Master of Arts in English: Researching

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA). While the most common materials listed are books and book and journal articles, the bibliography also lists electronic materials and selected electronic journals, reference works, citations of dissertations, critical monographs and scholarly websites.

The fUSIon discovery tool allows you to simultaneously search the Rice Library's catalog (books and ebooks), digital archival collections, and many subscription databases. It will return a very broad base of results, so craft specific searches and use the limiters on the side to refine and narrow your results.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary digital library containing scholarly articles, books, and primary sources. It includes a good variety of poetry journals in full-text.

Provides full text access to humanities and social sciences content.