There are a number of electronic resources you can use to research your area. The databases on this page are some of the more useful ones. You can also search for a specific journal using the search box below. If you cannot find what you need, please contact the Subject Specialist using the contact information under the Home tab of this Guide.
NOTE: Due to license agreements, some journals and/or specific issues may not be available in full-text.
If you are faculty, staff, or currently enrolled in classes at Jacksonville State University, you can access the Library's electronic resources from your home computer.
Access is granted through an authentication application called EZproxy. It is very easy to use, and it allows our users to access our resources from any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) or service provider (AOL, Mindspring, etc.).
When you're prompted for a student/staff ID and your last name, type in your student/staff number (all numbers, no dashes, no spaces) including ALL leading zeroes and your last name. For example:
Click the "Submit" button and you're in! Once you have been authenticated, you can begin searching the resource. If you have any problems accessing the databases, use the contact information in the Help box above to contact us.
To find articles on a topic, you will need to search in databases that index the articles in various journals or, occasionally, in books, on that topic. For research on John Milton and seventeenth-century English literature, you may want to start with the following databases. For additional databases, redirect to the Supplemental Databases tab of the LibGuide for English Language and Literature: Electronic Databases by Subject.
Milton Quarterly publishes in-depth articles, review essays, and shorter notes and notices about Milton's works, career, literary surroundings, and place in cultural history. In striving to be the most reliable and up-to-date source of information about John Milton, it also furnishes reports on conferences, abstracts of recent scholarship, and book reviews by prominent scholars in the field. While its scholarly standard for submissions is high, it insists upon accessibility from all contributors.
Electronic:
from 03/01/2001 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier |
from 03/01/2001 to 1 year ago in Literary Reference Center Plus |
Print: Per PR3579.M5
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 is a quarterly journal of historical and critical studies. It is published quarterly by Rice University in Houston, Texas by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Each issue is devoted to one of four fields, and includes an article reviewing books recently published in that field.
Winter: |
English Renaissance |
February 15 |
Spring: |
Tudor and Stuart Drama |
May 15 |
Summer: |
Restoration and Eighteenth Century |
August 15 |
Autumn: |
Nineteenth Century |
November 15 |
Print: Per PR1.S82
from 01/01/1961 to 10/31/2006 in JSTOR |
from 01/01/1975 to 12/31/1998 in Academic Search Premier |
from 01/01/1975 to 12/31/1998 in Literary Reference Center Plus |
from 01/01/1984 to 12/31/1998 in MasterFILE Premier |
from 01/01/1985 to 12/31/1998 in MAS Ultra - School Edition |
from 01/01/1993 to present in Academic OneFile |
from 01/01/1993 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP |
from 01/01/1993 to present in General OneFile |
from 01/01/1993 to present in InfoTrac Student Edition |
from 01/01/1994 to 1 year ago in ProQuest Research Library |
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Ref PE58.E6 and <http://ywes.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year> [YWES actually is a periodical, an annual; but Houston Cole Library treats annuals as books rather than periodicals, so this one is cataloged and shelved as a reference book.]
Levels of electronic database searching
Electronic databases may be searched on three levels:
Advantages of searching a native (single) database
Disadvantages of searching a native database
Advantages of simul-searching multiple databases by provider
Disadvantages of simul-searching multiple databases by provider
Advantages of Gemfinder Discovery Search
Disadvantages of Gemfinder Discovery Search
To cross-search EBSCOhost, Gale/Cengage, or JSTOR databases:
1) Go to the library's Electronic Resources page (http://www.jsu.edu/library/resources/index.html)
2) Scroll down to Frequently Used Resources
3) Select the database vendor you wish to cross-search
4) Follow instructions provided by the vendor
Many authors have groups of admirers who study their works and even form organizations which issue publications devoted to that author. Yet these publications are so obscure that they are not indexed in any of the major databases. Here is an area where a basic internet search can be useful, since many of these publications have contents pages, and even selective full text of articles, available online. The search template is simple. In the search box of the internet search engine, type the name of the author, within quotation marks, followed by the word "society" (no quotation marks). For example:
"john cooper powys" society
Whether the author's group calls itself an Association, a Circle, or a Society, within the results list the search brings up should be a link to that group; and connected to that link, access to resources which might otherwise remain unavailable.