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Library Catalogs

Framingham State College Library Catalog
Owned by FSC and 40+ area libraries, FSC online library catalog provides access to information about books and other materials.

World Cat               Off-campus
World Catalog indexes books and electronic resources owned by over 10,000 libraries worldwide, including Internet sites, by name and subject via First Search. FirstSearch provides online access to more than 30 databases.
 

Find Journals

Full-Text Electronic Journal Finder
Use the Full Text Electronic Journal Finder to find journals indexed within the full-text FSC Library databases, particularly if you know a journal's name and need to know where it can be found.
 
If you are off-campus, please choose the off-campus button to access a database. You will be directed to the login page and then the database list.  Please login using your campus network username and password.
 

Indexes & Abstracts  [top of page]

MLA Bibliography (1960 - present)
Consists of citations of articles from periodicals and books on the topics of language and literature from all over the world.  

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - present)
Through FirstSearch. Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  

Full Text Databases  [top of page]

Academic Search Premier  (1965 - present)               Off-campus
Full text reference database. Includes about 3600 journals of which 2700 are peer reviewed journals. Current and multi-disciplinary database. (over 4500 journals are indexed)

Expanded Academic ASAP  (1980 - present)              Off-campus
Research topics in a variety of areas including the humanities. A multi-disciplinary database.

JSTOR               Off-campus
Over 117 journals in the arts humanities and social sciences indexed in full-text PDF format.  Back issues of journals are included, but the most recent 3 years of a journal might not be available.  

Contemporary Literary Criticism               Off-campus
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.  

Literary Reference Center     Off-Campus

Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.

Grammar & Style Guides      [top of page]

Chicago Manual of Style
The CMOS online is a searchable resource based on the Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition for citing sources and writing styles. It also contains tools, i.e, sample forms, letters and style sheets.

Cite a Source
Provides examples for bibliography lists for the APA, Chicago, and MLA style formats. 

Bibliographies & Works Cited Page
A list of websites that contain rules and examples for bibliography lists in the APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, and other styles.  

Other Recommended Links  [top of page]

English websites on Del.icio.us

Websites recommended by Framingham State College.

Voice of the Shuttle
General English literature resources as well as resources for Literature (other than English).

Project Gutenberg
Older books and texts online.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Both plays and poetry are included.

Geoffreychaucer.org
An annotated guide to online resources about Geoffrey Chaucer.

Literary Resources on the NET
Significant and reliable coverage of various types of literature on the web.  Representative coverage of classical and biblical literature with comprehensive coverage of American and English Literature.

The Victorian Web
Resources on literature, history and culture in the Age of Victoria.

Anthology of Middle English Literature
Essays and articles on such authors as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Sir Gawain and others.  Also includes medieval plays and middle English ballads.  A site to show other's ideas regarding the Middle English period in literature.

Yale University Library: Literature in English
A website detailing Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library collection of literature in English.  Includes literature of the UK, US, and literary writings in English from Ireland, Canada, Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean.  Access to collections, and descriptions of materials.

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