English Research Guide
A guide to assist in library research for English and Film Studies classes
Welcome
This Research Guide is designed to aid students in using Iona University Library resources to complete projects and assignments for English. The guide includes important reference resources, articles in databases, key disciplinary journals, and information about research and citing sources in MLA.
View the department's website and find information about course offerings, program faculty, and curriculum requirements. If you are looking for the guide created for ENG 110, 120, or 122, see the ENG 110, 120, 122 Research Guide.
Core Databases
- MLA International Bibliography via EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics dating back to 1925 and containing 2.2 million+ citations from 4,400+ periodicals and 1,000+ book publishers. - ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Articles from journals and newspapers covering all subject areas. Includes dissertations, working papers from OECD, company reports, and country profiles. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. - Salem Press Online This link opens in a new window
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Salem Press is a publisher of reference material and provides access online to print titles in the Iona Colleges libraries. The major subject area classifications of Salem Press' works are: history, social sciences, literature, science, and health. - SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present. - Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
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Articles from journals, magazines and other resources covering multidisciplinary topics. - Seventeenth-Century News This link opens in a new windowAn official organ of the Milton Society of America and Milton Section of the Modern Language Association; SCN publishes commissioned scholarly reviews covering scholarship in all fields of seventeenth-century studies -- history, art history, the history of science, English, continental and American literature, music, and philosophy.
- Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South This link opens in a new window
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In print from 1834-1864, the Southern Literary Messenger was one of the most successful and influential literary magazines of the Antebellum and Civil War South. This collection shows scans and transcripts of every issue. - Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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Definitions, history, and quotations for over half a million words, both past and present, from the OED. Includes new additions and updates.
- Dartmouth Dante ProjectThe Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Ebook versions of encyclopedias and reference works covering most subjects, as well as a collection of classic literature and criticisms. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. - MLA International Bibliography via EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics dating back to 1925 and containing 2.2 million+ citations from 4,400+ periodicals and 1,000+ book publishers. - ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) This link opens in a new window
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Ebooks in the humanities representing disciplines such as politics, history, philosophy, religion, literature, etc - Directory of Open Access eBooks This link opens in a new windowPortal to discover peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. Provided by the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Foundation.
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Scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. - eBook Collection on EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
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Reference books, scholarly monographs, novels, manuals, etc. available in ebook format. - Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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Definitions, history, and quotations for over half a million words, both past and present, from the OED. Includes new additions and updates. - MLA Handbook Plus This link opens in a new window
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The online, all-in-one platform for the MLA Handbook, and many other useful resources such as the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, and others.
- Early American Newspapers, Series I: From Colonies to Nation and Series VII, Reform and Retrenchment This link opens in a new window
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Early American Newspapers, Series I covers the years of 1690-1876. Early American Newspapers Series VII covers 1773-1922. - Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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This tool creates a federated (shared) search across all primary resources from one vendor to include: 18th Century Collections Online, 19th Century UK Periodicals, The Making of the Modern World, and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Ebooks, pamphlets, essays, broadsides published in the UK during the 18th century. - Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Digitized and searchable primary source collection of newspapers published in Britain between 1800 and 1900. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. - America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
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Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera. Collections: Early American Imprints (EAI), Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; EAI, Series II: Supplement from the Library Comp. of Phil., 1801-1819; EAI, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I; EAI, Series I: Suppl. from the Library Company of Phil., 1670-1800. - American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 This link opens in a new window
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Journals and magazine published from 1691 through 1820 representing print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic - BiblioBoard Library This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collections by member institutions interested in preserving, organizing and presenting their historical materials online.
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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The complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards
- Congressional Research Service This link opens in a new windowReports are prepared for members of Congress by the Library of Congress to provide background information on major policy issues. Many reports are updated on a regular basis, this site includes most versions of the reports.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Congressional Quarterly reports addressing controversial current issues. Includes historical perspective, recent developments, statistics, opposing viewpoints, and sources for additional research. - Flipster Digital Magazines This link opens in a new window
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Digital newsstand that offers a browse-able access to popular magazines such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, and The New Yorker.
Magazines can be downloaded to Android™ phones and tablets, Apple® phones and tables, and Kindle Fire tablets for offline reading. - General OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Articles, reports and daily updates on a variety of topics: business, technology, current events, environmental issues, health care, humanities, politics, and many more. - International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites. - Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text of 200+ regional, national, and international newspapers. The database also includes transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts. - New York State Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's history. - The New York Times (1980 - Current) This link opens in a new window
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Often considered the official U.S. newspaper, the NYTimes publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. - The New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
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The Academic Pass provides access to NYTimes.com, NYTimes.com smartphone and tablet apps, and NYTimes In Education. - Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
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Covering many current social issues, features updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, images and other resources. - US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. - Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
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The WSJ is considered the US's preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Content available from 1984 - Current.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Gale Virtual Reference LibraryGale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) includes encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources across subjects in the arts.