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Selected Databases

Literature Resource Center
Full-text of Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism (v.95 onwards, selected entries from 1-94), and other critical resources. Biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on popular authors throughout history.
Bloom's Literature
Curated by Harold Bloom, an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, this database covers authors and works representing the greatest achievements of the Western literary tradition. Explore thousands of literary criticisms, biographies, character entries, synopses of literary works, images, and videos.
JSTOR
Full-text journal articles that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources.
ProQuest
Abstracting, indexing, and full text access for core scholarly journals, magazines, major newspapers, and other publications covering a broad range of subjects. To allow linking to all Evans Library scholarly journals do not select "Full Text."
OneSearch@Evans Library
Performs a Google-like search of Evans Library materials including the contents of journals and books. Allows you to limit to full text articles from academic publications, including peer-reviewed.

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Academic Video Online
A comprehensive, multidisciplinary video collection that includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Go the Academic Video Online guide to learn more.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a streaming video service for educational institutions that offers thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases across a broad range of disciplines.

Optional: Use the Log In button and follow the instructions to create a personal account. This allows you to save videos for later viewing, create clips and playlists, and use Kanopy's mobile and TV apps.

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LitFinder
This database provides full-text access to literary works from throughout history including novels, poems, short stories, speeches, and plays with options to translate into 42 different languages and download audio files.

Finding Journals at the Evans Library

Instead of searching for individual articles by topic or keyword, you may want to explore a Journal on your topic. Journals publish the individual articles that we find in article databases. One Journal issue contains multiple articles focused around one central subject, theme, or topic. The Evans Library subscribes to thousands of full-text Journals that you can access via the Evans Library website.

You can search for journals by title or browse for them by subject. Use the links below to help you find Journals.

eJournals & eBooks
Search for Evans Library's full-text periodicals in print or electronic format and books in electrionic format. A browse by subject feature is included..
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
Registry of Web sites that list or provide access to the full title of abbreviated journal titles. Sites have been categorized within broad subject groupings.

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