The following is a guide to resources on literature and languages. It covers materials on or consisting of literature, novels, poetry, literary criticism and analysis, book reviews, and more.
This guide will be updated with new library materials and other relevant resources as they become available. Use the tabs on the left to navigate through a variety of research tools and content.
Photo: Bust of Shakespeare by Louis Francois Roubiliac, 18th Century, courtesy of ARTStor
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources, with a broad variety of coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, spanning more than 50 disciplines. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival records of thousands of journal titles.
Note: As of August 1st, 2024, ARTSTOR is fully incorporated into JSTOR.
Project MUSE provides full-text access to hundreds of journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences from 1993 to current. Beginning in 2025, some Project Muse journals will benefit from a Subscribe 2 Open (S2O) program. Journals that are part of the program and that reach a sustainability threshold, as determined by Project Muse, will have articles converted to open access at no additional cost.
Learn more about S2O here. Questions about this program can be sent to Davin Pate at djp130330@utdallas.edu.
The Bloom’s Literary Criticism eBook Collection includes more than 600 titles from a variety of series including Major Dramatists, Modern Critical Views, Literary Themes, and Shakespeare Through the Ages. The collection covers a broad selection of literary works, their authors, and genres. Each title in the collection was edited by Harold Bloom, a known American literary critic and Humanities Professor at Yale University.