*English: Databases

Why Search Here?
Your best bet to find scholarly sources in all aspects of modern languages and literature.

What's Included?
In addition to full-text scholarly articles, check out top tabs for the MLA Thesaurus, Browse Works, and Browse Authors.

Why Search Here?
You are researching authors and specific works of literature and are looking for scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. An excellent companion to the more scholarly MLA International Bibliography with Full Text database.

What's Included?
The series that comprise Gale Literature Criticism represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

Why Search Here?
This resource searches collections included in other EBSCO databases, meaning it searches across many disciplines at once. Use this for early research or for interdisciplinary topics. Also consider ProQuest Central or Library Search/Primo.

What's Included?
Articles from over 13,000 journals and supplementary resources like monographs, reports, and conference proceedings across, science, social science, and the humanities.

Why Search Here?
This database is actually a combination of many ProQuest databases, meaning it searches across many disciplines at once. Use this for early research or for interdisciplinary topics. Also consider Academic Search Premier or Library Search/Primo.

What's Included?
Articles from thousands of journals, dissertations, working papers, reports, and more. Subjects include Arts & Humanities, Business, Health and Medical, Current Events/News, Science & Technology, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary. 

Why Search Here?
You are looking for coverage of current and prominent topics. We recommend searching this database after CQ Researcher.

What's Included?
Full-text coverage of topics ranging from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Features pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more.

Why Search Here?
You are looking for critical and biographical analysis of American Literature from the Scribner Writer Series.

What's Included?
The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.

Why Search Here?
You are looking for critical and biographical analysis of British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th-century to the present. From the Scribner Writer Series.

What's Included?
The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.

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You are looking to learn about children's book authors.

What's Included?
Illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and artists from 1970-current.

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You are looking for complete digital access to the Oxford English Dictionary from Oxford University Press.

What's Included?
An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.

Why Search Here?
You need a quick and credible answer, are gathering information about a new topic, looking for a list of recommended reading in an area, or looking for a definition or overview.

What's Included?
Over 2 million full text articles from over 900 dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, popular and scholarly encyclopedias, quote books and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology.

Why Search Here?
You're getting started on a topic and want something more reliable than Wikipedia, or you're looking for a solid overview of a scholarly topic.

What's Included?
spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

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You're looking for authoritative surveys of current thinking and research, from leading international figures in a variety of disciplines.

What's Included?
Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.

Why Search Here?
You are getting started and want to find full-text access to background information on a wide range of subjects featuring a historical element.

What's Included?
A reference collection spanning 350 volumes in 10 subject areas. Individual books titled the “Cambridge History of...”

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You are looking to find videos available for streaming.

What's Included?
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides access to thousands of feature films, documentaries, and educational videos across a wide variety of subjects.

Why Search Here?
You want to watch high definition of live performances of William Shakespeare's plays at the Globe Theatre in London.

What's Included?
21 full-length plays with leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning role as Falstaff in Henry IV.