



JSTOR [more] 
Multidisciplinary full-text electronic journal collection.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



Literature Resource Center (LRC) [more] 
Literature full-text database.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



MLA International Bibliography [more] 
International modern language and literature bibliographic database.
Coverage: 19th century to present Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC


English, Literature & Folklore

Additional Resources in English, Literature & Folklore

(Listed alphabetically)

Academic Search Premier [more]  Service Alert
Multidisciplinary collection; contains scholarly articles, magazines, and newspapers.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Utah Pioneer



Acta Sanctorum [more] 
Acta Sanctorum is a principal source for research into the societies and cultures of early Christian and medieval Europe.
Coverage: Medieval Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Tanner Religious Studies Endowment



American Periodicals Series Online [more] 
American Periodicals Series Online contains over 1,100 periodicals originally published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.
Coverage: 1740-1940 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



ClasePeriodica [more] 
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Coverage: 1975 to present Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Dictionary of National Biography [more] 
Illustrated biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past.
Coverage: 4th Century BC to present Access: USU & Eastern Simultaneous User: 1 Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts) [more] 
Doctoral dissertations and some masters' theses from almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities; 1997-present full-text, citations & abstracts earlier years, back to 19th century.
Coverage: Varies by institution Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Digital Scriptorium [more] 
The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Coverage: 6th to 18th centuries Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Early American Imprints [more] 
Full-text and full-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States from 1639 to 1819.
Coverage: 1639-1819 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library
Use the Evans Text Creation Partnership interface for full text searching of the Evans/Series I titles.



Early English Books Online (EEBO) [more] 
Digitized books from the Short Title Catalog.
Coverage: 1475 to 1700 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library
Use the EEBO Text Creation Partnership interface for full text searching of the Short Title Catalog books.



Early English Books Text Creation Partnership (TCP) [more] 
Full text searching of many titles in the Short Title Catalog of English Books.
Coverage: 1475-1700 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [more] 
ECCO provides digitized documents of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Coverage: 1701-1800 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: USU's Provost and Vice President for Research Offices



Encyclopedia of Rhetoric [more] 
Comprehensive survey of rhetoric.
Coverage: Current Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Encyclopedia of Semiotics [more] 
Comprehensive reference guide to concepts in semiotics, sign theory, and cultural studies.
Coverage: Current Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) [more] 
The English Short Title Catalogue lists over 460,000 items, mainly in English, published between 1473 and 1800.
Coverage: 18th century Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Ethnographic video online [more] 
Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior, with more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Evans Text Creation Partnership (TCP) [more] 
Full text searching of titles in the Evans Bibliography of works printed in America from 1639-1800.
Coverage: 1639-1800 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) [more] 
Annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
Coverage: 1935 to present Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Humanities International Complete [more]  Service Alert
Offers full text to more then 1,200 journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



In the First Person [more] 
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies.
Coverage: 18th century to present Access: Freely Available Searching; Approximately 25% of documents require payment Purchased by: Free



Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) [more] 
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide.
Coverage: 15th century Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) [more] 
The leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the Middle Ages.
Coverage: Varies by journal Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Literary Index [more] 
Literature index to all Gale series.
Coverage: Current Access: USU & Eastern Simultaneous User: 2 Purchased by: UALC



Literature Criticism Online (LCO) [more] 
Over 300 volumes of the series Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Coverage: 1973 to present Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: USU



Middle English Compendium [more] 
Resources for the study of Middle English.
Coverage: 12th to 15th centuries Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



MLA Directory of Periodicals [more]  Service Alert
Directory of journals related to language and literature.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



New York Review of Books Archive [more] 
Critical review of literature, the arts, and politics.
Coverage: 1963 to present Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Nineteenth Century Masterfile [more] 
General index to 19th Century periodical literature.
Coverage: Long 19th century Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



North American Women's Letters and Diaries [more] 
Primary-source material documenting women's experience in the US.
Coverage: Colonial to 1950 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature [more] 
American literary history from the 1600s to the present day.
Coverage: 1600- Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature [more] 
Covers the history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Coverage: Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature [more] 
Documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world.
Coverage: Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



Oxford English Dictionary (OED) [more] 
Authoritative dictionary describing the evolution of the English language.
Coverage: 1150 to present Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Oxford Scholarship Online [more] 
Scholarly books in the fields of history and literature from Oxford University Press.
Coverage: Varies by title Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



Perseus Project [more] 
An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities.
Coverage: Varies by collection Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Project Gutenberg [more] 
Largest single collection of free electronic books.
Coverage: Varies Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Project Muse [more] 
Multidisciplinary e-journal collection for humanities and social sciences.
Coverage: Varies Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: UALC



Regesta Imperii [more] 
European History foreign language database.
Coverage: Long Middle Ages Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Scopus [more] 
Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature.
Coverage: 1823 to present Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



State Papers Online: The Tudors,Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I 1509-1714 (State Papers Domestic) [more] 
16th- and 17th-century British government documents.
Coverage: 1509-1603 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Tanner Religious Studies Endowment



TEAMS Middle English Texts [more] 
Middle English texts--excluding Chaucer and Langland.
Coverage: Middle Ages Access: Freely Available Purchased by: Free



Times (London) Digital Archive [more] 
The complete digital edition of The Times (London).
Coverage: 1785-1985 Access: USU & Eastern Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library



WorldCat [more] 
Composite global library catalog.
Coverage: All Dates Access: USU & Eastern Simultaneous User: 3 Purchased by: Merrill-Cazier Library


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