Harper Library Resources for English Students

Online Resources For Students of Literature:

Online Catalog - Click here to search our catalog for books and audiovisual materials in our collection.

Literature Resource Center - Full-text database. Features biographical information about authors of literature, Work  Overviews of well-known pieces of literature of all genres, literary criticism from scholarly journals and reference books, and  links to reviewed World Wide Web sites about literature. An excellent place to start your literary research.

Literary Reference Center - Includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.

Ebscohost - The premier database for literary research is MLA. This database features citations to articles in scholarly journals and books, all on the topics of  literature and linguistics. Also, try the Academic Complete database for possible full-text articles (Academic Premier does not specialize in Literature, however.)

First Search - Our source of articles on literary topics is  Wilson Select Plus. This is a much smaller database but may allow you to find a few full-text articles quickly, to get started  on your paper or project.


Citing Electronic Documents (Full-Text Articles)


Last Updated 03/10/08