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This guide will walk you through the research process with recommended subject-specific resources. A list of some recommended resources included in this guide is below.

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Databases

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1843 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central combines the complete content of over thirty of the most heavily used ProQuest databases across all major subject areas, with deep coverage in business, health and medical, news, social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and technology. It provides access to scholarly journals, high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, pre-print working papers, full-text dissertations, and a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.
ProQuest Central currently includes all the content available in these ProQuest Databases:
- ABI/INFORM Collection
- ABI/INFORM Dateline (1985-Current)
- ABI/INFORM Global
- ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (1971-Current)
- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
- African Newsstream
- Arts & Humanities Database
- Asian & European Business Collection
- Asian Newsstream
- Australia & New Zealand Database
- Australia & New Zealand Newsstream
- Biology Database (1998-Current)
- Business Market Research Collection
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Business
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Health & Medicine
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: History
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Literature & Language
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Science & Technology
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Social Sciences
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: The Arts
- Canadian Newsstream
- Career & Technical Education Database
- Career & Technical Education Database: Business
- Career & Technical Education Database: Health & Medicine
- Career & Technical Education Database: History
- Career & Technical Education Database: Literature & Language
- Career & Technical Education Database: Science & Technology
- Career & Technical Education Database: Social Sciences
- Career & Technical Education Database: The Arts
- CBS News 60 MINUTES
- Computing Database (1998-Current)
- Continental Europe Database
- Criminal Justice Database (1981-Current)
- East & South Asia Database
- East Europe, Central Europe Database
- Education Database (1988-Current)
- European Newsstream
- Family Health Database
- Global Breaking Newswires
- Health & Medical Collection
- Health Management Database
- India Database
- India Database: Business (1998-Current)
- India Database: Health & Medicine (1998-Current)
- India Database: History (1998-Current)
- India Database: Literature & Language (1998-Current)
- India Database: Science & Technology (1998-Current)
- India Database: Social Sciences (1998-Current)
- India Database: The Arts (1998-Current)
- International Newsstream
- Latin America & Iberia Database
- Latin American Newsstream
- Library Science Database (1970-Current)
- Linguistics Database
- Middle East & Africa Database
- Middle East Newsstream
- Military Database
- Nursing & Allied Health Database
- Political Science Database (1985-Current)
- Psychology Database
- Public Health Database
- Religion Database (1986-Current)
- Research Library
- Research Library: Business
- Research Library: Health & Medicine
- Research Library: History
- Research Library: Literature & Language
- Research Library: Science & Technology
- Research Library: Social Sciences
- Research Library: The Arts
- Science Database
- Social Science Database
- Sociology Database (1985-Current)
- Telecommunications Database (1995-Current)
- Turkey Database
- UK & Ireland Database
- US Hispanic Newsstream
- US Major Dailies
- US Midwest Newsstream
- US Newsstream
- US North Central Newsstream
- US Northeast Newsstream
- US South Central Newsstream
- US Southeast Newsstream
- US West Newsstream
JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This collection includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, covering more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Also included are millions of primary sources from the 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and the Global Plants collections.The JSTOR platform does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of a journal’s content. Current issues of journals hosted on the JSTOR platform are available through separate subscriptions on other platforms. Please check LibrarySearch for access to embargoed content.
Gale Literary Sources (Gale Literature) Gale Literary Sources brings together Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, LitFinder, and Something About the Author into a single cross searchable platform.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Search and Browse the Dictionary of Literary Biography, containing more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres . Includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series.
Salem Literature Searchable database that includes the complete full-text of print reference sets, such as the Critical Insights for Isabel Allende, James Baldwin, Charles Dickens, and others, as well as Masterplots - 4th edition.
Literature Criticism Online Represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Children's Literature Review. This database can be cross searched with the database Something About the Author.

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