Children's & Young Adult Literature Subject Guide

Article Databases

 

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ERIC Database

Includes a good number of articles about children's books, especially as they relate to their use in the curriculum. Includes journal articles and ERIC documents published from 1966 to the present.

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) restricted

Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year. Has citation tools for Refworks, Endotes and Procite. It also has a personal folder option to save articles and citations.
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)

Literature Online (LION) restricted

A full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose from the year 600 to modern times, and literary criticism from over 300 journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to websites. The "My Archive" feature allows you to save save articles. This database also has a citation export feature into Refworks, and Endnotes. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

Literature Criticism Online restricted

This database represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Children's Literature Review. This database has a personal folder option where you can save articles for future use. This database can be cross searched with the database Something About the Author here.

ProQuest Research Library restricted

Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.

OmniFile Full Text Select restricted

Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.
Formerly called Wilson Select Plus.

InfoTrac General OneFile restricted

Indexes news and periodical articles on a wide variety of topics. Millions of articles are full-text. Coverage: 1980-present.

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Last updated: February 2011