Welcome to the Research Guide for English!
This guide has been designed to help you with research in your English courses, by providing an overview of some of the key resources available via the Sherratt Library in the areas of English and Literature. It includes information on how to find and use them.
The Sherratt Library provides access to a number of article & information databases on a wide range of subjects. Below is a list of databases with content related to English:
Comprehensive video database covering more than 79,000 titles on anthropology, business, counseling, film health, history, music, and more curated for the educational experience of all types of library patrons.
Gale Literary Sources (GLS) is an integrated research experience, GLS brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.
Full text critical analysis, biographies and bibliographies on over 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes all of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and selected portions of Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Curated collection of material showing differing points of view on current social issues. Articles from Opposing Viewpoints, Current Controversies, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, and Gale Information Plus.
Oxford Bibliographies includes articles written by over 4,000 scholars from around the globe. These authors are leaders in their fields and are teaching at the top institutions in the world. This new interactive map highlights the extensive work of these impressive contributors, with easy linking to their work here on Oxford Bibliographies and beyond.
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
The largest single article platform available in Sherratt Library, searching across databases in major subject areas including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Note: to get full text access to the articles you'll locate via Google Scholar, follow these instructions to set up your browser:
Although many of the journals we carry in Sherratt Library are available in electronic form, there are times when a print copy is preferable. Below is a list of journals we have in print and electronic formats. See titles for links to each journal (note: journals and periodicals designated as "print" are available in the Print Collection on the first floor of Sherratt Library).
Here at the Sherratt Library, we use the Library of Congress classification system (call numbers) to organize most of our items, including print books and ebooks. Below is a general list of call numbers that relate to English (the call numbers can help you to find materials that are located on our shelves).
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