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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)

The Johns 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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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

MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography)

Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
(Includes ABELL, MLA and several full-text collections)

LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

JSTOR

Project Muse

Women Writers Online

Digital Dissertations

LitFinder
(Find full-text of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays) 

Contemporary Authors

Scribner Writers Series

Twayne Authors Series

Current Awareness Resource

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 AU
For a comprehensive listing, search AubieCat

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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 Reviews
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/bkrev.html

Literary Criticism
http://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


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.

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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