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Periodical Indexes & Abstracts


Humanities Index (Volumes 1-22)
Rolling Shelves
This author/subject index encompasses humanities topics, including literature and performing arts, and provides access to periodicals published from 1974 to 1995.


Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (Volumes 1- )
Rolling Shelves
This author/subject index covers periodicals of general interest published from 1890 to the present.


Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,500 scholarly periodicals covering nearly all subjects including the liberal arts, social sciences, education, computer sciences, medical sciences, and much more.

MasterFile Premier
Provides full text for over 1900 journals covering reference, business, health and much more.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.

American Humanities Index
Provides a collection of 1000 journals with literary, scholarly and creative references.

 

This is an index and full text of 900 general interest magazines back to 1994.
 
Arts & Sciences I Collection - Includes the complete back run of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in the umanities and social sciences.

 

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Online Resources


Provides comprehensive online access to biographies, literary criticism, bibliographies, work overviews, websites, and other resources on authors and their works.

 

A collection of 100 dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database.
 

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Print Resources

GENERAL LITERARY CRITICISM/BIOGRAPHY
Encyclopedia of Literary Critics & Criticism (Volumes 1-2)
R 801.95 En19
Book of Literary Terms
R 803 T843b
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Volumes 1-77, 79-118)
R 809.04 C767
World Authors (1900-1995)
R 809.04 W893
American Writers (Volumes I-IV, Supplements I-VII, Retrospective Supplement I)
R 810 Am35
Dictionary of Literary Biography (selected volumes)
R 920.02 D561
Contemporary Authors (Vols 1-2, 4-128, New Revision Series Vols 1-29)
R 928 C767
SHORT STORIES
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication (1900-1994)
R 016.80931 W154t
Short Story Index (1950-2000)
R 808.83 Sh78
Critical Survey of Short Story Fiction (Volumes 1-7)
R 809.301 M272cR
Short Story Criticism (Volumes 1-33)
R 809.301 Sh81
POETRY
Guide to American Poetry Explication (Volume 1)
R 016.811 R878c
Guide to American Poetry Explication (Volume 2)
R 016.8115 R878c
Granger's Index to Poetry (Editions 4-10)
R 808.81 G765
Granger's Index to Poetry (Editions 4-10)
R 808.81 G765
Critical Survey of Poetry (Volumes 1-8)
R 809.1 C869 1992
Poetry Explication (1925-1977)
R 821.016 K96ep 1980
DRAMA
Critical Survey of Drama (Volumes 1-7)
R 792.015 C869
Play Index (1949-1992)
R 808.82 P698
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (Volumes 1-5)
R 809.2 M178
Drama Criticism (Volumes 1- )
R 809.204 D79
 

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The University of Wyoming Catalog Plus offers, in addition to the on-line catalog, several electronic periodical databases, both general and specific. As with WYLDCAT databases, both full text and citation-only references are available.


Interlibrary Loan
This is a system for borrowing materials from other libraries, when our library does not have the item that you need. Allow a week to 10 days. This service is available to Sheridan College students and employees, through WYLDCAT on the Web, or through an online interlibrary loan form. If you are a University of Wyoming student, remember that you should make requests directly through Outreach Services, UW Libraries.

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