HUM 497 Milton's Paradise Lost
Professor Allison Hobgood

1. Citation Management & Library Catalogs

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography management and citation tool that can import references from databases, library catalogs, generic web sites, and more.

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. General Reference 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.

3. Specialized Databases

Early English Books Online: Provides indexing, citations and full text of Early English publications from 1475 to 1800. Covers English literature, languages, religion, and politics.

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

Arts & Humanities Citation Index: Provides citation tracing for over 1,100 international arts and humanities journals.

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, and doctoral dissertations focusing on religion and theology.

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.

Iter: Provides a bibliography of close to 550,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

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.

Philosopher's Index: Provides indexing and author-written abstracts to the international literature of philosophy.

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

Google Scholar: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, including: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Tips for using Google Scholar at Willamette.

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