Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Literatures in English:
Full-text Periodical Collections
Collections of periodicals-magazines, journals and newspapers.
These indexes/databases are available from the Libraries'
Indexes and Database pages.
You may find the correct index by looking in the Alphabetical lists or by looking in
Arts and Humanities Indexes section
under Language / Linguistics or Literature.
The Rutgers University computer network allows access,
either in any of the libraries or by remote access from home or office,
to an increasing number of electronic sources--including periodical indexes,
catalogs, the full texts of literary works, discussion groups, electronic journals, etc.
The following is a list of some of the more interesting and immediately relevant sources
for students in literature. Connect through the
Libraries Home Page ),
and click on "Not logged in" to log in.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
An interdisciplinary database including full text for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, though many are embargoed for the current year. Coverage for some titles extends back to 1984, though most are available only from 1996 onwards. A few full-text titles of interest for students of literature include
Literature Film Quarterly, Studies in
Philology, Explicator, Studies in the Novel, Twentieth Century Literature, and Medium Aevum.
American Periodical Series, 1741-1900
A searchable, full-image collection of roughly 1100 American magazines, covering literature and many other disciplines.
Contemporary Women's Issues
A full-text, searchable database. Covers over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world. Coverage begins with sources from 1992 and expands through the present with more than 150 periodicals in addition to
non-periodical source publications per se, but there is
coverage of the arts and media. A good supplement to MLA for women's studies.
JSTOR
An ambitious attempt to create an electronic backfile of major scholarly journals. As of July 2005, Rutgers has access to more than 300 journals, including African American Review, American Literature, ELH, MLN,
Representations, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Speculum–as well as a number of relevant history
journals. More titles are being added on a regular basis. You can link directly from
IRIS to the full-text of articles
in these journals. Because JSTOR is not competing with current publishers, it maintains a five-year "moving wall"–that
is, the most recent issues included will always be 5 years old. Try
Academic Search Premier or
Project Muse for current
electronic titles. See also
Periodicals Contents Index
on the
Indexes to Periodical Literature page of this guide..
Project Muse
Johns Hopkins University Press in cooperation with a number of other major presses, is providing electronic access to more than 300 journals including, among others, Callaloo,
ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, and Postmodern Culture-and the important annual survey, American Literary Scholarship.
At least 60 of these journals are of direct interest to literature scholars.
Access is available to the most recent issues, and a back run of as much as five
or six years--and growing. You can link directly from IRIS to the full-text of articles in these journals.
Recent additions include Studies in American Indian Literatures and Journal of Narrative Theory.
Proquest Historical Newspapers–the New York Times
Provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times
from its first issue in 1851. from its first issue in 1851. It is searchable by keyword, subject, author, and article, and includes illustrations and advertisements.
The title changed from the New York Daily Times to
the New York Times in 1858. Coverage from 1851 to two years prior to the current date
