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Journals and Articles
The following databases offer excellent access to journal articles over a long historical period and extensive geographical coverage. While searching by keyword in the Omni catalogue is a vital step in your research journey, consider expanding your search to the various databases and resources we have available for you. Browse through the databases that you have full access to, and search for articles, documents, accounts, and reports often not available anywhere else. For information on books, newspapers, and data, visit those pages in the menu to the left.
Key Indexing Resources (some have partial full text content included)
Omni Academic Search Tool This search engine searches for books and audio-visual materials that are also listed in the library's catalogue, as well as journal articles (chiefly those that are available electronically), theses and dissertations, newspaper coverage from some recent and a selection of archival newspapers, and digitized content such as out-of-copyright books and journals that are available from sources such as The Internet Archive and The Hathi Trust.
Basic and Advanced Search Omni Video
If you want to try a more focused search restricted to databases emphasizing English Literature, try the following resources:
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Languages Association of America, is the fundamental research tool for the humanities. The database is an index of international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. The citations are from over 4,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings.
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Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowFind up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) This link opens in a new windowThis database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
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CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals Index This link opens in a new windowCPI.Q is Gale’s award-winning full-text resource specifically designed to provide instant access to the most requested Canadian reference materials. Covering a wide range of disciplines, CPI.Q is the perfect one-stop resource for researchers in need of information from Canadian-focused journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.
CPI.Q features a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals, Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s weekly magazine and Canadian News Facts as well as comprehensive encyclopedic reference material. -
C19: Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new windowC19 Index is a bibliographic database for 19th century research, providing integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives. Users can query collections simultaneously, or can conduct more detailed research using collection specific search screens.
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Canadian Periodical Index.Call Number: AI3 .C242Publication Date: 1920-1987Some years collected: 1920-37, 1938-47, 1948-59. For coverage after 1987, use CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals Index online.
Canadian Book Trade Bibliography, 1935-1985 = Bibliographie sur le commerce du livre au Canada, 1935-1985
This resource indexes about 300 print resources including Quill & Quire.
Key Databases
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections.
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Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides online access to the full text of over 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and many others.
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ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new windowProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
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Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new windowBlack Short Fiction and Folklore brings together pages and works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.
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Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowBlack Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable, component databases, which include:
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British Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
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Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new windowMore than a million and a half Africans, along with many Indians and South Asians, were brought to the Caribbean between the 15th and 19th centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to traditional African expressions. This literary connection, combined with the tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration to other parts of the Americas, makes for a body of work that is essential for the study of the Caribbean and the Black Diaspora.
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Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new windowThis database brings together journals printed between 1693 and 1799 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer effective coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowBearing witness to what many scholars consider the three most significant events in world history – The American Revolution, The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution – this resource features: Full-text search capabilities; Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles; Works by both well-known and lesser-known authors. Toronto Metropolitan has both original ECCO and ECCO 2.
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Latino Literature This link opens in a new windowLatino Literature contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. Although the collection includes materials from the nineteenth century, the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowNineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012.
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Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present This link opens in a new windowOrlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present is a comprehensive electronic database relating to women’s writing in the British Isles. It provides entries on over 1,000 authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Orlando also includes related material on literary, social and historical events, male writers and non-British women writers.
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Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowAn online archive containing over 700 journals of digitized, full-image articles, Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text) offers access to international, scholarly literature in the arts, humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995. Toronto Metropolitan has access to Collection 1 to 9. For titles from Collection 1 to 5, we have coverage up to 2000.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism This link opens in a new windowThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (REM) is the largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of modernism. REM brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period, and is the ideal starting point for any research in modernism. The content is fully cross-referenced, allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields.
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Shakespeare Survey This link opens in a new windowShakespeare Survey is a series of Shakespeare studies and production. This collection makes all issues of the Survey available online for the first time. Accessible through a fully searchable interface, users can browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and bookmark their results.
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Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowAn archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) The aim of the Early English Books Online Project is to capture the earliest extant edition of every English-language work published during the first two centuries of printing in England, and converting this material into fully-searchable texts. Over 25,000 texts from the first phase of EEBO-TCP have been made freely available as open data in the public domain from January 2015.)
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