Research Guides: Literature: Find articles

Reference Librarian

CALL:
Downtown: 804.523.5211
Parham: 804.523.5220
Goochland: 804.523.5419

Library databases & tutorials

Gale Literature Resource Center
Covers authors, literary works and movements from all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world. Includes critical analysis, author biographies, topic & work overviews, reviews and primary sources. (Full-text)

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text [EBSCO]
Index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals. Covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.

If you select the EBSCOhost Choose Databases menu, you have the option to search several databases at the same time including: Academic Search Complete, Humanities International Complete, MasterFILE Premier and MLA International Bibliography with Full Text.

EBSCO Choose Databases menu
Use EBSCOhost's main menu to search a wide variety of databases simultaneously. (Full text)
Academic Search Complete [EBSCO]
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database containing journal, magazine and newspaper articles. (Full text)
Humanities International Complete [EBSCO]
Covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. (Full text)
MasterFILE Premier [EBSCO]
Comprehensive general database includes journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering a wide variety of topics. (Full-text)
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text [EBSCO]
Index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals. Covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.

JSTOR
Digital archive of full text core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences. It contains the entire run of over 500 hundred important scholarly journals, from the first volume up to the volumes published 3-5 years ago. (Full text)

To find articles that critique a specific author's works or to find articles on an author's life:

Go to the JSTOR Advanced Search screen.
Type the author's first and last name in the 1st search box.
From the Item Type menu, checkmark articles.
From the Narrow by Discipline and/or Journal menu, checkmark Language & Literature.

To find articles that critique a specific work:

Go to the JSTOR Advanced Search screen.
Type the author's first and last name in the 1st search box.
Type the title of the work in the 2nd search box.
From the Item Type menu, checkmark articles.
From the Narrow by Discipline and/or Journal menu, checkmark Language & Literature.

Project MUSE
Provides access to both scholarly journals and books covering literature, history and the social sciences. Database currently includes over 700 journals from 125 publishers and 70,000 books from more than 140 presses. (Full-text)