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Literature Resources

A Discovery search can be a good place to begin to find literature-based journal articles. However, not many of the literature databases are included in a Discovery result list. Your best bet is to dig into one of the specialized literature-based databases described in the next tabs.

Take a look a the Discovery Search video tutorial below first. It will show you how to apply the correct filters for the results to represent peer-reviewed Trevecca articles and your topic guidelines.

Article Title Search - Use this link if you have a citation and need to pull up the full article.

Gale's Literature Databases (Online)

Gale Literature

A comprehensive search for all the Gale literature resources. In one search, cross into multiple databases: 

 

  • Gale Literature Criticism 
  • Gale Literature Resource Center 
  • Gale Literature: LitFinder

Learn how to search Gale Literature effectively by viewing the video tutorial below. (6 min 28 sec)

 

Gale Literature: LitFinder

Need to see the actual work? Litfinder provides unlimited full-text access to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, speeches, stories, multimedia selections, biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary of terms.

  • 130,000 full-text poems
  • Nearly 700,000 poem citations and excerpts
  • Over 10,000 full-text short stories and novels,
  • More than 4,100 full-text essays were published between the 16th and 21st centuries.
  • Nearly 2,000 full-text speeches
  • Over 1,400 full-text plays

Learn more about using Gale's LitFinder video overview (4 min 02 sec)

 

Gale Literature Resource Center

Users can access the whole range of literature, not just fiction, from modern-day to antiquity, for viewpoints from the world's greatest experts.

  • Full-text literary criticism
  • More than 1,100,000 full-text articles, critical essays, and reviews from over 450 scholarly journals and literary magazines
  • Primary works in various genres support close reading and gathering of textual evidence.
  • Reviews on more than 175,000 writers in all disciplines, time periods, and regions of the world
  • Up-to-date biographical information
  • Work overviews
  • Examples of how to structure literary analyses

Learn more about Gale Literature Resource Center (GLRC). This video outlines the basic features and functionality. (1 min 54 sec)

JSTOR (Online)

JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.

The following tutorial shows you how to search JSTOR more effectively.​

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (Online)

 

The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for studying language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text from more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Not all citations include full text. Use the Full Text limiter option to have a result list with only full text articles. However, you can use request articles using Interlibrary Loan (ILL) if you find one without text. Learn more about ILL here. 
 
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
 
 

Twayne™ Author Series (Print, found in the library)

The Twaynes™ Author Series in print provides in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived.

This not a set similar to an encyclopedia, all in multiple volumes. This set is by the author which means they are shelved in the stack sections of the author you are looking for. Click the link below to see the authors and call numbers in the library collection. 

WHAT ABOUT PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES? WHAT ARE THEY, AND HOW DO I FIND ONE? 

Follow these links to the description and more information before you begin your search!

What are Peer Reviewed Articles?

How do I Find Peer Reviewed Articles in Library Databases?

JOURNAL TITLE SEARCHING:

Sometimes you'll need to find the actual article from the bibliography. Could it be an article you need to read for class, or perhaps you found it in a related book? Pulling up the actual article if you know the journal name is simple, but it's done differently than searching by subject.

  • Click the 'Advanced Search' link above the search box on the library homepage.
  • Type the name of the journal in the first search box. Change the tag to 'Journal Source'
  • Type the article title in the second search box. Change the tag to 'Title,' and click the search button.
  • Click the 'Access Online' button on the result list to see the full text.

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