Research Guides: English: Databases

Databases

These Databases are commonly used within the English Department.

EBSCO Discovery Service This link opens in a new window
All in one search option to search all databases within EBSCO.
JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This link opens in a new window
An archival database of journals in a variety of diciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Saint Vincent College has access to the following collections; JSTOR Arts & Sciences I through XV and Biological Sciences, Life Sciences, Business IV, Hebrew Journals Collection, Ireland Collection, Lives of Literature, Public Health Collection, Security Studies Collection, Sustainability Collection, Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa
MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations in literature, landuage, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.

The following databases are open-access archives found on the web.

Project Muse
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world. Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and nearly 100,000 books from some 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers. MUSE also offers more than 5,000 open access books and several open access journals on the platform.
**Please be advised that not everything on ProjectMUSE may be available with full-text access**