Literature - Extra Information

Floor 4 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library contains the main collections and resources for Literature. The Special Collections Centre on the Lower Ground Floor contains our collections of rare and valuable printed and archival material.  Most of this material is listed on Primo.

Staff on Floor 4 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library are available Monday to Friday 9 -5 to answer queries and give one to one instruction. Janet Mackay, the Literature Information Adviser on Floor 4 is also available for instruction and advice.

Find Databases
This is a link option from the Advanced Search page in Primo. Use this to identify databases in your subject area and link through to them to search across journal articles and electronic books.

This lists and describes all our databases both online and on cd-rom. Log on using your computing ID details.

Using Find Database, you can locate them by keyword, title or subject. There are nearly 60 databases listed under Literature and Linguistics.

Additionally many can be searched from within Primo without having to link to the database.

Using Find e-journal, you can search individual journals. If you want to search across a number of journals, use one of the databases listed in the section below.  Access to online databases is restricted to Aberdeen University staff and students. Most are accessible with your University username and password through the Shibboleth authentication system. Some however, use the IP address of the university so you must use either a campus networked PC or set your home PC to the University proxy server.

e-Books

eBrary
Over 1000 books on English literature from reputable publishers. The database has over 50,000 titles in all. Unlimited access allows an entire class to access the same book simultaneously.
You can print up to 40 pages per book, save highlights and notes and store books on your personal bookshelf. You cannot download an entire book. Copying and pasting is possible. A full citation comes with pasting.

e-Journals

JSTOR
Hundreds of the top journals in the areas of Language and Literature from their start to within 3 or 4 years. Use other databases for up-to-date issues.

Cambridge Journals Online
We have access to all their journals. Back runs 2-5 years.

LION (literature Online)
This has around nearly 300 journals available full-text. What parts are available varies from title to title. Click on Criticism & Reference on the left hand side of the home page. Help guides provided by the supplier are found here.

Oxford Journals Online
We have full-text access to those titles from OUP that we have print subscriptions for, such as The year's Work in English Studies. Back issues are 2-8 years.

ScienceDirect
This has titles from Elsevier which is quite strong in linguistics.

Informaworld (Taylor & Francis)
One of the biggest publishers who include Routledge and Cass among their group.

e-Primary Sources

Defining Gender
This full-text access to thousands of documents relating to gender studies from 1450 -1910

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Full-text access to most of the material published in English between 1470 and 1700. It includes the Thomason Tracts. Select Items with images (118,000 items) to search for the full-text of items which have been scanned in their original form. The entire database, over 127,000 items, is also searchable by keyword in title and subject term but will find items not available full-text.

Various help guides provided by the suppliers are found under EEBO on this page

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Access to around 180,000 works in English and some foreign languages published in the 18th century.

JSTOR
Jstor has 23,000 pamphlets spanning the period 1600-1900.  In the Advanced search option tick the box for pamphlets to search this collection.

LION (Literature Online)
Around 350,000 works of prose, poetry and drama since 600 AD. Collections cover English, Irish, Scottish, American, Canadian and Caribbean literature. Help guides provided by the supplier are found here.

Literary Theory (cd-rom)
This available on the networked cd-server. For students, access is through the Common Applications folder and then the Library folder. For staff it is available on the G drive and then the Cdserver folder.

19th century periodicals
This is part 1 covering the topics of women and children and satire. Over 100 magazines are covered.

Periodicals Archive Online
This will replace many of the printed 19th century journals and magazines in our Lower Ground Floor which are so difficult to use quickly. There are a number of Irish journals.  However there will still be a need to consult the printed versions of the following as they are not covered by BP. 
It can also be searched with the content of the Periodical Archive Online at http://pao.chadwyck.co.uk/

W.B Yeats (cd-rom)
This available on the networked cd-server. For students access is through the Common Applications folder and then the Library folder. For staff it is available on the G drive and then the Cdserver folder.

Newspapers

New York Times
1851-1922, 1987- articles are free. For material between 1923-1986 use the reference provided to look up our microfilm version. The reels are kept in brown boxes in the PC area on Floor 1 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library.

Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
The TLS Archive covering 1994- is also available through the Library Catalogue. Prior to that the TLS is available on microfilm.

19th century British Library newspapers
Regional newspapers including the Aberdeen Journal covering the 19th century in all regions of Britain including Ireland.

Burney Collection of 17th & 18th Century newspapers
C ollection of newspapers and news pamphlets mostly published in London, also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

Biographies

LION
It has an extensive reference section with hundreds of biographies of literary figures and links to Web pages. Click on the Criticism & Reference link on the left hand side of the home page.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
58,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2007. The references provided with every article are active if you click the Find button. Our catalogue will be searched for you. 

Bibliographical

Art & Humanities Citation Index
This is part of the Web of Science which in turn is part of the Web of Knowledge from ISI (to search the A&HCI only, deselect the other databases at the bottom of the search page). It is a general bibliography covering all Arts subjects and is vast. The SFX link button will search for an electronic or print version of what is listed, held by QML.

International Medieval Bibliography
IP access only. This covers history, literature, culture from 400 to 1500.

Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Lists articles and books on medieval and Renaissance topics.

MLA International Bibliography
This is the main bibliography for literature and linguistics. Content is accessed via LION (Literature Online). SFX linking to full-text where available. Help guides provided by the supplier are found here.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of the Scots Language
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND). DOST contains information about Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries (Older Scots); and SND contains information about Scots words in use from 1700 to the 1970s (modern Scots). Together these 22 volumes provide a comprehensive history of Scots, and a New Supplement (2005) brings the record of the language up to date.

OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
The OED is only available online on a subscription basis. It features all the developments the 2nd edition on paper lacks.

Reference Management

RefWorks
RefWorks is an online bibliographic management package that allows you to create a personal database of references. You can create footnotes and manage your bibliography in any citation style such as Harvard, Chicago etc. Register first time to create your personal space on the system.