* English Language & Literature 

MLA Citation Guide

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Theater

Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies
This guide focuses on resources for the study of nineteenth century literature, with special emphasis on primary resources. Its origin can be traced to a 2003 research orientation offered to a graduate seminar on 19th-Century British Literature

USC Libraries English Language and Literature Page

USC Libraries Electronic Resources gateway page is good place to start if you need to find articles published in literary studies journals. There are a few particularly useful collections and bibliographies available under the Quick Links menu

Proquest Research Library: Index to scholarly, popular, and newspaper articles, many in full text. Full coverage of Los Angeles Times.  Good source for film reviews, both in popular and scholarly sources

Wilson OmniFile: Index to articles from scholarly and popular sources, early 1980’s-present. Tip: Check box “OmniFile Full Text Mega.” Good source for film reviews, both in popular and scholarly (peer reviewed) sources. 

Wilson: Please note Play Index, Shot Story Index and Readers' Guides.    

JSTOR: Multidisciplinary collection of full text scholarly journals. RECOMMENDATION: Advanced search, and select your discipline and/or journal titles to search. NOTE: It is an archive, so please do not expect recent issues of journals in JSTOR.

Project Muse FULL text. 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.

MLA Bibliography: Index to scholarly publications in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from over 4000 journals published worldwide.

For books that USC Libraries own, SEARCH Homer, USC Libraries Online Catalog

For books that USC Libraries might not own, SEARCH WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) , a union catalog of catalogs that allows users to search the collections of most US and Canadian academic libraries.

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