English Indexes & Databases

Indexes and Databases for English

INFOTRAC Expanded Academic ASAP [Off-campus Access]
(1980 to present) From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! InfoTrac includes the following literature sub-databases which you can access directly or through InforTrac:
Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Literature Resource Cente provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

MLA Internationl Bibliography [Off-campus Access]
Provides records related to literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Includes citations for journals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies dating back to 1963. Most commonly used for finding essays of criticism on literary works.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite [Off-campus Access]
A multi-disciplinary database that offers full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals including 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. Also contains Business Source Plus, ERIC, MLA, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology.

Wilson Web [Off-campus Access]
Full text begins in 1994. OmniFile Full Text Mega 1982-present. Comprehensive database covering Business, Education, Science, Humanities, Social Sciences etc. Full text degins in 1994.

JSTOR [Off-campus Access]
Full-text articles and images from more than 120 scholarly journas. Subjects covered include African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology,Economics, Political Science, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Population Studies, Sociology, Statistics, and General Science Collection.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Search [Off-campus Asccess]
iA broad-based database and full text online search service that provides indexing and full text access to sources in such categories as General Medical and Health Topics, Medical Abstracts, General News Topics, and many more.A title list is available for viewing.