Waggoner Library: Creative Writing: Journals & Articles

Start your search for articles in Discovery.

A great place to begin your search for journal articles is in Discovery, the library catalog. Discovery can be accessed using the search box on the library homepage.

Watch the brief video below to learn more about how to locate articles in Discovery. (4:24)

Articles can also be found in these specialized and multidisciplinary databases.

♦ Literature databases:

Literature Criticism (Gale)

Gale Literature Criticism is a comprehensive collection of literary commentary and criticism spanning centuries and various genres. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books, and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)

The LRC provides a broader range of resources, including biographical information, overviews, and multimedia content, alongside criticism. Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
JSTOR
Provides access to content in the disciplines of language and literature, history, education, sociology, art & art history, philosophy and religion.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s. This database contains millions of citations as well as full text for 1,000 journals.

♦ Multidisciplinary databases:

Academic OneFile (Gale)

A multidisciplinary database covering many subjects with content from journal articles, newspaper resources, magazines, and audio & video files.
Academic Search Ultimate
Includes content from over 10,000 academic journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, and books on a wide variety of topics.

How to locate peer-reviewed journal articles:

Most of our databases have the option to limit search results to peer-reviewed journals.
On the search results page look for the words filter, refine, or content type, then select peer-reviewed.
See the example below from Discovery:

Screenshot of Discovery search results showing Peer-reviewed selected under Content Type.

►For more information about peer-reviewed articles and why they are important for research, see the Research Tips page on this guide.

Find print literary journals

Waggoner Library holds the following print literary journals. They are located on the main floor of the library and are shelved alphabetically by title.

Feel free to ask at the library services desk if you need help finding these journals.

Agni
Boulevard
Georgia Review
Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
Missouri Review
Paris Review
Southern Review
Tar River Poetry

For articles not owned by Waggoner Library:

Use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service to obtain articles not owned by Waggoner Library.
There is no fee to use this service. Allow 2 business days to receive your requested articles, which will be sent to your Trevecca email.