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Libraries' Catalog - lists books, electronic resources, journal titles, and government documents in the Gorgas Library as well as the Business, Education, Science & Engineering, Hoole Special Collections, and Health Sciences Libraries.
Recommended Databases/Indexes
Note: To access any of the databases, go to the Libraries’ Database Page and go to the appropriate letter for the name of the database OR go to the English subject listing for databases.
FT=Some full-text available.Subject Databases
MLA (MLA International Bibliography) — Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series, and covers books, book chapters, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) —The Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by author name, title, genre, literary movement, or literary themes. LRC contains the following: Contemporary Authors, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Author Series as well as full text journal articles. FT
Literature Online (LION) — A fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key criticism and reference resources. This resource contains the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-present) among other sources. FT
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) — LLBA provides abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings, from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews, that appear in journals abstracted for Sociological Abstracts.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (also listed as Web of Science) —Online version of the print versions of: Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Science Citation Index; and Social Sciences Citation Index.
LitFinder—Indexes poetry, stories, essays, and plays, some of which are Full Text. (Search the Libraries Catalog using the term “LitFinder.”)
Expanded Academic ASAP—Indexes over 1500 journal titles (including some literary journals) in a variety of subject areas including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Articles in over 500 journals are full text.
print Literary journals
The library subscribes to the print versions of the following literary magazines (Current journals are arranged alphabetically by title in the periodicals room on the second floor. Annuals are arranged by call number and are shelved on the 3rd floor.):
- 1913
- 9th Letter
- Agni
- American Poetry Review
- American Scholar
- Antioch Review
- Atlantic Monthly
- (The) Baffler
- Beloit Poetry Journal
- Bilingual Review
- Boston Review
- Boulevard
- Calyx
- Canary
- Carolina Quarterly
- Chain
- Colorado Review
- Daedalus
- Fence
- Field
- Flyway
- Georgia Review
- Golden Handcuffs Review
- Granta
- Hampton-Sydney Poetry Review
- Hudson Review
- Iowa Review
- Jubilat
- Kenyon Review
- Literary Review
- Massachusetts Review
- McSweeney's
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Midwest Quarterly Review
- Mississippi Review
- New Criterion
- New England Review
- New Letters
- New Orleans Review
- New Yorker
- Nimrod
- North American Review
- Ohio Review
- Paris Review
- Parnassus: Poetry in Review
- Partisan Review
- PEN International
- Ploughshares
- Poetry
- Poetry East
- Poetry Flash
- Rain Taxi
- River Styx
- Sewanee Review
- Shenandoah
- South Carolina Review
- Southern Review
- Southwest Review
- Spoon River Poetry Review
- Story Quarterly
- Tessera
- Threepenny Review
- Tin House
- TriQuarterly
- Virginia Quarterly Review
- Wascana Review
- Western Humanities Review
Literary journals available electronically
Some issues of the following journals are available electronically (do a title search from the E-Journals page):
- American Poetry Review
- American Scholar
- Antioch Review
- Atlantic Monthly
- Callaloo
- Chicago Review
- Commonweal
- Confrontation
- Hotel Amerika
- Hudson Review
- Indiana Review
- Iowa Review
- Iris
- Kenyon Review
- Literal Latte'
- Literary Review
- Manoa
- Massachusetts Review
- Meanjin
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Minnesota Review
- Mississippi Review
- Missouri Review
- New Criterion
- New England Review
- New Yorker
- North American Review
- Paris Review
- Parnassus: Poetry in Review
- Partisan Review
- Ploughshares
- PN Review: (Manchester)
- Poetry
- Prairie Schooner
- Raritan
- Sewanee Review
- Southerly
- Southern Review
- Southwest Review
- Story
- Thalia
- TriQuarterly
- Virginia Quarterly Review
Free E-Journals
- 2River [http://www.2river.org/]
- 3rd Bed [http://www.3rdbed.com/]
- 5_trope [http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/]
- 91st Meridian [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/91st/]
- Agnieska's Dowery [http://asgp.org/agnieszka.html]
- Apocryphaltext [http://www.Apocryphaltextpoetry.com/]
- Arkansas Literary Forum [http://www.hsu.edu/alf/]
- Aside [http://www.alsopreview.com/aside/aside.htm]
- The Barcelona Review [http://www.barcelonareview.com/]
- Big Bridge [http://www.bigbridge.org/index.htm]
- Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/]
- Blue Moon Review [http://www.thebluemoon.com/]
- Born Magazine [http://www.bornmagazine.org/]
- Courtland Review [http://www.cortlandreview.com/]
- The Del Sol Review [http://www.webdelsol.com/f-subs.htm]
- Diagram [http://www.thediagram.com/]
- Drunken Boat [http://www.drunkenboat.com/]
- Electronic Poetry Review [http://www.poetry.org/]
- Eleven Bulls [http://www.elevenbulls.com/]
- eratio [http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/]
- Exquisite Corpse [http://www.corpse.org/]
- God Particle [http://thegodparticle.com/]
- GutCult [http://www.gutcult.com/]
- How2 [http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/]
- In Posse Review [http://webdelsol.com/InPosse/]
- Iowa Review Web [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm]
- Jacket [http://jacketmagazine.com/]
- Konundrum Engine [http://lit.konundrum.com/]
- Milk Magazine [http://www.milkmag.org/]
- Literary Salt [http://www.literarysalt.com/]
- Locus Novus [http://www.locusnovus.com/]
- McSweeney’s [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/]
- Mississippi Review (Online Version) [http://www.mississippireview.com/]
- Mudlark [http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/]
- Octavo [http://www.alsopreview.com/octavo/]
- Octopus Magazine [http://www.octopusmagazine.com/]
- Perihelion [http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/]
- La Petite Zine [http://www.lapetitezine.org/]
- poems that go [http://www.poemsthatgo.com/index.htm]
- Poetry Daily [http://www.poems.com]
- RAIN TAXI Review of Books [http://www.raintaxi.com/]
- Red China [http://www.redchinamagazine.com/home.htm]
- Richmond Review [http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/]
- StorySouth [http://www.storysouth.com]
- Tatlin’s Tower [http://www.tatlinstower.com/index.html]
- Thicket [http://www.athicket.com/]
- Transcendental Friend [http://www.morningred.com/friend/index.html]
- Typo [http://www.typomag.com/]
- Verse Daily [http://www.versedaily.org/]
- Web Del Sol [http://www.webdelsol.com]
- Words on Walls [http://www.wordsonwalls.net/]
- Word Riot [http://www.wordriot.org/]
Web Resources
Alsop Review [http://www.alsopreview.com/]
Arras: New Media Poetry and Poetics [http://www.arras.net/]
Atlantic Unbound [http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/]
Electronic Poetry Center [http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/]
PennSound [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/]
Poetry Library's Online Archive of English 20th and 21st Century Magazines [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/]
Small Press Traffic [http://www.sptraffic.org/]
UbuWeb [http://www.ubu.com/]
Vispo Langu(IM)age [http://www.vispo.com/]
Reference Resources
Literary Market Place (PN161 .L53x)
Poet’s Market (PN1059.M3 P63x)
Writer’s Market (PN161 .W83)
AcaDemic Departments and Organizations
Academy of American Poets [http://www.poets.org/index.php]
Associated Writing Programs [http://awpwriter.org/]
Electronic Literature Organization [http://www.eliterature.org/]
The Lannan Foundation [http://www.lannan.org/]
Modern Language Association [http://www.mla.org/]
Poets & Writers [http://www.pw.org/]
Poetry Society of America [http://www.poetrysociety.org/]
Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama [http://bama.ua.edu/~writing/]
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