English Literature and Creative Writing
This is UCLan's English Literature and Creative Writing library page.
For more help and guidance please contact your Subject Librarian: Francesca Robinson
Books
Search for books and eBooks on Library Search It will tell you what books we have in stock and whether you can access them online from most of our eBook providers - Please note Library Search only searches within the title. If you go to the eBook Collections directly you can then search within the full-text of the eBooks.
Subject Specific eBook Collections
- JISC Historic Texts - digitised books from the late 15th to 19th century
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - over 50,000 biographies from 4th Century BCE - 2000 including key figures in British history
- Project Gutenberg - a library of over 60,000 free eBooks - mainly older literary works
- Routledge Handbooks Online - a selection of handbooks on topics within humanities and social sciences.
- ACLS Humanities eBooks
Multi Subject eBook Collections
- Ebook Central -our largest collection of over 130,000 eBooks from a range of publishers and covering all subject areas, with new titles added monthly.
- Other eBook collections
If the library does not have a particular book or journal article you would like to read you are able to request a copy from the Inter-Library Loan Service
Journals and Articles
To search for a specific journal title use Journal Finder.
- Diffusion Journal - this is an Undergraduate Research Journal for students in Humanities and Social Sciences.
eResources and Databases
Subject Specific databases
- Arts and Humanities Database
- British Periodicals (1681-1939) - archive collection relating to literature, the arts and social sciences
- Humanities International Complete
- JSTOR -contains articles on the subject of literature and the arts. Full text database which includes many historical journals and articles.
- MLA - Modern Languages Association indexes worldwide for literature and folklore.
- Periodicals Archive Online - archive collection containing works on literature, culture, the arts and social sciences.
- Project Muse - full text journals on topics including literature and cultural studies.
Multi Subject databases
- Academic Search Complete - good general database which includes topics relating to literature and humanities more broadly.
- Proquest Central - large multidisciplinary collection including humanities and languages.
- Sage Premier Journals Online - contains most subject areas
- Taylor & Francis Journal Collection - multidisciplinary collection including arts and humanities.
Journal Archives
- British Periodicals - These trace the growth and development of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century to the Victorian age and beyond.
- Brill - Multidisciplinary database of journals published before 2000.
- 19th Century UK Periodicals Online - related to the study of British life in the 19th Century.
- Periodicals Archive Online Collection (1891-2000) - multidisciplinary database
Multi Subject Abstracting and Indexing databases
These databases have a wider scope than those listed above but do not contain any full-text articles.
Additional Resources
News
- Nexis - Full text of over 29,000 newspapers including UK and worldwide publications.
Newspaper archives
- Artemis Primary Sources - Includes 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century Periodicals, Illustrated London News (1842-2003), the Picture Post (1938-1957), The Economist (1843-2011), The Times (1785-2011), the Daily Mail (1896-2004) and the Financial Times (1843-2011).
- The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2000)
- The Telegraph(1855-2000)
- The New York Times (1851-2010)
Ephemera
- John Johnson Collection - the digitised collection of more than 65,000 items drawn from the Bodleians John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera.
- Burney Newspaper Collection -Also includes pamphlets, newspapers and books collected before 1817.
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Francesca Robinson
Subject Librarian for Culture and the Creative Industries
frobinson3@uclan.ac.uk
01772 895132
