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    MLA International Bibliography GALILEO Express Link
    MLA International Bibliography may be a most comprehensive database for people in the Language/Literature field. It contains bibliographic information on journal articles, books, collections, and dissertations. It also includes full-text articles. MLA Directory of Periodicals is a list of journals that are contained in this database and you can find it in the green bar right under search function tab in the database screen.


    Literature Online Reference Edition GALILEO Express Link
    This database is a "collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist search materials such as current full-text journals and bibliographic citations." (from the database's information page)


    Literature Resource Center UWG Funded Resource
    Literature Resource Center is a combination of three databases: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Genres covered in this database are: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, histry, journalism, etc.

     

    JSTOR UWG Funded Resource
    One of the major full-text databases for journal articles, including articles written in other languages such as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. Note that "JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR." (from JSTOR's Welcome page)


    Project Muse UWG Funded Resource
    Another major full-text databases for journal articles, covering currently published issues. Project Muse contains only peer-reviewed, scholarly journals published from University presses and other academic publishers.


    Academic Search Complete at EBSCOhost GALILEO Express Link
    Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.


    Research Library at Proquest UWG Funded Resource
    Research Library contains citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from scholarly journals, old and new newspapers, trade publications and magazines for general interest.

     

    Humanities Index
    Call Number: AI3 .H85 Location: Periodical Index Area (1F)
    Humanities Index is used to find an article on your topic or by a certain author's name. In Humanities Index, subjects and authors are arranged together in alphabetical order. There is also a section for citation list to book reviews arranged by name of the author of the reviewed book, or the title of the book.

     

        
       

      Print Resources (books)

       

      Encyclopedia of German literature
      Call Number: PT91 .E53 2000 Location: Reference (1F)
      Entries consist of authors, works and topics. Authors and topics are arranged alphabetically and entries for works come right after the article on author. An alphabetical list of works is provided at the beginning of the book. With each entry, there are 'further reading' list, biography for authors, and list of selected works, editions, and translations. 2 volumes set.


      Handbook of Austrian literature
      Call Number: PT155 .U5 Location: Reference (1F)
      Translation from Handbuch der dutschen Gegenwartsliteratur, by Hermann Kunisch. This book contains essays on about 80 Austrian authors from19th and 20th century. Two to five pages are spent per author. Each entry has the author's works (some have English translations) and bibliography of criticisms. If available, there is a section "English translations in collections" so that you can save time to check contents of each collective work for a specific author.


      The Oxford companion to German literature
      Call Number: PT41 .G3 Location: Reference (1F)
      "A companion to the historical and cultural background to German literature as well as to the writers and works themselves", covering the time period from 9th century to the early 1970's. Entries (authors, works, and literary concepts) are arranged in alphabetical order and cross-referenced.


      Women writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland : an annotated bio-bibliographical guide
      Call Number: PT167 .W66X 1989 Location: Reference (1F)
      "This annotated bio-bibliographical guide presents both factual and interpretive information on 185 German...Austrian, and Swiss women writers from the tenth century to the present [i.e.1980's]" Most entries are writers after 1800, and they alphabetically arranged with brief biographical information and description of their theme, and annotated list of their works.

       

      Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works
      Call Number: PN1022 .C63 2004 Location: Reference (1F)
      Contains mainly American and British poems, but also poems from other countries in English translation. It is searchable by title & first line of poem, author's name and subject.

          
         
         
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