English Subject Resources

Credo Reference: An excellent full-text integrated reference database. Contains linked searching to other resources and visual concept mapping. The BEST place to start!
ProQuest Central: Our largest and most comprehensive database.

Combine terms using AND, OR and NOT EX: "adolescents and athletics" will return results with both terms, "adolescents or teenagers" will return results with either term, and "education not educators" will get rid of anything about educators.
Clickable boxes for peer-reviewed and full-text content
Easily save, print, or email marked records and create citations for your bibliography.
Use our interlibrary loan form to order articles that are not full-text

JSTOR Language and Literature: A selection of full-text journals in areas of language and literature research. All content is scholarly and full-text.
Academic Search Elite: A large general subject database with many journals in full-text and some coverage in literature and language.
- Use left column search guides to refine your search
- Clickable boxes for peer-reviewed and full-text content
- Easily save, print, or email marked records and create citations for your bibliography.
- Use our interlibrary loan form to order articles that are not full-text.
Magill's Literary Annuals: Collections of book reviews and supplemental materials organized by year.
Lexis/Nexis: Academic Universe includes business, legal and medical journals as well as major newspapers from around the world.
- All content is full-text, but may not be scholarly!

Use the Quest and Mobius catalogs
- Quest catalog includes CMU, Mo Valley, UCM and State Fair
- Items from Quest usually arrive in 2-3 days and check out for 1 month.
- MOBIUS catalog is state wide; items requested arrive in 5-7 days and check out for 3 weeks.
- Request items from off-campus using your name and student ID number.

Stuck? Ask a librarian!