LibGuides: English: Get Started

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You've come to the right place to start your research for assignments in your English classes. Best places to start are below, or check out the pages on the side for more information. Questions? Contact me (Katie Yelinek) at Bloomsburg at kyelinek@commonwealthu.edu, or Holly Jackson at Mansfield at hjackson@commonwealthu.edu or Rick Lilla at Lock Haven at rlilla@commonwealthu.edu.

Frequently Used Resources for English

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. It has citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) This link opens in a new window
Online access to the Oxford English Dictionary, the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Includes word histories, taxonomies, and sources of definitions, and is searchable by a number of categories of definitions.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Artstor is now part of JSTOR. Recent issues of most journals are embargoed.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Our largest interdisciplinary database, ASU indexes peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, magazines, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. 1887 - present.
Also includes more than 74,000 videos from the Associated Press, which appear in a carousel in the result list. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Combines Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communications Abstracts (formerly published by Sage).
Offers full-text content pertaining to communication studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Search Gale's 'Literature Criticism', 'Literature Resource Center', & ''Dictionary of Literary Biography' at the same time

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Frequently Used Resources for English