LibGuides: English: Literature, Film, & Drama: English: Literature, Film, and Drama

Recommended databases for peer-reviewed English sources

Literary Reference Source EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text of articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, author interviews, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, classic texts, and plot summaries, synopses and work overviews as well as eBook versions of many authoritative reference resources.
Humanities Source Ultimate EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Includes more 1,200 journals in full-text. Provides articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text multi-disciplinary database of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources. Some subject areas include art, business, economics, history, humanities, language and literature, law, medicine, allied health, science, and social sciences.
The subscription includes the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-XV, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Business IV, Global Plants, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences Collection, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Struggles for Freedom - South Africa, Sustainability, and World Heritage Sites - Africa.
Academic Search Ultimate EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with around 10,000 full-text periodicals - of which more than 9,000 are peer-reviewed journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material.

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Black Thought and Culture contains 1,303 sources with 1,210 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Literature Research This link opens in a new window
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Novels for Students- GVRL This link opens in a new window
Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods.
Drama for Students - GVRL This link opens in a new window
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures.
Short Stories for Students - GVRL This link opens in a new window
Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods.

Oxford Reference: Literature
Search over 50 titles such as A Dictionary of Critical Theory, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and more.

Choice Reviews This link opens in a new window
Choice Reviews provides high-quality evaluations of nonfiction academic writing. It serves as a source of bibliographic reference and recommendation for both library collection development and individual research.
NoveList Plus EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new fiction and non-fiction titles based on books they've already read or topics in which they are interested. Readers can look for books about particular subjects, relationships, geographic areas, or periods of time. Book reviews are also available.

The New York Review of Books
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