Subject guide: English

Resources for finding books and articles

You can search for the library's ebooks, printed books and journal articles in the search box on the library's start page. You can also search for books and articles in the following resources:

• DART-Europe
  Find full-text dissertations from a number of universities in Europe.

• Education database
  Full-text database for literature on education and teaching.

• ERIC
  ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a database of education research and information.

• EThOS
  Database containing information on doctoral theses from universities in the UK. You need to register on their website to access theses in full text.

• Google Scholar
  NB: The search service contains not only scholarly literature but also many non-scholarly sources and dishonest journals. Consequently, you should check that sources are scholarly and that articles are not from blacklisted journals in Cabells – Predatory Reports. To get access to full-text articles in the library’s journal subcriptions, you must activate a library link (See Activate library links in Google Scholar).

• Internet Archive
  Free full-text books, among other things.

• JSTOR
  A collection of academic journals, books and primary sources.

• LIBRIS 
  A national catalogue providing information on titles held by Swedish university and research libraries as well as many public libraries. You can limit your search to dissertations.

• Linguistics Collection
  Database for finding literature in linguistics and language-related disciplines. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Useful for finding research on literature and linguistics, among other things.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (in Web of Science)
  Contains information on dissertations and student theses from universities around the world. You can limit the search to "Doctoral" if you only want to find dissertations.

• Scopus
  Scopus helps users find trusted research in different subjects. 

• WorldCat
  A catalogue providing information on titles held by more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• Britannica Academic
  Consists of Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus), among other things.

• NE:s ordböcker
  Includes for example NE's Swedish-English/English-Swedish dictionary.

• Oxford English Dictionary
  An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of more than 500,000 words and phrases from across the English-speaking world.

• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus

• Oxford Reference
  The database offers a huge range of dictionaries and subject reference works, including Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language and The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

      More dictionaries can be found on shelf Fe(x) at Dalarna University Library.

Resources for finding student theses  

• DiVA
  Find student theses submitted at several Swedish universities.

• Essays.se
  Find student theses in full text submitted at Swedish universities.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (via Web of Science)
  Contains information on dissertations and student theses from universities around the world. You can limit the search to "Masters" if you only want to find student theses.

More resources 

• African American Women Writers of the 19th century

• CELT
  Irish history, literature and politics.

• Romantic Circles
  A website devoted to the study of literature and culture of the Romantic period.