To access our databases from off-campus, click on this link on the library's main page (enter your ID and password when prompted):



Note: there is no printing capability for off-campus users. You must e-mail articles to your email account in order to print them.

Our book, print journal, and video catalog.

Federated Search Engine

• Use Webfeat to search several databases at once~ This link accesses our Webfeat federated search engine. This tool allows you to perform keyword searches in groupings of databases (such as English and Foreign Languages and Literatures) or our entire database, all at once.

Literary databases (includes biographic information)

• Gale's Literature Resource Center ~excellent in-depth information about authors, including critical articles, bibliographies, and related websites. Includes the MLA International Bibliography database.

• Project Muse ~full text of over 200 humanities and the social sciences journals articles, from 1996 to the present. All full text.

• JSTOR ~ JSTOR collects titles up to the year 2000 if available. Current issues of journals are not in this database. All full text.

Film criticism and other general databases

• Academic Search Premier~ Includes the full text of Film History from 2001 to the present, Film Culture from 1992-1996, Films in Review from 1990-1996, Journal of Popular Film and Television from 1990 to the present, and the Journal of Popular Culture from 1990 to the present.

• Wilson Select Full Text Plus ~ Includes the full text of Sight and Sound from 2000-present, Film Criticism from 1995-present, and Film Quarterly from 1998-2002.

• Periodical Abstracts ~ Includes the full text of Film Comment from 1992-present.

• Proquest Newspapers ~ Includes the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what? Don't fret. Look for these buttons: , or , or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX) next to the article citation on the search screen. Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal, if we have it.

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These sites are best used as starting points to help you find general information about your author, playwright, play, or literary work. Some sites even contain online full-text publications, essays and articles. Note: online web sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

Authors and specific literary works, genres

• Google Directory Author listing (by nationality)~an author directory maintained by Google.

• Yahoo! Directory listing of literature and author websites ~another directory site.

  Film review websites

• The Internet Movie Database

• Rotten Tomatoes

  Plays and Playwrights

• Google's Dramatic Plays and Playwright Directory ~A collection of play and playwright web sites, arranged alphabetically (note: sites must be judged for authority and accuracy).

• Yahoo! Playwright Directory ~Another collection of playwright web sites

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• PowerPoint: Quick and Easy Tutorial- this is a viewable and/or downloadable file about the basics of PowerPoint.

• PowerPoint Presentation and Copyright Tips- another PowerPoint presentation about what NOT to do when crerating and presenting your PowerPoint slides.

• A directory of images and backgrounds- this is an Elmhurst Library compilation of graphics that people are free to use in their presentations.

• Copyright Quick Reference Sheet

• Some basics about copyright- This Boston University website is a good introduction to the basics of copyright.

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• Citing in MLA: A Quick Reference page ~from Duke University Libraries

• Other Online Citation Sources

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular?

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