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Online Databases: Use to find the online full text of newspaper articles, literary criticism, reference material, and more
Newspapers:
Ethnic NewsWatch: Full text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
Newspaper Source: Provides selected full text for 143 U.S. and international newspapers.
LexisNexis Academic: Provides full text access to nearly 6,000 titles in news, business, and law. It includes company financial information, industry and market news, foreign and U.S. newspapers, magazines and trade journals, federal and state cases and statutes, law reviews, accounting information, medical news and Medline abstracts, biographical information, state and country profiles, and more.
Articles, reviews and literary criticism:
MLA Bibliography: Indexes and abstracts articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 6,500 journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
Humanities International Complete: A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing, Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
JSTOR: JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) is a nonprofit organization whose goals include building a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature, increasing access to these journals, and helping fill gaps in existing library collections of journal backfiles. It provides the complete back files of 218 important research journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Journals are scanned, so that they include full page images that look just like the original.
Project Muse: Full-text access to approximately nearly 300 journals published by academic presses in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Reference:
Oxford Reference Online provides online content from reference works published by Oxford University Press. These reference works include subject encyclopedias about Australian, Canadian and New Zealand literatures. Once you connect to the database, select the red "Literature" link beneath blue "Subject Reference"
To find books
Books can be mailed to you free of charge, search Joyner Library’s online catalog at our homepage at www.ecu.edu/lib. In the “catalog search” box in the middle of the page enter keywords on your topic. For example:
Indigenous people in literature
Mayan literature Maori AND literature
Australian Literature AND aboriginal
Scandinavian Literature Canada AND Cree AND literature
Canadian Literature AND Inuit
If It's Not FullText:Find It!
How can I see articles?
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serial Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
Subject Librarian for English Language and Literatures: Mark Sanders 328-2900 (office) sandersm@.ecu.edu
