LibGuides: English and Creative Writing: Find Research Articles

Journal Articles

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts as well as historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
The library subscribes to the Humanities Collection which contains full-text coverage of journal articles on literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, and more.
American Periodical Series This link opens in a new window
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century chronicling the development of America across 150 years.
Drama Criticism This link opens in a new window
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of dramatists of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, radio transcripts, diaries, newspapers, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

Periodical Archive Online (1802-2005)
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
Periodicals Index Online
Periodicals Index Online is a database of millions of citations for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. It enables researchers quickly and comprehensively to identify articles relevant to their field of study and reduces what could take years of research to a matter of minutes. Journals indexed span 37 key subject areas and multiple languages.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the 20th century. Date coverage is 1684-1912.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources in multiple disciplines.
Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary database offers more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and over 13,200 publications including books, reports, and conference proceedings. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Subject areas: All
OmniFile Full Text Select
A full text-only database that contains a wealth of essential material for learning and research across the disciplines. Full-text articles are available from approximately 2,700 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed.

Digital Commons Network
This is a vast network of open access content from colleges and universities across the world. Augustana Digital Commons is part of the Digital Commons Network.
Subject areas: All
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Find open access research and scholarly articles in the DOAJ.
Google Scholar
Find additional journal articles and other scholarly sources in Google Scholar.
MPDI
MPDI is an open-access publisher home to 427 diverse journals across all disciplines.
Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
OLH is an open-access publisher of 28 peer-reviewed humanities journals.

The following is a starting list of open-access journals publishing in the fields of English Literature and Creative Writing. Additional journals may be found in the Augustana OneSearch function or in the Journals button on the home page of the library.

American Research Journal of English and Literature
The American Research Journal of English and Literature "is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal" collecting scholarly work related to English-language Literature from around the world.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
"CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (1999-), the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access journal, publishes new scholarship in theory and criticism, comparative literature, and cultural studies."
Early Modern Literary Studies
Early Modern Literary Studies "is a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum."
English Language and Literature Studies (ELLS)
ELLS "is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal" publishing materials that "include, but are not limited to, the following topics: literature written in the English language, English linguistics, translation studies and related areas."
Journal of Creative Writing Studies
The Journal of Creative Writing Studies "is a peer reviewed, open access journal" that publishes scholarship "that examines the teaching, practice, theory, and history of creative writing."
Journal of Literary Theory
"The Journal of Literary Theory is an international forum for debate in literary theory. JLT takes an interdisciplinary approach and is open to a broad variety of theories and methods, promoting their study, research, and development."
Literature
"Literature is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on literature and cultural studies published quarterly online by MDPI."
Writers: Craft & Context
Writers: Craft & Context is "an open-access interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide array of material focused on writers: the work they do, the contexts in which they compose and circulate their work, how they are impacted by policies and pedagogies (broadly conceived) and how they develop across the lifespan."