Critical scholarly discussion of literature is published in journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other publications. Discover@MU searches across many books, journals, and most of the databases that we subscribe to. You'll easily find a wide selection of materials.
You may still want to explore the following databases for some materials not covered in Discover@MU and for more precise and focused searching.
Provides access to English language literature in reference works, bibliographies, web pages and journals.
Contains fully cross-searchable texts including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, etc. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper.
GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues.
Indexes articles from journals on all aspects of life in Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hispanics in the United States.
Scholarship in the arts and humanities is frequently published in books, either as article-length chapters collected in book volumes, or as "long-form" studies that take up hundreds of pages. Discover@MU and other databases may search the table of contents of books or a brief description, but most don't delve into the full text. The following sites are helpful for searching inside books to find relevant portions. Although copyright restrictions may limit what you can view or download, this helps identify relevant books that we can then find in print.
