Humanities International Index

Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts to articles, essays, reviews and other reference sources in the humanities. You can limit your search results to only full text items by checking the "Linked Full Text" box on the advanced search screen. All other articles can be requested through interlibrary loan. This database can be searched in conjunction with Academic Search Premier or other databases by clicking "Choose Databases."

Literature Resource Center

Searchable by author's name or title of a work, the Literature Resource Center includes criticisms, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews, relevant web sites, journal articles, reading lists and some full-text of an author's work. Authors are also browsable by type and literary movement or period. A literary-historical timeline is also provided, as is access to Gale's Encyclopedia of Literature.

MLA Bibliography 

MLA International Bibliography gives citations and abstracts for journals, series, and books, many also include links to articles in full text. MLAIB is one of the largest databases you can use when researching language and linguistics, literature, literary theory and criticism. Use the options under "Limit your search," especially the language and full text options, for more relevant results. This database can be searched in conjunction with Academic Search Premier and Humanities International Index by clicking "Choose Databases."

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary provides current and historical definitions of words from across the English-speaking world, not just in the United States. For most entries, variant spellings, etymology, quotations and a date chart are available.

Academic Search Premier

This multidisciplinary database is a good place to start your research. For extra search capabilities, click "Choose Databases" and select more subject specific databases to simultaneously search.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides full-text coverage of current social issues. The main goal is to provide a balance of opinions on these issues through original pro and con articles, articles from academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, podcasts, statistics and more. Browse popular topics or search by keyword. When searching use the advances search to limit your results to peer-reviewed publications or to the intermediate or advanced content level. Opposing Viewpoints is also a series that we carry in print; add "opposing viewpoints" in the series box in your Cavalog searches to find relevant materials in print.

ProQuest Research Library

ProQuest Research Library provides citations and/or full-text access to 3,000+ scholarly journals and magazines in a wide range of subject areas. In addition to general interest publications, the database covers the Arts, Business, Children, Education, Health, Humanities, Law, Military, International and Multicultural interests, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests.

WorldCat

Use WorldCat to find books about a research topic that are not available at Holy Spirit Library. Search by title or author if you are looking for something specific, or search by keyword or subject to find something new. Click "Borrow this item from another library" to request a book from another library.

British Women Romantic Poet, 1789-1832

This website from UC Davis’ General Library provides information about and the works of female British poets from the Romantic era, as well as links to related websites.

Online Resources for Writers

Online Resources for Writers, from Amherst College, provides links to websites and essays about the structure and form of writing. Resources that are only available to Amherst students are few and noted.

The Rossetti Archives: The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Rossetti Archives provides biographical information and a life chronology of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as well as providing the full-text of all of his writings for free online. Related texts, contemporary studies, and visual works are also provided.

The Walt Whitman Archive

The Walt Whitman Archive, housed at the University of Nebraska’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, provides the full text of every edition of Leaves of Grass published in Walt Whitman’s lifetime, in addition to poems published in periodicals, manuscripts, biographies and letters. Contemporary reviews and bibliographies of Whitman criticism and scholarship from 1975 to the present are also available.

WordNet: A Lexical Database for the English Language

WordNet is a dictionary/thesaurus for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Words are grouped into synsets, or by their synonymous definitions. This makes the synonym results and example sentences you retrieve from a search more meaningful and more likely to sound natural when written or spoken.