Guide to English Language & Literature

Indexes & Abstracts

Although the MLA International Bibliography is the primary index to literary research, UTK Libraries does provide access to many other indexes and abstracts. Some of these are electronic databases; some are printed indexes. Some will index articles from literary sources; others will cover a more general selection of periodicals. Many of these resources can also be accessed from a home or campus computer. View the full database list for details about remote access. In most cases you will also need to check the UTK online catalog for holdings, call numbers, and locations of materials held by UTK Libraries. Some databases provide a link to any online form of the articles found; look for the SFX@UTK link.

Online:

• Literature Online (LION)

A fully searchable library of more than 300,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. Includes Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).

• Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

• LLBA -- Linguistics, Language & Behavior Abstracts

Index to research on all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

• MLA International Bibliography

Index of research in literature, language, and folklore.

also see:

• 19th Century Masterfile (formerly Poole's Plus)

Indexes periodical literature from the nineteenth century.

• ArticleFirst - Online database

Records describing items in nearly 13,000 journals. 1990 to date. Updated daily.

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Multidisciplinary section of the Web of Science covering scholarly literature in the arts and humanities.

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Index to biographies on over 4 million people from the beginning of time through the present.

• Black Literature, 1827-1940

Index of fiction, poetry, book reviews and literary notices in 900 black periodicals on microfiche.

• Book Review Digest

Select the database "BookReview". Brief book reviews for English-language fiction and non-fiction.

• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

An index of poetry in anthologies. Search by author, title, first line and other methods.

• Dissertation Abstracts International - Online database.

Covers dissertations accepted at accredited U.S institutions since 1861. It selectively covers masters theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations. See also print copy: HODGES Reference AS 30 .M5

• Essay and General Literature Index

Select the database "EssayGenLit".

• FirstSearch - Online database.

A variety of databases in one online system.

• Humanities Abstracts

Index of English-language periodicals in a wide range of humanities topics.

• International Film Archive

Index of film and tv periodicals.

• International Index to the Performing Arts

Index of more than 200 scholarly and popular periodicals in many areas of the performing arts. Includes some full-text of articles.

• International Medieval Bibliography

Indexes scholarly articles on Medieval Europe.

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Provides bibliographic information for scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

• JSTOR

Back issues of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

• New York Times Historical, 1851-1999.

Electronic full-text to NYT, 1851-1999.

• Project Muse

Full text of over 200 scholarly journals from over 30 publishers.

• Times Digital Archive, 1790-1985

Electronic full-text to The Times (London) for 1790-1985.

• Victorian Database Online

"Over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 2002 on every field of nineteenth-century British studies."

• Web of Science - Online database.

Citation index of over 8,000 scholarly journals. Includes citations to book reviews.

• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

An annotated bibliography of materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1971 to the present.

Printed:

• American Literary Scholarship
  HODGES Reference PS 3 .A47


• L'Annee Philologique: Bibliographie Critique et Analytique de L'Antiquite Greco-Latine.
  HODGES Stacks PA 29 .A56
  Also available as Database of Classical Bibliography, HODGES Media Center


• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
  HODGES Reference PR 83 .M6
  Also available through LION.


• Nineteenth-Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899.
  HODGES Reference AI 3 .R48


• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
  HODGES AI 3 .P7 1882


• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
  HODGES Reference AI 3 .R48


• The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900.
  HODGES Reference AI 3 .W45


• The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Studies
  HODGES PN 80 .Y43


• The Year's Work in English studies
  HODGES PE 58 .E6