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This English and Literatures in English Research Guide features library and Internet resources and research guidance. Use the main navigation menu, or view the starting points below. See the Theatre Research Guide for more resources on drama and the performing arts.

Librarian Andrea Baer is also available for research and instruction help, whether via email, phone, or a research consultation.

Recommended Databases for Getting Started

Literature (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Search across our entire collection of GALE literary criticism databases.
Offers an integrated research experience by searching across Gale's premier literary databases, which have been licensed by Rowan University. These include is a Contemporary Literary Criticism Online, 19th Century Literary Criticism Online, 20th Century Literary Criticism Online, Shakespearean Criticism Online, Gale's Literary Resource Center and Gale's Lit Finder. Users will find the classic versions of the Gale resources by clicking the title Links in the E-Resource list. To search only ECCO and NCCO together (Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, ie. to search only these two primary source databases simultaneously), use this new Gale platform link.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of full-text scholarly journal articles in a broad range of academic disciplines.
Coverage includes the full text from volume 1, number 1 through the current date in some cases or, more often, up to a period of embargo from six months to five years depending on the arrangements with the title's vendor.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Collection of reference works about literature.
Includes access to content from Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and a variety of other online sources of literary criticism and biography.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The Modern Language Association's index to language and linguistics, rhetoric, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, & dramatic arts.
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international, and includes titles and full-text links from J-STOR and Project Muse, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis. This resource also contains hundreds of thousands of subject names and terms.

Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text database of current scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
JStor can also be searched simultaneously using the advanced search feature on the Project Muse page.

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