Databases
Academic One File: http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ps/start.do?prodId=AONE&userGroupName=mlin_b_umass&authCount=1&u=mlin_b_umass
Access to a variety of online journals, reference sources, and popular
magazines AP
Access through Healey Library
Website
Academic Search Complete: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/search/basic?sid=092fd45e-bd32-4e43-a770-92c15cfc99d7%40sessionmgr111&vid=0&hid=122
Academic Search Complete is a full-text database that provides access
through periodicals of multidisciplinary academic journals. AGP
Access through EBSCO Host
(through Healey Library website)
Cambridge Companions Online:
http://universitypublishingonline.org.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/cambridge/companions/
Provides online access to the complete Cambridge Companion series,
covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion, and cultural studies AP,
RM, EP, AGP, TD, MKa
Access through Healey Library
Website
Provides online access to online nonfiction books from academic
publishers AP
Access through Healey Library
Website
General Reference Center Gold: http://ezproxy.bpl.org/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_b_bpublic?db=GRGM
A general interest database that integrates newspapers,
reference books, magazines, and trade publications, among others. Searchable
articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the
arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. ES
Access through the Boston Public Library
website.
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar is simliar to JStor as a database of scholarly and
peer-reviewed articles, however I find Google Scholar easier to navigate.
Google Scholar lists other works that cite the particular article you're
viewing, information about the journal/original source from which the article
was featured, and if you're viewing a book, websites where you can purchase the
physical copy (in order of price). KM,
EP, MK, AP
Open Access
GVRL. Gale Virtual Reference
Library: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=mlin_b_umass
Provides general reference resources that span all disciplines. This is
a particularly good resource for interdisciplinary articles. DH
Access through the Healey Library
Website.
Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/
From Infomine you can access resources of all kinds: databases,
articles, online libraries, e-books, etc.
KM
Open Access.
InfoTrac: http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/
This database offers full-text, peer-reviewed articles of various
disciplines. KM
Open Access.
JSTOR: http://jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/
JSTOR offers access to numerous academic journals concerned with disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. RM, TP
Access through Healey Library Website.
JSTOR offers access to numerous academic journals concerned with disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. RM, TP
Access through Healey Library Website.
Literature Resource Center: http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/
Self-proclaimed “most current, comprehensive and reliable online
literature database.” Contains bibliographical and contextual content as well
as scholarly journals, literary magazines and critical journals. This is a good
place to start when you first start a research paper on a work of literature.
DH, AM, LP, MK, TP, ES
Access through the Healey Library
Website.
Literary Criticism
Online: http://ezproxy.bpl.org/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_b_bpublic?db=LCO
A curated
online collection of literary criticism. Brings together 10 acclaimed
multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on
authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. ES
Access through Boston Public Library website
MLA International Bibliography:
http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu
The MLA International Bibliography
contains books, articles, book collections, dissertation abstracts and editions
(excerpts from scholarly journals). You may select or deselect for peer
reviewed. You may access both primary and secondary sources and there are
various functions to limit your search including language and publication
dates. EP, RM, AM, TP, AP, MK, TM, TD,
DH, ADP
Access through Healey Library website.
Oxford Handbooks Online: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/about
Oxford Handbooks Online publishes scholarly reviews and articles by
writers at the top of their field in fourteen disciplines, including
Linguistics and Literature. RM
Access through Healey Library Website
Access through Healey Library Website
Oxford Journals: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/
Database of journals and articles published by Oxford University
spanning all disciplines AP
Access through Healey Library
Website
Project
Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu
Project Muse is
an online collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and
social sciences from not-for-profit publishers. Archives include books and
journals from university presses and scholarly societies. TD, AGP, DH, TM, KM, TP, AM, MK
Access
through Healey Library website.
As
their website announces, ProQuest databases is a "single source for scholarly
journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions
of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000
ebooks." You can search in a number of ways, some of which include by full
texts only and/or those that have been peer-reviewed; by author name, or title;
or by selecting a broader subject area such as history, social sciences,
technology, etc. (See ProQuest Flow under #3 Writing & Reference
Help). KM, AM, EP, TP
Access through Healey
Library Website.
SAGE
Journals is a part of SAGE Publications, an independent international publisher
of journals, books, and electronic media. The online platform includes access
to peer-reviewed journals, academic and reference books, teaching texts for
college courses, and professional books. MK
Access through Healey
Library Website.
A digital compilation of scholarly
works including dissertations, theses, research centers, journal and conference
proceedings, and popular scholarly downloads. LP
Access
through Healey Library
UMB Faculty Research Database.
http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=021011117609200000/RWWS5A863901/Faculty%20Research
A collection of many scholarly journals, research articles and
dissertations published by UMB’s own faculty.
DH
Access through the Healey Library
Website.
A searchable database of helpful webpages concerning information on
authors, theories, genres, and more across the humanities. RM
Open Access
Web of Science: http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu
WOS is a multidisciplinary database containing peer reviewed scholarly
journals, articles, and books. TP
Access through Healey Library
website.
Combined catalog of library
resources in the U.S. and around the world. It contains more than 43 million
records. It includes books, DVDs, journals, visual materials, musical scores -
anything that a library has added to its catalog. LP
Access through Healey Library.
Research
Guides
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism: A Guide to Selected Resources
http://umb.libguides.com/bookreviews
Guide by Tina Mullins for locating reviews of popular
& scholarly books. Includes lists of current and retrospective electronic
resources & describes how to find literary criticism of specific authors or
works in the Healey Library catalogue.
TD, ES, LP
Access through Healey Library website.
Boston College Library English Portal: http://libguides.bc.edu/englishportal
Boston
College English research guide portal. Boston College is part of the Boston
Library Consortium and many features may be able to be accessed with a BLC card
obtained from Healey Library. Guide is well organized and maintained. ES
Access through Boston College website
Ebrary provides access to to books
online but also you can search for research help. If you type “Research Guide”
into the search you will get a variety of books available online that have been
published in resent years to help students with research as well as choosing
topics. There are field specific guides as well as general guides for all
students doing research. EP
Access through Healey Library.
Graduate Studies Research: Structured Overview: http://umb.libguides.com/GraduateStudiesStructured
Links to various instructional videos viewable on YouTube. Subjects
include: Depth of indexing, balanced inverse searching, citation networks, etc.
TD
Access through Healey Library website.
Guide to Reference is a selective guide
to reference sources for different academic areas. These include print and
web-based, as well as free and subscription.
AM, TP
Access through Healey Library website.
Humanities
Databases: http://umb.libguides.com/humanities
A compilation of databases useful in
researching the humanities. LP
Access
through Healey Library
The
Literary Research Guide is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources
essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States,
other literatures in English, and related topics. In it I describe and, in most
instances, evaluate important bibliographies, abstracts, surveys of research,
indexes, databases, catalogs, general histories and surveys, annals,
chronologies, dictionaries, and handbooks. TM
Literary Theory and Criticism: http://research.lesley.edu/literary_criticism
A guide to
locate reviews, books, journals and other useful information in Literary theory
and criticism. University is part of the Fenway Library Consortium with UMB. ES
Access through Lesley University website
Mendely: http://www.mendeley.com/
Mendely is an online cite-as-you-write bibliography manager that
creates a searchable database from collected sources as research is conducted.
RM
Access through Healey Library
Website
Modern Languages Research Guide: http://umb.libguides.com/content.php?pid=4700&sid=28817
Provides list of databases for Modern Languages as well as
multidisciplinary databases. Also lists online reference collections, citation
style guides, and citation tools. TD
Access through Healey Library website.
Guide by Tina Mullins which provides lists and access to poetry
databases, books, e-books, journals, websites and a description of how best to
search for specific poetry related resources in Healy Library’s catalog. TD, LP
Access through Healey Library website.
ProQuest Flow: https://flowproquest.com/
An auxillary to ProQuest database, Flow is a convenient storage tank to
collect and organize online sources accrued as you research. After making an
account, and adding a link on your favorites bar, you simply click "Save
to Flow" and whatever website or document you're viewing is saved to your
Flow library (along with its corresponding citation). KM
Research Guide at Healey Library:
http://umb.libguides.com/home
The Research Guides at Healey Library provide a list of selected
resources like databases and academic websites, organized by academic
disciplines. AGP
Access through Healey Library
website.
RefWorks: http://www.refworks.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/refworks2/default.aspx?r=references|MainLayout::init
Another bibliography generator and research organizer. Your Healey
Library barcode gives you free access to this tool. DH, RM
Access through the Healey
Library.
This site is designed around helping
students research a topic. You can sort your results by method, field, content
and more. You can also preform an advances search. EP, TM
Access through Healey Website.
Scholar’s Tools: http://umb.libguides.com/scholartools
This is one of the graduate student research guides that
provides lists of databases for
funding resources, ‘highly cited’ (resources to evaluate and compare journals
using citation data), and citation managers. TD
Access through Healey Library website.
Writing
and Reference Help
Compilation of citation tips,
organizational tools and writing help.
LP
Access
through Healey Library
Helps keep your research organized and generates accurate works cited
and bibliography pages. By typing in your source (website, book, journal, etc.)
EasyBib will generate a citation for that source in whatever style you prefer
(MLA, APA, Chicago). KM, DH, MK
Access through the Healey
Library.
Just
another writing lab that has a friendly user face if you aren’t so enamored by
the much touted Purdue OWL. TM
Open Access
Graduate
Writing Center: http://graduatewritingcenter.wikispaces.umb.edu
Online compilation of tools used in
the Graduate Writing Center’s objective of helping students learn to write papers and
research at the graduate level. LP
Access
through UMB website.
This
is online resource created and maintained by Jack Lynch, an English Professor
at Rutgers University in Newark. He based on guides he put together for his
class. It includes guides, comments and suggestions on grammatical rules and
explanations, usage, and style. MK
Open Access.
24-hour assistance from a reference
librarian, whether at UMB or another university. They offer assistance via
text, chat, email, call or by appointment. LP
Access
through Healey Library
MLA Style Guide: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Complete and constantly updated guide to the MLA citation format AP
Open Access.
Online Writing Lab (OWL): owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
OWL is much more than just a guide on citation (listed below). In an
effort to "assist clients in their development as writers," OWL
features resources for a variety of situations: be it English teachers and
tutors needing to develop curricula, or writing letters of recommendation; ESL
teachers, tutors, and students; subject-specific writing
(technical/professional writing, journalistic, medical, etc.); or those creating
resumes, completing job applications, or writing job search letters. KM, RM, TM, ES, AGP, TP, EP, MK, AM
OWL Research and Citation
Resources: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
A detailed guide on researching, evaluating sources, and how to
correctly cite your sources using the APA Style, MLA Style, or Chicago Manual
of Style. KM
Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com
Etymological dictionary of the English language, includes obscure uses
and history of linguistic evolution AP, LP
Access through Healey Library
Website
Oxford Dictionaries and Reference Online:
The Oxford Dictionaries and Reference
Online provides recommendations on grammar, spelling, and usage; and specialist
dictionaries for writers, editors, proofreaders, and other professionals. AM
Access through Healey Library website.
Allows you to create a database of resources for a research project,
keep notes about specific articles, insert references directly into your paper,
and created a formatted bibliography using APA, MLA, etc. TD, AM
Access
through Healey Library website.
This source may not totally fit in
this category/assignment but by following the above link you may chat online
with a research librarian or email one directly for reference and research
help. This is helpful for students who cannot physically go to the library and
the librarians are quick to answer. EP
Access
through Healey Library.
UNC Writing Center Handouts: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/
Handouts to
assist in the process of writing research papers and articles. Some links also
include video workshops. ES
Access through the University of North Carolina website
Access through the University of North Carolina website
Writing
and Research Help: http://umb.libguides.com/
Research guide referencing writing
and citation assistance.LP
Access
through Healey Library Website.
Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/
Tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research sources.
Is able to “sense” citation information available in any given PDF, book,
article, webpage, etc. and allows you to save this information easily. TD
Access through Healey Library website.
Access to Print
Materials
ACLS Humanities E-Book:
http://www.humanitiesebook.org.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/about-us/description.html
ACLS Humanities E-Book is an online collection of about 4,300 books
relevant to the humanities. What makes this database stand out from many others
is that E-Book features the book in its entirety - not just selected excerpts.
KM, MK, TD
Access through Healey Library
website.
An online platform of eBooks of US copyright titles. The selection is not as robust as Project Gutenberg’s, but
the interface is more user-friendly and it displays text within a frame that
includes links to notes and biographical records (that includes researcher-friendly
items such as publication details and citations). There are links to Amazon to
buy a hardcopy of the text as well as a small selection of titles that can be
downloaded in PDF format. MK
Direct online access.
Boston Consortium
A collection of libraries from different universities over a broad
range of disciplines and eras. Involved schools are Babson College, Bentley
University, Berklee College of Music, Boston College, Boston University,
Brandeis University, Emerson College, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Olin College, Suffolk
University, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Wheaton College TP
Access with a Boston Consortium
card – get it at Healey Library.
Boston Public Library
Public access to books and journals across a wide range of disciplines.
TP, AGP
Free access, can loan books with
a BPL library card.
Boston Public Library Archival
& Manuscript Finding Aid Database:
http://archon.bpl.org/?p=collections/collections
This database lists the archives and manuscripts held in hard copy at
the Boston Public Library. KM
Access through the Healey Library
website.
Boston Public Library Interlibrary Loan: http://www.bpl.org/research/illoan.htm
System in
place to obtain print materials from other libraries when not in the possession
of the Boston Public Library. Boston Public Library card required to use. ES
Access through the Boston Public Library website.
Access through the Boston Public Library website.
EBSCO ebook Collection: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/search/basic?sid=dcd8a435-7eba-47c9-b03c-0521c1fb1116%40sessionmgr110&vid=0&hid=127
EBSCO E-Book Collection contains thousands of full-text and partial,
downloadable e-books in an array of disciplines. RM, AP
Access through Healey Library
Website
Eighteenth Century
Collections Online: http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ecco/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=mlin_b_umass
This source contains an enormous
amount of scanned printed works from the eighteenth century from their original
documents. This is an excellent place to find primary sources as well as images
that the original documents contained as well as cover pages and title pages. EP, RM, TM
Access
through Healey Library Website.
As the title suggests this source
provides scanned copies of books published from 1473-1700 online. This is a
great source like the Eighteenth Century Collections Online because these
copies include pictures and title pages that provide insight into how the
original material was presented. EP, DH,
AGP, AM, AP
Access through Healey Library.
Ebrary:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/umass/home.action
Ebrary contains thousands of volumes of full-text non-fiction works. RM
Access through Healey Library
Website
Folger Digital Texts:
http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/
Folder Digital Texts database offers access to digital versions of Shakespeare’s plays from the Folder Shakespeare Library, including source texts. RM
Access through Healey Library Website
Folder Digital Texts database offers access to digital versions of Shakespeare’s plays from the Folder Shakespeare Library, including source texts. RM
Access through Healey Library Website
Gale
Virtual Reference Library: http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=mlin_b_umass&authCount=1
The Gale Virtual Reference Library
contains peer reviewed electronic books that
contain reviews, bibliographies, as well as some primary sources and
printed novels online. EP
Access through Healey Library.
This source provides electronic access
to a variety of books and can be used for primary sources. Many books are
available for free in full text. If it is in the public domain, PDF copies can be
downloaded. AM, EP
Access through
Healey Library
Google Book Search + WorldCat: http://books.google.com/
From Modern Languages Research
Guide: “you have an index, word-by-word, of over 10 million books
(equivalent to the world's great research collections) and you have a system
that lets you order any book you discover, and obtain free of charge within a
week or so. Here's how it works: Search Google Books for specific
references. When you discover a book in Google Book Search, open up the page
for UMass Boston
WorldCat and search using the book title. If we do not own
the book, simply click on the box REQUEST ITEM. You will receive
an email when the book is waiting for you at the Circulation Desk.” TD
Access through google.com
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
Google Scholar provides a way to broadly
search for scholarly literature, including articles, books, and theses. By
adding “UMass Boston” as an option to the settings, Google Scholar will be
linked to EBSCO LinkSource. AM, AGP
Access through Healey Library website.
Healey Library
Available to students at UMB and covering a broad range of disciplines
relevant to the studies conducted at the university and beyond. TP, AGP
Loan books with a library
barcode.
(HEB)
online collection of books in the humanities, offered by the ACLS in
collaboration with twenty learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers,
and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. MK
Access through Healey
website
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) & Worldcat Local: http://www.umb.edu/library/interlibrary_loan
Healy’s interlibrary loan service for access beyond what is available
in the e-resources & library catalog. You can request scanned copies of
book chapters, articles, conferences, etc. or physical copies of Books, CDs,
DVDs, theses, etc. TD, ES, AGP, AP, AM
Access through Healey Library website.
Access to dictionaries,
encyclopedias, public databases, handbooks and other sources. LP
Access
through Healey Library
Project
Gutenberg is an online platform that offers over 46,000 free eBooks that are a
mix of copyright (permission for non-commercial use) and expired US copyright
titles. Users can read the books online or download them in epub or kindle
formats. MK, AM, AGP
Direct online access.
Archive center is open by
appointment only, but offers thousands of archived titles, photos, etc. LP
Access
through Healey Library
Worldcat: http://umb.libguides.com/worldcat
Combined catalog of over 9,000 libraries worldwide – records of over 74
million books and other materials, including videos, music, and articles.
Connects directly to UMB interlibrary loan services. TD, AGP
Access through Healey Library website.
Field
Specific Resources
Literature
English Literature Resources Online: http://www.literature-study-online.com/resources/
Online resource with a vast array of links to a varied
amount of online information on English general resources. Covers all times and
eras as well as authors and is searchable. ES
Access via above link. No special access required.
Access via above link. No special access required.
ipl2: IPL
- Arts and Humanities – Literature: http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&cid=1&tid=7006&parent=6925
ipl2 is a directory of online
resources grouped by subject such as Arts and Humanities, Education, Business,
Law and Government, Social Sciences, etc. The Literature (under Arts and Humanities) has links to literary criticism, authors (biographies,
interviews, and critical essays), literary periods, writing, and online
texts. MKh
Open Access.
The ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains
critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be
browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The
collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be.
The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness. TM
Found Online
Online literature, poetry, periodicals, in forums,
references, quizzes etc. MKh
Open Access
Articles on British literature before
1900 and on relations between British literature and works in the classical,
Romance and Germanic languages. MK
Access through Healey website
American Literature/Culture
America: History
and Life: http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/basic?sid=de21980e-b323-483c-80f9-6100997d8a8f%40sessionmgr114&vid=0&hid=127
America: History and Life is a reference database for
American Studies, containing sources for researching the history and culture of
the U.S. and Canada since prehistory. RM
Access
through Healey Library Website
American Literature Resources: http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sites.htm
A list of websites for general and specific American
Literature information. Searchable and contains links to many different eras of
American literature.
ES
Access via above link. No special access required.
American
Periodicals Series Online: http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/americanperiodicals?accountid=28932&clientId=46815
This database features American periodicals (including
magazines, journals, and newspapers) published between 1740-1940. This site would be especially helpful when
researching the cultural context in which a particular text was written and/or
published. KM, MKa
JFK Presidential
Library & Museum - Ernest Hemingway Collection: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/The-Ernest-Hemingway-Collection.aspx
The JFK Library is, according to their website,
"the world's principal center for research on the life and work of this
author," a statement entirely believable when you consider all that the
collection entails. In addition to the rare items at the library, online
resources include a photo exhibit, scholarly articles relevant to Hemingway
research, links to additional resources, etc.
KM
Texas
Studies in Literature & Language: http://utpress.utexas.edu/
Essays and review essays in all areas of literature and in
American studies MKa
Access
through Healey website
U.S. History and/or World History In Context: http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ic/uhic/home?u=mlin_b_umass&p=UHIC%3AWHIC
U.S. History in Context is a database of background,
contextual, and supplementary information behind all aspects of American
history and culture. By selecting a topic you can access original documents,
primary sources, and other important references relevant to your chosen topic.
This database also offers World History In Context. KM
Access through
Healey Library website.
Ancient Texts
Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae: http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/inst/fontsel
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae contains an always-increasing
collection of Greek texts—from ancient works to present day
publications—digitalized. RM
Access through
Healey Library Website
British Literature and Culture
General
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins): www.sel.rice.edu
Historical and critical essays contributing significantly
to the understanding of English literature, 1500-1900. MKa
Access through Healey website
By Period
Romantic Circles is a scholarly website about
the Romantic Period literature and culture. It is published by the University
of Maryland. The website contains essays, links, interviews (audio recordings),
reviews and news about the period; all content is contributed by a global and
expanding community of editors, contributors, and users, and is overseen by an
Advisory Board. MK
Direct
online access.
The Victorian Web was created
by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
The site concentrates on the Victorian age in the United Kingdom (1837-1901),
but it also included material on the years directly before and after those
years. The Victorian Web is acomplex matrix that includes books, paintings,
political events, well-known Victorians primary and secondary texts (including
scholarly book reviews) in Economics, literature, technology, visual arts,
science, philosophy, and political and social history. MK
Direct
online access.
The Victorian
Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/misc/vwintro.html
An academic and scholarly website supported by Brown
University, The Victorian Web archives primary and secondary texts from the
Victorian period as well as texts pertaining to Victorian history and culture.
AGP
Access through
Google.
C19 is an indexing tool that allows one to search major
indexes of 19th century materials. One can search all indexes at once or select
an index(s) to search. The indexes included are those for Books: Dictionary of
Nineteenth Century Journalism; Nineteenth Century Short title catalog;
Nineteenth Century microfiche project; those for Periodicals: American
Periodicals Series; British Periodicals; Niles Register Index; Palmer’s
Index to the Times; Periodicals Index Online; Poole’s Index to Periodical
Literature; Stead’s
Index to Periodicals; Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; those for
Official Publications: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; Proceedings of
the Old Bailey; U.S. Congressional Serial Set; and Archive Finder. TM
Healey Library
By Author
Geoffrey Chaucer: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
This website was put
together by Harvard’s English Department and provides useful resources on
Chaucer from a summary of his life, The Canterbury Tales, helpful tips for
reading Middle English, as well as other links for further information on
Chaucer. This is a great starting point for any Chaucer class. EP
Open Access
The Charles Lamb Bulletin is a
peer-reviewed journal and scholarly forum that concentrates on Charles and Mary
Lamb’s works, particularly Charles’s Elias
writings. It includes essays, letters, reviews, poems, notes and queries about
the Lambs and their circle. The Bulletin is produced bi-annually in the spring
and autumn. All the issues except the most recent five years are also published
online and are free; there is a subscription to access the recent
scholarship. MKh
Direct
online access.
Open Source Shakespeare not
only has all of Shakespeare’s plays in their entirety, users can search for
specific words and characters within each play making it easy to find specific
dialogue, soliloquys, and other important character interaction. DH, RM
Shakespeare
studies: www.aupresses.com
An international volume of essays, studies and reviews
dealing with the cultural history of early modern England and the place of
Shakespeare's production in it. MKa
Access through Healey website
Shakespeare
Survey Online: http://universitypublishingonline.org.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/cambridge/shakespeare/
Online version of an important journal of Shakespeare
studies. Many of this publication’s essays have become classics of Shakespeare
criticism. DH, MKa
Access through
the Healey Library.
World
Shakespeare Bibliography Online: http://www.worldshakesbib.org/
The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online contains a wide array of Shakespeare articles that include peer-reviewed articles and essays. There are comprehensive search options to narrow down articles and articles are available in multiple languages. EP, RM, AM, TP
Access through Healey Library Website
The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online contains a wide array of Shakespeare articles that include peer-reviewed articles and essays. There are comprehensive search options to narrow down articles and articles are available in multiple languages. EP, RM, AM, TP
Access through Healey Library Website
Contemporary/Global Literature
Contemporary
Literary Criticism: http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu
CLC is an online collection of selected critical essays
on contemporary authors within the literature discipline. TP, KM, EP, ES, AP,
DH, TD
Access
through Healey Library website
Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Dialogues is
website created by the 2001-02 Postcolonial Literature class at the Western
Michigan University. It includes syllabi, themes and criticisms, literary texts
divided by regions, notes and annotations, author biographies, teaching guides,
links and citations, and historical and cultural content. MKh
Direct
online access.
Alongside his more famous The
Victorian Web website, George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History
at Brown University, also created The Postcolonial Literature and Culture Web. It includes authors, books reviews, notes, and explanations
on Postcolonial Theory, its major authors and theorists, the countries and
literatures that fall under this umbrella (South Asia, Africa, Caribbean, the
UK, Canada, Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore), as well as
the social, economic, geographical and cultural contextual information. There
are also teacher resources such as university syllabuses (contributed by
professors and students from around the world), bibliographies of renowned
texts, and author pages and histories.
MKh
Direct
online access.
9/11 Digital Archive
9/11 Digital Archive records a great
number of first-hand accounts, including audio, video, and still-clips, from
9/11. Additionally, a collection form the Center for History and New Media
sheds light on the impact of 9/11. AM
Free access.
Library of Congress September 11th
Documentary Project
Similarly to the 9/11 Digital Archive,
the Library of Congress Documentary Projects collected accounts, reactions,
pictures, and opinions by the American people in the wake of the terrorist
attack of 9/11. AM
Free access.
The Avalon Project: 9/11 Collection
The Avalon Project accumulated an
enormous collection of primary sources and government documents on terrorism
and 9/11 in particular. AM
Free access.
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society
A really cool website with butterflies! But also
a lot of interesting research devoted to one of the 21st century’s most
prolific writers. TM
Literary Theory
Literary Theory Resources: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html
Online resources to basic information for different forms
of literary theory. Also includes lists of theory journals as well as prominent
literary and critical theorists. ES
Access via above link. No special access required.
Access via above link. No special access required.
Critical Theory: A User Friendly Guide:
This giant link will bring you straight to a PDF
of a book by Lois Tyson. The book gives clear examples of moves made in
critical theory and how to apply the moves. TM
New
Literary History:
http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ps/publicationSearch.do?lm=&inPS=true&prodId=AONE&userGroupName=mlin_b_umass&method=doLinkDirectedSearch&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&qt=PU~%22New+Literary+History%22~~DA~120140322~~IU~%222%22~~VO~45
Journal focusing on theory and interpretation - the reasons
for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles,
conventions, and genres. A major international forum for scholarly interchange.
MKa
Access through Healey website
Science
Fiction
The Science
Fiction and Fantasy Research Database:
http://sffrd.library.tamu.edu
Indexes articles, books, news reports, obituaries,
motion picture reviews and other material concerning science fiction and fantasy. Does also
cover some horror, gothic, and utopian literature. TP
The Internet
Speculative Fiction Database: http://www.isfdb.org/
A catalogue of works of science fiction, fantasy, and
horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author
bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content
listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books. TP
Composition/Linguistics
CompPile: http://comppile.org/site/history.htm
CompPile is an inventory of publications in writing, composition,
rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis. A search on the
inventory will not provide the articles themselves but enough information to
track the articles down. AGP
Access through
Google.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related
disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the
study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and
semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics
including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical
linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations
to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides
abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. LP
Access through Healey Library
Education/Pedagogy
Crash Course
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q
A variety of videos covering a number of subjects on a
high school and early undergraduate level capable of aiding in basic education
in an engaging manner AP
Open Access
The Educational Recourses Information Center is run by
EBSCO and provides journals, articles, research and other publications written
through the lens of an educator. It is managed also through the Department of
Education. DH
Access through
the Healey Library website.
Film, Video, Music
VAST: Academic
Video Online: http://search.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/vast
Multidisciplinary video resource spanning all
disciplines AP
Access through
Healey Library Website
Naxos Music
Library: naxosmusiclibrary.com
This database contains an impressive number of music
recordings (operas, jazz, world music, etc.) along with some background
information on that piece. You can also create "Professor Playlists"
with recordings applicable to a course theme or assignment. KM
Newspapers/Magazines
The Nation Archive:
The NationArchive is a journal of
politics, economics, education, foreign policy, labor, law, literature, and the
arts. AM
Access through Healey Library website.
NewspaperARCHIVE is the world's best
resource for historical and genealogical information. Our unique archive spans
more than 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news and more.
TM
Newsstand from Proquest
Customers can choose to receive a selection of
major national newspapers, or create customized state and regional packages.
The core of the database includes international, national and regional papers
such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington
Post, The Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. TM
The New York Times
The full text of the New York Times from 1985 to
the present TM, AM
Philosophy
EBSCO:
Philosopher’s Index: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/search/basic?sid=95e0f5c2-f88b-4e4e-941e-082870d81759%40sessionmgr114&vid=0&hid=127
Access to a variety of philosophy articles and journals
AP
Access through
Healey Library Website
No comments:
Post a Comment