English Research Guide: Article Databases

Literature Online is a single-point, online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 357,000 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference. LION's corpus includes the Annual Bibliography of Language and Literature (ABELL), as well as direct links to literary criticism and reference from an extensive collection of full-text literature journals.

A one-stop-shop resource providing access to biographies, critical analyses and reviews of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

Centuries of analysis - scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

MLA via EBSCO

Direct access to nytimes.com paid for by St. Thomas. First-time users need to create a free account using their St. Thomas email address. Existing paid New York Times subscribers must cancel their subscription before authenticating via the school funded program. Includes access to nytimesineducation.com (separate registration required), timesmachine.nytimes.com, The Athletic (separate registration required), use of the app, and more. Does not include Cooking, Wirecutter, or Games. Available only to current UST students, faculty, and staff.

Search across an archive of current and historic U.S. news content. To find reviews, search for the name of the author and work.

Search across an archive of current/recent news content from around the globe. To find reviews, search for the name of the author and work.

Combined search of historical newspapers (late 19th and early 20th centuries) including: New York Times, Washington Post, Irish Times, The Guardian and Observer, Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier.

Access ebooks and scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and the social sciences. Journal content is often not available until 1+ years after publication.

Project MUSE provides online access to a large selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals and ebooks.

A good place to start your research, Academic Search Ultimate provides full text for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals as well as general interest sources.

Search across multiple disciplines and source types from one convenient place. Connect to Google Scholar through the library’s page to get free full text of articles brought to you by UST.

This database provides citations for over 2.7 million dissertations and theses from colleges and universities around the world. Close to half are available in PDF form that researchers can download. All St. Thomas dissertations that have been submitted to the database are available in PDF also. If you should come across a document that does not have a PDF, you may purchase a copy or request it through interlibrary loan (ILLiad).