Database Articles

Literary Databases

Literary databases are the best place to start to find scholarly articles for your essay.

Books and Authors This link opens in a new window This readers advisory tool provides new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres, and topics.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window Includes full-text resources focusing on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature, and children's literature. Also includes fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy, religious literature, and literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature, and literary genres.
Literary Sources This link opens in a new window Includes full-text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and topic and work overviews.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Online literature resource offering range of authors and works, including full-text critical and literary analysis. Includes biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world
Lit Finder This link opens in a new window Covers all time periods, and contains literature content, including full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, full-text short stories and novels, full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, full-text speeches, and full-text plays. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.