LibGuides: English: Find Databases (Articles)

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography from 1920 onward with citations from journals & series, book publishers. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1926-present.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers. Coverage includes all genres and disciplines, time periods, and geographic regions. Terms of Use.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text access to current content from over 300 humanities and social sciences journal titles of nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Coverage includes literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, education, religious, cultural/politics/policy/gender studies, and others. Terms of Use.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary ebook and journal platform to support scholarship and teaching. Provides access to select current subscriptions as well as the archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Terms of Use.

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American Drama 1714-1915 This link opens in a new window Contains over 1,500 dramatic works from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century and also provides exhaustive coverage of the printed record of African American drama to 1915. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1714-1915.
Asian American Drama This link opens in a new window More than 250 plays. Topics include railroad construction, Japanese American internment, the Vietnam conflict, assimilation, integration, and cultural identity in a Western context. Terms of Use. Coverage: Late 19th century-present.
Black Drama: Third Edition This link opens in a new window Contains full text for 1400 plus works from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and African diaspora. Includes rare, hard to find, out of print and previously unpublished plays. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1850-present.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, the database includes complete runs of selected literary magazines (e.g. Kyk-Over-Al, The Beacon). Terms of Use
Black Women Writers This link opens in a new window A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays by women from Africa and the African Diaspora on three continents and in 20 countries, providing a view of black womens struggles through time. The database currently features over 50,000 pages of poetry and prose. Terms of Use.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window A searchable collection of literature produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries, including hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Terms of Use. Coverage: 19th century-present.
Contemporary World Drama This link opens in a new window Over 1,000 works of global contemporary drama from established and up-and-coming playwrights, including recently produced world premieres and previously unpublished works from every continent. Terms of Use. Coverage: 2000-present.
Drama Texts Collection This link opens in a new window Cross-search drama e-resources from Alexander Street Press including Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Contemporary World Drama, English Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Women's Drama, and Twentieth Century North American Drama. Terms of Use.
Eighteenth Century Journals, Sections III and V This link opens in a new window Unique or rare eighteenth century periodicals that convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world. Section III covers newspapers and periodicals from the years 1680-1816, while Section V covers The Lady's Magazine and other titles from the years 1712-1835. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1680-1835.
English Drama This link opens in a new window Over 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1280-1949.
Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new window Cross-searches Literature Resource Center and LitFinder. Terms of Use.
Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This link opens in a new window Includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. The database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1768-1842.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary ebook and journal platform to support scholarship and teaching. Provides access to select current subscriptions as well as the archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Terms of Use.
Latin American Women Writers This link opens in a new window Prose, poetry, and drama by women in Mexico, Central America and South America. Includes Latin American feminists and revolutionaries on concerns of women and their struggles in the region. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1837-present.
Latino Literature This link opens in a new window Over 100,000 pages of poetry; fiction; and drama in English and Spanish by Latino/a/x authors in the U.S. Includes unpublished items, Chicano folk tales, and audio files of selected poems and plays. Terms of Use.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
LitFinder This link opens in a new window Coverage of world literature and authors with over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes secondary materials such as biographies and images. Terms of Use.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
North American Indian Drama, 2nd Edition This link opens in a new window Full-text plays from twentieth century American Indian and First Nation playwrights. Many are previously unpublished or hard to find. Represents groups across the United States and Canada. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1930s-present.
North American Women's Drama, Second Edition This link opens in a new window Full text of 1,517 plays from colonial times to present by over 330 playwrights from the U.S. and Canada. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera. Terms of Use.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This link opens in a new window In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project. Terms of Use.
Twentieth Century Drama This link opens in a new window Published English-speaking plays covering American ethnic, global, off-Broadway, postcolonial, and regional theatre. Includes works of noted playwrights alongside lesser-known dramatists. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1890-present.
Twentieth Century North American Drama, Second Edition This link opens in a new window Over 1,500 plays from over 200 playwrights from the United States and Canada. Terms of Use.
Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets This link opens in a new window Digitalized pamphlets from 19th century Britain held in UK research libraries that cover political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1800-1899.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1980-present.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database providing access to scholarly journals articles, newspapers, popular magazines, and reviews. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Coverage of over 1,200 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,000 scientific and social sciences journals. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index & Abstracts) This link opens in a new window
Book Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities This link opens in a new window Includes the published scholarly literature of books and book chapters across all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Terms of Use. Coverage: 2009-present.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Dictionary of Irish Biography Online This link opens in a new window
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
General OneFile This link opens in a new window Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1980-present.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective:1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Allows for simultaneous searching of the International Index (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-1974), Humanities Index (1974-1984), and Social Sciences Index (1974-1983). Terms of Use. Coverage: 1907-1984.
Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Offers full text of scholarly sources, as well as lesser-known, specialized magazines. Includes full text of articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1984-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary ebook and journal platform to support scholarship and teaching. Provides access to select current subscriptions as well as the archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Terms of Use.
OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Serves as a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content from six full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text Mega, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Abstracts with Full Text. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1982-present.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers areas of ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysic logic, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1902-present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text access to current content from over 300 humanities and social sciences journal titles of nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Coverage includes literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, education, religious, cultural/politics/policy/gender studies, and others. Terms of Use.
ProQuest Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Education Database This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals and dissertations on primary, secondary, higher education, special education, home schooling, adult education, and related topics. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1988-present.
ProQuest Legislative Insight This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Linguistics Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window Provides abstracts and indexing for over 850 titles, including 715 full-text titles that cover healthcare information related to nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicines. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1986-present.
ProQuest Political Science Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Regulatory Insight This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Included databases: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), ERIC, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database, PAIS International, Policy File Index, ProQuest Criminal Justice, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Library Science Database, ProQuest Linguistics Database, ProQuest Political Science, ProQuest Social Science Journals, ProQuest Sociology Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight This link opens in a new window A digital collection of decided U.S. Supreme Court cases. Associated content is organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Statista This link opens in a new window Statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries. Includes Digital Market Outlook, Consumer Market Outlook, and Consumer Insights (formerly Global Customer Survey). Terms of Use.

AP Stylebook Online This link opens in a new window A writing and editing reference on spelling, grammar, punctuation, and usage, with sections on social media, business, sports, and data journalism. Published by the Associated Press. Terms of Use. Restricted to 10 users at a time.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. We currently have access to the collections listed as alternate titles above. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1891-1947.
Black Life in America This link opens in a new window Access to series 3 of this collection from Newsbank, which documents the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1976-present.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window Records from the American Periodicals Series, People's Index to Periodicals Literature, British Periodicals Collections, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Congressional Serial Set, American State Papers, Palmer's Index to the Times, and thousands of other archival collections. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1770-1919.
Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1988) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1849-1988.
Christian Science Monitor Historical (1908-1998) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1908-1998.
Education Week This link opens in a new window Note: Users may access via the link above or by creating a personal account on the website using their Chapman email. U.S. K-12 education news, analysis, best practices, and proprietary research. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1981-present.
Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new window Full-text database covering culture, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1923-present.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press. Over 1.8 million articles from over 315 publications. Offers national and regional coverage. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1990-present.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948 This link opens in a new window We have access to the files in the "1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese War and the Seeds of Communist Victory" collection. These primary resources include the British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1938 and 1948. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1938-1948.
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window Access to series 3 of this collection from Newsbank, which documents the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. Terms of Use. Coverage: 2010-present.
Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection This link opens in a new window The world’s largest open online archive of Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America. Many are in Japanese with no English translation. Some content may be restricted due to copyright agreement with the publishers. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1882-1984.
Imperial Russian Newspapers This link opens in a new window Collection of out-of-copyright newspapers from the Russian Empire spanning the eighteenth century up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Papers are in Russian with no English translation. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1767-1918.
Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers This link opens in a new window Traces Mexico’s evolution during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Nearly 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods(1807-1929). Many written in Spanish only. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1807-1972.
Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers This link opens in a new window Newspapers published during the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, years of provisional government and civil war, and birth of the People’s Republic. Written in Chinese with no English translation. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1911-1949.
Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1985-present.
Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1988) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1881-1988.
Newsbank Access World News This link opens in a new window
Newsbank Access World News This link opens in a new window Provides access to local, regional, major national and international news publications from more than 200 countries and territories. It includes the Orange County Register and Asian, Black, and Hispanic Life in America collections. Coverage: 1900-present. Terms of Use.
NewspaperArchive This link opens in a new window A historical newspaper database that contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from over 15,000 publications around the world, dating from 1607 to the present. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1607-present. List of Publications.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 370 regional newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts from sources like CBS News, CNN, FOX News, and NPR, and more. List of Titles. | Terms of Use.
Newswires This link opens in a new window Provides real-time access to international news from the Associated Press, including Top News; WorldStream; Financial News; AP Online; U.S. Politics & Government; and 50 State Reports. Terms of Use. Coverage: Near real-time with a rolling 30-day archive.
New York Times (website) (Student access) This link opens in a new window The Chapman University Student Government Association provides access to the New York Times website to students. Visit the News Sites and Memberships guide to view features and benefits. | Terms of Use.
New York Times Historical (1851-2008) This link opens in a new window Provides access to digitized pages of the New York Times back files, including news articles, editorials, obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, reviews, and advertisements. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1851-2008.
Orange County Register Collection This link opens in a new window Includes the archives of the Orange County Register dating back to 1987, as well as web-only content dating back to 2006 and blog content from 2005-2017. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1987-present.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Terms of Use.
South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new window Chronicles historical conflicts in South Asia and contemporary perspectives on independence movements, early statehood, and economic and social growth. Features multiple languages. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1850-1992.
US West Newsstream This link opens in a new window Search regional news content from Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Archives feature newspapers, newswires, news sites, trade journals, and magazines. Click here for a list of publications covered in US West Newsstream. | Terms of Use. Coverage: 1968-present.
Washington Post Historical (1877-1995) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1877-1995.