Research Guides: Literature: Articles

Start with these Databases

The following databases are the best starting point for research related to the topic of literature.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text archive of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select books and other materials.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text articles in humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Open Access Journals

Open access journals are online scholarly journals that are available without a subscription.

Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Need More Options?

If you didn't find everything you were looking for in the three recommended databases, do some searching in these additional databases or peruse the A-Z List:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from over 4,600 publications, covering almost every academic subject.
New York Times, Historical (1851-2019) This link opens in a new window Articles from the New York Times during 1851-2019.
Newsstream: US News Sources This link opens in a new window U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.