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Interdisciplinary Work

If your field is interdisciplinary--e.g. gender studies or ecocriticism--don't forget to explore other disciplinary databases. You can view all our databases sorted by subject here: https://lib.wvu.edu/databases/

MLA International Bibliography

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Literature, language, linguistics, folklore references from the Modern Language Association. Includes references to journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Although full text is not included in the MLA Bibliography, the Find it @ WVU service provides links to full text from other databases when available.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index has access to 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact literature journals in the world

This database does not contain the full-text of articles. To see if we have access to the full-text use the FIND IT @ WVU button.
Use the TIMES CITED sort option to see which articles have been referenced the most amount of times.

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Articles from high impact research journals in each field of the humanities, with option for cited reference searching to trace scholarship. (Part of Web of Science)

Project MUSE

ProjectMuse has full-text scholarly articles from many journals in the humanities.

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Click on Journals/ Articles from the side menu
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Project MUSE provides searchable, full text access to hundreds of academic journals and books. It covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

JSTOR

JSTOR has full-text scholarly articles from journals in many disciplines.

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To retrieve only articles, not reviews, make sure you click on the box next to Articles.
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JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, primary sources, and high-quality images. It has an archive of more than 1,000 scholarly, interdisciplinary journals, with full coverage for all but the most current 3-5 years. Images are contributed by universities, museums, and community and private collections. JSTOR is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Academic Search Complete

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Offers a good starting point for research on nearly any topic, covering most areas of academic study and containing full text for 5,500 periodicals, including 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals.

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center has full-text scholarly articles from many journals in the humanities as well as biographical information about authors.

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Dissertation-Writing Resources - Fall 2020