Language Arts & Communication

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Communication and Mass Media Complete
This resource provides in-depth coverage of communication and mass media journals and literature. It includes over 380 full text journals and indexing for hundreds more. CMMC also include author profiles for the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.

Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
FTLI covers film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications (and selected coverage of nearly 300), as well as full text for more than 100 journals and nearly 100 books.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
This resource provides easy access to over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. It contains more than 490 full-text titles, including more than 150 full-text journals.

Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
LRC is a comprehensive literary reference database which provides 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. MagillOnLiterature Plus is included in LRC.

LION: Literature Online Complete
This database contains a full library of up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference resources. It also contains an extensive collection of full-text poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the 7th century to the present. Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of over 174 current literature journals through the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which contains over 880,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to the present.

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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
This resource is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.provides a single comprehensive list of journal and magazine titles available online.

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  • Index and limited full text
  • Coverage: varies by journal title
  • To view publications indexed in this database, click on the "Index" tab from the search menu and select "Periodical Name Index"
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Naxos Spoken Word Library
Listen to classic novels, plays, and poetry from medieval times to the twentieth century. All works are read by professional actors and actresses. Browse 21 categories, from Children's Classics, Classic Fiction, to Shakespeare's Plays, Music Education, and more. Many texts are available to follow on-screen or can be printed out.

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Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

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Oxford Reference Online Premium (including Literature and Western Civilization Collections)
This resource contains titles from the Oxford Companion series, as well as
 · 130+ subject dictionaries and the Oxford World Encyclopedia
 · English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian
 · Timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th-century history
 · 12,000 images and 500+ color maps

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  • Full text

Points of View Reference Center
This resource is a full-text database that provides essays presenting multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and a Critical Thinking Guide. Example topics include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.

Pop Culture Universe
This database includes more than 250 volumes of reviewed, published material that offer thousands of overviews of pop culture from the 1920's through the present, including TV shows, awards, fads, fashions, and news.

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Biography Reference Center
This database offers a comprehensive collection of over 450,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies from addition sources.

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Books in Print with Reviews (Bowker)
Get detailed information on over 2.5 million books that are in print, forthcoming, or declared out-of-print or out-of-stock indefinitely since 1979. BIP contains more than 500,000 full text book reviews from the following sources: CHOICE, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Research & Reference Book News, University Press Book News, Sci-Tech Book News, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Quill & Quire, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, and the Boston Book Review.

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  • Full text and index

ClasePeriódica (FirstSearch)
Clase indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periódica covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offer access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

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Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

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  • Full video

JSTOR Journal Archive
JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text. Searching is possible within each title and across the whole database.

LISTA with Full Text (Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts)
This database provides wide coverage of librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more from journals, books, research reports, and proceedings. It contains full text for more than 270 journals and indexing for hundreds more.

MLA International Bibliography Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO)
This resource contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals.

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Project Muse
Project Muse contains the full text of over 40 Johns Hopkins Press scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

WorldCat
Search the holdings of academic, public, and special libraries throughout the US and the world. Use WorldCat to search for books, videos, and other materials not owned by the SWOSU library and request them through interlibrary loan.

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