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English Literature Research Tip Sheet

All library resources are available from off campus. See instructions and details below. This tip sheet is available online at library home page > Distance Ed Library Services > Research Tip Sheets.

Online Library Resources

In-depth assistance is available at How To Do Library Research on the Distance Ed Library Services page (see the Handouts and Demonstrations).
  • go to the Library Catalog to search for books/videos/DVDs, etc.
    • enter your term(s) and select the index you want to search (author, title, subject, keyword)
    • check the Netlibrary database for full-text books online
  • to find journal articles, use a periodical database
    • go to the library’s Periodical Databases page and select one of the databases listed below (click the letter that begins the database name at the first alphabetical list in the upper right)
    • if you are off campus, type your ENMU ID# at the remote authentication screen

Databases for Literary Research:

  • MLA Bibliography--scholarly, limited full text
  • JSTOR--scholarly, full text except current issues
  • Academic Search Premier--scholarly, full text
  • Literary Reference Center--scholarly, full text
  • Wilson Select Plus--scholarly, full text
  • CQ Researcher--full text, social issues
  • NEW--try Zia Search on the Periodical Databases page--click the Zia Search link, select several databases, enter your search terms, and the databases will be searched simultaneously (for English/Literary topics, select Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic ASAP, JSTOR, Wilson Select Plus)
If you are unable to locate full-text material in the database you are searching, try using our Full-Text Online Journals, on the Periodical Databases page. If you are still unable to locate your material, you may place a request for it (see below).

Internet Resources

Requesting Material

Register with the ILLiad ILL system and create your personal ILLiad account. Go to the Interlibrary Loan link and click on the ILLiad Log In/Register link on the upper right. Click on the "First Time Users click here" link and register with the system. Enter your ENMU email address, create an ILLiad username of your own choosing, and enter your ENMU ID number as your ILLiad password. Return to the same ILLiad Log In/Register link and logon to ILLiad to use the system.

  • if you are taking classes on the main campus, check Golden Library's holdings first, before submitting a request. If your item is unavailable online or in the library, you may place an ILL request.
  • if you are a videoconference, online, or on-site student and do not come to the main campus for your classes, you may request anything not available full-text online via ILL, including items from Golden Library's catalog.
On-campus students may pick up requested items at the library's Circulation Desk. Items requested from distance ed students will be sent directly to them. Some articles may be available electronically via your ILLiad account or ENMU email account. For items we must request from other libraries, the turnaround time may be as long as two weeks. Golden Library has no control over lending terms and renewal policies set by other libraries.

Journal Holdings for English Lit

Click here for Online Journals in Literature

Print journals
American Scholar
Antioch Review
Beloit Poetry Journal
Ben Jonson Journal
ELH
ELT
English Historical Review
English Language Notes
Explicator
Georgia Review
Hudson Review
Journal of Folklore Research
Journal of Popular Culture
Library
Modern Language Quarterly
Modern Language Review
New England Quarterly
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Literature
Notes and Queries
Philological Quarterly
PMLA
Poetics Today
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Prairie Schooner
Quarterly West
Readerly/Writerly Texts
Research in the Teaching of English
Review of English Studies
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
Romance Philology
Sewanee Review
Shakespeare Quarterly
Sixteenth-century Journal
South Atlantic Quarterly
South Dakota Review
Southern Literary Journal
Southern Review
Southwest Review
Studies in Short Fiction
Studies in Romanticism
Studies in the Literary Imagination
Studies in Travel Writing
Texas Studies in Language and Literature
Textual Language
Times Literary Supplement
University of Toronto Quarterly
Upstart Crow
Victorian Newsletter
Victorian Periodicals Review
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Studies
Western American Literature
Word Working USA
World Literature Today

Selected Print References and Indexes:
American Fiction to 1900
American Prose and Criticism
American Writers
British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1975
British Writers/Women Writers
Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Dictionary of Literary Biography
English Literary Journal to 1900
English Novel Explication
Essay and General Literature Index
Literary Journal in America to 1900
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Poetry Explication
Reference Index to 12,000 Spanish American Authors
Shakespearean Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Something About the Author
Twentieth-century British Literature
Within the Circle --Anthology of African American Literary Criticism

Reference Assistance

Ask for help! Portales campus students go to the library's Reference Desk or call 562.2638. Off-campus students contact Michele Wood, or by phone at 562.2644 or 800.450.7279.