Research Guides: Creative Writing: Online Resources

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Online Databases and Guides

Writing a historical novel? Doing research for a character's background? These resources will help.

Reference Universe
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Search hundreds of subject encyclopedias online and in print.

encyclopedia, subject encylopedias, Oxford Reference Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Routledge Reference Resources Online, Netlibrary, Annual Reviews, ABC-CLIO e-books, AccessScience, Literature Online, Idea Group, Sage Publications, Credo, Paratext, ReferenceUniverse
Academic Search Complete
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A general, multidisciplinary database. A good place to start, especially if you are interested in both scholarly and non-scholarly journals.

Research Guides
UCLA Librarians have created hundreds of online guides for subjects and even specific courses. From theoretical physics to nineteenth-century literature, you'll find help here.
Images
If you need images for inspiration or to check something for accuracy, this guide provides many resources.
Browse databases by subject

Literature Databases

This is a short list of useful articles databases for literature. You can locate other relevant databases by going to the Library's electronic resources database and looking up articles databases by subject area. Click on Literature (or English and Comparative Literature). A list of literature-related articles databases will be displayed.

Academic Search Complete
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A general, multidisciplinary database. A good place to start, especially if you are interested in both scholarly and non-scholarly journals. Indexes major journals in many disciplines.
International Medieval Bibliography
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Interdisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East for the period 300-1500. Comprehensive current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
JSTOR
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Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines.
jstore, jsotr, jrstor, jsot, Jsror, jsstor, Jstar, j-stor, jstory, jstot, Jstr, jstsor, justor, jsot, jsage, jsot, Jsror, Jsror, jsstor, J star, j-star
Literature Criticism Online
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Contains access to a wide range of literary criticism including biographical and bibliographic information on authors and their works.

African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC
Literature Resource Center
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A multi-purpose electronic resource that provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC
MLA International Bibliography
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This is a core article database for literary studies.
Periodicals Index Online
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PIO is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Project MUSE
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Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA subscribes to only a very small number of Project Muse e-books.
Full-Text Journals, johns hopkins university, milton s. eisenhower library, Project MIse, project mus, projectmuse, moose, project moose

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