Literature & Cultural Studies Resource Guide

A guide to finding resources for students studying Literature and Cultural Studies courses.

Databases for Literature & Cultural Studies

AustLit
'AustLit is a searchable scholarly source of scholarly source of authoritative biographical, bibliographic, critical, and production information about Australian writers and writing. It also documents the publishers, newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals that make this work known. Material dates largely from the arrival of European print culture in Australia (c.1788) to the present.'

Academic Search Ultimate
Description: Multidisciplinary database providing comprehensive access to a range of resources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, across a broad range of subject areas.
Endnote: Direct export
APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs Full Text
Description: APA-FT provides access to journal articles, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books on the social sciences and humanities, with a focus on content related to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Endnote: Filter or Direct export
Expanded Academic ASAP
Description: Large multidisciplinary databases providing access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers, many available in full text with images.
Endnote: Direct Export
Google Scholar
Description: Google Scholar enables broad searching of scholarly literature from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Endnote: Direct export
Off Campus Acccess: Instructions for accessing full text off campus
Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
Description: Provides access to full text content from and about Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and South East Asia. Key subjects include: Arts, Business, Education, History, Indigenous Studies, Law, Literature, Media and Social Sciences.
Endnote: Filter or Direct export
Humanities Source Ultimate
Description: Comprehensive database providing access to the full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources relevant to the field of humanities.
Endnote: Direct export
JSTOR
Description: JSTOR provides access to scholarly literature from the Arts and Sciences Collections I, II and III. The content includes literature from arts, humanities, economics, history, political science, archaeology and sociology disciplines.
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Oxford Reference
Description: Provides access to over 100 full text titles, including core subject, language, and quotations dictionaries, Oxford companions and other reference titles.
Sociology Source Ultimate
Description: Provides access to journals, many with full text, covering topics in the areas of human behaviour and interaction.
Endnote: Direct export
Taylor and Francis Online Journals
Description: Large multidisciplinary database providing access to a comprehensive range of journals, many available in full text.
Endnote: Direct export

Key Australian journals

The key journals listed below are a sample of the most relevant journals available online via Library Search.

To find a specific journal, do a Journal Search using the title of the journal.

Australian Humanities Review
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Published by the ANU, AHR provides a forum for open intellectual debate across humanities disciplines
Australian Literary Studies
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from 01/05/1990 to present in Academic Search Complete and Humanities International Complete
Australian Literary Studies
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From 1994 onwards in APA-Full Text.
Australian Studies
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Published by the British Assoc of Australian Studies
Continuum - Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
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Access via the Library Database Informaworld
Continuum - Vol. 1 (1987) - Vol. 8 (1994)
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Continuum is a thematically based cultural studies journal.
First 8 volumes available freely online.
Journal of Australian Studies - JAS, Australia's public intellectual forum
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Through a number of databases. Linked here to Informit APA-FT.
Reviews in Australian Studies
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Previous title of Australian Studies.

Journals

The journals listed below are a sample of other relevant journals available online via Library Search.

To find a specific journal, do a Journal Search using the title of the journal.

Contemporary Literature
Continuum
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Also in print 1987-2009 - S791.4 4.
Critical Inquiry
Critical Review (New York)
Cultural Studies
Essays in Criticism
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Journal of Modern Literature
Journal of Popular Culture
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Also microfilm - 1973-1992.
Media, Culture & Society
Modern Language Studies
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Also in print from 1993 - S410.5 1.
New Literary History
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
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Also in print from 2003 - S809 53.
Review of English Studies
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Also in print from 1976-2003 - S820.9 40.
Southern Review
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Also in print 1965-1993 - S820.9 42.
Textual Practice
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Also in print 1989-1998 - S809.04 14.
Theory, Culture & Society
Twentieth Century Literature

Library Search

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