Other Library Catalogs
- OCLC WorldCatCatalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide in OCLC member libraries. (Does not include book chapters or individual articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.) Includes considerable non-English language material.
- Library of Congress CatalogThe online catalog of the Library of Congress, listing millions of books, past and present.
- Tulane's Howard-Tilton CatalogLoyola and Tulane have a reciprocal borrowing agreement that allows the students, staff, and faculty of each institution to check out books from the other's library. To see if Tulane has a book that is not currently in our catalog, click here to search the Howard-Tilton's catalog. Be sure to change the search function from "Multiple Sources" to "Books."
Appropriate Use of Electronic Resources
Please see our Appropriate Use of Electronic Resources (last revised Aug. 2013).
Special Tools
- JSTOR Understanding ShakespeareAllows you to look up scholarly articles according to the lines of any of Shakespeare's plays that are directly quoted in the article. Features Folger's full-text of all plays.
Search the Monroe Library Catalog
If you're just getting started on a project or want to get an idea of all the materials out there on a given topic, use Monroe Library's QuickSearch box. If you're looking to find a book that we have here in the library, use the library catalog and be sure to click the box next to "search catalog only" before you type in the keyword, title, or author that you're interested in.
Academic Journal Databases
The databases below are ones we recommend for English/Literature. In these databases you'll find articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. Some databases provide the full text of articles and other provide citations only. To find books on English/Literature, search the library's catalog.
- Academic Search CompleteFind articles in all subject areas in over 9000 journals and magazines, with full text for about 6100. Updated daily.
Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present - Digital ScriptoriumImages of mediaeval and renaissance manuscripts.
Dates vary - JSTORSeveral collections of full-text scholarly journals in many subject areas. We receive these JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV; and Life Sciences. Life Sciences includes the Biological Sciences, and Health & General Sciences. The Language & Literature, and Music Collections are now part of the larger Arts & Sciences III and IV.
Beginning of each journal to 3, 4 or 5 years ago - MLA International BibliographyThe MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of citations related to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 4,000 scholarly journals, books, book chapters, and other formats. Includes some non-English language material.
1926 to present - Project MUSE StandardProvides full text articles of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, education, political science and gender studies. Coverage dates vary by journal title.
1993 to present
