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Electronic journals

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Key databases

Start your search for journal articles by selecting one of these databases

  • MLA International Bibliography  
      
    Bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. 1960+
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  • Literature Resource Center (Gale)  
      
    Vast collection of full text resources on all aspects of literature. Includes more recent volumes of several of the Gale literature series such as Contemporary Literature Criticism and others. Links to full text journals.
  • AustLit -The Australian Literary database  
      
    Provides authoritative information on almost 370 000 works of creative and critical Australian literature - published in a range of print and electronic sources - and more than 60 000 Australian authors and literary organisations, from 1780 to the present
  • Shakespeare Collection (Gale)  
      
    Remarkable resource for Shakespeare research, including the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Full text links.

Other recommended databases

  • Project MUSE  
      
    Full-text academic journals in the humanities.
  • JSTOR  
      
    Collections i, ii,iii,iv & complement.
    Full text archival backfile for hundreds of major humanities journals.
  • APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs Information Service-Full Text  
      
    Index and full text articles on the social sciences and humanities from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. Current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.1978+
  • 19th Century Masterfile  
      
    A vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for research prior to 1925. Brings together over 60 subject indexes to British and American books, newspapers, periodicals and more. It includes links to the full text archive of the Making of America
  • ANZ Reference Centre  
      
    General database with some full-text Australian literary journals. Features the full text of all Australian News Ltd newspapers for the last 4 years as well as The Age and Sydney Morning Herald for the last five years.
  • ProQuest  
      
    Good starting point to find references and full-text journal articles in popular and academic journal articles.
    Help sheet
  • Web of Science  
      
    Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975+
    Index of 7000 high impact journals in all subject areas Help sheet
 

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Ruairi Murphy (Hobart)
Morris Miller Library
6226 2306
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Susan Bell (Launceston & Burnie)
Launceston Campus Library
6324 3139
Susan.Bell@utas.edu.au
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