ENGL 499 Senior Seminar in English
Gretchen Moon, Professor

1. Library Catalogs

Willamette University Libraries Catalog

Orbis Cascade Alliance Summit catalog of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington

Worldcat search engine for library catalogs all over the world

2. Major Research Databases

Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database.

Oxford English Dictionary: [OED] The online version of the 2nd edition of the classic dictionary.

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism: Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

MLA International Bibliography. Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore.

Project Muse: Provides online access to the full text of over 300 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, and more.

JSTOR: Provides access to the complete back files of more than 624 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s.

ArtStor: Provides a broad and deep general collection of images of world art and architecture, as well as special collections including Native American, Asian, American and European art.

ATLA Religion Database: Contains citations from journal articles, essays within multi-author works, book reviews, etc. focusing on religion and theology, from around the world.

Communication and Mass Media Complete: Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.

Grove Dictionary of Art is the only comprehensive art reference work in the world. It covers all the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990's in 34 volumes.

Historical Abstracts: Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

New York Times Historical Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Readers Guide Retrospective. 1890 - 1982. Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.

3. Other Resources

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry: Provides online access to several of the classic Granger's print resources, including the Classic Hundred Poems, he Top 500 Poems, the Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, the Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, and the Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry, as well as biographical information about many of the poets included in the database.

Criteria for Evaluating Web Resources

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