This guide provides resources that may be helpful to English & Literature classes.
Academic Search Ultimate is the most valuable multidisciplinary full-text journal database in the world. All content from Academic Search Complete and Academic Search Premier is included in Academic Search Ultimate.
The AAS collections document the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and early 20th century. The five series of this digital collection span thousands of American news and literary periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, or other keywords.
Provides access to more than 5,000 freely-available scholarly eBooks in a wide range of subject disciplines.
Access the full text of thousands of literary works as well as scholarly journal articles related to literature, literary criticisms and reviews, and author biographies. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres.
Provides full-text from over 1,200 scholarly journals plus magazines and ebooks related to the humanities.
Provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Need some help with these frequently-used terms?
Peer-reviewed journals (often called "scholarly" or "academic" journals) contain original research articles.
These articles have been reviewed by other scholars in the field - the authors' academic peers. The reviewers work to ensure the integrity and quality of the research being reported upon.
Empirical articles are based on experimentation or observation. In other words, they describe the results of research. Peer-reviewed articles usually describe empirical research.
Peer-reviewed articles may describe either qualitative or quantitative research.
Qualitative research tries to understand who, what, how, when, and why. It explores the nature of something. Typical approaches include observation, interviews, and focus groups.
Quantitative research describes how much or how often. It relies on statistics and variables to prove or disprove something.
Here's a short video describing the difference.
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