Research Guides: English Literature: Finding Articles

Search Platforms

LibrarySearch
The library's main search tool that allows you to simultaneously search a multidisciplinary database and the library catalogue. Find scholarly articles and books, primary sources, films, and much more.
Google Scholar
A specialized search engine designed to find the titles and citation information of scholarly literature, including articles, books, proceedings, and more. Use LibrarySearch to find full-text copies of sources discovered via Google Scholar.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full-text database that allows you to search for articles from scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It also gives you access to a major collection of ebooks, primary sources, and images.
Literature Online
This platform brings together literary criticism, primary sources, author profiles, and reference works into a single searchable database.

MLA International Bibliography
International research on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Includes scholarly journals, books, working papers, and conference papers.
Canadian Literary Centre
Automatically narrow your search to Canadian content only. This database provides access to full-text articles, poetry, and short stories published in Canadian literary journals and magazines.
Indigenous Studies Portal
I-Portal provides access to 4000+ digital Indigenous studies resources including sources focused on Indigenous authors, drama, humour, oral traditions, poetry, personal narratives and interviews, and traditional stories.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Search for articles from a collection of more than 5 million citations across 25 arts and humanities disciplines.
Humanities Index
Search for articles from 370 humanities journals, magazines and newspapers published in the UK or other English speaking countries.
Humanities International Index
Search 700+ journals, 260 published in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, or the Caribbean.
IBZ Online
Search an index of 5 million articles from 11,500 international journals of the humanities and social sciences. Particularly strong coverage of European scholarship.