LibGuides: ENGL 300 Research Guide (Smith): Databases

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Database Resources

A lot of your research in ENGL 300 will come from the library databases found at either Databases A-Z or Research Port. On this page below, you'll find:

Recommended Databases for ENGL 300
An EBSCO Database Demonstration (video)

Recommended Databases

Databases available via Databases A-Z or ResearchPort. Login required off the FSU campus.

Academic Search Ultimate

Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals
America: History and Life

Information on articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 international worldwide. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

A collection of electronic books covering a wide variety of subject material.
Humanities International Complete

Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works. Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
JSTOR

The FSU Library subscribes to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences IV, Language & Literature, and Life Sciences collections.
Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers with in-depth coverage of 2,300 of the most studied authors.
MLA Directory of Periodicals

Detailed information about magazines and journals worldwide that publish literary criticism, creative writing, film criticism, drama criticism, analyses of folklore and culture as well as aspects of linguistics, composition and pedagogy. Each entry includes addresses, phone numbers, URL's, e-mail addresses, name(s) of editor(s), publication frequency, circulation figures, submission guidelines, subscription prices and more.
Project Muse

Full text of recent issues of 200 journals from 30 scholarly publishers. Search the full text of articles from the entire collection or, using the advanced search, from individual titles. Use the advanced search to search by date, by combining terms, to find book reviews and creative writing.
SocIndex with Full-Text

The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.

An EBSCO Database Demonstration

Thirty of the 60 databases in the A-Z Databases share the same EBSCO navigation screen. Here is a video for conducting a basic search in an EBSCO database.