Reference Tools

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

A Glossary of Literary Terms (PN 41 .A184 1988)

Middle English Compendium Online

The Oxford English Dictionary (REF PE 1625 .O87 1989)
The OxfordEnglish Dictionary Online

Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language,Unabridged (Ref PE 1625 .W36 1981)

Handbooks and General Reference Books

The Art of Literary Research (PR 56 .A68 1993)

TheJohns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online

Literary Research Guide (Ref PR 83 .H37 1989)

A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students : English and AmericanLiterature (PR 56 .B34 1995)

Simple & Direct : A Rhetoric for Writers (PE1408 .B4361985)

Writing About Literature: Aims and Process (PE 1479.C7 M33 1987)

Subject Profile Call Numbers
PN  Literature (General Works - History and Collections) 
PQ  Romance Literature 
PR  English Literature 
PS  American Literature 
PT  Teutonic (German) Literature 
PZ  Fiction and Juvenile Literature 

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Indexes and Databases

All databases are available on campus and remotely unless otherwise noted. To access a resource from home, you will need to type your library ID and last name. Your library ID is usually: two, zero, your Social Security Number, then zero. For example: A person with the Social Security Number 123-45-6789 has the library ID: 201234567890

Subject Databases

Contemporary Authors

MLA(Modern Language Association International Bibliography) Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963-Present, approximately 1,200,000 records.

Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey)A database of databases that includes editions of full-text literary works, indexes to criticism, and links to internet resources. The most comprehensive full-text database for literature. The library's subscription includes the following selected databases: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Periodicals Contents Index: Literature, African-American Poetry (1750-1900),Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1901-1998),AmericanPoetry (1600-1900),Twentieth Century American Poetry (1901-1997),EarlyEnglish Prose Fiction (1500-1700),Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780),EnglishDrama (1280-1915),English Poetry (600-1900), and Modern Poetry (1972-1997). 

LLBA -CSA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) Subjects covered include: linguistics and language behavior, applied linguistics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, interpersonal behavior and communications, phonetics, hearing and speech physiology, hearing (pathological and normal), language (pathological and normal), learning disabilities, mental retardation, psychopathology, special education and psychometrics. 1973-Present. 

JSTOR JSTOR provides access to the backfiles of scholarly publications covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. JSTOR includes the full runs of each journal, generally up to 1-7 years from the present. A sophisticated search engine supports full-text and cross-disciplinary searching of the journals and presentation of page images allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print. 

LitFinder
Indexes and provides full-text of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays. 

Project Muse(Full-text of over 40print journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University Press covering 1990-present. Includes journals such as Configurations, Diacritics, and The Yale Journal of Criticism. 

ScribnerWriters Series

TwayneAuthors Series

Women WritersOnline The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The chief goal of the database is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. 

General Databases 
Academic Search Elite:
Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and features full text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990. 
Lexis-Nexis Academic:
Indexes newspapers, business, legal, and medical resources. Also includes sections on quotations, and polls and surveys.
Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations):
1861 – Present. The latest two years are available off campus, but earlier years are only available on campus.
InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP:
Indexes over 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Articles in over 500 journals are full text.

Current Awareness Resources

Ingenta(Formerly UnCover)is an automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicals or results of keyword searches directly to your e-mail address. Available to AU faculty, graduate students and staff. 
Citation Database
Arts and Humanities Citation Index Web of Science provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from over 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. 1984 – Present. 

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Journals

English Journals at Auburn University

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Web Sites

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html

Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology
http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/uvsota/index.htm

Victorian Literary Studies Archives - HyperConcordance
http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concordance/

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Research Guides

General
Book Reviewshttp://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/bkrev.html

 Literary Criticismhttp://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/litcrit.html

Linguistics
Linguistics Sources in the Library
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/ling.html
English Literature
Nineteenth-Century British Women Poets
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/19ctwm.html

Victorian Periodicals
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/victorian.html

Course Guides

ENGL 1120 Honors  -- Carroll
Undergraduate Scholarship Resources

ENGL 1120 -- Library Instruction Session 

ENGL 2207 -- Dykstal
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/engl2207.html

ENGL 4300 -- Bertelot
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/engl4300.htm

ENGL 4500 -- Wyss -- Early American Literature
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/engl4500.html

 

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Associations and Societies

Association of  Departments of English
http://www.ade.org/
A division of the Modern Language Association, this organization lists member information as well as reports and ADE guidelines for member programs and teacher workloads. 

Jack London Society
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Organizations/jl_society.html
An international non-profit organization that promotes study of the life and work of Jack London, was founded in 1990 as an author society affiliated with the American Literature Association, a coalition of author societies. It numbers over 300 members and continues to grow each year. Membership is open to anyone interested in London. 

Modern Language Association
http://www.mla.org/
Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. 

New Chaucer Society
http://ncs.rutgers.edu/
The purpose of The New Chaucer Society is to provide a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age. To advance such study, the Society organizes biennial international congresses of  Chaucerians, publishes the annual Studies in the Age of Chaucer and a semiannual newsletter, and supports such important projects as the Variorum Chaucer, the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography (an electronic version of which is available on-line), and the Middle English Dictionary Project. Participation in NCS congresses is restricted to active members of the Society.

Discussion Lists and Newsgroups

Electronic Mailing Lists at Auburn University 
http://www.auburn.edu/helpdesk/internet/listserv.html
Contains links to help sites for all varieties of mailing lists. 

LISZT
(http://www.liszt.com/)
Searchable index of Electronic Mailing Lists. 

The Reference to Internet Discussion & Information Lists
(http://tile.net/lists)
Searchable index of Electronic Mailing Lists.

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Auburn University Department of English Web Pages

Auburn University Department of English
http://www.auburn.edu/english

The English Channel:Department of English Newsletter
http://www.auburn.edu/english/news/edn/edn.htm

 

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