Librarian - Carol Scamman
Email: cscamman@sfasu.edu
Phone: 936.468.1710
Office: 202e
Appointments Available
Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
LitFinder is an online resource which is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature, including full-text poems and excerpts, as well as short stories, essays, speeches, and plays.
Literature Resource Center - LRC (Gale) provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. It includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. It also includes material from “Drama Criticism”, “Shakespearean Criticism”, “Short Story Criticism”, and many other Gale literary series. Users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via links to more than 260 prominent literary journals. Author coverage in the Literature Resource Center is further enhanced by Merriam-Webster's “Encyclopedia of Literature.”
Hollywood Creative Directory contains up-to-date information listing the names, addresses and current titles of entertainment professionals. To access this database you must provide the username: request@sfasu.edu and password: LIBRARY.
Scribner Writers Series includes signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from the Scribner print series.
Twayne's Authors Series contains the full text of 200 Twayne Literary Masters books on individual authors.
Literary Databases (Gale) provides access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography in one database with information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reactions to their works.
MLA Bibliography (Ebsco) provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide on literature and language topics.
Arts and Humanities Search (First Search) covers articles in literature, language, art and the performing arts.
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author- written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy.
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NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
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Encyclopedia of American Religions
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
A major site for students and teachers of English. Searchable, full-text of many classic works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are available including the Oxford Shakespeare. There are also important reference books, such as The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, quotation books, and The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
The Oxford Text Archive
The OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.
Online Books: Language and Literature
Online Books: Philosophy
AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information
Useful lists and detailed explanations of science fiction awards, with some treatment of other literary awards.
Award Winners
A listing of 58 different book awards from Amazon.com. Nominees and past award winners are included. Awards can be browsed by award name and award categories. Free e-mail notification of newly announced awards is available.
General Literature
The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
An extensive source of links to critical and biographical sites on hundreds of authors. In some cases free summaries of critical articles are provided, but the articles themselves must be purchased.
The Victorian Web: Victorian Literature Overview
Here you will find a timeline of British Literature covering 1709-1918 as well as an in-depth look at the techniques, genres, and modes that were employed during the Victorian Age.
The Victorian Web: Authors
Discussions of many authors from the Victorian Age.
The Victorian Web: Religion
Here you will find an overview of religion and philosophy in the Victorian Age.
King Arthur
The Camelot Project
A collection of "Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information" at the University of Rochester.
Philosophy
Philosophy in Cyberspace
A well-organized collection of philosophy resources. Has its own search engine, Hippias.
Shakespeare
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This is a megasite with annotations for " . . . scholarly Shakespeare resources available on [the] Internet." It aims to present " . . . new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Searchable by play or by lines or words from Shakespeare's plays. Includes a Shakespeare discussion area and some useful links to other Shakespeare material.
Style Guides
Style Guides MLA (The Modern Language Association of America)
The MLA's webpage provides an online section under Style entitled, Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web. These are the only guidelines on the Internet authorized by the Modern Language Association of America. There is also an FAQ about MLA Style and a description of the difference between the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
APA (The American Psychological Association)
Frequently Asked Questions About the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (4th ed.)
The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
