LibGuides: World Literature: Websites

LHML Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides access to more than 12,000 journals from more than 100 countries covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
eBook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.
eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Search and view the full text of eBooks.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
JSTOR: Open Content This link opens in a new window
Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Full-text electronic versions of classic literature and nonfiction.

Open Educational Resources

OER Literature Textbooks
Offered through the Open Textbook Library for Literature, Rhetoric, and Poetry.
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"Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. There is no universal usage of open file formats in OER."
Source: Wikipedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

Theory & Criticism

LitHub
Literary Hub is a daily source on the news and ideas of contemporary literary life. It brings together, in one place online literary content with the help of its editorial partners. Each day—alongside original content and exclusive excerpts—Literary Hub is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary spectrum: publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits.
Voice of the Shuttle
"VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors)."
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

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DMOZ
"DMOZ is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors. It was historically known as the Open Directory Project (ODP)."
Google Scholar
WorldCat--Articles
Use the WorldCat database to find articles.
WorldCat is an online catalog that contains the catalogs of libraries from all over the world. The catalog also contains digitized texts and archival materials.

World Literature: Websites

Critical Thinking

LHML Databases

Open Educational Resources

Theory & Criticism

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Miscellaneous Websites: Writing, Cultural Information, Etc.