Emmanuel d'Alzon Library

Language and Literature Databases

Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,970 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Full text and abstracts from 1958 to present.

AltPressIndex -
Available via FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1991 to the present. Citations concerning cultural, economic, political & social change from nearly 300 alternative periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.

AltPressIndexArchive - Coverage is from 1969-1990.

Biography Resource Center
Coverage varies. This database combines biographies from nearly 80 Gale Reference Sources with full text from over 250 periodicals.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years.

ClasePeriodica -
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities from 1975 to the present.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
The current edition is available and this is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors selected from the printed edition of the Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Contemporary Novelists
Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets
Provides biographical and bibliographical infor-tion on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition.

CQ Researcher
Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Credo Reference Literature resources
Search four browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers.

Credo Reference Quotation resources
Search three browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Coverage is from 1980 to the present. This is a database of periodicals covering all major academic disciplines including many articles in full text.

Film & Televison Literature Index with Full Text
Funded by an LSTA grant.
"A bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews."

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Contains 8,000 to 12,000 word essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns.

General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
Personal narratives- the most comprehensive archive of social memory. Covers many topics including historical events and people from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th.

Iter Bibliography
An online bibliography of more than 945,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This material has been collected from 7,218 publications, including 1,617 journals.

JSTOR
Available via JSTOR. Coverage is from the first issues to the last 3 to 5 years. This is a database of over 100 full text scholarly journal titles including some volumes dating back to the 19th century.

LexisNexis
Available via LexisNexis. This is a full text database, updated daily, which provides access to news, business, legal and reference information.

Literary Reference Center
A full text database that combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO.

MLA
Available via EBSCO. Coverage is from 1963 to the present. This is the Modern Language Association's index to international scholarly materials on literature. Citations are from nearly 4,000 journals, plus relevant books and other formats.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
Available via the Oxford University Press. The Second Edition is available. This database contains the entire text of the 24 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Project MUSE
Available via John Hopkins University Press. Coverage is from 1993 to the present. This is a database of over 100 full text scholarly journals mainly within the past five years.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Includes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and an enormous collection of images.