WorldCat (books, videos, DVDs, pamphlets) (the most complete location for book citations)"Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records. Includes records representing 400 languages."Essay and General Literature Index (articles)
"More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature."WilsonSelect Full Text (full-text articles)
"Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases…. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
MLA Bibliography (the most complete source for scholarly articles on literature and language)
Click on EBSCO Host. Contains selected full-text articles.
Be sure to check against the full-text electronic periodicals owned by Arkansas Tech (see below).
Literature On-Line (full text, excellent source for famous and obscure literary works)
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, along with 168 full-text literature journals and other reference resources.
"Full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985."
Project Muse (full-text scholarly articles from some of the best academic journals)
"Nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers"
Periodical Index On-Line (many primary source citations, dating back to the eighteenth century)
"Millions of articles published in 4,078 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It enables undergraduate, graduate, faculty and general researchers to quickly locate every article relevant to their particular field of study, reducing what could involve years of research to a matter of minutes.PCI is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years."
Provides volume and page numbers for Gale reference publications (NCLC, TCLC, DLB, etc.)
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Electronic Texts
NetLibrary (electronic publications, Arkansas Tech holdings)
Digital Book Index (electronic texts)
The On-Line Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
For excerpts from books, and full-text, public
domain documentsBook Search
from Google
Other Specialized Literary Databases
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)