Authors & Literary Criticism: Literary Library Databases and Web Sources

This guide will help you become aware of high quality information on authors & literary criticism.

Library Databases for Literary Criticism

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. A giant online collection that searches hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files and nearly 100 videos. Credo Reference is a research starting point for students looking for background information to inform their topic. With millions of articles pulled from hundreds of books, Credo is a general knowledge database providing articles, images, charts, maps and other materials on thousands of topics.
Discovery Search for Monroe This link opens in a new window
This link simultaneously searches all databases, products and services available at Monroe.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
The Literature Resource Center is a comprehensive and reliable database of full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals across a wide range of subject areas.

Web Resources:

edX Listing of Free Literature Classes from Multiple sources
Harvard University Free Online Literature Classes
Library of Congress Author Webcasts
MIT Open Courses in Literature
PBS American Masters Literature Database
Smithsonian Institution Websites:
- American Women Writers
- National Museum of African American History & Culture: African American Literature

Poetry Resources:

DOWNLOADABLE PRESENTATION from The Purdue OWL:
Writing a Literary Analysis

Writing a Literary Analysis
Guidance from the Purdue OWL on writing a Literary Analysis

APA Basics
APA Basics is a quick run-down of the basic rules of using APA. Included in this guide is information on how to: write an abstract; format headings; cite information in-text; and construct your References page.
Conducting Effective Research
This guide will help you conduct research and write papers.
Electronic Resources (Databases)
The library subscribes to numerous databases in which to find scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles, eBooks, and much more. Accessible anywhere on campus or remotely 24/7 by logging into MyMonroe.
Essay Writing
The Monroe College Guide to Essay Writing presents the information necessary to write effective essays.
Structuring the Five-Paragraph Essay
A handy guide created by the Bronx Campus Writing Resource Center

ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals across a wide range of subject areas.

For instructions on accessing the databases when you are off-campus, click here.

THIS RESEARCH OR "LIBGUIDE" WAS PRODUCED BY THE LIBRARIANS OF MONROE UNIVERSITY