Library Guides: English 4970W: Monstrous Imaginations: Home

Visual Sources

ARTStor
A digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.

Partial funding was provided by the Student Fee Capital Improvement Committee.

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User's Guide: http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-html/key-features.shtml

Creative Commons
A collection of creative work that is either in the public domain or easily licensed for reuse.
Internet Archive
A large archive of online texts, images, films, music, all free to use and reuse.

Historical Primary Sources

Literature Online
The Literature Online text section provides a corpus of literary texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th century. Prose and drama are limited to pre-1924 publications.

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Formerly known as LION
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Early English Books Online
Provides full text, digital images of every book printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and every book in the English language printed abroad.

Access provided through a partnership of the English Department, the College of Arts and Science and the MU Libraries.

Date coverage: 1475-1700
ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Contains English-language titles and editions based on the English Short Title Catalogue, made available online over the course of the next two years.

Date Coverage: 1701-1800

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Search Guide: http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=morenetuomcolum&ste=24
American Periodical Series Online
A full-text collection resources that chronicle the development of America across 150 years that include digitized images of the pages of magazines and journals.

Date Coverage: 1741 - 1900

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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
Contains full-text magazines published from 1684 through 1912, and collected by the American Antiquarian Society, reflecting many subjects surrounding the development of the United States.
African American Periodicals 1825-1995
Features wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Coverage Dates: 1825-1995
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British Periodicals
Offers facsimile page images and searchable full text.

Date coverage: 17th - early 20th century.

Hathi Trust Digital Library
This is a large collection of digitized materials of all sorts and languages. Use the advanced full text search to do a detailed search while also limiting by date range, subject, author, etc.

Background Sources

Literature Online
The Reference section of Literature Online provides access to various literary encyclopedias.

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Formerly known as LION
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Can be linked to Google or Microsoft account to quickly save entries.
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Research & Criticism

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical scholarship in the modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.

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Date Coverage: 1963-date
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License Terms: http://merlin.missouri.edu/node/426
Literature Online
Provides access to English language literature in reference works, bibliographies, web pages and journals.

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Formerly known as LION
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
Provides access to articles, books, magazines, and more on dance, theatre, and performing arts.

Specific subjects include ballet, cinema, comedy, dance, drama, film, mime,
opera, puppetry, and theatre.
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Covers Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1961 and 2008.

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Art Full Text
An art research database containing full-text art journals, books, periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It covers art history, design, as well as photography, film and architecture.

Date Coverage: 1984-date

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License Terms: http://merlin.missouri.edu/node/398

Search Guide: http://www.hwwilson.com/Documentation/WilsonWeb/art_tipsheet2008.pdf
Black Studies Center
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.

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GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues.

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Date Coverage: 1970 - date
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Discover@MU
A simple and fast search engine that helps you find relevant information on any topic from the University of Missouri Libraries’ collections. Results contain citations for scholarly journal articles, books and e-books, DVDs, magazines, newspapers, and dissertations.

To find books on a subject, you can do a keyword search or a subject search in the MERLIN catalog. You can also expand your search to all the academic libraries in Missouri by using the MOBIUS catalog. You can have materials from either catalog delivered to any of the MU libraries for pick-up.

Note that neither of these searches the full text of books, just a brief description. Google Book Search allows you to search within books that Google has digitized and in most cases preview a few pages. Usually a link in the left sidebar will then help you find the physical book in a library.

Subject Librarian

Anne Barker

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164 Ellis Library

(573)882-6324

Subjects:English Language & Literature, Foreign Language & Literature

Research Consultation

I'm happy to provide additional help as you work on your research project. Please make an appointment via MU Connect.

--Anne