Background Information and Dictionaries

• Literature Resource Center [Gale Cengage Learning]- full-text articles, reviews, essays, and overviews on literary topics, authors, and their works.
• Oxford English Dictionary [Oxford University Press] - English language dictionary of meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
• Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary [Merriam-Webster, Inc.]

Books, eBooks, DVDs, CDs, etc.

• Start with PrinCat to search for Principia College library materials.
• Use I-Share to expand your search to include other academic libraries in Illinois. Requested materials usually arrive within 3-5 days.
  
• Use WorldCat if you need to expand your search beyond I-Share. WorldCat materials are available through interlibrary loan. They usually arrive within 7-14 days.
• Use ebrary to find over 47,000 academic eBooks.

Journal Articles

• Literature Resource Center [Gale Cengage Learning] - full-text articles, reviews, essays, and overviews on literary topics, authors, and their works.
• MLA International Bibliography [EBSCOHost] - citation database of journal articles, books and dissertations on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts.
• JSTOR [JSTOR] - Academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• Project Muse [Johns Hopkins University Press] - select collection of academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• For additional resources, see the Find Articles page.

Primary Sources

• Black Thought and Culture [Alexander Street Press] - Over 1,000 leading African Americans' non-fiction published works.

Conference Papers and Proceedings

• PapersFirst [OCLC FirstSearch] - Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
• ProceedingsFirst [OCLC FirstSearch] - Index of conference proceedings worldwide.