Research Guides: ENGL 4552--American Poetry through 1915: Finding Books and Articles

Selected Databases--Research

OSU subscribes to over 500 databases, all listed under "Research Databases." These are search tools that can help you identify articles from many kinds of sources--historical, contemporary, popular, and scholarly. If you're not sure where to start looking for articles, try first searching for your topic in the MLA International Bibliography, Academic Search Complete, or Humanities International Complete. You can click on the info icon next to each title to read a description of the database.

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Index to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics. Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
Academic Search Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Tutorial: Keyword and Subject Searches in Academic Search Complete

Humanities International Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database which includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar indexes items Google considers scholarly, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The OSU Libraries subscribes to the electronic version of many of these materials and may own the print copy. See Make Google Scholar Work For You to set the Google Scholar Preferences to ensure you find materials available free to you from the OSU Libraries and OhioLINK.

Selected Subject Headings

These and other Library of Congress subject headings may help direct you to books and e-books in the Libraries’ catalog which relate to topics covered in this course.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism

American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism

American poetry -- Women authors

Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States