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Prof. Sandra Urban
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Welcome
Welcome to Adelphi University Libraries!
This LibGuide contains information and links to resources that should help you as you prepare your oral presentation for Western Translation Theory.
Feel free to schedule an appointment with me using the link on the left of this page. I am happy to work with you to help you find resources on your topic.
Find Articles
Use databases to search for articles on your topic. There is a list of suggested databases below.
If you have a citation for a specific article, you can search with our Citation Lookup tool.
Database Suggestions
Literary Criticism
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Artemis Literary Sources (Gale)This database lets you search three sources at once: Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, and Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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MLA International BibliographyFind journal articles, books, and dissertations in language, literature, folklore, and the dramatic arts.
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Databases by Subject: EnglishThis link will bring you to the Databases by Subject grouping for English.
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Biography Reference BankCovers 500,000 people from antiquity through today.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete OnlineProvides biographical and critical essays on the lives and works of international literary figures from all eras and genres.
Multidisciplinary
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Ebook CentralSearch for ebooks and read them on your screen or download relevant chapters/sections.
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Project Muse Provides the full text of scholarly journals in fields including literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Years of coverage vary by title with selected titles beginning as early as 1993.
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ProQuest Central Large multidisciplinary database including more than 25,000 titles, over 19,000 in full text. Besides journals, PQC includes 2206 newspapers, over 100,000 full text dissertations, 30,000 market reports, with some backfiles dating as far back as 1921
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Academic Search Complete Provides more than 7,000 multidisciplinary full-text periodicals, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals, and more than 11,600 monographs, reports, conference proceedings, dating back as far as 1887.
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JSTOR A searchable scholarly archive providing the full text of journal articles in business, economics, history, political science, literature, sociology, as well as other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.
Cultures
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eHRAF World Cultures eHRAF World Culture's cross-cultural database contains in-depth descriptive information about cultural and social life written by first-hand observers such as ethnographers.
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