Database Subject
English Databases
| Database Names and Descriptions | Full Text |
Cambridge Companions to Literature  Over 350 volumes of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series from Cambridge University Press. Each volume is a lively, accessible introduction to a major writer, artist, philosopher, topic or period. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. |  |
| Digital Theatre+ Digital Theatre Plus includes over 300 streaming professional theatrical productions, over 200 filmed interviews with theatre professionals, as well as literary and dramatic texts, documentaries, lectures, teaching plans, workshops and study guides. Playwrights include Shakespeare, Miller, Ibsen, Coward, O'Neill and many more. |  |
| Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This database includes full text and bibliographic coverage of scholarly and popular resources, including 160 full text journals, more than 160 e-books, and film reviews from Variety dating back to 1914. | |
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism This reference resource includes more than 300 entries and subentries on literary critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. | |
| Literature Criticism Online Literature Criticism Online (LCO) is a cross-searchable database comprised of seven collections of both popular and scholarly literary criticism: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Much of this content is also available from the library in print. | |
| Literature Online (LION) Literature Online contains a full library of English literature criticism and reference resources in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. | |
| Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library includes all that is important in ancient Greek and Latin literature: the entire classical heritage, in the form of over 520 e-book volumes of Latin and Greek texts, with modern English translations on facing pages. Includes epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel philosophy and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; and writings of some of the early church fathers. | |
| MLA International Bibliography MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. | |
| Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary is the major authority on the development of the English language over the last millennium. It provides definitions, traces etymologies, offers pronunciation guides, and provides numerous quotations for over half a million words in the English language, past and present. | |
| World Shakespeare Bibliography Online The most comprehensive index of Shakespeare scholarship written since 1960. Includes citations for articles, books, productions, films and audio recordings. |
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| Academic Search Premier A great first stop when looking for scholarly journal articles, Academic Search Premier contains full text content across all academic disciplines from over 4,600 periodicals. Also contains some popular magazines. Most content is from the last twenty years. | |
| Academic Writer (formerly APA Style Central) Academic Writer helps you develop your writing and research skills, combining sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced authoring technology, and full integration of the APA manual. | |
| Christian Periodical Index Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI is an interdisciplinary index of Christian periodicals. Search here if you're looking for articles or reviews written from an evangelical perspective. | |
| Credo Reference Credo Reference is a powerful source of introductory and reference information across all academic disciplines. Combining cross-searchable content from over 500 encyclopedias and other reference sources, Credo will also connect you to related materials in other library databases and collections. | |
| Dissertations and Theses The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 3 million citations, over 1.5 million of which are available in full-text. | |
| Ebook Central Ebook Central is a database of over 130,000 e-books in all academic areas. This collection is also searchable via OneSearch and the OneSearch Catalog. | |
| Films on Demand This database includes over 20,000 online streaming educational videos from providers like PBS and Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Includes coverage of nearly all academic disciplines. Instructors can embed films in Blackboard for easy course integration. These videos are also discoverable through OneSearch and the library catalog (Webcat). | |
| Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) A cross-searchable collection of more than 2,500 reference volumes, including encyclopedias across all academic disciplines. | |
| Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (formerly Opposing Viewpoints in Context) Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is a great starting point for all of today's most common research topics. Featured "viewpoints" provide accessible overviews, which are supplemented by many articles from popular magazines and academic journals, as well as books, newspapers, statistics, videos and even audio recordings. A good way to get started is to click "Browse Issues". | |
| Google Scholar Google Scholar is a broad index of scholarly content across many different fields and content types. | |
| JSTOR JSTOR is an interdisciplinary database of back issues from the most important scholarly journals in many fields. Coverage of most journals begins with volume one and ends four or more years ago. The library currently provides access to twelve JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-X, XII, and the Life Sciences collection. | |
| OneSearch OneSearch is a discovery service that lets you search across just about all of the library's collections at once. It includes everything in the library catalog, most databases, and much more. For finding books in our collections, use OneSearch Catalog or the "CBU Catalog Only" limiter. Databases that are not included in OneSearch include Dissertations and Theses and U.S. Major Dailies. | |
| Scopus A comprehensive general index of scholarly publications. Includes bibliographic records for academic journal articles primarily, but also for peer-reviewed books and conference proceedings. Scopus also provides advanced tools for analyzing the significance of individual journals, articles, scholars and institutions. Some journals are indexed as far back as 1823, but comprehensive coverage begins in 1996. |