Library: EL2239: Horror Literature: Articles/Databases

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Academic Search Complete
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- What's included? Full text, scholarly articles, reports, and conference proceedings on all subjects.
Humanities Source
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- What's included? Full text to many journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews.
JStor
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- What's included? Access to journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Literature Resource Center
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- Why search here? Excellent resource for any English class.
- What's included? Contains biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on literary figures and works from all time periods and genres.
MLA International Bibliography
- Why search here? Produced by the Modern Language Association, sources focus on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism and dramatic arts.
- What's included? Citations and some full text for journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, dissertations, etc. from 1926 to present.
Opposing viewpoints in Context
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- Why search here? Contains articles, reports and more that provide different viewpoints on controversial topics.
- What's included? A list of some of the most hotly-debated topics with links to articles and other resources.
Project MUSE
- Why search here? Contains scholarly articles from major journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as ebooks.
- What's included? Full-text scholarly articles and ebooks on literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and more.
ProQuest Central
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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- What's included? Compare countries tool, World atlas and factbook, images, and Merriam-Webster College Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Credo Reference
- Why search here? Scholarly alternative to Wikipedia.
- What's included? Collection of reference resources including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and almanacs in a number of subject areas.

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Tags: EL, english, english composition, gothic, horror, horror literature

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