Research, Citation, & Class Guides: High School: Literature: Finding Articles

Literary Databases

MLA International Bibliography
MLA Bibliography indexes scholarship in modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television, and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively.
Literature Criticism Online
This database searches the Gale series of literary criticism that includes Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literary Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. It can also be searched using Gale Literary Sources.
JSTOR
JSTOR is multi-subject electronic journal archival project which provides full-text access to complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles. It includes a large number of articles on literary topics.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to the full text of over 600 scholarly journals and over 30,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by university presses and scholarly societies.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
Gale Literary Sources
An integrated research experience, Gale Literary Sources is a tool that brings together Gale's premier literary databases: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, and Literature Criticism Online.
Literary Reference Center Plus
This is a comprehensive literary reference database which offers information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.

Access provided by Wisconsin DPI via Badgerlink.

History & Political Science Databases

Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary database provides full-text access to articles from over 7,000 journals (including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals), magazines, and reference sources.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
America: History and Life with Full Text
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide and provides full-text coverage of more than 196 journals and more than 92 books. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, it includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
JSTOR
(JSTOR has temporarily activated all archive and primary source collections until June 2021 due to COVID-19.)
An archival full-text multi-disciplinary journal database, coverage varies by publication but typically begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue. Covering over 60 academic disciplines in more than 2400 scholarly journals, UW-Whitewater Library has acquired Arts & Sciences I-VII Collections as well as the JSTOR Life Science Collection.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.
Political Science Complete
Political Science Complete provides full text for over 400 publications. It also features reference books, monographs, and conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to the full text of over 600 scholarly journals and over 30,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by university presses and scholarly societies.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

Psychology Databases

These databases can be searched simultaneously by clicking on Databases at the top of the window when in one of them.

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and social work.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

Biography Databases

Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors offers biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 149,000 modern authors, including novelists, poets, screenwriters, journalists and other nonfiction writers. The database contains the full-text of the following series: all print volumes of Contemporary Authors, all print volumes of Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series, and Contemporary Authors: Permanent Series, Vol. 1-2. Contemporary Authors can also be searched using Gale Literary Sources.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. This resource includes the Main series, the Documentary Series, and the Yearbook Series. It can also be searched using Gale Literary Sources.
Biography Reference Bank
Contains almost 40,000 biographies of authors, artists, film directors, Nobel Prize winners, American reformers, musicians, and composers.

More Databases

Andersen Library subscribes to over 250 databases that can be used to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, which you can use as long as you are on the UW-Whitewater campus. To access more online Andersen Library databases when on campus, select the Articles/Databases tab from the box on the library homepage.

Once you have left campus there are a few databases you can use through BadgerLink.

Research@UWW

Research@UWW is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of books, ebooks, government documents, media, articles, images, and more. It includes many, but not all, of the UWW libraries' databases in addition to records for all physical materials in UW System libraries.

Log in after your first search to ensure you're seeing all available citation and have seamless access to full text and UW Request borrowing.

Find the Full Text

Most databases have some full text articles in addition to article citations. When an article is not available in that database, use button/link to determine whether and where the UWW libraries have it.

In Research@UWW, go to the View It section of an article's record.

In either case, look in the View It section next to see if there is a link to the online article. If it is not online, scroll down to the Get It section to see if the article is physically in one of the UWW libraries. If it is not available either way, you may order the article by clicking on the We Can Get it for You (Document Delivery/ILLiad) link which will appear in the Get It area.

If you are not in a database or Research@UWW, use the Journal Search (also on the libraries' homepage) to determine whether and where the Library has a particular periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper, etc.), then search the periodical for the desired article.

How? Check out the How to Use Find It and the Journal Search guide.

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