Here are a few key resources. I welcome suggestions for additional resources and am delighted to assist with your individual research. Just click on my name to contact me.

This multidisciplinary, scholarly database is a good source for undergraduates, e.g., those in English 800/900/1000.

The “granddaddy” of all dictionaries.

Click for information literacy tools and links in children’s and young adult literature; composition, grammar, and rhetoric; creative writing; literature; and TESOL.  Scroll down and see the right navigation bar for links to specific courses.

Don’t be fooled!  This may be in Web of Science, but scroll down the main page, make sure only A&HCI is checked, and search specific articles to see who has cited them. Goes back to 1975.

Don’t overlook this database, which indexes a number of writing journals.

Includes:  American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present (2nd ed., 2000); Contemporary Novelists (7th ed., 2001), Contemporary Poets (7th ed. 2001), Modern American Literature (5th ed., 1999); Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature (2002); Reference Guide to Short fiction (2nd ed., 1999); Reference Guide to World Literature (3rd ed., 2003).

For copyright reasons, holdings are 3-5 years back-dated. RECOMMENDATION: Search the MLA International Bibliography first and use the SFX link to find out where the full text might reside.

Includes citations and some abstracts.  Best place to search for languages, literature, etc.  Click “Check SFX for more information” to find full text.

For copyright reasons, holdings are 3-5 years back-dated. RECOMMENDATION: Search the MLA International Bibliography first and use the SFX link to find out where the full text might reside.