ENGLISH 190: Literature of California Since WWI

Find eBooks

The Library offers over 100 e-book and e-text collections in specific subject areas. E-books in collections marked * are also available through OskiCat and Melvyl. You can limit your search in OskiCat to "Available online," and in Melvyl to "Online resources."

Interdisciplinary Databases

  • Academic Search Complete
    A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese; full-text is available for over 5300 journals.
  • JSTOR
    Includes over 1000 scholarly journals with access to more than 2 million articles. JSTOR is an archive which means that current issues (generally the most recent 3-5 years) of the journals are not yet available.
  • ProQuest Social Sciences
    An interdisciplinary metasearch through core indexes in the social sciences including Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, PsycInfo, PAIS, and more.

Find Dissertations

Find Dissertations by searching Digital Dissertations, which indexes over 1.5 million dissertations completed in North American (including UC) and European universities from 1861 to the present. Listings after 1980 include abstracts, and some feature 24-page excerpts. Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources, and dissertations completed at a UC campus can also be found in Library catalogs, which have limit to dissertations/theses search options:

Dissertations/Theses in Oskicat

Full-text Access: Online full-text of UC dissertations (from 1996) can be found by searching Digital Dissertations and also appear in Library catalog search results. UC Berkeley dissertations in print prior to 1996 may be found by searching the Library catalogs. Dissertations done at other UC campuses prior to 1996 or ouside the UC system must be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Next-Gen Melvyl.

Key Indexes

Got a lot of research to do?  Need 10+ citations for your bibliography?  These are the in-depth resources for you to use to find the articles, books, and dissertations you'll need.  A word of caution: you must use library catalogs such as Oski for the best coverage of books.  As always, if you are a Berkeley student and need help, contact me or someone at a reference desk or sign up for the Research Advisory Service or use chat reference.  We're here to help.

  • MLA International Bibliography
    The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB)is the largest index of critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
    Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association, ABELL indexes materials about works originally written in English. Should be searched in conjunction with the MLAIB since the two indexes have only about 60-70% overlap in coverage.
  • Academic Search Complete
    A multidisciplinary index to articles in thousands of journals with full-text for many. Good place to find recent scholarly articles when researching short papers.
  • International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
    Covers all aspects of the middle ages (400-1500 A.D.) in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
  • ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance
    An index of articles, essays, books and reviews related to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700).
  • World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
    Indexes a variety of scholarship related to Shakespeare, his works, his times and productions of his work.
  • C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
    Includes 19th Century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. C19 draws on the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online.
Last Update: May 03, 2012 13:32 | Tagged with: literature history California