Research Guides: Literature Research for Undergraduate Students: Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism

Scout
Scout searches the library’s catalog, the library’s digital archive, and a number of the electronic resources that the library subscribes to. It’s a good place to start searching broadly for information.

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE provides full-text access scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The database is a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and other university presses and not-for-profit publishers. Also included are the UPCC collections in Asian and Pacific Studies, and Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Images of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article.

Ulrichsweb: Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory This link opens in a new window
This database provides information about whether a journal is peer reviewed or not, as well as some other detailed information about serial publications.
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press. With over 1.6 million journal articles and 36,000+ books, Cambridge Core is the central destination for academic research.

Getting the Most Out of WorldCat
Sometimes you are doing research for a project and you need to see what has been published on the topic. Let’s say you are thinking about doing research on gender roles in Shakespeare’s comedies and you want to see if any scholarship has been published on the topic. You can use WorldCat to identify LC subject headings relevant to your project, as well as locate and identify rare books that might exist on the subject.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. WorldCat can be used to verify citations, locate an item in another library, or to provide accurate citation information for inter-library loan requests. (Does not include citations to individual articles, stories in periodicals, or book chapters).

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