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English
Library Contact: Millie Merz, 241 KL, 248-3702457, merz@oakland.edu
Department Contact: Niels Herold

Essentials

OU Library Catalog

E-Journals A to Z--more up-to-date than Library Catalog

WorldCat (online catalog of libraries worldwide)

MelCat --online catalog of many Michigan libraries; fastest way to borrow BOOKS OU does not own

ILLiad—web based system for borrowing books, journal articles, etc.

RefWorks—“an online research management, writing and collaboration tool”


Web Sites

Writing Resources for Students (OU)—includes help with MLA citation 

Department of English, Oakland University 

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary —great for pronunciation 

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

--Online Guides to still other literary web sites

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research (UC Santa Barbara)
Perspectives in American Literature (Paul Reuben, Calif. State, Stanislaus) 
American Literature sites (Donna Campbell, Washington State) 
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (Martha L. Brogan, Council on Library and Information Resources
“Related Web Resources” on the OU English Dept. web site

Library Bibliographies of print & online sources

Folklore

Literary Criticism

Literary Research Sources

Film Criticism

Film

Book Reviews

Databases

MLA Bibliography—literature, linguistics, folklore; criticism from 1926 forward; indexes books, chapters, journal articles, dissertations; no abstracts 

Humanities Abstracts—covers all of humanities; indexes only journal articles; indexes from 1984, abstracts beginning in 1994 

AHCitation Index—can discover what articles have been cited in other articles; covers all of humanities; indexes only journal articles; indexes from 1980

Film and Television Index—1988 to present 

Film Literature Index—1976-2001 (no Get It links)

Society for the Study of Southern Literature: Bibliography--annotated checklist of scholarship on writings and writers of the American South (no Get It links)

Victorian Studies Bibliography--lists "noteworthy publications (including articles, books, and reviews) that have a bearing on the Victorian period. " There are no annotations or Get It links.

Other Online Resources

--Annual Bibliographic Essays

American Literary Scholarship--annual bibliographic essays covering "current critical analysis of American literature." Online from 1998.

Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory--annual "narrative bibliography of works in the field of critical and cultural theory." Online from 1996.

Year's Work in English Studies--annual "narrative bibliographical reviews of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English." Online from 1996.

--Journal Collections
ProjectMuse—collection of over 300 journals primarily from over 60 scholarly publishers.  Beginning date of holdings varies—some as early as 1995.  Includes over 100 literature journals. 

E-Duke Scholarly Collection—includes the Duke titles (e.g.,American Literature) that left ProjectMuse in 2005.

JSTOR—back issues of well over 700 journals including over 75 in language and literature.  Holdings usually begin 1 to 5 years ago all the way back to volume 1. 

--Online Books
Brand New!!--Cambridge Companions Online--more than 160 volumes containing specially commissioned essays. Volumes cover specific literary periods (British Romanticism), genres (crime fiction), and authors (Arthur Miller, Dickens, Chaucer). We also have access to around 100 volumes dealing with philosophy (Nietzsche, Kant). Collection describes itself as "written by experts and designed for student readers."

--Reference Works
Oxford English Dictionary 

Credo Reference—includes several literature reference books 

Contemporary Authors 

Encyclopedia of American Studies 

Historical New York Times—1851-2004

--Current Trials  (click here for list)

*Access to Library Databases is restricted to on campus use or off campus use by current OU faculty, staff, and students. Public Databases offer unrestricted access from any location.