Featured Database
Highlight books, take notes, create virtual bookshelves with books relevant to a specific topic, class, or paper…this is all possible without even leaving your computer. Over the summer, the Ryan-Matura library purchased a subscription to the Academic Complete version of ebrary, which contains over 30,000 ebooks that span a wide array of academic disciplines.
Find Articles and Criticism
Multidisciplinary Databases
For most searches, these multidisciplinary databases are great places to begin. They index language and literature material along with a wide variety of other subjects:
Article First
An authoritative index of articles from the contents pages of journals.
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly, multi-disciplined database indexing articles and book reviews from over 3,400 scholarly publications.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations. Gale's version of Academic Search Premier.
Humanities/English Oriented Databases
The following databases are great places to find articles and criticism relevant to research in English literature:
JSTOR
Find full-text PDFs from more than 50 major language and literary journals.
MLA International Bibliography
Find citations for articles published on modern languages, numerous world literatures, folklore, literary theory, linguistics and much, much more (some full-text included).
Project Muse
Full-text coverage of Johns Hopkins University Press Journals in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.
Find Books
Need a book? Want to round out your search? Check below for links to search the holdings of our library and libraries worldwide:
Enterprise
Our online catalog here at SHU. Find books and other materials in our collection.
ReQuest
State of Connecticut Libraries
Library of Congress Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 14 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.
WorldCat
Offering millions of bibliographic records, WorldCat is the largest online public access catalog in the world. Find books, websites, musical scores, manuscripts, films, and much much more.
Web Links
Evaluating web sites for quality of scholarship can be difficult. Here are some good and useful web resources, each of which have already been viewed and evaluated by librarians.
Electronic Texts — Free and Online
The following sites offer free, open access to the full-text of documents/books:
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
A searchable and browseable collection of about 14,000 public domain documents from American and English literature, including a smattering of Western philosophy titles.
Bartleby.com
A giant collection of texts, reference works, and poetry.
Google Books
Find works in the Public Domain and read them freely on your computer or simply locate a copyrighted book through Google's search technology and use the library to ILL it.
The Internet Classics Archive
A selection of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors. The collection is primarily Greco-Roman in nature, but there do exist a few Chinese and Persian works as well, all in English translation.
The Lewis and Clark Collection
Includes the full text - made browsable and searchable - of two different editions of the Journals of Lewis and Clark; the published journal (1810) of Patrick Gass, a member of the Corps of Discovery; and the catalog of George Catlin's "Indian Galler
The Online Books Page
A dynamic Web site maintained by the University of Pennsylvania that facilitates access to over 25,000 freely available, online books.
Project Gutenberg
With its inception dating to 1971, Project Gutenberg is oldest digital library. PG now provides acess to over 22,000 titles.
Shakespeare Resources (UVA Etext Center)
There are a number of publicly-accessible Shakespearean materials available via the University of Virginia's Etext center, including a side-by-side presentation of the First Folio and Globe Edition of Shakespeare's works.
Online Compendiums of Links
Do you want more web links that have been viewed by librarians? Well, if so, the following are websites with a multitude of links:
American and English Literature Internet Resources
Links leading to the home pages of individual authors/poets, as well as links, separated topically, to numerous, high-quality pages ranging in scope from full-text pages to teaching resources.
Literary Resources on the Net
A wonderful grouping of numerous online sources, browsable by subject (ranging from Classical & Biblical to Women's literature & Feminism)
The Voice of the Shuttle
Pages specifically pertaining to students of English are Literature (in English), Literatures (Other Than English), and Literary Theory. There are, though, numerous other pages on the site that can be trolled for useful links.
Communications
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Glossaries, etc.
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Explanations
It is as it sounds: a glossary of rhetorical terms produced by the University of Kentucky's classics department. Each definition contains a few examples, in both Latin and English.
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information
Encyclopedia of New Media: an essential reference to communication and technology
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: communication from ancient times to the information age
A survey that covers the principle concepts, practical tools, and the major thinkers of the field. Bibliographies of major texts and other recommended readings are littered throughout the text.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoricae
This online resource is maintained by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University and functions as a brief history of rhetoric and provides definitions of individual terms and figures of speech.
The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues
Praised by a number of institutions/organizations (including the American Library Association and the New Scientist), this website is a wonderful resource for defining terms relating to body language, gestures, facial expressions, and mass media.
Litvids
As it sounds, rotating videos about literature:
David Mitchell chatting about his 2004 gem, Cloud Atlas.
The first part of a three part interview with Canadian author, Douglas Coupland. The link, in case you'd like to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npWBqDSUohc
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