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MLA Bibliography and MLA Directory of Periodicals

A standard source for scholarly research in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

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Includes articles published since 1926.

Arts & Humanities Search

Provides references to articles in more than 1,300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities. For more complete
coverage, search MLA Bibliography.

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1980 to the present.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)

Indexes books and other media for children and adolescents and is continually updated. Provides reviews of many titles, age level, reading level, interest level. Searchable in many ways (topic, language, genre etc.)

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Gale's Literary Index

A master index to every literary series published by Gale Combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source

Indexed titles owned by Milne are listed in GLOCAT

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

Literature Resource Center - LRC

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from various time periods
and genres. NOTE that the critical analyses tend to be book
reviews. To find references to scholarly literary criticism, search MLA Bibliography.

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Covers more than 100,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,400 of the most-studied authors.

Twayne Authors Series

Provides the content of nearly 600 books (each covering a single author or special topic) that comprise three print series - United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors. Provides critical introductions to the lives and works of the writers covered.

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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

This collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875.

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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

A collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.

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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

This collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875.

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Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Searchable full text of hundreds of quality reference works and classic works of fiction and nonfiction. Includes dictionaries,encyclopedias, thesauri, literary classics, philosophical and religious works, poetry collections, usage guides and more.

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Book Review Index
(Milne Indexes & Abstracts Lower Level - Z 1035 A1 B6)

Provides citations to book reviews published in more than 600 periodicals.

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1965 - present

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)

Indexes books and other media for children and adolescents and is continually updated. Provides reviews of many titles, age level, reading level, interest level. Searchable in many ways (topic, language, genre etc.)

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ChoiceReviews.online (Choice Reviews is an online version of Choice Cards which are brief book reviews.)

Access to Choice Reviews.online will end November 30, 2009.
CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Updated monthly, this provides access to all CHOICE reviews published since September 1988.

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netLibrary

8,000 recently published books, including scholarly, reference, and professional titles. More than 3,400 classic titles are also available.

You may actively view the full-text eContent (turning pages, searching within the full-text, etc.) in 15-minute increments. If you are not actively viewing an item, it returns to the collection for someone else to view.

If you create an account you may make a list of Favorites, make notes in individual full-text eContent items, and customize your account preferences.

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Online Books Page, The

A directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet.

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INTD 105 Writing Seminar: The Novels of Education

This course guide is designed to assist students in locating resources and materials when conducting literary criticism research on the authors Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys.

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Glossary of Literary Terms

Definitions of literary terms.

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yourDictionary.com

Provides links to a variety of reference tools, including general and specialized
subject dictionaries, foreign language dictionaries and translation sites,
and more. Includes more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages.

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Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes Originally published in 1907-1921, the volumes include 303 chapters, edited and written by leading scholars of the early twentieth century. The print Cambridge History of American Literature is available at PS 88 C3. The print Cambridge History of English
Literature is available at PR 83 C22.

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Encyclopedia of World Biography

7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods. Includes thousands of photos.

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Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

Help with grammar and punctuation questions.

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SUNY Geneseo Online Writing Guide

"An Online Writing Guide produced for students and faculty at the State University of New York College at Geneseo."

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DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

Lists open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

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All subject areas and languages are covered.

SAGE Journals Online

”SAGE publishes more than 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.”

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Women Writers Resource Project

”A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The Project is a pedagogical tool, designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students in various disciplines the opportunity to edit their own texts.”

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Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, The

Concise and entertaining lessons about the active voice, rhetoric, punctuation, and so on. Includes sections on how to use major documentation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE.

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19th Century American Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies

A site that brings together the best materials available on the web for studying and teaching about 19th century American literature.

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Children's literature - Useful sites for teachers, librarians,

Intentionally excluded from this bibliography are Internet resources in the area of young adult and adolescent literature.

Citing Sources

Provides links for several guides to citing resources.

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Human language: Resources from linguistics and beyond

Presents "language-related Internet sites covering computational linguistics, which is closely interconnected with library and information science, computer science, and engineering, as well as linguistics per se."

iLoveLanguages

A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. Find online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or information on a language.

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Literary theory - A guide to critical theory reseources on the Internet

A selective guide to some of the more understandable and useful Web resources devoted to contemporary literary theory.

Medieval studies: gateways, subject guides, and more

Includes gateways that link to a broad range of resources as well as sites that focus on particular aspects of medieval study, such as history, literature, philosophy, or religion.

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Reading Women Writers and African Literatures

A guide to African Francophone women writers, with biographies, bibliographies of academic and critical studies, overviews of the literature of individual African countries, and excerpts from select works. A modified English-language version is available.

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Western European literature - Gateway sites

Presents "gateway" sites that are starting places for many kinds of research.

World Folklore and Folklife

Geneseo's access to World Folklore and Folklife will end in the near future.
Subjects include:

• Celebrations and Rituals


• Food and Drink


• Holidays and Festivals


• Music and Dance


• Religion and Belief


• Tales, Myths, and Urban Legends


• Traditional Arts and Crafts

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles