Databases - best bets
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a good database for researching many subjects within the humanities. Try applying the "language & literature" discipline filter when you search.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is also a good starting point for research in the humanities. The advanced search page features a research area filter with an option for creative writing.
Databases - try also
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Good database for most research topics and contains lots of full text, peer reviewed articles. More than 18,000 of the journal titles indexed are peer reviewed and almost all of the full text is. Provides searchable cited references for more than 1,000 journal titles so you can easily see what sources a given article cites.
- Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowLiterature Resource Center is primarily a database of literary criticism. It unifies, in electronic form, several well-known resources: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowMLA International Bibliography is a key database for researching language and literature.