English
Assistant Professor Liz Gruchala-Gilbert is the liaison librarian for English
Office: #129 Main floor of the library
Phone: 206-281-2790
Email: lgg@spu.edu
Need articles? Search in the Databases!
Core Resources
- MLA International Bibliography - MLA International Biography is a core index to literary criticism and the humanities, with emphasis on literature, folklore, languages, and linguistics. Its coverage extends from 1926 to the present.(SPU Only)
- Literature Resource Center - incorporates much of the content of the series (1) Contemporary Authors, (2) Contemporary Literary Criticism, and (3) Dictionary of Literary Biography. It also includes full-text articles.(SPU Only)
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- Communication and Mass Media Complete - offers over 1,000 titles on communication, mass media, and related fields, many with full text available.(SPU Only)
- Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present—from across the English-speaking world.(SPU Only)
- Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
Additional Resources
- Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
- Ingenta - provides immediate, fee-based access to articles, with indexing for over 13,000 journals. Its coverage extends from 1966 to the present.(SPU Only)
- JSTOR - offers digitized versions of core scholarly journals in many disciplines.(SPU Only)
- Theatre in Video - contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.(SPU Only)