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Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson)



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Description

A bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Now includes nearly 86,000 essays from almost 700 collections. Essays from more than 300 volumes and more than 20 annuals and serial publications are added annually. Also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Searchable by personal and corporate author, title, subject, and keyword, and also by Dewey and LC classification numbers, publisher, publication year, ISBN and ISSN, series, and country of publication.

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User tools and features

  • Search history alerts.
  • Compatible with RefWorks.
  • Saved searches. Free My EBSCOHost account required.
  • A visual search tab allows the user to search efficiently across broad subjects, and then returns a visual map of results, organized by topic.
  • iPhone and Android applications.

Dates covered

1985 to the present.

Updating frequency

Regularly.

Sources

Collections of articles and essays; annual volumes.

Type of coverage

Bibliographic citations to articles/chapters in books and annuals.

Print counterpart or
related resources

Essay and General Literature Index: See the for specific holdings. All print subscriptions at Rutgers libraries canceled as of 2008.

Producer/content provider

H. W. Wilson

Vendor/electronic presentation provider

EBSCO

Supplementary Subject(s)

General Arts and Humanities