BE21 - Professor Martha Dressler: Databases

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography indexes more than two million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly Web sites. It indexes materials in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore and more.

Full text of over two hundred and fifty journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities and life sciences. Journal coverage begins with the first issue of each journal but the most recently published issues (the last 3 to 5 years) are generally not available. Through 2011 there is also access to JSTOR Plant Science.

Features full text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.

This searchable database contains full-text articles from The New York Times that are available from 1851 to 2014.

Opposing Viewpoints provides information about contemporary social issues, some controversial. It features full text articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.