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)
A multidisciplinary 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.
African American Newspapers
An ongoing collection of 19th Century African American papers, including, as of July 2009, Freedom's Journal, Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Paper, National Era, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder.
American Periodical Series, 1741-1900
Includes the full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations, editorial cartoons, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc., from more than 1,100 American magazines and journals that began publication between 1741, when Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine first appeared, and 1900. Popular, special interest and general magazines; literary and professional journals; children's and women's magazines; and many other historically significant periodicals are included.
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. The emphasis is not on literature 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 back file of major scholarly journals. As of July 2009, Rutgers has the
collections Arts and Sciences, I, II, and III. Newly added titles for Rutgers include
American Literary History, College
English, Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, Feminist Studies,
Film Quarterly, Melus, Modern Language Studies, Modern Philology,
New England Quarterly, New Literary History, Novel: A Forum on Fiction,
PMLA, Poetics Today, Review of English Studies,
Rhetoric Review, Signs, Studies in English Literature, and
Twentieth Century Literature. Because JSTOR is not competing
with current publishers, it maintains a two to five-year "moving wall"-that is, the most recent issues included will always
be 2-5 years old.
Try
Academic Search Premier or
Project Muse for current
electronic titles. See also
Periodicals Contents Index for another database with considerable retrospective coverage.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times
from its first issue in 1851. It is searchable by keyword, subject, author, and article title,
and includes illustrations and advertisements.
The title changed from the New York Daily Times to
the New York Times in 1858.
Nineteenth Century American Newspapers.
A full-text database of American newspapers published between 1800 and 1900. Keyword search allows you to search through the full-text of five hundred titles published in all regions of the country, in both urban and rural communities, throughout the century. Advanced search allows you to limit your search by, among other options, author, title, date and locality, as well as by type of material, such as maps, cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor. The complete content of each issue is available, including advertisements, serialized fiction and book reviews. Articles or full-page images may be printed, emailed, or saved in PDF format.
Project Muse
Johns Hopkins University Press, in cooperation with a number of other major presses, is providing electronic access to more than 400 journals including, among others, Callaloo,
ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, and Postmodern Culture-and the important annual survey, American Literary Scholarship.
Approximately 100 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.
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full-text version of another major US paper from 1877 to 1993.
