John B. Cade Library
Below you will find databases available for you to search for articles, magazines, newspapers, and other useful resources. Read the database name and description to ensure that you select the appropriate resource for your assignment.
Off-Campus Access
When you are working off-campus you will be prompted to enter a User Name and Pin to access databases. Your USER NAME=BANNER NUMBER (Example: U012345)
PIN=CHANGEME
Click on Authenticate
Access Issues? Contact Ms. Payne at (225)771-2604.
Literature Databases
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Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowLiterature Resource Center is a database that offers biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
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Literary Reference Plus This link opens in a new window
This robust full-text database provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. It gives students, teachers, and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowMLA International Bibliography is a tool to find CITATIONS to scholarly articles on literary topics and figures. It uses a shared, controlled vocabulary and thesaurus to describe entries, vastly increasing the accuracy of your search results. Many results will be available in the John B. Cade Library, those that are not can be located by the library staff.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts.
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Scribner Writers Series This link opens in a new windowScribner Writers series provides students, teachers, and other researchers access to more than 2,000 original, comprehensive, scholar-signed essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods.
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Biography in Context This link opens in a new windowBiography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography.
Additional Databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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Dissertations & Theses Full Text (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text offers a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works since 1997, along with selected full text works written prior to 1997.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThe MLA Directory of Periodicals lists over 4,400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore theatre covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online) This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
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Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new windowThis database contains hundreds of full-text, scholarly journals, this resource provides an in-depth collection of resources covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies and more. Content includes hundreds of peer-reviewed magazines and journals with coverage spanning over 100 years.
